APPENDIX (D.)

COPY of a MINUTE of the BOARD OF CUSTOMS, of 20th November 1857.

Read the Board's minutes, dated the 7th September last (General Order, No. 3) and 3rd instant, regulating the rent to be charged on tobacco warehoused in the Crown's premises subsequently to the 25th August last.

The Board direct, that in charging rent under the provisions of the said Minutes for fractions of a week, the officers do govern themselves by the practice observed under the General Order, No. viz.: "In all cases where the fraction of a week does not exceed three days, no rent be charged for such fraction, but if exceeding three days, then the rent to be charged for a week."

The Board further direct that rent be charged from the time of deposit of the first package of a cargo in the Tobacco Warehouse; and that on repacked packages of manufactured tobacco and cigars, the following rates of rent per week be charged, viz. :—

Packages not exceeding 10 lbs. net
exceeding 10 lbs. and not
exceeding 20 lbs.

exceeding 20 lbs. and not
exceeding 30 lbs.

one farthing,

one halfpenny,

three farthings,

and in the like proportion for all repacked packages above 30 lbs.

And copies of this Minute are to be transmitted to the Collectors and Controllers at the ports at which the Crown is Warehousekeeper for tobacco, for their information and guidance.

COPY of a MINUTE of the BOARD of CUSTOMS, dated the 31st December 1857.

The Board with reference to the provisions of the " Customs Amendment Act, 1857," have further considered the amount of rent to be charged at the outports on tobacco warehoused since the 25th August last, in the Tobacco Warehouses rented by or belonging to the Crown, and they are of opinion, upon a review of all the circumstances, that the rates specified on the back hereof (being those charged to the trade in London by the Warehousekeepers for that article) should be substituted for those specified in the Minute of the 3d ultimo, in respect to all tobacco imported subsequently to the passing of the Act 20 & 21 Vict. c. 62, or which have been or may be bonded or re-bonded between that period and the transfer of the premises