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WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 
NEWFOUNDLAND. 
ST. JOHNS. 
(From United States Consul Cornelius, St. Johns, Newfoundland.) 
In Newfoundland the facilities for the storage, at a nominal rental, 
of merchandise in transit or in bond, are very complete and simple. 
The agents of steamship lines can have their wharves and sheds 
declared by official proclamation to be sufferance warehouses by pay 
ing an annual fee of $120 to $240, according to the area embraced. 
Goods can be landed from shipboard into these sheus and held there 
indefinitely until permits are issued for their removal either on pay 
ment of duty, for transfer into bonded warehouses, or for transpor 
tation elsewhere. Any importer can have a suitable store along the 
water front recognized by the customs department as a bonded ware 
house, provided the proper officer approves of it. Government locks 
and seals are then affixed to its doors and windows, and it is only 
opened by a customs locker, who allows only such goods to be removed 
from it as a bonded warehouse permit specifies. Goods may not be 
bonded for a longer period than two years, but after the expiration 
of that term they can be rebonded for a similar period of time. The 
bonded warehouses are open only during custom-house hours—from 
10 a. m. to 4 p. m.—and no fees are exacted from owners or lessees 
of such warehouses for any service performed by customs officers for 
them. For the convenience of small importers the customs depart 
ment maintains a special bonded warehouse, known as the King’s 
warehouse, in which space can be secured as desired. 
For transshipment of goods in bond all that is necessary is a permit 
allowing the goods to be removed, and the party who applies for this 
becomes liable for the duty, it becoming a first lien on his estate. 
When the goods are landed at their destination and pay duty there, 
the collector of customs certifies to the necessary papers to release the 
first party from his obligation under his bond. 
Charges for the removal of goods from boat or train to warehouse 
and vice versa are merely the truckman’s rates and a nominal fee for 
the permit. 
George 0. Cornelius, Consul. 
St. Johns, Newfoundland, August 89,190J. 
MEXICO. 
MEXICO CITY. 
(From United States Consul-General Parsons, Mexico City. Mexico.) 
I inclose herewith a report on warehouses for the storage of mer 
chandise in transit or in bond, written by Edward M. Conley, 
formerly vice and deputy consul-general in this office. The delay i» 
transmitting this report is explained in the report itself. The law 
governing bonded warehouses in Mexico went into effect July 1 last, 
and since that time only has there been a bonded warehouse in this 
country. It was therefore necessary to hold the report pending the