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eu or unbleached, and shoemakers way, fifteen
per centum ad valorem; on Windsor, shaving
and all other perfumed or fancv soans. or wnsh
THE TARIFF LAW.
CONCLUDED.
Sec. 8. And be it furiher enacted, Thai,'
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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
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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
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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-
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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-
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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-
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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
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juioeneci:Hiiere
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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
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