portation acts: but this does not apply to teas which must be examined and tested. 1889, s. s. 9468.

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 colector as unclaimed, and held until regularly entered and appraised. [Section 10 amend.; sec. 2981, R. S., supra.]

ACT OF FEBRUARY 23, 1887.

By this Act Section 5 of the Act of June 10, 1880, was amended so as to read as follows :

SEC. 5. The 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 time 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, spiegel-iron, scrap-iron, iron-ore, railroad-iron, and similar articles commonly transported upon 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 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. 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.

JANUARY 9, 1883.

(U. S. STATUTES AT LARGE, VOL. XXII, p. 402.)

CHAP. 17.—An Act to permit grain brought by Canadian farmers to be ground at mills in the United States adjacent to Canadian territory, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Treasury Department.

That grain brought into the United States in wagons or other ordinary road vehicles, by farmers residing in the Dominion of Canada, to be ground by mills owned by citizens of the United States, shall not be deemed to be imported or liable to import duties: Provided, That such grain shall be brought into the United States under such regulations as the Treasury Department may prescribe to prevent fraud and evasion, and shall be returned as in like manner provided by such regulations: And provided further, That entry shall be made of and duties paid upon all such grain as shall be taken or received by mill-owners as tolls for such grinding, under like regulations provided by the Treasury Department.

1. Grain brought in under this act must be brought in in wagons or other ordinary road vehicles. The mills to which the grain is brought must be owned by citizens of the United States, who shall give a bond for the payment of duty on all grain taken as tolls, and for the observance of the provisions of this act. An account of such grain as is ground must be kept, and open for the inspection of customs officers, and a sworn statement must be made each month. Duty will be charged on all grain not returned within one month from its receipt by the miller. 1883, s. s. 5546.

2. All the wheat brought by Canadian farmers to millers in the United States may be mixed and ground, provided the flour is returned within one month from the receipt of the grain. Such flour cannot be retained, and American flour exported in its place. 1883, s. s. 5591.

MARCH 2, 1883.

(U. S. STATUTES at LARGE, VOL. XXII, p. 451.)

CHAP. 64.-An Act to prevent the importation of adulterated and spurious Teas.

That from and after the passage of this act it shall be unlawful for any person or persons or corporation to import or bring into the

United States any merchandise for sale as tea, adulterated with spurious leaf or with exhausted leaves, or which contains so great an admixture of chemicals or other deleterious substances as to make it unfit for use; and the importation of all such merchandise is hereby prohibited.

[The following sections of this act provide for special entry of tea, and for a bond not to remove the same from a warehouse until examina tion is made; also for examination of the same and for arbitration and appraisement.]

1. For regulations under this act, see 1883, s. s. 5636; amended. Id. 5783.

2. The decision of the committee provided for in this act is final, and the only remedy left the importer is to export the tea within six months from the date of the re-examination. 1884, s. s. 6685.

3. Spurious tea is denied entry, though said to be for family use as a blood purifier. 1885, s. s. 6854.

4. Tea is to be examined by samples drawn from packages in the bonded warehouse. 1885, s. s. 7036.

JUNE 26, 1884.

(U. S. STATUTES AT LARGE, VOL. XXIII, p. 53.)

CHAP. CXXI.—An Act to remove certain burdens on the American merchant marine and encourage the American foreign carrying trade, and for other purposes.

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SEC. 16. All articles of foreign production, needed, and actually withdrawn from bonded warehouses, for supplies not including equipment of vessels of the United States engaged in the foreign trade, including the trade between the Atlantic and Pacific ports of the United States, may be so withdrawn free of duty, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe.

Table linen, bed linen, tableware, furniture, carpets, &c., are "equipment" and not "supplies" and are excluded from the benefits of this act. 1889, s. s. 9787.

SEC. 17. When a vessel is built in the United States for foreign account, wholly or partly of foreign materials on which import duties have been paid, there shall be allowed on such vessel, when exported, a drawback equal in amount to the duty paid on such materials, to be ascertained under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. Ten per centum of the amount of such drawback so allowed shall, however, be retained for the use of the United States by the collector paying the same.

ACT OF JUNE 19, 1886.

CHAP. 421.-AN ACT to abolish certain fees for official services to American vessels, and to amend the laws relating to shipping commissioners, seamen, and owners of vessels, and for other purposes.

DRAWBACK ON BITUMINOUS COAL.

SEC. 10. That the provision of Schedule N of "An act to reduce internal revenue taxation, and for other purposes," approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, allowing a drawback on imported bituminous coal used for fuel on vessels propelled by steam, shall be construed to apply only to vessels of the United States.

[By Act of August 2, 1886, it is provided that all oleomargarine_imported shall be liable to an internal revenue tax of 15 cents per pound in addition to any import duty thereon.]

HAWAIIAN RECIPROCITY TREATY.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas a Covention between the United States of America and His Majesty the King of the Hawaiian Islands, on the subject of Commercial Reciprocity, was concluded and signed by their respective Plenipotentiaries, at the city of Washington, on the thirtieth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventyfive, which Convention, as amended by the contracting parties, is word for word as follows:

The United States of America and His Majesty the King of the Hawaiian Islands, equally animated by the desire to strengthen and perpetuate the friendly relations which have heretofore uniformly existed between them, and to consolidate their commercial intercourse, have resolved to enter into a Convention for Commercial Reciprocity. For this purpose, the President of the United States has conferred full powers on Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State, and His Majesty the King of the Hawaiian Islands has conferred like powers on Honorable Elisha H. Allen, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Chancellor of the Kingdom, Member of the Privy Council of State, His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of America, aud Honorable Henry A. P. Carter, Member of the Privy Council of the State, His Majesty's Special Commissioner to the Unites States of America.

And the said plenipotentiaries, after having exchanged their full powers, which were found to be in due form, have agreed to the following articles:

ARTICLE I. For and in consideration of the rights and privileges granted by His Majesty the King of the Hawaiian Islands in the next succeeding article of this convention, and as an equivalent therefor, the United States of America hereby agree to admit all the articles named in the following schedule, the same being the growth and manufacture or produce of the Hawaiian Islands, into all the ports of the United States free of duty.

Schedule.-Arrow-root; castor-oil; bananas, nuts, vegetables, dried and undried, preserved and unpreserved; hides and skins undressed; rice; pulu; seeds, plants, shrubs or trees; muscovado, brown, and all other unrefined sugar, meaning hereby the grades of sugar heretofore commonly imported from the Hawaiian Islands and now known in the markets of San Francisco and Portland as "Sandwich Island Sugar;" syrups of sugar-cane, melada, and molasses; tallow.