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Gibraltar being a free port, no duties are levied upon any description 

 of cotton goods arriving here. 



I may add, however, that the whole or the greater portion of the im- 

 portations of cotton goods to this market proceed from Manchester and 

 other leading manufacturing centers in Great Britain, which are gen- 

 erally disposed of by two or three merchants and several shop-keepers 

 established here. 



A considerable quantity of cotton goods also arrives at this port from 

 the same quarters in transit for the Morocco markets, for account and 

 risk of the consignees residing in the towns and sea-ports of that king- 

 dom, who have an understanding direct with parties in England, for the 

 cost of their orders and purchases. 



HOEATIO J. SPRAG-UE, 



Consul 



UNITED STATES CONSULATE, 



Gibraltar, June 29, 1889. 



