1912, Abstract 29162 (T. D. 32681), involving the question of the competency of certain evidence admitted by the board as to the origin of the wood from which the pulp under consideration was manufactured.

In view of the importance of the issue, you are hereby requested to file, in the name of the Secretary of the Treasury, an application with the United States Court of Customs Appeals for a review of the said decision, in accordance with the provisions of subsection 29 of section 28 of the tariff act of August 5, 1909.

Respectfully,
(67746.)

JAMES F. CURTIS,
Assistant Secretary.

ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL, New York.

(T. D. 32770.)

Bamboo lamp shades.

Lamp shades of bamboo, wood, straw, or composition of wood, if stained, dyed, painted, printed, polished, grained, or creosoted, dutiable at the rate of 40 per cent ad valorem under paragraph 214, tariff act of 1909.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, August 23, 1912.

SIR: The department is in receipt of information that it is the practice at your port to assess duty upon painted bamboo lamp shades at the rate of 35 per cent ad valorem, under paragraph 215 of the tariff act, while at some ports the merchandise in question is assessed with duty at the rate of 40 per cent ad valorem under the last clause of paragraph 214 of the said act.

In view of the provisions in paragraph 214 that shades of bamboo, wood, straw, or composition of wood, not specially provided for, if stained, dyed, painted, printed, polished, grained, or creosoted, shall be subject to duty at the rate of 40 per cent ad valorem, the department is of the opinion that the bamboo lamp shades under consideration are properly dutiable at the rate of 40 per cent ad valorem. You will be governed accordingly.

Respectfully,

(95812.)

JAMES F. CURTIS,

Assistant Secretary.

COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, San Francisco, Cal.

(T. D. 32771.)
Galveston, Tex.

Extending limits of port of Galveston, Tex., to include Port Bolivar, Tex.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, August 23, 1912.

To collectors of customs and others concerned:

The appended copy of an act to extend the limits of the port of entry of Galveston, Tex., to include Port Bolivar, in that State, is

published for the information of customs officers and all others concerned.

(93001-24.)

JAMES F. CURTIS, Assistant Secretary.

AN ACT to extend the limits of the port of Galveston, Texas, to include Port Bolivar, in that State. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the limits of the port of entry of Galveston, Texas, be, and the same are hereby, extended to include Port Bolivar, in that State. Approved, August 20, 1912.

(T. D. 32772.)

Sealing cars in Canada.

Customs officers stationed in Canada to seal cars as provided for in section 3102 of the Revised Statutes.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, August 24, 1912.

To collectors of customs and others concerned:

The department has stationed customs officers at Montreal and Vancouver, Canada, to seal cars containing merchandise destined for points in the United States, as provided for in section 3102, Revised Statutes. This action was taken in order to relieve the American consular officers at said places of the work involved.

Articles 425, 426, and 427 of the Customs Regulations of 1908 are hereby amended as follows:

ART. 425. To avoid inspection at the frontier port or place of arrival in the United States of any car laden in Canada with merchandise destined for a port of entry or delivery in the United States, the owner of such merchandise or his agent or the agent of the carrier will be required to make application to the customs or consular officer of the United States residing in such foreign territory to close and seal the car and also to prepare and present to the officer a manifest in quadruplicate containing a full and correct description of the merchandise, the marks and numbers on the packages, the dutiable value of each package, the initials and number of the car, and the name of the carrier transporting the merchandise. Such manifest will be in the following form:

[Indorsement.]

I, the owner or agent of the above-described merchandise, or the agent of the carrier, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that this manifest contains, to the best of my knowledge and belief, a full and complete description of the contents of said car and the quantities and value of said contents are correctly stated herein.

day of

(Signature.)

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 191-, and I hereby certify that this car was sealed and the manifest verified under my personal supervision.

(U. S. Customs Inspector (or Consul).)

[Second indorsement.]

PORT OF

191-. with United

I hereby certify that the within-mentioned car arrived at States seals intact and that said car and contents have been forwarded to destination in the United States via R. R. Co., with said seals in good condition.

ART. 426. Sealing of car-Disposition of manifests. On receipt of such manifest in quadruplicate as aforesaid the officer of the United States duly authorized to act in the premises will, after a careful comparison of the contents of the car with the manifest, duly close and seal the openings of the car and will thereupon, after placing a consecutive number on the manifest, retain one copy thereof for the files of his office, transmit one copy immediately by the conductor of the car, in a sealed envelope, to the chief officer of the customs at the frontier port or the place of first arrival in the United States, another copy, by mail, to the collector at the port of destination, and deliver the remaining copy to the conductor to accompany the merchandise.

ART. 427. Entry-Examination.-Upon arrival at any frontier port of cars secured with customs or consular seals, no entry will be required, but the collector of customs at said port will execute the second indorsement on the manifest, have the seals examined, and, if found intact, permit the car and merchandise to go forward to destination accompanied by the manifest bearing his indorsement.

Customs officers on the frontier are cautioned that the object in view is the protection of the revenue, and they will, therefore, take all proper measures to prevent unnecessary delay of cars under consular or customs seals at their respective ports. In no case will· such cars be allowed to proceed except by a duly bonded route.

In cases where the consular or customs seals have been removed before arrival at the frontier, or there is any evidence of such seals having been tampered with, collectors will detain the car and require the contents to be treated as an ordinary importation subject to entry for warehouse, consumption, or transportation in bond as the

case may

be.

(62752.)

JAMES F. CURTIS, Assistant Secretary.

(T. D. 32773.)

Customs vouchers.

Customs vouchers for purchases and services other than personal under blanket authorizations must be sent to the Secretary for approval. Vouchers for personal services to be paid without submitting to the Secretary for approval.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, July 30, 1912.

SIR: In reply to your communication of the 16th instant, in reference to instructions contained in department letter of June 24, 1912, you are informed that vouchers for purchases and services. other than personal must be sent to the Division of Appointments for approval and authorization when expenditures are incurred underblanket authorization" to employ temporary labor, pay cartage expenses, etc., before such voucher amounts shall be included in estimates for funds. These amounts should be paid from money advanced for such purposes and after vouchers have been approved and authorized such voucher amounts should be included in the next estimate.

When, under public exigency, authorization is given to incur an expense up to a certain sum, the exact amount of such expense not being known, the voucher for such expense must be sent to the Division of Appointments for approval and authorization before payment and prior to including such sum in an estimate for funds. Until further notice you will continue to pay vouchers for personal service without submitting same to Division of Appointments for approval and authorization.

Respectfully,

COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, Marquette, Mich.

JAMES F. CURTIS,

Assistant Secretary.

(T D. 32774.)

New form-Requisition for funds.

Requisition for funds (Dept. Stock Form 2139) not to supersede Customs Catalogue

4803a.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, August 5, 1912.

SIR: In reply to your letter of the 18th ultimo requesting information as to use of new form of requisition for funds, you are advised that the estimates, Customs Catalogue 4803a, etc., are not to be superseded by the requisition form in question.

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You will not use the new requisition for funds unless, as special disbursing officer, you are authorized to draw directly on the Secretary of the Treasury for funds.

Respectfully,

COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, Boston, Mass.

(T. D. 32775.)

R. O. BAILEY,

Assistant Secretary.

Castor seed-Allowance for impurities.

Castor seed to be analyzed by the Linseed Association of New York, and allowance to be made for nonoleaginous matter therein in excess of 3 per cent.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, August 24, 1912.

To collectors and other officers of the customs:

In T. D. 32076 the United States Court of Customs Appeals held that allowance should be made for impurities not commonly found in castor seed, in accordance with the decision in Seeberger v. Wright (157 U. S., 183), but that inasmuch as no allowance is commonly made for impurities in castor seed as between seller and buyer, except in cases where the nonoleaginous substance exceeds 3 per cent, and then only for the excess above 3 per cent, such practice should form the basis with respect to allowance for impurities in such seed in the assessment of duties.

In future importations of castor seed, therefore, if the importer shall at the time of making entry, or within 24 hours thereafter, file with the collector an application in writing for allowance for the impurities in such seed, samples of the seed shall be drawn under customs supervision and shall be forwarded by the collector to the Linseed Association of New York for analysis, the expense of such analysis to be borne by the importer, and the analyses to be subject to occasional tests and verification by the Government chemist in the appraiser's office in New York, as the collector at the port of importation shall deem necessary for the protection of the Government's interests. If the analysis as stated shall show the presence in the seed of nonoleaginous matter in excess of 3 per cent, allowance for such excess above 3 per cent shall be made in the assessment of duty, but if the nonoleaginous matter is not more than 3 per cent, no allowance shall be made therefor.

If, however, the impurities for which allowance is made have a commercial value and are of a character which if imported separately would be subject to duty, duty shall be assessed thereon at the rate of 10 per cent ad valorem as waste not specially provided for under paragraph 479 of the tariff act of 1909, or at the same rate as a nonenumerated unmanufactured article under paragraph 480 of the said act, following the principle established in T. D. 31177.

(72702.)

JAMES F. CURTIS, Assistant Secretary.