Zwei Bücher zur socialen Geschichte Englands

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Identifikator:: 1891000233

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-260008

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Held, Adolf http://d-nb.info/gnd/116681667

Title:: Zwei Bücher zur socialen Geschichte Englands

Place of publication:: Leipzig

Publisher:: Duncker & Humblot

Year of publication:: 1881

Scope:: XIV, 775 Seiten; 1 Portrait

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Zweiter Anhang. Belegstellen.

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Belgium: Brussels. 17 very moderate charges. It may be said that the average cost of cartage from the warehouse to any part of the docks or quays is 40 cents per ton of 1,000 kilograms (2,204.6 pounds). Stanislas H. Haine, V ice-Com ul-Geiieral. Antwerp, Belgium, July 15,1004. * BRUSSELS. « (From United States Consul Roosevelt, Brussels, Belgium.) The dimensions of the public warehouse of Brussels are 115 by 61 meters (377.2 by 200 feet). The building, which covers an area of 70 ares 15 cent a res (8,390 square yards), comprises an underground cellar constructed for storing wines and spirits and five additional stories, thoroughly appointed, for the reception and storage of all kinds of merchandise. The original cost is estimated at 2.000.000 francs ($386,000). The warehouse was built by the communal administration of Brussels, but. subsequently sold to the present owners, the Anonymous Society ?f Canal and Maritime Installation of Brussels. The establishment is conducted by the above-named company, assisted by a commission appointed by the Government, composed of members of the company and officials of the communal administration of Brussels and the cus toms bureau. While goods remain in bond no duty charge is made, and none is collected if goods are reexported. Duty is payable when goods are taken out of bond and put upon the market for sale. By this arrange ment merchants are privileged to sell their goods for export free of entrance duty into Belgium and to pay duty upon goods only when taken out of bond to be sold upon the home market. In 1903 receipts amounted to 93,061.77 francs ($17,960.92) and ordinary expenses to 22,206.33 francs ($4,285.82). The classes of goods chiefly stored are wines, spirits, native and foreign sugar, tobacco, tissues, leather, dried fruits, conserved fruits, and groceries. No limit is placed upon goods in bond. Generally wines and liquors remain several years in the warehouse. The length of time, concerns other merchandise, varies according to circumstances. Sometimes goods are taken out a few days after entry and sometimes they remain in bond for several months. Usually they are taken out io the course of the year. a Accompanying the report of Consul Roosevelt, and filed In the Bureau of Statistics, where they may he consulted by parties interested, are five Inclosures. 1 hree of these contain the rules and regulations, including scale of charges for me Entrepôt Public de Bruxelles. Another shows the quantity of American W°ds in store at the warehouse January 1, 1904, and the other gives the scale °f charges for storage in United States money. Those charges vary, according jo the class of goods, from one half cent per 220.40 pounds per month for all hinds of metals to 19.3 cents for the same weight of silk and 77.2 cents for carriages. Alcoholic liquors are charged 1.9 cents per 20.42 gallons iu wood °r 2.3 cents per 100 bottles. 18762-05 M 2

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