Hon. William H. Seward
Secretary of State, Washington, D. C.
Customs regulation.
Notice is given to traders that, by order of the government, the
importation of revolvers into the Ottoman empire is prohibited from
and after the 13th day of June, 1867. From this prohibition are
excepted—1. Revolvers which have already arrived; 2. Revolvers
which, up to the 16th of the present month of June, shall be in the
course of transmission—that is to say, shall have previously left
the place of export. The consignee who wishes to avail himself of
this exception shall prove, by the bills of lading, ships’ papers,
and other authentic evidence, that the revolvers which he asks to
introduce were on board June 16, and that the ship by which they
were sent had then quitted the port from which they were forwarded.
Admission will be rigorously refused to revolvers exported contrary
to these conditions, and steps will be taken to insure their
re-transportation beyond the limits of the Ottoman empire.
The Alexandria papers publish the following document:
Transit between the Mediterranean and the Red
sea.
The Suez Canal Company engages to convey merchandise direct from Port
Said, on the Mediterranean, to Suez, on the Red sea, and vice versâ, on the following terms :
Per ton, for all goods except coals. 25 francs. For coals, 20 francs
for cargoes of 300 tons. For special arrangements for the transport
of heavy goods, &c., and all other information, application must
be made to the offices of the company, No. 9 Clary square,
Paris.
General observations.
1. The price of the ton applies to indivisible fraction of 100
kilograms. 2. The bill of lading is charged 20 centimes. 3. The ton
of goods is calculated in conformity with the tariff in use in the
French ports, as published by imperial decree of August 25, 1861.
The ton is estimated at a cube corresponding to 1.44. 4. The transit
and transport service does not undertake the conveyance of
indivisible packages of more than 30 metres long, or eight metres
broad. 5. For machinery of a weight exceeding 8,000 kilograms, the
price of carriage will be fixed according to special arrangement. 6.
The transit and transport service is responsible for packages
embarked in their lighters, but it is not responsible for the
breakage of fragile objects, for the leakage of liquids, for the
weight, the contents, or the value of the packages, for waste
arising from defects in the goods or from defective packing, nor
from losses and damages sustained from cases of force majeure. Merchants sending goods direct to the
company at Port Said or Suez, for transport from sea to sea, must
cover all expenses, including landing, transit, and loading. 8.
Merchants sending goods to the transit agents of the company, to be
forwarded to any port, will do so at their own risk and peril, the
company only answering for the packages of which it has taken
delivery to be embarked on its lighters and conveyed from Port Said
to Suez, and vice versa. 9. The company
undertakes loading and unloading, both at Port Said and Suez,
according to a special tariff.
