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goods are exported, or by a United States consul, at the election of the party declaring to such invoice. Articles intended for exhibition, which are Government property, used solely for Government purposes, and not intended for sale in this country, will be admitted to entry upon a certificate to that effect by the Commissioner for the International Exhibition of the Government to which such property belongs.

3. All packages containing such articles must be plainly addressed to the collector of customs, Chicago, U. S. A., and conspicuously marked "Exhibits for the World's Columbian Exposition," and also bear the names and addresses of the shipper and consignee, and appropriate invoice marks and numbers.

4. Upon the arrival at any port of entry of packages so marked and containing articles intended for such exposition, entry thereof, in form to be prescribed, may be made by the consignee or agent thereof, for immediate transportation without appraisement to Chicago.

5. Upon the arrival of the cars containing such articles at Chicago, the conductor or agent of the railroad company will report such arrival by the presentation of the manifest to the customs officer designated to receive such manifests, who shall compare the same with the copy received by mail, and superintend the opening of the cars, taking care to identify the packages by marks and numbers as described in the manifests.

In case of the non-receipt of the manifests, the unlading of the cars shall not, for that reason, be delayed, but the invoice will be used to identify the packages.

When such articles arrive at Chicago by vessel direct from a foreign country, a special entry for warehouse, in the manner hereinbefore provided, may be made, whereupon a special permit will be issued for the transfer of the articles from the importing vessel to the exposition buildings.

The packages will be retained in the custody of the customs officers, unopened, until special entry for warehouse, in form to be prescribed, is made by the owner, consignee, or agent authorized to make entry, but no warehousing bond will be required.

6. Upon the completion of the special warehouse entry the packages will be opened and due examination and appraisement of the contents will be made by the appraiser at the exhibition buildings, which shall, for that purpose, be regarded as a public store. The appraiser will be furnished with the invoice of the articles to be appraised, and will indorse his report of appraisement upon such invoice in like manner as if such articles were regularly entered for consumption or warehouse.

The entry will then be liquidated, the full amount of duties ascertained, and the whole transaction entered upon a record to be kept in the form of a special warehouse ledger.

7. The articles may then be placed in the position provided for their exhibition, but will remain under the custody and control of the customs officers, and will not be removed from the place assigned without a permit from the collector of customs or the officer who may be designated to grant such permit. In no case will such articles be removed from the exposition building, or released from the custody of the customs officers, unless the same shall have been regularly entered for withdrawal for consumption, warehouse, or export.

8. In case of exportation of such articles, existing regulations requiring exports to be made in original packages will be waived.

9. The special forms of entries, permits, manifests, and records to be nsed under these regulations will be prepared and furnished by the Treasury Department.

10. Collectors of customs will report to the Secretary of the Treasury any case relating to an importation for such exposition in which they may regard these regulations as insufficient to secure the interests of the revenue, and special instructions will be given for their guidance

in such case.

11. In the event of the loss by theft, or otherwise, of articles entered for exhibition, the importer or owner will be responsible, primarily, for the duties thereon; but on a proper representation of the facts in writing to this Department, payment of the duties will be waived, if the circumstances appear to justify such action.

12. The deterioration of perishable goods and the consumption of articles as samples during the exhibition will be made the subject of special consideration by this Department, with a view to the relief of the owner from the payment of duties, on the receipt of a report from the collector of customs at Chicago establishing the facts.

13 Show-cases will be admitted free, as accessories to the exhibition; but, if sold, will become subject to duty.

14. If a difference be found to exist in the quantity of goods entered at the custom-house and that eventually exported or withdrawn at the close of the exposition, action will be taken as mentioned in paragraph 12. It is not contemplated that duties shall be levied, except on goods which have actually entered into consumption in this country.

WILLIAM WINDOM,

Secretary.

(10582.)

Drawback on soap.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, January 7, 1891.

SIR: On the exportation of soap manufactured by Joseph S. and Thomas Elkinton, of Philadelphia, Pa., from domestic soap stock and imported caustic soda and silicate of soda, a drawback will be allowed equal in amount to the duty paid on the caustic soda used in the manufacture, less the legal deduction of 1 per centum.

The quantity of the caustic soda so used shall be ascertained by allowing 10 pounds of such soda for every 100 pounds of the net weight, as determined by the United States weigher of the exported soap of the variety known as "Brown Soap," and 10 pounds for every 100 pounds of such net weight of the exported soap of the varieties designated as "White," "Elkinton" or "Laundry," and "Mifflin” soap.

The above proportions will be verified by analysis of samples to be taken from time to time and submitted to the appraiser by the officer superintending the shipment.

Respectfully yours,

O. L. SPAULDING,

Assistant Secretary.

COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, Philadelphia, Pa.

(1.0583.)

Entries of goods arriving at port of destination under immediate transportation entries.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, January 8, 1891.

SIR: The Department is in receipt of your letter of the 26th ultimo, in which you recommend that decision Synopsis 9724 be so modified as to permit goods arriving under immediate-transportation entry to any port of destination to be entered at such port under any of the forms of entry prescribed by the regulations, including combined entries for warehouse and transportation, or warehouse and exportation.

It appears that the decision referred to has already been modified by the Department to the same effect as above specified, in a letter addressed, under date of January 21, 1890, to the naval officer at your port, a copy of which is transmitted herewith.

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(10584.)

Salmon fisheries of Alaska-Protection of.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, January 8, 1891.

SIR: The Department is in receipt of your letter of the 4th ultimo, in regard to the enforcement of the act of March 2, 1889, entitled "An act to provide for the protection of the salmon fisheries of Alaska."

The said act provides "that the erection of dams, barricades, or other obstructions in any of the rivers of Alaska with the purpose or result of preventing or impeding the ascent of salmon or other anadromous species to their spawning grounds" is unlawful, and the Department concurs with you in the opinion, which you seem to have expressed in a letter addressed to Mr. A. Young, of Astoria, Oreg., that all barricades or obstructions of whatever nature, in any bay, inlet, or estuary leading to or debouching from a fresh-water stream, so as to prevent the fish mentioned from ascending to or entering the stream, is a violation of the said act; also, that a "row of stakes or piles found to extend entirely across the estuary of Trunk River," to which was attached netting stretching from pole to pole and resting upon the bottom, is such an "obstruction" or "barricade."

You will be governed accordingly.

Respectfully yours,

COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, Sitka, Alaska.

O. L. SPAULDING,

Assistant Secretary.

(10585.)

Circular.-Smelting and refining imported ores and crude metals in bond.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, January 8, 1891.

To Collectors and other Officers of the Customs:

The following regulations are hereby prescribed under the provisions of section 24, of the act of October 1, 1890, for the smelting and refining of imported metals in any crude form in bonded warehouses:

1. Application for the establishment of warehouses for this purpose to be known as warehouse of class seven, must be made by the manufacturer or owner, to the collector or other chief officer of the customs at the port where their smelting or refining works are situated, giving the location of the premises, and setting forth the manufacture proposed to be carried on therein. Such manufacturer or owner will be

required to execute a bond, in duplicate, in the form prescribed, in such penalty and with such security as the collector of customs may deem proper.

The bond will be in Form A, hereto annexed.

The bond executed in duplicate will be transmitted by the collector of customs to the Secretary of the Treasury for his approval. approved, one copy will be retained in the Department and the other sent to the collector for file.

2. All bonded warehouses of this class shall have a portion thereof separated from the remainder of the premises, and secured by customs locks, for the storage of the refined product equal to the quantity of pure metal contained in the imported crude metal or ore used in the smelting and refining each day until withdrawn for exportation or consumption, or transportation to another bonded warehouse.

3. Upon the arrival of metals in any crude form, including ores, from a foreign port, at any port where such smelting or refining warehouse is situated, for the purpose of being smelted and refined, the same shall be entered for warehousing under Articles 667 to 674 of the General Regulations of 1884. The warehouse entry and bond having been executed, the collector will issue a permit to the inspector to send such ores or metals from the import vessel or other vehicle by designated bonded carts, drays, or lighters to the smelting and refining warehouse named in the entry.

4. Upon the receipt of such ores or metals in such warehouse, the appraiser, or officer assigned to that duty, shall obtain proper and adequate samples from those taken for commercial purposes, in the manner approved and practiced by miners and others, in the handling and reduction of ores and metals, by thoroughly mixing and quartering every tenth shovel or more, repeating the operation until the usual commercial sample be obtained. The appraisers will ascertain by proper assays the quantity of dutiable refined metal or metals contained in the crude metals or ores as entered, and the quantity so ascertained will be noted on the warehouse entry and bond. Upon a withdrawal for consumption in the United States of any refined dutiable metals set aside and stored as equivalent for the metals contained in the imported crude metals or ores smelted in such warehouse, duty will be collected on the corresponding quantity as shown by the original assay, of such imported crude metals or ores, without any allowance for wastage incurred in the smelting and refining, but upon the exportation of said refined metal credit will be given on the warehouse bond for the duties on such corresponding quantity of the imported crude metals or ores

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