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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Title:: Africa

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194 WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. fines as a means of keeping the warehouseman honest, and of oblig ing him to find, at his own expense, the necessary police and fire protection for his warehouse. The goods generally bonded here are tobacco products, liquors, canned goods, cotton goods, and cereal products. The forwarding agents try to get the goods of their clients out of bond as soon as possible, but the merchants having their own private bonded stores often keep their goods in bond for many months. In the morning the custom-house man comes and unlocks his locks, and at night he comes again and locks them. If the pro prietors want to take out anything from the bonded store, either for local consumption or for export, their clerk makes out the neces sary declarations and takes them to the custom-house, with whatever money may be necessary. When the documents are brought back properly signed and stamped the goods are taken out of the bonded store and the transaction is entered in the warehouse books, which must be open at all times for the inspection of the customs officials. When goods are being put in or taken out of bonded warehouses a customs official is always supposed to be present. In the matter of bonded warehouses all foreigners are treated exactly alike. No Americans, to my knowledge, make any use of the bonded warehouses here at present, though a number did during the Boer war. W. Stanley Hollis. Consul. Lourenço Marquez, Portuguese East Africa, August 3, 1901^. SIERRA LEONE. (From, United States Consul Williams, Sierra Leone, West Africa.) There are four bonded warehouses in this colony owned and con trolled by the Government. Three of these are located in Free town and one in Sherbro. The warehouse system is essentially a part of the customs department, which exercises supervision and control. All classes of goods are stored in these warehouses except gunpowder and kerosene, which are stored separately. The scale of charges for storage follows: For cotton goods and goods liable to a specific duty, for one month or fraction thereof, one-half penny (1 cent) per cubic foot; for goods other than cotton, not liable to specific duty, for first month, one-half penny (1 cent), and subsequent months 2 pence (4 cents) per cubic foot; for storing or depositing firearms and ammunition other than gunpowder, one- half penny (1 cent) per cubic foot; for storing or depositing every 100 pounds of gunpowder for six months, 3 shillings (73 cents) ; for every 100 pounds of gunpowder remaining in store after six months, 5 pence (10 cents) per month; for quantities of less than Ü00 pounds, a proportionate rate. All fees for storage or deposit of firearms or gunpowder are payable in advance. The charges on petroleum are 1 penny (2 cents) per month on every case of 10 gal lons. The length of time goods are allowed in bond is two years, but the owner or proprietor of any such goods, if desirous of reware-

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