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sacks in the hold of vessel, weighing and loading into railway trucks 
or wagons. The warehouse rate includes metering, filling sacks in the 
hold of vessel, weighing, housing, and redelivery to railway trucks or 
to craft alongside. The rates per 100 bushels for wheat and linseed 
worked throughout in original bags are: Ship to craft, 62 cents; 
ship to truck, 73 cents; warehouse rate, $1.16; rent per week, 8 
cents. When extra men have to be employed or extra expenses in 
curred in consequence of the high temperature of cargo or other causes, 
an extra charge will be made. For grain out of condition, which 
requires a lower storage than 4 feet 6 inches, 2 cents per 100 bushels 
per week extra will be charged for each foot less in height. 
The above rates apply only to labor operations during the ordinary 
Working hours. Overtime will be charged according to expense 
incurred. 
All nationalities are treated exactly alike by the administrators of 
the warehouses, both free and bonded. Local warehouses are not 
nsed by Americans, simply because there are no local importers of 
our nationality, but the bulk of the grain and provisions stored is 
doubtless of American and Canadian origin. 
The facilities for the removal of free goods to warehouse are com 
plete and up to date in Bristol. The grain warehouses are supplied 
with every modem appliance for handling grain, either in bulk or 
sacked. The contiguity of the transit sheds—which are really ware 
houses for storing for a limited time—and of the larger warehouses to 
the quay side, and the complete equipment of modern traveling 
cranes, insure the maximum dispatch and the minimum cost for 
shifting cargo from ship to warehouse. 
BONDED WAREHOUSES. 
There exists in Bristol immense accommodation for bonded goods, 
the result of the great tobacco manufacturing industry and of the 
supremacy of Bristol for centuries as an importer of wines from the 
Continent. Storage places for bonded goods are not owned by the 
municipality, nor are they in such close proximity to the docks as are 
the free warehouses. The limited number of dutiable articles in the 
English tariff renders it unnecessary to provide extended bonded 
accommodation close to the ship. 
The accommodations provided for the two classes of bonded goods 
are quite distinct. In olden times it seems to have been easy for any 
body to secure authority to bond a wine cellar, hence certain parts 
of the foundations of the older portion of the city are honeycombed 
with cellars, many of which are bonded. These cellars are to be 
found in the most unlikely places—under old and decaying houses and 
amid surroundings which indicate a once prosperous neighborhood 
fallen upon evil times. However dilapidated the house may be, 
fhe cellar must be kept in good condition to retain its bond, and 
is subject to the same regulations, the same careful custom-house 
oversight, as if it were a new structure. I have examined into the 
conditions under which these cellars for the storing of alcoholic 
liquors are maintained and controlled. I find nothing, however, to 
learn from their management, except in one respect, and I am not 
certain that this point will be new to the administrators of our