The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-11-04
SHAW AND
The BOUNTY
Secretary Instruc-
tons to Customs
Officers.
DUTY ON LICiiI
AND LONGANS
fiobdy's Report on Quarantine
Work Accomplished in
Honolulu.
Especial to the Adyertiser.l

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:
l. On raw sugar produced from beet
roots, Liz 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 ~ per cent. for
loss in reining)
2. On sugar refined from bees-root
sugar produced in the Netherlands,
1.31 forms per 100 Kilograms.
8. 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 i. 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 receiy-
ed the following report of outgoing
quarantine at Honolulu:
Honolulu, September Is, 1902.
| Sir: l 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
I passed, 2; number of sailing vessels
inspected and passed, 5; number of
cabin passengers inspected and passed,
| 95; number of steerage passengers in
spected and passed, Z; number of crew
| inspected and passed, 81; number of
pieces of baggage disinfected, Al; num-
Der of sailing vessels disinfected, 4.
| Respectfully, W. G. 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 ichi, the question
being brought up in 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
! edible quantity, the articles at once
| lose their character as nuts, and as
sumo the name and description and
conform to a designation entirely dI-
ferent from that which would be prop
| erly applicable to them in their orig
| inal condition and formation. When
| they are preserved by the addition OF
| sugar or by other means so as 10
cause this pdlpy 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 addl-
ton of sugar, it unquestionably pc
comes an edible fruit dried, conforming
1 with that designation in the tari1 act
| and, no doubt, this same substance
when extracted and otherwise treated
might be made to conform with some
| other. in sucn case, more appllcaole
| 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 posnd in weight. We conclude
/ that this merchandise is properly du-
! table at the rate of 2 cents per pound
! under the provisions of paragraph 90
| of the tariff act of July "a, 1897, as
j edible fruit dried.
| We find that the merchandise tne
| subject of the other protest consists
of longans in the condition in when
they come from the tree, dried, being
composed of smooth round seed. Whr1
in turn, is surrounded by thin sheii
and later, in turn, is surrounded by
thin warty shell. We hold tsat TINS
merchandise is properly dutrable al
the rate of / cent per pound under the
provisions of paragraph 212 OF saio
acs as a nut unshaaed not Reclaliy