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insertion. TO raerchautsand others advertisingby the year
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LAWS OF Tlll UNITED STATES.
By AUTHORITY.
PUBLIC-NO. 22
AN AOT to provide for the payment of outstanding
Treasury notes, to authorize a loan, to regulate and
fix the duties on imports, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa
ti nes of - the United States of America in Congress assem
'bled, That the President of the United States be, and
hereby is, authorized, at any time within twelve months
from the passage of this act, to borrow : on the credit of
the United States, a sum not exceeding ten millions of
dollars, or so much thereof as, in his opinion, the exi
gencies of the pablic service may require, to be applied
to the payment of appropriations made by law, and the
balance of Treasury notes now outstanding, and no
other purposes, in addition to the money received, or
which may be received into the Treader? from other
sources: provided, That no stipulation or contract shall
be made to prevent the United States from reimbursing
any sum borrowed under the authority of this act assay
time after the expiration of two years from the first day
of July next, by the United States giving three month's'
notice, to be published in some newspaper published at
the seat of government, of their readiness to do so ; and
no contract shall be made to prevent the redemption of
the same at any time after she expiration of twenty
years from the said first day of July next.
Sac_ 2. And be it further enacted, That stock shall be
issued for the amount so borrowed, bearing interest not
exceeding six per centnna per annum ; and the Secretary
of the Treasury be, and is hereby, authorized, with the
consent of the Peesident, to cause certificates of stock
to be prepared, which shall be signed by the "Wester,
and sealed with the seal of the Treasn.y Department,
for the amount so borrowed, in favor of the parties lend
ine the same, or the r assigns, which certificates may be
transferred on the books of the Treasury, under each
regulations as may be established by the Secretary of
the Treasury Provided, That no certificate shall be
issued for a less sum than one thousand dollars: And
provided, also, That, whenever required, the Secretary
of the Treasury may cause coupons of semi-annual in
terest payable thereon to be attached to certificates is
sued under this act; and any certificate with such cou
pons of interest attached may be assigned and transfer
red by delivery Of the same, instead of being transferred
on the books of the Treasui - y.
Sac. 3. And be it further enacted, That, before award
ing any of said loan, the Secretary of the Treasury shall,
as the exigencies of the public service require, cause to
be inserte in two of the public newspapers of the city
of Washington, and in one or more publicnewspapers in
other cities of the Unit-d States, public notice that
sealed proposals for so much of said loan as is requited
will be received until a certain day - , to be specified in
such notice, not less than thirty days from its first in
sertion in a Washington newspaper; and such notice
ahall state the amount of the loan, at what periods the
money shall be paid, if by instalments, and at what
places. Such sealed proposals shall be opened, on the
day appointed in the notice. in the presence of such per
sons as may choose to attend, and the propossisdecided
by the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall accept the
most favorable offered by resposible bidders for said
stock. And the said Secretary shall report to Congress,
at the commencement of the next session, the, amount
of money borrowed under this act, and of who.n and on
what terms it shall have been obtained, with an abstract
or brief statement of all the proposals submitted for the
same, distinguishing between those accepted and those
rejected, with a detailed statement of the expense of
making such loans : Pterided, That no stock shall be
disposed of at less than its par value : And provided/u?-
thee, That no part of the loan hereby authorized shall
be applied to the service of the present fiscal year.
BEG 4. And be it further *nutted, That in case the
proposals made for said loan, or for so much thereof as
the exigencies of the public service shall require, shall
not be satisfactory, the President of the United States
shall be, and hereby is, authorized to decline to accept
such offer if for less than the par value of the bonds con
atituting the said stock, and in lieu thereof, and' to the
extent and amount of the loan authorized to be madeby
this act, to issue Treasury notes for sums not less than
fifty dollars, bearing interest at the rate of six per cm
tam per annum, payable semi-annually on the first days
of January and July in each year, at proper places of
payment, to be prescribed by the Secretary, with the
approval of the President; and, under the like circum
stances and conditions, the President of the United
States is hereby authorized to substitute Treasurynotes
of equal amount for the whole or any part of any of the
loans for which he is now by law authorized to contract
and issue bonds And the Treasury notes so issued under
the authority herein given shall be received in payment
for all debts due to the United States when offered, and
in like manner shall be given in payment for auy sum
due from the United States when payment in that mode
is requested by the person to whom payment is to be
made, or for their par value in coin And the faith of
the United States is hereby pledged for the due payment
of the interest and the redemption of the principal of
the stock or Treasury not which may be issued under
the authority of this act; are; the sum of twenty thou
sand dollars is hereby repropriated, out of any money
in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the
expenses of preparing the certifieates of stock or Trea
sury notes herein authorizsd, to be done in the usual
mode and under the rest. ictions as to employment and
payment of officers contained in the laws authorizing
former loans and issues of Treasury notes; and it
shall be at the option of holders of the Treasury notes
hereby authorized by this act to exchange 'he same for
the stock herein authorized, at par or for bonds, in lieu
of which said Treasury notes were issued: Provided,
That no certificate shall be exchanged for Treasury
notes or bonds in sums less than five hundred dollars :
And providedfurther, That the authority to issue the
said Treasure notes, or give the same in payment or
debts due from the United States, shall be limited to the
thirtieth day of Jane, eighteen hundred and sixty-two;
and that the same may be redeema..le at the pleasure
of the United Staten. at any time within two years after
the passage of this act; and that said notes shall eease
to bear interest after they shall have been called in by
the Secretary of the Treasury under the provisions of
this act.
Sea. 5. And he it farther enacted. That, from and after
the first d•iy of April, arum Domini eighteen hundred
and sixty-one, in lieu of the duties heretofore imposed
by law on the articles hereinafter mentioned, and on
such as may now be exempt from duty, there shall be
levied, collected, and paid on the goods, wares and mer
chandise herein enumerated and provided for, imported
from foreign countries, the following duties and rates of
duty, that is to say:
First. On raw sugar, commonly called Muscovado or
brown sugar, not advanced beyond its raw state by cloy
ing or other process, one cent per pound; on drop of
sugar, or of sugar cane, and concentrated molasses, or
concentfated melado, and on white and elayed sugars,
when advanced beyond the raw state, by cloying or other
process, and not refined, three-fourths of one cent per
pound; on refined sugars, whether loaf, lump, crushed
or- pulverized, two cents _per pound; on sugars, after
being refined, when they are tinctured, colored, or in
any way adulterated, and on sugar candy, four cents per
pound: Provid, d, That all strops of sugar, or of sugar
cane, concentrated molasses or melado, entered under
the name of molasses, or any other name that sirup of
sugar or of sugar cane, concentrated molasses or con
centrated melaio, shall be liable to forfeiture to the
United States.
Second. tin coffee, one cent and a half per pound; on
tea, when imported from any port or place beyond the
Cape of Good llope, four cents per pound ; when imported
front any point or place this side of the Cape of Good
lope, other than in the country where produced, four
cents per pound, and in addition thereto ten per centum
ad valorous: Provided, That whenever the Treasury
notes and bonds of the United States which have been
or shall be issued under the authority of any laws or
parts of laws, passed between the fourth day of March,
anno Domini eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and the
fourth day of March, anon Dominir-ighteen hundred and
sixty-one, shall be r- , deemed and paid, the President of
the United States is hereby authorized to make procla
mation that the aforesaid artie'es of tea and coffee may
be imported into the United States exempt and free from
the specific duties herein imposed ; Provided, Th-rt the
-duties on tea and coffee hereby imposed shall cease from
and after the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and
sixty-three.
SEC. 6. And Ire it further enacted, That from and after
the day and year aforesaid there shall be levied, col
lected and paid, on the importation of the articles here
inafter mentioned, the following duties, that is to say :
First. On brandy,. for first-proof, one dollar per O
hm ; on other spirits manufactured or distilled from
g rain, for first-proo4 forty cents per gallon ; on pp rite
from other materials, for first-proof, forty cents per
gallon; on cordials and liquors of all kinds, fifty cents
per gallon ; on smirk, absynthe,kirschenwasser,*atatia,
and other similar spirituous beverages not otherwise
p ro vided for, fifty cents pergallon; on bay rum, twenty
five cents per gallon: Provided, That the duty upon
brandy spirits, and all other spirituous beverages herein
enumerated, shall be collected upon the basis of first
proof, and so in proportion for any greater strength than
the strength of first-proof; on wines of all kinds, forty
per centaur ad valorem; Provided, That all imitations
of brandy or Spirits, or of any of the said wines. and all
wines importe r by any names whatever, shall be subject
to the duty provided for the genuine article whb h it is
intended to represent; Provided.further, That brannies
or other spirituous liquors may be imported in bo tles,
when the package shall contain not less than one dozen,
and all bottles shall pay a separate duty, according to
the rate vtablished by this act, whether containing
wines, brandies or other spirituous liquors, subject to
duty as hereinbefore mentioned; on ale, porter and beer,
in bottles, twenty-five cents per gallon ; otherwise than
in bottles, fifteen cents per gallon; on all spirituous
liquors not enumerated, thirty-three and one-third per
centum ad valorem.
Second. On cigars of all kinds, valued at five dollars
or under per thousand, twenty cents per pound ; over
five dollars and not over ten, forty cents per pound ; and
over ten dollars, sixty cents per pound, and, in addition
thereto, ten per centum ad valorem; on snuff, ten cents
per pound; on unmanufactored tobacco in leaf, twenty
five per centum ad valorem.; on all other manufactured
or unmanufactured tobacco, thirty per centum ad va
lorem.
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That from and after
the day and year aforesaid there shall be levied collected
and paid, ou the importation of the articles hereinafter
merdioned, the fol owing dutiei, that is to say
First. On bar-iron, rolled or hammered, comprising,
Bats, not less than one inch or more than seven inches
wide, nor less than one-quarter of an inch or more than
two inches thick; rounds, not less than one-half an
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inch, or more than four inches in diameter ; and squares,
not less than one-half an inch, or more than four inches
square, fifteen dollars per ton : Provided, That all iron
in Shiba, blooms, loops or other forms, less finished than
iron in bars, and more advanced than pig iron, except
castings, shall be rated as iron in bars. and pay a duty
accordingly : And provided fur. her. That none of the
above iron shall pay a less rate•of duty than twenty per
centum ad valorem; on all iron imported in bars for
railroads or inclined planes, madeto patterns, and fitted
to be laid down upon such roads or planes without fur
ther manufacture, and not exceeding six inches hish,
twelve dollare per ton; on boiler Plato iron, twenty dole
lams per ton; on iron wire, drawn and finished, not more
than one-fourth of one inch in diameter, nor less than
number sixteen wire gauge, seventy-five cents per one
hundred pounds, and fifteen per centum ad valorem ;
over number sixteen and not over number twenty.five
wire gauge, one dollar and fifty cents per one hundred
pounds, and in addition fifteen per centum ad valorem ;
over or finer than number twenty-five wire gauge, two
dollars per one hundred pounds, and in addition fifteen
per centum ad valorem; on all other descriptions of
rolled or hammered iron, not otherwise provided for,
twenty dollars per ton.
Second. On iron in pigs, six dollars per ton ; on ves
sels of cast-iron, not otherwise provided for, and on sad
irons, tailors' and hatters' irons, stoves and stove plates,
one cent per pound; on cast-iron steam, gas and water
pipe, fifty cents per one hundred pounds; on ca.t.iron
butts and hinges, two cents p r pound ; hollow-ware,
glazed or tinned, two cents and a-half per pound ; on
all other castings of iron, not otherwise provided for,
twenty-five per centum ad valorem.
Third On old scrap iron, six dollars per ton : Provi
ded, That nothing shall be deemed old iron that has
not bean in actual rise, and fit only to be re-manufac
tured.
Fourth. On band and hoop iron, slit rods, not other
wise provided for, twenty dollars per ton ; on cut nails
and spikes, one cent p•-r , pound; on iron cables or chains,
or parts thereof, and anvils, one dollar and twenty-five
cents per one hundred pounds; on anchors or parts
thereof. and anvils, one dollar and fifty eenta per one
hundred pounds; on wrought board nails, spikes, rivets
ant bolts, two cents per pound ; on bed screws and
'nought hinges, one cent and-a-half per pound; on
chains, trace chains, halter chains and fence chains,
made f wire or rods one-half of one inch in diameter
or over, one cent and-a-half per pound ; under one-half
of au loch in diameter, and ~ot under one-fourth of one
inch in diameter, two cents per pound; underone-fotirth
of one inch in diameter, and not undernumber nine wire
gauge, two cents and-a-half per pound; under number
nine wire gauge, twenty five per centum ad valorem; on
blacksmiths , hammers and sledges, axles or partsthere
of, and malleable iron in castings, not otherwise provi
ded for, two cents per pound ; on horse-shoe nails, three
cents and-azhalf per pound; on steam, gas, and water
tubes and flues, of wrought iron, two cents per pound
on wrought iron railroad chairs, and on wrought iron
nuts and washer, ready punched, twenty-five dollirs per
ton; on cut tacks, brads and spri not exceeding six
teen ounces to the thousand, two cents per thousand;
exceeding sixteen ounces to the thousand, two cents per
pound.
Fifth. On smooth or polished sheet iron, by whatever
name designated, two cents per pound; on other sheet
iron, common or black, not thinner than number twenty
wire gang; twenty dollars per ton ; thinner than num
ber twenty, and not thinner than number twenty-five
wire gauge, twenty.flve dollars per ton; thinner than
number twenty-five wire gauge, thirty dollars per ton;
on tin plates galvanized, galvanized iron, or iron coated
with zinc, two cents per ponnd; on mill irons and mill
cranks of wrought iron, and wrought iron for ships, lo
comotives, locomotive tire or parts thereof, and steam
engines, or parts thereof, weighing each twenty-five
pounds or more one cent and a-half per pound; on
screws, commonly called wood screws, two inches or over
in length, five cents per pound; less than two inches in
length, eight cents per pound; on screws washed or
plated, and all other screws of iron or any other metal,
thirty per centum ad valorem ; on all manufactures of
iron not otherwise provided for, thirty per centum ad
valorem.
Sixth. On all steel, in ingots, bars, sheets or wire, not
less than one-fourth of one inch in diameter, valued at
seven cents per pound, or less, one and a half cent per
pound ; valued at above seven cents per pound, and not
above eleven cents per pound, two cents per pound ; steel
in any form, not otherwise provided for, shall pay a duty
of twenty per centum ad valorem; on steel wire less
than one fourth of an inch in diameter, and not less than
number sixteen wire gaum, two dollars per one hundred
pounds, and in addition thereto fifteen per centum ad
valorem ; less or finer than number sixteen wire gauge,
two dollars and fifty cents per one hundred pounds, and
in addition thereto fifteen per centum ad valorem ; on
cross-cut saws, eight cents per lineal foot '• on mill-pit
and drag saws, not over nine inches wide, twelve and a
half cents per lineal foot; over nine inches wide, twenty
cents per lineal foot ; on skates costing twenty cents;or
less. per pair, six cents per pair; on those costing over
twenty cents per pair, thirty per eentum ad valorem; on
all manufactures of steel, or of which steel shall be a
component part. not otherwise provided for, thirty per
centum ad valorem : Provided, Thata.i articles partially
manufactured, not otherwise provided for. shallpay the
same rate of duty as if wholly manufactured.
venth. On bituminous coal, one dollar per ton of
twenty-eight bushels, eighty pounds to the bushel; on
all other coal, fifty cents per ton of twenty-eight bushels,
eighty pounds to the bushel; on coke and calm of coal,
twenty-five per centum ad valorem.
See. 9. And be it further enacted. That from and after
the day and year aforesaid there shall be levied, collected
and paid on the importation of the articles hereinafter
mentioned the following duties, that is to say:
Fires. On lead, in pigs and bars, one cent per pound;
011 old scrap lead, fit only to be re-manufactured, one cent
per pound ; on lead in sheets, pipes or shot, one cent and
a half per pound ; on pewter, when old and fit only to be
r,-manufactured, one cent per pound.
Second. On copper, in pigs, bars or ingots, two cents
per pound; on copp r, when old and fit only to be re
manufactured, one cent ands half per pound ; on sheath
ing cppper, in sheets forty-eightinches long and four
teen niches wide, and weighing from fourteen to thirty
four ounces to the square foot, two cents per pound; on
copper rods, bolts, nails, spikes, copper bottoms, copper
in sheets or plates, called braziers , copper, and other
sheets of copper not otherwise provided for, twenty-five
per centum ad valorem; on zinc, spelters or teutenegue,
in sheets, one cent and a half per pound.
Seo. 9. And be itforther enacted, That from and after
the day and year aforesaid there shall be levied, col
lected and paid on the importation of the articles here
inafter mentioned the following duties, that is to say :
First. On white lead and oxide of zinc, dry or ground
in oil, red lead and litharge, one cent and a half per
pound; on sugar of lead or acetate of lead and nitrate of
lead, chromate and bichromate of potash. three cents
per pound; on hydriodate and prussiate of potash, and
chromic acid, and salts of iodine, and resumblimed io
dine, fifteen per centum ad valorem ; on whiting, twenty
five cents per one handfed pounds ;'on Paris white, pipe
clay and ochres or ochrey earths, not otherwise provided
for, when dry, thirty-five cents per one hundred pounds;
when ground in oil, one dollar and thirty-five cents per
one hundred pounds ; on umber, fifty cents per ouehun
dred pounds; on putty, one cent pet pound ; on limed,
flaxseed, hempseed and rapeseed oil, twenty cents per
gallon; on kerosine oil, and all other coal oils, ten rents
per gallon; on alum, alum substitute, sulphateof alum
inn, and aluminous cake, fifty cents per one hundred
pounds; on copperas, green vitriol or sulphate of iron,
twenty-five cents per one hundred pounds; on bleaching
powders, fifteen cents per one hundred pounds ; on re
lined camphor, six ce..ts per pound; on refined borax,
three cents per pound; on tallow, one cent per pound;
on tallow candles, two cents per pound ; on spermaceti
or wax candles and tapers, and on candles and tapers of
sperm .Ceti and wax combined, eight cents per p and;
on stearine candles, and all oilier candles and tapers,
four cents per pound ; on spirits of turpentine, ten cents
per gallon; on opium, one doll r per pound; on mor
phine and its salts, one dollar per ounce; on liquorice
paste or juice, three cents per pound.
3E0.10. And be it further enacted, That from and after
the day and year aforesaid there shill be levied, col
lected and paid on the importation of the articles here
inafter mentioned the foLowing duties, that is to say :
First_ On salt, four cents per bnehel of flay six pounds,
provided that salt imported in bags, or not in bulk,
shall pay a duty of six cents per bushel of fifty-six
pounds; on bristles, four cents per pound; on honey.
ten cents per gallon; on vinegar. six cents per gallon ;
on maekeral, two dollars per Darrel; on herrings, pickled
or salted, one d dlar per barrel; on pickled salmon,
three dollars per barrel; on all other fish pickled, in
barrels; one dollar and fifty cents per barrel; on all
other foreign caught fish imported otherwise than in
barrels or halt barrels, or whether fresh, smoked or
dried, salted or pickled, not otnerwise provided for, fifty
cents per one hundred pounds.
Second. On beef and pork, one cent per pound.; on
hams and bacon, two cents per pound ; on cheese, four
cents per pound; on wheat, twenty cons per bushel;
on butter, four cents per pound ; on lard, two cents per
pound; on rye and barley, fifteen cents per bushel; on
Indiau corn or maize, ten cents per bushel; on oats, ten
cents per bushel on potatoes ten cents per bushel ; on
cleaned rice, one cent per pound ; on unclean.d rice or
paddy, fifty cents per one hundred pounds; on sago and
sago flour, fifty cents per one hundred pounds • on flax
seed or finseed, sixteen cents per bushel of ' fifty-two
pounds ; ou hewp and rape-seed, ten cents per bushel of
fifty-two pounds; on raw hides and skins of all kinds,
whether dried, salted or pickled, not otherwise provided
tor, live per cur, turn ad valorem.
SRC. 11. And he it further enacted, That from andafter
the day and year aforesaid there shall be levied, collected
and paid on the importation of the articles hereinafter
mentioned the following duties, that is to say ; First.
On cassia, four cents per pound ; on cassia buds, eight
cents per pound ; on cloves, four cents per pound ; on
pepper, two cents per pound; on Cayenne pepper, three
cents per pound; on ground tiayenne pepper, tour cents
per pound; on pimento, two cents per p..und ; on cinna
mon, ten corms per pound; on mace and nutmip, fifteen
cents per pound; on prunes, two cents per pound ; on
plums, one cent per pound; on dates, one-half of one
cent per pound ; or currants, two cents per pound ; on
figs, three cents per pound; on sultana, muscatel and
bloom raisin., tither in boxes or jars, two cents per
pound; ou all other raisins, one cent per pound ; on al
monds, two cents per pound; on sh died almonds, four
cents per pound; on all nuts not otherwise provided for,
except those used in dyeing, one cent per pound.
sl[o. 12 And be it further enacted, That from and after
the day and year aforeeald there shall be levied collected
and paid on the importation of the articles hereinafter
mentioned the following duties, that is to say First.
On all wool unmanufactured, and all the hair of the
alpaca, goat and other litre animals, unmanufactured, the
HARRISBURG, PA:, MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1861.
value whereof at the last port or place from whence ex
ported to the United States, shall be less than eighteen
cents per pound, five per centum ad valorem ; exceeding
eigtven cents per pound, and not exceeding twenty-four
cents per pound, there shall ne levied, collected acid Paid
a duty of three cents per pound ; exceeding twenty-tour
cents per pound, there shall be levied, collected and paid
a duty of nine cents per pound : Provided, That any
wool of the sheep, or hair of the alpaca, the goat, and
other like animals, which shall be imported in any other
than the ordinary condition, as now and heretofore
practiced, or which shall he changed in its character or
condition for the purpose of evading the duty, or which
shall be reduced in value by the admixture of dirt or
any foreign substance to eighteen cents per pound, or
less, shalt be subject to pay a duty of nine cents per
pound, any thing in this act to the contrary notwith
standing: Provided also, That when wool of different
qualities is imported in the same bale, bag or package,
and the aggregate value of the contents of the bale, hag
or package shall be appraised by the appraisers at a rate
exceeding twenty-four cents per pound, it dual be
charged with a duty of nine cents per pound: Provided,
further, That if bales of different qualities are embraced
in the same invoice, at the same price, whereby the,
average price shall be lessened more than ten per centum,
the value of the - whole shall be appraised according to
the value of the bale of the best quality, and no bale or
bales shall be liable to a less rate of duty in consequence
of being invoiced with wool of lower value Provided,
also, That sh ep skins. raw or Rnmanufactured, impo rted
with the wool on, washed or unwashed, shall ne subject
to a duty of fifteen per centum ad valorem
Sac. 13 And be it further enacted, That from and
after the day and year aforesaid there shall be levied,
collected and paid on the importation of the articles
hereinafter mentioned the following duties, that is to
say :
First. On Wilton, Saxony and Aubusson Axminster
patent velvet, Tourney velvet, and tapestry velvet car
pets and carpeting, Brussels carpets wrought by the Jac
quard machine, and all medallion or whole carpets,
valued at one dollar and twenty-live cents or under per
square yard, forty cents per square yard; valued at over
one dollar and twenty-five cents per equate yard, fifty
cents per square yard; provided that no carpet or rugs
of the above description shall pay a duty of less than
twenty-five per centum ad valorem ; on Brussels and
tapestry Brussels carpets and carpeting printed on the
warp or otherwise, thirty cents per square yard; and all
treble-ingrain and worsted-chain Venetian carpets and
carpeting, twentyfwe cents per SWAM yard 3 on hemp
or jute carpeting, four cents per square yard; on drug
gets, backings, and felt carpets and carpeting, printed,
colored or otherwise, twenty cents per square yard ; en
all other kinds of carpets and carpeting of wool, flax or
cotton, or parts of either, or other material not other
wise specified, a duty of thirty per centum ad valorem :
Provided, That mats, rugs, screens, covers. hassocks,
bedsides and other portions of carpets or carpeting shall
pay the rate of duty herein imposed on carpets or carpet
ing of similar character; on all other mats, screens,
hassocks and rugs, a duty of thirty per centum ad valo
rem.
Second 3ri woolen cloths. woolen shawls, and all man
ufactures of wool of every description, made wholly or
in part of wool, not otherwise provided for, a duty of
- twelve cents per pound, and in addition thereto twenty
five per centum ad valorem; on endless belts for paper,
and blanketing for printing machines, twenty-five per
centum ad valorem; on all flannels valued at thirty cents
or less per square yard, twenty-five per centum ad valo
rem ; valued ahoy« thirty cents per square yard, and on
all flannels colored, or printed, or plsided, and flannels
composed in part of cotton or silk, thirty per curium ad
valorem; on hats of wool, twenty-five per centum ad
valorem; on woolen and worsted yarn, valued at fifty
cents and not over, one dollar per pound, twelve cents
per pound, and in addition thereto fifteen per centum
ad valorem; on woolen and worsted yarn, valued at over
one dollar per pound, twelve cents per pound, and in ad
dition thereto twenty-aye per centum ad valorem ; on
woolen and worsted yarns, or yarns for carpets, valued
under fifty cents per pound, and not exceeding in fine
ness number fourteen, twenty-five per centum ad valo
rem; exceeding number fourteen, thirty per centum ad
valorem; on clothing ready made, and wearing apparel
of every description, composed wholly or in part of wool,
made up or manufactured wholly or in part by the tai
lor, seamstress, or manufacturer, twelve 'cents perpound,
and in addition thereto twenty-five per eentum ad valo
rem ; on blankets of all kinds, made wholly or in part
of wool, valued at not exceeding twenty-eight cents per
pound, there shall be charged a duty of six cents per
pound, and in addition thereto ten per centum ad valo
rem; on all valued above twenty-eight cents per pound,
but not exceeding forty cents per pound, there shall be
charged a duty of six cents per pound, and lb addition
thereto twenty-five per centum ad valorem; on all valued
au above forty cents per pound there shall be charged a
duty of twelve cents per pound, and in addition thereto
twenty per centum ad valorem; on woolen shawls, or
shawls of which wool shall be the chief component ma
terial, a duty of sixteen cents per pound, and in addi
tion thereto twenty per centum ad valorem.
Third. On all detainee, Oashmei.e defames, muslin de
laines, barege delaines, composed wholly or in part of
wool, gray or uncolored, and on all other gray or unco
lore,: goods of similar description, twenty-five per centum
ad valorem; on bunting, and on all stained, colored or
printed, and on all other manufactures of wool, or of
which wool shall be a component material, not other
wise provided for, thirty per centum ad valorem
Fourth. On oilcloth, for floors, stamped, painted or
printed, valued at fifty cents or less per squ .re yard,
twenty per centum ad valorem ; valued at over fifty cents
per square yard, and on all other oilcloth; thirty per
centum ad valorem.
SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That from and after
the day and year aforesaid there shall be levied, collected
and paid on the importation of the articles hereinafter
mentioned the following duties, that is to say
First. On all manufactures of cotton not bleached,
colored, stained, printed or printed, end not exceeding
one hundred threads to the square inch, counting the
warp and filling, and exceeding in weight five ounces per
square yard one cent per square yard; on finer or lighter
goods of like description, not exceeding one hundred
and forty threads to the equ.re inch, counting the warp
and filling, two cents per square yard; on goods of like
description, exceeding one hundred and forty threads,
and not exceeding two hundred threads to the square
inch, counting the warping and filling, three cents per
square yard; on lice goods exceeding two hundred
threads to the square inch, counting the warp and filling,
four cents per square yard; on all goods embraced inthe
foregoing schedule& if bleached, there shall be levied,
collected and paid an additional duty of one-half of one
cent per square; and if printed, painted, colored or
stained, there shall be levied, collected and paid a duty
of ten per centum in addition to the rates of duty pro
vided in the foregoing schedules : Provided, That upon
all plain woven cotton goods not included in the forego
ing schedules, and upon cotton goods of every descrip•
tion, the value of which .hall not exceed sixteen cents
per square yard, there shall be levied, collected and paid
a duty of tw , mty-five per centnm ad valorem : And pro
vided, further, That no cotton goods having more than
two hundred threads to the square inch, counting the
warp and filling, shall be admitted to a less rate of duty
than is provided for goods which are of that number of
threads.
Second. On eplol and other thread of cotton, thirty
per centum ad valorem.
Third. On shirts and drawers, wove or made on frames
composed whoily of cotton and cotton velvet, tw enty
five per centum ad valorem ; and on all manufactures
composed wholly of cotton, bleached, unuleached, printed,
painted or dyed, not otherwise provided for, thirty per
cesium ad valorem.
Fourth. On all brown or bleached linens, ducks, can-
VOWS paddings, cot-bottoms, burials, drill; coatings,
brown Holland; blay linens, damask; diapers, crash,
huckabacks, handkerchiefs, lawns or other manufactures
of Ilex, jute or hemp, or of which flax, jute or hemp
shall be the component material of chief value, being
of tne value of thirty cents and under per square yard,
twenty-five per centum ad valorem; valued above thirty
cents per square yard, thirty per centum ad valorem ; on
flax or linen threads, twine and pack-thread, and all
other manufactures of flax, or of which flax shall be the
component material of chief value, and not otherwise
provided or, thirty per centum ad valorem.
SEC. lb. And be zrfurt/or enacted, That from and after
the day and yeas aforesaid there shall be levied, collected
and paid on the importation of the articles hereinafter
mentioned the following duties, that is to say: First. On
unmanufactured hemp, thirty-five dollars per ton; on
Mauilla and other hemps of India, fifteen dollars per
ton; on jute, Sisal grass sun hemp, coir and other vege
table sulwtances not enumerated, used for cordage, ten
dollars per ton; on jute butt; five dollars per ton; On
codilla or tow of hemp, ten dollars per ton; on tarred
cables or cordage, two cents and a half per pound ; on
untarred Manilla cordage, two cents per pound; en all
other untarred cordage, three cents per pound ; on yarns,
four cents per pound on c-ir yarn, one cent per p.mud;
on seines, six cents per pound; on cotton bagging, or
any other manufacture not otnerwise provid d mr, suit
able fur the uses to which cotton bag g ing is applied !
whether composed in whole or In part o f hemp, J ute or
flax, or any other material, valued at less than ten cents
per square yard, one cent and a half per pound; over
ten cents per square yard, two cents per pound; on sail
duck, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; on ltussia and
other sheetings, brown and white, twenty-live per con
tain ad valorem; and on all other Manufactures of hemp,
or of which hemp shall be a component part, not other
wise pro ided for, twenty per centum ad valorem; on
umnanufa,tured lax, fifteen dollars per ton; on tow of
flax, five dollars per ton ; on grass cloth, twenty-five per
centum ad valorem; on jute goods, filLen per centum
ad valorem; ou all other manufactures of juts or Sisal
grass, not otherwise provided for, twenty per contained
valorem.
Sao. 16. And be it further enacted, Thatfrom and after
the day and year a oresaid there shall be levied, collected
and paid on the importation of the articles hereinafter
mentioned the following duties, that is to say : First.
On silk, in the gum not more advanced in manufacture
than singles, train, and thrown or organzine. fifteen per
centum ad valorem; on all silks valued at not over one
dollar Ter square yard, twenty per centum ad valorem;
on all silks valued at over oue dollar per square yard,
thirty per centum ad valorem ; on alt silk velvets, or
velvets of which silk is the component material of chief
value, valued at three dollars per square yard, or under,
twenty-five per centum ad valorem; valued atover three
dollars per square yard, thirty per centum ad valorem;
on ilos silks, twenty per centum ad valorem; on silk
ribbons, ga loons, braids, fringes, laces. tassels, buttons,
button cloths, trimmings, and on silk twist, twist com
posed of mohair and ails, sewing silk in the gum or pu.
rifled. and all oth-r manufactures of silk, or of which
silk shall be the component material of chief value, not
otherwise provided Am., thirty per contain ad valorem.
SEC. 17. And be it farther enacted, That from and after
the day and year aforesaid th ere shall be levied, collected
and paid on the importation of the articles hereinafter
mentioned the fol' owing duties, that is to say :
irst. On rough plate, cylinder or broad window glass,-
not exceeding ten by fifteen inches, one cent per square
foot ; above that, and not exceeding sixteen by twenty
four inches, one cent and a half per square foot; above
that, and not exceeding twenty-four by thirty inches,
two cents per square foot; all above that, and not ex
ceeding, in weight one pound per square foot, three cents
per square foot: Provided, That all glass imported in
sheets or tables, without reference to size or form, shall.
pay the highest duty herein imposed And provided,
further, That all rough plate cylinder or broad glass,
weighing over one hundred pounds per one hundred
square feet, shall pay an additional duty on the excess
at the same rates as herein imposed; on crown, plate or
polished, and on all other window glass not exceeding
ton by fifteen inches, one cent and shelf per square foot;
above that, and not exceeding sixteen by twenty-four in
ches, two cents and a half per square toot, above that,
and not exceeding twenty-four by thirty inches, four
cents per square foot; and above that, five cents per
square foot : Provided, That all crown, plate or polished,
and all'other window glass weighing over one hundred
and fifty pounds per one hundred square feet, shall pay
au additional duty on such excess of four cents per
pound; on all plain and mould and press glassware, not
cut, engraved or painted, twenty-five per centum ad Ye
lererd ; on all articles of glass, cut, engraved, painted,
colored, printed, stained, silvered or gilded, thirty per
centum ad valorem ; on porcelain and Bohemian glass,
glass crystals for watches, paintings on glass, glasses or
pebbles for spectacles. and all manufactures of glass, or
of which glass shall be a component material, not oth
erwise provided for, and all glass bottles or jars filled
with sweetmeats, preserves er other articles, thirty per
centum ad valorem.
Second. On China and porcelain ware of all descrip
tions, thirty per centum ad valorem; on all brown
earthen and common stone ware, twenty per centum ad
valorem; on all other earthen, stone or crockery ware,
printed, white, glazed, edged, painted, dipped or cream
colored, composed of earthy or mineral substances,
twenty-five per centum ad vatorem.
Bec.lB. And be it further enacted, That from and after
the day and year aforesaid there shall be levied, collected
and paid on the importation of the articles hereinafter
mentioned the following duties, that is to say : On books,
periodicals and pamphlets, and all printed matter and
illustrated books and pipers, and on watches and parts
of watches, and watch materials, and undnlahed parts
of watches, fifteen per centum ad valorem.
Sec. 19. And be it further enacted. That from and after
the day and year aforesaid there shsAlbe levied, collected
and paid a duty of ten per centum on the importation of
the articles hereinafter mentioned and embraced in this
section, that is to env :
Acids, nitric, yellow and white, oxalic and other acids
of every description used for medicinal purposes or in
the fine arts, not otherwise provided for; aloes, amber,
ammonia, sal ammonia, muriate and carbonate of am
mooia ; anise seed ; arrow root; asafcctida ;
Bamboos; barks of all kinds not otherwise provided
for; beeswax; black lead or plumbago ; borate of lime;
brass, I,u pigs or bars, or when old and fit only to be re
manufactured; Brasil paste; bronze liquor; building
stones ;
Cantharides ; castor beans or seeds; chronometers,
box or ship's, and parts thereof ; cocculus indices; com
positions of glass or paste, not set, intended for use by
jewellers • cornmeal;
Diamonds, glaziers', set or not set; Dutch and bronze
metal, in leaf;
Engravings or plates, bound or unbound ; ergot !dried,
not
waste or sho Idy ; fruit, green, ripe or
not otherwise provided for ; furs, dressed or undressed,
when on the skin; furs, hatters', dressed or undressed,
when not on the skin;
gamboge ; ginger, ground, preserved or pickled ; glass
plates or disks, unwrought, fur optical instruments ;
go dbeaters' skin; green turtle; grindstones, wrought
or finished; gum, copal; gum substitute, or burnt
starch;
Bair of all kinds, cleaned, but unmanufactured, not
otherwise provided for; hops; horns, horn-tips, bones,
bone-tips, and teeth, manufactured ;
lodine, crude ; ipecacuanha ; iron liquor ;
Jalap ; juniper berries ;
Lemon and lime juice ; lime ;
Manganese; manna; marrow and all other greese, and
soap stocks, and soap stuffs; mineral kermes ; moss,
Iceland; music, printed with lines, bound or unbound;
Oatmeal; oils, palm, seal and cocoa-nut; olive oil, in
casks, other than salad oil; oranges, lemons and limes ;
orange and lemon peel;
Paintings and statuary. not otherwise provided for;
paving stones ; pearl or hulled barley ; Peruvian bark
plaster of Paris, when ground ; Prussian blue ;
Quicksilver;
Rhubarb; lye flour;
saffron and saffron cake; saltpetre or nitrate of sods,
or potash, when refined or partiallyrefined ; salts of tin,
sarsaparilla; sepia; shaddoek ; sheathing paper; spon
ges ; spunk ; squills;
Tapioca; triggers , iron; teazels; terse tin, in plates
or sheets ; tin toil; tin, in pl.tes or sheets;
Vanilla beans ; vegetables, not otherwise provided for;
verdigris;
Yams.
SRO. 20. And be it further enacted, That from and after
the day and year aforesaid there Shall be levied, collected
and paid a duty of twenty per centum on the importa
tien of the articles hereinafter mentioned and embraced
in this section, that is to say :
Antimony, tartrate of; acids, citric and tartaric;
Blank b,oks, bound or unbound; blue or Roman vit
riol, or sulphate of copper; boards, planks, staves, laths,
scantling, spars, hewn and sawed timber, and timberused
in Luildlog wharves; brick, fire-brick, and routing and
paving tile, not otherwise pruv ded for; brimstone, in
rolls; bronze powder; Burgundy pitch; burr stones,
manufactui ed or bound up .rno mill tones;
Calomel; castor oil; eastorum; chicory root; choco
late; chromate of lead; corks; cotton laces, cotton in
sertings, cotton trimming laces, and cotton braids; cow
hage ; eubebs ;
Dried pulp;
Ether;
Feather beds, feathers for beds, and downs of all
kinds; feldspar; fig-blue ; firewood; fish glue, or isin
glass; fish skins; Hour of sulphar ; Frankfurt black;
fulminates, or fulminating powders;
Glue; gold and silver and leaf; grapes; gunpowder;
flair, curled, moss, seaweed, and all other vegetable
Substances used for beds or matrasses; hat bodies, made
of wool, or of - which wool is the component material of
chief value ; hatters' plush, composed of silk and cotton.
but of which cotton is the component material of chief
value ;
Lampblack ; leather, tanned, bend or sole ; leather,
upper, of all kinds, except tanned calf-skin, which shall
pay twenty-five per eentum ad valorem ;
Magnesia, malt, mats, of cocoa nut; matting, China,
and other floor matting, and mats made of flags, jute or
grass; mercurial preparations, not otherwise provided
for; medicinal routs and leaves, and all other drugs and
medicines in a crude state, not otherwise provided for;
metals, unmanufactured, not otherwise provided for;
mineral and bituminous substances in a crude state, not
otherwise provided for; musical instruments of all
kinds, and strings for musical instruments of whip. gut
or catgut, and all other strings of the same material;
mustard, ground or manufactured;
Needles of all kinds for sewing, darning and knitting;
Oils, neatsfoot and other animal oils, spermaceti,
whale, and other fish oil, the produce of foreign fish
eries; oils volatile, essential or expressed, not otherwise
provided fur, osier or willow, prepared for basket ma
kers' use;
Paint, dry or ground in oil, not otherwise provided
for; pith; plaster of Paris, calcined;
Quills;
Ratans and reeds, manufactured or partially manu
factured red precipitate; Roman cement; rosin;
Sal soda; hypusuiphate of soda, and all carbonates of
soda, by whatever name designated, not otherwise pro
vided for; salts, Epsom, (dauber, Rochelle, and.all
other salts and preparations of salts not otherwise pro
vided for ; shoe, or boots, and other articles, composed
wholly of India-rubber, not otherwise provided for ;
skins, tanned and dressed, of all kinds; spices of alt
kinds, not otherwise provided fur '• spirits of turpentine;
starch; stereotype plates; still bottoms; strychnine;
sulphate of barytes, crude or refined; sulphate of mag
nesia; sulphate of quinine;
Tar ; thread laces and insertings ; type metal; types,
new ;
Varnish of all kinds; Vandyke brown; Venetian red;
Vermillion;
Whalebone, the produce of foreign fisheries; white
vitriol or sulphate of zinc; wood utunanufactured, not
otherwise provided for ; woolen listings.
SEC. 21. And be it further enacted That from and
after the day and year aforesaid there shall be levied,
col ected and paid on copper ore and diamonds, cameos,
moss es, gems, pearls, rubies and other precious stones,
when not set, a duty of five per centuin ad valorem ; on
the same when set in gold, silver or other metal, or on
imitations thereof, and all other jewelry., twenty-five per
centuin ad valorem ; on hair cloth and hair seatings,
and all other manufactures of hair, not otherwise pro
vided for, twenty-five per centu‘u ad valorem.
SEC. 22. And be itfurther enacted, That from and after
the day end year aforesaid there shall be levied, collected
and paid a duty of thirty per centum on the importation
of the articles hereinafter mentioned and cu: braced in
this section, that is to say :
Alabaster and spar ornaments;
Anchovies, sardines, and all other fish preserved in
oil;
Argentine, alabatta or Qerman silver, manufactured
or unmanufactured;
Articles embroidered with gold, silver or other metal ;
Articles worn by men, women or children, of whatever
material composed, male up, or made wholly or in part
by hand, not otherwise provided for;
Asses' shins;
Balsams, cosmetics, essences, extract., pastes, per
fumes and tinctures, used either fOr the toilet or for
methane! purposes;
Baskets, and all other articles composed of grass,
ozier, palm leaf, straw. whalebone or willow, not other
wise provided fur;
Beads of amber, composition or wax, and all beads;
Benzoates ; Bologna sausages;
Bracelets, braids, chains, curls or ringlets, composed
of hair, or of which hair is a c mponent material;
Braces, suspenders webbing or other fabrics, composed
wholly or in part of India rubber, not otherwise provi
ded for ;
Brooms and brushes of all kinds;
Buttons and button moulds of alt kinds;
Canes and sticks for walking, finished or unfinished;
Capers, pickles, and sauces of all kinds, not otherwise
provided ior ;
Caps, hats, muffs and tippets of fur, and all other man
ufactures of fur, or of which fur shalt be a component
material;
Caps, gloves, legging, nits, socks, stockings, wove
shirts and drawers, and all similar articles made on
frames, or whatever material composed, worn by men,
woolen or children, and not otherwise provided for;
Carbonate of magnesia;
Card cases, pocket books, shell boxes, souvenirs, and
all similar articles of whatever material composed ;
Carriages and limits of carriages;
Clocks and parts or clocks;
Clothing, ready-made, and wearing apparel of every
description, of whatever material composed, except
wool, made up or manufactured wholly or in part by the
tailor, seamstress or manufacturer;
Coach eixt harness furniture of all kinds, saddlery,
coach and harness hardware, silver plated, brass, brass
plated of covered, common tinned, burnished or japanned;
not otherwise provided for;
Combs of all kinds;
Compositions of glass or paste, when sot ;
Composition tops for tables, or other articles of furni
ture;
Comfits, sweetmeats, or fruits preserved in sugar,
Mandy or molasses, not otherwise provided for;
Coral, cut or manufactured;
Cotton cords, gimps and galloons;
Cotton laces. Colored;
Court plaster
Crayons of all kinds ;
Cutlery of all kinds;
Dolls and toys of all kinds;
Encaustic tiles ;
Epaulets, galloons. laces, knots, stars, tassels, tresses
and wings of gold, silver o other metal;
Fans and fire screens of every description, of whatever
material composed;
Feathers and flowers, artificial or ornamental, and
parts thereof, of whatever material composed;
Flats, braids, plaits, sparterre and willow squares,
used for making hats and bonnets;
Firecrackers;
Frames and sticks for umbrellas, parasols and sun
shades, finished or unfinished ;
Furniture, cabinet and household ;
Hair pencils ;
Hat bodies of cotton;
Hats and bonnets for men, women and children, com
posed of straw, chip, grass, palm leaf, willow or any
other vegetable substa .ce, or of hair, whalebone, or
other material not otherwise provided for;
litnnan hair, cleansed or prepared for use;
Ink and ink powder;
Japanned, patent or enamelled leather, or skins of all
kinds;
Japanned ware of all kinds, not otherwise provided
for;
Jet, and manufactures of jet, and imitations thereof;
Lead pencil. i
Maccaroni, vermicelli, gelatine, jellies, and all simi
lar preparations;
Manufactures of silk, or of which silk shall be a com
ponent material, not otherwise provided for ;
Manufactures of the bark of the cork tree, except
corks;
Manufactures of bone, shell, horn, ivory, or vegeta
ble ivory;
Manufactures, articles, vessels and wares, not other
wise provided for, of brass, copper, gold, iron, lead, pew
ter, patina silver, tin or other metal, or of which either
of these metals or any other metal shall be the compo
nent material of chief value ;
Manufactures, not otherwise provided for, composed
of mixed materials, inpart of cotton, silk, wool, worsted
or Hex;
Manufactures of cotton, linen, silk, wool or worsted,
if embroidered or tambored, in the loom or otherwise,
by machinery or witu the needle, or other process, not
otherwise provided for ;
Manufactures of cedar wood, grenadine, ebony, ma
hogany, rosewood and satinwood;
Marble in the rough or blocks, manufactures of mar
ble. marble paving tiles, and all marble sawed, squared,
dressed or polished;
Manufactures and articles of leather, or of which
leather shall be a component part, not otherwise provi
ded for;
Manufactures of paper, er of which paper is a compo
nent material, not otherwise provided for;
Manufactures, articles and wares of papier mache;
Manufactures of goat's hair or mohair, or of which
goat's hair or mohair shall be a component material, not
otherwise provided for;
Manufactures of wood, or of which wood is the chief
component part, not otherwise provided for;
Medicinal preparatiors, not otherwise provided for;
Mrtallic pens
Mineral waters;
Muskets, rifles and all other fire-arms;
Oilcloth of every description, of whatever material
composed, not otherwise provided for
Olive salad oil;
Olives;
Paper boxes and all other fancy boxes;
Paper envelopes;
Paper hangings, and paper for screens or fire-boards ;
paper, antiquarian, decoy, drawing, elephant, foolscap,
imperial letter, and all other paper not otherwise provi
ded for;
Parasols and sunshades ;
Parchment; •
Plated and gilt ware of all kinds;
Playing cards;
Prepared vegetables, meats, fish, poultry and game,
sealed or unsealed, in cans or otherwise ;
Red chalk pencils;
Salmon preserved;
Scagliola tops, for tables or other articles of furniture;
Sealing wax;
Side a, ins of every description;
Silver plated metal, in sheets or other form ;
Slates, roofing slates, slate pencils, slate chimney
pieces, mantels, slabs for tables, and all other manufac
tures of slate;
Soap, castile, perfumed, Windsor, and all otherkinds;
'twines and packthread, of whaever material com
posed, not otherwise provided for ;
Umbrellas;
Unwrought clay, three dollars per ton;
Vellum; velvet, when printed or painted; wafers; wa
ter colors;
Webbing composed of wool, cotton, flax or any other
materials,
Sso. 22. And be it further enacted, That from and after
the day and year aforesaid the importation of the articles
herelmlfter mentioned and embraced in thiatieetion shall
be exempt from duty, that is to say :
Acids, acetic, acetous, benzoic, boracic, muriatic, sul
phuric, and pyroligneous, and all acids of every descrip
tion used for chemical and manufacturing purposes, not
otherwise provided for; alcornoque ;
All books, maps, charts, mathematical nautical instru
ments, philosophical apparatus, and all other articles
whatever imported for tae use of the United States ; all
philosophical apparatus, instruments, books, maps and
charts, statues, statuary, busts and casts of marble,
bronze, alabaster or plaster of Paris; paintings and
drawings, etchings, specimens of sculpture, cabinets of
coins, medals, regalia, gems and all collections of an
tiquities: Provided, The same be specially imported, in
good faith. for the use of any society incorporated or es
tablished for philosophical, literary or religious purpo
ses, or established for the encouragement of the fine
arts, or for the use or by the order of any college, acad
emy, school or seminary of /earning in the United
States;
Ambergris; annatto, roncou or Orleans; animal car
bon, (bone black;)
Animals, living, of all kinds ;
Antimony, crude or regulus of;
Argot or crude tartar; arsenic;
Articles in a crude state used in dyeing ortanning, not
otherwise provided for; asphaltum; bananas;
Bark, Peruvian, or bark quills;
Bernie and soda ash;
Bells, old, and bell metal ;
Berries, nuts, flowers, plants and vegetables used ex
clusively in dyeing or in composing dyes ; but no article
shall be classed as such that has undergone any manu
facture;
Birds, lenging or other, and land and water fowls ;
BismUth; bitter apples ;
Bolting cloths;
Bones, burnt, and bone-duet ;
Books, maps and charts imported by authority of the
Joint Library Committee of Congress for the use of the
library of Congress : Provided, : That if, in any case, a
contract shall have been made with any bookseller, im
porter or other person aforesaid. shall have paid the duty
or included the duty in said contract, in such case the
duty shall be remitted;
Borax, crude or tiocal ; beech° leaves;
Brazil wood, brusiletto, and all other dye-woods, in
sticks ;
Breccia, in blocks or slabs;
Brimstone, crude, in bulk ; brhue ;
Bullion, gold and silver;
Burrstenes, wrought or =wrought, but unmanufac
tared, and nut bound up into millstones;
Cabinets of coins, medals, and all other collections of
antiquities;
Cadmium; calamine; camphor, crude;
Chalk, French chalk and red chalk;
Cochineal; cobalt;
Cocoa, cocoa shells, cocoa leaves and cocoa nuts;
Coffee and tea, when imported direct from the place of
their growth or production, in American vessels, or in
foreign vessels entitled by reciprocal treaties to be ex
empt from discriminating duties, tonnage and other
charges;
Coffee, the growth or production of the possessions of
the Netherlands, imported from the Netherlands in the
Same manner;
Coins, gold, silver and copper;
Copper, when imported for the United States mint;
Cotton ; cork-tree bark, unmanwactured
Cream of tarter; cudbear, vegetable anti Orchil ;
Di d-divi ; dragon's blood ;
Emery, in lump or pulverized;
Extract of indigo;
Extract of madder;
Extracts and decoctions of logwood and other dye
woode, not otherwise provided for;
Felt, adhesive, for sheathing vessels;
Flints;
inn; ground ;
Fish; fresh caught, for daily consumption;
Fullers' earth;
Ginger root; gum, Arabic, Barbary, East India, Jedda,
Senegal, Tragacinth, Benjamin or Benzoin, myrrh, and
all other gums and resins in a crude state, not otherwise
provided for;
Gu'tta-percha, Unmanufactured;
Grindstones, rough or unfinished;
PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING,
SUNDAYS 112C.CEPTED,
BY 0. BARRETT & 00
?WE DAILY PATRIOT AND UNION will be served to ea h
aeribera reading in the Borough for six oeNTBpaa wawa
payable to the Carrier. Mail rabacrlbera, roe* awi
LARS PER ANNUM.
TUE WEEKLY will be published as heretofore, send
weekly during the session of the Legislature, and anal ■
week the remainder of the year, ;or two dollars In ad
ranee, or three dollars at the expiration of the year.
Connected with this establishment is an eztensih
108 OFFICE, containiwg a variety of plain and fancy
type, unequalled by any establishment in the interior o f
the State, for which the patronage of the public is so.
li cited
\ NO. 191.
Garden seeds, and all other seeds for agricultural,
horticultural, medicinal, and manufacturing purposes,
not otherwise provided for;
Glass, when old. not in pieces which can be cut for
use, and fit only to be re-manufactured ;
Goods, wares, and merchandise, the growth, produce,
or manufacture of the United Stater', exported to a for
eign country, aod brought back to the United States in
the same condition as when exported, upon which no
di iw'iack or bounty has been allowed: Provided, That
all regulations to ascertain the identity thereof, pre
scribed by existing laws, or which may be prescribed by
tip! Secretary of tne Treasury, shall be complied with;
Guano;
Household effects, old, and in use of persons or fami
lies from foreign countries, if used abroad by them and
not intended for any other person or persons, or for
sale;
Hair of all kinds, uncleaned and unmanufactured, and
all long horse-hair, used for weaving, cleaned or nu
cleaned, drawn or undrawn ;
India rubber, in bottles, slabs, or sheets, unmanufac
tured ; India rubber, milk of ;
Indigo; ice; ; irris, orris root ;
Ivory, unmanufactured; ivory nuts, or vegetable
ivory;
Junk, old, and oakum;
Kelp ;
L die; lac spirits; lac sulphur;
Lastings. mohair cloth, silk, twist, or other manufac
tures of cloth, cut in strips or patterns of the size and.
shape for shoes, slippers, boots, bootees, gaiters, and.
buttons, exclusively, not combined with India rubber;
Leeches"; liquorice root;
Madder, ground or prepared, and madder root;
Manuscripts; marine coral, unmanufactured;
medals, of gold, silver, or copper;
Machinery, suitable for the manufacture of flax and.
linen goods only, and imported for that purpose solely,
but not including that which may be used for any other
manufactures ;
Maps and charts ; mineral blue;
Models of inventions, and other improvements in the
arts: Provided, That no article or articles shall be
deemed a model or improvement which can be fitted for
use;
Munjeet ; or India madder;
Matron; nickel; nutgalls ; nux. vomica ;
Oil, spermaceti, whale, and other fish, of American
fisheries, and all other articles the produce of such fish
eries;
Orpiment, or su'phuret of arsenic;
Paintings and statuary, the production of American
artists residing . abroad : Provided, The same be im
ported in good faith, as objects of taste Mid not of
mer
chandise;
Palm leaf. unmanufactured;
Pearl, mother of ;
Personal and household effects, not merchandise, of
citizens of the United States dying abroad;
Pineapples; plantains;
Plaster of Paris, or sulphate of lime unground ;
unmanufactur, d; plativa vases or retorts ;
Polishing stones; pumice and pumice stones;
Quassia-wood ;
Rags, of whatever material, except wool ;
Ratans and reeds, unmanufactured ;
Rottenstone ;
Safflower; saltpetre, or nitrate of soda, or potash,
when crude;
Sandal wood ; seedlac ;
Sheathing metal, or yellow metal, not wholly of cop
per, nor woolly or in part of iron, ungalvanized, in
sheets forty-eight inches long and fourteen inches wide,
a d weighing from fourteen to thirty-four ounces per
square yard
Shellac; shingle-bolts and stave-bolts
Silk, raw, or as reeled from the cocoon, not being dou
bled, twisted, or advanced in manufacture any way, and
silk cocoons and silk waste;
Smelts ; specimens of natural history, mineralogy, and
botany;
Staves for pipes, hogsheads, or other casks ;
Stoneware, not ornamented, above the capacity of tea
gallons ;
Substances expressly used for manure; sumac;
Terra japonica, catechu, or cutch ;
Tin, in pigs, bars, or blocks;
Tortoise and other shells, unmanufactured;
Trees, shrubs, bulbs, plants, and roots, not otherwise
provided for:
Turmeric; types, old, and fit only to be re-manufac
tured ;
Wearing apparel in actual use, and other personal ef
fects; (not merchandise,) professional books. implements,
instruments, and tools of trade, occupation, or employ
ment of persons arriving in the United States : Provided,
That this exemption shall not be construed to include
machinery, or other articles imported for use in any
manufacturing establishment, or for sale.
Weld ; woad OT pastel;
Woods, namely: cedar, lignum-vitm,lancewood; ebony,
box, gran, dilla, mahogany. rosewood, satin woos, and. all
cabinet woods, unmanufactured;
Wool, unmanufactured, and all hair of the goat,
alpaca, and other like animals, unmanufactured, the
value whereof at the last port or place from whence ex
ported to the United States shall be eighteen cents, or
under, per pound.
Sec. 24. And be it . further enacted, That from and after
the day and year aforesaid there shall be levied, collected,
and p ,id on the i mportation of all raw or unmanufactured
articles, not herein enumerated or provided for, a duty
of ten per centum ad valorem ; and on all articles man
ufactured in whole or in part, not herein enumerated
or provided for, a duty of twenty per centum ad valorem.
Sec 25. And be itfurther enacted, That all goods, wares"
and merchandize, which may be in the public stores, on
the day and year aforesaid, shall be subject to no other
duty upon the entry thereof than if the same were im
ported respectively after that day.
tiec. 26. And be itf urther enacted, That whenever the
word IL ton' , is used in this act, in reference to weight,it
shall be deemed and taken to be twenty hundred weight,
each hundred weight being one hundred and twelve
pounds avoirdupois.
Sec. 27. And be it further enacted, that railroad iron,
partially or wholly worn, may be imported into the Uni
ted States without payment of duty, under bond to be
withdrawn and exported after the said railroad iron
shall have been repaired or re-manufactured; and the
Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and di.
rected to prescribe such rules and regulations as may be
necessary to protect the revenue aga net fraud, and se
cure the identity, character, and weight of all such im
portations when again withdrawn and exported, restrict
ing and limiting the export and withdrawal to the same
port of entry where imported, and also limiting all
bowie to a period of time of not more than six months
from the date of the importation.
Sec. 28. And be it farther enacted, That in all cases
where the duty upon any imports of goods, wares, or
merchandize shall be subject to be levied upon the true
market value of such imports in the principal markets
of the country tom whence the importation shall have
been made, or at the port of exportation, the duty shall
be estimated and collected upon the Value on the day of
actual shipment whenever a till of lading shall be pre
sented showing the date of shipment, and which shall'
be certified by a certificate of the United States consul,
commercial agent, or legally authorized deputy.
Sec. 29. Anil be tt further enacted. That the annual sta
tistical accounts of the commerce of the United States
with foreign countries, requited by existing laws, shall
hereafter be made up and completed by the Register of
the Treasury, under the direction of the Secretary of
the Treasury, so as to compreh-nd and include, inetabu
ler form, the quantity by weight or measure, as well as
the amount of value, of the several articles of foreign
commerce, whether dutiable or otherwise; and also a
similar and separate statement of the commerce of the
United States with the British Provinces, under the
late, so-called, reciprocity treaty with Great Britain.
Sec. 30. And be itfurther enacted, That from and after
the day and yearafuresaid there shall be allowed adraw
back on foreign hemp manufactured into cordagein the
United States, and exported therefrom, equal ip amount
to the duty paid on the foreign hemp 'rem which it shall
be manufactured, to be ascertained under such regula
tions as shall he pt escribefl by the Secretary of the Trea
sury-, and no more : Provided, That ten -per centum on
the a mo unt of all drawbs.cks so allowed shall be retained
for the use of the United States, by the collectors pay
ing such drawbacks respectively.
Sec. 31. And be it further enacted, That all acts and
parts of acts repugnant to the pro • isione of this act be
and the same are hereby repealed: Provided, That the
existing laws shall extend to and be in force for the col
lection of the duties imposed by this act for the prose
en ion and punishment of all offences, and for the re
c very, collection, distribution, and remission of all
fines, penalties, and forfeitures, as fully and effectually
as if every regulation, penalty, forfeiture, provision,
clause, matter : and thing to that effect, in the existing
laws conta.ned, bad been inserted In and re-enacted by
this act
of the same material or d
See. 32. And be it further enacted, That when mer
chandisedifferent values, are invoiced at an average price, and
description, but of
not otherwise provided for, the duty shall be meshed
upon the whole invoice, at the rate the highest valued
goods in such invoice are subject to under this act,—
The words value and valued, nerd in this act, shall be
construed ami understood as meaning the true market
value of the goods, wares, and merchandise in the prin
cipal markets of the c ountry from whence exported at
the date of exportation.
Sec. 33 And be it further enacted, That all goods,
wares, and m ereliandize , actually on shipboard, and.
bound to II:id-trotted States, within fifteen days afterthe
passage of this act, and all goods, wares, and merchan
dise in &Po' s "
warehouse er public store on the first
day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, shall be
subject to pay such duties as provided by law before and
at the time of the passage of this act; and all goods in
warehouse at the time this act takes effect, on which
the
nm
duties p are gy elto lessened
the b
duties
its provisions, may be with
drawn
herein
provided.
Aoprovod. St..reh 2. 3861.
AnitziA TT-A 1 ) IVY 1110.A1 T• Si
ANOTHER. LOT OF
MORTON'S UNRIVALLED GOLD PENS!,
PERSONS in want of a superior and really good GOLD
PM will find with me a large assortment to select from,
and have the pritilege to exchange the Pena until their
hand is perfectly suited. And if by fair means the Dia
mond points break off during twelve mouths, the pur
chaser shall have the privilege to select a new one,
without any charge.
I have very good Gold Pens, in strong silver-plated,
cases, for $l, $1.25, $l5O, $2.00
For sale at SORE FFER'S BOOKSTORE,
mar 26 lie. 18 Ilarket Street, Ilarriaburg, Pa.