The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-01-04

To- The bond snail contain an obligation TO pay
double the amount of the duties should the return
permit (or landing certi6cate) not be presented
| in the period designated. This bond shall J.,
drawn up at the bottom OF the permit, and when
authorized by the administrator, shalI have all the
| force of bill of exchange.
l6. When goods on deposit are to be sent to any
port of the republic, the same ormaities ehall be
observed, except that there shali be required
writing showing the duties due and unpaid, and
that proper return certificate must be sent back.
| signed by the administrator and commissary Of
| the custom house receiving the goods.
II. When goods are to be despatched for con-
sumption, they must be sent to the custom house
Tor examination and for the payment of the duties
according to article 4.
10 whenever In consequence of the quality or
bulk oil the goods, by reason of the distance of
the storehouses, any considerable inconvenience
VIII result from the transferring of them to the
custom house, the administrator, being informed
OF me cause. may authorize the inspector to ex
anime them in the warehouses, taking every pre-
caution to prevent any fraud upon the revenues
ly. The storekeePer shall keep book, in which
shall be entered the goods which are put on de-
pos and their owners and opposite to these entries
their delivery and destination Every month
these entries shall be compared by the cormissary
with the abstracts of the registry Office, and a
summary shall be made out, to be submitted to the
inspector General and published in the newspapers.
~. The monthly summaries above mentioned
shall comprise the quantities and kinds of goods
despatched during the month from the warehouses
OF deposit, with their several destinations. and
Fl. The storekeeper shall also keep book, in
which he shall enter the account current of each
store
%. The Inspector shall be Obliged to examine
tne OF deposit at least once every three
months; and to select one by which to verify the
account OF the storekeeper's department.
90 20. transparent is permitted only in the port
OF Buenos Ayres; and there only according to the
forms established by the existing laws and on paw
ment o. one and half per centum duty
~. From this date, return of duties will be
spatcbed.
70. The Administrator General will receive or
ders to prepare, without delay, the warehouses
necessary for deposits
&C. The following articles NAV be denosited in
private storehouses, viz
Stills, unpacked; tar, anchors and Hedges. can
non ana balls quicksilver, wooden buckets, pitch,
rope, rom SIX inches up; iron chains, lime and
chalk, coal and charcoal, oakum in open bundles.
iron In bars, hams not packed, bricks and tiles
pig iron, timber. machinery unpacked, Brazil and.
Cameeachy woods, ftering-stones, mill-stones.
satnetre a slate; not in PACKAGE rockat,
luclter matches, sulphuric acid, &C.
~. Private warehouses, in which these goods are
10 De stored, must be built entirely of masonry,
without any divisions partitions of wood: thew
shal have but door, with two KEYS ONE III
which shall be kept by the administrator and the
other BY the person interested.
20. Inc custom-house in such cases is not re-
sponsoe Tor loss or deterioration of any kind nor
Will 1T make any charge for storage none of the
expenses being on its account.
". Requests for storing goods in private ware
houses shall be made to the administrator in writ
ing, with bond, in double the amount of the dn
Ties OF importation, executed at the foot thereof
81. Inc inspectors shall examine thoroughly all
suGn goods, shall measure them and enter the re-
suit upon the request.
81 This request shall be filed in the office of the
storekeeper, and the bond shall become ayable on
the removal OF any goods from the storebouse no
mater on what pretext, wi thout due permission in
lEf rof TNrr
CHAPTER w.
OF the General Inspection.
L. i ne exterior custom-houses of the republic
are subject to the direction. Inspection of
National Custom-houses," which shall be composed
OF an Inspector General of the chief of the depart
ment, and of four visitors.
= Each visitor shal have charge of one of the
following sets of custom-houses:
LIST. The custouS-house of Buenos Ayres and such
as may be established on the southern coast
I'd The custom houses of Martin Garcia Para
ma, and Uruguay.
3d. Those of Mendoza and San Juan.
4th Those of Salta and Jujuy.
8. Every year one of these set shall be visited
oy one OF the visitors at the choice of the Inspector
General and under his instructions in reference
service. u '''
4. The permanent objects of these visits shall be
% establish the fiscal laws and regulations, to en-
orce their observance, to correct any abuses, and
% apply the means OF preventing and discovering
frauds. The visitors must also inform themselves
of the productions and consumption of the coun-
Try, OF the state of the roads, and of the means of
transportation; also, of the operation of the pre-
tent system and its influence upon the public
wealth.
O. The visitors, at the end of each round of duty,
Will make report upon these points, which thew
will present to the Inspector General
b. These visits will be so arranged as ALWAYS to
cave three visitors present at the office.
I. In the absence OF one of the visitors, his par
ocular department will be in charge of one of
hose who may be present.
D. The Board of Inspection will keep registers
n which they will enter account of any case of
nuggnng winch may occur, as also such obser-
Fatlons as the inspector or the visitors may make
lpon the defects which they may perceive, or the:
improvements they may suggest, in the admins,
ration of the service
Every three months the Board of General Iy-
spection, having taken into consideration these OBJ
'ervations and suggestions, will propose to the
government such notifications as may seem fit
in reference to the existing regulations
8. All returns made by the custom-houses to the
General Inspection Office, whether of statistics or
OF accounts, shall be drawn up after uniform
plan, to be printed by the inspection office.
III. The administrators of the national custom
houses will recognise their head the Inspector
General; to him they will direct all their commu-
nlcatlons, and through him they will receive the
orders and lave of the government.
III. Any employs in the custom-houses or guards
may be removed at the discretion of the General
Inspection without any necessity to show cause
here1or; but, In order to such removal the in
'PeStot oHu flsitoIe present must unanimously
concur.
IL In case any such employe should commita
crime to which the laws or regulations af1ixa
penalty, the Inspection will draw up a summary
md pass it to the criminal judge, delivering over
he offender, to be proceeded against according TO
aw
l3. Until the courts shall be de6nitively reeu
ated, the Inspector General and the two visitors
present shall constitute tribunal for the summary
decision of the cases of contraband, which are at
present decided by the government; for which
purpose full powers delegated to them from
his date.
Ia. Judgment shall be pronounced in presence
# the State Attorney and of the parties Interested
n their representatives, after proper summons 10
hem in case, however, of their absence thew shall
We summonedby publication, giving sufficient time.
md II no appearance is entered on it's expiration
Judgment shall be taken by default
Is. The sentence of the Inspection shall he cor,
med to the imposition remission of the penalty
conhscation, or to such pecuniary penalties as the
aw may designate, and in cases where the laws 70
ulre imprisonment or other corporal punishment
ne proceedings shall be sent to the criminal ;udge
o be proceeded with. 's@'
IL The Inspection and the Commissariat Gene
al, together forming tribunal presided over
y the Inspector General, shall adudcate all csses
I disputed accounts between individuals and the
having before them the statements
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