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Values of Foreign Coins, April 1, 1892: Crown

Crown..

Sucre.. ........ ........ .......

Peso. .268 .665 Gold IO and 20 crowns.

Gold: Condor ($9.647), and double condor. Silver: Sucre and divisions .

Pound (100 Piastres)...... 4.943 Gold: Pound (100 piastres), 50 piastres, 20 piastres, 10 piastres, and 5 piastres. Silver: 1, 2, 5, 10 and 20 piastres.

Finland.

Gold..

Mark. ... 0.193 Gold: 20 marks ($3.859), 10 marks ($1.93).

France .......

Gold and silver Franc. ........ 0.193 Gold: 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 francs.

Silver: 5 francs.

German Empire... Gold....... Mark...238 Gold: 5, IO and 20 marks.

Great Britain Gold. ......

Pound Sterling 4.866½ Gold: Sovereign (pound sterling) and 1/2 sovereign.

Greece.

Gold and silver Drachma. ..... .193 Gold: 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 drachmas.

Silver: 5 drachmas.

Hayti.

India. ..... ....

Gold and silver Gourde Silver......... Rupee. ........ .965 Silver: Gourde. .316 Gold: Mohur ($7.105). Silver: Rupee .............

Italy.

Japan....

Liberia.

Gold. ..

Mexico.

Silver. ..

Netherlands.

Newfoundland Norway....

Peru. ..... ......

Gold..

Gold.

Portugal..

Silver.

Gold. ..

Russia { Gold and silver Lira. ....... ..... and divisions. .193 Gold and silver* Yen Gold.... .997 { Silver... .716 Dollar 1.00 .... ..

Dollar .722 ..

Gold and silver Florin Gold... ........ ......

Silver..

Dollar Crown.

Sol..

Milreis .. .... .... .... ........ } Rouble Gold and silver Peseta.

Gold.........

Crown.

Gold and silver Franc ....... .... .... ......

Mahub of 20 piastres.

Spain.....

Sweden Switzerland.

Tripoli..... .. .193 Silver.

Turkey Venezuela Gold.

Silver..

Piastre.

Bolivar. ...... .044 Gold: 25, 50, 100, 250 and 500 piastres. 133 Gold: 5, 10, 20. 50 and 100 bolivars.

Silver: 5 bolivars * Gold the nominal standard. † Silver the nominal standard.

Paper is the actual standard in Russia, depreciation of which is measured by gold standard. Silver practically the standard. ↑ Coined since January 1, 1886. Old half-imperial = $3.986. Gold: 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 liras.

Silver: 5 liras.

Gold I, 2, 5, IO and 20 yen. Silver: { yen.

Gold: Dollar ($0.983), 2/2, 5, 10 and 20 dollars. Silver: Dollar (or peso) and divisions. .402 Gold : IO florins. Silver: 1/2, I and 1.014 .268 21/2 florins.

Gold: 2 dollars ($.027+).

Gold: IO and 20 crowns. .665 Silver: Sol and divisions. 1.08 772 1.531 .193 Gold: I, 2, 5 and IO milreis.

Gold: Imperial ($7.718), and 12 imperial ($3,860). Silver: 1/4, 1/2 and I rouble.

Gold: 25 pesetas. Silver: 5 pesetas. .268 Gold: IO and 20 crowns.

Gold: 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 francs.

Silver: 5 francs.

When invoices are made out on a paper currency which has become depreciated the consul is instructed to certify the relative value of said currency as compared with the standard coin of the country of exportation, the latter being the only currency recognized by law; and entries of such invoices must be reduced at the values so certified, The rates of entry charged upon entry, and the entered value shall be duly stated on the invoice for the information of the appraisers. The duties shall be estimated on the entered value, the invoice certified and a permit for delivery filled out. The amount of estimated duties having been registered with the naval officer and deposited with the cashier, a permit to land the goods shall be signed by the collector, and countersigned by the naval officer, and then be delivered to the importer or his agent, to be sent by him to the inspector in charge of the merchandise. Duties must be paid in coin or coin certificates of the United States, or in the United States notes payable on demand, which were authorized to be issued prior to February 25, 1862, and made receivable for public dues, or in the Treasury notes issued under act of July 14, 1890.

The sending by mail, under the Postal Union treaties, of letters or packets containing gold or silver substances, pieces of money, jewelry, or precious articles, or any packet whatever containing articles liable to customs duties is prohibited, but under special postal conventions with Canada, Mexico, and other American States, small packages of merchandise may be passed through the mails under certain conditions, to be delivered to the addresses upon payment of the proper duties.

Upon importation of books, magazines and other periodicals, published and imported in successive parts, numbers, or volumes, and entitled to be imported free of duty, but one declaration for the entire series will be required.

Books which are admitted to the international mails, exchanged under the provisions of the Universal Postal Union Convention, may, when subject to customs duty be delivered to addresses on payment of the duties accruing thereon.

All sealed packages, other than letters in the usual and ordinary form, forwarded to the United States in the mails from Mexico and Canada contrary to the provisions of the postal convention between the two countries, shall be immediately returned from the United States exchange offices of receipt to the Mexican or Canadian exchange offices from which they were despatched.

Books admitted to the International Mail Exchange are dutiable when imported if bound in stiff covers, or if they consist of such as are usually so bound; other printed matter so imported is liable to duty, except periodicals in pamphlet form and newspapers; the expression "printed matter" being defined by the statute as including the production upon paper by any process, except that of handwriting, of any words, letters, characters, figures, or images, or of any combination thereof, not having the character of an actual and personal correspondence.

All printed matter imported through the mails, may be released at, the discretion of collectors and other chief officers of the customs, upon payment of a fine equal to the duties.

Any articles seized as illegal importations through the mails may be released and the fine remitted, provided such articles shall be remailed to the foreign sender at the expense of the addressee, and in the presence of the customs officer. In making free entry of animals the importer must produce a duly certified invoice, and a certificate of identification, sworn to by him. Fowls of superior breed and of high cost do not require certificates of record, other evidences being satisfactory. No animal shall be admitted free unless pure bred of a recognized breed, and no animal which is brought into the United States shall be admitted free of duty, unless the importer furnishes a certificate which shall contain a pedigree in the prescribed form, showing that the immediate ancestors have been recorded in one of the books of record established for that breed, which book has been adopted by the Secretary of the Treasury as a standard book, together with the affidavit of the owner, agent or importer, that such animal is the identical animal desbribed in said certificate of record and pedigree.

All baggage of passengers from contiguous foreign territory shall be examined by an inspector at the port of first arrival, and, if dutiable goods are found contained therein, the amount of duties shall be assessed and collected. If a passenger refuses to open the trunks or other envelopes containing his baggage, or to deliver the keys, the inspector shall open the baggage, and, if dutiable articles are found therein, the trunks or envelopes, with their contents, shall be forfeited.

No article of imported merchandise which shall copy or simulate the name or trade-mark of any domestic manufacture or manufacturer, shall be admitted to entry at any Custom House of the United States. And in order to aid the officers of the customs in enforcing this prohibition, any domestic manufacturer who has adopted trade-marks may require his name and residence and a description of his trade-marks to be recorded in books which shall be kept for that purpose in the Department of the Treasury, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe, and may furnish to the Department fac-similes of such trade-marks; and thereupon the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause one or more copies of the same to be transmitted to each collector or other proper officers of the customs.

Applications for the recording of names or trade-marks in this Department will mention the name and residence of the domestic manufacturer, and furnish a description of the mark and the names of the ports to which the fac-simile should be sent. No such name or trade-mark will be received unless accompanied by the proper proof of ownership, which must consist of the affidavit of the owner or one of the owners, certified by a notary public, or other officer entitled to administer oaths, and having a seal.

No fees are charged for recording trade-marks in the Department and Custom Houses. A sufficient number of fac-similes should be forwarded to enable the Department to send one copy to each port named in the application. Importers at duly designated interior ports, who desire to make direct importations, may have merchandise other than explosive articles imported by them directly forwarded, without appraisement, from the port of first arrival, by making entry thereof at such port under the provisions of the act of June 10, 1880, amended by the act of February 23, 1887.

The exterior ports from which merchandise can be so forwarded are as follows:- Ports at which merchandise may be entered for transportation to other ports without appraisement under the act of June 10, 1880. Boston, Mass.

Baltimore, Md.

New York, N. Y.

Newport News, Va.

New Orleans, La.

Norfolk, Va.

Philadelphia, Pa.

Port Huron, Mich.