may be canceled under the Treasury regulations, on receipt of a certificate of inspection and exportation made by the collector of customs of the United States at the frontier port and a certificate of landing in Canada by the collector at the Canadian port of entry, without consular verification.-Cust. Reg., arts. 437, 438. For the cancellation of the bond for merchandise in transit to Mexico under section 3005 of the Revised Statutes the exporter is required to produce, in addition to the certificate of inspection and exportation of the collector at the frontier port, a landing certificate (Form No. 184) of the foreign consignee or a certificate of entry from a Mexican customs officer, verified by a consular officer of the United States (Form No. 185). The holder at a foreign port of a bill of lading issued to him by the common carrier may properly be considered as the consignee authorized to execute the landing certificate.— S. 10708. 729. Transportation in bond into the Free Zone of Mexico.—The application of the foregoing regulations to that portion of the Mexican border known as the Free Zone was suspended by a joint resolution of Congress passed March 1, 1895, which directs the Secretary of the Treasury to suspend the operation of section 3005 of the Revised Statutes in so far as the same permits goods, wares, and merchandise to be transported in bond through the United States into the Free Zone of Mexico so long as the Mexican Free Zone law exists.28 Stat. L., 973; S. 15771. 730. Transportation beyond Free Zone-Entry in Free Zone Places affected.-Merchandise destined for places in Mexico beyond the limits of said Free Zone may be forwarded as heretofore under the regulations cited. Merchandise consigned to places within the limits of the Free Zone must be entered and appraised at the port of original importation, and may be forwarded, under warehouse and transportation entry, to ports on the frontier, where entry for exportation may be made in the usual manner.-S. 17792, 15904, 15935, 16130, 16263, 16396, 17294. The places within the Free Zone affected by the law may be ascertained by application to the Secretary of the Treasury. 731. Consuls and special Treasury agents.-Consular officers will confer freely with the Treasury revenue agents who may be appointed to visit and examine the consulates. They will remember, however, that these agents have no authority to instruct them as to their official acts. Consular officers will also render to such revenue agents every assistance in their power in the performance of their duties, giving them free access to the records and papers of their consulates relating to trade with the United States; communicating to them promptly any information acquired by them showing or indicating actual or contemplated frauds in the exportation of merchandise to the United States, or which may be in any wise useful to such agents in the prosecution of their inquiries or the performance of their duties, and generally cooperating with them therein; and giving special attention to any invoices of merchandise in which, or in relation to which, such agents may advise them that there is reason to apprehend that fraud or irregularity has been or is likely to be committed. Where samples are susceptible of being divided, such agents will be entitled to one-half of any such sample on application therefor; and in all cases they will be entitled to make such use of samples as may be necessary to enable them to prosecute any inquiry or procure any required proof in the performance of their duties. |