The Sun.
London, England, 1824-06-17 00:00:00

THE AMERICAN TARIFF.

American Papers to the 26th ult. have come to
hand. Congress was to adjourn on the 27th, the
Tariff Bill, in its amended state, having passed
into a Law.' The high import duties imposed by
it will, we fear, be severely felt.. The following
is a copy of this impolitic legislative enactment :
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That
from and after the 30th day' of June, 1824, in lieu of the duties
now imposed by law on the importation of the articles hereafter
mentioned; there shall be levied, collected, and paid, the fol-
lowing Duties, that is to say:
First, On sail duck, orriaburgs, burlaps, and ticklenburghs,
a duty of 15 per cent. ad val. ; on all manufactures, of wool, or
of which wool shall be a component part, except worsted stuff
goods and blankets, shall pay 25 per cent. ad val. linty, until
the 30th June, 1825, and after that time a duty of 33 1-3 d per
cent. ad val. Provided, That on all manufactures of wool,
except flannels, and baite,f ,the actual value of which at the
place whence imported shall not exceed 33 and I-3d cents, per
square yard, shall he charged with a duty of 25 per cent. ad val.
Second, On all manufactures, not herein specified, of cotton,
flax, and hemp, or of which either of these materials shall be a
component part, and on all manufactures of silk, or of which
silk shall he a component material, coming from beyond the
Cape of (food Hope, a duty of.. 25 per cent. ad val.; on all
other manufactures of silk, or of which silk shall be a compon-
ent material, 20 per cent. ad val. Provided, that all cotton
cloths whatsoever, or cloths of which cotton shall be a compon-
ent part, excepting nankeens as imported directly from China,
the original cost of which at the place whence imported, with
the addition of 20 per cent. if imported from the Cape of (food
Hope or any place beyond it, and of 10 per cent. if imported
froM any other place shall be less than 30 cents. per yard
(square), shall, with suck addition be taken,. and deemed to
have cost 30 cents per square yard, and shall be charged with
duty accordingly; and that all unbleached and uncoloured cot-
ton twist, yarn, or thread, the original cost of which shall be
less than 60 cents per lb., shall be deemed and taken to have
cost 60 cents per lb., and shall be charged with duty accord-
ingly; and all bleached or coloured cotton yarn, twist, or thread,
the original cost of which shall be less than 75 cents per lb.,
shall be deemed and taken to have cost 75 cents per lb., and
shall be charged.with duty accordingly Provided also, that the
provisions of this Act shall not apply to or be enforced against
importations of goods from ports or places eastward of,theCape
of Good Hope, or beyond Cape Horn, before the Ist January
ensuing. _ _

Third. On wool manufactured, a duty of 20 per cent. ad
val. until the Ist June, 11325; afterwards a duty of 25 per
cent. ad val. until the Ist June, 1326 • afterwards a duty of
30 per cent. ad val.: Provided, that all wool, the value of
which at the place whence imported shall not.exeeed 10 cents.
per lb. charged with a duty of 15 per .cent. ad val. and no
more.

Fourth. On all Leghorn hats or bonnets, and 'all hats or bon-
nets of staw, chip, or grass, and on all flats, braids, or plats,
for making of hats or bonnets, a duty of 50 per cent. ad val. :
Provided, that all Leghorn hats and bonnets, and all hats or
bonnets of straw, chip, or grass, which, at the place whence
imported with the addition of 10 per cent. shall have cost less
than one dollar each, shall, with such addition be taken and
deemed to have cost one dollar each, and shall he charged with
duty accordingly.
Fifth. On japanned wares of all kinds, on plated wares of
all kinds, and on all manufactures not otherwise specified,
made of brass, iron, steel, pewter, lead, or tin, or of which
either of those metals are a component material, a duty of 25
per cent. ad val. ; on bolting cloths, 15 per cent. ad val. ; ox
hair cloth and hair seating, 30 per cent. ad val. • on marble
and all manufactures of marble, 30 per cent. ad val ; on all
paper hangings, 40 per cent. ad val. ; on coach laces of cotton,
Or other material, 35 per cent. ad sal. ; on all other laces, 12i
per cent. ad val. ; on lead in pigs; bars, or sheets, 2 cents. per
lb. ; on leaden shot, 3i cents. per lb.; on red or white—lead,
or ground in oil, 4 cents. per lb. ; on' Brussels, Turkey, and
Wilton carpets am' carpeting, 50 cents. per square yard ; on all
Venetian and ingrain carpets and carpeting, 25 cents. per square
yard ; on all kinds of other carpets and carpeting of wool, flax,
hemp, or cotton, or parts of either, 20 cents. per square yard ;
on oil cloth carpeting and on oil loths of every description, a
duty of 30 per cent. ad val. ; on all other carpets and carpeting,
mats, and floor cloths made of tow, flags, or any other material,
a duty of 30 per cent. ad val.; on hemp, at the rate of 35 dol-
lars per ton of 22401b5. ; on tarred cables and cordage, 4 cents.
per lb. ; on untarred cordage, yarns„ twine, packthread, and
seines, 5 'cents. per lb. ; on cotton bagging, 3} cents. per
square yard ; • on iron in bars
90 cents.and per cwt. ; on round
bolts not manufactured
in whole or in part by rolling
iron or braziers' rods of 3-
6 to 8.16 of an inch diameter
,
inclusive, and on iron in nail or spike rods slit, and on
lrirohno,oporironand on iron slit or rolled for
casement rods; 3 cents. per lb. ; .on
,
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cents. per lb. ; on iron nails cast or wrought,
5 cents. per lb. ; on tacks, brads, and sprigs, not exceeding 16
ounces to the thousand, 5 cents. per thousand; exceeding 16
ounces to the thousand, 5 cents. per lb. ; on iron or steel wire
not exceeding number 18, 5 cents. per lb. ' • over 18, 9 cents.
per lb. ; on anvils or anchors, 2 cents. per lb. ; on iron cables
or chains, or posts thereof, 3 cents per lb., and no drawback
shall be allowed on theexportation of iron cables or parts there-
of; on millcranks and mill irons- of wrought iron, 4 cents. per
lb. • on mill saws, 1 dollar each ; on blacksmiths' hammers
and sledges, 2i cents. per lb. ; on muskets, 1 dollar 50 cents.
each ; on rifles, 2 dollars 50 cents. each ; on all other fire arms,
and on side arms, 30 per cent. ad val. ; on cutting knives,
scythes, sickles, and reaping hooks, spades anti shovels, of iron
or steel, 30 percent. ad val. ; on screws of iron weighing 251bs.
or upwards, 30 per cent. ad val. ; on screws of iron for wood,
called wood screws, 30 per cent. ad val. ; on vessels of cast iron,
not otherwise specified, 1.?! cents. per lb. ; on all other castings
of iron, not specified, 1 cent. per lb. ; on all vessels of copper,
30 per cent. ad val. ; on quills prepared or manufactured, 25
per cent. ad val„- on slates or tiles for building, 25 per cent.
ad val. ; on black lead pencils, 40 per cent. ad val. ; on tallow
candles, 5 cents. per lb. ; on spermaceti candles, 8 cents. per
lb. ; on soap, 4 cents. per 'lb. ; on lard, 3 cents. per lb. ; on
wheat 25 cents. per bushel ; on oats, 10 cents. per bushel ;
on wheat' flour, 50 cents. per cwt. ; on potatoes, 10 cents. per
bushel ; on coal, 6 cents. per teaped bushel ; on Corks, 12
cents. per lb. • on prunelli and other shoes and slippers of
stuff' or nankeen, 25 cents. per pair ; on laced hoots or
bootees, 1 dollar 60 cents. per pair ; on linseed, rapeseed,
and hempseed oil, 25 cents. per gallon ; on ale, beer, and
porter imported in bottles, 20 cents per gal.; imported otherwise
than in bottles, 15 cents per gal. Lon beef and pork, 2 cents per
lb.; on hams and other bacon, 3 cents per lb.; on butter, .5 cents
per lb.; on vinegar 8 cents per gal.; on allum, 2 dollars 50
cents per cwt.; on refined saltpetre, 3 cents per lb.; on blue or
Roman vitriol, 4 cents per lb.; on oil of vitriol, 3 cents per
lb.; on glauber salts; 2 cents per lb.; on Epsom, 4 cents per
lb.; on camphor, crude, 8 cents per lb.; on ditto, refined, 12
cents per lb.; on copperas, 2 dollars per cwt.; on Cayenne pep-
per, 15 cents per lb.; on ginger, 2 cents per lb.; on chocolate, 4
cents per lb ; on currants and figs, 3 cents per lb.; on plums,
prunes, Muscatel raisins, in jars and boxes, 4 cents per lb.; on all
other raisins, 3 cents per lb. on window glass not above 8 inches
'by.lo inches in size, 3 dollars per 1(10 square feet ; not above 10
inches by 12 in size, 3 dols. 50 cents. per 100 square feet, and if
abOve 10 inches by 12 in size, 4 dollars per 100 square feet,pro-
vided that all window glass imported in plates uncut, shall be
ehargeatle with the highest rate of duties hereby imposed ;
on black glass bottles not exceeding the capacity of one quart,
2 dollars per gross on bottles exceeding one quart, and not more
than 2 quarts, 2 dollars 50 cents. per -grass over 2 quarts, and
not exceeding 1 gallon 3 dollars per gross; on dernijons 25 cents.
each; on apothecaries' phials of the capacity of 4 ounces and
less, 1 dollar per gross; on the same above 4 ounces, and not
exceeding 8, 1 dollar 25 cents. per goys ; on all wares of cut glass
not specified, 3 rents, per lb. and in addition thereto, an ad val.
duty per lh. ; on all other articles of glass 2 cents. per lb., andin
addition thereto an ad val. duty of2o per cent.; on all books which
printed before the
ear 1775, appear to the
and also on all books printed
the importer shall make'it satisfactorily
Col-
lector of' the Port at which the same shall he entered were
in other languages than English, 4 cents. per volume, except
books printed in Latin or Greek, on which, when bound, 15
cents. per lb., when not bound 13 cents. per lb. ; OR all the
books when ound, 30 cents. per lb. ; when in sheets or boards,
26 cents. per lb. ; on folio and quarto post
_paper of all kinds,
20 cents per lb. ; foolscap, and all drawing and
.writing
paper, 17 cents. per lh. ; on printing copperplate and stafifer'
paper, 10 cents. per lb:; on sheathing paper, biri&rs'; end
;
box boards, andW Plerrapping paper of all kinds, 3 cents.•,lb.;
on all other paper? 15 cents. per' lb. ; a • duty of 12 iaet sentf

d val. 9 • on all articles not herein specified, and now paying a
duty of7i per cent. ad val. with the exception of patent adhe-
sive felt, for covering ships' bottoms, which shall be. admitted
free of duty until the 30th of June, 1826.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That an addition of 10
per cent. shall be made for the several rates of duties hereby
imposed upon the several articles aforesaid, which after the said
respective times for the commencement of the duties hereby
imposed, shall be imported in vessels not of the United States.
Provided that this addition shall not be applied to articles ini-
' posed in vessels not of the United States, entitled by Treaty or
by any Act of Congress, to be admitted on payment of the same
duties that are paid on like articles imported in ships or vessels
of the United States.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be al-
lowed a drawback of the duties by this act imposed upon the
exportation of any articles that shall have paid the same within
the time, and in the manner, and subject to the provisions and
restrictions prescribed in the Fourth Section of the Act, entitled,
An Act to regulate the -Duties on Imports and Tonnage,"
passed 27th April, 1816.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the drawbacks al-
lowed by law on plain silk shall be allowed, although the said
cloths before the exportation thereof shall have been coloured,
printed, stained, dyed, stamped, or painted in the. United States.
But whenever any such silks shall be intended to be so coloureds
&c., and afterwards to be exported from the United. States, with
privilege of drawback, each package thereof shall, before the
same shall be delivered from the public stores, be opened and
examined by an Inspector of the Customs, and the contents
thereof measured or weighed, and the quality thereof ascer-
tained, and a sample of each piece thereof reserved at the Custom
House, and a particular account of registry of such exami-
nation, describing the number of pieces in each package,
The weight or measure and the samples thereof reserved, shall
be entered in the books of the Custom House, and after such
examination they shall be re-packed in the original package,
and the same marked with the Custom House mark; and when-
ever any such goods being thus coloured shall be entered at the
Custom House for exportation and drawback, the same shall be
so entered in the original package marked as aforesaid and not,
otherwise, unless the person so entering the same shall give
satisfactory evidence to the Collector or Naval Officer, or one
of them, that such original package has been lost or destroyed
by accident, and no such application for drawback shall be
made, except on the contents of entire packages, and upon ap-
plication for entry and drawback, the contents of the package
so offered shall be examined; and if upon comparison and full
examinations the Collector shall be satisfied that the contents
are the same, &c. then the person so entering such goods shall
be admitted to the oath prescribed by law : Provided, that the
Exporter shall in every other particular comply with the regu-
lations and formalities heretofore established ; and if any person
shall present for exportation and drawback, any silk coloured,
and knowing the same not to be entitled to drawback, or shall
wilfully misrepresent or- conceal the quality of the same, 'the
same goods shall be forfeited, and may
i be seized by the Col-
lector, and the forfeiture distributed as n other cases.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the existing laws
shall extend to and be in force for the collection of the duties
imposed by this Act for the prosecution, &c. of all offences for
the recovery, &c. of.all fines, &c. as fully and effectually as if
every regulation, &c. to this effect' on the existing laws con-
tained had been inserted' in and re-enacted by this Act.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of the
2d Section of the Act of Congress, approved April 27, 1816,
shall extend and enure to the benefit of schools and colleges
within the United States or the territories thereof, in the same
manner and under the same limitations and restrictions as is
provided in said Act with respect to seminaries and learning.