Murray, 100 francs; Leon Perret, 100 francs; Mr. Hurtt, 20 francs; Mr. Gourlay, 5 francs; Mrs. G., 10 francs; M. Lavanoux, 25 francs; Verde, Delisle & Cie., 200 franes; Mrs. O. B., 60 francs; Mine. Allard, 20 franes; Abbe Rambouillet, 5 francs; M. A. de M., 64.35 francs; E. F. Myers (additional to American chapel contribution), 250 franes; anonymous (through American Register), 60 francs. To which is to be added a generous contribution from the Marshal-President and Madame McMahon, 5,000 francs. Amount collected through the United States consulate-general: C. Briandet, 20 francs; S. Ventez, 50 francs; Mme. Smith, 10 franes; M. and Mme. H., 500 franes; A. C. Whitcomb, 100 francs; anonymous, 5 francs; Mme. Vve. L. et son fils, 20 francs; C. M. Beach, 250 francs; Lecomte, 200 francs; P. Maulvault, 5 francs; H. Woods, 200 francs; Mr. Piené, 5 francs; Miss Upton, 20 francs; anonymous, 500 francs; Dr. J. Marion Sims, 1,000 francs; Melle. Bouton, 15 fraues; Mme. Montsimon, 5 francs; John R. Stahel, 25 francs; Mrs. R., 20 francs; John C. Wise, U. S. A., 20 franes; G. Clouet, 1 franc; A Ralu, 40 francs; Mme. F., 2 francs; Madame Loreau, 100 francs; Pleyel, Wolff & Cie., 200 franes; M. Clement (of Raon), 1 frane; Villemin, inspector des postes, 10 francs; anonymous, 2 francs; Baibrei Daffour, 20 francs; A. Lecointe & Cie, 100 franes; George Wickham, 20 francs; Cailier, 50 francs; Mme. Lockroy (miere), 20 francs; F. Vogel & Cie, 500 francs; anonymous (per letter), 5 francs; M. Sappet, 5.10 franes; Messrs. Marco et Saul de la Salle, descendant of Cavalier de la Salle, 20 francs; Nathan Appleton, 20 francs; Mme. Adolphe Durand, 200 francs; M. E. Dauphin, 10 franes; E. Lariviere, 5 frances; Delaporte, 10 francs; Messrs. Maréuard Andre & Cie., 2,500 franes; B. G. S., 5 franes; A. Montluc, commercial agents Mexico, 100 francs; Emile Gay, 40 francs; Lieutenant Hutchins, 20 francs; Albert Cohens, 20 francs; M. H. Vanleen, 5 franes; Ph. Jalabert, Doyende la Faculté de Droit, Nancy, 10 francs; R. W. Corbin, 500 francs; Mme. Hort (Vincennes), 5 francs; John T. Hoffman, 125 francs; Messrs. Hottinguer & Cie., 1,000 francs; Leclerc, notarie, Charenton, 20 francs; Mlle. Garre, 10 franes; M. Armand Behic-Senatuer, 100 francs; Louis Sellier, Chalons-sur-Marne, 200 francs; A. Marie, Nancy, 5 francs; C. de Satgé, Dinan, 25 francs; anonymous, through Consul Vesey, 75 franes; Mr. Schneider (Adolphe), 50 francs; Marquis de la Gandara, M. L. C., 500 francs; Veit & Nelson, 50 franes; anonymous, 40 francs; E. Hitt, 40 francs; Mrs. Westingham (Pittsburg), 500 francs; Bernard S. Merzbach, 25 francs; Talmann Livy, 100 frances. Collected through Commissioner-General R. C. McCormick: R. C. McCormick 250 francs; Commissioner F. A. P. Barnard, 100 francs; Commissioner D. J. Morrell, 100 francs; Commissioner W. P Blake, 100 franes; Commissioner S. C. Jewett, 100 francs; Alexander Jodillot, 100 francs; John D. Philbrick, 40 francs; Colonel Anson Mills, U. S. A., 30 francs; D. M. Armstrong, 25 franes; Em. Turguem, 20 franes; Thomas W. Knox, 20 francs; Owen Jones, 20 francs; A. Salmon, 20 francs; Robert Briggs, 10 francs; Charles Colné, 10 francs; H. J. Thompson, 10 francs; William St. Martin, 10 franes; J. A. Reed, 10 francs; H. P. Curtis, 10 francs; Ch. Guichard, 5 franes; a lady, 3 fanes; W. F. Stidham, 10 francs; cash collections, 359 franes; total, 1,372 francs. Collected through Monroe & Co.: Monroe & Co., 500 francs; Geo. H. Draper, 100 franes; S. B., 250 francs; Lucretia E. McGuire, 10 francs; J. B. Bruse, 20 francs; J. A. Thatcher, 200 francs; E. D. Smith, 100 francs; anonymous, 20 francs; A. Ludlow Case, 100 francs; Cte. de Camnear, 100 francs; K., 20 franes; J. K., 20 francs; K. S., 20 francs, Henry Reed, 100 francs; Occident, 60 franes; Mme. André Walther, 50 franes; William T. Moore, 50 franes; Judge Miller, 20 francs; Anna E. Bissell, 250 francs; Mary Lafroy, 100 francs; James Phalen, 250 francs. Collected through Drexel, Harjes & Co., 500 francs; Mr. H. F., 10 francs; anonymous, 60 francs; C. M. Magee, 100 francs; L. Hüffer, 100 francs; Canmont, 40 franes; collections, 50 francs. Collected through Seligman Frères & Cie.: Seligman Frères & Cie., 500 francs; E. Spielmann, 10 francs; Camille Roth, 100 francs; A. Lange and S. Tentsch, 25 francs; Lehman & Cohen, 100 franes; H. S. Firman, 250 francs; Bernstein & Faider, 200 franes; Goldschmidt, Ran & Co., 50 francs; T. Camondo & Co., 500 francs. Collected through the New York Herald office: J. J. Ryan, 100 francs; J. Russell Young, 100 francs; P. J. Magrath, 25 francs; Lachevre, 5 francs; Grandidier, 5 francs; S. M. Hamilton, 5 franes; F. C. Fiske, 20 francs; J. M. Cornell, 5 francs; E. Muzio, 40 francs; Chas. R. Gregory, 25 francs; J. R. Pearcy, 10 francs; Tussy, 1 franc; L. Simonin, 10 francs; B. Ullman, 20 franes; R. Gignoux, 40 francs; H. Ellenghausen, 5 franes; Chas. Hartwick, 5 francs; B. Hotchkiss & Co., 400 francs; Worth, 100 franes; Fitch Shephard, 50 francs; Thomas Robinson, 20 francs; Walter A. Wood, 20 franes; Warren K. Southwick, 12 francs; A. Galland, 5 francs; anonymous, cash, 5 franes; G. E. F., 5 francs; J. Blum, 20 francs; Mrs. John A. Robinson, 100 francs; John T. Morton, 20 francs; Louis Hauser, 100 francs; H. J. Holzschuh, 20 francs. Collected through Galignani's Messenger: Galignani's Messenger, 300 francs; M. Davis, 20 francs; E. W. Markley, 25 francs; J. Gandfroy, 20 francs. Collected through Continental Gazette: Baron de L. C., 20 francs; cash, 3 franes; H. Duprat de Mezailles, 100 francs; M., 5 francs; Laquean 20 francs. Collected through the American Episcopal Church, Rev. J. Morgan: Cash, 4,129.65 francs. Collected through the American Chapel; Cash, names of contributors not given, 1,138.60 francs; J. M. Sims, 100 francs; R. W. Burnett, 100 francs; Joseph T. Evans, 20 francs; Rev. E. W. Hitchcock, 20 franes; M. Stearnes, 200 francs; F. W. Pemberton, 100 francs; E. F. Noyes, 250 francs. SIR: Owing to the very general misapprehension shown by tourists returning to the United States with respect to the dutiable or non-dutiable character of their personal effects, the Treasury Department has prepared an explanatory circular on the subject, a copy of which, with the form of the custom-house declaration therein mentioned, is herewith transmitted to you. The circumstance that large numbers of American travelers abroad are understood to visit your legation, makes it an appropriate channel for bringing to their knowledge the regulations of the Treasury and the laws of the United States in the matter of personal luggage applicable to them on their return to this country. With that object in view, two aditional copies of the circular and declaration are herewith inclosed. They may be mounted in any convenient manner on a single sheet, so as to be read as a whole, and posted in a conspicuous place in your offices, with a prominent heading, inviting attention to the regulations as of interest to American travelers about to return to the United States. I am, &c., WM. M. EVARTS. [Circular.] TOURISTS' EFFECTS. To Collectors of Customs and others: TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Washington, D. C., July 29, 1878. The attention of the department has been invited to the fact that tourists and other persons visiting foreign countries return to the United States with articles subject to duty. Such tourists are often under the erroneous impression that all articles purchased for their personal use, or for the use of friends, or intended as presents, are exempt from duty. Officers of the customs and United States consular officers abroad are therefore instructed to inform them, as far as practicable, of the laws and regulations relating to such importations, and especially of the provisions of the Revised Statutes imposing penalties for the unlawful importation of merchandise into the United States. All articles subject to duty, whether contained in baggage or otherwise, must be reported to the customs officers on arrival at a port in the United States, under the penalties of section 2802 of the Revised Statutes, which is as follows: "Whenever any article subject to duty is found in the baggage of any person arriving within the United States, which was not, at the time of making entry for such baggage, mentioned to the collector before whom such entry was made by the person making entry, such article shall be forfeited, and the person in whose baggage it is found shall be liable to a penalty treble the value of such article." Persons who arrive in the United States will be required to make due entry, on blanks to be furnished them by the proper customs officer, of the articles believed to be entitled to free admission under the provisions of the law above referred to, and to make oath, as provided for by section 2799 of the Revised Statutes, that the entry contains a just and true account of the contents of the package or packages mentioned therein, and that no such packages contain any merchandise whatever other than the articles specified. A separate entry must be made of all dutiable articles contained in the baggage, to which the oath of the passenger must also be annexed. Such entry must specify the name of the article, the precise quantity thereof, and the exact cost or foreign market value. It will be the duty of the surveyor of customs to see that the baggage-entry is made by each cabin passenger, and filed in the custom house. Blank forms will be furnished by the customs officers to the passengers, and the officers of the steamers are hereby respectfully requested to co-operate with this department in its efforts to carry out the law by delivering to each passenger one or more of the blanks. The following articles are free of duty: Amber beads. Articles, the growth, produce, and manufacture of the United States, when returned in the same condition as exported. But proof of the identity of such articles shall be made under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury; and if such articles were subject to internal tax at the time of exportation, such tax shall be proved to have been paid before exportation and not refunded. These regulations require the production of the following documents on free entry of American goods: First. Record evidence from the files of the custom-house of the fact of exportation. Second. The oath of the party making entry that the goods are of domestic production or manufacture. Third. A certificate of the foreign customs officer at the port of shipment, countersigned by a consul of the United States, showing that such merchandise was imported into that country from the United States in the condition in which it is returned. Where there is no customs officer at the foreign port of shipment, the certificate of the foreign recipient of the goods, countersigned by a United States consul, may be accepted in lieu thereof. Birds, stuffed. Birds, singing and other, and land and water fowls. Books which shall have been printed and manufactured more than twenty years at the date of importation. Books, professional, of persons arriving in the United States. Books, household effects, or libraries, or parts of libraries, in use of persons or families from foreign countries, if used abroad by them not less than one year, and not intended for any other person or persons, nor for sale. Cabinets of coins, medals, and all other collections of antiquities. Collections of antiquity, specially imported, and not for sale. Diamonds, rough or uncut. Dried and prepared flowers. Fans, common palm-leaf. Fruit-plants, tropical and semi-tropical, for the purpose of propagation or cultivation. Manuscripts. Medals of gold, silver, or copper. Mineral waters, all, not artificial. Models of inventions and other improvements in the arts. But no article or articles shall be deemed a model, or improvement, which can be fitted for use. Ores of gold and silver. Palm and cocoa-nut oil. Personal and household effects, not merchandise, of citizens of the United States dying abroad. Seeds: cardamom, caraway, coriander, fenugreek, fennel, cummin, and other seeds, not otherwise provided for. Seeds: anise, anise star, canary, chia, sesamum, sugar-cane, and seeds of forest trees. Shells of every description, not manufactured. Specimens of natural history, botany, and mineralogy, when imported for cabinets as objects of taste or science, and not for sale. Teams of animals, including their harness and tackle, actually owned by persons immigating to the United States with their families from foreign countries, and in actual use for the purposes of such immigration. Tortoise and other shell, unmanufactured. Wafers. Wearing apparel in actual use, and other personal effects (not merchandise), professional books, implements, instruments, and tools of trade, occupation, or employment of persons arriving in the United States. But this exemption shall not be construed to include machinery or other articles imported for use in any manufacturing establishment or for sale. Works of art; paintings, statuary, fountains, and other works of art, the production of American artists. But the fact of such production must be verified by the certificate of any consul or minister of the United States, indorsed upon the written declaration of the artist. The following classes of goods are subject to the rates of duty named: Spirits, manufactured or distilled from grain or other materials, $2 per proof gallon. Schedule D of the Revised Statutes provides as follows: "Wines, brandy, and other spirituous liquors imported in bottles, shall be packed in packages containing not less than one dozen bottles in each package; and all such bottles shall pay an additional duty of three cents for each bottle. Any brandy or other spirituous liquors imported in casks of less capacity than fourteen gallons shall be forfeited to the United States." Cigars, cigarettes, and cheroots, $2.50 per pound and 25 per cent. ad valorem. In addition to this, an internal-revenue tax of $6 per thousand on cigars and cheroots, and on cigarettes weighing over three pounds per thousand. On cigarettes weighing three pounds or less per thousand, $1.75 per thousand. Section 2×04 of the Revised Statutes provides as follows: "No cigars shall be imported unless the same are packed in boxes of not more than five hundred cigars in each box, and no entry of any imported cigars shall be allowed of less quantity than three thousand in a single package." Cigars found in the baggage of any person arriving from a foreign country, not exceeding five hundred in number, may be delivered upon payment of a fine equivalent to what the duty would have been had the importation been a legal one, without the special intervention of this department. Women's and children's dress-goods, composed wholly or in part of wool or worsted, value not exceeding 20 cents per square yard, 6 cents per square yard and 35 per cent. ad valorem; at above 20 cents per square yard, cents per square yard and 40 per cent. ad valorem. Any such goods weighing four ounces and over per square yard, 50 cents per pound and 35 per cent. ad valorem. Clothing, ready-made, and wearing apparel of every description, composed in part of wool or worsted, 50 cents per pound and 40 per cent. ad valorem. All manufactures of silk, or of which silk is a component of chief value, not having 25 per cent, or over in value of cotton, flax, wool, or worsted, 60 per cent. ad valorem. Kid, and other gloves of leather, 50 per cent. ad valorem. Jewelry, 25 per cent. ad valorem. Paintings and statuary not specially provided for, 10 per cent. ad valorem. The foregoing are general statements of provisions of law relating to the classes of goods specified, but the rates referred to are modified in many instances by specific designations of articles paying other rates of duty. Attention is also called to the notice to cabin passengers found on the back of the form of entry of baggage and of all dutiable articles brought by cabin passengers. (Cat. No. 1129.) JOHN SHERMAN, Secretary. NOTICE TO CABIN PASSENGERS. The baggage of passengers will be landed upon the steamship wharf as soon as practicable after vessel is docked. But before any baggage is delivered each passenger will be required to make, under oath, an entry of his or her baggage, and a separate entry, also under oath, of all articles contained in his or her baggage which, by United States laws, are subject to duty, and to pay such duty, if any. The blank forms of the entries to be made will (if practicable) be furnished to each passenger after the vessel leaves quarantine by the customs officers, who will also give the passenger all necessary information relative thereto. In case no customs officers come on board at quarantine, the forms of entries will be furnished when the vessel arrives at her wharf. The senior member of a family coming together, if sufficiently acquainted with the contents of the baggage of the whole party to make a sworn statement of the same, may be allowed to include all such baggage in one entry. Whenever any trunk or package brought by a passenger as baggage contains articles subject to duty, and the value thereof exceeds $500, or if the quantity or variety of the dutiable articles is such that a proper examination, classification, or appraisement thereof cannot be made at the vessel, the trunk or package will be sent to the public store for appraisement. The attention of passengers is directed to the following laws of the United States, and the regulations of the Treasury Department, relative to the importation and entry of baggage: SECTION 2505. The importation of the following articles shall be exempt from duty: Wearing apparel in actual use, and other personal effects (not merchandise), professional books, implements, instruments, and tools of trade, occupation, or employment of persons arriving in the United States. *—(Revised Statutes of the United States.) * SECTION 2799. In order to ascertain what articles ought to be exempted as the wearing apparel, and other personal baggage, and the tools or implements of a mechanical trade only, of persons who arrive in the United States, due entry thereof, as of other merchandise, but separate and distinct from that of any other merchandise, imported from a foreign port, shall be made with the collector of the district in which the articles are intended to be landed by the owner thereof, or his agent, expressing the persons by whom or for whom such entry is made, and particularizing the several packages and their contents, with their marks and numbers; and the persons who shall make the entry shall take and subscribe an oath before the collector, declaring that the entry subscribed by him, and to which the oath is annexed, contains, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a just and true account of the contents of the several packages mentioned in the entry, specifying the name of the vessel, of her master, and of the port from which she has arrived; and that such packages contain no merchandise whatever other than wearing apparel, personal baggage, or as the case may be, tools of trade, specifying it; that they are all the property of a person named who has arrived, or is shortly expected to arrive in the United States, and are not, directly or indirectly, imported for any other, or intended for sale.-(Revised Statutes of the United States.) SECTION 2802. Whenever any article subject to duty is found in the baggage of any person arriving within the United States, which was not, at the time of making entry for such baggage, mentioned to the collector before whom such entry was made, by the person making entry, such article shall be forfeited, and the person in whose baggage it is found shall be liable to a penalty of treble the value of such article.-(Revised Statutes of the United States.) ARTICLE 399. "Professional books, implements, and tools of trade, occupation, or employment," are understood to embrace such books or instruments as would naturally belong to a surgeon, physician, engineer, or scientific person returning to this country. *—(Customs Regulations, 1874, p. 192.) ARTICLE 400. Jewelry that has been worn or is in use as a personal ornament may be admitted free of duty. *—(Customs Regulations, 1874, p. 192.) Duty must be demanded on all watches but one brought into the United States by a single passenger. If all the watches are old, the passenger may choose the one to be treated as personal effects. If some are old and some new, the new are to be included among those treated as subject to duty.-(Synopsis of Decisions, 1868 (170), p. 52.) So far as wearing apparel is concerned, only those articles which have been in actual use are exempted from duty. New articles of clothing which have not been in actual use abroad, and not necessary for the present comfort or convenience of the owner, are chargeable with duty; and the fact that they are intended for the future use of the person who brings them, or of another person, and are not for sale does not exempt them from duty. Tourists and passengers are, therefore, cautioned to preserve the proper care, when arriving with articles claimed to be free as personal effects, in making a separate statement of their effects which have been in actual use abroad from those which are new, in order that the customs officers may readily decide what portions are liable to or exempt from duty.—(Department Circular, dated February 23, 1875.) |