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FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1244. 1890. 617 bay, or waters subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, and within its limits, for the period of two years, and is abandoned by the owner thereof, any person who may raise such vessel shall be permitted to bring any merchandise recovered therefrom into the port nearest to the place where such vessel was so raised, free from the payment of any duty thereupon, and without being obliged to enter the same at the custom-house ; but under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe. » Sec. 24. That the works of manufactures engaged in smeltin or smerungwemmy refining metals in the United States may be designated as bonded- 2§,Q'§‘§° °°"°°‘""“" warehouses under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may tprescribe: Provided, That such manufacturers shall first give Prvvmc. . satis actory bonds to the Secretary of Treasury. Metal in any mm. crude form requiring smeltin or refining to make them readil muawereruasmeeavailable in the arts, imported into the United States to be melted °“°·· or refined and intended to be Ielxlported in a refined but unmanufact· _ ured state, shall, imder such es as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe and under the direction of the proper officer, be removed in oripnal packages or in bulk from the vessel or other vehicle on which it as been imported, or from the bonded—warehouse in which the same may be into the bonded-warehouse in which such smelting and refining may be carried on, for the purpose of being _smelted and refined without payment of duties thereon, and may there be smelted and refined, togeltzher with other metals of home or foreggn production: Provided, at each day a quantity of reiined Q;l¤¥;¤iW of mined met equal to the amount of imported metal refined that day shall ggtily sc`E`§°:{2¤§°b° be set aside, and such metal so set aside shall not be taken from said works except for exportation, under the direction of the proper officer having charge thereof as aforesaid, whose certificate, describing the articles by their marks or otherwise, the quantity, the date 0 importation, and the name of vessel or other vehic e by which it was imported, with such additional particulars as may from time to time be required, shall be received y the collector of customs as sufficient evidence of the exportation of the metal, or it may be removed, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, to any other bonded-warehouse, or upon entry for, and payment of dut1es, for domestic consumption. All labor performed and services rendered under these regulations shall be under the supervision of an officer of the customs, to be appointed by the Sec- Supervision. retary of the Treasury, and at the expense of the manufacturer. Sec. 25. That where imported materials on which duties have been nmwuwk. aid, are used in the manufacture of articles manufactured or produced in the United States, there shall be allowed on the exportation of such articles a drawback equal in amount to the duties paid on the materials used, less one per centum of such duties: Provided, That Promos. when the articles exported are made in part from domestic materials, d;},,"§§‘{{‘@“m,§’{‘;'§.‘,H',,_°' the imported materials, or the parts of the articles made from such materials shall so appear in the completed articles that the quantity · or measure thereof may be ascertained. And provided further, That the drawback on any1 article allowed under existing law shall be Drawbacks under continued at the rate erein provided. That the imported materials °’1“'”"““" used in the manufacture or production of articles entitled to drawback of customs duties when exported shall in all cases where draw- mmmcmon M ,m_ back of duties paid on such materials is claimed, be identified, the ported articles. cmantity of such materials used and the amount of duties paid t ereon shall be ascertained, the facts of the manufacture or production of such articles in the United States and their exportation therefrom shall be determined, and the drawback due thereon shall belpaid to the manufacturer, producer, or exporter, to the agent of eit er or to the person to whom such manufacturer, producer, exporter or agent shall in writing order such drawback paid, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe.