T. D. 10609. T. D. 11113. ART. 638. All package goods, including distilled spirits in casks, must be sent to and received in warehouse by the shipping marks and numbers; and if imported without numbers, they are required to be numbered consecutively. Such goods must be gauged, weighed, returned, and in all respects dealt with by such numbers. The collector shall cause each unmarked package, when received in warehouse, to be identified by letters or marks showing the year and month when received, and the name of the vessel or railroad by which and of the place whence imported; such marking shall be done under the supervision of the storekeeper, and the necessary labor be furnished by the proprietor of the warehouse as a charge on the goods. The marks and numbers, as above, must be entered on the books and returned by the storekeeper in charge in his daily returns to the collector. They will then be entered in the general warehouse books, and the numbers therein given will be the designating numbers on all permits for withdrawal. ART. 639. After the duty has been estimated upon the warehouse entry in the same manner as upon an entry for consumption, the collector will take a bond, in the prescribed form (Cat. No. 704), in double the amount of the estimated duties for the legal withdrawal of the merchandise. Claims for abandonment under section 23, act June 10, 1890, must be made within ten days after entry. ART. 640. Original importers are not by any subsequent transfers relieved, either personally or upon the warehousing bond, from their liability for duties. Both principal and sureties continue liable until the duties are paid or the merchandise withdrawn for exportation or transportation in bond. ART. 641. The bond having been executed, the collector will issue a permit to the inspector, which must be countersigned by the naval officer, to send the goods to the bonded warehouse, except such as may be designated for examination, which will be sent to the appraiser's stores. This permit must also indicate what goods are to be weighed, gauged, or measured; and such weighing, gauging, or measuring is in all cases to be done before the deposit of the goods in warehouse or their removal to the appraiser's stores. ART. 642. When goods are sent from vessel to warehouse, or transferred from one warehouse to another in the same district, each dray or lighter load must be accompanied by a receipt, specifying the marks, numbers, and description of packages, to be signed by the storekeeper in charge, and returned by the drayman or lighterman to the inspector at the vessel or the storekeeper, as the case may be. These receipts must be numbered consecutively; and in case the numbers do not arrive at the store in due course, the storekeeper shall ascertain the cause, and if there be any appearance of fraud, he shall advise the collector. Should the drayman or lighterman neglect to return the receipts to the inspector, that officer will report the fact to the collector, and the employment of such drayman, cartman, or lighterman will not afterwards be permitted. ART. 643. On completion of entry for warehouse, should the importer desire to withdraw the whole or any portion of his goods and to pay the duties before the liquidation of the warehouse entry, he may do so, except as to packages under examination, by giving penal bond, as in the case of entries for consumption, but goods shall not be allowed to remain on the wharf after the inspector has made his return of the cargo, except in cases where the collector is of the opinion that the circumstances justify such action. ART. 644. When the packages designated by the collector on the invoice, and sent to the appraiser's stores, shall have been reported as examined, the collector will cause the transfer at the importer's expense of such packages to the warehouse designated in the entry. ART. 645. Merchandise in bonded warehouse may be R. S., 3029. examined at any time during the business hours of the port by the importer, consignee, or agent, who may take samples of his goods in reasonable quantities, according to the usage of the port; make all needful repairs of packages, and repack the goods if necessary for their safety or preservation, provided when the original contents are placed in the new packages they shall be marked and numbered as before. ART. 646. Casks containing wines liable to sour may be T. D. 4281. refilled when necessary for preservation, but the wine used for such refilling must be part of the same importation and must have been withdrawn for consumption with payment of duties. ART. 647. No samples shall be taken nor any goods exhibited or examined without a permit from the collector, countersigned by the naval officer, and under the supervision of an officer of customs, nor unless by request of TD. 7021, 7843, the importer, owner, or consignee; nor shall any pack R. S., 3018. age be repaired nor goods repacked without a permit, to be granted only when necessary for the safety or preservation of the contents. Goods imported in bulk, and not in present danger of deterioration, can not be placed in packages while in warehouse. ART. 648. For the exportation of drugs, medicines, and chemical preparations, otherwise than in the original packages, written application must be made to the colT.D. 6572, 6753. lector of the port specifying the articles to be exported, the number of original packages, and the kind of package in which it is proposed to export the goods. R. S., 3018. R.S., 2962, 2975. ART. 649. The collector will then direct the opening of the original package and the repacking of so much as may be specified in the application. The package shall be marked and numbered in the same manner as the original. When two or more of the original packages are placed in one case it should show all the marks and numbers of the original packages. The officer in charge of the warehouse shall supervise the opening and repacking. ART. 650. When necessary, such merchandise will be weighed, gauged, or measured, both before and after repacking, in the presence of the debenture officer, who shall also attend to the shipping of such merchandise and accompany the same to the vessel or bonded carrier by which the same is to be exported. The labor performed shall be at the owner's expense. The shipper must deliver a shipper's manifest of the goods on exportation. ART. 651. Merchandise duly deposited in a bonded warehouse may be transferred to another bonded warehouse; on the written request of the owner or importer to the collector, who will issue a transfer order directing the removal of the merchandise at the risk and expense of the party requesting it, under the supervision of an officer of the customs. ART. 652. Perishable goods, gunpowder, or other dangerous or explosive substances, except fire-crackers, can not be deposited in warehouse; and, if not immediately entered for export or transportation from the vessel in which imported, or entered for consumption, and the duties paid thereon, will be sold by the collector under the regulations governing unclaimed merchandise of a perishable nature. CHAPTER VII. ENTRY FOR IMMEDIATE TRANSPORTATION, WITHOUT APPRAISEMENT. 414. ART. 653. Importers at duly designated interior ports 24 Stat., 411, who desire to make direct importations may have merchandise other than explosive articles imported by them directly forwarded without appraisement from the port of first arrival by making entry thereof at such port under the provisions of the act of June 10, 1880, amended by the act of February 23, 1887. ART. 654. The exterior ports from which merchandise can be so forwarded are as follows: Boston, Mass. Baltimore, Md. Island Pond, Vt. Key West, Fla. Port Huron, Mich. Port Townsend, Wash. The ports to which merchandise may be transported without ap praisement are as follows. Jacksonville, Fla. Ogdensburg, N. Y. Pittsburg, Pa. Portsmouth, NH. St. Joseph, Mo. St. Paul, Minn. San Francisco, Cal. San Diego, Cal. Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. Seattle, Wash. Syracuse, N. Y. Tampa, Fla. Tacoma, Wash. Titusville, Pa. Toledo, Ohio. Vanceboro, Me. Vernon (Rockville), Conn. Washington, D. C. Wilmington, Del. Wilmington, N. C. 414. 24 14425. ART. 655. Common carriers who desire to transport goods under the above acts must apply for authority to the Secretary of the Treasury, through the collector of a port Stat.. 411 of first arrival designated in the first section of the act, naming the ports between which they desire to carry goods, describing the route, and stating the method of and facilities for transportation, and giving a description of the cars, vessels, vehicles, compartments, safes, or trunks proposed to be used, and of the means for closing and fastening them. ART. 656. If the application is made by an association, it must be accompanied by a copy of the articles of the association, and if by a corporation, by a copy of the charter and by-laws and a list of the names of the officers. If the application is granted, bond (Form No. 21) will be executed in duplicate by the applicants, certified by the collector, and sent by him to the Secretary for approval. When approved one copy will be returned to the collector, and one retained in the Department for file. Trust companies may be accepted as sureties upon such bonds. ART. 657. In lieu of sureties, registered United States bonds, issued to the Treasurer of the United States, in trust for the common carrier, in an amount equal to the penalty of the common carrier's bond, may be deposited with the Treasurer before approval of the bond. Notice of the deposit will be sent by the Treasurer to the Secretary. Such bonds may be withdrawn on an order from the Secretary of the Treasury to the Treasurer, in order to meet any liability found to have been incurred by the common carrier on settlement of his accounts, or upon discontinuance of the bonded line, or upon the furnishing by him of a new and satisfactory bond. The interest on the bonds will be drawn by the Treasurer and paid by him to the common carrier, and on their withdrawal the bonds will be assigned by him to the latter. ART. 658. Application of such common carriers only as have exclusive control of suitable and sufficient means of transportation will be granted. A separate bond must be given for each port of first arrival from which any common carrier proposes to transport merchandise. T. D. 7238. The penalty of each bond for transportation from the port of New York shall be $250,000, and from other ports $100,000; and the collector at each port of first arrival shall keep a record of all entries of merchandise delivered to each common carrier, and shall make due credit therein for all such as are certified to have been duly delivered at |