Lagos, Seccondee, Axim, Benin, Assinie, Half Assinie, Grand Lahou, and Grand Bassam, West Africa, and recommending that as these places are without frequent mail communication with the consular offices at Monrovia, Liberia, or Boma, Kongo, invoices certified by a consul of a friendly nation or by two reputable merchants be accepted. You are hereby authorized to accept invoices covering shipments from Lagos, Seccondee, Axim, Benin, Assinie, Half Assinie, Grand Lahou, and Grand Bassam, West Africa, when certified in the manner provided by section 2844 of the Revised Statutes. Respectfully, COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, New York. (T. D. 32952.) Customs uniform. [Circular No. 54.] JAMES F. CURTIS, TREASURY DEPARTMENT, November 20, 1912. To principal officers of the customs and others concerned: Department Circular No. 3 of January 3, 1905, prescribing the uniform to be worn by certain customs officers and employees, is hereby amended so as to authorize and require the officers and employees required to be uniformed in the customs districts of Brazos de Santiago, Corpus Christi, Saluria, and Paso del Norte, in the State of Texas; in the district of Arizona; and in the district of San Diego, Cal., to wear uniforms made of olive-drab cloth instead of dark-blue cloth, as prescribed by the circular hereby amended. This order will become effective and be in force on the 1st day of February, 1913. FRANKLIN MACVEAGH, Secretary. (T. D. 32953.) Cast-iron machine parts. Appeal directed from decision of the Board of United States General Appraisers of October 17, 1912, G. A. 7397 (T. D. 32872), involving the classification of certain repair or replacement parts for textile machinery. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, November 22, 1912. SIR: I invite your attention to the decision of the Board of United States General Appraisers October 17, 1912, G. A. 7397 (T. D. 32872), wherein it is held that certain repair or replacement parts for textile machinery is properly dutiable as machined castings of iron at the rate of 1 cent per pound under paragraph 147 of the tariff act. 51720 -VOL 23-12-25 In view of the importance of the issue, you are hereby requested 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, (74356.) JAMES F. CURTIS, ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL, New York. (T. D. 32954.) Feather dusters-Toys. Appeal directed from decision of the Board of United States General Appraisers of September 24, 1912, Abstract 29881 (T. D. 32842), involving the classification of small feather dusters. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, November 22, 1912. SIR: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 18th instant, in regard to the decision of the Board of United States General Appraisers of September 24, 1912, Abstract 29881 (T. D. 32842), involving the classification of small feather dusters, which were held to be properly dutiable as toys. In view of the importance of the issue, you are hereby requested 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. You are also requested to file a like appeal from the board's decision of October 23, 1912, Abstract 30246 (T. D. 32884), involving the same issue. Respectfully, JAMES F. CURTIS, ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL, New York. (T. D. 32955.) Cotton gloves in part of wool. Appeal directed from decision of the Board of United States General Appraisers of September 26, 1912, Abstract 29941 (T. D. 32847), involving the classification of cotton gloves in part of wool. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, November 23, 1912. SIR: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 22d instant, inviting attention to the decision of the board of September 26, 1912, Abstract 29941 (T. D. 32847), involving the classification of cotton gloves in part of wool. In view of the importance of the issue, you are requested 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, (97153.) JAMES F. CURTIS, ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL, New York. (T. D. 32956.) Vessels-Free entry of materials for construction and repair and of articles for outfit and equipment. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, November 25, 1912. To officers of the customs and others concerned: Your attention is invited to the following provision contained in section 4132 of the Revised Statutes, as amended by section 5 of the Panama Canal Act, which was approved and took effect on August 24, 1912: That all materials of foreign production which may be necessary for the construction or repair of vessels built in the United States and all such materials necessary for the building or repair of their machinery and all articles necessary for their outfit and equipment may be imported into the United States free of duty under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe. REGULATIONS. Regulations are hereby prescribed as follows: Definitions. 1. "Vessels."-The word "vessels" as used in this act is defined to include all water craft of a character entitled to be documented under the laws of the United States or vessels of a similar character not required by law to be documented, such as revenue cutters, naval vessels, army transports, etc. 2. Materials."-The word "materials" is defined as including any imported merchandise which is suitable for use in the construction or repair of a vessel or of its machinery to be incorporated therein after having undergone a process of manufacture subsequent to importation, or in its condition as imported, provided it has been purchased in the open market and was not constructed or fabricated upon a special order or after a special design. This will include raw materials, such as pig iron and lumber, to be worked up into the finished state in which they will enter into the hull or machinery, rough forgings and castings but not finished ones, nuts, screws, bolts, steel plates, ship's knees, flooring, and other things which, though completed articles, are useful as parts in the construction of something else. 3. "Articles."-The word "articles" is defined as including only such things as are suitable for use in their condition as imported in the outfit and equipment of a vessel. However, articles will be considered as suitable for use in the condition in which imported, although they are to be fitted, polished, painted, or otherwise improved in condition or fixed in place subsequently. 4. "Outfit and equipment."-The term "outfit and equipment" is defined as including portable articles necessary or appropriate for the navigation, operation, or maintenance of a vessel, and not permanently incorporated in its hull or machinery, and not constituting consumable supplies. The term includes, therefore, anchors, chains, cables, tackle, boats, repair parts, life-saving apparatus, wirelesstelegraph apparatus (except the motor generator), nautical instruments, searchlights, signal lights, lamps, furniture, carpets, table linen, tableware, bedding, arms and munitions, and also articles to be used in renewal or replacement of articles of original outfit and equipment. Materials and articles excluded from the benefits of this act. 5. Machinery, including all the propelling mechanism, and also auxiliary machinery permanently incorporated in the hull of the vessel, such as pumps, steering gear, lighting plants, refrigerating plants, steam winches, hoisting engines, generators, motors, condensers, feed-water heaters, evaporators, switchboards, etc.; provisions, wines, coal, medicines, and other similar consumable articles, and materials intended to be manufactured into articles of outfit or equipment, will not be admitted free of duty under this act. 6. Neither materials for the construction or repair of vessels or of their machinery nor articles for outfit and equipment will be admitted free of duty when imported to be kept in stock for sale. Merchandise entered for warehouse. 7. Materials for construction or repair of vessels, or of their machinery, and articles for outfit and equipment may be entered for warehouse, and if withdrawn within three years from the date of importation for use in such construction, repair, outfitting, or equipping, will be entitled to entry free of duty upon such withdrawal. Materials used in the condition in which imported-Procedure to obtain free entry. 8. Application.-Application for the free entry of materials to be used in the condition in which imported for the purposes provided in the said provision of law shall be made to the collector of customs at the port of importation by the importer or his duly authorized agent, under oath, and in substantially the following form: Application for the free entry, under section 5, act of August 24, 1912, of materials to be used in the condition in which imported. PORT OF 191-. I, do hereby apply for the free entry under section 5 of the act approved August 24, 1912, of the following described articles imported or to be imported by me per the S. S. at the shipyard of in tion in which imported, in the 1 the United States at in day of on the which are to be used on or about the day of ―——————————, in the condiof the 2. —, which was or is to be built in (year), and is described as follows: I do further declare that the said articles have been purchased in the open market and were not constructed or fabricated upon a special order or after a special design, and will not be used for any other purpose than that set forth in this application, and that a bond in the form required by the regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury under the said provision of law will be given by me to insure compliance with the said law and regulations. Importer. Subscribed and sworn to before me this Notary Public, or Deputy Collector of Customs. 9. Bond. The importer will be required upon entry of the merchandise to furnish a bond in a penal sum equal to the duties on the merchandise in the following form: Bond on entry of materials for construction or repair of vessels or of their machinery, under section 5 of the act approved August 24, 1912. Know all men by these presents, that we, of and of and firmly bound unto the United States of America, in the sum of paid to the United States, for the payment of which we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, administrators, successors, and assigns, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents. merchandise were imported by from at the port of duly entered at the port of day of, 191-, under entry No. in which the said goods, wares, and merchandise are more particularly described. And whereas entry or withdrawal has been made of the said goods, without the payment of duties thereon for the purpose of using the same under section 5 of the Panama Canal Act of August 24, 1912, in the 1 of the vessel described as follows: Now, therefore, the condition of this obligation is such that if the above-bounden principal obligor shall, before the departure of said vessel from the customs district where she may have been built or repaired, produce to the collector of customs at 1 Insert construction or repair of the hull or the building or repair of the machinery. |