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21. Stores of merchandise will be received after the issuing of the certificate
of deposit and guaranty, which has been issued in accordance with the rules
aid down in the law of March 30, 1894. In the same manner they will be
returned upon the surrender of such certificates which must have thereon a
note canceling the certificate or be provided with a receipt signed by the depositor
Ir his representative, according to the forms attached to these regulations. The
tompany may deliver samples of stores of merchandise, but only against the re-*eipt
 thereof having been noted on the certificate of deposit, and in case a certifcate
 of guaranty was issued a similar note must be made thereon.
22. The depositor is personally responsible for storage expenses which may be
mcurred. Any interest which may eventually accrue from the amount deposited
'n favor of the company and mentioned in the law of March 30, 1894 (par. 8),
"ill belong to the company. The company is required to liquidate upon request
Any account referring to stores of merchandise. ,
23. The company will keep books in detail for every deposit made; special
books will be kept for the certificate of deposit and guaranties which it may issue
3nd in which books the texts of the certificates will be transcribed literally,
Neluding all notes that may have been made thereon after their issuance; all
his in accordance with paragraph 7 of the law already mentioned.  ~
24. Whenever the balance in favor of the company for storage, transportation,
Preservation, and insurance of stored merchandise will exceed three-fourths of the
value placed thereon by experts named by the tribunal of commerce and navigation,
 or if such merchandise or pait thereof is threatened with deterioration, the
*ompany will have the right to sell all or part thereof within eight days after
lotice of such impending action has been published—three times in the Berlingske
Tidende or posted at the Copenhagen Stock Exchange, and the interested party
18s been notified by registered mail at his domicile or place of business—that
Such sale will take place within eight days after the publication of such notice.
Should there be any balance after all the claims affecting this merchandise have
deen settled, the company will turn the balance over to the interested parties.
it this balance has not been claimed within 10 years after the sale, it will become
‘he property of the company.
_ 25. The responsibility of the company for merchandise deposited in its wareouses
 is fixed by the law of March 30, 1890, for all cases in which a certificate
*f deposit and guaranty has been issued.
. In case the company has only issued certificate of receipt, its responsibility
or the custody and delivery thereof will be determined by the general rules
of the laws referring to custodianship. In this case responsibility will cease
Whenever the damage be of such a nature that it might have been discovered
through ordinary examination, and if the interested parties had not called the
tention of the company to the damage before removing the merchandise or
had the same inspected legally in any other way.
The present regulations to remain in force until further orders.
Department of public works. October 19. 1894.

THE FREE PORT OF GOTHENBURG. SWEDEN

[From Consul H. C. von Struve, Goteborg, Sweden]
ol Brief history of the port.—It is impossible to decide at what period
= the world’s history the Gota River (Gota Alv) attracted the notice
o the traders. It is, however, certain that the facilities for comerce
 afforded by the estuary of this great river were appreciated