Further Report On The Free Port Of Copenhagen

COPENHAGEN. 29 Sec. 24. If the claims of the company for warehousing, trans- port, preservation, and insurance of goods stored exceed three- quarters of the value of the goods, as fixed by competent valuers appointed by the Naval Commercial Court, or if the goods, or parts thereof, in the opinion of sucli experts are in danger of being spoilt, the company is entitled to sell the goods as a whole, or parts thereof, eight days after the last notice in the Berlingske Tidende has appeared. Public notice that the goods will be sold after the lapse of eight days from the last advertisement shall be given three times in the Berlingske Tidende. Sucli notice may also be posted at the Bourse, or the person interested may receive warning, in a registered letter, in case his private or office address is known to the company. If any sum is left after the' claims have been settled the company will pay it to the owners. Amounts not claimed within 10 years after the sale has taken place accrue to the company. Sec. 25. The responsibility of the company is laid down in the law No. 34 of March 30, 1894, in cases in which warehouse- notes and guarantee certificates have been issued by it. If the company has only issued certificates of receipt for the goods, the responsibility of the company is decided according to the ordinary rules of tlie law for deposits. If responsibility is in- curred it, however, lapses if the damage done is of sucli a nature that it may be discovered by ordinary examination, unless the receiver of the goods, before he takes them away, sees that the damage is certified by the officials of the free port or by experts. These regulations are valid until further notice. (Signed) INGERSLEV. Ministry of Public Works, October 30, 1894. APPENDIX III. Copenhagen Free Port Warrant Act*, March 30, 1894. Art. 2. Any person who shall deposit, or have deposited, any goods witli the company may demand a warehouse-note for the goods deposited, and may also, either at the same time or sub- sequently, demand a certificate. Any person who, subsequently to the issuing of a warehouse-note for any goods, shall apply for a certificate respecting the same goods, must produce to the company sucli warehouse-note, sliowing that he has a good title according to the provisions of Art. 3. Wherever a certificate is issued, the fact of its being issued shall be stated in writing on the warehouse-note. * I should like to have given a translation of the full text of the law, but have not done so in consequence of its length. Persons interested in the matter may obtain complete translations from which the above is taken from tlie authorities of the Free Port Company.—V. E. H. C.