II.

Accompanying the prescribed invoice there shall be filed with the collector such a description of each animal by distinguishing marks and characteristics as shall serve to identify the same when withdrawn from the exposition for sale or export.

III.

In order to avoid any risk from delay, entry of such animals may be made and completed in advance of the arrival of the vessel of importation, except that the permit will be withheld by the collector for delivery to the importer or his agent on the announcement of such arrival.

IV.

The Government will not be responsible for the security or safekeep ing of such animals. The transfer to the transportation line will be made under the supervision of the collector at the port of arrival.

V.

On arrival at the exposition the animals will be subject to such disposition as may be agreed upon between the authorities of the exposi tion and the collector of customs.

VI.

So far as applicable the regulations of November 5, 1891, will govern importations of animals, and at the close of the exposition imported animals on exhibition may be withdrawn for consumption, transporta tion in bond, or exportation, under article 20 of said regulations, but animals not so withdrawn will be sold at auction, and the proceeds, after deducting duties and charges, will be held subject to the order of the owner or importer.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, June 18, 1892.

SIR: The Department is in receipt of your letter of the 13th instant, further in the matter of the requirement of consular invoices for fish shipped from Canada to the Lake Ontario Fish Company by their agents in that country.

From your letter of the 10th instant it appears that said fish company has several agents in Canada purchasing and shipping fish to them, such agents acting entirely independently of each other; that it sometimes happens that shipments by these agents will arrive at Kingston, Ont., the port of exportation, at the same time and be forwarded to Cape Vincent in the same boat, consigned to said company, and you have considered such shipments as one importation, and required the company to procure a consular certificate where such importations exceed $100 in value; that the company does not consider that such certificate should be required, for the reason that the consignments are not divided for the purpose of evading such requirement and that their arrival at one time is merely an accident, inasmuch as the fish are purchased by different agents and at different points, and you inquire whether your requirement of a consular invoice is in accordance with the law.

In your further report of the 13th instant you state that the shipments are not consolidated at Kingston, but arrive at your port under separate bills of lading by ferry steamer.

In view of the above facts the Department is of the opinion that such consular certificates should not be required unless each separate shipment amounts in value to over $100, and that a number of shipments can not be properly regarded as a single shipment.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, June 20, 1892.

SIR: Referring to your letter of the 6th ultimo, inclosing letters from G. W. Sheldon & Co. and A. H. Andrews & Co., all relating to the question of the distribution at the Columbian Exposition of samples of articles imported free of duty as exhibits, the Department has to state that due consideration has been given to the matter and that it has arrived at the following conclusion:

In a letter addressed on the 2d instant to Hon. George R. Davis, Director-General, the Department said:

A careful distinction will be made between articles which are imported for use by the authorities of the exposition in the general econo

my of the same, and are therefore liable to duty, and similar articles which are imported solely for exhibition, although the consumption or destruction of the latter may be incidental to the demonstration of their fitness for the purpose for which they are intended. Articles of the latter class are entitled to free entry, and need not necessarily be withdrawn from "constructive warehouse" for consumption before being thus applied, it being held, in regard to them, that the words "for exhibition" include such use as is implied in the practical application to them of mechanical or scientific forces to produce motion or chemical action. Satisfactory evidence of such consumption or destruction will be accepted at the close of the exposition as authority for closing the customs accounts of the respective articles.

No valid objection can be urged to the extension of this privilege so as to allow bona fide samples of any exhibited articles to be freely distributed by the exhibitor, provided such samples are of no commercial value. But no imported article at the exposition shall be sold and delivered under this concession without payment of the duty upon the same after due entry at the custom-house.

Show cases, railings, stands, and inclosures designed for use by any exhibitor in the display of articles exhibited by him will be entitled to free entry under the regulations of November 5, 1891.

The following contracts for the care of seamen entitled to relief from this service, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893, are published for the information of accounting officers of the Treasury Department. disbursing agents, medical officers of the Marine-Hospital Service, acting assistant surgeons, and customs officers. This circular is to be regarded as official notification of the acceptance of the proposals made by the parties designated, and must be cited, giving its number and date, on all bills for the treatment and maintenance of seamen, and for the burial of deceased patients, as the authority for any expenditure

incurred under its provisions. Charges will be allowed only for actual time in hospital. The right is reserved by the Secretary of the Treasury to terminate any contract whenever the interests of the service require it. All relief must be furnished in accordance with the revised Regulations approved 1889, and subsequent circulars; and, in consequence of the largely increased expenditures for relief, and of the diminished sources of income for the Marine-Hospital Service, it has become necessary to give notice that, as provided in paragraph 177 of the Regulations, no allowance can be made for expenditures incurred at any other station than those named in this circular.

The term "contagious diseases" wherever occurring in this circular, except as to specific contracts made otherwise, includes only those diseases which, under usual municipal regulations, are required to be treated in a pesthouse, namely: Cholera, yellow fever, plague, or smallpox, and in some municipalities, measles.

WALTER WYMAN,

Supervising Surgeon-General U. S. Marine-Hospital Service.

Approved :

CHARLES FOSTER,

Secretary of the Treasury.

ALBANY, N. Y.

The medical attendance to be furnished by an acting assistant surgeon; the Albany Hospital to furnish quarters, subsistence, nursing, and medicines, at $1 per day.

ALEXANDRIA, VA.

The medical attendance to be furnished by an acting assistant surgeon; the Alexandria Infirmary to furnish quarters, subsistence, nursing, and medicines, at 90 cents per day.

ASHLAND, WIS.

St. Joseph's Hospital to furnish quarters, subsistence, nursing, medical attendance, and medicines, at $1 per day.

ASHTABULA, OHIO.

The medical attendance to be furnished by an acting assistant surgeon; Mrs. Henry Whelpley to furnish quarters, subsistence, and nurs ing, at $1 per day; contagious diseases, $1.50 per day; John Ducro & Sons to provide for the burial of deceased patients, at $14 each. Patients requiring long continued hospital treatment will be furnished transportation to Cleveland, Ohio.

ASTORIA, OREG.

St. Mary's Hospital to furnish quarters, subsistence, nursing, medical attendance, and medicines, at $1 per day; F. W. Kuykendall to provide for the burial of deceased patients, at $15 each.

BALTIMORE, MD.

Hospital patients to be cared for in the United States Marine Hospital; George Rinehart to provide for the burial of deceased patients, at $17 each.

BANGOR, ME.

The medical attendance to be furnished by an Acting Assistant Surgeon; Thomas E. Murray to furnish quarters, subsistence, and nursing at $1 per day; Abel Hunt to provide for the burial of deceased patients, at $10 each.

BATH, ME.

The medical attendance to be furnished by an acting assistant surgeon; William J. Howard to furnish quarters, subsistence, and nursing, at $1 per day; John M. Clark to provide for the burial of deceased patients, at $14 each. Patients requiring long-continued hospital treatment will be furnished transportation to the United States Marine Hospital at Portland, Me.

BELFAST, ME.

The medical attendance to be furnished by an acting assistant surgeon; Almerin Dickey to furnish quarters, subsistence, and nursing, at $1.25 per day.

BISMARCK, N. DAK.

The medical attendance will be furnished by an acting assistant surgeon; Lamborn Hospital to furnish quarters, subsistence, nursing, and medicines, at 90 cents per day.

BOSTON, MASS.

Hospital patients to be cared for in the United States Marine Hospital at Chelsea, Mass.; burial of deceased patients at the hospital cemetery; burial of foreign patients, at $10 each.

BRIDGEPORT, CONN.

Bridgeport Hospital to furnish quarters, subsistence, nursing, medical attendance, and medicines, at $1 per day.

BROWNSVILLE, TEX.

The medical attendance to be furnished by an acting assistant surgeon.

BRUNSWICK, GA.

The medical attendance to be furnished by an acting assistant surgeon; Johanna Foley to furnish quarters, subsistence, and nursing, at 90 cents per day; contagious diseases, at $1.75 per day; Charles G. Moore to provide for the burial of deceased patients, at $15 each.