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and Bonded Warehouses, Nagasaki,” herewith transmitted. 0 For 
scale of charges for storage, I refer to pages 14 to 34, inclusive, in 
the same inclosure. 
The receipts from service for the four years last past were as 
follows: 
Receipts from customs warehouses. 
Bonded 
ware 
house. 
Tempo 
rary ware 
house. 
Total. 
S;8 
1,171 
850 
$2,718 
6,109 
1,822 
2,078 
4,522 
12,727 
$3,753 
7,575 
2,993 
2,928 
17,249 
Year. 
1900. 
1901. 
1902. 
1903- 
Total. 
I am unable to report the cost of operating the warehouses, as such 
expenses, I am informed, are included in the current expenses of the 
customs service. The classes of goods chiefly stored in the bonded 
warehouses are flour, comestibles, spirituous liquors, shirtings, iron 
nails, rod steel, etc., and in the temporary warehouses rice, Italian 
millet, nails, rod steel, sheet and plate iron, galvanized iron, spirit 
uous liquors, marine products, etc. I am informed that the average 
length of time goods remain in bonded warehouses is five months, 
and in temporary warehouses two months. I am unable to state to 
what extent Americans make use of the warehouses without a minute 
inspection of the custom-house records, but it is a fact that they 
patronize them quite freely. 
All nationalities are treated exactly alike. No complaints of dis 
crimination on account of nationality have come to my notice, and I 
believe there has been none. 
Transfer of cargo between ship and landing is by lighter, the shift 
ing of heavy and bulky cargo from lighter to landing is by crane, 
and goods are conveyed from the landing to the warehouses by coolies, 
or in carts or jinrikishas pulled by coolies. For cost of landing and 
shipping I refer to the detailed statements herewith inclosed.“ 
The warehouses under consideration are mostly in the customs yard 
and a short distance from the landing place. Every precaution pos 
sible is taken by the customs officials that cargo be handled carefully 
and with dispatch. Damages to packing in landing are minutely 
investigated, and those causing the damage are punished either by 
reprimand, fine, or discharge. No person is admitted to the customs 
warehouses or to the yards in which the warehouses are located unless 
accompanied by a customs official. 
Charles B. Harris, Consul. 
Nagasaki, Japan, September 15, 1,904- 
FORMOSA. 
(From United States Consul Fisher, Tamsui, Formosa.) 
In order that foreign goods arriving at any of the ports in this 
consular district may be transshipped to a foreign port without the 
a On file in tiie Bureau of Statistics, Department of Commerce and Labor.