TABLE OF CONTENTS. CHAPTER I.-General functions of customs-houses, their classes, the author- XVII.-Allowance for damage or short shipments. XVIII.-Tonnage and harbor improvement taxes CHAPTER XXII.-Special rules for the warehousing of imported goods and their transportation in bond......... Warehouses of class one Warehouses of class two Warehouses of class three.. Application for establishment of bonded warehouses. Transportation in bond Withdrawals at original ports for consumption... Export withdrawal at port of original importation... XXIII.-Penal provisions and additional duties Classification of penal acts and customs proceed- XXIV.—United States Army transport service XXV.-Protests. XXVI.-Revenue-Cutter Service . XXVII.-Customs districts.. Index WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, D. C., June 22, 1901. By direction of the President, the following customs regulations for ports in the island of Cuba, will be proclaimed and enforced in said island, and will take effect on promulgation in Cuba. All regulations and orders heretofore issued inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. ELIHU ROOT, 5 REGULATIONS FOR THE GUIDANCE OF OFFICERS CONCERNED IN THE COLLECTION OF DUTIES ON IMPORTS AND EXPORTS AND OTHER CHARGES AND EXACTIONS TO BE LEVIED AND COLLECTED AS A MILITARY CONTRIBUTION AT PORTS AND PLACES IN CUBA IN THE POSSESSION OF OR UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE UNITED STATES. CHAPTER I. GENERAL FUNCTIONS OF THE CUSTOMS-HOUSES, THEIR CLASSES, THE AUTHORITY BY WHICH CREATED, AND THE PRESENT CUSTOMS PORTS IN CUBA. ARTICLE 1. The customs-houses are the offices established by competent authority in those ports which have been designated for the entrance and clearance, transfer and transshipment of merchandise, in order to collect the customs duties and enforce the existing customs laws and regulations. ART. 2. The customs-houses of the island of Cuba are divided into two classes. The custom-house of the first class shall be the one at the principal customs port of the island; the custom-houses of the second class shall be those at the ports which are declared to be subports of the principal customs port. An officer of the Army shall be appointed collector of the principal customs port. Besides acting as collector, he shall be the chief of the customs service, and shall be designated as the collector of customs for Cuba. Under the orders of the military governor he shall have general jurisdiction over all the custom-houses of Cuba, with the authority conferred by the orders of the President, dated at the Executive Mansion, December 13, 1898,1 1 WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, December 17, 1898. The following order of the President is published for the information and guidance of all concerned: EXECUTIVE MANSION, December 13, 1898, By virtue of the authority vested in me as Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States of America, I do hereby order and direct that the following tariff of duties and taxes shall be levied and collected and the regulations for the administration thereof shall take effect and be in force in all ports and places in the island of Cuba and all islands in the West Indies west of the seventyfourth degree west longitude, evacuated by Spain, on and after January 1, 1899. All questions arising in the administration of customs shall be referred to the |