Summary of the Provisions as to the Different Grades in the Market—Rules for the Guidance of Examiners at Various Ports.
It will be remembered that under the Act of Congress approved March 2, 1897, aad entitled ''An Act to prevent the importation of impure and unwholesome tea," it was provided that a board of seven tea experts should be appointed by the Secret ary of the Treasury to establish standards in advance of the tea season for the guidance of the tea examiners at the various ports, The following "gentlemen wote appoints ed upon this board: E. A. Schoyer, of E. A. Schoyer & Ca., Chicago; Upham, of Sprague, Warner & Ca., Chicago; H. G. Woodworth, of Io: binson and Woodworth, Boston; A. P. Irwin, of Irwin, McBride, Catherwood Ca., Philadelphia; Win. P. Roome, of Win.
Roome & Ca., New York; Thos. A. Phelan, of Geo. W. Lane & Ca., New York} R. B. Bain, of San Francisco. The law provided that a chairman should be elected the board, to whom all communications should be directed, and upon the first meeting of the board in the Appraiser's Office in this city Thos. A. Phelan was elected chairman. Mr. Phelan in an interview with a representative of this journal yesterday summarised the work of the board as follows The Board devoted itself to the establishing of standards the whole of last week and have established the following standards No. 1.—Formosa Ovolong.
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