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General Order 93

1894.

Custom House, London,

27th November 1894.

(Extract.)

TREATMENT OF DUTIABLE STORES.

Free use of Dutiable Stores on board Ships whilst in British Waters.

Tobacco in any form (or cigars or cigarettes).

Spirits, whether British or foreign, including tinctures, cordials, and perfumed spirits. Wine may be allowed in place of spirits, one pint being considered equal to pint spirits.

3. A great diversity of practice appears to prevail on this subject; and in order to ensure for the future as much uniformity as possible, the Board direct that the allowances of tobacco and spirits, free of duty, as stores, be made in accordance with the following scale, viz. :— (d.) In respect of those members of the crew, &c., whether formally dis- charged or not, who are victualled on the ship (whether British or foreign), and remain by her during her stay in the port up to final the final clearance inwards at British port of discharge, and also from the date of commencement of taking in foreign cargo, or from the date of clearance for another port in the United Kingdom to load for foreign, or from the date

of clearance in ballast direct for

foreign, as the case may be :-

Per man per day

oz.

(e.) Per responsible officer (not being the Tobacco, &c.

master), i.e., mates and engineers of any ship, and, in the case of vessels carrying a passenger certificate, the purser, or chief steward, and where the ship is manned by Asiatic

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seamen, the serang, or other leading Asiatic officer per day

The master per day

(f.) For each person on board per day :---

Beer, British or foreign

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Coffee, raw or roasted

Chicory, roasted and ground

oz.

0%.

Coffee and chicory mixed, roasted and ground Cocoa

T'es

Dried fruit (currants, &c.)

pint.

Spirits, &c.

pint spirits and 1 quart wine.

One quart.

Together

One ounce.

One quarter ounce. 2 lbs. week. per

(9.) In no case is the quantity of tobacco and cigars left out for use at one time to exceed in each instance eight days' supply: say about † lb. for an ordinary seaman, or fireman, lb. for an officer, and † lb. for a master. Of spirits the allowance is not to exceed the scale for four days.

(h) Tobacco and cigars left out as stores at the first rummage, or afterwards issued, are to be given individually to each person entitled thereto, and not to be handed out in bulk quantity for subsequent distribution by the master, steward or other person,

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(k.) The officer who thus issues stores is to record in the Tide Book in detail (making also a note in his Pocket Journal) against any account of stores left out, whether at first rummage or at a subsequent issue, the number of men in whose possession such stores are, and not, as heretofore, the total number of the ship's

crew.

(1.) In future, dutiable stores are only to be issued to the crews of foreign vessels for use on board, as provided in paragraphs (d.), (e.), (f.), and not necessarily during the whole period of their stay in British waters.

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Foreign and British vessels will thus, in future, be always treated alike in this respect.

(b.) Germany.

MEMORANDUM by H.M. Consul-General at Hamburg regarding treatment by German Customs Authorities of ships' stores on board ships in German ports.

In the Introductory Regulations of the German Customs Tariff of 1879, it is provided in Part III. B.d.C. (on page 19) as follows:-

"The master of the vessel (arriving in a German port) shall deliver to the Customs Authorities, viz. :—

"(1.) A declaration showing the various means of access to the ship's hold and containing a list of the several parts of the vessel where goods can be. stowed away;

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(2.) A declaration containing a list of the stores of the vessel, of the effects of the crew, and an inventory of all objects belonging to the vessel.

"All these articles are subject to the supervision of the Customs Authorities, but they shall remain exempt from payment of Customs duty."

The above rules are based upon certain provisions contained in the German "Vereins Zollgesetz" (Union Customs Law) of July 1st, 1869, which, though passed before the establishment of the German Empire, was adopted by the Constitution of the Empire in the year 1871. The sections of the "Vereins Zollgesetz" referring to this subject are, viz. :-

Section 78, which runs thus: "In addition moreover to the general declaration (to be made by the ship-master), a special declaration shall be made regarding, viz.: the stores which are on board for the use of the vessel and of the crew, the effects of the crew, and the various articles forming the inventory of the vessel ('Sobiffs Provisions Liste,' or List of Stores). The weight of the stores which are on board need only be given approximatively,

"Ships which from and after their arrival in port until their departure are placed under official Customs supervision, need not furnish such List of Stores (Schiffs Provisions Liste ')."

Section 80.—" After the delivery to the Customs Authorities of the general declaration regarding the various means of access to the vessel's hold, and of List of Stores (Schiffs Provisions Liste'), the vessel shall be provisionally examined. At the same time a special examination shall be made of the ship's provisions, stores, utensils, and all the objects forming the ship's inventory, of the effects of the crew, and also huggage of the passengers, unless special arrangements have been made for the examination of the same elsewhere.

"The parts of the vessel where cargo is stored, as well as the portion of the cargo placed in the cabins or on deck, shall thereupon be officially sealed, unless the vessel is at once placed under the official supervision of the Customs.

"The Ship's Stores (Schiffs Proviant") are not subjected to payment of Customs duty nor to any further control in so far as the quantity of the same does not exceed that probably required by the crew during the time the veel remains in the country, But the quantities in excess of these requirements shall either be subject to payment of Customs duty, or the same shall, on application of the ship's master, be sealed up by the Customs Authorities."

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