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pays the duty as well as such storage dues as the owner of the build 
ing and the owner of the goods may have agreed upon—usually so 
much per package or barrel. The owner has access only when goods 
are received or delivered in the presence of a customs officer. 
At present the appraisers occupy a separate building, but as soon 
as the new custom-house, now in course of construction, is completed 
they will be assigned rooms in that building. 
All classes of goods which pay duties are stored in these ware 
houses ; they are used exclusively by persons to whom goods are con 
signed. Goods are stored on an average about six months. All cus 
tomers are treated alike. The facilities for handling merchandise are 
good and the cost is as per agreement. The care takers are employees 
of the collector of customs, and are changed as the necessities of the 
service require. The keys to the warehouses are under the control of 
the collector. 
W. R. Holloway, Consul-General. 
Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 10,190^. 
ONTARIO. 
LONDON. 
(From United States Consul Culver, London, Ontario.) 
In this city, and in all cities of Canada where a custom-house is 
located, the railways maintain warehouses where goods may be 
stored. They are termed “ bonded warehouses,” and some officer of 
the customs carries the key, and at certain hours is present at the ware 
house prepared to serve the public in the matter of the removal of 
goods. He also attends to the checking of goods as they are unloaded 
and checks them off when reshipped, or when properly cleared 
through the custom-house. These houses are owned and managed by 
the railways, and generally are a part of freight sheds, partitioned off 
so that they may be securely closed and locked. The goods may be in 
transit and awaiting transshipment, or they may have reached their 
destination in bond. 
These warehouses are equally convenient for consignor and con 
signee, for the goods may be inspected in the presence of the customs 
officer and if not acceptable to the purchaser may be remanifested 
and reshipped without the payment of duty. While the railways 
have and maintain a rate of charges for storage, varying according 
to the nature of the goods, yet they seldom demand payment unless 
they are put to some special trouble in regard to the consignment, and 
then the usual rate is charged, about 2 cents per hundred pounds 
per week, the first seven days always being free. 
Henry S. Culver, Consul. 
London, Ontario, June 13, 190 1^. 
ORILLIA. 
(From United States Consul Wakefield, Orillia, Ontario.) 
There is only one bonded warehouse in the district—a grain ele 
vator at Midland, on the Georgian Bay, owned by parties in Chicago,