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storage of goods in transit or intended for reexport. Tn addition 
there is a group of buildings, with a total area of about 6,000 square 
yards, located at what is known as the Punto Franco, just outside the 
customs limits, and owned and managed by the municipality. Mer 
chandise stored in the warehouses located in the custom-house is 
under the direct care and responsibility of the customs officials. The 
owners are allowed the privilege of verifying goods and taking 
samples, but the merchandise must be reexported or sent forward in 
bond in the same condition in which it was received. Charges for 
storage in these warehouses are fixed at 1 centesimo (one-fifth of a 
cent) per day for each bale, crate, or case weighing not more than 1 
quintal (22Ò pounds). For each quintal or fraction thereof in 
excess the charge is at the same rate of 1 centesimo per day. The 
?cale of charges at the warehouses owned by the municipality is given 
iu a pamphlet“ sent herewith, and varies according to the class of 
merchandise received. This pamphlet also gives in detail the rules 
governing the service rendered. Most goods are stored in these ware 
houses. 
. Receipts at the custom-house warehouses are not important, vary- 
ll )g, as they do, from $800 to $900 annually; expenditures can not be 
(Oven. The municipal warehouses have a gross income of from 
$8,000 to $9,000 a year and expend about $3,000 for management, etc. 
Drugs and spices, liquors, grain, paraffin, fabrics, machinery, 
chemical products, oils, varnishes, and spirits are the chief goods 
Placed in storage. American products warehoused are principally 
cotton-seed oil, wheat, corn, paraffin, agricultural implements, and 
sewing machines. Merchandise deposited in the custom-house 
Warehouses is classified, as it is expressed, as being in either direct or 
temporary custody. Under temporary custody it is, as a rule, with 
drawn in a few days, but in any case is not allowed to remain more 
|han three months. Under direct custody the limit is two years. At 
the Punto Franco there is no limit as to the time goods may remain 
store. » 
, All nationalities are treated alike in the custom-house warehouses, 
hut in those owned by the municipality only goods coming from those 
countries with which the State has a commercial convention are 
admitted. Actually, this rule excludes from the privilege of storage 
a U merchandise coming from Portugal, Canada, Australia, and India, 
a nd certain classes of goods from Spain. 
. The cost of removal from steamer to warehouse is from $1.55 to 
$1-75 per gross ton for goods which it is necessary to weigh on 
?cales. Coal, grain, and similar merchandise, the weight of which 
ls estimated by measure, pays from 97 cents to $1.16 the ton. Vice 
V( Wsa, from warehouse to ship, the expense is from 37 to 58 cents 
a ton. 
p Goods stored in the custom-house warehouses, as well as at the 
.unto Franco, are guarded night and day by the custom-house offi- 
? la ls, and in the latter case also by municipal guards. Bonded ware 
houses owned by individuals or firms do not exist here, although 
s °me of the larger importing firms lease rooms or space by the year 
°Ou ine in the Bureau of Statistics, Department of Commerce and Labor.