dr. Edward's report. 
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and were readily sold, thus supplying the place of the worth- 
less articles heretofore imported at from five to ten cents 
per pound. By reference to the rejected articles at New 
York, you perceive Peruvian bark to the amount of seven- 
teen thousand eight hundred and ninety-five pounds. This 
bark was invoiced at from four to fifteen cents a pound. In 
its stead, a genuine article, invoiced at seventy cents a pound 
to the amount of forty thousand pounds, has been received 
from Valparaiso. Three thousand pounds from London, 
and an invoice of twenty-eight thousand pounds was ex- 
peded during my stay in the city. The opium now im- 
ported is, on an average, twenty-five per cent better than 
formerly, and is invoiced at a corresponding rate higher. 
The gum myrrh evinces an improvement of one hundred 
per cent, in quality, and to demonstrate there is no scarcity 
of purchasers, one half of the last importations were sold 
immediately on its arrival. I might exhaust the entire 
catalogue of drugs, &c, but deem the above enumeration 
sufficient. 
The facts set forth appear ample to prove that the extra 
duty accruing from the greatly advanced prices, cor- 
responding with the improved quality of this class of mer- 
chandise in comparison with former importations, is suffi- 
cient to permanently and materially increase the revenue. 
Revenue to the amount of the salaries of the various 
examiners has accrued to the government from penalties. 
Although in one or two of the offices there has as yet 
occurred no necessity for the condemnation of articles, yet 
in all, many invoices have been « marked up," and the 
penalties have more than equalled the salariesof the various 
examiners. 
There being no separate record of the import of drugs, 
medicines, and chemical preparations, at the different ports, 
by which the department can obtain with precision the in- 
formation that it would be desirable to have embodied in the 
yearly statistical reports for the benefit of Congress and the 
