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Liquors taken out of the Stores for exportation or consumption, must not be in less quantities than a single and origimal package. (Exceptions are made where the package is a hogshead or pipe.)

OTHER GOODS.

Goods taken from the Stores must be in original packages. If for consumption, not less than One Hundred Dollars in value will be delivered, or the remainder of an importation. Nothing less than a whole package will be delivered, except as samples, and then in the least quantity that will make a fair sample. In ordering goods out of the Bonded Stores for exportation or consumption, the same form must be observed as with spirits.

RATES OF STORAGE.

For Liquors in casks and kegs, 1 cent per gallon per month. For Liquors in cases, cent per gallon per month.

For bags of Flour (200 lbs.), 4 cents each per month-other sizes in proportion.

For barrels of Flour, Meal and Bread, 4 cents each per month. For barrels of bottled Ale, Beer and Porter (4 doz. each), 4 cts. each per month.

For cases of bottled Ale, Beer and Porter, (4 doz. each), 4 cts each per month.

For barrels of Beef, Pork and Fish, 5 cents each per month.

For barrels of Pitch and Tar, 7 cents each per month.

For bundles Shooks, and casks Heads and Hoops, 1 cent per barrel per month.

For Whaleboats, $1 each per month.

Goods (except the above-named), 40 cents per ton per month.

RATES OF STORAGE.

QUANTITY OF GOODS TO COMPOSE A TON.

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Forty feet (cubic measure); 2,000 lbs. pig and bar Iron, Sugar, Rice, Nails and similar articles; 200 gallons (wine measure), reckoning the full contents of the cask, of Oil, Vinegar, Limejuice, Ale, Beer and Porter, not bottled.

Not less than one month's storage to be charged, and (after the first month) if less than twelve days, nothing; over twelve days, a full month.

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From the date of each transfer the storage commences

Storage bills on Liquors will be rendered every Quarter; on other goods every six months, or as required.

Ownership.

Application for
Register.

Survey and measurement.

Bond for

Registry.

REGISTRY OF HAWAIIAN VESSELS.

No vessel shall be entitled to a Hawaiian Register, unless the same be wholly owned by a subject or subjects of this Kingdom; Provided, however, that any vessel fitted out for the Whale or Seal Fishery may be Registered in the name of any part owner of such vessel actually domiciled in this Kingdom, whether a subject or not.

Application for a Register to be made to the Collector General of Customs, under oath, setting forth the name of vessel, where built, and a general description of the same; and accompanied by evidence of the title of the party making the application. Either of several owners of a vessel may make application for her Registry, but he shall set forth in his application the share of each owner respectively.

Upon being satisfied that no legal impediment exists (more particularly if the vessel be foreign built) to her Registry, the Collector General shall cause the said vessel to the examined by the Government Inspector of Vessels, and should she be found seaworthy, he shall cause her to be measured according to the rule fixed by law.

Before receiving a Certificate of Hawaiian Registry, the owner of said vessel shall file a Bond with the Collector General, in the penal sum of not less than Two Hundred, or more than Two Thousand Dollars, conditioned that said Certificate shall be used solely for the vessel for which it is granted, and shall not be sold,

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loaned or otherwise disposed of; and that in case said vessel (if the same be not a vessel employed in the Whale or Seal Fishery) shall become either wholly, or in part, the property of any alien foreigner or foreigners; or in case she shall be lost, taken by an enemy, burnt or broken up, said Certificate of Registry shall be returned to said Collector General within six months, or satisfactory proof furnished him that said Certificate could not be preserved.

Hypotheca

Upon receipt of the Surveyor and Measurer's Certificate and the Registry. owner's Bond, and being satisfied that no legal impediment exists. to the Registry of said vessel, the Collector General shall cause the same to be enrolled at his office as a Hawaiian vessel, and issue to the owner or owners, a Certificate of Registry in the form required by law, and the Certificate of Registry of such vessel shall be prima facie evidence of the ownership and nationality thereof. All transfers, by sale or otherwise, and all mortgages or hypothe- Transfers cation of Hawaiian Registered vessels, must be deposited, together with the Register, with the Collector General for record; otherwise no such transfer or hypothecation shall be valid. And all mortgages or hypothecation, when cancelled, shall entitle the mortgagor or pledger to a written release or satisfaction, which must be deposited with the Collector General for endorsement upon the original Record and Register, under penalty of a fine and a further liability to pay all damages occasioned thereby.

In case of any transfer or mortgage on any Hawaiian vessel, it shall be the duty of the owner or owners to produce the Certificate of Registry to the Collector General (for noting said transfer or mortgage) within three days, if said vessel be within the Kingdom, or if absent, immediately after her return, under penalty of seizure, condemnation and sale.

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TO THE COLLECTOR GENERAL OF CUSTOMS:

The undersigned respectfully makes application for a Hawaiian Register for the

A. D. 18., lately under the

Flag, and now owned by

Hawaiian Subject

Record.

built at

as shown by the title presented herewith for

Owner.

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Measurement of which is hereto annexed, has been thoroughly examined by me, and found to be "seaworthy and in good order.”

Honolulu,

Custom House Measurer and Inspector of Vessels.

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