2. With each entry the importer to give an endorsement of the net contents of each package. 3. To test the accuracy of this endorsement, 10 per cent. of each break to be turned out and weighed net. 4. If the difference between the weight given of any package and the weight found exceeds or is less than 3 lbs., the whole parcel should be weighed net. 5. Duty to be charged on the average weight of the packages weighed net, unless the importer elects to weigh the whole parcel in the usual way. 6. When the average of the packages weighed net amounts to so many pounds and a-half, an additional pound will be charged on each of the whole parcel; when the fraction is less than half a pound it is to be rejected. 7. The new system to come into operation on July the 1st next. FOOTNOTES: [106] If tares are nearly equal, and if Teas are well bulked in India, only some packages (about 10 per cent.) are opened, and an average tare struck. But this in no way saves the loss in _quantity_ of Tea, though, of course, less Tea is thus _injured_. [107] Since I wrote the above the Customs have framed new rules for Indian Teas. The absurd tare system is done away with. ADDENDA _TO THE THIRD EDITION_. The following from the _Indian Economist_, regarding Indian Teas in general and Neilgherry Teas in particular, is not out of place here. At the same time I do not agree with the writer, for I believe that in the strength and pungency of Indian Teas consists their value:-- INDIAN TEA.