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WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 
ing or a lessor. A copy of the government regulations governing 
these bonded warehouses is transmitted herewith.“ 
There is no special scale of charges for storage, but the average of 
such charges is about as follows : Dry goods, 25 cents per package for 
the first month, and 20 cents per package for each succeeding month; 
oils, 6 and 4 cents per barrel, or 4 and 3 cents for half barrels ; tobacco, 
10 and 7 cents on small bales, 15 and 10 cents on large bales ; tea, 2 and 
1 cent per package: pickles, 7 and 5 cents per case; rope, 15 and 10 
cents per coil; cheese, 3 cents per package; molasses, 12 and 10 cents 
per barrel; and sirups, 6 and 5 cents per case. The receipts and ex 
penditures on account of services depend largely upon the staff 
employed in the warehouses. 
All persons are treated exactly alike by the administrators of ware 
houses. Americans use them to a small extent, chiefly for the storage 
of tobacco. 
All classes of goods may be warehoused. According to the regula 
tions, goods may not remain in bond for a longer period than two 
years, but this does not seem to be insisted on; it has been known that 
goods have remained in bond for a period of fifteen years. The col 
lector of customs at the port of Montreal, however, at the beginning 
of each calendar year, prepares a list of all articles in bond for five 
years and over, and advertises them for sale at public auction to the 
highest bidder. 
Goods are usually removed from boat or rail to warehouses and vice 
versa by teams, which are ample for the demand. The two principal 
railways in Canada, the Grand Trunk and the Canadian Pacific, 
have, in connection with the removal of goods, a cartage company, 
which does the greater part of the cartage from the railways and 
boats. The cost of removing from boat would be about 60 cents per 
ton of 2,000 pounds, and from rail 2£ cents per 100 pounds for car 
load lots, and 2{- cents for less than carload lots. 
The bonded warehouses are under the care and supervision of a 
customs officer, who is in attendance when goods are received or de 
livered from the warehouse. During his absence the bonded ware 
houses are locked and the keys are retained by the customs officer in 
charge. He, of course, receives his salary from the government, but 
for service after hours—before 8 a. m., or after C p. m.—the owners 
of the goods in the warehouse must pay to him a fee of 50 cents for 
the first hour and 25 cents for each succeeding hour. 
A. W. Edwards, Consul-General. 
Montreal, Quebec, September 86,1901¡.. 
GASPÉ. 
(From United States Consul DicJcson, Gaspó, Quebec.) 
The collector of customs of this port (Gaspé) informs me that there 
are no warehouses for the storage of merchandise in transit in this 
port or consular district, as there is no merchandise of any kind 
passing through this district in transit. Bonded warehouses are used 
here only for local purposes, each large firm having its own ware- 
o On file in Bureau of Statistics, Department of Commerce and Labor. The 
principal rules are printed above under dispatch from Ottawa.