Form of appraisers' return. FORM NO. 99. Appraisers' return. APPRAISERS' OFFICE, To the Collector of Customs: Port of In pursuance of your order, we have examined the following described merchandise, and do certify that the same has sustained damage on the voyage of importation as follows, to wit: (Here specify the merchandise, and the rate of damage.) Respectfully, Appraisers. Damage to be as certained at first port of entry. 413. Damage on the voyage of importation must be ascertained at the port where the vessel originally enters No reappraisem❜nt and cannot be certified from any other port; and no re-appraisement is authorized by law in case of allowance for damage. to be allowed. Allowance to be made for actual proved and esti 414. The law authorizes an allowance to be made in damage properly the assessment of duties for actual damage occuring dumated in all cases. ring the voyage of importation, properly proved and estimated; and a rigid scrutiny will be made in each case to ascertain, not only the amount of damage, but whether it occurred on the voyage of importation or not. Appraisers to keep a record of damages. turns to Secretary of the Treasury. 415. Collectors of the customs and appraisers will each keep a record of damages, which shall exhibit the folMake monthly re- lowing particulars; and monthly returns, according to the following form, shall be made by collectors to the Secretary of the Treasury. And it is expressly enjoined on collectors, that great care should be bestowed on the accurate preparation of these returns, and their prompt and regular transmission to the Department, in order that the purpose of their requirement may be properly accomplished: FORM No. 100. damages. Abstract of damaged merchandise and allowances thereon in Form of record of the district of, for the month ending the observed, except 416. The foregoing regulations will be observed at the Regulations to be several ports, unless modified by special order, at partic- as modined by spos ular ports, to be hereafter issued. cial instructions hereafter given. SECTION XIX. OF MONEYS RECEIVABLE AND PAYABLE BY PUBLIC OFFICERS States receivable in and other debts. Sec. 18 Act Aug. 6, 1846. ART. 417. The 18th section of the act of 6th August, Currency of the U. 1846, provides that all duties, taxes, sales of public lands, payment of duties debts, and sums of money accruing or becoming due to the United States, and also all sums of money due for postages, or otherwise, to the General Post Office Department, shall be paid in gold and silver coin only, or in Treasury notes, issued under the authority of the United States. ceivable, when. 418. No foreign coins of any description are a legal Foreign coins retender, or can be lawfully received and paid on account of the United States, except the following, by weight alone: 1st. The gold coins of Great Britain, of standard fineness, at 94% cents per dwt., by act of 3d March, 1843. 2d. The gold coins of France, of standard fineness, at 92 cents per dwt., by the same act. Laws fixing rates of certain foreign currency for com 3d. The gold coins of Portugal and Brazil, of standard fineness, at 94,8 cents per dwt., by act of 28th June, 1834. 10 4th. The gold coins of Spain, Mexico, and Columbia, of standard fineness, at 89% cents per dwt., by the same act. And by the act of 3d March, 1843, Spanish pillar dollars, and the dollars of Mexico, Peru, and Bolivia, of standard fineness and weight, may be received by tale at 100 cents each; and the five franc pieces of France, of standard fineness and weight, may be received by tale at 93 cents each. 419. The several acts of Congress which have been putation of ad-va: passed from time to time for the purpose of fixing the lorem duties, do rency a lawful ten on public account. not make such cur- value of various coins of different countries of Europe and der, or receivable Asia, for the computation of ad-valorem duties at the custom-houses, have no connexion with their use as currency. Such coins are not made a lawful tender, or receivable on public account, by such establishment of their value for a wholly different purpose. In what currency payments on are to be made. Aug. 6, 1846. ac 420. The 19th and 20th sections of the act of 6th count of U. States August, 1846, require all payments on account of the Bec. 19 and 20 Act United States, by any officer thereof, to be made in gold and silver coin, or in Treasury notes, where the creditor Exchange of funds, agrees to receive such notes in payment-prohibit all exsilver coin, prohib- changes of funds, except for gold and silver coin, and Violations of the require all violations of these provisions to be reported for the immediate suspension of the officer offending. except for gold and ited. law to be reported. CHAPTER III. REGULATIONS UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE WAREHOUSE LAWS. SECTION I. WAREHOUSES. ART. 421. Warehouses, in which unclaimed and bonded merchandise shall be stored, will hereafter be known and designated as follows: lic stores. 1st. Stores owned by the United States, or hired by them, United States pubprior to the date of these instructions, the leases of which have not expired or been cancelled. All unclaimed goods must be stored in these stores when there are such at the Unclaimed goods. port available for the purpose; and they are also to be used for the storage of other foreign merchandise as hereinafter provided. All the labor in these stores shall be performed under the superintendence of the officer in charge, at the expense of the owner or importer of the merchandise, and all charges for storage, labor, and other Rate of storage expenses, accruing on the goods, shall not exceed the regular rates for such objects at the port. Stores of this description will be known and designated as class 1. 2d. Stores in the possession of an importer and in his Importer's store. sole occupancy, which he may desire to place under the customs lock, in addition to his own lock, (said locks to be of a different character,) for the purpose of storing dutiable merchandise imported by himself only. pur The entire store shall be appropriated to this sole pose, under the regulations hereinafter provided; and for the time of the customs officer necessarily required in attendance at such store, the proprietor shall pay, monthly, to the collector of the port, such sum as he may deem Restriction Bond. proper Before any importer shall be permitted to use his own. store for such purpose, he shall enter into a bond, according to the following form, in such sum and with such sureties as may be approved by the collector and this Department: FORM NO. 101. Know all men by these presents, that we, as principals, and -, as sureties, are held and firmly bound unto the United States ofA merica in the sum of dollars; for the payment of which, well and truly to be made to the United States, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, jointly and severally, by these presents; as witness our hands and seals this eighteen hundred and day of The condition of this obligation is such, that if the above bounden the principal, shall comply in all respects with the provisions and requirements of the warehouseing laws, and the regulations of the Treasury Department in pursuance thereof, and shall not store in the store or premises known as street, any other goods, wares, or merchandise, than those imported by or consigned to him, and duly entered and bonded for warehousing, and ordered by the proper officer of the customs to be deposited therein, and shall pay to the collecter, monthly, the salary of the officer or officers of the customs. in charge of said goods, wares, and merchandise, or such part of said salary as may be required in pursuance of the regulations of the Treasury Department, and shall not remove, nor suffer to be removed, any goods, wares, or merchandise, from said store, without lawful permit, and without the presence of the customs officer in charge, or, in case of such removal, shall pay to the proper collecting officer at the port the value of the merchandise so removed, and five thousand dollars as liquidated damages for each |