(T. D. 34580, p. 1084.)

R. S., 2788, 2926.

entry, Customs Form 4835. Said entry shall contain the address of the importer and have attached thereto a commercial bill covering the merchandise upon which the officer will make his return.

Such entries will be reported to the Auditor for the Treasury Department on Customs Form 5043. Such reports will be given numbers and carried into the report made to the auditor each month on Customs Form 4975. Such merchandise arriving under an immediate transportation entry should also be reported by the collector at the port of destination to the auditor on Customs. Form 5049 in all respects as if formal entry were made. Art. 294. By appraisement.-Merchandise valued at $100 1913, sec. III, or less for which the consignee is unable to produce an T. Ds. 5415, invoice or to state the value, may be entered by appraisement on Customs Form 3281. Similar entry may be made for personal and household effects used abroad if not intended for sale and not imported in pursuance of a purchase or agreement of purchase, and for articles sent as gifts for which no invoice or statement of value can be produced, regardless of value.

Act Oct. 3.

par. E.

22280, 22385.

(T. D. 33557, par. 2.)

The entry will be forwarded to the appraiser and the packages sent to the appraiser's stores. The appraiser will report the result of his appraisement on the entry, and duties will be assessed in accordance therewith, but the importer may substitute an entry for warehouse and exportation at any time within one year from the date of importation.

If the appraiser finds that the articles entered consist of merchandise valued at more than $100, he will return the appraisement entry with a notation thereon to that effect in order that entry by invoice may be made.

The cartage, storage, and labor incident to the entry by appraisement of articles or merchandise will be borne. by the importer.

DISPOSITION OF ENTRIES.

Art. 295. Filing, numbering, etc.-All entries for consumption and warehouse will be filed at ports of entry in duplicate. A separate port series of numbers will be used for each class of entries for each port of entry, together with a symbol letter, to be assigned by the collector. Such serial numbers will commence with No. 1 on the 1st day of July of each year. All papers pertaining to

an entry will be stamped with its serial number and symbol letter. A symbol letter will not be used on entries made at headquarters ports. The same system of numbering entries will be used for I. T. entries, T. and E. entries, drawback and other entries, and in assigning serial numbers for unclaimed goods. The original copy of the entry will be forwarded to the headquarters port on the date of receipt, to be followed as soon as practicable after examination and appraisement by the duplicate copy of the entry, with the bills of lading, invoices, special returns, and other papers necessary for liquidation.

Art. 296. Parcel post.-Any article admissible to the domestic mails of the United States may be imported in unsealed packages by parcel post (unless a prohibited importation) from the following countries with which the United States has parcel-post conventions, viz: Australia, Austria (including certain Austrian offices in the Ottoman Empire), the Bahamas, Barbadoes,1 Belgium, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, British Guiana, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Curacao, Danish West Indies, Denmark,

1 Parcels can not be registered.

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Dominican Republic, Dutch Guiana, Ecuador, France,1 French Guiana, Germany, Gibraltar, Great Britain, Greece, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras (British), Honduras (Republic of), Hongkong (colony), Hungary, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Leeward Islands, Liberia, Mexico, Martinique, Netherlands, Newfoundland, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Peru, Salvador, Sweden, Trinidad, Uruguay, Venezuela, Windward Islands.

Customs declarations giving accurate statements of the contents and value must accompany all parcels so imported and be securely attached thereto.

Parcel-post packages from Italy may be sealed, but customs officers will break the seals, in order to examine the contents, and will reseal them with official seals.

Parcels from countries with which the United States has parcel-post conventions (except those from Colombia and Mexico) must not exceed 11 pounds in weight, nor the following dimensions: Greatest length in any direction, 3 feet 6 inches; greatest length and girth combined, 6 feet. The greatest length of such parcels from Colombia and Mexico must not exceed 2 feet and the greatest girth must not exceed 4 feet.

Parcel-post packages containing prohibited importations (except cigars and cigarettes) and those exceeding the weight and size specified will be immediately returned to the country of origin through exchange offices of receipt, except those from Austria, Australia, Belgium, Bermuda, Curaçao, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Dutch Guiana, France, Germany, Haiti, Hungary, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Uruguay. Such packages from the latter countries shall be disposed of as hereinafter provided.

Art. 297. Postal conventions.-Dutiable articles may be imported in unsealed packages through the mails from Canada, Cuba, Mexico, and the Republic of Panama under the terms of the postal conventions between the United States and those countries, subject only to the limitation as to value, weight, or size placed upon parcels admissible to the domestic mails of the United States.

Art. 298. Domestic mail regulations.-Dutiable articles may be imported in unsealed packages from the Philippine Archipelago, Panama Canal Zone, and the United

1 Parcels can not be registered.