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Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the owner or consignee 

 shall at all times, when dissatisfied with the examiner's return, have the 

 privilege of calling, at his own expense, for a re-examination, and on 

 depositing with the Collector such sum as the latter may deem suffi- 

 cient to defray such expense, it shall be the duty of that officer to 

 procure some competent analytical chemist possessing the confidence 

 of the medical profession, as well as of the colleges of medicine and 

 pharmacy, if any such institutions exist in the State in which the 

 Collection District is situated, [who shall make] a careful analysis of 

 the articles included in said return, and a report upon the same under 

 oath, and in case the report, which shall be final, shall declare the 

 return of the examiner to be erroneous, and the said articles to be of 

 the requisite strength and purity, according to the standards re- 

 ferred to in the next preceding sections of this act, the entire invoice 

 shall be passed without reservation on payment of the customary 

 duties; but in case the examiner's return shall be sustained by the 

 analysis and report, the said articles shall remain in charge of the 

 Collector, and the owner or consignee, on payment of the charges of 

 storage, and other expenses necessarily incurred by the United States, 

 and on giving a bond with sureties satisfactory to the Collector to 

 land said articles out of the limits of the United States, shall have the 

 privilege of re-exporting them at any time within the period of six 

 months after the report of the analysis; but if the said articles shall 

 not be sent out of the United States, within the time specified, it 

 shall be the duty of the Collector, at the expiration of the said time, 

 to cause the same to be destroyed, holding the owner or consignee 

 responsible to the United States for the payment of all charges, in 

 the same manner as if said articles had been re-exported. 



Sec. 5. And be it further enacted. That, in order to carry into 

 effect the provisions of this act, the Secretary of the Treasury is 

 hereby authorized and required to appoint suitably qualified persons 

 as special examiners of drugs, medicines, chemicals, &c, namely: 

 one examiner in each of the ports of New York, Boston, Philadel- 

 phia, Baltimore, Charleston and New Orleans, with the following 

 salaries, viz: at New York sixteen hundred dollars per annum, and 

 at each of the other ports above named one thousand dollars per 

 annum, which said salaries shall be paid each year quarterly, out of 

 any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated ; and it shall 

 be the duty of the said Secretary to give such instructions to the 

 Collectors of the Customs in the other Collection Districts, as he may 



