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Show lies and penalties on personal baggage bag-gage in thl port only $l60,0un The first fifteen clays of I h r present month yielded a. total of $l99.0oo. From the Mauritania this wpek the customs men collected from 92X passengers pas-sengers $22,000, from tho Adriatic, with 9.".5 travelers, 32.0oO; ironi th.. Kron Prinzeslon Ccclle i25.0uu and from the Lusltania on Septemher 2, $15.1 8 US The. collodions for each month so far this voar have been: January, $12,000. February. $20 000; March, Slo.oiiO: April. $14,000; May, $101.. 00; June, $131,000; July $13i.00o, au,j August, JITl.oi'O. It this average Is maintained the total collections for 19lo will amount lo nearly $1.2.'.0.000, which will beat the banner year of 1909. in which the I figure yet was $1,040.nqo. i CUSTOMS COLLECTIONS FROM RETURNING AMERICANS " New York. Sept. 17. The month of September bids fair to rank as record period for customs collections from home-returning American at the port of New York. According to present Indications, the amounts thus j collected are likely lo reach a higher j figure than the entire year's total i collected from incoming ocean passengers pas-sengers In 1900. In 1908 there was collected in du- |