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 606 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sxzss. II. Ch. 358. 1897. in the opinion of the examiner, to be inferior in purity, quality, and iitness for consumption to the said standards the importer or consignee shall be immediately notined, and the tea, or merchandise described as tea, shall not be released by the custom-house, unless on a reexamination called for by the importer or consignee the finding of the examiner Prwiw- _ shall be found to be erroneous: Provided, That should a portion of the P"°'°ld°l"°"‘ invoice be passed by the examiner, a permit shall be granted for that portion and the remainder held for further examination, as provided in section six. ‘P;m_‘° $°“"“1 Sec. 6. That in case the collector, importer, or consignee shall protest · against the iinding of the examiner, the matter in dispute shall be referred for decision to a board of three United States general appraisers, to be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, and if such board shall, after due examination, find the tea in question to be equal in purity, quality, and fitness for consumption to the proper standards, a permit shall be issued by the collector for its release and delivery to £¤t¤f;,ri¤r*¢¤tv¤¤¤¤— the importer; but if upon such iinal reexamination by such board the P°tea shall be found to be inferior i11 purity, quality, and fitness for consumption to the said standards, the importer or consignee shall give a bond, with security satisfactory to the collector, to export said tea, or merchandise described as tea, out of the limits of the United States Destruction or ws within a period of six months after such iinal reexamination; and if """““"" the same shall not have been exported within the time specified, the collector, at the expiration of that time, shall cause the same to be destroyed. E”¤*i¤°*’¤· Sec. 7. That the examination herein provided for shall be made by a duly qualified examiner at a port where standard samples are established, aud where the merchandise is entered at ports where there is no qnalined examiner, the examination shall be made at that one of said ports which is nearest the port of entry, and that for this purpose samples of the merchandise, obtained in the manner prescribed by section four of this Act, shall be forwarded to the proper port by the col- T°'*°- lector or chief officer at the port of entry; that in all cases of examination or reexamination of teas, or merchandise described as tea, by examiners or boards of United States general appraisers under the provisions of this Act, the purity, quality, and iitness for consumption of the same shall be tested according to the usages and customs of the tea trade, including the testing of an infusion of the same in boiling water, and, if necessary, chemical analysis. g¤§;;f},‘$;j£:;__bY Sec. S. That in cases of reexamination of teas, or merchandise described as teas, by a board of United States general appraisers in pursuance of the provisions hereof, samples of the tea, or merchandise described as tea, in dispute, for transmission to such board for its decision, shall be put up and sealed by the examiner in the presence of the importer or consignee if he so desires, and transmitted to such board, together with a copy of the finding of the examiner, setting forth the cause of condemnation and the claim or ground of the protest of the importer relating to the same, such samples, and the papers therewith, to be distinguished by such mark that the same may be identified; that the decision of such board shall be in writing, signed by them, and transmitted, together with the record and samples, within three days after the rendition thereof, to the collector, who shall forthwith furnish the examiner and the importer or consignee with a copy of said mince vfexnerts. decision or finding. The board of United States general appraisers herein provided for shall be authorized to obtain the advice,when necessary, of persons skilled in the examination of teas, who shall each receive for his services in any particular case a compensation not exceeding five dollars. “;’f}’§,*}Qm"J°“‘°d Sec. 9. That no imported teas which have been rejected by a customs examiner or by a board of United States general appraisers, and exported under the provisions of this Act, shall be reimported into the United States under the penalty of forfeiture for a violation of this prohibition.