(No. 5.) SHIPPING BILL. FOR WAREHOUSED OR DRAWBACK GOODS, AND GOODS EXPORTED UNDER SOME PARTICULAR RULE, REGULATION, OR RESTRICTION. Ship's Name. Whether British Master's Name. if Foreign, the Port or Place of Marks. Numbers. Description of Packages. Quantity, Quality, and Description of Goods. Total Number of I declare the value of the British goods above described to be SHIPPING BILL.* (No. 6.) FOR BRITISH MANUFACTURES, FOREIGN GOODS FREE OF DUTY, OR ON WHICH ALL DUTIES HAVE BEEN PAID, AND ARE NOT TO BE DRAWN BACK. I declare the value of the British goods above described to be * For the Port of London, and when printed on the back of a bill of lading, the Customs bill of lading and specification for the outports. I do declare that the above Content is a true account of all goods shipped on board the above-named ship, and correct in all other particulars. REGULATIONS AS TO PASSENGERS' BAGGAGE.* Passengers arriving direct from Paris by the tidal express trains, via Folkstone, or from Brussels and Cologne via Dover, from Calais, by the morning boat, may have their baggage examined at the London Bridge Terminus of the South Eastern Railway.-B. M., 30th July, 1856, and 11th July, 1857. Passengers arriving by steam vessels may have all packages comprising luggage (except such as may contain articles chargeable with duty) examined on board, during the passage up the river Thames; those excepted will be passed through the baggage warehouse at the wharves as heretofore. All passengers therefore should, as soon as the vessel arrives at Gravesend, produce their baggage to the officers of Customs for examination, so that no delay may take place on their arrival in London. Baggage by Continental steam vessels, if the packages contain no article liable to duty, may be examined during the passage between Gravesend and London, provided the proprietor be present and see the packages re-closed. Attendance is given at the different baggage warehouses in London, as follows: Fresh Wharf, St. Katharine's Wharf, From the 1st March till the 31st At the outports where post-office packets are stationed, or passage vessels employed, from 8 o'clock A.M., until 8 o'clock P.M., throughout the year, in case the arrival of any vessel with passengers shall render such attendance necessary. On the arrival of ambassadors, foreign ministers, officers *The examining officers are to exercise a liberal discretion in the examination of passengers' baggage; but should doubts arise upon any articles brought, they are directed to put them aside until visited by the Landing Surveyor, who will see that such discretionary powers are not abused or carried to extremes-B. O., 8th Oct., 1850, No. 102. |