19. Merchandise may be entered in bond at any port of entry and transported after examination and appraisement to another port of entry or of delivery.

20. The following are the ports at which bonded warehouses are established, and to which goods may be transported in bond: Cape Vincent, N. Y. Lincoln, Nebr. Duluth, Minn.

Apalachicola, Fla.
Astoria, Oregon.
Baltimore, Md.

Detroit, Mich.

Barnstable, Mass.

Dennis, Mass.

Boston, Mass.

Bangor, Me.
Boothbay, Me.
Bridgeport, Conn.
Bath, Me.
Burlington, Vt.
Bonner's Ferry,
Idaho. (Class 7.)
Buffalo, N. Y.
Cincinnati, Ohio.
Cleveland, Ohio.
Chicago, Ill.

Denver, Colo.
Erie, Pa.
Ellsworth, Me.
Evansville, Ind.
Eastport, Me.
El Paso, Texas.
Eagle Pass, Texas.
Fall River, Mass.
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Gloucester, Mass.
Galveston, Tex.
Georgetown, D. C.
Hartford, Conn.

Chattanooga, Tenn.Indianapolis, Ind.

Columbus, Ohio.

Castine, Me.

Key West, Fla.

Chatham, Mass.

Charleston, S. C.

Kansas City, Mo.
Louisville, Ky.

Albany. N. Y.

Providence, R. I.
Marquette, Mich. Provincetown, Mass.
New York, N. Y. Pensacola, Fla.
Newburyport, Mass. Plymouth, Mass.
Newark, N.J. (Class Plattsburg, N. Y.
7.)

New London, Conn.
New Haven, Conn.
New Orleans, La.
Oswego, N. Y.
Omaha, Nebr.
Portland, Me.
Philadelphia, Pa.
Porland, Oreg.
Port Huron, Mich.
Portsmouth, N. H.
Pembina, N. Dak.
Port Townsend,
Wash.

Rochester, N. Y.
St. Joseph, Mo.
Savannah, Ga.
San Diego, Cal.
Suspension Bridge,

N. Y.
Salem, Mass.
San Francisco, Cal.
St. Louis, Mo.
Tampa, Fla.
Toledo, Ohio.
Wilmington, N. C.
Wellfleet, Mass.
Harwich, Mass.

Perth Amboy, N. J.St. Paul, Minn.
Pittsburg, Pa.

Minneapolis, Minn.

NOTE.-Goods in bond arriving at the ports of

Brownsville, Tex.
Charleston, S. C.
Dubuque, Iowa.

Memphis, Tenn.

Mobile, Ala.

Nashville, Tenn.

Ogdensburg, N. Y. Richmond, Va.
St. Augustine, Fla. Sandusky, Ohio.
Wilmington, Del.

Peoria, Ill.

are stored in the Custom House premises at those ports.

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Ports designated by the Secretary of the Treasury under authority of Section 3005, Revised Statutes, from which imported merchandise may be forwarded in bond in transit through the United States to the Republic of Mexico:

Baltimore, Md. El Paso, Tex.
Galveston, Tex.

Boston, Mass.

Corpus Christi, Tex. Laredo, Tex.
Eagle Pass, Tex. New York, N. Y.

New Orleans, La.
Nogales, Ariz.
Philadelphia, Pa.

San Francisco, Cal.
San Diego, Cal.
Detroit, Mich.

21. Merchandise arriving at a port of the United States in transit, and destined for immediate transportation and exportation to the British possessions, may be sent without examination in sealed cars, by any bonded route, requiring only the certification of the car manifest at the frontier. Merchandise received for immediate exportation by sea is not examined, but must be transhipped and laden under the supervision of a customs officer. No certified invoice is required in the above cases.

22. Importations destined for delivery at an interior port may be entered for "Immediate Transportation without Appraisement" at the port of arrival, under the act of June 10, 1880. The consular certification of the invoice must be in quadruplicate, and it must be shown by the invoice or the bill of lading and the manifest that the goods are destined for the interior port named in the entry. On arrival at the port of destination the merchandise may be entered at the Custom House for consumption or in bond, and the examination and classification for duty will take place at that port.

23. The following is the act of June 10, 1880, referred to above:

Immediate Transportation Act.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That when any merchandise, other than explosive articles, and articles in bulk not provided for in section five of this act, imported at the ports of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, Portland, and Bath, in Maine, Chicago, Port Huron, Detroit, New Orleans, Norfolk, Charleston, Savannah, Mobile, Galveston, Pensacola, Florida,

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Cleveland, Toledo, and San Francisco, shall appear by the invoice or bill of lading and manifest of the importing vessel to be consigned to and destined for either of the ports specified in the seventh section of this act, the collector at the port of arrival shall allow the said merchandise to be shipped immediately after the entry prescribed in section two of this act has been made.

SEC. 2. That the Collector at the port of first arrival shall retain in his office a permanent record of such merchandise so to be forwarded to the port of destination, and such record shall consist of a copy of the invoice and an entry whereon the duties shall be estimated as closely as possible on the merchandise so shipped, but no oaths shall be required on the said entry. Such merchandise shall not be subject to appraisement and liquidation of duties at the port of first arrival, but shall undergo such examination as the Secretary of the Treasury shall deem necessary to verify the invoice; and the same examination and appraisement thereof shall be required and had at the port of destination as would have been required at the port of first arrival if such merchandise had been entered for consumption or warehouse at such port.

SEC. 3. That such merchandise shall be delivered to and transported by common carriers, to be designated for this purpose by the Secretary of the Treasury, and to and by none others; and such carriers shall be responsible to the United States as common carriers for the safe delivery of such merchandise to the collector at the port of its destination; and before any such carriers shall be permitted to receive and transport any such merchandise, they shall become bound to the United States in bonds of such form and amount, and with such conditions, not inconsistent with law, and such security as the Secretary of the Treasury shall require.

SEC. 4. That sections 2853 and 2855 of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and the same are hereby so amended as to require that all invoices of merchandise imported from any foreign country and intended to be transported without appraisement to any of the ports mentioned in the seventh section of this act, shall be made in quadruplicate; and that the consul, viceconsul, or commercial agent, to whom the same shall be produced,

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shall certify each of said quadruplicates under his hand and official seal in the manner required by section 2855 of the Revised Statutes, and shall then deliver to the person producing the same two of the quadruplicates, one to be used in making entry at the port of first arrival of the merchandise in the United States, and one to be used in making entry at the port of destination, file another in his office, there to be carefully preserved and as soon as practicable transmit the remaining one to the collector or surveyor of the port of final destination of the merchandise: provided, however, that no additional fee shall be collected on account of any service performed under the requirements of this section. (See sections 2, 3 and 8, of Act of June 10, 1890.)

SEC. 5. Amended by Act of February 23, 1887, to read as follows: That merchandise transported under the provisions of this act shall be conveyed in cars, vessels, or vehicles securely fastened with locks or seals, under the exclusive control of the officers of the customs; and merchandise may also be transported under the provisions of this act by express companies on passenger trains, in safes, "pouches," and trunks, which shall be of such size, character and description, and secured in such manner as shall be from to time prescribed by the Secretary; and in cases where merchandise shall be imported in boxes or packages too large to be included within the safes, trunks, or "pouches" as prescribed, such merchandise may be transported under the provisions of this act by such express companies, "corded and sealed," in such manner as shall from time to time be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury; and "passengers” baggage and effects arriving at any of the ports specified in section one of this act, which shall appear by the manifest of the importing vessel, or other satisfactory evidence, to be destined to any of the ports specified in the seventh section, may also be transported by express companies under the provisions of this act to any of the ports specified in the seventh section thereof, in such manner and under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe; and merchandise such as pig-iron, spiegle-iron, scrap-iron, iron-ore, railroad-iron and similar articles commonly transported upon

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platform or flat cars, may be transported under the provisions of this act upon such platform or flat cars; and the weight of such merchandise so transported shall be ascertained in all cases before shipment, and ordinary railroad seals (scales) may be used for such purposes; and inspectors shall be stationed at proper points along the designated routes, or upon any car, vessel, vehicle, or train, at the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, and at the expense of the companies, respectively. Such merchandise shall not be unladen or transshipped between the ports of first arrival and final destination, unless authorized by the regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury in cases which may arise from a difference in the gauge of railroads, or "where the route is bonded for both land and water carriage," or from accidents, or from legal intervention, or when, by reason of the length of the route, the cars, after due inspection by customs officers, shall be considered unsafe or unsuitable to proceed further, or from low water, ice, or other unavoidable obstruction to navigation; and in no case shall there be permitted any breaking of the original packages of such merchandise.

SEC. 6. Amended by Act of July 2, 1884, to read as follows: That merchandise so destined for immediate transportation shall be transferred, under proper supervision, directly from the importing vessel to the car, vessel or vehicle specified in the entry provided for in section two of this act.

SEC. 9. That no merchandise shall be shipped under the provisions of this act after such merchandise shall have been landed ten days from the importing vessel, and merchandise not entered within such time shall be sent to a bonded warehouse by the collector as unclaimed, and held until regularly entered and appraised.

Amendment.

The above Act of June 10, 1880, amended by the act of February 23, 1887, as follows:

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the pro

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