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little of the true odour, and is either very inferior rhubarb, 
or it has been extracted. These inferior articles, intended 
for medicines, all passed through our custom house within 
a few days. A large part of the rhubarb, so called, is 
known to have gone to Philadelphia, and the same is true 
of some intierior and mixed iodine, which passed here with- 
in a month, at about two thirds of the usual price." 
These statements are all parallel with the evidence given 
in Dr. Edward's report which we now publish, and shows 
how completely all sense of responsibility, on the part of 
some importers and drug brokers is absent, if we may judge 
by their doings. In reference to the Bill which has passed 
the House of Representatives, it calls for the appointment 
of inspectors at each port of entry, who shall examine into 
the quality of drugs, and refuse the entry of such as are 
adulterated and vitiated. This bill, in passing the Senate^ 
has been somewhat modified in some of its details. It pro- 
vides for a qualified inspector at each of the six chief ports 
of entry — Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, 
Charleston, S. C, and New Orleans. In other respects it 
is similar to the bill submitted, and after being again read 
in the House will become a law. 
COPY. 
Boston, June 6th, 1848 
J. Milhau, Esq. 
Dear Sir, — At a meeting of a number of the wholesale 
druggists, held in this city, the following preamble and re- 
solutions were adopted, and it was voted that they be for- 
warded to the President of the New York College of Phar- 
macy, with a request that they should be by him submitted 
to the chairman of the committee in Congress. 
Respectfully yours, 
(Signed,) H. W. Cushing, Sec. 
Whereas, a spurious article has been imported into this 
market, recently from Smyrna, as opium, a part of which » 
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