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mi States has increased with great rapi¬ 
dity since 1821, in which year it amounted 
to only 5,306 tons. Part of this increase 
is, no doubt, to be ascribed to the re¬ 
duction of the duty, first from 5 to 2 cents 
per pound, and its subsequent repeal; 
part to the fall in the price of coffee; and 
a part, perhaps, to the increase of tempe¬ 
rance societies. Probably also, it was in 
some degree ascribable to the comparatively 
high duties formerly laid on the teas im¬ 
ported into the United States ; these, how¬ 
ever, finally ceased in 1833. 
Coffee is sold in bond: the business 
being done in the public market either 
by private or public sales. It is always 
sold at landing weights and revenue tares; 
the latter being on casks, barrels, and 
boxes identical with the real tares, and 
an average rate on bales and bags. 
Draft is allowed for as follows; viz. on 
packages weighing under 1 cwt., 1 lb., 1 
cwt. and under 3 cwt. 2 lbs.; 3 cwt. and 
under 5 cwt., 4 lbs.; and 5 cwt. and up¬ 
wards 5 lb. Coffee is sold at a prompt of 
1 month, allowing a discount of 2§ per 
cent, or 1 per cent. Thus the coffees of 
St, Domingo, Havannah, and Brazil, (with 
the 'exception of the “plantation” variety 
of the last two), are sold at a discount of 
21 per cent., whereas all coffee of British 
plantations, or that liable to the low duty, 
including also the coffees of Laguayra, 
Costa Kica, “Plantation" Rio Havannah, 
