FORMS CORRECTED AND ESTABLISHED—

Continued.

No. 211, Certificate of registration of widow or divorced woman who, before marriage to a foreigner, was an American citizen;

No. 211a, Certificate of registration of widow or divorced woman who acquired American citizenship by marriage. No. 212, Certificate of registration of child born abroad of American parents.

Established, Circular, April 19, 1906.

No. 213, Affidavit to overcome presumption of expatriation. Established, Circular, March 2, 1908.

No. 214, Affidavit of temporary stay of owner of sealskin garment entering the United States from Canada. Established, Circular, April 27, 1908.

See also under Accounts and Returns, Chinese Certificates, Invoices, and Seamen.

G.

GERMAN SUBJECTS, INTERESTS OF. Consuls to refrain from taking any official action in cases involving protection of interests of German subjects. Not to take any action in such cases further than to give the interested persons proper advice and aid when requested by them, consul at same time assuming full responsibility for his acts. This instruction refers particularly to claims of German subjects to interests in estates. Circular, August 28, 1903.

GLUE STOCK. See under Invoices.

GOLD. See item Silver under Invoices.

GRAPHIC COMPENDIOUS COMPANY. This company asked expression of utility of its book. All catalogues and advertising publications of American business men and firms should be placed in consulate, where those interested may examine them; but no recommendations or expressions of opinion should be given. Circular, August 7, 1906.

GUAM. See under Quarantine.

GUARDIAN. Acceptance by consular officer of appoint

ment by foreign State forbidden. See under Estates.

H.

HAIR, CAMEL'S. See under Invoices.

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.

List of ports of entry in. Circular, July 18, 1900. See also under Invoices and Quarantine. HAY AND STRAW. See under Quarantine. HEAD TAX, EXEMPTION FROM. Circular, Department of Commerce and Labor annexed, showing that the head tax of $4 shall not be levied upon aliens who shall enter the United States after an uninterrupted residence of at least one year immediately preceding such entrance in the Dominion of Canada, Newfoundland, the Republic of Cuba, or the Republic of Mexico, nor upon otherwise admissible residents of any possession of the United States. Circular (to Canada, Newfoundland, Cuba, and Mexico), November 11, 1907. HIDES, CATTLE. See under Invoices and Quarantine. HOUSEHOLD EFFECTS. See under Effects, Household, and also under Invoices. HYDROGRAPHIC

Bureau.

OFFICE.

See under Weather

I.

IMMIGRANTS' EFFECTS. See under Effects, Im

migrants.

IMMIGRATION.

Porto Rico. Immigration laws and regulations of United States are to be applied and enforced, as far as practicable, to aliens destined for Porto Rican ports. Circular, February 9, 1899. IMMIGRATION COMMISSION: Quotes section 39 of act of February 20, 1907, creating commission to investigate subject of immigration, states personnel of said commission and bespeaks for them every assistance in discharge of their duty. Circular, May 2, 1907. IMMIGRATION LAWS AND REGULATIONS OF FEBRUARY, 1906. Copy enclosed. Circular, December 15, 1906.

IMMIGRATION REGULATIONS OF JULY 1, 1907. Amended by Circular of Department of Commerce and Labor in regard to hospital treatment of aliens. Circular, March 21, 1908.

See also under China, Chinese Certificates, and Russia. IMMIGRATION VIA CANADA.

Certified passenger lists required. Consuls instructed to so inform companies whose vessels sail from their districts to Canada, and directed, if requested by the masters of such vessels, to administer the necessary oaths and certify to the lists in the manner prescribed for vessels bringing immigrants directly to the United States. Circular, November 16, 1899.

Strict system of examination by immigration officers is now held at certain points in Canada as well as along the entire frontier. Inadmissible aliens seeking to evade the law are subject not merely to rejection and return to their own countries, but in cases where they have crossed the boundary they are treated as smuggled, and are held in jail as witnesses against the smugglers. Circular, October 24, 1902.

INDEXING. Attention called to great importance of indexing circulars and correspondence. Circular, September 20, 1898.

INDUSTRIAL INFORMATION. See under Commercial and Industrial Information.

INFLUENCING LEGISLATION. See under Legislation.

INSTRUCTIONS.

Attention called to great importance of circulars. Circular, March 20, 1899.

Numbering. Mere acknowledgments not to be numbered. Circular, January 16, 1902. See also under Correspondence.

INSULAR POSSESSIONS. See under Passports. INVESTMENTS. See under Private Investments by Consular Officers.

INVOICES.

Act of June 10, 1890, consuls to familiarize themselves with provisions of. Circular, February 6, 1903.

INVOICES-Continued.

Additions on entry of imported merchandise authorized if names of foreign sellers are indicated on invoice by numbers or other identifying marks, and explanatory list filed with collector of customs and consul. Circular, February 2, 1906.

Advice to shippers. Consuls should be cautious about giving. Circular, August 16, 1897.

Agent's commission. It appears that the item "Agent's

commission" might, under some circumstances, be a nondutiable charge, but it is dutiable when the goods were sold by the shippers directly from their house. without the intervention of an agent or middleman, and under such circumstances they can not claim as exempt from duty an alleged commission paid to themselves, which is, in fact, a profit. Circular, April 5,

1902.

Agent of the purchaser. See below under Commission merchants.

Agents should be permitted to sign only in very exceptional cases. Circular, January 16, 1899. Ancon and Crystobal, Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama. Invoices to be certified and fees accounted for in regular series. Circular, July 20, 1904. See also under Panama.

Animals for breeding purposes. Admitted free of duty only when imported by a citizen of the United States. Circular, December 15, 1905. See also under Certificates for Animals Imported for Breeding Purposes (Circular, October 2, 1906).

Animals other than horses. Consuls should decline to certify invoices of such animals unless accompanied by permit granted by Department of Agriculture. Circular, April 25, 1904.

Anthrax. Invoices not to be certified, covering hides, when and where this disease prevails. Circulars, Sep

tember 27, 1897, and February 10, 1898. Automobiles.

Free entry as household effects. Must have been used abroad by importing owner or his family at least one year. Owner's family held to include wife, children, parents, brothers, and sisters, or any of them, residing with him abroad.

INVOICES-Continued.

Automobiles-Continued.

Automobiles used abroad in business pursuits not exempt from duty as household effects.

Period of use required by paragraph 504 of tariff need not be consecutive nor immediately preceding importation.

Free entry not accorded to an exchanged machine not used abroad at least one year by importing owner unless the exchange was made necessary by defects in the first machine or by substitution or replacement in the usual course of business of a new automobile of same make, same power, and same price as the original machine. The facts relating to the exchange must be embodied in the declaration made as provided below before a consular officer.

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Free entry for touring, racing, etc. Automobiles of foreign manufacture imported by the owners personally for the bona fide touring purposes of the owners are, if the owners are nonresidents of the United States, entitled to free entry under bond for a stay of three months, provided that in each case the owner presents, at the time of making entry, a certificate. from the American consul at the foreign place of exportation, based upon the sworn statement of the owner, to the effect that the automobile is imported for touring purposes only, that the owner is in no way connected with any automobile business, and that the machine is not to be used in the United

States for any commercial or business purpose

whatsoever.

The automobile may either accompany its owner or reach the United States within thirty days before or after his arrival.

This privilege of free entry will not be granted to the same machine more than once in any one year.

Similarly, free entry under bond is granted to such machines brought into the United States by nonresidents for the purpose of racing or taking part in other specific contests of automobiles, but not for display in shows or exhibitions of any kind. Such purpose must be evidenced by the oath of the owner or his