authorized to make declarations in their name. He can, however, make declaration as consignee and give bond to produce oath or declaration of owners. * * * Circular.-Duty on salt under act of August 28, 1894. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, August 29, 1894. To Collectors and other Officers of the Customs: Paragraph 608 of the act of August 28, 1894, provides as follows: Salt in bulk, and salt in bags, sacks, barrels, or other packages, but the coverings shall pay the same rate of duty as if imported separately: Provided, That if salt is imported from any country whether independent or a dependency which imposes a duty upon salt exported from the United States, then there shall be levied, paid, and collected upon such salt the rate of duty existing prior to the passage of this act. And the act of October 1, 1890 (paragraph 322), contains the following provisions, which are applicable to salt when imported from a country which imposes a duty on salt exported from the United States: Salt in bags, sacks, barrels, or other packages twelve cents per one hundred pounds; in bulk, eight cents per one hundred pounds. Circular.-Classification of bags for grain. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, August 29, 1894. To Collectors and other Officers of the Customs : The attention of collectors of customs is called to the language of paragraph 424 of the new tariff act, which provides in the free list as follows: "Burlaps, and bags for grain made of burlaps." It is held by the Department that duty should be exacted upon all bags, except such as were commercially known and recognized as "bags for grain made of burlaps," at the date upon which the new tariff act went into effect. J. G. CARLISLE, Secretary. (15203.) Licenses to custom-house brokers-Applicants must be reputable and competent to transact customs business. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, August 29, 1894. SIR Replying to your inquiry of the 21st instant, you are advised that under section 23 of the act of August 28, 1894, collectors and chief officers of the customs "shall issue a license to any reputable and competent person desiring to transact business as a custom-house broker." It is wholly immaterial whether the person advertises himself as a custom-house broker, or whether he has other business and occupation. The only matter to be determined before the license is granted is that the applicant shall be reputable and competent to transact business as a custom-house broker. Circular.-Enforcement of the act of August 28, 1894. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, August 30, 1894. To Collectors and other Officers of the Customs: 1. All articles heretofore subject to duty but made free by the provi sions of the act of August 28, 1894, may be withdrawn from warehouse on and after August 28, 1894, without the payment of duty. 2. All manufactured articles specifically or generally provided for in Schedule K, which are composed wholly of materials other than wool or worsted, or of which some one material other than wool or worsted is the component part of chief value, will be admitted on and after August 28, 1894, at the rates of duty prescribed in the new act; all other manufactured articles specifically or generally provided for in said schedule will continue, until January 1, 1895, to pay the rates of duty imposed thereon by the act entitled "An act to reduce the revenue, equalize duties on imports, and for other purposes," approved October 1, 1890. 3. Coffee and tea, and hides and skins, raw or uncured, whether dry, salted, or pickled, will be admitted free of duty on and after the 28th day of August, 1894, and Treasury circular (Synopsis 12150) dated March 24, 1892, issued in accordance with proclamations of the President of the United States dated March 15, 1892, and directing the collection of duties upon certain articles, being the products of, or exported from, Venezuela, Colombia, and Haiti, is hereby revoked. J. G. CARLISLE, Secretary. (15205.) Goods in customs custody, whether unclaimed, on board vessel, or in process of transportation, fall under act of August 28, 1894. [Telegram.] TREASURY DEPARTMENT, August 30, 1894. Department has decided to be governed by Supreme Court decision (Hartranft v. Oliver, 125 U. S. Reports, 525), which entitles to benefit of new act all imported goods held in customs custody on August 28, 1894, whether unclaimed, on board vessel, or in process of transportation. (6489 g.) COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, New York. J. G. CARLISLE, Secretary. (15206.) Limitation as to unloading of coal under paragraph 441, act of August 28, 1894, applies only to coal stores of American vessels. [Telegram.] TREASURY DEPARTMENT, August 30, 1894. Your construction of paragraph 441, in regard to coal, is approved. Limitation as to unloading of coal applies only to coal stores of American vessels. J. G. CARLISLE, (6491 g.) COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, San Francisco, Cal. Secretary. (15207.) Holder of bill of lading naming him as consignee entitled to make entry of goods. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, August 30, 1894. SIR: The Department has received your reply of the 9th instant to its reference of letter of W. N. Proctor & Co., of your port, in regard to the right of entry under bill of lading. The position of the Department on this point is duly set forth in article 274 of Customs Regulations of 1892. This position has been enforced in subsequent decisions (see Synopses 12412, 13088, 13259, and 14194), and has been steadily sustained by the U. S. courts. Whatever objections exist to its maintenance do not avail against its conformity with the law. It is not the "holder" of any bill of lading who is entitled to make entry, but it is the holder of a bill of lading "which names him as the consignee." It is undeniable that this privilege gives great latitude in the consignment of foreign goods, but the Department does not wish that its operations shall be obstructed except in cases of suspected fraud. Respectfully, yours, (6268 g.) COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, Boston, Mass. W. E. CURTIS, (15208.) Circular.-Hospital relief to keepers and surfmen of the Life-Saving Service. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, August 31, 1894. To Medical Officers of the Marine-Hospital Service, Acting Assistant Surgeons, Keepers, and Surfmen of Life-Saving Stations and others : In accordance with the act of Congress approved August 4, 1894, entitled "An act extending the benefits of the marine hospitals to the keepers and crews of life-saving stations," the following regulations are hereby promulgated: 1. Under the terms of said act, keepers and surfmen of the Life-Saving Service will be treated in the marine hospitals under the control of the Government of the United States, but not in contract hospitals nor at their homes, and will receive dispensary or out-relief only at the dispensaries connected with the said marine hospitals. Following is a list of the hospitals and offices (dispensaries) where applicants will be received for treatment: Baltimore, Md., office, custom-house; hospital, city. Chicago, Ill., office, custom-house; hospital, Lakeview. Detroit, Mich., office, 90 Griswold street; hospital, city. Louisville, Ky., office, custom-house; hospital, city. New Orleans, La., office, custom-house; hospital, city. 2. Applicants for either hospital or office treatment should present themselves at the marine-hospital office, but may proceed to the hospital direct when circumstances so demand. No transportation will be furnished except by ambulance, in cases requiring its use, hetween said office or hospital and the most convenient railroad station or steamboat landing. 3. An applicant must present a certificate, signed by a keeper, district superintendent, or assistant inspector of the Life Saving Service, in the form prescribed by the Department, testifying to his services as a keeper or surfman of a life-saving station, and giving other satisfactory evidence that he is entitled to treatment under the Regulations. When it is impracticable to obtain the certificate, signed as above required, an affidavit of the applicant as to the facts of his employment may be accepted. The applicant must be required to sign his name to the certificate before it is signed by the officer granting it. 4. The above certificate must show that the applicant is borne upon the rolls of the Life-Saving Service at the time of making the application. Applicants who have been discharged from the Life-Saving Service, being no longer members thereof, will not be granted treatment. 5. During the period when the life-saving stations are open, sick or |