COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS. REGULATIONS ESTABLISHED BY THE BALTIMORE BOARD OF TRADE. COMMISSIONS. The following rates to be charged, if no agreement to the contrary exists:— do. without funds,. 11 24 Effecting insurance, when the premium does not exceed 10 per cent,....... do. do. if the premium is above 10 per cent on the amount of premium, 5 Adjusting and collecting losses insured, if not disputed, or litigated,.. do. delayed or litigated accounts,... Entering and forwarding goods, on the amount of duties and charges,...... 21 Advancing money on letters of credit, or otherwise,.. 21 21 21 On consignments of merchandise withdrawn or reshipped, full commission to be charged on the amount of advances, or responsibilities incurred; and half commission on the residue of the value. The above commissions are exclusive of guarantee for sales on credit, auction duty and commissions, storage, brokerage, and every other expense actually incurred. FREIGHT AND FREIGHTING. If a vessel is freighted by the ton, and no special agreement is made respecting the proportions at which each article shall be computed, the following shall be the standard of computation, and either parcel deemed equal to a ton, viz:— 2,240 lbs. pig and bar iron, lead, copper, logwood, fustic, and other heavy dyewoods. 2,000 64 Nicarague and Brazilletto wood. nett, sugar and rice, in casks. 2,240" 1,830 " 1,600 " 200 gall. wine measure, estimating the full contents of the cask of oil, wine, brandy, &c. 22 bush. grain, peas, beans, &c., in casks. 30 bush. West India salt, in bulk. 30 66 sea coal, in bulk. 40 cubic feet of plank, boards, timber, bale goods, packages, and boxes. In estimating the contents in cubic feet, of various packages and goods, the following shall be the standard :— In computing boxes of candles and soap, kegs of butter and lard, hams and bacon, and generally all similar articles, 200 lbs. nett weight shall be considered equal to a barrel of 5 cubic feet. All goods brought to this port on freight, must be delivered on a wharf, at the expense of the vessel bringing the same. A delivery, after due notice, on any good wharf at Fell's Point, during business hours, is a delivery in the city and port of Baltimore. Hides and articles prohibited to be landed in the city at certain periods, may be landed where the public authorities may direct. In all cases when vessels are obliged (by the quarantine regulations, or city authorities,) to discharge their cargo in the stream, the expense of delivering the same east of Jones' Falls, will be borne by the carrier only. But when requested by the consignee to be delivered west of Jones' Falls, then the expense shall be equally borne by the carrier and consignee, (each one half.) If a vessel is chartered for a voyage out and home, each shipper shall be entitled to his fair proportion of the whole homeward freight, pro rata, of the bulk or space occupied by each shipper on the outward voyage. In all cases where a vessel is chartered or freighted for a voyage out and home, the freighter, or charterer, is bound to furnish sufficient cargo, to enable said vessel to return safely home, and the same from port to port, where the charter provides for more than one port. Provided, no agreement to the contrary is made by the parties. STORAGE. Per month. Hhds. of sugar, tobacco, molasses, rum, oil, and pipes of wine, brandy, and gin, 25 cents. Hogsheads of coffee, copperas, codfish, and tallow,. Tierces of sugar, rum, molasses, and half pipes,. 46 rice, coffee, flaxseed, alum, &c....... ......... Barrels of rum, whiskey, sugar, beef, pork, fish, cheese, oil, and casks wine, flour, coffee, and other dry articles,........ Boxes of Cuba sugar, 66 66 fish, wine, oil, lemons, and oranges, soap, candles, cheese, tin, raisins, and drums of figs, Bags of coffee, cocoa, pepper, and pimento,.... Bales of cotton and hempen yarn, about 300 lbs... India piece, and other similar goods,... Indigo, in ceroons, 4 cents; in cases,... Tea, in chests, 3 cents; half do., 2 cents; boxes, Hemp, per ton,........... Cordage, per do..... Iron and lead, per do.... Dyewood, per do....... Crates of earthenware,. 20 66 16 12" แ 66 46 66 66 66 124 66 10 The owners of goods to be at the expense of putting them in store, and delivering them. All goods stored to be subject to one month's storage, if in store ten days. If less than ten days, to half a month's storage. The risk of loss by fire, robbery, theft, and other unavoidable occurrences, is in all cases to be borne by the owner of the goods; provided, usual care be taken for the security of the property. WEIGHTS AND TARES. Sugar, copperas, alum, brimstone, shot, lead, iron, steel, hemp, dyewoods, and all other articles heretofore sold by the cwt. of 112 lbs., or ton of 2,240 lbs., shall in future be sold by the decimal hundred of 100 pounds, or ton of 2000 pounds. Tares shall be allowed as follows: Sugar, in hhds. or tierces, 12 per cent; in Cuba boxes, 15 per cent; in flour bbls. 22 lbs. each; do. in linen bags, 3 per cent; and in all other packages the actual tare. Coffee, in linen, single gunny, and grass bags, 2 per cent; in flour bbls. 20 lbs. each; in all other packages the actual tare. Cocoa, in bags, 2 per cent. Pepper, in linen or single gunny bags, 2 per cent; in other packages the actual tare. Pimento, in linen or single gunny bags, 3 per cent; in other packages the actual tare. Rice, in tierces and half tierces, 10 per cent. Copperas, 10 per cent, in hogsheads. Teas, green, whole chests, 20 lbs.; half do., the Canton tare; do. black do. do. 22 lbs. ; do. three quarter chests, 18 lbs.; other packages the actual tare. Cassia, in mats, 9 per cent; boxes, and other packages, the actual tare. Indigo, in ceroons, in single hides, 11 per cent; in all other cases the actual tare. Alum, brimstone, ginger, nutmegs, mace, cloves, almonds, figs, cheese, soap, candles, chocolate, currants, prunes, starch, and all other articles not before mentioned, the actual tare. No charge shall be made for casks, barrels, boxes, or other packages whatever. Drafts, as follows: On all weights, even beam, & per cent to be allowed of draft. TARIFF OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW BRUNSWICK, The following schedule, showing the amount of duties to be imposed on foreign arti. cles, passed the late session of the legislature, and continues in force for one year from the 1st of April, 1841. SCHEDULE OF ARTICLES SUBJECT TO DUTY, AND ARTICLES EXEMPTED FROM DUTY. SPIRITS, videlicit—brandy, per gallon,............................ And further, for and upon all rum or spirits stronger than of the proof of 26 Whiskey, per gallon,......... WINES, videlicit-hock, constantia, malmsey, or tokay, per gallon,... Shrub, santa, lime juice, per gallon,....................... Claret, called lafitte, latour, margeaux, or hautbrian, per gallon,....................... Sherry wine, of which the first cost is £20 or upwards per pipe, per gallon, Other claret wines, barsac, sauterne, vin de grave, moselle, and other French wines, and lisbon and German wines, per gallon,...... All other sherry wines, teneriffe, marcela, Sicilian, malaga, fayal, and all other wines, per gallon,...... All wines the product of the Cape of Good Hope, (except constantia,) per SUGAR, videlicit-Muscovado or brown, per cwt........... £ 8. d. 023 0 1 6 001 006 016 020 006 0 3 1 2 10 0 2 7 024 021 0 1 10 013 0 1 3 026 013 0 0 1 001 MOLASSES, per gallon,........ Being of a foreign production, an additional, per gallon,.. TOBACCO, videlicit-manufactured, (except snuff and cigars,) per pound,.. Snuff and cigars, for every £100 of the true and real value thereof,..... For and upon every foreign ox,................... For and upon all other foreign horned cattle,....... For and upon all foreign dead fresh meats, per pound,.... 001 10 0 0 500 1 5 0 15 0 001 For and upon the following manufactured articles, when not imported from the United Kingdom, videlicit:-chairs, or prepared parts of or for chairs, clocks, clock cases, clock movements or machinery, watches, household furniture, pictures, mirrors, looking-glasses --for every £100 of the true and real value thereof, £25. And for and upon all soap and candles, India-rubber shoes, and all other foreign articles, manufactured or not manufactured, not otherwise charged with duty, nor hereinafter declared to be free of duty-for every £100 of the true and real value thereof, £10. Silk, and for all manufactures of which silk shall form a component part-for every £100 of the true and real value thereof, £5. And for and upon all articles the manufacture of the United Kingdom, imported or brought into this province, whether by sea or inland carriage or navigation, or which may be saved from any wrecked or stranded ship or vessel, or not otherwise charged with duty, nor hereinafter declared to be free of duty; also all manufactures of cotton of the British East India possessions, pepper, and all other descriptions of spices, for every £100 of the true and real value thereof, £2 10s. Colonial leather, and malt liquor-for every £100 of the true and real value thereof, £5. For and upon all foreign wheat flour imported from Nova Scotia-for each and every barrel of one hundred and ninety-six pounds, 5s. 10d. EXCEPTIONS. To all foreign articles, manufactured or not manufactured, videlicet:—agricultural implements (axes excepted,) barilla ashes, beeswax, bristles, books (printed) and pamphlets, beans, bricks, bread, cotton wool, cows, cordage, canvas, dyewoods, felt, flour and meal of all kinds (buckwheat flour excepted,) fresh and green fruits of all kinds, grass seed and all other kinds of seeds and plants, grain of all kinds, ground gypsum, hay, hides, horsehair, horns, hemp, hops, indigo, iron, India-rubber, lumber of all kinds (cedar, pine, spruce, and hemlock shingles excepted,) leaf tobacco, lignum-vitæ, looking-glass plates, and picture and plate glass, mahogany logs, boards and veneers, meats dried and salted, mill saws, palm oil, pitch, peas, pot ashes, rosin, rice, salt, tar, turpentine, tallow, vine. gar-duty free. To all articles the manufacture of the United Kingdom, videlicit :-Agricultural implements, anchors, barley, pot or pearl, beef, bacon, books (printed) and pamphlets, bread, bunting, bricks and tiles, coals, copper, bolt and sheet, copper spikes and nails, canvas, coal tar, cordage, duck, felt, patent fishing nets, hooks, lines and twines, flour and meal of all kinds, globes, iron, bolt, bar, pig or sheet, iron block bushes, lead, bar and sheet, mineral salt, and salt of all kinds, malt, machinery for mills and steamboats, mathematical and musical instruments of all kinds, and philosophical and chemical ap. paratus, hydraulic engines, maps, oakum, pork, printing paper, steel, spikes and sheathing nails, ship tackle and apparel, sheathing paper, tin in sheets and blocks, zincduty free. TEXAS CUSTOMHOUSE REGULATIONS. ALDEN A. M. JACKSON, collector at Galveston, has addressed the following note to John H. Brower, Esq., Consul of the Republic of Texas at New York. We publish it for the information of shippers and others engaged in the trade with Texas. It is dated Galveston, May 18, 1841. "For the information and government of persons shipping merchandise to this port, you will please to make known that all invoices presented for entry at this customhouse are required to be made in duplicate, giving the marks and numbers of the several packages, with the contents and value of each, and accompanied with the original invoice of purchase or consignment; also, that the same rules and regulations are observed on the importation of merchandise into this republic, as are now in force and observed in the importation of merchandise into the United States." NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. CHANGES IN THE SEA MARKS BEFORE DRAGO. WULFF, Commander, and Chief Pilot for the District of Zealand, publishes over his signature, agreeably to his majesty's resolution of the 23d of July, 1840, the following changes which have recently taken place with regard to the sea marks and their location in the passage before Drago, and in the outer road of Copenhagen, from the time they shall be put out in the year 1841. These regulations are dated "Copenhagen, November 3, 1840." 1. The Drago Buoy will retain its place, but the float and staff near it will be removed and placed in three fathoms water, on the western extremity of Holmetungen, and the float and staff near the South Rysse be placed in three fathoms water, due east of this ground. Both these floats and staffs will remain out the whole year. 2. Large top-floats, with brooms on staffs from nine to ten feet long, will be placed before the southeast hook of North Rysse Ground, in three fathoms water, the northwest edge of Littleground in from four to five fathoms, the northwest edge of Broadground in from four to five fathoms, the east side of the Ravenschicks from three to four fathoms, about the stone called Rasmus Mulles. The float and staff by the wreck on the Middleground will exchange place with the buoy now situated before the old Probestone, which will be removed to the wreck on the Middleground, and be supplied with a broom on a staff. 3. The top-floats and staffs on the old Probestone, the North Rysse, the Ravenschicks, the South Rysse, and the Drago Sandshoaltong, will each be provided with a broom tied upwards on a black staff; while, on the contrary, the floats and staffs on the wreck of the frigate Cronenborg, the Middleground, the Holmetong, and the Littleground, will each be provided with a broom tied downwards on a white staff. The float and staff on Broadground will, for the purpose of being distinguished from the one on Littleground, be provided with two brooms, the upper one tied upwards and the lower one tied downwards, on a staff painted alternately white and black by the foot measure. 4. The North Buoy of the Middleground will be removed from its place before the wreck of the line-of-battle ship Indfodsretten, back on the northern extent of said ground in twenty-three feet water, and another mark, consisting of a small barrel, or buoy, painted green, placed in lieu of it on the wreck. The bottom of the various buoys will be marked with the following number, viz :— Drago Buoy with I., Kastrup Buoy with II., South Buoy with III., Middle Buoy with IV., North Buoy with V., Stubbe Buoy with VI., and the Buoy on the Crown with VII. |