The penalty of each bond for transportation from the port of New York shall be $500,000, and from other ports $250,000; and the collector at each port of first arrival shall cause to be kept a record of all entries of merchandise delivered to each common carrier, and shall make due credit therein for all such as are certified to have been duly delivered at the ports of destination; and in case the said collector shall ascertain that the probable aggregate liabilities under the bond of any common carrier shall exceed the penal sum above mentioned, he shall promptly report the same to the Secretary of the Treasury, in order that additional security may be required.

Each common carrier shall file with the collector at the port of first arrival a power of attorney to such person or persons as they may authorize to sign receipts for merchandise and other documents under their bond, which powers of attorney shall be renewed under the general regulations for such instruments now in force.

FORM NO. 1.

Bond for immediate transportation of dutiable merchandise.

KKOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That we,

and

as sureties, are held and firmly bound unto the United States of America in the sum of dollars, to be paid to the United States; for which payment, well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our successors, heirs, executors, and administrators, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents. Witness our hands and seals, this eighteen hundred and

day of

Whereas the above-bounden

ha- been designated as

common carrier- for the transportation of unappraised dutiable merchandise, under the act of June 10, 1880, and the rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury in pursuance thereof, from the port of to the port- of in the following manner, viz:

Now, therefore, the condition of this obligation is such, that if the above-bounden principal- shall duly observe and faithfully comply with the laws of the United States, and regulations of the Treasury Department made in pursuance thereof, pertaining to the transportation and safe delivery of imported merchandise under the provisions of the act of Congress entitled "An act to amend the statutes in relation to immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for other purposes," approved June 10, 1880, and of all acts relating thereto, and shall pay the necessary expense of such locks, seals, and other fastenings as may be prescribed and required by the Secretary of the Treasury for securing the custody and safe transportation of such merchandise, in such cars, vessels, vehicles, safes, or trunks as may be

authorized and used by them for that purpose; and shall also pay the expense of such inspectors as the Secretary of the Treasury, at his discretion, may cause to be stationed at points along the designated routes, or upon any car, vessel, vehicle, or train (such expense to include the salary as well as the actual necessary traveling expenses of such inspectors), in such manner as may be directed by the Secretary of the Treasury; and shall use only such means of conveyance for transportation as may be authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury; and shall, without delay, transport and make prompt report and safe delivery of all merchandise as described in each and every entry, and in each receipt therefor executed by said principal- or duly authorized agents, delivered to said principal for transportation under the provisions of said act, to the collector or other proper officer of the customs at the port of destination, in the manner required by law and regulations aforesaid; or in default of such delivery shall pay to the United States as liquidated damages the value of all such merchandise not so transported and delivered at invoice value, or at a greater value, if such be shown, with the duties added, together with all costs, charges, and expenses, caused by the failure to make such delivery; and shall also protect and save harmless the United States from any loss or damage resulting from fraud or negligence on the part of any officer, agent, or other person employed by the above-bounden principal, then this obligation to be null and void; otherwise to remain in full force and virtue.

Signed, sealed, and delivered in presence of

In the execution of this class of bonds, the following instructions must be particularly observed and complied with:

1. The bond must be executed in duplicate.

2. The christian names of the parties executing the bond, and their respective places of residence, must appear in full in the body of the bond.

3. Each party executing the bond must affix his seal, which must be of wax or wafer, or some substance capable of receiving a permanent impression.

4. Two or more sureties will be required to each bond, who will justify, in the form prescribed, in such amounts as shall in the aggregate be equal to double the amount of the penalty named in such bond.

In addition to the usual surety's oath, attached to the bond, each surety will be required to make affidavit, before the collector of customs or some other person competent to administer oaths, setting forth, by general description, the location of one or more pieces of real estate owned by him, and the value thereof, over and above all incumbrances, and describing property, real or personal, owned by him (stating the value thereof), which, according to such valuation, shall be at least equal in value to the amount which he has sworn that he is worth in the surety's oath. Such affidavits will, in every instance, be transmitted by the collector to the Department with the bond.

5. The collector before whom the bond is executed will be required to certify that the same has been duly executed in duplicate by the obligors therein named; that he is acquainted with the sureties thereto; that he has made careful and diligent inquiry into their pecuniary responsibility, and that they are, in his opinion, responsible collectively for the payment of an amount equal to double the penalty named in said bond.

6. If the bond is given by a corporate company, the person executing in its behalf must be specially authorized by such company to make, execute, and deliver such bond (describing it fully) and to affix the corporate seal of such company thereto. A duly authenticated extract from the minutes of the meeting of the board of directors (or other board competent to bind the corporation), showing that the person executing on behalf of such corporation is duly authorized, must be placed on file at the Department. The person thus authorized to execute and executing the bond must be the president of such company, unless good and sufficient reasons be assigned why he cannot act in that capacity. The corporate seal should be affixed immediately adjoining the signature of the person so executing, as in the case of a private seal by a party executing for himself personally.

7. If the bond be given by parties composing a firm, each member must execute it personally. But if any member of a firm be unable to personally execute it, the same may be done by his agent, if duly authorized by a power of attorney under seal, which, or a certified copy thereof, should accompany the bond. The names of all persons composing the firm must appear in full in the body of the bond, as, for instance, "A, B, and C, composing the firm of A, B & Co."

8. The route from the port of entry to that of destination must be particularly described in each case.

and that

dollars,

swear that I am a freeholder and citizen of the United States; I am worth in property, liable to execution, the sum of over and above all debts, claims, and liabilities of every nature what

soever.

Subscribed and sworn to before me, this day of

18-, by

who is personally known to me to be one of the parties described in, and who executed the within bond as surety.

I hereby certify that the within bond has been duly executed in duplicate by the obligors therein named; that I have carefully and diligently inquired into the pecuniary responsibility of the sureties thereto; and that the same are, in my opinion, responsible and sufficient to insure the payment of the full amount of the penalty of said bond.

Collector.

For the transportation of unappraised merchandise by common carriers, only entire cars can be used, except by express companies when carrying such merchandise on passenger-trains, and except that such merchandise may be placed in compartments of cars to be transported by express companies on passenger-trains, when the packages are too large to be placed in the safes or trunks. The compartments must be separated from the remainder of the car by a strong partition; and the cars, vessels, vehicles, compartments, safes, and trunks must be so constructed that the inclosed space in which the merchandise is carried

at

can be securely fastened and locked with customs locks in such manner that access cannot be had to the merchandise without removing the locks.

Inspectors will not permit the merchandise to be laden in cars, vessels, or vehicles which are not in satisfactory condition, nor in compartments, safes, or trunks not properly constructed or that cannot be securely fastened.

If a vessel is bonded for the transportation of such merchandise, it must have compartments entirely separated by substantial bulk-heads or partitions from other parts of the vessel.

Safes and trunks used for transportation by express companies on passenger-trains must be of iron, or of wood bound with iron, and shall contain only goods shipped for immediate transportation.

No merchandise destined for an intermediate port or place shall be laden on a car with goods shipped for immediate transportation. Inspectors supervising the lading of immediate-transportation goods will see that cars destined for distant ports are laden, as nearly as pos sible, to their registered capacity.

Entry of merchandise for immediate transportation without appraisement, under the above act, will be made at the port of first arrival by the owner, agent, or consignee, on the following form, in triplicate: FORM NO. 2.

of

Entry for immediate transportation in bond without appraisement.

Entry of merchandise imported into the port of

on the day of

is master, from

transportation to the port of

to be transported by

in the State of

in the State 188—, in the

for immediate

intended

[here insert name of designated

common carrier and description of route and vessel or cars to be used], under their bond dated

188-.

NOTE.-The estimated dutiable value and estimated duty on each package must be stated.

Estimated duty.

The entries, together with the invoice and the bill of lading, must be presented to the collector, who will compare them with each other, and with the manifest of the importing-vessel; if they agree, he will estimate the duties, noting the estimate on the face of each of the entries, certify the invoices, and transmit the papers to the naval officer, if there is one, who will make a similar comparison, and estimate the duties on his copy of the entry, and check and return to the collector the others with the invoice and permit.

If any discrepancy appears between the estimate of duties made by the collector and naval officer, it must be corrected before proceeding further.

The entry must cover all the merchandise which appears on the invoice, without regard to the quantities which actually arrive, but the collector will certify on the entry the number of packages landed from the importing vessel and forwarded; and if any packages are wanting, or there is any shortage in the contents of the packages, proof of shortshipment must be made at the port of final destination.

The entry having been completed, the collector and naval officer will issue a delivery permit, as follows:

You will deliver to the surveyor, for transfer, the following merchandise, viz:

name of common carrier and description of the route and vessel or cars to be used.]

Collector.

The delivery permit having been issued, the collector will forthwith send one of the entries to the surveyor, with an order (Form 4) in