Show IMPORTS FROM PORTO RICO treasury department will estand duties collected thereon attorney general knox has declined to render an op nion wh cl was asked for by the secretary of the treasury on the question whether or not under ex asting laws the secie tary is authorized to refund the duties collected on goods imported from porto E between the date of the rati ficat on of the spanish treat yand the date that the foraker act went into effect the attorney general says tl at in as much as the comptroller of the treasury has given his decision on the subject it is a mat ter for him the comptroller alone and he therefore cannot give a decision as requested it is stated at the treasury department that the govern ment will proceed immediately to re fund these duties acting upon the de cis on of the comptroller of the treas ury which was to the effect that the treasury department had auti der existing law the doties amount ma tely to 82 |