FRANCE: ROUEN.
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CHARGES.
The tariff for storage varies according to the nature of the goods.
For flour, for each month of thirty days, or fraction thereof, it is as
follows: Sacks of 220 to 230 pounds, Ï.93 cents; sacks of 230 to 350
pounds, 2.89 cents ; barrels of 187 to 227 pounds, 2.3 cents ; fire insurance
of every $193 worth of goods per month, 7.72 cents; cost of
entering, weighing, and storing in warehouse, or delivering, 1.93
cents per sack or barrel; the same without weighing, 9.65 mills per
piece; transferring from barrel to sack, 7.72 cents per barrel; marking,
including ink, 1.93 cents per barrel or sack.
For wheat, rye, barley, hemp seed, corn, dry vegetables, rice,
oleaginous grains, and oats the charge for entering, weighing, and
storing, per 220.46 pounds, is 1.93 cents: and the fire insurance, 7.72
cents for every $193 worth. The cost for storage for each month of
thirty days, or fraction thereof, is 1.54 cents per 220.46 pounds.
When such merchandise is passed from one warehouse to another a
tax of 1.93 cents per 220.46 pounds is charged.
Colza, flax, nut, and all vegetable oils, in barrels, are charged 3.86
cents storage per 220.46 pounds gross for each thirty days or fraction
thereof, 3.86 cents for entry, and 11.58 cents for weighing every ton.
Fmpty barrels are kept for 9.65 mills per month per 220.46 pounds
°t oil capacity.
Petroleum, glycerin, and turpentine pay for entering a tariff of 5.79
cents for each barrel, and 4.82 cents for storage each month. For all
oils placed in vats, 3.86 cents per 220.46 pounds is charged for entry,
an d 2.89 cents per month per 220.46 pounds for storage. The minimum
that can be thus entered is 55,000 pounds.
Wines, beers, vinegars, ciders, brandies, spirits, and sirups are
charged 3.86 cents for every 26.42 gallons for entry or removal, and
lhe same for each month or storage. If vats are used, 4.825 cents is
charged. The insurance on such liquids is 7.72 cents for every $193
each month. For filtering wine, 9.65 cents per 26.42 gallons is
charged; for filling, 2.89 cents per barrel; determining the degree,
4.825 cents per barrel; gauging, 4.825 cents per barrel ; weighing,
'hhö mills per 26.42 gallons; stopping leakage, 1.93 cents per barrel;
re hooping, from 28.95 to 77.2 cents, according to size of barrel.
For wool, 2.895 cents is paid for every 220.46 pounds weighed and
entered or weighed and delivered, and 3.86 cents storage ror every
*-20.46 pounds per month.
Iron in bars, if sheltered, pays 19.3 cents per ton for a month’s
storage ; if unsheltered, half that amount.
File storage of sugar and coffee per ton costs 19.3 cents monthly.
Other articles, such as glassware, furniture,wickerwork, unmounted
Vehicles, pottery, hardware, agricultural implements, empty barrels,
casks and bottles, sponges, and bicycles are charged according to
K pace occupied.
STORAGE OF GOODS.
Americans have used the Rouen warehouses at different times for
the storage of agricultural implements, wheat, etc. Great quantities
tí African cotton, oats, corn, and wheat are always to be found in
the warehouses, but these goods are stored by French merchants who
