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And be it furiher enacted, Thai,' 1 r. . .1. r ... .1. - 10 tall be levied, collected, and paid on the ltir rtaiion of the articles hereinafter mentioned, le following duties; thai is to say: 1. On raw sugar (commonly called brown ugar) not advanced beyond its raw stale, by laying, boiling, clarifying, or oilier process, and t syrup of sugar, or of sugar, and on brown fayed sugar, two and a half cents per pound; p all other sugars when advanced beyond ihe piw slate, by claying, boiling, clarifying or jiher process, and not yet refined, four cents er pound; on refined sugars (whether loaf, iimp, crushed, or puherized, and, when, after eing refined, ihey have been tinctured, colored, Ir in any way adulterated,) and on sugar candy, tix cenis per pound; on molasses, four and a lalf mills per pound: Provided, J hat all syrups pf sugar or of sugar cane, entered under ihe de signation of molasses, or any other appellation than syrup of sugar, or of sugar cane, shall be Uablelo lorfeitureto the United States; on com- Sis, on sweetmeats, of fruits preserved in mo lasses, sugar, or brandy, and on confectionary jbf all kinds, not otherwise specified, twenty -live er centum ad valorem: Provided lurther, That an inspection under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury ma3T prescribe, shall i be made of all sugars and molasses imported Iromloreign countries, irroTder to prevent frauds, hind to prevent the introduction of sugars, syr- inp ol sugar, syrup of cane, or battery syrup, un der ihe title ol molasses, or in any other im proper manner. 2d. On cocoa, one cent per pound; chocolate, Jour cents per pound; on mace, fifty cents per iound; nutmegs, thirty cents per pound; cloves, t ight cents per pound; cinnamon, twenty -five cents per pound; oil of cloves, thirty cents per pound; China cassia, five cents per pound; pr memo, utb cunjs per pouna; on uiacu pepper, five cents per pound; Ca3'cnne and African, or Chili pepper, 10 cents per pound; ginger, ground, wur cents per-pnund gmger in ihe root, when not preserved, two cents per pound; on mustard, twenty-five per centum ad i-alorem; on mustard seed, and on linseed, five per centum ad valo rem; on campnor, renncti, twenty cents per pound; crude camphor, live cents per pound; on indigo, five cents per pound;-on woad or pastel, one cent per pound: on ivory or bone black. three-fourths of one cent per podhd; on alum one cent and a hall per pound;- on opium, seventy-five cents, per pound; on quieksilvre, five per ccutuni ad valorem; on roll brimstone. calo mel, and other mercurial preparations, corrosive'! buujimaie, anu reu precipitate, twenly-hve per centum ad valorem; on glue, iive cents per pound; on gunpowder, eight cents per pound;. ui copperas and green vitriol, two , cents per pound; on blue or Roman vitriol, or sulphate of copper, lour cents per pound; on oil of vitriol, or sulphurieacid, onecejit pfcr pound: on almonds and prunes, three cents per pound; on sweet oil' 01 aimonu, nine cents prr pound; on dates, one cent per pound; currants, three cents per pound; figs, two cents per pound; on all nuts notspeci- uea, except tnosc useu lor dyeing, one cent per pounu; on muscaiei and oioom raisins, eilhcfin boxes or jars, thne cents per pound; and on all her raisins, two cents per pound; on olives thirty per centum ad valorem. 3d. On olive oil in casks, I wanly cents per gallon; olive salad oil in buulea or betties, thirty per centum ad valon-Lr, all other oliro,oil, not salad, and not oth,'vi$e specified, twenty per centum ad valorem; on spermaceti oil of foreign fisheries. t',onty-five cents per gallon; wjiale or other firfoil, not sperm, of lbreign fisheries, fif rGe cen,s Per gallon; whalebone, the product of iorcign fisheries, twe.lve arid a half per centum ad valorem; on spermaceti or wax candles, and on caudles of spermaceti and" Wax combined, B- bails, and Castile soap, thirty per centum ad valorem; on all other hard soaps, four cents per pound; and on all soft soap, fifty cents per bar-, rel; on marrow, grease, and on all other soap stocKs .and soap stuns, ten per cent, ad valorem oh starch, two cents per pound: on pearl or hul led barley, two cents per pound; on corks, thir ty per centum ad valorem; on. manufactures-o cork, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; on sponges and spunk, twenty per centum ad val orem; on oranges and lemons, in boxes, barrels or casKs, and on grapes not dried, in boxes kegs or jars, twenty per centum ad valorem. 4th. On salt, eight cents per bushel of fifty. six pounds; on saltpetre, partially refined, one lourth ol one cent per pound; completely refined, two. cents per pound; on bleaching pfiwder, or chloride of lime, one cent per pound; on vine gar, eight cents per gallon; on spirits of turpen tine, ten cenls per gallon; on beef and pork, two cents per pound; hams and bacon, three cents per pound; prepared moats, poultry, or frame, in cases or otherwise, and Bologna sausages, twen ty-five per centum ad valorem; on cheese, nftio cents per pound, butter five cents per pound; on lard, three cents per pound; macaroni and ver micelli, gelantine, jellies, &c, all similar prepa rations, thirty per centumf ad valorem; on wheat, twenty-five cents per bushel; barley, twenty cenls per bushel; rye, fifteen cenls per bushel; oats, ten cents per bushel; Indian corn, or maize, ten cents per bushel; wheal flour, seventy cents per one hundred and twelve pounds; Indian meal, twenty cents per one hundred and twelve, pounds; potatoes, ten cents per bushel; on for eign caught fish, viz: dried or smoked, one dol lar per hundred and twelve pounds; on mack erel and herrings, pickled or salted, one dollar and fifty cents per barrel; on pickled salmon, two dollars per barrel; on all other fish, pickled, in barrels, one dollar per barrel, on all other pickled fish, imported otherwise than in barrels" or half barrels, not specified, twenty per centum ad valorem; and on sardines and other fish, pre served in oil, twenty per centum ad valorem: Provided, That fresh-caught fish, brought in -for daily consumptions shall be exempt from duty; eign nation's: Prb'vided. further,. That all imita-j several rates of duties imposed by this acton lions of brandy or spirits, or of any of the said wines, and all .wines imported by any name whatever, shalLbe subject 10 the duly provided ior tno genuine arucie, and to J he highest rate r 1r1.iv- .t. .- - wi uuiy Hjjpucauje u inearucie ol ine same name. And. provided farther, That u hen wines are importedrin bottles, the bottles shall pay a separate, duty, according to the rate established by this act; on cordials and liquors of all kinds sixty cents per galhm, on arrack, absymhe, Kirschen was'ser, ratafia, and other similar spir ituous beverages, not otherwise specified, sixty cenls per gallon, on ale, porter, and beer, in bot tles, twenty cents per gallon otherwise than in bottles, fifteen cents per gallon;; on tobacco in eal, or unmanulactured, twenty per centum ad valorem; on cigars, of all kinds, forty cents per pound; on snuff, twelve cents per pound: manu factured tobaccpj otherthan snuff and cigars, ten cents per pound. Sec. 9. And.be n further enacted, That frorr and after the day and vqar before mentioned, the following articles shall be exempt from-, duty, namely. 1st. All articles imported for the use of the Urited States. 2d. All goods, wares, or merchandise, the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United States exported to a foreign country, and brought ack to tho United States, and books and per- sonel and household, effects, not merchandise, of citizens of the United States dyiijg abroad. 3d. Paintings and statuary, the production of American artists residing abroad. 4th. Wearing apparel in actual use, and oth er personal effects, not merchandise, profession al books, injtruments, implements, and tools of trade, occupation, or employment, of persons arriving in the United States. 5:h. Philosophical apparatus, instruments, book.Sj maps, and charts, statutes, statuary, busts, and casts of marble, bronze, alabaster, or plas ter of Paris, paintings, drawings, engravings, etchings, specimens of sculpture, cabinets of coins,, medals, gems, and all other collections of antiquities,, provided the same be specially mported in good faith for the use of any socie ty incorporated or established for philosophical or literary purposes, or for the encouragement cents per pound; wax tap.ers, thirty per-centUml ,ad valorem; tallow candlj foucejits.per. pound; j ?h ia..u, ono cent pcrnoutTdabecs wax,' blcach- on fish glue or isinglass, twenty per centum ad valorem; on pickles, capers, and sauces of a'lf kinds, not otherwise enumerated, thirty per cen tum ad valorem; on castor oil, forty cents per gallon; neats foot and animals oil, and all vola tile and essential oils, not otherwise specified, twenty per centum ad valorem; on all gums and other resinous substances, not specified, in a crude stale, iifty per centum ad valorem; and on the said articles, when not in a crude state, and on pastes, balsams, essences, tinctures, extracts, cosmetics, and perfumes, not otherwise enumer ated, twenU'-five per centum ad valorem: on ben zoic, citric, white and yellow muriatic, nitric, oxalic, pyroligneous, and tartaric acids, twenty per centum ad valorem; on boracic acid, five per centum ad valorem; borax or lineal, twenty- hve per centum ad valorem; on ambei, amber : : . : 1 giis, uiuuiuuiu, uunuu, anniseeu, arrow root, va nilla beans, french chalk, red chalk, juniper ber ries, manganese, nitrate of lead, chromate, bi chromate, and prussiate of potash, glauber and Kochelie salts, J.psom salts, or sulphate of mag ucsia, anu an omer cnemicai salts or prepara tions of salts not enumerated, smalls, sal soda: and all caibonates or soda, by whatever name designated; other than soda ash, barilla, and kelp, twent per centum ad valorem; on sul phate of quinine, forty cents per ounce, avoirdu pois; on soda ash, five per centum ad valorem. 5th. On brandy, one dollar per gallon; on other spirits manufactured or distilled from grain or oilier materials, for first and second proofs, sixty cents for third proof, sixty-five cents, for fourth proof, seventy cents, for fifth proof, seventy-five cents", and all above fifth proof, ninety cenis per gallon; on Madeira-, Sherry, San Luca, and Canary wine, in casks or bottles, sixty cents per .gallon; on champaign wine?, forty cents per gallon; on port, Burgundyvand claret wines, in. bottles, rKirty-five cents per gallon; on port and Burgundy wines, in casks, fifteen cents per gal Ion; on Teneriffe wines, in casks or bottles, 2.0 cents per gallon; on claret wines in casks, six ceriis per gallon; on the1 whitfe wines, not enumerated, of France, Austria, Prussia, and Sardinia, and Portugal and its possessions, in casks, se veil and a half cents per gallon; in bot- Jjes twenty cents per gallon; o;jthe r?d wines, not enumerated, of France and Austria, and Sar- J- 1 - r 1 . 1 -. . i umia, anu 01 ronugai anu- ns possessions, jti cask, six cent per gallon; in btifiles, twenty cents per gallon; on the white and red wines of Spain, Germany, and the Mediterranean, not enumerated, in casks, twelve and a half cents per gallon; in" bottles twenty cenis per gallon; on Sicily "Maderia, or Marsala winesj in casks or bottles, twenty-five cents per gallon; on other wines .of .Sicily, -in casks or "bottles, fifteen cents per gajlon; on all other wjnes, not enume-! rated, and other than those of France, Austria, Prussia, and Sardinia, and of Portugal and ifs possessions, when in bditles; sixty-five cents per gallon, when 'in casks," twenty-five cents per gallon, i'rovipeay.l hat nothing herein contain of the fine arts, or for the use and by the order of any college, academy, school, or seminary of learning, in the United Slates. 6th. Anatomical preparations, models of ma chinery, and of other inventions and improve ments in the arts; specimens in natural history, mineralogy, and botany; trees, shrubs, plants, bulbs or roots, and garden seeds, not otherwise specified; berries nuts, and vegetables, used principally in dying or composing dyes; all d3'e woods in slick; whale and other fish oils of American fisheries, and all other articles the pro duce ol said fisheries, animals imported for breed; fish, fresh caught, imported for daily con sumption; fruit, green, or ripe, from the West Indies, in bulk; tea and coffea when imported in American vessels from the place of the growth or production. 7th. Adhesive fell for. sheathing vessels, al cornoque," aloes, antimony, crude, . argol, as.a fcetida, ava root, barilla, bark of cork, tree un manufactured; bells or bell metal, old and only fit to be remanufaclured, or parts thereof, and all goods, wares, and merchandize, which shall be imported from any port or place east of the Gape Of Good Hope, in foreigncvessels: Provi ded, That these additional duties shall not ap ply 10 goods, wares or merchandize, which shall be imported, after the day that this act goes in- .-. .:.. ... .i . r.u rr: 10 operation. 'in snips or vessels nui ui me uni ted" Stalest entitled by treaty, or by tiny acts of Congress, to be entered in the ports -of the'U States,' on the payment of the same duties as shall then be paid on goods, wares, or mer chandize imported in ships or vessels of the United States. Sec. 12. And bo it further enacted, That, on and after the day this act goes into operation, the ddties on all imported goods, Wares, or mer chandize, shall be paid in cash, Provided, That, in all cases of failure or neglect to pay the du ties, on completion of the entry, the said goods, wares, or merchandize, shall be taken posses sion of by the collector, and deposited in the public stores, there to be kept with due and rea sonable care, at the charge and risk of the owner importer, consignee or agent; and if such goods remain in public storo beyond sixty days (ex cept in the case of goods imported beyond the Cape oT Good Hope, remaining lor the space of ninety days) without payment of the duties thereon, then said goods, wares, and merchan dize, or such quantities thereof as may be deemed necessary to discharge ihe duties, shall be ap praised and sold by the collector at public auc tion, on due public notice thereof being first given, in the manner and for the time to be pre scribed by a general regulation of the Treasu ry Department; and, at said public sale, distinct printed catalogues, descriptive of said goods, with the appraised value affixed thereto, shall be dfstributed among the persons present at said sale; and a reasonable opportunity shall be given, before such sale, to persons desirous of purchasing, to inspect the quality of such goods, and the proceeds of said sales, after deducting the usual rate of storage at the port, in question', together with all other charges and expenses including interest on the duties from the date of entry at the rate of six per centum, shall be applied to the payment of the duties, and any balances of money remaining, over and above the full amount of duties, charges, and expen ses and interest aforesaid, as well as such quan tities of any goods, wares, or. iherchandize, as may not have been sold for the purposes before mentioned, shall be delivered and the money paid over by the collector, to the owner, impor ter, consignee, or agent, and proper receipts ta ken for the same: And provided, That if no claim be made by such owner, importer, consignee,- or agent, for the portion of goods which may remain in the hands of the collector, after such sale, the said goods shall be forthwith re turned to the public stores, there to be kept at the risk and expense of the owner, importer, consignee, or agent, until claimed or sold for "storage agreeably to law: and the proceeds of the sale for duties remaining unclaimed for the space of ten days after such sale, shall after payment of duties and all expenses aforesaid, at the expiration of that period, be paid by the colleclor into the Treasury, in the manner pro vided for in the case of unclaimed goods in tho next succeeding section of this act: And pro- rf 1 chimes of bells; brass in pigs or bars, and old I vided, further, That when any goods are of a brass only fit to. be remanufaclured, Brazil ivum, crude brimstone, anu flour of sulphur, bullions, burr stones unu rought; cantharides, chalk, clay unwrought, cochineal, coins of gold and silver copper, imported in any shape for the use of the mint, copper in pigs, or bars, and copper ore, j plates or sheets ol copper for sheathing vessels, but none is to be so considered except that which is 14 inches wide and 48 inches long, and weighing from 14 to 34 ounces per square foot; old copper, fit only to be remanufactured; cream of tartar, emery, flints, ground Ami, gold bullion, gold epaulets, and wing, grindstones, gum Arabic, gtini Senegal, gum Iragacanth, In.- dia rubber, in. bottles or shels, or otherwise, unmanufactured, arid old junk, oakurrr, kelp, kermes, lac ilyc, leeches, madder, madder root, mother of pearl, knickel, nux vomica, palm loaf unmanufactured; palm oil; Peruvian bark, pew ter when old and only fit to be remanufactured; platiha unmanufactured, .plaster of Palis un ground, raians, and reeds unmanufactured, rhu barb, "saltpetre, when crude, sarsaparilla, shel- laekysHvfjr bullion, silver epaulets, and wings, stones called polishing stones, stone called rot len slonc, sumac, tartar when, crude, teutenque, tunneriq, weld, woods; of all kinds, when tin- JiXir.-Jiif.turt"1, "ju ftr.:;? v;:'-;::eraled- Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That on all articles .hot herein eriumeraled or provided for, there shallbe T levied, collected, and.paid, a duty of twenty per cenMun 'ad' valorem! - Sec. 1 1.. And be it further enacted, That an addition of .en per centum shall be made tollies several rales of duties by this act imposed, in rjespect (o all goods, wares and merchandize, on the' importation "of which j'I'i American ojf fop eign'ye'sselsVa specific discrimination between thcjTi is riot herein -"mads, which, from' and after the tirrte 'when this, act shall take. effect arid -go into operation" shall- be irnjarlel in ships or fishoble nature, they shall be sold forthwith. Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, 1 hat, previous to the sale of any unclaimed goods, the said collector shall procure an inventory aiid appraisement thereof to be made, and to be verrified, on oath or affirmation, by two or more respectable merchants, before the said collec tor, and to remain with .him; and said colleclor shall afterward cause said goods, to be adver tised and sold in the manner provided for in this act, and after retaining the duties thereon, agree ably to such inventory and appraisement, and interest and charges as aforesaid, shall pay the overplus, if any thero be, into the Treasury of shall be allowed a. drawback, on foreign; sognc refined jn the United States, and exported there from, of three and a quarter cents per pound, equal in amount to the duty laid on the foreign sugar from which it shall b manufactured, to' he ascertained under said regulations as s.lwlf bo presented by the Secretary of the Treasury and more, and on spirits distilled from foreign mo lasses, a drawback of five cents per gallon," tilt the first day of January, eighteen hundred aiij forty-three, when it shall be reduced one fi.t per gallon; and annually, on. the first, day "of Jan uary threafter, the sJid drawback,-shall "hi? re duced one cent per gallon, until the 'saitfe i wholly discontinued: Provided, That tbiY act shall not alter or repeal any lay haw. inTorcn regulating the exportation of sugar' refined or spirits distilled from molasses in the U. Ssttes except as to the'rates of duties and" drawbacks. Sec. 15. And be it further enacted,. That, irr the case-of all' goods-, wares, or merchandize, imported. on and after the day this act goes into operation, and entitled to debenture under th's existing laws, no drawback of the duties shalf be allowed on the same, unless said goods? wares, or merchandize, shall be exported from the United Stales ivithtn one year from the date of importation of the same, nor shall the addi tional rate of duty- levied by this act on good.,' wares, and merchandize, imported in foreign vessels, bo refunded in case of exporlatioYij Provided, That.iwo and one-half per' centum On the amount of all drawbacks allowed, ex cept on foreign refined sugar, shall be retairTed for the use of the. United Slates, by -the collec tor paying such drawbacks respectively, and in the case of,foreign refined sugars, len per cen tum shall be so retained. Sec. 16., And be it further enacted, That.in all cases where there is or shall bo imposed any ad valorem rale of duty on goods,, wares, or merchandize, imported into the United'Stales and in all cases where the duty impoaed'slral. by law be regulated by or dfrected to bc esti mated or based upon,, the value of the'square yard, or of any specified quantity or parcel of such goods, wares, or merchandize, it shall bo the duty of the collector, within whose district the same shall be. imported or entered,-to cause the actual maiket value or wholesale price thereof, at the time when purchased, in. the principal markets of the country from which the same shall have been imported into. .the United States, or of the yards, parcels or quan tities, as the case may be, to be appraised, es timated, and ascertained, and to such value or price, to be ascertained in the manner provided in this act, shall be added all costs and charges except insurance, including in every case, char ges for commissions according to tho usual rates, as the, true value at the port where th same may be entered, upon which duties shall be assessed'. And it shall, in every case be the duty of the appraisers of the United Stales, and every one of them, and every person; who shall act as such appraiser, or of the collector and naval officer, as the case may be, by all the reasonable ways and means in his or their pow er, to ascertain, estimate, and appraise the true and actual market value and wholesale price, any invoice or affidavit to the contrary, notwith standing, of the said goods, wares, or merchan dize, at the lime purchased, and in the princi pal markets bf the country whence the same shall have been imported into tho IT. States, and the number of such yards, parcels, or quan tities, and such actual market value or whole sale price of every of them, as the case; may require; and all such goods, wares, or merchan dize, being manufactured of wool, or whereof wool shall be .a component part, which shall bo imported into the United Stales in ait-unfinished condition, shall, in every such appraisal, be ta- ken;, deemed and estimated to have been, at tho time purchased, and place whence the same were imported into the United States, of- as great value as. if the. same had been entirely finished : Provided That in all cases wheru the United States, there to remain for tho use goods, wares, and merchandize, subject toad ed shall be construed. orpermHted . to. operafe.soj vessels not of tjie. U. fetal 6s; -a Ml thai a further - Sec HtvAuu.bcni. inrtne iisito inien.ere.j usywisting;! audttiontgii. tenlpcrentumsnaiioe' injiuo'wuhelSHUaHe of the owner or owners, who shall, upon due proof of his, her, or their property, be entitled to receive iho same, for. which purpose the col lector shall transmit, with tho said overplus, a copy of the inventory, appraisement, and ac count of sales, specifying the marks, numbers, and descriptions of the packages sold, their con tents, tho name of the vessel and master in which, and of tho port or placo whence they are imporled, and the time when, and the name of the person or persons to whom said goods were consigned in tho manifest; and the re ceipt or coilificato of the collector shall exon orate tho master or porson having ihe charge or; command of any ship" or vessel in which said goods, wares, and merchandize were im ported, from all claim of-the owners or owner therecf: Provided That so much of the fifty sixth section of the general collection law of the second of 'March, seventeen hundred and pine-ty-nirio, which proyides for the storage of un claimed' merchandize, as conflicts .with tho pro- isiohs of this ttct, shall be and is hereby re pealed: Provided, also, That whe:: such goods are of a perishable nature, they shall be sold forlhwfth. j : ,': - r enact edjJChat bri juioeneci:Hiiere v. - -i.;..-. - valorem duty, or on which the duties are to be levied upon the value of the square yard,iand in all cases where any specific quantity or par cel of goods, wares and merchandize, shall-have been imported into the United States from a country in which the same have not been man ufactured or produced, tho foreign valueshal. be appraised and estimated accdrdfng..tp th. current market value or wholesale price. of;sin. ilar articles at the principal markets.of the.com try of production or manufacture at ihe, Puerto of the exportation of said goods, waresai... merchandize, to the United Stales. Sec. 17. And be it furl her 'enacted, Thar shall be lawful for the appraisers, or ihQiv lector and naval officer, as the casemaybq,. re call before them and, examine, upon oath6r i-v firmatton, any owner, importer, agenC consign, or other person, touching any matter of thin. which they may deem-material in ascertaining the trye market value or wholesale price of.any merchandize imported, and to require thegpro ductionquloaih or affirmation, to the collector, or.to any permaneut appraiser, of any letters, accounts, oi invoices, in his possession; rela ting to the same, for which purpose theyart hereby respectively authorized to-admintatct oaths, arid;. affirmationarahdfr anjnersongs i . ------ .-. --.si . i-V 1 :!.