Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1907 — Saves Treasury $1 0.000.000. [ARTICLE]

Saves Treasury $1 0.000.000.

That duties must be jmid on imported goods by weight at date of entry is the rule established by a decision of the highest court, instead of at the time of with* drawal from bonded warehouse. In the case of such goods as tobacco, hides, wool, sugar, etc., that absorb moisture, a considerable different** in weight often occurs between the dates of arrival and withdrawal, and it is estimated that duties already collected a mounting to $lO,000.060 are saved to the treasury by thia