puted upon such a basis is less than the duties paid upon the imported materials necessarily consumed in the production of the exported refined metal. In view of the Department's instructions of the 18th ultimo, authorizing the adoption of the "American fire assay" for determining the copper contents in ore and matte, you are hereby authorized, in accordance with your recommendation, to reliquidate said entries so as to make due allowance for the aforesaid difference. Respectfully, yours, COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, New York. S. WIKE, Assistant Secretary. (15538.) Stamping of Cigars and Cigarettes of Persons en route may be done on Dock of Steamer. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, January 12, 1895. SIR: The Department is in receipt of your letter of the 7th instant, in which you state that cigars brought into your port by passengers for their own personal use are sent to the custom-house for the purpose of having the internal-revenue and customs cigar stamps affixed, and that this practice causes annoyance and delay to persons arriving at New Orleans en route to other ports in the United States. You ask that authority be given to waive the requirement of affixing stamps in such cases where the number of cigars does not exceed 200, or where the number of cigarettes does not exceed 500, the boxes or packages to be broken, so as to place them in an unmerchantable condition. In reply, I have to inform you that, under the provisions of section 3402, Revised Statutes, the delivery of imported cigars and cigarettes. without stamping constitutes a misdemeanor, and that the Department has no authority to waive the requirements of said section. If practicable, however, the cigars and cigarettes may be stamped on the steamer or dock, so as to obviate the necessity of sending them to the custom-house. Jacks and Jennets from Italy Free when Imported for Breeding Purposes. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, January 12, 1895. SIR: Referring to Department's circular of March 18, 1893 (Synopsis 13846), in regard to the importation of animals for breeding purposes, under the provisions of paragraph 482 of the act of October 1, 1890, now paragraph 373 of the act of August 28, 1894, I have to state that, upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture, made under the provisions of the act of July 5, 1892, the name of the Italian stud books for jacks and jennets may be added to the list of foreign registers for jackasses, from which list certificates of pedigree may be issued. You will be governed accordingly in the matter of the importation of such animals at your port. Respectfully, yours, COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, New York. S. WIKE, Acting Secretary. (15540.) Certificate of American Artist Necessary to the Free Entry of Works of Art. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, January 14, 1895. SIR: In reply to your letter of the 9th instant, I have to inform you that article 352 of the Customs Regulations of 1892, to which you refer, continues in force in connection with paragraph 686 of the act of August 28, 1894. Relief under First Proviso in Paragraph 1823 of the Act of August 28, 1894, from the Additional Duty of One-tenth of 1 Cent per Pound, imposed by said Paragraph on certain Sugars. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, January 14, 1895. To Collectors and other Officers of the Customs: Paragraph 1821 (Schedule E-Sugar) of the act of August 28, 1894, provides as follows: "There shall be levied, collected, and paid on all sugars and on all tank bottoms, sirups of cane juice or, of beet juice, melada, concentrated melada, concrete and concentrated molasses, a duty of forty per centum ad valorem, and upon all sugars above number sixteen Dutch standard in color and upon all sugars which have been discolored there shall be levied, collected, and paid a duty of one-eighth of one cent per pound in addition to the said duty of forty per centum ad valorem; and all sugars, tank bottoms, sirups of cane juice or of beet juice, melada, concentrated melada, concrete or concentrated molasses, which are imported from or are the product of any country which at the time the same are exported therefrom pays, directly or indirectly, a bounty on the export thereof, shall pay a duty of one-tenth of one cent per pound in addition to the foregoing rates: Provided, That the importer of sugar produced in a foreign country, the Government of which grants such direct or indirect bounties, may be relieved from this additional duty under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, in case said importer produces a certificate of said Government that no indirect bounty has been received upon said sugar in excess of the tax collected upon the beet or cane from which it was produced, and that no direct bounty has been or shall be paid." In pursuance of the above-cited proviso, the following regulations are hereby prescribed: 1. In order to be relieved from said additional duty of one-tenth of 1 cent per pound, the importer must produce, with his invoice, a certificate from the Government of the country of which such sugar is the product in the following form: (Name of country.) (Name of place where certificate is issued.) (Date.) This is to certify that the sugar specified in the annexed invoice is the product of (name of country); that no indirect bounty has been received thereon in excess of the tax collected upon the beet or cane from which it was produced, and that no direct bounty has been or shall be paid thereon. (Signature of the officer authorized by the Government of issue such certificate.) -, consul of the United States at to hereby certify that the above signature is that of the officer authorized by the Government to issue the same. [SEAL.] (Date.) United States Consul. 2. If the importer is unable to produce such certificate at time of entry, but shall file with the collector, within ten days from date of entry, a written stipulation to produce the requisite certificate within six months from said date of entry, the final liquidation of the entry will be suspended until the production of the certificate or the expiration of the six months, provided that, in case of prior withdrawal for consumption, the estimated and deposited duties shall include the said additional duty. 3. Upon the production of the requisite certificate within six months. from entry, the amount deposited on account of the additional duty shall be refunded as an excess of deposit. J. G. CARLISLE, Secretary. (15542.) Withdrawal of Turks Island Salt from Warehouse Free of Duty. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, January 14, 1895. SIR: The Department is in receipt of your letter of the 19th ultimo, in which you state that during the months of July and August last S. D. Andrews's Son withdrew under bond from warehouse at your port for use in curing fish 596,000 pounds of bulk salt imported from Turks Islands; that the proofs required by articles 523 and 524 of the regulations have been submitted, showing that 64,400 pounds have been so used, and that the party desires to make consumption entry of the 531,600 pounds remaining under bond and not used. In reply to your request for instructions, I have to state that as the salt in question is exempt from duty under paragraph 608, act of August 28, 1894, and the Department's decision of October 16, 1894 (Synopsis 15355), no objections are perceived to allowing withdrawal thereof free of duty under the Department's instructions of August 30, 1894 (Synopsis 15204). Peru and Russia Impose a Duty upon Petroleum and its Products, therefore Petroleum and its Products Imported from those Countries into the United States are Dutiable. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, January 15, 1895. GENTLEMEN: In reply to your letter of the 4th instant, I have to state that this Department has issued no general instructions under paragraph 568 of the act of August 28, 1894, in regard to the importation into the United States of either crude petroleum or the products thereof. This Department is advised by the Secretary of State that the Gov ernments of Peru and Russia impose a duty upon petroleum and its products imported into those countries; consequently petroleum and its products imported from those countries into the United States would be subject to a duty of 40 per cent ad valorem under said paragraph 568. Respectfully, yours, (7659 g.) Messrs. W. R. GRACE & Co., 1 Hanover Square, New York. (15544.) CHARLES S. HAMLIN, Acting Secretary. Abolition of Bonds on the Documenting of Vessels. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, To Collectors of Customs and others: BUREAU OF NAVIGATION, Washington, D. C., January 16, 1895. The attention of collectors of customs and others is invited to the fol lowing act of Congress approved January 16, 1895, abolishing the custom-house bonds heretofore required to be given on the issue of registers, enrollments, and licenses to vessels of the United States: AN ACT to repeal section forty-one hundred and forty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and to amend sections forty-one hundred and forty-six and fortythree hundred and twenty, also section one of the Act amending section forty-two hundred and fourteen of the Revised Statutes, approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section forty-one hundred and fortyfive of the Revised Statutes, providing for bonds for registry of vessels, is hereby repealed. SEC. 2. That section forty-one hundred and forty-six of the Revised Statutes is hereby amended so as to read: "SEC. 4146. A certificate of registry shall be solely used for the vessel for which it is granted, and shall not be sold, lent, or otherwise disposed of, to any person whomsoever; and in case the vessel so registered shall be lost, or taken by an enemy, burned, or broken up, or shall be otherwise prevented from returning to the port to which she may belong, the certificate, if preserved, shall be delivered up within eight days after the arrival of the master or person having the charge or command of such vessel within any district of the United States, to the collector of such district; and if any foreigner, or any person for the use and benefit of such foreigner, shall purchase or otherwise become entitled to the whole, or any part or share of, or interest in such vessel, the same being within a district of the United States, the certificate shall, within seven days after such purchase, change, or transfer of property, be delivered up to the collector of the district; and if any such purchase, change, or transfer of property shall happen when such vessel shall be at any foreign port or place, or at sea, then the master or person having the charge or command thereof shall, within eight days after his arrival within any district of the United States, deliver up the certificate to the collector of such district. Any master or owner violating the provisions of this section shall be liable to a penalty of not exceeding five hundred dollars, and the certificate of registry shall be thenceforth void. The Secretary of the Treasury shall have the power to remit or mitigate such penalty if in his opinion it was incurred without wilful negligence or intention of fraud." SEC. 3. That section forty-three hundred and twenty, Revised Statutes, is hereby amended so as to read: "SEC. 4320. No licensed vessel shall be employed in any trade whereby the revenue laws of the United States shall be defrauded. The master of every such vessel shall swear that he is a citizen of the United States, and that such license shall not be used for any other vessel or any other employment than that for which it was specially granted, or in any trade or business whereby the revenue of the United States may be defrauded; and if such vessels be less than twenty tons burden, the husband or managing owner shall swear that she is wholly the property of citizens of the United States; whereupon it shall be the duty of the collector of the district comprehending the port whereto such vessel may belong to grant a license." SEC. 4. That no bond shall be required on the licensing of yachts; no licensed yacht shall engage in any trade, nor in any way violate the revenue laws of the United States; and every such yacht shall comply with the laws in all respects. Section one of the act approved March third, |