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. COMMERCE.
LAWS ON THE DUTIES OF IMPORTATION TO BE
.PAID IN THE PORTS OF COLUMBIA.
The General Congress of' Columbia, considering-7.
• t. That the Republic being single and undivided, the duties
on imports should he uniform in the different ports appopnated
for imputation in Columbia.
2. That this uniformity being calculated to contribute very
powerfully to the enceuragetnent of commerce, external and
imernal, by facilitating the operations of the custom houses. and
preventing the commission ot fraud and the depreciation ot the
et:renew, which has occasioned the confusion and inequality
hitherto experienced. it has been thought fit to decree, and it as
I.ereby decreed I
Art. I. All the duties of entry formerly recognised under
various denominations are henceforth consolidated in one. under
the r.totie of duty of importation.
2. Five per cent. shall be paid on the importation of bar iron.
'plate, tin, and copper; also paper of every kind; all sorts of
medicines, and instruments of surgery; tackle, pitch, tar, cables.
cordage. and anchors.
3. Seventeen and a half per cent. shall be paid by every kind
of cotton merchantlize, woollen, linen. hemp seed. and earn—
., that excepted, on which a heavier duty is imposed by the subs..
anicles.
4. Twenty per cent. shall be paid on beaver. woollen, or silk
hats; wax or spermaceti, either manufactured or in pastel wine.
vinegar, and acid of every kind; gold and silver watches, lace,
riding saddles: every kind of earthenware of Europe and Asia,
at.:l glass and crystal of every kind.
s. Twenty two and a half per cent. on every kind of silk of
Europe or Asia, precious stones, jewels, thread and silk lace,
point handkerchiefs, artificial flowers, feathers, looking Owns.
perfumes, essences, and scented waters; spiceties from liana
el-ewhere. dried fruits, or the expressed ,juice, capers, &c.
6. Twenty five per cent. shall be paid on shoes for men or
women, and boots ; every kind of household furniture; utensils
is copper, bronze, iron, steel, and tin; tallow in the lump or ma-
nufactured; flour; salted meat, and every kind of foreign eat-
able&
i. Thirty five per cent. shall be paid on spirits and other
foreign liquors from the grape, the sugar cane, or any other
matetiaL
8. The other kinds of merchandise, liquors, and commercial
articles, not specifically included in the preceding articles, shall
pay to per cent. or. importation.
9. The above mentioned duties on importation shall be de-
ducted from the value fixed by the tarin approved at Carthagena
on April 22, 1817, and its supplements, until the necessary
alterations be made.
in. The rate of duties imposed by the preceding articles shall
be applicable solely to the cargoes ot national vessels.
. The merchandise imported by the vessels of neutral or
friendly states shall pay five per cent. over and above the pre-
ceding duties, utiles, at be otherwise stipulated by particular
treaties of commerce.
It. An abatement of seven and a half per cent. shall be allowed
on the cargoes of national vessels, and five per cent. on those of
foreign vessels, provided they proceed directly from European
ports to Columbia.
13. This abatement shall be made with reference to the per-
centage duties payable by merchandise and articles of trade
according to the preceding articles, from articles 2 to 8.
14. All decrees, regulations, acrd laws, in opposition to the
pre en., are revoked and annulled.
15. This law shall begin to operate from the Ist of January,
1822.
Sept. 25, 1821. (Signed by the President of the Congress.)
Ordered to be executed, J. M. Drs. CASTILLO,
Sept. 28, 1821. Vice-President of the Republic.
A subsequent decree excepts from the above duties hooks it,
every language, maps, chaos, philosophical apparatus, paintings.
,calptures, engravings, implements of agriculture, and all insult-
to ells useful in navigation, oe in any of the arts and science,.
A law has also been passed for establishing a college in each
proinee ; and primary schools for teaching Spanish and Lath
t,ranunar, the principles of rhetoric and philosophy, &c.

PUBLIC ENTRY INTO DUBLIN OF HIS EXCEL-
LENCY THE MARQUIS WELLESLEY.
(From the Dublin Patriut, Dec. V 2.)
The Marquis arrived at Howth Pier last evening,
alts tit six o'clock, iu the Meteor steam packet. At hall
p ...I eleven Mr. Lee, the King's messenger, proceeded to
t ite Phoenix Park to announce his Lortlsit p's arrival at
I ittwth to his Excellency the Earl Talbot.
At twelve o'clock to day, the three state carriages of
his Excellency the Ertl '1 Jima lett the Castle—two of
item to reccise Lord Welleslcy's suite—the third, drawn
six beautiful bay horses, Was reserved for the Nol-it,
Marquis himself. In these carriages were Sir Stuart
Hulce, Gentleman Usher, Sit Charles Vernon, Cham-
berlain, and Cu!. Desbrowe, our late Viceroy's Aid-de-
'Camp: deputed on the part of Lord Talbot to welcome
ttie arrival of the Marquis. ALotit this time, the 7th
Hussars, the Regiment of Guards, the 29th reginteiti,
took their stations in Dame-street and College-green,
lining these streets 011 each side from the Castle to the
College.
About twelve &clock, also, his Majesty's Privy Coun-
cil, to whom summonses had been issued for attendance
at eleven o'clock this forenoon, began to assemble at the
Council Chamber: the officers of state were also
readiness to receive the noble Marquis. The streets
the procession was to pass, were now
crowded to excess.
At halt past twelve, his Excellency the Earl Talbot,
accompanied by several of his Excellency's IR' rsogra I
friends, arrived in I.hildin Casile limn the Phenix. Park.
A discharge of artillery aonouuced the lau iug of the
lalttitt W tiIeSICY. At 2u minutes past eloett precisely.
The Marquis Wellesiey reached Rallybough Bridge
at half pint one, when the Lord Mayor of DuLhu, tn.
litait Sheriffs, the Chief Nleint.ers of the Corporation,
and a prodigious concourse of the Nobility and Gentry.
fiat nti etavred the Lord Lieutenant), carriage amidst
bilL:los of welcome front the populace, and the wavinot
of itatitlkerchietis from tv ry baleony and window, the
older of procession was observed, and a strong squadron
of horse, in hill uniform, closed the cavalcade.
The Noble Marquis Wellesley nib:reit the Palace-
gate at a quarter-past two. lie Lighted at the grand
portal, where he was revived by a number of person-
aes in distinction. Fruit the grand portal, his Lind-
ship and suite were coin:octet' by the Officers of State,
and the principal Officers of Earl Tallan'a Household,
through the State apart litelltS, to the Presence CilJiliittf.
Ht. Lordship then dvl.vered to his Excellency has Ma-
jesty's Letters Patent, appointing i wbe Lord Lieu•

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