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WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 
The cost of removal of goods from boat to warehouse depends 
entirely upon the kind of goods and upon the locality. As an average 
it might be said that it costs 12 francs ($2,316) per ton. 
The care and custody of the warehouses is exercised exclusively and 
rigorously by the custom-house authorities. The customs depart 
ment has a uniformed corps of guards with regular military training 
and under the command of officers. Their duties consist in guarding 
the approaches of every custom-house precinct and the entrances of 
the cities as well as the frontier, to prevent smuggling in the entrance 
and exit of dutiable goods. 
Hector de Castro, Consul-General. 
Rome, Italy, July 8,190If. 
CASTELLAMARE DI STABIA. 
(From United States Commercial Agent Crowninshicld, Castellamarc dl Stabia, Italy.) 
In this district warehouses for storage of merchandise in transit or 
in bond exist only in the Torre dell’ Annunziata. The dimensions are 
390 by 330 feet and the cost was $120,000. The warehouses are owned 
and conducted by a company, which will discharge goods into their 
bonded warehouses, pay freight and all other expenses, and in some 
cases advance cash on deposits. It also takes charge of loading 
goods on board ship. The charges for storage are 10 cents per ton 
per month. Wheat is the chief commodity stored. Americans make 
no use of the warehouses; but all nationalities are treated alike by 
the administration. Goods are removed from lighters into ware 
houses by hydraulic cranes at a cost of 50 cents per ton, and are 
loaded into lighters from warehouses by the same method and at the 
same price. They remain in bond usually about two months. Cus 
toms officials have full supervision over all bonded goods. 
C. S. Crowninsiiield, Commercial Agent. 
CASTELLAMARE DI Sl’AMA, ITALY, July 27, 1901+. 
CATANIA. 
(From United States Consul Heingartner, Catania, Italy.) 
There are no bonded warehouses in this consular district. The ¡ 
regulations of the custom-house, however, are very favorable for (he 
storage of goods and withdrawal for shipment elsewhere without pay 
ment of customs dues. Nonperishable merchandise can be reshipped 
without payment of customs duties within the period of two years. 
The storage of perishable goods is limited to three months. 
The charge for storage is 0.01 lira (one-fifth of a cent) per day 
per 100 kilos (220.4 pounds). The storage of lubricating oils for 
sale to steamers is about the extent that the storage privilege is used I 
by Americans at this port. 
The custom-house being situated in the harbor, the cost of removal j 
of goods for reshipment is nominal. 
Alexander Heingartner, Consul. 
Catania, Italy, July 11+, 190.!+.