Synopsis No. Vessels-Continued. Foreign tugs may assist vessels of the United States in distress in waters 4566 Free entry of articles withdrawn from warehouse for use in building...... 4519 Hemp withdrawn from warehouse for use on American, rebate of duties.. 4469 4400 Issue of marine documents at ports other than home ports on northern 4493 Issue of marine documents on second or third bill of sale..... 4606 New international rules of the road.... Liability to marine-hospital dues..... Licenses for fisheries......... Liens for freight................... Marine documents for the fisheries..... Monthly returns of tonnage tax...... Pilots and apprentices subject to hospital dues......... Raftsmen employed on tows subject to marine-hospital dues...................... Rebate of duties on goods withdrawn from warehouse for use on American.. Recording defective mortgages...... 4530 4535 4458 4520 4509 4654 4388 4657 4407 4479 Sails cannot be used on barges... 4634 Sea-stores. 4438 Sea-stores dutiable on change from foreign to coasting trade..... 4420 Sheathing-metal withdrawn from warehouse for repair of American........ 4655 Amended Rules and Regulations of Board of Supervising Inspectors...4422, 4588 Inspection fees must be paid before issue of marine documents.. 4609 Inspection not required prior to trial-trips........... 4466 Liable to inspection when plying on navigable waters of United States..... 4376 Plying on internal waters of a State not subject to inspection......... 4716 Synopsis No. Vessels, steam-Continued. Pressure on boilers....... 4444 Private, chartered to United States subject to Title 52..... 4540 Re-examination of pilots for color-blindness... 4694 Requirements as to pilots...... 4623 Return of local inspectors to collectors and surveyors of customs... 4445 Transportation of petroleum-oil, &c. .4433, 4586 Tug owned by International Bridge Company..... Tugs engaged in towing on northern, northeastern, and northwestern Articles withdrawn for use in building vessels, free entry of......... Hemp withdrawn for use on American vessels, rebate of duties......................... 4469 Manufacturing, cancellation of bonds covering transfers of domestic alcohol to....... 4510 Of class 6, bond for export of goods manufactured in..................... 4511 Rebate of duties on goods withdrawn from, for use on American vessels... 4407 Western Transportation Company, approval of bond as common carriers...................... 4610 Whisky, dutiable quantity of domestic, returned from abroad. Velvet carpets, not woven by Jacquard machine, duty on...... 4720 Woolen, printers' flannels, duty on... 4612 Worsted thread, cotton hoisery embroidered with, duty on........ 4717 TO COLLECTORS OF CUSTOMS. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Washington, D. C., February 2, 1880. The following decisions of the Department for the month of January, 1880, upon the construction to be given to acts of Congress relating to the tariff, navigation, and other subjects, are published herewith for the information and guidance of officers of the customs and others concerned. JOHN SHERMAN, Secretary of the Treasury. (4372.) Values of standard coins of the various nations of the world. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Bureau of the Mint, Washington, D. C., January 1, 1880. SIR: In pursuance of the provisions of section 3564 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, I have estimated the values of the standard coins in circulation of the various nations of the world, and submit the same in the accompanying table. Very respectfully, HORATIO C. BURCHARD, Director of the Mint. Hon. JOHN SHERMAN, Secretary of the Treasury. 1 The foregoing estimation, made by the Director of the Mint, of the value of the foreign coins above mentioned, I hereby proclaim to be the values of such coins expressed in the money of account of the United States, and to be taken in estimating the values of all foreign merchandise, made out in any of said currencies, imported on or after January 1, 1880. JOHN SHERMAN, Secretary of the Treasury. (4373.) Common carriers-Customs locks. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, January 3, 1880. SIR: The Department is in receipt of information from various ports tending to show that the customs locks prescribed by circular of July |