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3000, 3001, 3005, and 3006 of the Revised Statutes, the act of June 10, 1880, and all acts and regulations relating thereto.

Said bond is approved, and one copy is inclosed for the files of your

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Only the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, or collector of customs, authorized to issue passes to board incoming vessels. Article 613, Customs Regulations of 1908, amended accordingly.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, May 13, 1909.

To collectors and other officers of the customs:

The last paragraph of article 613 of the Customs Regulations of 1908 is hereby amended to read as follows:

"Protection to the public revenues renders it necessary to restrict the issuance of passes to board incoming vessels from the revenue. cutter or other vessel, to those granted for good and sufficient cause, and no one is authorized to grant such permits except the Secretary of the Treasury, Assistant Secretary, or the collector."

JAMES B. REYNOLDS, Acting Secretary.

(T. D. 29753.) Split whalebone.

Whalebone, split, cut into lengths, etc., dutiable as a nonenumerated manufactured article under section 6, tariff act of 1897.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, May 14, 1909. SIR: The Department is in receipt of a decision of the Board of United States General Appraisers of the 28th ultimo, Abstract 21144 (T. D. 29727), wherein it is held that certain whalebone, split, cut into lengths and bunched, and which is intended to be used in the manufacture of brushes, is not dutiable, as assessed, under paragraph 449 of the tariff act as manufactures of bone at the rate of 30 per cent ad valorem, and, following its decision of March 30, 1904, G. A. 5626 (T. D. 25165), sustains the protest of the importers that the merchandise is free of duty under paragraph 698 of the said act, which provides for the admission free of duty of whalebone unmanufactured.

The Board in its decision expresses the opinion that the theory of the Government that the merchandise is dutiable under section 6 of the tariff act as an article wholly or partly manufactured is not altogether without force.

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After a careful consideration of this question, the Department concurs in the opinion of the Board that the merchandise is not properly dutiable under paragraph 449, but is dutiable as an article wholly or partly manufactured under section 6 at the rate of 20 per cent ad valorem.

You will be governed accordingly in the classification of future importations of this merchandise.

Respectfully,

(54080.)

COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, New York.

(T. D. 29754.)

JAMES B. REYNOLDS,
Assistant Secretary.

Common carrier.

Approving bond of Ryan Elevator and Forwarding Company for transportation of dutiable merchandise.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, May 17, 1909.

SIR: The Department is in receipt of your letter of the 12th instant, transmitting the bond of the Ryan Elevator and Forwarding Company for the transportation of merchandise under sections 3000, 3001, 3005, and 3006 of the Revised Statutes, the act of June 10, 1880, and all acts and regulations relating thereto.

Said bond is approved, and one copy is inclosed for the files of your office.

You will discontinue shipments under the bond which was approved October 18, 1905, noté the rebonding of the line thereon, and hold said bond without cancellation to meet any liability which may have accrued thereunder.

Respectfully,
(30337.)

COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, Buffalo, N. Y.

(T. D. 29755.)

JAMES B. REYNOLDS,

Assistant Secretary.

Drawback on ladies' undergarments.

Drawback on ladies' undergarments manufactured by Kaufmann, Rose & Co., of New York City, with the use of imported embroideries, laces, and medallions.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, May 17, 1909.

SIR: On the exportation of ladies' undergarments manufactured by Kaufmann, Rose & Co., of New York City, with the use of imported laces, embroideries, and medallions, a drawback will be allowed equal in amount to the duty paid on the imported materials used, less the legal deduction of 1 per cent.

The preliminary entry must show the marks and numbers of the shipping packages and the number of garments of each style and size contained in each package and in the entire shipment.

The drawback entry must show the total number of each style and size of garment exported and the total quantity of each kind of imported material used in the manufacture thereof. Said entry must further show that the exported garments were manufactured of the materials and in the manner set forth in the manufacturers' sworn statement and accompanying schedule, dated May 13, 1909, transmitted herewith for filing in your office.

In liquidation, the quantities of imported materials which may be taken as the bases for the allowance of drawback may equal the quantities consuined, as shown in the drawback entry, after official verification of exported quantities, provided they shall not exceed the quantities for the several styles and sizes of garments set forth in the schedule before referred to.

Respectfully,
(65218.)

COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, New York

JAMES B. REYNOLDS,
Assistant Secretary.

(T. D. 29756.)

Drawback on cane sirup, maple flavor, and cane and maple sirup. Drawback on cane sirup, maple flavor, and cane and maple sirup manufactured by the Pacific Coast Syrup Company, of San Francisco, Cal., with the use of imported refined sugar, raw China sugar, and maple sugar.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, May 17, 1909. SIR: The Department's regulations of March 6, 1902 (T. D. 23570), establishing a rate for the allowance of drawback on sirup manufactured from a mixture of imported and domestic raw sugars, are hereby extended, so far as applicable, to cover the exportation of cane sirup, maple flavor, and cane and maple sirup manufactured by the Pacific Coast Syrup Company, of San Francisco, Cal., with the use of imported. refined cane sugar, raw China sugar, and maple sugar, in accordance with the manufacturers' sworn statements, dated March 3 and April 23, 1909, transmitted herewith for filing in your office.

In liquidation, the quantities of imported sugars which may be taken as the bases for the allowance of drawback shall not exceed those mentioned in the special agent's report, also transmitted herewith for filing in your office.

Respectfully,
(63983.)

JAMES B. REYNOLDS,

Assistant Secretary.

COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, San Francisco, Cal.

(T. D. 29757.)

Drawback on electric traveling cranes.

Drawback on electric traveling cranes manufactured by the Whiting Foundry Equipment Company, of Harvey, Ill., with the use of imported structural steel girders, electric motors, controllers, resistance, and brakes.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, May 17, 1909.

SIR: The Department's regulations of December 20, 1906 (T. D. 27774), providing for the allowance of drawback on electric traveling cranes manufactured by the Wellman-Seaver-Morgan Company, of Cleveland, Ohio, with the use of imported electric motors, are hereby extended, so far as applicable, to cover electric cranes manufactured by the Whiting Foundry Equipment Company, of Harvey, Ill., with the use of imported structural steel girders, electric motors, controllers, resistance, and brakes, in accordance with the sworn statement, dated May 4, 1909, and accompanying cuts, transmitted herewith for filing in your office.

In addition to the requirements of said regulations, the drawback entry must show the number, size, and weight of the imported structural steel girders, the number of electric motors, controllers, resistance, and brakes used in the manufacture of the cranes, describing the imported material as specified in the import invoice or invoices.

In liquidation, the quantity of imported material which may be taken as the basis for the allowance of drawback may equal the quantities used, as set forth in the drawback entry, after official verification of exported quantities, but in no case shall it exceed the actual number of girders, motors, controllers, resistance, and brakes appearing in the exported cranes.

Respectfully,

(64073.)

COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, Chicago, Ill.

(T. D. 29758.)

JAMES B. REYNOLDS,
Assistant Secretary.

Drawback on talcum powder.

Drawback on talcum powder manufactured by Gerhard Mennen Chemical Company, of Newark, N. J., with the use of imported talcum powder.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, May 17, 1909.

SIR: The Department's regulations of April 1, 1909 (T. D. 29669), providing for the allowance of drawback on talcum powder manufactured by Colgate & Co., of Jersey City, N. J., with the use of imported tale, are hereby extended, so far as applicable, to cover talcum powder manufactured by the Gerhard Mennen Chemical Company, of Newark, N. J., with the use of imported talcum powder, in accordance with the sworn statement, dated March 17, 1909, and

schedule dated May 7, 1909, transmitted herewith for filing in your office.

The maximum allowance of imported talcum powder shall not exceed 98.59 per cent of the net weight of the exported product.

Respectfully,
(64039.)

COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, New York.

JAMES B. REYNOLDS,
Assistant Secretary.

(T. D. 29759-G. A. 6907.)
Steel stampings.

STEEL SHAPES-STAMPED SHAPES.

Steel stampings, consisting of soft steel in strips or individual pieces, which have been stamped and pressed out of sheets of steel and sheared into desired widths, and are used in the manufacture of steel-point ornaments, are dutiable under paragraph 135, tariff act of 1897, as "pressed, sheared, or stamped shapes" of steel.— United States v. Veith (T. D. 29674), affirming G. A. 6293 (T. D. 27131), followed. United States General Appraisers, New York, May 14, 1909.

In the matter of protests 222384, etc., of A. & H. Veith against the assessment of duty by the collector of customs at the port of New York.

Before Board 2 (FISCHER, HOWELL, and DE VRIES, General Appraisers; DE VRIES, G. A., absent).

FISCHER, General Appraiser: The merchandise consists of steel stampings, in the form of strips or individual pieces, which have been stamped and pressed out of sheets of steel into an openwork raised pattern and then sheared into desired widths or forms. They are used in the manufacture of steel-point ornaments for women's dresses and hats. Duty was assessed thereon at the rate of 45 per cent ad valorem under the provisions of paragraph 193, tariff act of 1897, as manufactures of metal, and they are claimed to be dutiable properly at the appropriate rate under paragraph 135 as "pressed, sheared, or stamped shapes" of steel.

The invoices describe the articles here in question as "steel stamping ornaments," "steel stamped ornaments," "stamped millinery ornaments," "steel ornaments," etc. These stampings in strips and individual pieces are made from sheets or strips of steel in the manner above described. The claim of the importers is confined to the strips or ornaments which have been subjected to no further manipulation subsequent to the stamping, pressing, or shearing processes. The steel ornaments which are riveted, or such as are made up of several stampings fastened together, are excluded. We are of the opinion that the stampings, with exceptions noted, are fairly within the provision in paragraph 135 for "pressed, sheared, or stamped shapes" of steel. The said provision is not limited to particular kinds of steel articles in the described shapes or forms, and we find that the merchandise in question is made of steel, shaped or formed from sheet

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