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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