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virtues will not be imparted, and, in use, 
it will load and oppress the stomach, if 
it be over-done, it will yield a Hat, burnt, 
and bitter taste, its virtues will be des¬ 
troyed, and, in use, it will heat the body, 
and act as an astringent.”—( Moseley , p. 39.) 
Regulations with respect to Sale , Importa¬ 
tion, § r c. —Roasted beans and rye, reduced 
to powder, have frequently been used to 
adulterate ground coffee: and the posses¬ 
sion of such substitutes for coffee was for¬ 
merly an offence punishable by the forfei¬ 
ture of the articles, and a penalty of 100/. 
But by the act 3 Geo. 4. c, 53., persons 
who are not dealers in coffee in ay take a 
license for roasting and selling corn, peas, 
beans, or parsneps, labelling the parcels 
with the names, and conforming to the 
various regulations prescribed in the act. 
Dealers in coffee must take out a li¬ 
cense, renewable annually, which, at pre¬ 
sent, costs 11s. 
IS o coffee can be imported in packages 
of less than 100 lbs. nett weight. 
No abatement of duties is made on account 
of anv damage coffee may have received. 
Coffee cannot be entered as being the 
produce of any British possession in Ame¬ 
rica or of the Mauritius, until the master 
of the ship in which the coffee is imported 
deliver to the collector or comptroller a 
certificate of its origin, and declare that 
the coffee is the produce of such place,— 
(8 & 9 Viet , cap. 86, § 38.) 
