Further Report On The Free Port Of Copenhagen

COPENHAGEN. 27 Sec. 8. The company is entitled to issue the necessary regula- tions as to traffic in the free port, the lease of the buildings, &c., and also to take the necessary steps to maintain these regulations. Sec. 9. The company shall keep the regulation registers of its transactions (see especially Sec. 12.) Sec. 10. The company shall forbid all its officials, functionaries, and workmen to receive under any form presents or fees for the work performed in execution of their duty. It shall further see that its regulations in this respect are enforced. Regulations respecting the Hire of Premises for Commercial and industrial Purposes, and of Open Spaces for Commercial Purposes. Sec. 11. Leases of premises and places for the above- mentioned purposes are made out in accordance with the specified form. Sec. 12. Lessees shall keep registers of their goods deposited in the free port. Lessees' of premises for retail sale and industrial purposes, who by their lease are subject to certain restrictions in their trade in the free port, botli as to articles of sale and mode of business, are bound to comply with the regulations which the company thinks necessary for the maintenance of these restrictions. It is especially to be noted that retail sellers may only sell those articles which they alone are allowed to supply to ships, on a written requisition from the owners or their agents. The requisition, on which shall be written a receipt for the goods, shall be kept as vouchers witli the seller’s books. The lessees may have work performed in hired premises and places by workmen engaged by them. These will receive a badge from the company. Every badge must be returned by the lessee when the holder ceases to work for him in the free port. Sec. 13. Underletting of premises or places, or parts thereof, may not take place without the written sanction of the company. Sec. 14. The lessees are bound not to use in their business other light or mechanical moving power than that supplied to them by tire company at the regular rates. Regulations for Storage of Goods with the Company. Sec. 15. The company may refuse to receive goods for storage if there is sufficient reason for doing so. Sec. 1G. The company is entitled to re-weigh goods warehoused in order to ascertain the correctness of eaclr declaration as to weight. If it is found that the weights are given too low, the fees of the company shall be calculated on the correct weight, and the party in question is then bound to repay the additional expenses incurred. The company is also entitled to open cases in order to examine whether the contents have been correctly stated. If the contents