The sworn statement of the manufacturer, dated April 30, 1913, is transmitted herewith for filing in your office. Numerical symbols for designating disbursing officers-Amending T. D. 33171 of February 7, 1913. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, May 5, 1913. To collectors and surveyors of customs: On account of the creation of a Department of Labor on March 4, 1913, the provisions of Treasury Department Circular No. 6 of February 18, 1913, have been modified to provide classes of numerical symbols for designating the accounts of officers who receive and disburse funds under the new department. Classes of numerical symbols assigned to collectors and surveyors of customs by circular letter of February 7, 1913, are hereby amended as follows: TREASURY DEPARTMENT: 12000-Regular disbursing accounts-Customs Service. 13000-Special deposit accounts-Customs Service. 19000 Special disbursing agents' accounts-Revenue-Cutter Service, Public Health Service, and operating force for public buildings. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE: 76000 Special deposit Accounts-Sales of food samples. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE: 82000-Disbursing accounts for Steamboat-Inspection Service-Witness fees. 83000-Special deposit accounts-Navigation and steamboat inspection fines. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR: 97000-Special deposit accounts-Head tax, immigration fines, etc. A certain customs officer will have the same individual number in each of the above classes, except the 19000 class, as, for sample, 12124, 13124, 19016, 76124, 82124, 83124, 97124, the first two digits of a numerical symbol always indicating the class of service. Only those collectors disbursing under separate bonds as special disbursing agents will be assigned numerical symbols in the 19000 class, the last three digits of which will not ordinarily be the same as the individual number in the other classes, symbols for which have been assigned to all collectors and surveyors of customs. Each customs officer will be supplied with checks bearing his numerical symbol in the 12000 series and also with similar checks for any other class under which he has sufficient business to justify a separate series. If an officer has occasion to issue a check under a class for which no separate series of checks has been furnished him, he should use a check from one of the other classes, being careful to cancel the numerical symbol appearing thereon and insert the proper numerical symbol in the lower right-hand corner of the check. W. G. MCADOO, Secretary. (T. D. 33452.) Drawback on skins, bleached and electrified. T. D. 32934 of November 14, 1912, extended to cover imported "Thibet" lambskins and crosses, bleached and electrified by the Columbia Dye Works, of New York, for and on account of Simon Herzig & Sons Co., of New York, N. Y. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, May 22, 1913. SIR: The department's regulations of November 14, 1912 (T. D. 32934), providing for the payment of drawback on duty-paid skins dyed, bleached, and electrified by the Columbia Dye Works, of New York, are hereby extended to cover duty-paid "Thibet" lambskins and crosses bleached and finished by the electrifying process by the said Columbia Dye Works for the account of the Simon Herzig & Sons Co., of New York, N. Y. The sworn statement of the Columbia Dye Works and the sworn statement of the Simon Herzig & Sons Co., dated May 2, 1913, are transmitted herewith for filing in your office. Respectfully, COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, New York. (T. D. 33453.) Plate powder. JAMES F. CURTIS, Assistant Secretary. Appeal directed from the decision of the Board of United States General Appraisers of March 26, 1912, Abstract 31825 (T. D. 33304), involving the classification of plate powder. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, May 22, 1913. SIR: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 21st instant, in which you invite attention to the decision of the Board of United States General Appraisers of March 26, 1912, Abstract 31825 (T. D. 33304), involving the classification of certain plate powder. In accordance with your recommendation, you are hereby authorized to file, in the name of the Secretary of the Treasury, an application with the United States Court of Customs Appeals for a review of the said decision, in accordance with the provisions of subsection 29 of section 28 of the tariff act of August 5, 1909. Respectfully, JAMES F. CURTIS, ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL, New York. (T. D. 33454.) Drawback on aluminum castings. Drawback on aluminum castings manufactured by the Aluminum Castings Co., of Fairfield, Conn., with the use of imported aluminum and alloys of any kind in which aluminum is the component material of chief value, imported in the form of pigs, ingots, or scrap. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, May 23, 1913. SIR: Drawback is hereby allowed under section 25 of the tariff act of August 5, 1909, and the regulations promulgated thereunder (T. D. 31695 of June 16, 1911), on aluminum castings manufactured by the Aluminum Castings Co., of Fairfield, Conn., at its foundries situated at Fairfield, Conn., Cleveland, Ohio, Buffalo, N. Y., and Detroit, Mich., with the use of aluminum and alloys of any kind in which aluminum is the component material of chief value, imported in the form of pigs, ingots, or scrap. A special manufacturing record shall be kept at each of the foundries named above, which will show, in addition to the usual data, the weight and character of each casting manufactured for exportation with benefit of drawback, the weight of the imported aluminum, and the weight and character of other materials used in the manufacture thereof, and where imported alloys are used the manufacturing record shall also show the percentages of aluminum and other metals contained therein as ascertained by assay. An abstract from such manufacturing record shall be filed with each drawback entry. The allowance shall not exceed the quantity of imported aluminum and alloys appearing in the exported castings, as shown by the abstract from the manufacturing record, with an addition of 0.6 of 1 per cent to compensate for waste by volatilization in melting. The sworn statement of the manufacturer, dated May 9, 1913, is transmitted herewith for filing in your office. Respectfully, COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, Boston, Mass. (T. D. 33455.) JAMES F. CURTIS, Assistant Secretary. Expedite orders for examination of passengers' baggage. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, May 23, 1913. To officers of the customs and others concerned: I. In order to obtain uniformity of practice and to avoid the possibility of abuse, it is deemed advisable to limit the issuance of 75044-VOL 24-13-52 'expedite orders" granted for the purpose of expediting the landing and examination of passengers' baggage. Such orders will involve nothing more than an early examination of the baggage and will hereafter be issued only in the following cases: 1. Those which shall be the subject of specific instructions from the department in each instance. 2. Those involving imperative emergency. 3. To delegates to international conventions in this country or those returning from such conventions held abroad. 4. To Senators and Representatives in the Congress. 5. To women traveling alone. II. Imperative emergency is construed to mean those cases in which a passenger is (a) Accompanying the body of a deceased relative or friend. (b) Seriously ill. (c) Summoned home by news of affliction or disaster. III. All expedite orders must be in writing and signed by the collector of customs or his special deputy, and all requests for such orders not falling within any of the above classes shall be referred to the department for its decision. IV. Ambassadors, ministers, secretaries, attachés, consuls, and such other members of the diplomatic and consular services of this and foreign Governments and other persons to whom free entry without examination is granted will be accorded the usual customs courtesies. V. A record of all "expedite orders" issued at the various ports shall hereafter be kept in the following form: VI. A record of courtesies, including free entry of baggage without examination, shall be kept in form as follows: (T. D. 33456.) Food and drugs. Disposition at ports of cases arising under the food and drugs act of June 30, 1906. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, May 23, 1913. To collectors of customs at ports where laboratories of the Department of Agriculture are established: A precedent in cases arising under the food and drugs act of June 30, 1906, in addition to those published in T. D. 29368, 29508, 30080, 31038, 31049, 31399, 32029, 32268, 32375, and 32846 has been established in the following case: Importations of cocaine, coca, their derivatives or preparations containing cocaine or its derivatives shall be released only upon the filing of a declaration of the importer, properly sworn to, made upon the following form: DECLARATION FOR COCAINE, COCA, THEIR DERIVATIVES AND PREPARATIONS. Inasmuch as the indiscriminate and promiscuous use of cocaine, coca, their derivatives or preparations containing cocaine or its derivatives, is dangerous to the health of the people of the United States, and section 11 of the food and drugs act, June 30, 1906, prohibits the importation of any food or drug product into this country which is "adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of this act, or is otherwise dangerous to the health of the people of the United States *," I subscribe to the following declaration as a condition precedent to the release of the merchandise enumerated therein. "I,1 of the 2 Declaration. 3 by 2 * * do solemnly and truthfully swear that the cocaine, coca, their derivatives or preparations containing cocaine or its derivatives, more particularly described in attached invoice, bill of lading, or bill of sale, purchased from 2the day of191-, are intended in good faith for use in a manner not dangerous to the health of the people of the United States, and that I will keep, or have kept, a complete record of in 5 packages of cocaine, coca, their derivatives or preparations containing cocaine or its derivatives, and will secure from each and every person, firm, or corporation to whom the goods herein described, their derivatives, or preparations shall be sold, in whole or in part, a declaration of this form, which declaration shall be kept on file for a period of not less than three years and be open to inspection of any properly accredited Government inspector. "I further do solemnly and truthfully swear that each and every package of cocaine, coca, their derivatives, or preparations containing cocaine or its derivatives, more fully described in attached order, bill of lading, or bill of sale, shall bear a statement, in the form prescribed by the regulation for the enforcement of the food and drugs act of June 30, 1906, of the amount of cocaine or cocaine derivatives contained therein. "I furthermore solemnly and truthfully declare that I will make a report to the Bureau of Chemistry of the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., not later than January 15 of each year of the amount of cocaine, coca, their derivatives, 1 Name of individual or representative. * Name of individual, firm, or corporation. * Importer, manufacturing chemist, or wholesaler, retailer, or any other dealer in or purchaser of drugs, as the case may be. • Number of pounds, pints, ounces, etc. • Number. |