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11 pounds abrogate addressee administration America appointed approval authority BANKHEAD BERTRAND H bureau BURTON cent CHAIRMAN cheroots cigar leaf cigars and cigarettes country of destination country of origin Cuban tobacco customs duties customs laws effect executive department export GARRETT going GREEN Habana cigars hearings House of Representatives importation of cigars indemnity independent establishment interested joint committee June 30 legislation limit of number manufactured tobacco manufacturers of cigars MAPES March matter Members of Congress ment MICHENER modus vivendi notice office of exchange OLDFIELD packages of 3,000 parcel-post convention parcel-post shipments permit the importation Post Office Department postal convention Postmaster President President of Cuba PURNELL question RAINEY RAMSEYER RANSLEY recommendations registered parcel reorganization board repeal Republic of Cuba revenues Revised Statutes Secretary Senator Smoot sender shipped single package stamps tion trade transfer Treasury United WATSON weight
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Page 6 - States, or any obscene book, pamphlet, paper, writing, advertisement, circular, print, picture, drawing, or other representation, figure, or image on or of paper or other material, or any cast, instrument, or other article which is obscene or immoral, or any drug or medicine or any article whatever for the prevention of conception or for causing unlawful abortion...
Page 6 - Convention, articles of merchandise and mail matter except letters, post cards, and written matter, of all kinds that are admitted under any conditions to the domestic mails of the country of origin, except that no packet...
Page 2 - ... suit, action, or other proceeding to obtain a settlement of the questions involved, allow the same to be maintained...
Page 7 - All admissible articles of merchandise mailed in one country for the other, or received in one country from the other, shall be free from any detention or inspection whatever, except such as is required for collection of customs duties; and shall be...
Page 20 - No cigars shall be imported unless the same are packed in boxes of not more than five hundred cigars in each box; and no entry of any imported cigars shall be allowed of less quantity than three thousand in a single package...
Page 1 - ... package; and all cigars on importation shall be placed in public store or bonded warehouse, and shall not be removed therefrom until the same shall have been inspected and a stamp affixed to each box indicating such inspection, and also a serial number to be recorded in the custom-house. And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to provide the requisite stamps, and to make all necessary regulations for carrying the above provisions of law into effect.
Page 10 - When loss, rifling, or damage has been caused by the fault or negligence of the sender or the addressee or the representative of either, such as failure to endorse the parcel conspicuously to show the nature of the contents or to provide adequate packing for the length of the journey and for the protection of the contents.
Page 17 - President is hereby authorized to make such redistribution of functions among executive agencies as he may deem necessary, including any functions, duties, and powers hitherto by law conferred upon any executive department, commission, bureau, agency...
Page 7 - If such be found, the letter will be placed in the mails if separable, and if the communication be inseparably attached, the whole package will be rejected. If, however, any such should inadvertently be forwarded, the country of destination will collect...
Page 9 - Although articles admitted under this Convention will be transmitted as aforesaid between the exchange offices, they should be so carefully packed as to be safely transmitted in the open mails of either country, both in going to the exchange office in the count rv of origin and to the office of address in the country of destination.