OVERALLS. Searchers, when searching vessels, will wear overalls to protect their uniforms; and weighers, assistant weighers, gaugers, and assistant gaugers will wear them when required to do so by the chief officer under whom they serve. Examiners when on duty are required to wear a badge indicating their official character. Officers and employees at each port who are required to wear uniforms, are hereby authorized, except as herein otherwise provided, to make their own arrangements and contracts for the same by committee or otherwise, as they deem best, conditioned upon the requirement that all uniforms shall be of the same pattern and of the same material, and in exact compliance with requirements of this circular. Chief officers of customs will be held responsible for the neat appearance of the men under their charge at all times. Inspection of the uniform and general appearance of the men should be held at least monthly by the chief officer of customs or by some officer specially designated as his representative. Habitual untidiness will be reported to the chief officer of customs, and in all cases the appearance of uniformed officers will be taken into consideration when promotions or special assignments are contemplated. This circular will go into effect May 1, 1905, on or after which date the uniform prescribed herein will be worn by all officers and employees required to be uniformed. LESLIE M. SHAW, Secretary. (T. D. 25923.) Common carrier. Approving bond of American Express Company as carrier of appraised merchandise and discontinuing shipment under bond approved May 23, 1886. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, January 3, 1905. SIR: The bond of the American Express Company, in duplicate, in the matter of rebonding said company for the transportation of appraised merchandise under sections 3000, 3001, 3005, as amended, and 3006 of the Revised Statutes, transmitted with your letter of the 21st ultimo, is herby approved, and one copy thereof is inclosed for the files of your office. Under said bond, the company named is authorized to transport appraised dutiable merchandise between any places in the United States which are now or may be hereafter designated by law as ports of entry and delivery, and to, from, and through the Dominion of Canada and the Republic of Mexico, in suitable cars, vessels, vehicles, iron safes, trunks of wood bound with iron, or pouches, owned or controlled by said company and running or being carried over such lines of railroads and water routes as may be necessary to reach the port of destination named in the entry and manifest in each case. You will discontinue the shipment of appraised merchandise under the bond of this company which was approved May 23, 1886, and indorse the date and fact of this rebonding on said bond and hold the same without cancellation to meet any liability which may have accrued thereunder. Respectfully, ROBERT B. ARMSTRONG, COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, New York. (T. D. 25924.) Common carrier. Approving bond of Great Northern Railway Company as carrier of unappraised merchandise from Duluth, Minn. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, January 3, 1905. SIR: The bond of the Great Northern Railway Company, in duplicate, in the matter of bonding said company for the transportation of unappraised merchandise from Duluth, Minn., transmitted to the Department by the collector of customs at St. Paul, Minn., on the 17th ultimo, is hereby approved, and one copy thereof is inclosed for the files of your office. Under said bond, the company named is authorized to transport unappraised merchandise from Duluth, Minn., to the ports of St. Paul, Minn., Chicago, Ill., St. Louis, Mo., and to such other ports as are now or may be hereafter designated by law as places to which such merchandise may be transported, in suitable cars or vessels owned or controlled by said company and running over such lines of railroads and water routes as may be necessary to reach the port of destination named in the entry and manifest in each case. ROBERT B. ARMSTRONG, Assistant Secretary. Respectfully, COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, Duluth, Minn. (T. D. 25923.) Common carrier. Approving bond of Great Northern Railway Company as carrier of unappraised merchandise from Seattle, Wash., and discontinuing shipment under bond approved October 6, 1902. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, January 3, 1905. SIR: The bond of the Great Northern Railway Company, in duplicate, in the matter of rebonding said company for the transportation of unappraised merchandise from Seattle, Wash., transmitted to the Department by the collector of customs at St. Paul, Minn., on the 17th ultimo, is hereby approved, and one copy thereof is inclosed for the files of your office. Under said bond, the company named is authorized to transport unappraised merchandise from Seattle, Wash., to the ports of St. Paul, Minn., Chicago, Ill., St. Louis, Mo., and to such other ports as are now or may be hereafter designated by law as ports to which such merchandise may be transported, in suitable cars or vessels owned or controlled by said company and running over such lines of railroads and water routes as may be necessary to reach the port of destination named in the entry and manifest in each case. You will discontinue the shipment of unappraised merchandise under the bond of this company which was approved October 6, 1902, and indorse the date and fact of this rebonding on said bond, and hold the name without cancellation to meet any liability which may have accrued thereunder. Respectfully, ROBERT B. ARMSTRONG, COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, Port Townsend, Wash. (T. D. 25926.) Drawback on corsets. Department's regulations of December 11, 1904 (T. D. 23405), extended to cover corsets manufactured by the Royal Worcester Corset Company, of Worcester, Mass., from imported piece goods and laces. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, January 3, 1905. SIR: Department's regulations of December 11, 1901 (T. D. 23405), establishing a rate for the allowance of drawback on corsets of various kinds and style numbers, manufactured by Weingarten Brothers, of New York City, with the use of imported piece goods and laces, are hereby extended, in so far as applicable, to cover similar articles manufactured by the Royal Worcester Corset Company, of Worcester, Mass., from imported brooches, contilles, batistes, sateens, and laces, in accordance with their sworn statement and schedule dated December 10, 1904, and transmitted herewith for filing at your port. In liquidation, the quantity of the respective imported materials of the several kinds, qualities, and dutiable values which may be taken as bases for allowance of drawback may equal those declared in the drawback entry as appearing in the corsets, after official verification of the declared kinds and styles exported, provided that in no case shall the quantities exceed by proportion those shown for each dozen corsets of corresponding kind and style number in the manufacturers' sworn statement and schedule herein before mentioned, and provided, further, that to the quantities of imported piece goods actually appearing in the exported corsets shall be added 15 per cent of the same to compensate for loss incurred in the manufacture. ROBERT B. ARMSTRONG, Assistant Secretary. Respectfully, COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, Boston, Mass. (T. D. 25927.) Appeals pending before courts in customs cases. (T. D. 25928.) Discontinuance of fees, during office hours, to notaries public who are Government employees. [Circular No. 4.] TREASURY DEPARTMENT, January 4, 1905. To officers, clerks, and employees in and under the Treasury Department, and others concerned: The President has issued the following order, which is hereby published for the information of all concerned: "It is hereby ordered that hereafter no officer, clerk, or employee in the executive service of the Government, who is also a notary public, shall charge or receive any compensation whatever for performing any notarial act for an officer, clerk, or employee of the Government in his official capacity, or in any matter in which the Government is interested, or for any person when, in the case of such person, the act is performed during the hours of such notary's service to the Government. Disobedience of this order shall be ground for immediate dismissal from the service." LESLIE M. SHAW, Secretary. (T. D. 25929.) Drawback on leather. Drawback on grain leather manufactured by C. Moench & Sons Company, of Salamanca, N. Y., with the use of imported degras. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, January 5, 1905. SIR: On the exportation of grain leather manufactured from imported hides by the C. Moench & Sons Company, of Salamanca, N. Y., with the use of imported degras, a drawback will be allowed. on the degras in addition to that allowed on the leather already provided for, equal in amount to the duty paid on the imported material so used, less the legal deduction of 1 per cent. In addition to the requirements contained in T. D. 19427 of June 2, 1898, and T. D. 22665 of December 11, 1900, the manufacturers must keep a record of the quantity of imported degras consumed in the stuffing of each lot of hides for export identified in their sworn statement, filed with the collector of customs, wherein they show the mode of manufacture, etc. Said manufacturers must attach to each certificate of manufacture filed with the collector a sworn statement showing the quantity of imported degras consumed in the stuffing of each lot of hides appearing therein. In liquidation, the quantity of imported degras which may be taken as a basis for allowance of drawback may equal the quantity declared in the drawback entry and manufacturers' sworn statement attached to the certificate of manufacture of the imported hides used, on file in your office, provided it shall not exceed 14 pounds of degras for each side of grain leather exported. Respectfully, ROBERT B. ARMSTRONG, COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, New York. (T. D. 25930.) Metal beads, strung. Metal beads, strung, of the kind referred to in T. D. 25885 of December 23, 1904, dutiable at 45 per cent ad valorem as manufactures of metal under paragraph 193, act of 1897.-T. D. 25885 modified. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, January 5, 1905. SIR: Referring to Department's letter addressed to you under date of the 23d ultimo (T. D. 25885), regarding the dutiable classification of metal beads, strung, imported under the tariff act of July 24, 1897, you are hereby instructed to classify future importations of this kind of merchandise at the rate of 45 per cent ad valorem as manufactures of metal not specially provided for, under paragraph 193 of the tariff act of July 24, 1897, following the recent decision of the United States circuit court for the southern district of New York in Steinhardt et al. v. United States (113 Fed. Rep., 996), and not at the rate of 60 per cent ad valorem, as intimated in Department's letter of the 23d ultimo (T. D. 25885) above referred to. Respectfully, ROBERT B. ARMSTRONG, Assistant Secretary. COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, Chicago, Ill. (T. D. 25931.) Agate scale bearings. Appeal directed from G. A. 5875 (T. D. 25865), of December 20, 1904, relating to the dutiable classification of agate scale bearings, held by the Board of United States General Appraisers to be dutiable as precious stones, cut and not set, under paragraph 445, act of July 24, 1897. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, January 5, 1905. SIR: The Department is in receipt of a decision of the Board of United States General Appraisers, G. A. 5875 (T. D. 25865), of December 20, 1904, wherein it is held that certain pieces of agate, intended |