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Excerpt from Report of the Director of the Bureau of Statistics on the Imports of the United States, Transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury in May, 1868
Such being the case, the inclusion of these entries in the import entries' account was clearly erroneous, and the same course was pursued in this case as in the other. Since July 1, 1867, a separate and more definite return has been required of such entries - for example, showing what particular islands the guano was brought from - and they have been omitted from the import entries' account. (for quarterly returns during the current fiscal year see Monthly Reports No. 11, p. 12 No. 15, p. 15, and No. 18, p.
The extent to which the practice of this error has annually swollen the import entries' account has not been ascertained, and is difficult to estimate with accuracy. The following tables, XXXV, of the entries of all guano since 1850, and XXXVI, the entries of American guano during the current year, (the earliest data, ) may lead to an approximation.
Table XXXIV. Showing the entries of guano from 1850 to 1867, inclusive.
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