To ask the Secretary to the Treasury, whether Excise bonded warehouses are allowed to remain open without an officer being present therein if not, what is the reason why a different practice is followed by the Customs authorities whose warehouses are left open without protection for revenue, except the warehouse keepers' Bond; and whether the Treasury Bonded Warehouse Committee, 1881–3, approved one practice for Excise and a different one for Customs warehouses.

I find that there is diversity in the practice of