ART. 1897. Any vehicle or ferryboat on which such goods are laden for export will be detained by the customs officer at the frontier port of the United States until the person in charge thereof shall furnish the customs officer such manifest, and said person will be liable to the penalty of fifty dollars ($50) for each offense if he removes the goods to foreign territory before complying with the terms of the law.

ART. 1898. Masters of ferryboats or vessels required by preexisting law to clear their vessel and deliver to the collector of the port whence they depart for the foreign country a manifest of the kinds, quantities, and values of the goods laden thereon for exportation are exempted from the requirements of the above law relating to exports by railways.

ART. 1899. Manifests of personal effects or baggage of travelers carried on passenger trains en route to Canada or Mexico are not required to be delivered to the collector of customs at the border port when such effects or baggage are for the use of such travelers and not for sale.

ART. 1900. Manifests of merchandise shipped from an interior point in the United States for export from a seaboard port of the United States are not required to be delivered to the collector of customs at the border port See Art. 1881; where the transportation of the merchandise is partly through Canada or Mexico, the statistics of exports in such case being secured at the port of export under a preexisting law relating to exports by vessels.

R. S., 337.

See Art. 1909.

ART. 1901. In the case of express companies carrying goods from this country into Canada or Mexico, the agent of the express company may act as agent of the exporter and furnish, besides the car manifest, the manifest required by article 1887, including in the latter manifest all the articles carried by the express company on a single train, taking care to enumerate the various articles exported, with details as to the kinds, quantities, and values thereof.

ART. 1902. The car manifest provided by article 1891 may be prepared by the railway or transportation company at any point which may be deemed most convenient.

ART. 1903. Goods shipped from the United States through Canada or Mexico for a market beyond those countries should be declared as for export to the country of destination and not to Canada or Mexico.

§ 6. GENERAL REGULATIONS.

ART. 1904. Collectors will make a preliminary examination of all import entries and of export manifests of merchandise, and when found inaccurate or incomplete, either in the description of articles or in omitting proper quantities or values, or for any error apparent on the face of the entry or manifest, will require the correction thereof before completing the entry in the case of imports, or granting a clearance in the case of exports. In the case of those lines of steamers sailing under special regulations, with a view to avoid detention and to facilitate their business generally, collectors will see that correct and complete manifests of the cargoes they take shall be lodged at the custom-house within four days after the clearance of the vessel.

ART. 1905. For statistical purposes the date of entry will be regarded as the date of importation and the date of clearance as the date of exportation of merchandise.

ART. 1906. Care should be taken to report on the export manifests the foreign goods, duty free or which have. paid duty, separately from goods of domestic production. In distinguishing between foreign and domestic goods only those goods will be reported as foreign which have undergone no change in form or condition or enhancement in value by the application of labor in the United States. Articles made from foreign materials or changed from the condition in which they were when imported by repacking, grinding, etc., will be classed as of domestic product or manufacture.

ART. 1907. Export manifests must be verified by the oath or affirmation of the owner, shipper, or consignor in person or by a duly constituted and capable agent.

ART. 1908. Agents of steamships, transportation companies, and others at points of shipment on the seaboard to whom is consigned merchandise on through bills of lading, or otherwise, from interior ports for export, should require the owner or shipper at the interior or initial point of shipment to accompany the merchandise with a list thereof or transmit by mail such list to the consignee or agent who is to clear the merchandise at the seaboard port for his information in preparing a proper manifest for the clearance of the goods. This list will show the kinds, quantities, values, and ultimate destination of the articles, inasmuch as the bills of lading do not contain sufficient information, especially with respect to manu

factured articles, to enable the steamship agent or person charged with the preparation of the export manifest to intelligently comply with the law which requires such manifests to exhibit a full, just, and true account of the quantities and values of the merchandise exported at the port and time of exportation. (See Arts. 1881 and 1882.)

ART. 1909. The country to which merchandise is reported as exported should be the country to which it is destined for a market.

If the country of ultimate destination of the commodities is different from that for which the vessel or car clears or departs, collectors will require exporters or their agents to state in export manifests, as the country for which the commodities are cleared, the country of ultimate destination or for which the commodities are destined for a market.

The strict enforcement of this regulation is especially enjoined with respect to articles of breadstuffs, provisions, and other merchandise shipped through northern border ports and Canada destined for Europe via Montreal, Quebec, and the St. Lawrence River. These articles are frequently declared by shippers in their manifests as for export to the Provinces of Quebec and Ontario when they should be declared as for export to the country of true destination in Europe, etc., beyond Canada, the shipment through Canada being merely an incident in their transportation to the true point of export or market.

ART. 1910. Collectors of customs shall report without delay to the nearest United States district attorney and to the Secretary of the Treasury all violations of the provisions of the statistical laws and will take measures in the usual manner for the enforcement of the penalty prescribed by the statutes for their violation. (See penalties prescribed in Arts. 1882 and 1883.)

ART. 1911. In the expression of quantities and values in monthly returns, the fraction of one dollar less than fifty cents will be rejected, and that of fifty cents or upwards will be counted as one dollar. A like rule will apply to fractions of weight and measure. In the statement of imports for consumption, Bureau Form No. 14, fractions of quantity and of the dollar will be stated in decimals when fractions are used in the computation of duties.

ART. 1912. A separate report must be rendered relative to each prescribed form, whether there be actual transactions or not; but when no transactions are to be returned on any of the general statements, a separate report of no

transactions will not be required relative to the unenumerated form.

ART. 1913. Statements upon all the required forms, except of imports for consumption, Bureau Form No. 14, and the special advance monthly statements, for which see Art. 1932, must be forwarded to the Bureau of Statisties from the port of New York within fifteen (15) days, and from the ports of Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans, San Francisco, El Paso and Chicago within twelve (12) days, after the close of the period to which they pertain, from the port of Galveston within eight (8) days, and from all other ports within six (6) days after the close of such period. Statements of imports for consumption, Bureau Form No. 14, will be forwarded from the ports named above, except New York, within thirty (30) days, from New York in thirty-five (35) days, and from all other ports within fifteen (15) days after the close of the quarter to which they pertain. All returns should be forwarded as much earlier than the maximum time here allowed as practicable, thus increasing the value of the statistics. by their earlier publication.

To avoid the delay incident to awaiting reports of transactions from distant outports, collectors of customs on the Canadian and Mexican frontiers will include in their monthly statistical reports made to the Bureau of Statistics the transactions which reach them from the outports between the first and last days of the month, but officers in charge of outports will be required to report transactions to the head office of the district as promptly as possible.

§ 7. MONTHLY STATEMENTS.

GENERAL STATEMENT OF THE IMPORTS OF MERCHANDISE.

(Bureau Form No. 1; Cat. Nos. 273 a, b, and c.)

ART. 1914. The general statement of the imports of merchandise will be classified as to articles, in accordance with Schedule A, and as to countries whence imported, in accordance with Schedule C, and must include all merchandise entered for immediate consumption and for warehouse. The articles entered for warehouse, included in this statement, will also be returned, in detail, on line 2 of the warehouse statement (Bureau Form No. 3).

ART. 1915. Collectors will consider the country in which imported merchandise is invoiced as the country whence the same was imported into the United States, and will

require that all entries of imported merchandise shall indicate both the country and place where the invoice was dated, and the country and port whence the final shipment to the United States was made, together with the nationality and motive power of the vessel in which the same was brought to the first port in the United States.

ART. 1916. Imported merchandise entered for immedi ate transportation to interior ports without appraisement, under the provisions of the act of June 10, 1880, etc., amended by act of February 23, 1887 (see Art. 653 of these Regulations), and merchandise through frontier ports in cars, secured by consular seals (see Art. 692, etc.), will be excluded from this form of return at the exterior port where it first enters the United States, but will be returned on this form as imported at the second or interior port where the same is entered for immediate consumption or for warehouse.

The entries of such goods, made at the exterior port of first arrival and the interior port of final destination, are required to show the country where the articles were invoiced and the nationality and motive power of the vessels in which they were brought to the United States.

The statement of imports of merchandise rendered from the interior port will, in a footnote, enumerate the exterior ports, with the total value of the merchandise imported through each, but the imports under consular seal will be included in the column of "direct" imports.

STATEMENT OF ARTICLES NOT ENUMERATED IN THE GENERAL STATEMENT OF IMPORTS OF MERCHANDISE.

(Bureau Form No. 2; Cat. No. 274.)

ART. 1917. This return will enumerate, by countries, the articles embraced in the general statement of imports of merchandise, Bureau Form No. 1, under the last free class, "All other free articles," to be followed by an enumeration, by countries, of the articles embraced under the last dutiable class, "All other dutiable articles."

No articles which can be properly returned on Form No. i under any of the "enumerated" classes other than those just indicated of Schedule A should be returned in this statement. Articles which under certain conditions are free of duty and under other conditions dutiable should be so described as to indicate why they are classed as free or dutiable articles, respectively.

Articles returned on this form should be described in similar terms to those used in describing the same articles