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Excerpt from Immediate Transportation of Merchandise: Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives, 60th Congress, First Session on Sundry Bills Before the Committee Extending the Privilege of Immediate Transportation of Merchandise to Certain Ports; January 22, 1908
There are some small ports to which this privilege of immediate transportation and appraisement can be extended without danger, and those are where the goods that come in are of a certain partien lar kind or character. We could handle those goods very well in those places, and there would be no danger in extending this privilege to those ports. But in small ports where all kinds of goods and merchandise come in for examination, the Department has not the facilities there, nor has it the necessary appropriation with which to provide the facilities.
Mr. Needham. What would be an illustration or example of a port that receives but one class of goods?
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