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WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
cession that had been granted to a company operating general bonded warehouses,
the goods deposited in same will be removed by their owners or consignees
within a period of time fixed by said department and subject to the
supervision of the custom-house, to other bonded warehouses belonging to
another concessionaire company. If, within the stipulated time, the goods are
not removed they will he taken to the ordinary customs warehouses, where they
will become subject to storage dues from the date of their entrance and as provided
by article 421 of these ordinances.
Art. 400. The general bonded warehouses will be subject to the vigilance and
inspection of the custom-house at the point at which they are established, and
all their buildings and annexes will possess the requirements which the department
of finance may deem necessary to facilitate and render efficacious fiscal
supervision, which will embrace all the operations to which merchandise deposited
therein is subject.
The departments or storerooms in which goods held in fiscal deposit are kept
must be devoted exclusively to that object and must be independent from those
destined for other operations.
Fiscal vigilance and inspection in the general bonded warehouses will be
exercised by employees appointed by the executive, in such number as may be
conducive, in the opinion of the department of finance, to the best discharge of
their functions. Said employees will be called “ fiscal warehouse gaurds ” or
“ fiscal vigilance employees ” and they will be subject to the orders of the
custom-house of the point at which the warehouses are situated.
The fiscal warehouse guards will keep an account of the entry and departure
of merchandise from the warehouses quite independently of the account kept
by the employees of the concessionaire company, and they will render every
month a report to the custom-house to which they are attached, and said customhouse
will forward it to the general custom-house bureau.
The custom-house collector may, when he sees fit, either in person or through
a special delegate, effect, or cause to be effected, a visit of inspection to the
general bonded warehouses ; and the company will at once place at the disposal
of the collector, or his representative, the books showing the merchandise
handled by its employees and other necessary data.
Art. 401. The legal representatives of the general bonded warehouses may
secure from the custom-houses such notes as they deem fit in regard to customhouse
declarations and the assessment of duties on merchandise that either has
been deposited or which it is desired to deposit in the bonded warehouses.
Art. 402. The custom-houses will keep with the general bonded warehouses
situated in their jurisdiction a special account in which they will charge the
amount of fiscal claims on merchandise deposited and will credit the amount of
claims paid in any way, or canceled through the reexportation of the goods.
The balance shown by this account at the end of each month will be communicated
by the custom-houses to the general custom-house bureau in the first fi ve
days of the following month for the information of the department of finance.
Art. 403. The general bonded warehouses will remain open and will do business
during the office hours of the custom-houses, but the custom-house collectors,
when they deem fit, may authorize the introduction of merchandise into tb e
bonded warehouses at extra hours and on holidays, other than national holidays,
subject to the payment of a compensation equivalent to the daily pay °}
the fiscal employees required to watch the extra operations and among whom n
will be distributed.
Art. 404. Each of the doors of the premises subject to fiscal supervision m
the general bonded warehouses will have two locks, or padlocks, with different
keys, one of which will be delivered to the custom-house collector after tl ,e
daily closing of the warehouses. When the premises have several doors, only
one of them may open on the outside and the others only on the inside.
The federal bonded warehouses will be locked with three separate keys, one
of which will be kept by the custom-house collector, a second by the accountant,
and a third by the warehouse guard. If any department has more than outdoor,
only one can open on the outside, and the others only on the inside of tb e
department. t
Art. 405. The admittance of foreign merchandise into fiscal deposit does no
exempt it from the custom-house procedure which is applicable to all import 8 '
tions; it continues subject to the payment of penalties that may have to b
applied for infringements of these ordinances, even though said merchandise lS
destined for reexportation. ..
Art. 406. In order that foreign merchandise may be admitted to fiscal deposit
