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WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 
SUFFERANCE WAREHOUSES. 
Sufferance warehouses are for the landing of cargoes of vessels to 
be disposed of by entry for bond, consumption, or export, and are in 
many cases temporary and are protected by bond of the company 
using them, or by bond of the special vessel. These are not all under 
special customs locks, as the vessel, as well as the customs, is inter 
ested in the care of the cargo. 
The Canadian Pacific Railway, the Intercolonial Railway, and the 
Eastern Steamship Company all have commodious bonded ware 
houses at St. John for storage of goods in transit, and have ample 
facilities for loading and discharging from or into vessels at the 
wharves. All these are under the supervision of the Canadian cus 
toms officers. 
The warehouse of the Eastern Steamship Company is on the landing 
wharf at St. John, measures 75 by 300 feet, and cost about $2,000. 
Here general merchandise in transit to and from the United States 
over the company’s lines is stored for from twenty-four to forty-eight 
hours, or until shipped, at no cost to the shipper for storage or load 
ing and discharging. 
Rates on goods in sufferance bonded warehouses are a matter of 
agreement between the owner of the goods and the warehouse men. 
Each transportation line has large sufferance bonded warehouses, 
which, as a rule, make no special charges for storing, loading, or dis 
charging, those expenses being generally included in the freight 
charges. 
Warehouses for unclaimed goods are used also for the purposes 
above referred to. These are strictly under government locks, and 
the scale of fees leviable on goods stored therein is as follows per 
month or part of month: Tea per half chest, or other small package, 
10 cents; per package of 3 feet square, 20 cents; per larger case or 
package, 25 cents; spirits or other liquors, per hogshead. 15 cents ; 
per cask, 10 cents; per case, 5 cents; goods by the barrel, 10 cents; 
iron and oakum, per ton, 80 cents; pianos, each, $1; organs, 50 
cents; cook stoves, 25 cents; and all other goods in proportion. 
There are no discriminations against any nation. 
There are no warehouses here that were specially built for the 
storage of merchandise in transit or in bond, but as many as twelve 
warehouses with a capacity of from 2,000 to 3,000 barrels are set 
aside for that purpose by the payment of an annual fee of $40 each- 
These buildings each have a sign " Customs House,” and are under 
the control of the collector of customs; they are securely locked until 
it is desired to withdraw goods, when they are opened, and the owner 
WAREHOUSES FOR UNCLAIMED GOODS. 
Ira B. Myers, Consul. 
St. John, New Brunswick, June 9, 190^. 
NOVA SCOTIA 
HALIFAX. 
(From United States Consul-General Holloway, Halifax, Nova Scotia.)