(10616.) Discontinuance of bonded route of George T. Sears. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, January 21, 1891. SIR: The Department has received your letter of the 19th instant, transmitting the request of Mr. George T. Sears for the discontinuance of his bond, approved March 25, 1879, as a common carrier for the transportation of dutiable salt in bond. The route covered by the bond referred to is hereby discontinued, and you will note the fact and date upon the copy of said bond now on file in your office and retain the same without cancellation, to meet any liability which may have accrued thereunder. Respectfully yours, COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, Boston, Mass. O. L. SPAULDING, Assistant Secretary. (10617.) Extension of six months' bond given for exhibition of works of art. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, January 21, 1891. SIR: The Department is in receipt of your letter of the 15th instant, in which you inclose the application of Mr. Emil Pretorius, acting president of the Missouri Historical Society, in which he requests the further extension of the six months' delivery bond given by said society for three cases containing bronzes and marble statuary, now on exhibition in the rooms of the society. You report that the bond given at time of original importation and dated January 6, 1890, was extended six months from July 6, 1890, and you recommend that the request of Mr. Pretorius for a further extension thereof may be granted. In reply, I have to inform you, that as the articles in question have already been on exhibition six months in excess of the time prescribed by law, and as the provisions of the act of October 1, 1890, limiting the authority of the Secretary to extend bonds of this character to one extension of six months, indicates the intention of Congress in the premises to allow such exhibition for one year only, the Department must decline to grant said application. Respectfully yours, SURVEYOR OF CUSTOMS, St. Louis, Mo. O. L. SPAULDING, (10618.) Duty on wearing apparel in default of owner's oath. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, January 21, 1891. GENTLEMEN: The Department is in receipt of your letter of the 17th instant, in which you state that on April 17, 1889, you executed a bond to produce the personal oath of Madam Albani (actress) for the free entry of certain wearing apparel in use and professional effects, imported per Aurania, from Liverpool, on April 1, 1889, and that, having failed to produce such oath within one year, as required by law, you paid the sum of $15.25, representing duties on the articles, to the district attorney at New York, for the purpose of procuring the cancellation of the bond. You ask that the amount of duty so paid may be refunded to you. In reply, I have to inform you that personal effects are only entitled to free entry under the law on the production of the oath of the owner, and that in the absence of such oath they are properly subject to duty. Having failed to procure the oath within one year, as required by section 2800 of the Revised Statutes, you have no claim for refund of the duties levied thereon, and the Department therefore declines to grant your request. Respectfully yours, Messrs. KENNEDY & MOON, New York. O. L. SPAULDING, Assistant Secretary. (10619.) Magic-lantern slides for Sunday school purposes. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, January 21, 1891. SIR: The Department is in receipt of a letter addressed to you by F. B. Swayne, of Toledo, Ohio, under date of the 14th instant, in which he inquires whether magic-lantern slides for Sunday-school purposes and to be the property of the church would be admitted free of duty under the statute providing for the admission without duty of philosophical apparatus, etc., which is to become the property of an educational or religious institution. In reply, I have to inform you that the Supreme Court has recently decided that stereopticons, with accompanying slides, are philosophical apparatus and instruments, and as paragraph 677 of the act of October * * 1, 1890, exempts from duty "philosophical and scientific apparatus * specially imported in good faith for the use of any society or institution incorporated or established for religious * * purposes, *** and not intended for sale," the Department is of the opinion that such slides are entitled to exemption from duty if specially imported for the use of said society. Respectfully yours, WILLIAM WINDOM, Secretary. Hon. WILLIAM E. HAYNES, U. S. House of Representatives. (10620.) Florentine mosaics. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, January 21, 1891. SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 15th instant, in which you inclose, for the information of this Department and appropriate action, a copy of a dispatch, No. 116, of the 23d ultimo, from the consul at Florence, containing a report on the manufacture and value of the Florentine mosaics, and recommending that they be placed in the same category as works of art, paintings, statuary, etc., and import duty levied accordingly. In reply, I have to inform you that the provision of law imposing duty on works of art specifies the character of such articles, as, for instance, paintings in oil or water colors, and statuary, etc., and that the law contains no provision for mosaics eo nomine. As mosaics are not specially provided for in the law, they are classified as manufactures of the materials of which they are composed, and the Department is unable, in the absence of legislation, to authorize the classification of such mosaics as suggested by the consul. Respectfully yours, The Hon. SECRETARY OF STATE. WILLIAM WINDOM, Secretary. (10621.) Indorsements on enrollments. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, January 22, 1891. SIR: In accordance with a verbal request from your office, I transmit herewith, for your information and guidance, a copy of instruc tions, dated April 10, 1890, from this Department to the collector of customs at New Berne, N. C., relative to indorsements on enrollments. In accordance therewith, paragraph 22, circular No. 95, October 1 1890 (Cat. No. 401), should read as follows: "For indorsements of change of master on enrollment (R. S., 4381), 20 cents." Respectfully yours, A. B. NETTLETON, Acting Secretary. The FIRST AUDITOR OF THE TREASURY. [Copy of letter above mentioned.] TREASURY DEPARTMENT, April 10, 1890. SIR: This Department is in receipt of your letter, dated the 1st instant. * * * * * Concerning your inquiry whether a fee can be charged for indorsement on the license (of an enrolled vessel), you are informed that under the regulations of 1884 an indorsement upon the certificate of enrollment only should be made, and that but one fee should be charged. In the case of a licensed vessel not enrolled, the indorsement should be upon the license. Respectfully yours, GEORGE S. BATCHELLER, Acting Secretary. COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, New Berne, N. C. (10622.) Herrings, frozen-Duty on. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, January 22, 1891. SIR: In reply to your letter of the 7th instant, in which you request instructions as to the proper classification of herrings; frozen, I have to inform you that for the purpose of creating uniformity of practice at the several ports, I would suggest that frozen fresh herrings should be classified for duty under the provision in paragraph 293 of Schedule G of the act of October 1, 1890, for "Fish, * * * frozen, packed in ice, or otherwise prepared for preservation," leaving the importers to their remedy if dissatisfied with your action, by protest under section 14 of the act of June 10, 1899. Respectfully yours, O. L. SPAULDING, Assistant Secretary. COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, Gloucester Mass. (10623.) Refunds on salt used in curing meats. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, January 22, 1891. SIR Referring to your letter of the 18th ultimo, relative to the application of Messrs. G. W. Sheldon & Co. for a refund of duties on salt used in curing certain meats by a packing establishment whose proprietor resides abroad, I inclose herewith a copy of a report, dated the 10th instant, from the collector of customs at New York, stating the practice of his office in similar cases. The practice as described in said report, of accepting the affidavit of an attorney, agent, or manager in lieu of the oath of proprietor, appears to be in accordance with the rulings of the Department cited therein, and you are, therefore, hereby authorized to adopt the same in the case now in question and in future similar cases. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, January 22, 1891. SIR: In reply to your letter of the 17th instant, I have to inform you that importations of Canadian postal cards are subject to duty at the rate of 25 per cent. ad valorem as printed matter, under the provisions of Schedule M, paragraph 423, of the act of October 1, 1890. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, January 22, 1891. SIR: The Department is in receipt of a letter from the Secretary of State, dated the 17th instant, in which he incloses a copy of a dispatch |