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the  consignees  will  present  to  the  custom-house,  along  with  the  ordinary  petitions ­
  for  clearance,  an  application  in  triplicate,  as  shown  by  model  No.  40.  If
the  merchandise  is  destined  for  the  general  bonded  warehouses,  the  application
must  bear  at  the  foot  thereof,  or  embodied  in  a  document  attached  thereto,  a
properly  attested  statement  to  the  effect  that  the  concessionaire  company  is
willing  to  have  the  goods  deposited  in  its  warehouses.
The  custom-house  will  compare  the  clearance  petition  with  the  manifest  and
with  the  consular  invoices,  as  in  cases  of  ordinary  importation,  and  when  the
custom-house  collector  has  granted  permission  for  the  warehousing  of  the
goods,  the  inspector  whom  said  collector  may  designate  to  examine  same  will
effect  said  examination  as  usual,  and  when  it  has  once  been  effected  the
methods  of  procedure  indicated  in  the  following  articles  will  be  pursued  according ­
  to  the  nature  of  the  case.
The  permits  for  the  admittance  of  goods  to  fiscal  deposit  will  be  numbered
specially  and  progressively  by  fiscal  years.
Art.  407.  When  the  application  refers  to  all  the  goods  declared  in  an  ordinary
clearance  petition,  it  will  suffice  in  said  application  to  mention  the  latter  document, ­
  which  will  serve  for  effecting  the  operations  of  deposit,  and  the  application ­
  must  be  accompanied  by  a  copy  of  the  list  of  packages  ;  but  when  it  is
desired  to  warehouse  only  a  portion  of  the  goods  covered  by  a  clearance  petition, ­
  the  application  must  contain,  as  shown  by  model  41,  an  exact  copy  of  the
several  specifications  of  the  petition,  and  must  be  presented  along  with  three
copies  of  the  list  of  packages.
Art.  408.  In  case  of  the  former  alternative  mentioned  in  the  foregoing  article,
the  custom-house  will  attach  to  each  copy  of  the  application  one  copy  of  the  clearance ­
  petition,  and  when  permission  for  the  warehousing  of  the  goods  has  been
given,  the  collector  will  turn  over  the  petition  to  the  inspector  that  he  may
examine  the  goods,  if  he  has  not  examined  them  already,  and  may  transmit  the
permit  to  the  warden  of  the  customs  warehouses,  who  will  enter  on  the  lists
of  packages  the  number  and  date  of  the  permit  for  the  warehousing  of  the  goods.
In  the  case  of  the  second  alternative  the  custom-house  will  compare  the  copies
of  the  application  for  deposit  with  the  copies  of  the  clearance  petition,  according ­
  to  which  the  ordinary  examination  of  the  goods  was  effected,  just  as  if  the
latter  document  were  a  consular  invoice  perfected  through  the  result  of  clearance, ­
  and  will  mark  on  the  copies  of  the  petition  the  goods  that  are  to  enter  into
fiscal  deposit,  stating,  in  addition  to  that  circumstance,  the  number  and  date
°f  the  warehousing  permit.
Art.  409.  When  the  requirements  mentioned  in  the  foregoing  article  have
once  been  complied  with,  the  custom-house  collector  will  designate  in  writing
°n  the  application  the  inspector  who  first  examined  the  goods  to  supervise  the
warehousing  thereof,  and  to  him  will  be  delivered  the  application  with  the  new
lists  of  packages.  If  no  incident  calling  for  an  amplification  of  the  examination
shall  have  occurred,  the  inspector  will  write  on  the  application  the  words
“  Reconocido  con  pedimento  de  importación  No.  —,”  and  in  case  there  exists
any  reason  for  amplifying  the  examination  of  the  goods  he  will  mark  on  the
application  the  packages  as  to  which  that  operation  is  effected  ;  and  on  the  new
lists  of  packages,  provided  that  he  has  no  further  observations  to  make,  be  will
engross  the  words,  “  Entregúese  para  el  depósito.”  He  will  then  forward  the
lists  of  packages  to  the  warden  of  the  customs  warehouses,  in  order  that  tin;
goods  may  be  delivered  up,  and  he  will  return  the  permit  to  the  accounting
department.
Art  410.  Goods  cleared  for  warehousing  purposes  must  not  undergo  any
change  or  alteration,  but  will  be  kept  in  the  same  state  and  condition  in  which
they  arrived.  Only  in  the  event  of  its  being  necessary,  on  account  of  the
deterioration  of  the  cases  in  which  the  goods  are  put  up,  to  transfer  them  to
°ther  cases  for  their  better  preservation,  can  such  an  operation  be  authorized,
subject  to  the  vigilance  of  the  custom-house,  which  will  take  care  that  the  contents ­
  of  none  of  the  packages  undergoes  modification,  and  that  the  new  cases
employed  to  put  up  the  goods  are  marked  and  numbered  the  same  as  the  former
cues.
When  packages  are  without  marks  for  their  identification,  the  consignee  will
engross  and  number  them  in  a  special  manner  prior  to  their  being  warehoused,
so  that  there  may  never  be  confusion  among  them.  It  will  also  be  necessary
to  put  a  different  number  on  each  package  when  the  packages  contain  different
goods,  or  the  same  goods,  but  in  varying  quantities;  and  it  will  only  be  permissible ­
  to  put  the  same  number  on  the  packages  constituting  a  lot  when  all  said
Packages  contain  exactly  the  same  kind  and  quantity  of  goods.