# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/8th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 57

Chap. LVII.—An Act for imposing more specific duties on the importation of certain articles; and also, for levying and collecting light money on foreign ships or vessels, and for other purposes.
Additional articles exempted from duty.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the thirtieth day of June next, the following articles, in addition to those already exempted from duty, shall and may be imported free from any duty, namely, rags of linen, of cotton, of woollen and of hempen cloth; bristles of swine, regulus of antimony, unwrought clay, unwrought burr stones, and the bark of the cork tree.
Additional duties imposed.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the thirtieth day of June next, the duties now in force upon the articles herein after enumerated and described, at their importation into the United States, shall cease; and that, in lieu thereof, there shall be thenceforth laid, levied and collected upon the said articles, at their said importation, the several and respective rates or duties following, that is to say:
Specific articles and rates.On foreign caught dried fish, fifty cents per quintal; on foreign caught pickled fish, as follows, to wit: On salmon, one hundred cents per barrel; on mackerel, sixty cents per barrel; on all other pickled fish, forty cents per barrel; on cables, tarred cordage, white lead, red lead, almonds, currants, prunes and plums, figs, raisins imported in jars and boxes, and muscadel raisins, two cents per pound; on all other kinds of raisins, one cent and a half per pound; on tallow, yellow ochre in oil, anchors and sheet iron, one cent and a half per pound; on Spanish brown, dry yellow ochre, slit and hoop iron, one cent per pound; on starch, three cents per pound; on hair powder, glue, and seines, four cents per pound; on pewter plates and dishes, four cents per pound; on untarred cordage, two cents and a half per pound; on quicksilver, six cents per pound; on Chinese cassia and gunpowder, four cents per pound; on cinnamon and cloves, twenty cents per pound; on mace, one dollar and twenty-five cents per pound; on nutmegs, fifty cents per pound; on black glass quart bottles, sixty cents per gross; on window glass, as follows:—On all not above eight inches by ten, one dollar and sixty cents per hundred square feet; not above ten inches by twelve, one dollar and seventy-five cents per hundred square feet; and on all above ten inches by twelve, two dollars and twenty-five cents per hundred square feet; on segars, two dollars per thousand; on kid and Morocco shoes, fifteen cents a pair; on foreign lime, fifty cents per cask containing sixty gallons; and on Sicily wine, thirty cents per gallon.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That an addition of ten per centum ​Ten per cent. additional ad valorem duty upon importations in foreign vessels of the specified goods.shall be made to the several rates of duties above specified and imposed in respect to all such goods, wares and merchandise as aforesaid, as shall, after the said thirtieth day of June, be imported in ships or vessels not of the United States.
Manner and terms of collection. No drawback on the exportation of foreign fish or fish oil, or of playing ards.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the duties laid by this act, shall be levied and collected in the same manner, and under the same regulations and allowances as to drawbacks, mode of security, and time of payment respectively, as the several duties now in force on the respective articles herein before enumerated: Provided however, that no drawbacks shall be allowed on the exportation of foreign fish, or fish oil, or of playing cards.
Duties and drawbacks to apply to any specific quantity of goods in a rateable proportion.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That all duties and drawbacks which, by virtue of this act, shall be payable and allowable on any specific quantity of goods, wares and merchandise, shall be deemed to apply, in proportion to any quantity greater or less than such specific quantity.
“Light money” to be levied on foreign vessels. Act of March 3, 1805, ch. 40. Proviso.Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That a duty of fifty cents per ton, to be denominated “light money,” shall be levied and collected on all ships or vessels not of the United States, which, after the aforesaid thirtieth day of June next, may enter the ports of the United States: Provided however, that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to contravene any provision of the treaty or conventions concluded between the United States of America and the French Republic, on the thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and three: And provided also, that the said light money shall be levied and collected in the same manner, and under the same regulations, as the tonnage duties now imposed by law.
The person exercising the duties of the late intendent of Louisiana to have the same jurisdiction in certain cases with the district court of the U. States. 1804, ch. 38. Fines, penalties or forfeitures, by whom they may be remitted, &c. &c.Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the person exercising the powers which, under the Spanish government, were vested in the intendent of the province of Louisiana, shall, until a district court of the United States shall be established in the territory of Orleans, in conformity with the provisions of the act, intituled “An act erecting Louisiana into two territories; and providing for the temporary government thereof,” have and exercise, in all cases whatever arising within the said territory under the laws regulating and providing for the collection of duties on imports and tonnage, or under any other revenue laws of the United States, the same jurisdiction and powers which, by law, are given to the district and circuit courts of the United States. And the powers to remit fines, penalties or forfeitures, and to remove disabilities, which, by law, are vested in the Secretary of the Treasury, may and shall, in all cases of such fines, penalties, forfeitures or disabilities incurred within the territory of Orleans, and until a governor of the said territory shall be appointed and shall enter into the functions of his office, be exercised by the person exercising the powers which, under the Spanish government, were vested in the governor of the province of Louisiana; and the said powers to remit fines, penalties or forfeitures, and to remove disabilities, may and shall, in like manner, be exercised by the governor of the said territory, from the time when he shall enter into the functions of his office, in conformity with the provisions of the said act, until the end of the next session of Congress, and no longer.
Approved, March 27, 1804.