The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-28 00:00:00

" ORDONNANCE OF THE KING.

" For all present and to come, salut.
" Seeing the article 34 of the law of the 17th of
December, 1814 ;

" Seeing the project of law relative to the customs
presented in our name on the 23d May last to the
Chamber of Deputies ;
" Seeing the Report of the Committee of the said
Chamber charged with the examination of this project
of law ;
" Upon the Report of our Ministers Secretaries of
State in the Department of Agriculture and Commerce
and the Department of Finance,
" We have ordained, and we ordain, as follows :

" TARIFF OF CUSTOM-HOUSE DUTIES.
" Art. 1. The tariff of the euitem-Louse duties shall
be modified and established, for the objects hereafter
mentioned, in the following manner :

" SECTION 1.-ENTIIY.
" Rough Cait•iron, in Masses, importod.—From
Blancisseron, at Mont. G,mevre, exclusively, 4f. the 100
kilogrammes ; from all other points, the present duty.
" Nickel Metallique.-01 one melting, sf. per 100
kilogrammes. Mixed with other metals (,rgentan)—
In mass, .50f. ; flattened or urawn nut, 100 f.
" Cork.—Raw, cove:cd with its bark, broken up into
planks, or fragments of all dimensions, 6r. Rasped—
In planks or fragments of all dimensions, 9f. ; worked,
present duties.
" Stalks or Filaments of the Banana tree, Aloe
Fibres, Manilla Hemp (Abaco), Phormium Trees, and
other filaccous vegetable productions not specialy men-
tioned.—Row, or simply deprived of their outer coat-
ing—From the French colonies, 10c. per 100 kilo-
grammes ; from elsewhere, 40c. Bleached or prepared
for paper-making—From the. French colonies, If. ; from
elsewhere, 2f. _ _

" Canes and Reeds of French Guiana (ways),—The
same duties the European reeds in whole stalks.
" Sewing Needies.-Bf. the kilogramme.
" Fishing-hooks.—The duty upon fine mercery.
" Box en billet, or sewed more than three decim.
thickness.—Hall the present duties.
" Hempen Threads, or Linen Threads of simple raw
Etoupc, furnishing more than 6,000 metres per kilo-
gramme.—The same duties as other linen or hempen
threads simples ecrus.
" All other.—The present duty.
" The ills detoupc furnishing 6,030 metres or less
per kilogramme can only be imported by the ports
d'ortrepot reel, by the following land frontier offices
" Armentieres, Ha!loin, Lille, Baisrcux, Conde,
Blaneisveron, Sierch, Forbad), Strasbourg, Pont de
Beauvoisin, Entre deux Guiers, St. Laurent du Var.
" In order to facilitate the distinction of the
_fits
arcioape which remains importable according to the
duty fixed by the law of the :,7th July, 1822, a samplo
of the number forming the point of difference between
this thread and that which is assimilated by the present
ordonnance to the hernien and linen threads shall be
deposited at each bm•cau open to its importation.
This sample, which shall be placed under the
double seal of the departtmnts of Commerce and Fi-
nance, shall serve as type in the levying of the duties,
savirg, the appeal, in case of contestation, to the arbi-
trators appointed by the law of the 27th July, 1822.
" The threads of every kind 3,N blch shall have received
any degree of bleaching shall be reckoned as bleached
threads.
" Table-liner in pieces, worked or figured, within the
space of five miliimetres.-16 threads or less, present
duty ; 17, 18, 19, 20, or more than 20 thread a, same
duty as tbe plain linens of linen and hemp, according to
the kind and quality.
" The coarse crossed linens, called trellis, shall pay

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liltc the plain linens of h'ss than eight threads.
" No liner:; shell be admitted as raw cilia shall have
rmceir•cd any di ;fee of bleaching eiihtr before or after
being wove, qnd which retain the decided raw colour.
AcotaL, of Iron.—Liquid, sf. the 100 kilogrammes;
conc.intrated to any deer; e, 40f. ditto.
" Acid of Arsnc.—lt2f. the 100 kilogrammes.
" Firewood.—ln logs, sc. the stare, in faggots, sc. the

hundred.
" Scented Woods.—Sassafras., by French vessels,
from countries out of Europe, sf. the 100 kilogratutnes ;
elsi.where, 10f. ditto ; by foreign vessels, 161. ditto ;
other deseliptions, by French vessels, from countries
out of Eurcpe, 25f. ditto; elsewhere, 30f. ditto ; by
foreign vessels, ditto.
‘. Angiea Wood.—Saine duty as the boil de gaiac.
" Nuttts or Trcsses of Wil;te Wood wed:ed.—Same
duty as the tresses of wood of 7 millimetres or less in

k.-r7gtll.
" Jarossc (podsecd)—Sime duty as forage.
" I\lllltt Sta!ks for making brooms.-10?.. per 100
amines.
" nctaille Piates of Iron.-100f. per 100 kiio-

Mi.,.IIIIIICS.
" AlmAnacki Fluted in foreign languages.—The
sarna daty a.; French works printed in other countries.
Printed, engraved, or coloured Catds (cliqueltes).
—Same duty as lithographic drawing, or ornamental
engravings.
" Florence Iris.—ln root, two-thirds of the present
duty ; worked up in pills or balls for hygcsts or uphol-
sterers, the duty of men:ay.
" Lambs end kids shall only he admitted as sue)) when
young animals, weighing less than eight kilogrammes ;
and snail[]; p:gs only nhen young animals, weighing
IcsLi than 1.5 kik:Grammes.

" SECTION 11.-EXPORT.
" Focider.—Hay, straw, grass of every kind, in-
cludif,g the jarosses (pawed), tcn cents. per 100 kilo-
grammes ; common sand or gravzl one cent. the 100
kilogrammes.

" TARIFF OF THE NAVIGATION DUTIES.

Art. 2. Tire cxemi,tion frem the duties of tonnage
and expedition granted' by the law of the 27th Ventre-.
miaire, An. 2, and by our ordonnance of the 23d July,
1838, to French vessels coming from 11,hing from foreign
countries, or from a port within the kingdom, shall be
extended also to those arriving from the French pos-
sessions beyond seas.
" The permission duty of 50 cents., established by
article 37 of the same law of the 27th Vendemiaire,
An. 2, shall be replaced with respect to all French
cargoes, except those destined for foreign countries or
which ariivcd from them, by the stamp of 5 cents. pre-
scribed by the article 19 of the law of the 28th of
April, ISI6.
The duty of 6f. established by article 17 of the
law of the 27th Vendernialre, An. 2, for the inscription
on the back of Act of Franchise, for the sales of the
whole or p arts of vessels, shall no longer be levied.
" Art. 3. Our Ministers Secretaries of State in the
Department of the Finances and in the Department of
Agriculture nnd Commerce are charged, each in what
concerns him, with the execution of the present or
dounance.

" Done at the Palace of St. Cloud, Sept. '2.4, 1840.
" Louts PIILIPPE."

(By the King)
" '1 he Minister Secretary of State in the Department of
Agriculture and Commerce, " GOUIN."
• Upon an importation which had been made of
3,175,773 kilogrammes during the corresponding period in
1839.

t In 1838-2,519,253 kilogrammes upon a
twat importation of
In 1539-2,534,355 6 757,491
1810—(firs! seven months)-1,599,628