No average allowance to be made. Foreign Glass, and glass ware; including all articles made wholly Iron-See Castings. Liquids of all kinds, in bottles. Marble, paving and roofing tiles; slabs, and all other articles made wholly of marble. Mill stones. Oil stones. Ornaments of plaster. Paving tiles. Pencils, slate. Plaster casts, busts, statues, and ornaments. Polishing stones. Porcelain. Porter, in bottles. Precious stones, and imitations thereof. Rag stones. Roofing slates, and roofing marble tiles. Sand stones. Scagliola table tops or slabs. Slabs of Scagliola, or marble. Slates; slate pencils; roofing slates. Statues, of plaster Stones, precious, and imitations thereof. Stone ware. Stones, burr, wrought or unwrought; Bristol; filtering, grindstones, mill, oil, polishing, rag, sand, and whet stones. Tiles, marble, for paving or roofing. Wares, earthen, China, porcelain, and stone ware; and the wares composed wholly of earthy or mineral sub stances. Ware, glass; all articles composed wholly of glass. 406. No average allowance for damage is to be made; and damage on the voyage of importation is to be ascermarket tained by reference to the value of the merchandise in the principal markets of the country whence imported, and Auction sales no not according to the home valuation. Auction or forced sales are not regarded as a fair criterion of damage. value to be regarded. criterion, &c. stains or injury to Allowance on soured molasses stricted. re 407. No allowance is to be made for stains or injury No allowance for to casks containing liquids; nor any allowance for dam- casks. age on molasses by souring on the voyage exceeding 7 per cent., without special authority from the Department. 408. The discharging officer shall keep a strict account Discharging officer and record of such articles as appear, on unlading the damaged articles. vessel, to be damaged, and shall make return of the same to the collector. to make return of examination in ap 409. Whenever any merchandise, undergoing examin- Damage found on ation in the appraisers' department, is discovered to be in praisers' office. a damaged condition, it shall be the duty of the officers so discovering the same, to notify the appraisers thereof, who will at once personally inspect the merchandise, and will report to the collector in regard to the damage having occurred during the voyage; and if the collector shall concur with them in the opinion that the damage did so occur, he will issue an order for the ascertainment and estimate thereof, as in other cases, without requiring the proof from the importer heretofore prescribed. It must Proof from importbe understood, however, that no such appraisement of damage, or allowance therefor, can be made unless the damage was so discovered by the appraisers within ten Damage must be working days after the landing of the merchandise. er waived. discovered within ten working days after delivery. 410. The estimate of damage must, in all cases, be Damage certified certified by one of the principal appraisers. by a principal appraiser. to make return to 411. The officers appointed to make examination of Examining officers damage shall, when such examination is completed, re- general appraiser. turn the appraisement order, with the per-centage allowed indicated thereon, and verified by signature, to the general appraiser, if there be one at the port, whose duty the same. And report object appraisers. it shall be carefully to examine the same; and if he finds who will examine any objection thereto, he will report the same to the local appraisers, returning to them the appraisement order, tions to the local and they shall make such further examination as they may think proper. The appraisement order, after the damage When damage is shall have been duly estimated and certified, will be re- appraisement or turned, without delay, by a clerk or messenger, to the to collector. collector of the port. 412. The form of appraisers' return shall be as follows, viz: ascertained, &c., der to be returned Form of appraisers' return. FORM NO. 99. Appraisers' return. APPRAISERS' OFFICE, To the Collector of Customs: Port of In pursuance of your order, we have examined the following described merchandise, and do certify that the same has sustained damage on the voyage of importation. as follows, to wit: (Here specify the merchandise, and the rate of damage.) Respectfully, Appraisers. Damage to be ascertained at first port of entry. 413. Damage on the voyage of importation must be ascertained at the port where the vessel originally enters No reappraisem'nt and cannot be certified from any other port; and no re-appraisement is authorized by law in case of allowance for damage. to be allowed. Allowance to be made for actual proved and esti mated in all cases. 414. The law authorizes an allowance to be made in damage properly the assessment of duties for actual damage occuring during the voyage of importation, properly proved and estimated; and a rigid scrutiny will be made in each case to ascertain, not only the amount of damage, but whether it occurred on the voyage of importation or not. Appraisers to keep a record of damages. turns to Secretary of the Treasury. 415. Collectors of the customs and appraisers will each keep a record of damages, which shall exhibit the folMake monthly re- lowing particulars; and monthly returns, according to the following form, shall be made by collectors to the Secretary of the Treasury. And it is expressly enjoined on collectors, that great care should be bestowed on the accurate preparation of these returns, and their prompt and regular transmission to the Department, in order that the purpose of their requirement may be properly accomplished: FORM NO. 100. damages. Abstract of damaged merchandise and allowances thereon in Form of record of the district of, for the month ending the I Remarks. 416. The foregoing regulations will be observed at the Regulations to be several ports, unless modified by special order, at partic- cial instructions ular ports, to be hereafter issued. observed, except as modified by spehereafter given. SECTION XIX. OF MONEYS RECEIVABLE AND PAYABLE BY PUBLIC OFFICERS States receivable in and other debts. Sec. 18 Act Aug. 6, 1846. ART. 417. The 18th section of the act of 6th August, Currency of the U. 1846, provides that all duties, taxes, sales of public lands, payment of duties debts, and sums of money accruing or becoming due to the United States, and also all sums of money due for postages, or otherwise, to the General Post Office Department, shall be paid in gold and silver coin only, or in Treasury notes, issued under the authority of the United States. ceivable, when. 418. No foreign coins of any description are a legal Foreign coins retender, or can be lawfully received and paid on account of the United States, except the following, by weight alone: 1st. The gold coins of Great Britain, of standard fineness, at 94 cents per dwt., by act of 3d March, 1843. 2d. The gold coins of France, of standard fineness, at 92% cents per dwt., by the same act. Laws fixing rates of certain foreign currency for com 3d. The gold coins of Portugal and Brazil, of standard fineness, at 94% cents per dwt., by act of 28th June, 1834. 4th. The gold coins of Spain, Mexico, and Columbia, of standard fineness, at 895 cents per dwt., by the same act. And by the act of 3d March, 1843, Spanish pillar dollars, and the dollars of Mexico, Peru, and Bolivia, of standard fineness and weight, may be received by tale at 100 cents each; and the five franc pieces of France, of standard fineness and weight, may be received by tale at 93 cents each. 419. The several acts of Congress which have been putation of ad-va- passed from time to time for the purpose of fixing the forem duties, do value of various coins of different countries of Europe and not make such cur rency a lawful ten on public account. der, or receivable Asia, for the computation of ad-valorem duties at the custom-houses, have no connexion with their use as currency. Such coins are not made a lawful tender, or receivable on public account, by such establishment of their value for a wholly different purpose. In what currency 420. The 19th and 20th sections of the act of 6th payments on are to be made. Aug. 6, 1846. ac count of U. States August, 1846, require all payments on account of the Sec. 19 and 20 Act United States, by any officer thereof, to be made in gold and silver coin, or in Treasury notes, where the creditor Exchange of funds, agrees to receive such notes in payment-prohibit all exsilver coin, prohib- changes of funds, except for gold and silver coin, and Violations of the require all violations of these provisions to be reported for the immediate suspension of the officer offending. except for gold and ited. law to be reported. |