60. All permits received for the delivery of packages from bonded warehouse shall be entered upon the warehouse books and returned by the storekeeper thereof to the custom-house, stamped with date of delivery, and due note thereof shall be made upon the storekeeper's record.

61. Merchandise upon which the duties have been paid may remain in bonded warehouse at the risk and expense of the owners, and if exported directly therefrom within the prescribed period shall be enti tled to a remission of the duties paid thereon, less 1 per centum, but evidence of due landing abroad shall be furnished by the importer to the collector.

WITHDRAWALS AT ORIGINAL PORTS, FOR EXPORTATION.

62. The withdrawal of goods from warehouse for exportation, at the port of original importation, shall be made in the following form:

If exported by other than the original importer, the same authority will be required as in case of withdrawal for consumption. The export shall be made under the original mark of importation. Additional port marks may be made by authority of the collector and under the supervision of a customs officer, but both the original and the port marks shall appear in all papers pertaining to the exportation. The withdrawal will be verified in the following form:

Declaration on export withdrawal.

I,

do solemnly, sincerely, and truly declare that the goods, wares, and merchandise described in the within withdrawal, now delivered by me to the collector of the customs for the port of are truly intended to be exported by

me to the port of as stated in said entry, and by the vessel (or route) therein indicated, and are not intended to be relanded or consumed within the limits of Cuba; and that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, the said goods, wares, and

merchandise are the same in quality, quantity, value, and package (wastage and damage excepted) as at the time of importation.

63. The withdrawal having been duly entered in the warehouse accounts, the exporter shall give bond, with satisfactory security, in a penal sum equal to double the amount of the estimated duties on the goods, to produce the proof required by law of the landing the same beyond the limits of Cuba, which bond shall be in the following form.

Export bond.

Know all men by these presents, that we,

as principals, and

as sureties, are held and firmly bound unto the United States of America in the sum of dollars; for the payment whereof to the United States we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents.

this

day of

eighteen

Witness our hands and seals, at the port of hundred and Whereas the following-described merchandise having been heretofore duly imported into Cuba and entered for warehousing in bond and having been so warehoused at the above-named port according to law, hath been this day entered for withdrawal and exportation in bond, viz [here describe the merchandise by marks, numbers, description, and number of packages, with their contents], which said merchandise is also described in an export entry of this date, numbered and is to be exported in the [ship or other vessel, describing the same] known as the [here insert the name of the vessel], whereof is at present master, now lying in the above-named port, and bound for the port of -; and whereas it is intended that the said merchandise shall be exported as aforesaid, under and by virtue of the several regulations of the United States relating to the exportation of imported goods, without the payment of duties thereon:

Now, therefore, the condition of this obligation is such, that if the aforesaid merchandise shall, in good faith, be actually exported and landed abroad according to the true intent and meaning of these presents and shall not, nor any part thereof, be relanded at any port or place within the limits of Cuba, and if the certificates and other proofs required by law and the regulations of the Secretary of War, showing the delivery of the same at the said port of destination or at any other port or place without the limits of Cuba, shall be produced and deposited with the collector of customs for the time being at the said port of withdrawal within from the date hereof, then this obligatiion to be void; otherwise to remain in full force and virtue.

Sealed and delivered in the presence of

[SEAL.]

[SEAL.]

[SEAL.]

64. The time to be inserted in the bond for the production of the landing certificates will be one year when the exportation is to a European or American port, and two years when to a port in Africa or Asia.

65. The bond having been duly executed, a permit shall be issued, directing the storekeeper to deliver the goods to the surveyor, which permit shall be as follows:

to

You will deliver to the surveyor of the port for exportation by [here describe the merchandise], imported into this district on the 19-, by

in the

master, from

Collector.

66. The withdrawal shall be transmitted to the proper officer, with directions to cause the merchandise described therein to be laden for exportation, indicating such as is to be weighed, measured, or gauged, which directions shall be as follows:

PORT OF
Custom-House,

18-.

To the SHIPPING OFFICER:

You will examine the goods described in the accompanying withdrawal, and, if found to agree exactly therewith, to superintend the lading thereof on board the for exportation to of which, when completed, you will make due return. Collector.

67. A special return of the weight, gauge, or measure of the merchandise must, when required, be made to the collector.

68. The export bond will be canceled upon the presentation of a certificate of a collector of customs that the merchandise has been duly landed at port of destination.

69. Foreign merchandise once imported and afterwards exported is dutiable upon every subsequent importation into Cuba.

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CUBAN CUSTOMS TARIFF.

DISPOSITION FOURTH.*

CUSTOMS TREATMENT OF TISSUES.†

GENERAL RULES.

1. Number of threads.-By the number of threads in a tissue shall, unless otherwise stipulated, be meant one-half of all the threads comprised in the warp and weft in a square of 6 millimeters. Should this half contain a fraction, the fraction shall be counted as an entire thread.

2. Ascertainment of the number of threads.—In order to determine, for customs treatment of tissues, the number of threads and the proportion in which the threads subject to the highest duty are found in the tissue, the instrument known as "thread counter" shall be employed. Should there be doubt as to the ascertainment of the number of threads in a tissue, owing to the tissue being closer woven in some parts than in others, the closest-woven part and the loosest-woven part shall be taken, and the average threads resulting from the two shall serve as a basis for levying duty.

When the nature of the tissue permits it, the thread shall always be counted on the obverse side of the stuff.

All woolly or melton-like tissues, and generally all tissues in which the hair has been removed by carding or fulling, the threads shall be counted on the reverse side of the stuff by rasping or burning the hair when necessary.

In exceptional cases, where after these operations the ascertainment of the number of threads remains doubtful, a sufficient part of the tissue must be unraveled.

Should this likewise be impossible, as, for instance, in case of readymade articles, the tissue shall be subject to the highest duty of the

*

Dispositions first, second, and third suspended.

+ The warp of tissues is to be considered as the totality of the threads which lie in the longitudinal sense, whether they form the foundation of the same, or whether they have been added in order to form patterns or to give the stuff more body. The weft shall be considered the totality of the threads which cross the warp of the tissue, and combine the same conditions of helping to form patterns or to add to the body of the stuff.

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