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The warehouses face the quay, and at the back are the Government 
railway lines. Both at the front and at the back are uninclosed 
sheds, roofed with zinc, to protect the goods which are being removed 
from the warehouses. These warehouses are built entirely of zinc, 
with steel framework, and are on high cement foundations. As 
they are Government buildings, I am unable to ascertain their orig 
inal cost. They are owned and conducted entirely by the Netherlands 
Indian Government. 
The service is complete and satisfactory to the patrons. The ware 
houses are in charge of European storekeepers, who render every 
assistance to owners of goods. They are open from 7 in the morning 
until 5 in the afternoon, during which time goods can be removed 
or stored. 
Scale of charges per cubic meter (35.314 cubic feet) for storage is 
as follows for goods in transit or in bond : 
For hazardous goods, 2J cents per day; for petroleum (the import 
ers of petroleum have their own petroleum warehouses and seldom 
make use of the Government stores), 14 cents per day; for gambler, 
hides, indigo, coffee, sugar, tobacco, and tea, 1^ cents per day; for all 
other goods, 1cents per day. Days of storing and removing goods 
both count as full days. 
As the stores belong to the Government, I am unable to give the 
receipts and expenditures on account of the service, but I am informed 
that the receipts are but little more than the expenditures. 
General merchandise and produce are stored, the latter being stored 
from coastwise steamers awaiting shipment. As there is only one 
American import firm here, the Standard Oil Company, and as its 
goods are stored in its own petroleum stores, it may be said that 
Americans do not make use of the Government stores at all. There 
is no distinction made as to nationality, and all receive fair treat 
ment alike. 
When goods are landed, the owners may leave them in the Govern 
ment stores for eight days, after which time duty must be paid and 
goods removed by owners, or the goods must be placed in bonded 
stores. When owners of goods can not be found, and the eight days 
have expired, the unclaimed goods are placed in the bonded stores, 
and after one year has expired without the goods being claimed they 
are advertised one month in the Government Gazette and then sold 
at public auction, the proceeds of the sale going toward paying store 
rent. Owners of bonded goods may keep their goods in the Govern 
ment stores for an indefinite period, provided there is sufficient room 
and the store rent is paid regularly. 
There is every facility for removing goods from boats to the ware 
houses, and vice versa. Cooly labor, costing 20 cents per day, is em 
ployed for loading and unloading steamers, which lie some 50 feet in 
front of the warehouses, and for loading and unloading the railway 
trucks which are drawn up at the back of the warehouses. Steam 
cranes, belonging to the Government (harbor department) are also 
used for loading and unloading vessels at the quay, at a cost of $14 
per day (7 a. m. till 5 p. in.). 
The Government warehouses are in charge of the customs officials, 
and in addition to the European storekeeper there are also one or 
more custom-house officers on duty every day to report the amount 
of goods taken into or removed from the warehouses. This report