Dtaiabs. Free. Dnfiabis. Free. Difiable. Free.
January 53b70 1885, 100 $780, 1853 452 l9i 55yl3 7286l8
Febru'y 2a69730 65282 6532lH 3t2230 t23009 5o02O7



si02552o 23i,t72 i2i22342 99a42 e,sl $50 22s 80,
25472 ggi,42i l,228823



Import, i27oy92 i3l6,163 lle40,437
Duties, i,0t0,262 30a3,I2o 3,O23,423
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The value of the importatiops Of foreign merchandise
into this port ior Janunry and February l645, wss,
- less than for the months in 1874 while
the duties received for January and February s45 were
only $40 900 than for the corresponding months in


s4S The only way TO account for the small difference in
tho of duties received, while the falling of in the
importations has been large is that the merchandise
imported this year. must pay higher average rate OF
duty than the imports of last The average of duty
on the vaue Of dutabe merchandise imported into
this port in le4s, about twenty five per cent the
average rnte in le44 about twenty-five per cent and
the average rate for January and February s5 about
thirty per cent, The sy"rree rate Of duty the
value Of tho ti'tl imrn,t t.Hns iuto the country
10, on the G. lry, eyey y.r decreasing. From the
last report Of the Secretary OF the Treasury appears
that the revenue yielded from importatons wnder the
present tariff act, for nine months ending June 80
ls4', averaged, upon the goods paying duty, was
equivalent duty, al valorem, Of thirty seven dol


lars and eighty four cents and mill upon every hun