The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-08
Regulations for the Entry of Exhibition
Goods

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.-THE secretary of
the treasury announces new regulations to
govern the free Importation of articles for
exhibition at the Worlds Columbian expo
sition at Chicago. The regulations, after
giving instructions as TO how goods are to
be shipped adds: every foreign exhibitor
will prepare in duplicate a statement in the
form OF an invoice which shall show the
name OF the exhibitor, marks and numbers
OF packages with description of their
contents, and declaration of the quantity
and market value Of each separate kind
thereof in the country of production. This
statement must be signed by the exhibitor
but will require no further verihcation.
One OF the invoices will be transmitted by
mail to the collector of customs at Chicago
and the other to the consignee of goods at
the port OF first arrival. AS a matter of
convenience it is recommended that all
packages intended for the exposition
Do consigned to the agent or
forwarder or commissioner at the port of
first arrival who will attend to the customs
business incident to the transfer of pack
ages from the importing vessel to the
bonded route for transportation 10 Chicago
Inc conslgnee Of merchandise at the first
port OF arrival must present at the custom
house the invoice above described, with q
bill of lading and entry in duplicate, which
shall show the name of the foreign 81. pper
or owner, name of the importing vessel
marks and number of packages with a
statement of the nature of their contents
and foreign value as declared in the in
voice. The articles, after being received
IN the exposition, will remain under tn
custody OF the custom officers and must not
be removed from the place assigned with
out permit from the collector of customs
or officer who may be designated by him to
grant such permit
Goods must come from the port of entry
to Chicago over bonded lines the list of
Wnlch Is given IN the regulations. From
San Francisco these lines are the Central
Pacific. Southern Pacific, Wells, Fargo &
Co.; from Port Townsend the Northern
Pacific; from Portland, the Northern Pa
citic and Oregon Short Line &1Utah North
ern. These lines will discharge freight at
stations in Chicago to be arranged within
the exposition grounds, and packages NAV
be taken to their respective divisions as
soon as identified by the customs officers in
accordance with the duplicate invoice. The
articles viii remain under the custody of
the customs inspectors stationed at
every place containing foreign exhibits
and In case the articles are Sold they must
be regularly withdrawn and duty paid. De-
livery Will rot be allowed until the close of
the exposition. During the continuance of
tue fair, any attempt TO take advantage of
these regulations TO evade the tariff lava
will subject the offender to all the pre-
scribed penalties At the close of the ex-
position all goods intended for expectation
! viii be transported in bond to the seaboard
or exterior port and exported theretrom
under the general regulations for lmmedi-
ate export in bond as modified by special
regulations to be in due time provided