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steamers through the dock company’s warehouses and thence through 
the hands of the custom-house officials, and are stored either in the 
dock company’s warehouses or in the custom-house (except very 
heavy machinery) until the consignee takes charge of them. 
The facilities for transport of goods from and to steamers are 
excellent—twelve large warehouses, plenty of cranes, more than a 
mile of tine docks, and all modern and up-to-date conveniences. A 
steamer can discharge on an average HOG to 500 tons in an ordinary 
working day—say, working two hatches. Coffee, which embraces 
more than nine-tenths of all the exports from this port and which 
is put on board by manual labor from the carts in the street, can be 
loaded at the rate of more than 1,000 tons a day. It is difficult to 
ascertain charges on goods loaded or Unloaded. The steamers pay the 
dock company 2.50 milreis« (62 cents) per ton of cargo discharged 
and 700 reis per running meter (89.37 inches) per day for wharfage. 
Then, also, the goods pay custom-house warehousing, for packages 
weighing 50 kilos (110.2 pounds) or less, 200 reis (4.96 cents) each, 
and 100 reis for each additional 10 kilos (22 pounds). This port is 
regarded as very expensive for steamers. 
J. II. Johnson, Consul. 
Santos, Brazil, August 8,1904. 
BRITISH GUIANA. 
(From United States Consul Moulton, Georgetown, British Guiana.) 
The colonial bonded warehouse at this port is owned and con 
ducted by the Government, and the bonded receiving stores and 
private bonded warehouses by local merchants. Local government 
officials are unable to state even approximately the dimensions and 
original cost of the buildings, which cover a large area of quay. 
The Government bonded warehouse contains 51,043 superficial feet 
of storage space and has an upper and a lower story. In the upper 
fiat are stored all imported wines and spirits in cases or casks. The 
lower floor is used for imported general merchandise, including 
hogsheads of leaf tobacco, and for casks of rum of local origin. 
Transit packages are rarely put into this building, being kept in 
receiving bonded warehouses to save cost of shifting packages as 
well as Government charges for storage rent and porterage. Goods 
are, however, withdrawn from this warehouse for shipment elsewhere, 
under bond, without being subject to any duty or other charge except 
for storage rent and porterage. Goods are allowed to remain in this 
warehouse for an unlimited period, provided that owners pay quar 
terly rent regularly. In default of this the goods are sold at public 
auction for the amount of the rent, purchasers to pay duties and 
porterage upon removing their goods. 
Patrons are allowed ten days’ free storage and exemption from 
charges for receiving and subsequent delivery of all goods to their 
«According to the Report of the United States Director of the Mint, the value 
of the Brazilian milreis (gold) was r>4.0 cents on July 1, 1004. The value used 
by the consul was evidently that of the paper milreis, the currency generally in 
use, at the time—24.8 cents.