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progress of the work. At Corneto-Tarquini the excavations have been continued practically by the same bank of workmen under pay of the town, with a permanent government inspector, and this for twelve years past. I have said a register of the objects found was kept and reported to the government. Nothing of which I can think will show the contrast between the interest in these matters shown by the government of Italy and that of the United States than to tell the purpose of this register. It is that the objects when examined or considered in the proper ministerial department of the government at Rome may have the right to select any of these objects for deposit and display in any of the governmental prehistoric museums, and when it takes such objects it does so on proper valuation, paying their worth to the finder or owner. Antiquities discovered in Italy cannot be removed without the kingdom, certainly not from the Roman provinces, without first submitting to the inspection of the government