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Show ALLEGE CUSTOMS FRAUDS IN UCES NEW 'YORK. June IT. Bxlsnslvs frauds against tit govramnt through th undervaluing af . Importation of lace from Syria have been disclosed In proceedings before th board of United late general appraisers. Th under. valuations are declared te have caused the lose of nundrede of thousands of dollars dol-lars lo tb treaaury department within tne hurt ten years. Most of the lace ars from Beirut and are assessed at the high rate of te per cent ad valorem. The complaints from certain deaiera In New York wet mad some time ago to Franklin aiacVsagh, secretary of the treasury, that several handlere of these gooda were celling them to the trad cheaper titan they oould be bought in Beirut. The secretary aent one of the government's special agente eta tloned In Kurope to the Syrian lac ea-ter ea-ter te Investigate. Th Investigation. It I said, disclosed that certain exporter had been sending good Into the American market at gross undervaluations. The frauds. It was said, were practiced by mesne of private Invoices. Intended to deceive the custom cus-tom offlolals on this sld af th Atlsn-tlc. |