Collectors of internal revenue will report to the Secretary of the Treasury whenever the necessities of the service require new appointments. or removals of incumbents, giving the reasons therefor, and forwarding to this office the papers in each case. Removals from office of any of the above-named officers will hereafter be made only by the Secretary of the Treasury. JOHN SHERMAN, COLLECTORS OF INTERNAL REVENUE AND OTHERS. Secretary. (4594.) Free entry-Grain-bags returned from abroad. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, June 30, 1880. SIR: This Department is in receipt of your letter of the 18th instant, relating to an application by Messrs. Brewer & Co. for a certificate showing the outward shipment of empty grain-bags from your port, and stating that it was held by you that the circular of this Department of December 25, 1879 (Synopsis 4260), relating to proof to be furnished on applications for the free entry of grain-bags reimported into the United States, revoked only such portions of the former instructions as required the "production of proof different from that mentioned" in the circular, and did not affect the provisions of the instructions of June 5, 1876 (Synopsis 2839), so far as the latter require that, in case of the return of the bags to a port other than that from which they were exported, the collector at the port of exportation shall be advised, in order that an indorsement may be made in the outward manifest at his port. Your understanding of the regulations is correct, and in accordance with the instructions explicitly given therein. The collector at the port whence such bags are exported must be notified, in accordance with the requirements of Decision No. 2839, of the free entry of the bags at any other port. (4595.) Bonded manufacturing warehouses-Ports at which authorized. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, June 30, 1880. GENTLEMEN: The Department acknowledges the receipt of a copy of your letter of the 3d instant, addressed to the collector of internal revenue at St. Louis, relative to the proposed establishment of a bonded manufacturing warehouse at St. Louis. In reply, you are informed that section 3433, Revised Statutes, granting authority for the establishment of such warehouse, provides that no article shall be removed therefrom except for exportation, under the direction of the proper officer having charge thereof, whose certificate is to be received in cancellation of the exportation bond. The form of this bond, as prescribed by the customs regulations, requires that the exportation shall be made in a vessel from the port in which the warehouse is situated. In view of these provisions of law and regulations, the Department does not feel authorized to approve applications for the establishment of manufacturing warehouses at other than those ports from which direct exportation can be made. Very respectfully, GRENSFELDER BROTHERS, St. Louis, Mo. H. F. FRENCH, Assistant Secretary. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Secretary-I. R. and N. S TO COLLECTORS OF CUSTOMS. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Washington, D. C., August 2, 1880. The following decisions of the Department for the month of July, 1880, upon the construction to be given to acts of Congress relating to the tariff, navigation, and other subjects, are published for the information and guidance of officers of the customs and others concerned. JOHN SHERMAN, Secretary. (4596.) Immediate-transportation books and blanks. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, July 1, 1880. In making requisitions for the forms required by Department Circular No. 50, current series, officers of the customs are requested to give the General Customs Catalogue numbers. Of the forms prescribed in above circular, Forms 2, 4, 8, and 9 are contained in Catalogue No. 749; Form 3, in 752; Forms 7, 10, and 11, in 753; Form 12, in 755; Form 6, in 950, and Form 5, in 958. The daily registers and monthly returns are Catalogue Nos. 422, 423, 197, and 198, respectively. With the exception of Nos. 749 and 753, the above forms now on hand may be used by making slight alterations with the pen. Requisitions for the first supply of the above books and blanks should not include any other forms. JOHN SHERMAN, Secretary. COLLECTORS AND OTHER OFFICERS OF THE CUSTOMS. 15 (4597.) Common carriers-Approval of bonds of the Pennsylvania Company. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, July 1, 1880. SIR: You are hereby informed that the Department has approved the bonds, dated the 30th ultimo, of the Pennsylvania Company as a common carrier for the transportation of unappraised merchandise in bond from the ports of Philadelphia, Pa., and New York, N. Y., respectively, under the provisions of the act approved June 10, 1880. Under its bonds, the company named is authorized to transport dutiable goods without appraisement from the ports of Philadelphia, Pa., and New York, N. Y., to either or all of the following-named ports, viz: New York, N. Y.; Buffalo, N. Y.; Burlington, Vt.; Boston, Mass.; Providence, R. I.; New Haven, Conn.; Hartford, Conn.; Middletown, Conn.; Phiadelphia, Pa.; Pittsburgh, Pa.; Baltimore, Md.; Wilmington, Del.; Georgetown, D. C.; Norfolk, Va.; Richmond, Va.; Wilmington, N. C.; Charleston, S. C.; Savannah, Ga.; New Orleans, La.; Portland, Maine; Bath, Maine; Portsmouth, N. H.; Chicago, Ill.; Detroit, Mich.; Port Huron, Mich.; St. Louis, Mo.; St. Paul, Minn.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Cleveland, Ohio; Toledo, Ohio; Milwaukee, Wis.; Louisville, Ky.; San Francisco, Cal.; San Diego, Cal.; Portland, Ore. gon; Memphis, Tenn.; Mobile, Ala.; Galveston, Tex., and such other ports as may be hereafter authorized and designated as ports to which such merchandise may be transported during the continuance of the respective bonds, in the following manner: In suitable cars, owned or controlled by the said company, and running over the hereinafternamed lines of railroad, viz: New York and New England Railroad; united railroads of New Jersey, operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company; Pennsylvania Railroad; Northern Central Railway; Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad; Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway; North-Western Ohio Railway; Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway; Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad; Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railroad; St. Louis, Vandalia and Terre Haute Railroad; Jeffersonville, Madison and Indianapolis Railroad; Louisville and Nashville Railroad; Chicago, St. Louis, and New Orleans Railroad; Evansville and Terre Haute Railroad; Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad; Union Pacific Railroad; Central Pacific Railroad, and such other railroads as may be hereafter specially authorized and designated by the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, that in all cases where other railroads are so authorized and designated, the consent, in writing, of the sureties on the respective bonds shall be filed with the Secretary of the Treasury. One copy of the bond, authorizing transportation from your port, is herewith inclosed, to be placed upon the files of your office. A copy of the bond authorizing transportation from New York will be filed in the office of the collector of customs at that port. Very respectfully, COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, Philadelphia, Pa. H. F. FRENCH, (4598.) Common carriers—Approval of bonds of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, July 1, 1880. SIR: You are hereby informed that the Department has approved the three several bonds, each dated the 30th ultimo, of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company as a common carrier for the transportation of unappraised merchandise in bond from the ports of Baltimore, Md., Philadelphia, Pa., and New York, N. Y., respectively, under the provisions of the act approved June 10, 1880. Under its new bonds, the company named is authorized to transport dutiable goods without appraisement from the ports of Baltimore, Md., Philadelphia, Pa., and New York, N. Y., to either or all of the following-named ports, viz: New York, N. Y.; Philadelphia, Pa.; Baltimore, Md.; Pittsburgh, Pa.; Chicago, Ill.; St. Paul, Minn.; Cleveland, Ohio; Milwaukee, Wis.; Memphis, Tenn.; New Orleans, La.; St. Louis, Mo.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Toledo, Ohio; Louisville, Ky.; Mobile, Ala.; San Francisco, Cal., and such other ports as may be hereafter specially authorized and designated as ports to which such merchandise may be transported during the continuance of the respective bonds, in the following manner: In suitable cars owned or controlled by the said company, and running over the hereinafter-named lines of railroads, viz: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad; Pennsylvania Railroad; Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad; Ohio and Mississippi Railroad; Louisville and Nashville Railroad; South and North Alabama Railroad; Mobile and Montgomery Railroad; New Orleans and Mobile Railroad; Chi |