Warehouses in foreign countries for storage of merchandise in transit or in bond

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Identifikator:: 863514456

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-45340

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Warehouses in foreign countries for storage of merchandise in transit or in bond

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Government Printing Office

Year of publication:: 1905

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (206 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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110 WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. a fireproof warehouse, and consists of a vault, quay, and four upper floors. The cost of construction of this warehouse, exclusive of the value of the land, was $484,840. The warehouses in question are owned and conducted by the Mersey Docks and Harbor Board. Small portions of some of the warehouses have, however, been let to private firms and companies, who are allowed to perform their own work in the portions let to them. SERVICE. The patron, or merchant, furnishes full particulars of the marks, etc., of the goods to be stored on a receiving order, and also instructs the board, in writing (generally on the receiving order), as to how he wishes the produce to be worked—that is, weighed, sampled, tared, gauged, etc. Any subsequent work done to the goods while in store, as sampling, inspecting, etc., is done only by the merchant’s written authority. When delivery is required a delivery order, bearing full particulars of the goods, is given by the merchant, and, after being passed through the ledgers at the office of the chief warehouse man ager, it is presented at the warehouse and duly honored. It is essential that the delivery order bear the merchant’s own signature, or that of some person who has been authorized to the board to sign delivery orders, etc., on his account. The merchant sees to the conveyance of the goods to the board’s warehouses, and attends to their insurance against fire. In the case of tobacco from America the shipowner, under the terms of the bill of lading, conveys the produce to the ware houses. The receiver or party taking delivery looks after the removal of the goods from the warehouses, but they are delivered to his carts or crafts by the board’s employees. The goods indicated in the receiving order are received by the board’s employees, and after being dealt with as directed by the mer chant—that is, weighed, sampled, tared, etc.—they are stored away in the warehouse and held to the merchant’s order. When delivery is required,it is given on the merchant’s delivery order, the goods being broken out of pile, taken to the delivery door, and lowered onto cart or taken to craft by the board’s servants, the work of stowing the pro duce on the carts or in the craft being done by the carter or by the crew. Weighing, taring, and gauging accounts are rendered to the merchants on completion of the work. Acknowledgments, bearing a 3-pence (G-cont) stamp and certifying that the goods are in store to the order of the merchant, are issued by the board when required, and full particulars of the produce are given therein. This docu ment is of no value to obtain delivery or transfer of the goods, which is only given on a properly signed delivery or transfer order. If the merchant requests it warrants are issued in his name or in that of any other person or firm whom he may elect. These also con tain full details of the produce and are negotiable. Delivery can be obtained thereon, provided they are properly indorsed, and have been passed through the board’s books, just as on a delivery order. When goods are transferred all charges are collected to the date of transfer, or to the seller’s prompt date, as given on the order, except in the case of tobacco, the rent charges on which are usually paid by

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