(T. D. 6191.) Capacity of Bottles containing Brandy, Ale, Beer and Porter. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, February 21, 1884. The following table, exhibiting the average gauge of the principal brands of brandy, ale, beer, and porter bottles, therein mentioned, imported into the United States, may be followed by customs officers, unless actual gauge shall show a different result : pint bottle (T. D. 11948). * E. & J. Burke's ale and stout, 3 gills per pint bottle (T. D. 9506). Guinness's stout and Bass ale, bottled by Read Bros. of London, England, 3 gills per Chaloupin & Co., V Lucien, Foucand & Co.. Dubois, Freres & Cayman.. Etienne, Pere & Fils, Paul Fic, Mestreaux & Co... Furland & Co, L. Hennesy & Co., Jas. Hine & Co., Thos.. Cognac ......do.. 214 ..do.... ...do.... .do.... .do... .do. Renault & Co. Reveire, Gradrat & Co... Robin & Co., Jules Rouyer, Guillet & Co.. Roullet & Delamain. Do..... ..do. ..do... ..do.. To test the general accuracy of these gauges, frequent actual measurements should be made at the different ports. Actual gauge, however, will be allowed only when applied for prior to delivery of the merchandise, or when the customs officers shall ascertain that the average gauge differs from the actual gauge. The Department's circular of April 7, 1876, relating to the average gauge of certain bottles, is hereby revoked. CHAS. J. FOLGER, TO COLLECTORS OF CUSTOMS AND OTHERS. Secretary. RATES OF TARE.* Prescribed by Customs Regulations of 1892, Article 1090. Almonds in bales, 24 per cent; in bags, 2 per cent; in frails, 8 per cent. Alum in casks, 10 per cent; in sacks, coarse or ground, 2 pounds per sack. Barytes, 3 per cent. Beans, castor, weight of pod. Cheese, in casks or tubs, 10 per cent. Chicory, in bags, 2 per cent. Coppers, in casks, 10 per cent. Figs, 13 per cent, gross weight of the figs, and the boxes to be added to the actual tare of the cases. Gunny cloths, actual weight of ropes and covering allowed as tare. Hay, weight of sticks and wire may be allowed for, and average tare may be calculated. Hemps: Hamburg, Leghorn, Trieste; 5 pounds to each bale. Hemp, Russia, weight of tow bands. Iron rods; Bands of iron wire surrounding coiled iron rods may be allowed as tare when they consist of bands ordinarily used for such purpose and are of little or no commercial value. Nails in bags, 2 per cent; in casks, 8 per cent. Nitrate of soda, 2 per cent. Ocher dry, in casks, per cent; in oil, in casks, 12 per cent. Peruvian bark, in ceroons, 10 per cent. Paris white, in casks, 10 per cent. Raisins, 27 per cent; actual net weight to be ascertained by emptying and weighing the contents of a sufficient number of boxes of each chop. mark to get a just average. Rice, in bags, 2 per cent. Salt, fine, in sacks, 3 pounds for each sack; coarse or ground alum-salt, in sacks, 2 pounds per sack. Spanish brown in casks, dry, 10 per cent; in casks, in oil, 12 per cent. Sugar in tierces and hogsheads, actual tare; in barrels, 10 per cent; in boxes, 14 per cent; in bags, 1 per cent; melado, 9 per cent; actual tare on irregular packages, and on sugar in bags from Havana. Tin, in boxes, actual net weight to be ascertained by emptying and weighing the contents of a sufficient number of boxes of each chop mark or brand to get an average. Tobacco leaf, in bales, 13 pounds each bale; Sumatra, 4 pounds on inside matting and cord, weight of second covering to be ascertained. Whiting, in casks, 10 per cent. Zinc, sheet, weight of silos. *The tares, as above, is that uniformly allowed in all ports in the United States when the actual tare is not claimed by the importer at the time of entry. See Section 2898 Revised Statutes, page 42. |