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small quantities, and almost every day in 
the year, whereas Exports are always in 
large quantities, and generally speaking, 
at particular seasons. 
As it will, no doubt, be found necessary 
to extend the Customs to every Article 
of Export, it appears advisable, that they 
should be managed by Government, 
through a regular Custom House. By 
this mode, the amount collected, after 
defraying all charges of collection, will 
probably not be so great, as if the whole 
Customs were farmed; but on the other 
hand, all complaints of individual influ¬ 
ence will be removed; a more accurate 
account of the Trade be obtained than 
possibly can be expected from the returns 
a Renter of the Farm will give in; all 
speculation in the purchase of the Farm 
will be removed; and the Merchants will 
never experience that troublesome and 
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