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pays  the  duty  as  well  as  such  storage  dues  as  the  owner  of  the  building ­
  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  warehouses ­
  ;  they  are  used  exclusively  by  persons  to  whom  goods  are  consigned. ­
  Goods  are  stored  on  an  average  about  six  months.  All  customers ­
  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  warehouse ­
  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  consignee, ­
  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  elevator ­
  at  Midland,  on  the  Georgian  Bay,  owned  by  parties  in  Chicago,