Article 5; Article 13, in the portion which permits cording, sealing, and branding of goods to be done on the dock, if it can be done with safety to the revenue; Article 14, which embodies a general rule in relation to bonded goods; Article 15, in that portion which is contained in the sentence commencing with the words "such packages as do not agree"; Article 19, in the last part of the first paragraph relating to the effects of persons going to Manitoba; Article 20, second paragraph, the object of which is to inform the customs officers as to who is the consignee for exportation; the last sentence of the third paragraph, and the last paragraph; Article 26; Article 31, second paragraph, which is one of those submitted for approval, as above mentioned, and which is thought by the Secretary of the Treasury to be necessary, in view of the condition under which goods are shipped from Calais in transit through New Brunswick; Article 32, as to sealing cars at the frontier port of departure, and as to impressing on the manifest the number or device of the seal, the verification of the contents of the car by a comparison of the manifest with the lading being omitted; Article 33, in so far as it permits the collector's certificate upon the manifest to be based upon the examining officer's return; Article 42, first paragraph, which, as modified, conforms more precisely, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury, to the language of Article XXX of the treaty of Washington; Article 43, last clause of the first paragraph; The Secretary of the Treasury, furthermore, desires that the attention of Her Majesty's Government may be called to the following additional particulars, namely: Article 3 of the regulations now in force has been omitted as unnecessary, being merely a statement embodied elsewhere in the general customs regulations of the ordinary proceedings incident under the law to entries of all merchandise imported into the United States; The requirement of the oath prescribed in article 7 of the present regulations is omitted; The return of the inspector certificate to the collector at the port of shipment, as required in article 15, last clause of the fourth paragraph, is dispensed with, being considered unnecessary by the Secretary of the Treasury; The time for which the export bond is taken on goods for Pembina is reduced to sixty days, in view of the present increased facilities for communication with that place; The recommendation to foreign shippers, contained in the seventh paragraph of article 24 of the present regulations, is omitted from the proposed regulations as unnecessary; The third paragraph of article 35 of the present regulations is a general rule applicable to all entries for withdrawal from warehouse, and is considered by the Secretary of the Treasury unnecessary in the proposed regulations; The second paragraph of article 36 of the regulations now in force is modified by the omission of the provision in relation to the several copies of the entry, it being provided that a manifest instead of an entry is to be sent with the goods, and the copies of the entry are disposed of under article 15 of the proposed regulations, which embodies a general rule of the Treasury Department in relation to the disposition of the copies of all entries; The forms are omitted from the body of the regulations in accordance with the general plan of the revision of the customs regulations adopted by the Secretary of the Treasury, and are placed together by themselves; and in cases where the forms themselves indicate the purposes for which they are designed, and the character of the proceedings to be taken, they are not described in the regulations, but simply referred to by their numbers. Finally, the Secretary of the Treasury desires that the attention of Her Majesty's Government may be called to the circumstance that in 1874 the regulations now in force, except as subsequently amended, were presented for the consideration of Her Majesty's Government in a body, without separating those provisions which were strictly under the treaty from those which were not, whereas in the proposed regulations such a separation is made, the portion which relates to matters not coming under the treaty of Washington being found in the supplement, except that articles 79 to 92 of the supplement which relate to the importation of goods under consular seal may, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury, be considered as a part of the treaty regulations, so far as they are applied by article 21 of the proposed regulations, to merchandise in transit. In view of the fact that the proposed regulations submitted herewith are a part of a general revision of the customs regulations of the Treas ury Department now in progress, I am desired by my colleague, the Secretary of the Treasury, to invite the early consideration of this subject by Her Majesty's Government. I have, &c., NOTE.-Inclosures omitted on account of their length. WM. M. EVARTS. No. 335. Mr. Evarts to Sir Edward Thornton. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, SIR: With reference to your note of the 4th of November ultimo,* in relation to the conference proposed to be held at Madrid for the consideration of the question of the foreign protection of native Moors in the Empire of Morocco, I have the honor to inform you that, in response to that suggestion and to the invitation of the Spanish Government, it has been decided to authorize Mr. Fairchild, the United States minister at Madrid, to act as the representative of the United States in such conference, and that suitable instructions for his guidance in the premises will be forthwith sent to him. Accepting your kind offer to furnish further details of the negotiations which have for some time been carried on at Tangier, from the documents which are in your possession, I beg that you will, with your accustomed courtesy, place them in my hands as speedily as may be conveniently practicable for the needful information of Mr. Fairchild. I have, &c., WM. M. EVARTS. Ante, p. 499. No. 336. Mr. Evarts to Sir Edward Thornton. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, SIR: I have the honor to state that there has appeared in the public prints a telegram from Ottawa, Canada, to the effect that it is now understood that a very important concession has been obtained from Her Majesty's Government, and that American cattle will be accorded the privilege of transit through Canada, from one American port to another, with the additional privilege of stopping for rest and other accommodations at some place in Canada. I will esteem it a great favor if you will have the kindness to ascertain, for the information of this Department and that of the Secretary of the Treasury, to whom the facts of the case will be promptly conveyed, whether the statement so made is correct; and, if so, whether the priv ilege granted by the Canadian Government includes the shipment of cattle through Canada, from ports of the United States, to Canadian seaboard ports for exportation. I have, &c., No. 337. WM. M. EVARTS. Sir Edward Thornton to Mr. Hay. WASHINGTON, March 29, 1880. SIR: In accordance with an instruction which I have received from the Marquis of Salisbury, I have the honor to invite the attention of the Government of the United States to a representation which has been made by the committee of Lloyds' with regard to the frequent losses by fire of cotton-laden ships which occur at ports of the United States, especially at Charleston and New Orleans, such disasters occurring generally whilst the vessels are still in port fully loaded. Lloyds' agents, who have been appealed to in the matter, attribute these fires, especially at Charleston and New Orleans, to incendiarism or gross carelessness, and the committee have asked that the attention of the authorities of the United States may be called to the frequency of these fires, which cause a great loss of property on both sides of the ocean. I have, &c., No. 338. EDW'D THORNTON. Sir Edward Thornton to Mr. Evarts. WASHINGTON, April 17, 1880. (Received April 17.) SIR: With reference to your note of the 25th ultimo, copy of which I transmitted to the Governor-General of Canada, I now have the honor to transmit herewith copy of a report of a committee of the privy council for Canada, which I have received from his excellency, from which it will be seen that negotiations are now proceeding, with a fair hope of success, upon the question of American cattle being allowed to pass through Canada from one American port to another. I have, &c., EDW'D THORNTON. [Inclosure in Sir Edward Thornton's note to Mr. Evarts of April 17.] Copy of a report of a committee of the honorable the privy council for Canada, approved by His Excellency the Governor-General on the 12th April, 1880. On a dispatch from Her Majesty's minister at Washington, transmitting copy of a note which he has received from Mr. Evarts requesting him to ascertain whether the newspaper statement recently published is true, to the effect that a very important concession has been obtained from Her Majesty's Government, and that American cattle will be accorded the privilege of transit through Canada, from one American port to another, with the additional privilege of stopping for rest and other accommodations at some place in Canada, the honorable the minister of agriculture, to whom said dispatch with inclosure has been referred, reports that negotiations are going on with the imperial authorities, with a fair chance of success, to permit the transit through Canada, under very stringent regulations, with the privilege of stopping to rest, of American cattle forwarded from one United States port to another, but that there are at present no hopes of being permitted to ship American cattle from Canadian ports to Europe, without rendering the Dominion liable to being scheduled. The committee recommend that a copy of this minute, when approved, be transmitted to Sir Edward Thornton, for the information of the United States Government. Certified. J. O. COTÉ, Clerk Privy Council, Canada. No. 339. Sir Edward Thornton to Mr. Evarts. WASHINGTON, April 23, 1880. (Received April 24.) SIR: In compliance with an instruction which I have received from the Marquis of Salisbury, I have the honor to inform you, with reference to previous correspondence respecting the adoption by the various maritime states of the international regulations for the prevention of collisions at sea, that, in consequence of representations on behalf of the various fishing interests of Great Britain, it has been decided by the president of the board of trade and the first lord of the admiralty to suspend the operation of article 10 of these regulations until the 1st of September, 1881. I inclose copies of the Queen's order in council, which has been passed with the above object. I have, &c., EDW'D THORNTON. [Inclosure in Sir Edward Thornton's note of April 23, 1880.] AT THE COURT AT WINDSOR, THE 24TH DAY OF MARCH, 1880. Present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in council. Whereas by "The Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1862," it was enacted that on and after the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, or such later day as might be fixed for the purpose by order in council, the regulations contained in the table marked C, in the schedule to the said act, should come into operation and be of the same force as if they were enacted in the body of the said act; but that Her Majesty might from time to time, on the joint recommendation of the admiralty and the board of trade, by order in council, annul or modify any of the said regulations, or make new regulations in addition to or in substitution therefor; and that any alterations in or additions to such regulations made in manner aforesaid should be of the same force as the regulations in said schedule; And whereas, by the same act, it was further provided that whenever it should be made to appear to Her Majesty that the government of any foreign country was willing that the regulations for preventing collisions contained in table C, in the schedule to the said act, or such other regulations for preventing collisions as are for the time being in force under the said act, should apply to the ships of such country when beyond the limits of British jurisdiction, Her Majesty might, by order in council, direct that such regulations should apply to the ships of the said foreign country, whether within British jurisdiction or not; and it was further provided by the said act that whenever an order in council had been issued applying any regulation made by or in pursuance of the said act to the ships of any foreign country, such ships should, in all cases arising in any British court, be deemed to be subject to such regulation, and should, for the purpose of such regulation, be treated as if they were British ships; And whereas, by an order in council made in pursuance of the said recited act, and dated the ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, Her Majesty was pleased to direct that there should be substituted for the regulations contained in the schedule to the said act certain regulations appended to the said order, and that the said appended regulations should, on and after the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, apply to French ships, whether within British jurisdiction or not; And whereas, by several orders in council subsequently made, Her Majesty was pleased to direct that the regulations appended to the said recited order should apply to ships of the countries specified in the said orders, whether within British jurisdiction or not; and whereas, by order in council, dated the thirtieth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, Her Majesty was pleased to make certain additions to the regulations appended to the said first recited order in council; And whereas, by order in council, dated the fourteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, Her Majesty, on the joint recommendation of the admiralty and the board of trade, was pleased to direct that on and after the first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eighty, the said regulations and the additions thereto should be annulled, and that there should be substituted therefor the new regulations contained in the first schedule thereto, and that the same should, from and after the first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eighty, apply to ships of the countries mentioned in the said second schedule thereto, whether within British jurisdiction or not; And whereas article numbered nine of the regulations appended to the said recited order in council of the ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree, is as follows, that is to say: ART. 9. Open fishing boats and other open boats shall not be required to carry the side lights required for other vessels, but shall, if they do not carry such lights, carry a lantern having a green slide on the one side and a red slide on the other side, and on the approach of or to other vessels such lantern shall be exhibited in sufficient time to prevent collision so that the green light shall not be seen on the port side nor the red light on the starboard side. Fishing vessels and open boats, when at anchor or attached to their nets and stationary, shall exhibit a bright white light. Fishing vessels and open boats shall, however, not be prevented from using a flareup in addition, if considered expedient. And whereas the article numbered ten of the said new regulations, contained in the first schedule of the said recited order in council of the fourteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, which said article is to be in substitution for the said recited article numbered nine, is as follows, that is to say: ART. 10. (a) Open fishing boats and other open boats, when under way, shall not be obliged to carry the side lights required for other vessels, but every such Loat shall in lieu thereof have ready at hand a lantern with a green glass on the one side and a red glass on the other side, and on the approach of or to other vessels, such lantern shall be exhibited, in sufficient time to prevent collision, so that the green light shall not be seen on the port side, nor the red light on the starboard side. (b) A fishing vessel and an open boat when at anchor shall exhibit a bright white light. (c) A fishing vessel, when employed in drift-net fishing, shall carry on one of her masts two red lights in a vertical line, one over the other, not less than three feet apart. |