INDEX Advances made by auctioneer to foreign principal, 179. Boycott of auctioneers, 198-9. Campaign against auctions, by boycott, 198-9; decline after 1830, 208; Customs credits, acts of 1789, 1794, 1795, 186; acts of 1799, 1805, 1818, 186; Decline, reasons for, 208. Display and inspection, 175. Dumping of English wares, effects, 167-8; in 1816, 165-8; in 1823, 168; Embargo occasioned use of auctions, 164-5. Foreign account, imports on, 179; relative proportion on, 180-1. Foreign agents, activities of, 179; advantages to foreign manufacturers Jobbers adversely affected, 183-4, 184-6, 193-4. Legislation, act of 1794, 202; acts of 1812-16, 203-4; repeal of these acts, Methods, advances allowed to principals by auctioneers on consignments, 179; catalogues issued, 174-5; conditions and terms of sale, 175-6; conduct of sales at auction, 173-6; credit allowed to buyers, 176; display and inspection, 175-6; piece sales, 174-6; sale of package goods, 175-6; system of dumping, 167-8, 173-4. Monopolistic, 178-9, 194-5. Morals lowered by auction methods, 194, 197-8. Objections to auctions, caused export of money, 196; caused poorer quality of goods, 196-7; concentrated trade in a few large cities, 195; disturbed the stability of commerce and industry, 196; encouraged dishonest practices and frauds, 144; gave less support to the home city, 195; hurt importers and jobbers, 143-4; introduced bad business practices, 198; lowered the morality of business, 197-8; made trade monopolistic, 194-5. Origin of auctions, before 1816, 164; in the colonies, 164; in early New York, 173; origin of protectionists' hostility, 203-4. Package goods, methods of sale of, 175-6. Petitions (memorials) to Congress, in 1820, 205; in 1824, 206; in 1828, 206-7; in 1829, 207. Piece sales, method of, 174-6. Publicity, hostile campaign against auctions, 198-9. Quality of goods lowered, 196-7; new goods introduced, 181. Tariff, attitude of American import merchants, 170; auctions become a factor in tariff legislation, 203-4; efforts of protectionists in Congress (see Legislation); protectionists become anti-auctionists, 169; protective tariff defeated by auctions, 169, 193. Terms of sale, 175-6. Undervaluation of imports, cause larger proportion of imports to be of those subject to ad valorem duties, 193; act of 1832, 193; evasions of duties more common in case of goods on foreign account, 192-3; system of valuation used, 191; various evasions of customs duties, 191-2. Volume of sales, based on auction duties of New York, 170-3; concentration in New York City, 172; estimates of contemporaries, 170-1; sources of data, 170-1. War of 1812 occasioned use of auctions, 164-6. I-209 The History of Early Relations between the United States and China, 1784-1844, by Kenneth Scott Latourette (Aug. 1917) PRICE $2.20 211-248 Studies in the Calcite Group, by William E. Ford (Oct. 1917) .45 249-467 The Vegetation of Northern Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, by George E. Nichols (July, 1918)... 2.40 CONTENTS OF VOLUME 23 OF THE TRANSACTIONS PAGES PRICE I-63 Chaucerian Papers-I, by Professor Albert S. $0.80 65-108 Spenser's English Rivers, by Charles G. Osgood (January, 1920) .60 109-158 New Species of Devonian Fossils from Western Tennessee, by Carl O. Dunbar (February, 1920) .85 159-210 Early History of American Auctions--A Chapter in Commercial History, by R. B. Westerfield (May, 1920) .65 |