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was addressed to the merchants and brokers from whom assistance was sought at the 

 time when the registry of real value was first established. 



When the prices obtained from different sources are found to disagree, such dis- 

 agreement, unless it be referable to some known cause, is made the subject of a care- 

 ful investigation before the average is finally adjusted. 



The average price of an article being fixed for a particular month for the ports of 

 London and Liverpool separately and, in the case of certain descriptions of mer- 

 chandise, for the port of Hull also the quantity imported into each of the ports is 

 computed at the price belonging to it, and the mean value thus ascertained of the 

 importations into the two or the three ports, is adopted as the general rate of valua- 

 tion for the importations into the kingdom at large. 



The value attached to the importations of each article for the entire year is the sum 

 of the values affixed to the importations of each successive month. 



The following Table shows the manner in which the ' real value ' of imports is 

 computed in the office of the Inspector-General of Imports and Exports : 



Yellow Muscovado and Brown Clayed Sugar imported from Bengal in 1861. 



Average Price of the Year, 28s. 5d. per cwt. 

 1 Hundredweights in Thousands. 



Linseed imported from the Russian Ports on the Black Sea in 1861. 



Average Price of the year, 52s. Id. per quarter. 

 1 Quarters in Thousands. 



