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BONDED WAREHOUSE REGULATIONS AT SHANGHAI.

Local Rule II.-Warehouses now authorised by the Shanghai Customs to store goods in bond are as follows, viz:-Warehouse No. 14, at the China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company's Lower Hongkew Wharf, for the storage of bonded cargo e vessels moored at that wharf, and where arrangements will be made for the recep- tion, landing, and storage of bonded goods, water-borne, from vessels not moored at that wharf.

The bonding of other warehouses will be made known to the public by a notifica- tion displayed at the Custom House.

Local Rule III.-Each door of every bonded warehouse shall be marked in conspicuous letters with the word "bonded;" and each door will be provided by the Customs, but at the expense of the proprietor, with a second lock, the key of which shall remain in the hands of Customs officers.

22. The proprietors of bonded warehouses must keep books, the form of which will be determined by the Customs, in which must be recorded particulars of goods which enter and leave the warehouse, as well as full particulars of the opening of packages for the purpose of taking samples.

23.-Customs officers, whether permanently stationed at the warehouse or coming for inspection, shall at all times have access to, and be at liberty to examine, both books and cargo without hindrance on the part of the proprietors of the bonded warehouse.

24.-Goods for which the importer has obtained a bonding permit will be checked on arrival at the bonded warehouse by the warehouse-keeper in the presence of the Customs officer before being stored. At the same time an entry will be made in the warehouse book, and the bonding permit will then be receipted and handed to the Customs officer to be filed.

25. On the presentation by the importer of a sample permit to take samples, the bonded warehouse-keeper must inform the Customs officer, in order that both may be present when the packages are opened and the samples extracted. On the packages being re-closed, the warehouse-keeper must make a full entry in the book kept for the purpose, and then hand the sample permit to the Customs officer to be filed.

26.-When the importer brings to the bonded warehouse a release permit for goods to be disposed of in Shanghai or re-exported to a Yangtsze port, it will be the duty of the warehouse-keeper to inform the Customs officers in order that both may person- ally see to the release of the goods. The warehouse-keeper must at the same time enter the particulars in the prescribed duty-paid book, and then hand the release per- mit to the Customs officers to be filed.

27.-When the importer brings to the bonded warehouse a release permit for goods to be re-exported to a treaty port other than a Yangtsze port, or to a foreign port, it will be the duty of the warehouse-keeper to inform the Customs officer, in order that both may personally see to the release of the goods. The warehouse-keeper must at the same time enter the particulars in the prescribed re-export book, and then hand the release permit to the Customs officers to be filed.

28.-Twelve months is proposed as the limit during which goods may remain in bond. At the expiration of that period, if the importer has not applied for his goods, the proprietors of the bonded warehouse must pay the import duty and remove them elsewhere.

29.-The storage and custody of goods in the bonded warehouse, charges, insur- ance, etc., are declared to be private matters to be arranged by the proprietors of the bonded warehouse, and do not concern the Customs. The Customs, however, are to be kept informed of the warehouse rules.

The above regulations are provisional and subject to alteration, addition, or can- cellation, as the Shanghai Customs may from time to time decide to be necessary. The four main divisions, however, are to be maintained.