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WAREHOUSES  IN  FOREIGN  COUNTRIES.

stores,  including  cooperage  and  cartage.  When  goods  are  not
removed  after  the  expiration  of  ten  days  then  the  charge  for  storage
is  5  cents  per  month  or  fraction  thereof  per  barrel,  and  other  packages, ­
  according  to  size,  from  12  to  24  cents;  for  very  small  packages
from  1  cent  upward.
At  private  bonded  warehouses  the  limit  allowed  by  the  Government
for  goods  of  all  kinds  to  remain  in  receiving  bond  is  fourteen  days;
compulsory  removal  then  takes  place  to  the  Government  warehouse,
except  in  case  of  goods  in  transit.
The  principal  classes  of  goods  stored  in  the  bonded  receiving  stores
are  barrels  and  bags  of  flour,  beef,  pork,  cotton-seed  oil,  kerosene  oil
in  cases,  casks  of  lard  oil,  provisions  of  various  kinds,  bags  of  rice,
dholl,  ghee,  mustard  oil,  and  general  merchandise  from  various  countries. ­
  Merchandise  is  removed  direct  from  steamers  moored  to  quays
attached  to  bonded  stores  free  of  cost  to  patrons.  The  cost  of  such
transportation  is  unobtainable.
Customs  officers  watch  all  goods  landed  from  steamers  and  see  that
they  are  deposited  in  the  bonded  warehouses  where  the  steamers  discharge. ­
  Other  customs  officers  in  charge  of  warehouses  check  delivery ­
  along  with  agents’  clerks.  These  receiving  warehouses  are  under
the  entire  control  of  the  customs  department  and  under  customs  lock
at  the  end  of  each  day,  and  access  can  not  be  had  except  in  the  presence ­
  of  a  customs  officer.
The  average  annual  receipts  of  the  colonial  bonded  warehouse  are
$10,048;  expenditures  for  labor,  $1,634.  Such  information  regarding
service  of  private  warehouses  is  unobtainable.
There  are  no  American  merchants  doing  business  in  this  colony,
but  goods  from  the  United  States  are  stored  in  large  quantities
for  local  consumption,  for  export  under  bond,  and  for  transshipment.
The  majority  of  the  receiving  bonds  are  used  largely  for  storing
American  products.  All  nationalities  are  treated  alike  in  the  administration ­
  of  warehouses.
Geo.  H.  Moulton,  Consul.
Georgetown,  British  Guiana,  July  18,  190J^.

ECUADOR.
(From  United  States  Consul-General  Dietrich,  Guayaquil,  Ecuador.)
In  this  country  merchandise  in  transit  or  in  bond  can  only  be
stored  in  the  various  custom-houses  of  the  Government.  There  are
no  warehouses  where  such  can  be  stored  for  a  rental.
All  goods  imported  into  this  port  are  loaded  from  the  steamers
into  large  launches,  and  these  are  unloaded  at  the  Government
wharf  and  then  carried  by  a  small  narrow-gauge  railway  to  the
custom-house,  a  corrugated-iron  building  occupying  about  two
blocks  and  distant  about  one-half  mile  from  the  wharf.  Wharfage
charged  on  general  merchandise  is  6  per  cent  of  the  value  of  the
duty  paid  by  such  merchandise,  and  $1  per  ton,  weight  or  measurement, ­
  for  handling  from  wharf  to  custom-house  and  delivery  to  the
merchants.
All  goods,  except  those  that  are  of  a  perishable  nature,  must  be