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Apj)endices to Ninth Annual Report 
APPENDIX A.— No. IX. 
TRANSLATION OF A CIRCULAPv, dated 8th-20th June 1887, 
issueJ by the Russian Minister of Finance to the Customs 
Authorities, respecting Declarations of Cargoes of Herrings 
Imported in Barrels. 
In accordance with the agreement arrived at between me and the 
Comptroller of the Empire in reference to the re-establishment of the 
previously existing immunities as regards the specification in lading 
documents and declarations of foreign herrings imported in barrels, the 
Customs authorities are hereby informed that the following facilities shall 
be afforded with regard to the declaration of herrings : — L Herrings may 
be designated in bills of lading, at the option of shippers, either by weight 
or in number of barrels ; but in the latter case the dimensions of the 
barrels must be given — i.e., it must be stated whether such barrels b 
ordinary size — (1 Russian pond 361b. English) — up to 10 ponds gross 
weight — double, or one and a half sized barrels, or half, quarter, &c., 
barrels. Should there be no designation in bills of lading, neither of 
weight nor yet of the dimensions of the barrels, the bills of lading shall 
be regarded null and void; the designation in a bill of lading of the 
weight of herrings without an indication of the dimensions of the barrels, 
or a designation of the dimensions of the barrels (of course with a state- 
ment of their number), without anj^ indication of weight, shall not serve 
as an obstacle to the recognition of the bill of lading as satisfying the 
requirements of s. 7 of the rules regulating imports by sea. 
2. Declarations of cargoes of herrings may likewise be made in accord- 
ance with the bills of lading of such cargoes, either in weight or in barrels 
without a statement of weight ; but in the latter case the dimensions of 
the barrels must be given — i.e., it must be stated whether they are 
ordinary, double, one and a half sized, half, quarter, &c., barrels ; at the 
same time, should there prove any excess in weight, as compared with the 
declaration, when weight be given, or in the number and dimensions of 
barrels, big and small, when weight be not given, the declarers of the 
goods shall be made liable to the established penalties in the ordinary 
course. 
The present circular order is applicable to all such cargoes of herrings 
as may not, prior to the receipt of this order, have been cleared out of the 
Custom-Houses. 
(Signed) J. Vishnogradsky, 
Directing Minister of Finance. 
(Countersigned) N. Zaleugin, 
Vice-Director of Customs Department. 
DUGALD GRAHAIk[, Secretary. 
Fishery Board for Scotland, 
Edinburgh, 31st December 1890. 
