CUSTOMS. [Nos. 21331 to 21333 omitted from June decisions.] (21331.) Common carrier. Approving bond of the Seattle-Yukon Transportation Company as a common carrier of appraised merchandise in bond. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, June 29, 1899. SIR: The Department has received your letter, of the 21st instant, with which was transmitted the amended bond, in duplicate, of the Seattle-Yukon Transportation Company, as a common carrier for the. transportation of appraised merchandise in bond. The bond is hereby approved, and one copy thereof inclosed, to be placed upon the files of your office. Under its bond, the company named is authorized to transport appraised merchandise between any places in the United States which have been, or may be hereafter, designated by law as ports of entry or delivery, in suitable steamers or other vessels owned or controlled by said company and plying on the Pacific Ocean, Bering Sea, and the Yukon River. In all instances where other vessels than those owned by the company named are used, they must be distinctly marked "Seattle-Yukon Transportation Company." Respectfully, yours, O. L. SPAULDING, Assistant Secretary. COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, Port Townsend, Wash. (21332.) Appraisement and reappraisement. An appraisement duly made by appraiser, whereof notification has been sent to importers, can not be recalled by the appraiser for the purpose of amendment unless clerical error is clearly established. If the appraisement is deemed too low, application for reappraisement should be made under section 13, act of June 10, 1890. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, June 30, 1899. SIR: The Department is in receipt of a report of the United States attorney for the southern district of New York, in which he states that the case of the United States v. Morewood & Co. (suit 2667) was recently decided in the United States circuit court for that district adversely to the Government. 3 This case covered certain two entries of sugar which had been appraised at a valuation of 9s. 6d. per hundredweight, as per report of the appraiser to that effect forwarded to you. On the same day, however, the appraiser recalled the said entries for the purpose of correcting the appraisement, it appearing that it had been the intention to appraise the merchandise at 9s. 9d. per hundredweight, but that through some oversight the report to you stated the appraisement at 9s. 6d. It appears that the appraiser had duly notified the importers of his appraisement at 9s. 6d. per hundredweight, and had also subsequently advised them of his recall of the entries and the correction of the appraisement to read 9s. 9d. per hundredweight. The importers protested, claiming that such action of the appraiser was illegal, and that the original appraisement at 9s. 6d. was correct and could not be reviewed other than upon reappraisement proceedings had under section 13 of the act of June 10, 1890. The Board sustained this view of the case, and on appeal to the United States circuit court for the southern district of New York that court sustained the decision of the Board, holding that there was no clerical error on the part of the appraiser, and that the appraisement at 9s. 6d., of which the importers were duly notified, was the legal appraisement in the case. As the evidence in the case does not clearly show that a clerical error had been committed on the part of the appraiser in making his original return, the Attorney-General advises this Department that no further proceedings will be directed. You are, therefore, hereby authorized to forward to the Department the usual certified statement for refund of the duties exacted in excess in settlement thereof. Respectfully, yours, COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, New York, N. Y. O. L. SPAULDING, (21333.) Sugar bounty. Provisions of Circular No. 86 (S. 21274), regarding export bounty on German raw sugar, applicable only to sugars shipped to United States on or after date of circular, June 20, 1899. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, June 30, 1899. SIR: In reply to the letter from your office, dated the 27th instant, I have to inform you that, in accordance with the established practice, the provisions of Department's circular, No. 86, of June 20, 1899 (S. 21274), relative to export bounty on German raw sugar, are applicable only to sugars shipped to the United States on or after the date of the circular, previous shipments to remain subject to the provisions of similar circulars upon the subject in force at the time of each shipment. O. L. SPAULDING, Respectfully, yours, COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, New York, N. Y. Assistant Secretary. (21334.) Values of foreign coins. [Circular No. 90.] TREASURY DEPARTMENT, BUREAU OF THE MINT, Washington, D. C., July 1, 1899. SIR: In pursuance of the provisions of section 25 of the act of August 28, 1894, I present in the following table an estimate of the values of the standard coins of the nations of the world : Gold: Argentine ($4.824) and Argentine. Silver: peso and divisions. Gold: former system--4 florins ($1.929), 8 florins ($3.858), ducat ($2.287), and 4 ducats ($9.149). Silver: 1 and 2 florins. Gold: present system-20 crowns ($4.052); 10 crowns ($2.026). Gold: 10 and 20 francs. Silver: 5 francs. Silver: boliviano and divisions. Gold: 5, 10, and 20 milreis. Silver: 1, and 2 milreis. Dollar 1.000 sions N. A. *The "British dollar" has the same legal value as the Mexican dollar in Hongkong, the Straits Settlements, and Labuan. Gold: pound (100 piasters), 5, 10, 20, and 50 piasters. Silver: 1, 2, 5, 10,. and 20 piasters. Gold: 20 marks ($3.859), 10 marks Gold: 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100 francs. Gold: 5, 10, and 20 marks. Gold: sovereign (pound sterling) and Gold: 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100 drachmas. Gold and sil- Gourde... .965 Silver: gourde. ver. Silver....... Rupee * .210 Gold: mohur ($7.105). Silver: rupee and divisions. Gold and sil Lira .193 ver. Gold: 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100 lire. Silver: 5 lire. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, July 1, 1899. The foregoing estimate, by the Director of the Mint, of the values of foreign coins, I hereby proclaim to be the values of such coins in terms of the money of account of the United States, to be followed in estimating the value of all foreign merchandise exported to the United States on or after July 1, 1899, expressed in any of such metallic currencies. L. J. GAGE, Secretary of the Treasury. |