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Show TIItT i;on IM IT. British iLmnfactarm Object to ta Pia-Tis.o-3 of the Custom Aluna istrativa Act. THEY MUST, EOWEVES, COHFLY. A Letter Tronj Acting Secretary Eatch- slier for th Guidance of Car Cva-iu1-Gcum1 ia London. Wasiiimjtiiv. Oct. 2. Acting Seer j tary Batcheller ha writlcu the were. tary of slat regarding the .uc.thin submitted to our eousul general at Lea don and the secretary of the chamber of commerce of th.it city concerning roan lilaeturcr" additional statement f tpilred under the riistom'a adounltr. tive act. Tho form of uch tatunt (171) prescribed by tho trr.-wury department, de-partment, provides for a deeUraUoa ty the manufacturer o( mcrchndi coo. signed for sale by him or ln account to any person In the I nited MatM, showing the aetual cot of production and shipment ilrmied. The London chamber of commerrw desire that in lieu of tlm alOT declaration declar-ation our customs authoritira Hp tho following declaration: "That for trade rea.ons I decline to gio uiy consignee con-signee tlin particular a-kr, for. but . are willing to $a thr unio to tha I'llited htate consul general for hi personal satisfaction It as reprcented to th cenul fn eral by the coit.lguor that that II wa unfair to require them to ii't con-aignecs con-aignecs iufornialioii as to tho coat of piodiiet and all virulent entenuit Into such co.t, and It was destrscUire of th natural law of cnumme and trad (or I b-m to do it In hi letter General Itatrheller my: "A the form of declaration prnicrilwit by your ttatl U partmeiit it eonliiietl o partic. iilur requited bv dion of the aei e( J i 10, 1110, to Im apei-itied iu otbctal statement ol attalr. aud, a und-r the term of that law. urh a Malt'inciit noni lx" rMiitnl to the collector of ciMtonn by Ilia pr-ou, pr-ou, agent, purtut-r or coii.igtien b inn. I make the declaration prem-riiwil by nectioti 3 of the name act . that th Invoice, on w liieh h" iiiiAm th entry contains, al'o. a jtii am! faithful ae-count ae-count of all co.t of liitiahiitg taid good, etc. Thla department of intormat.oii a ai liinl cosi cannot rii'it"itily uh provision of tho law cited, lw withheld 1 1 trtii the colioignee and nude th iilt-ject iilt-ject of a i-oiil'iib'iitial roniiniiniralivn from the eonsigniir to the routu'. ant that no other loiiu of nuuiitnu thn fotui 171 can be ai i-vited a all.l the requirement of the law. |