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price ($4 per 100 pounds) been imported, powdered, and 
not only extensively used in the adulteration of the genuine 
(Cinchona cordifolia) yellow bark, but sold in large quantities 
to the unsuspecting for the genuine article. 
Under the 4th section of the law allowing a re-examina- 
tion " in the event of disaffection to the examiner's return," 
two cases of appeal have occurred in the New York cus- 
toms, one on six cases of opium, the other on ten cases of 
rhubarb roof. Four cases of the opium were exported, and 
the remaining, on the return of the analytical chemist, '-'that 
the article was genuine and pure, only of a weak standard 
of strength," were admitted to entry by the then acting 
Secretary of the Treasury ; the rhubarb root was rejected. 
From the comparatively small number of importations, 
and the recent appointment of the examiner at the port of 
Philadelphia, there has as yet occurred no necessity for the 
execution of the penalty of the law. The articles thus far 
have been highly satisfactory : the examiner has fulfilled 
the requisition of the law, and to the fullest extent has car- 
ried out the instructions of the department. 
The same may be said of the port of Boston. But one 
instance of condemnation has occurred there, and I am 
pleased to report ajust and proper estimate of responsibility, 
and a determination to carry into execution to its utmost limit, 
on the part of the examiner of this port, the law, and the 
instructions under which he was appointed. 
My examinations have resulted equally satisfactorily at 
the port of Baltimore. But one instance of exclusion is re- 
ported, and no appeal thereon. The examiner is qualified 
and diligent, and has, in every instance, fulfilled the requi- 
sition of the law. The unanimous testimony of collectors 
and examiners agree that the law is not only successful in 
detecting adulterated drugs and medicines, but is a pow- 
erful preventive of their presentation for entry at the various 
ports. 
A question of considerable importance, and one requiring 
