The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-11-04
SHAW AND
The BOUNTY
Secretary's Instruc.
tons Customs
Officers.
Especial to the Advertiser.)

WASHINGTON Cd. CO, October 90
Secretary Leslie NJ. Shaw. of the
Treasury Department. has issued the
following circular regarding export
bounties on sugars produced in the
Netherlands, being addressed TO Off
GERS OF customs and others concerned
In pursuance of the provisions OF
Section of the act of July "a, 1897
the following net amounts of bounties
paid or bestowed by the government
OF the Netherlands on the export SUI
gars produced in that country are
hereby declared for the assessment and
liquidation of additional duties:
/. On raw sugar produced from beet
roots, Lie forms per 100 Kilograms OF
hard refined. (The output of refined
sugar from raw is computed by de-
Quoting from the polarization of the
raw sugar twice the glucose, four
times the ashes, and IL per cent. for
loss in refining)
2. On sugar refined from beetroot
sugar produced in the Netherlands,
1.3l forms per 100 Kilograms.
g. On sugar refined from imported
raw sugar, Is form per 100 Kilograms,
in addition to bounty, if any, allowed
on the raw sugar in the country of
production.
The liquidation of entries covering
sugars produced in the Netherlands
after September /, 1902, may be sus-
pended at the request of the importers
until the next ascertainment and dec
laration under the provisions of said
! Section 5, and the additional duties on
such suspended entries be estimated on
the basis of the bounties herein spec
flied.
Surgeon General Wyman has receiv
ed the following report of outgoing
quarantine at Honolulu:
Honolulu, September Is, 1902.
Sir: | have the honor to make the
/ following report in regard to outgoing
quarantine transactions at this port
! for the week ended September 10, 1902:
] Number of steamships inspected and
passed, 2; number of sailing vessels
/ inspected and passed, 81 number of
cabin passengers inspected and passed,
| 80; number of steerage passengers in
| spected and passed, Z; number of crew
! inspected and passed, CT; number of
pieces of baggage disinfected, Al; num-
/ Der of sailing vessels disinfected, 4.
| Respectfully, w. c. HOBBY,
Assistant Surgeon, in Temporary
Charge.
The Surgeon General.
The Treasury Department through
| the board of appraisers, has just pro-
mulgated a lengthy decision about
| the distinction between Chinese lon
gans and Chinese lichi, the question
being brought up in a dispute about
the amount of duty to be applied.
! Two protests were filed against the
customs decisions. Regarding these
nuts the board says:
When these articles come immediate
! ly from the tree, and remain intact in
their natural formation and are dried,
! they conform to the designation as
nuts. When they are to an extent de-
stroyed and the pulpy edible substance
taken from them and it is put into
! some other condition for use as an
I edible quantity, the articles at once
lose their character as nuts. and as
sumo the name and description and
conform to a designation entirely diff
ferent from that which would be prop
erly applicable to them in their orig
inal condition and formation. When
they are preservedoby the addition of
| sugar or by other means so as to
cause this pulpy edible substance to
more naturally comport with the de-
scription of sweetmeats, etc, they
would be and are properly dutiable as
such. When the edible substance IS
removed and dried without the addi-
ton of sugar, it unquestionably be-
comes an edible fruit dried, conforming
with that designation in the tariff act;
and, no doubt, this same substance
when extracted and otherwise treated
might be made to conform with some
other, in sucn case, more applicable
language of the tariff act.
We find that the merchandise the
subject of one protest consists of the
pulpy edible portion of the lorgan,
extracted, dried and pressed into small
cakes rectangular in shape, about one
half pound in weight. We conclude
that this merchandise is properly du-
table at the rate of cents per pound
under the provisions of paragraph 262
of the tariff act of July "a, 1897, as
edible fruit dried.
We find that the merchandise the
subject of the other protest consists
of longans in the condition in which
/ they come from the tree, dried, being
/ composed of smooth round seed. which,
! in turn, is surrounded by thin shell
and later, in turn, is surrounded by a
! thin warty shell. We hold that this
merchandise is properly dutiable at
the rate of cent per pound under the
provisions OF paragraph 272 OF said
act as a nut unshelled not specially
provided for