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PRICE 7

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

UNITED STATES.

REDUCTION OF THE TARIFFE.—We publish below ati
re
important Circular from the Secretary of the Treasury,
establishing, under the direction of the PreSident, Rules
and Regulations for securing a faithful appraisal of fo-
reign imports, and which are made necessary by the last
session of Congress. The reasoning of the 'Circular ap-
pears to be conclusive, and the regulations are judicious,
and we do not doubt will be entirely satisfactory.
CIRCULAR TO OFFICERS OF THE CUSTOMS.
Treasury Department, April 20th, 1833.
The 7th section of the act of the 14th July, 1532, entitled
" An act to alter and amend the several acts imposing duties on
imports," provides, that in all cases where the fluty which now
is, or here
into .may be imposed on any goods, wares, or mer-
chandize, i 'effect the United States, shall by law be f
re-
gulated, or e directed to be estimated or levied upon the value
Of the square yard, or of any
.other quantity or parcel thereof;
and in all cases where there is or shall be imposed any ad va-
lorem rate of duty on any goods. wares, or merchandize, im-
ported into the 'United States, it shall be the duty of the
Collector within whose district . the same shall be imported or
entered, to cause the actual value thereof, at the time purchased,
and place, from which the same shall have been imported into
the United States, to be appraised, estimated, and aseartalued,
and the number of such yards, parcels, or quanfitic)axid such
actual value of every of 'them as the case laity require; and it.
shall 'in every case, be the duty of the appraisers of the United
States and every of them, aud every other person who shall act
as such Appraiser, by all the reasonable ways or means in his
or their power, to ascertain, estimate, and appraise, the true
and actual value, any invoice, or affidavit thereto to the con-
trary notwithstanding, of the said goods, wares; and merchan-
dire, at the time purchased, and place from whence the same
shall have been imported into the United States, and the num-
ber of such yards, parcels, or quantities, and such actual value
of every of them as the case may require," &c. &c.
The 9th section of the same act provides, "That it shall be
the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, under the direction
of the President of the United States, from time to time, to
establish such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the
laws of the United States,'as the President of the United States
shall think proper, to secure a just, faithful, and impartial ap-
prisal of all goods, wares, and merchandise, as aforesaid, jut-
ported into the United States, and just and proper entries of
such actual value thereof, and of the square yards, parcels, or
other quantities, as the case may require, and of such actual
value of every of them'; and it shall be the duty of the Secretary
of the Treasury to report all such rules and regulations, with
the reasons therefor, to the then next session of Congress."
The Ist section of the Act. of the 2d March, 183.3, entitled "An
Act to modify the Act of the 14th July, 1832, and all other acts
imposing duties on imports," declares " that from and after the
31st day of December, 1633. in all cases where duties are im-
posed on foreign imports by the act of the 14th day of July, 1832,
entitled 'An Act to alter and amend the several acts imposing
duties on imports,' or by any other act, shall exceed twenty per
cent. on the value thereof, one-tenth part of such excess shall
be deducted," &c.
It is believed that by this provision, and as necessary to the
execution of the law, all duties imposed by any act of Con Tress,
upon foreign imports, are substantially regulated by, and are
directed tote estimated and levied upon, the value of the square
yard, where that is the form, and upon some other quantity or
parcel in cases where the duty is not imposed by the square
yard; and that consequently the authority conferred by the 9th
section aforesaid, must necessarily be exercised, for 'the more
effectual execution of the said act of the 2d March, 1833.
The following. rules_ and regulations are therefore established,
under the direction of . the .President of the United States, for
the purpose of securing a just, faithful and impartial appraisal
of all goods, wares and merchandize imported into the United
States from and after the 31st December next, and for the just
and 'proper entries of the actual value thereof, and of the square
yards, parcels or other quantities, as the case may require.
In alt cases of ad valorem duties under the act of the 14th
July, 1832, or any other act, the regulations at present autho
rized by law, for ascertaining the actual value, will remain un-
altered. With respect to those articles liable to a specific duty,
or-other duty than that of ad valorem, the actual value thereof
at the time purchased, and
:the place from which the same shall
have been imported into the United States, or in the country
wherein the same may have been originally manufactured or
produced,certanied, and astir the number
the casemy be, will be appraised estimated amid
ascertained, of
yards, or squares, tons, pounds,
gallons, bushels, or other parcels or quantities, and such actual
value of any of them as the case may require, and just and pro
per entries thereof be made in the same manner and according
to the same regulation, as are required by the said act of the
14th July, 1832, and other acts now in force in regard to articles
paying ad valorem duty; and in all such cases the same veri-
fication of invoices and other proofs will be. required .and pro-
duced as are at present authorized in respect to articles liable
by preiious acts to an ad valorem duty. The value of all such ar-
ticles being thus ascertained, the proportion which the duty
now paid by such articles bears to the said value, will be calcu-
lated.. and (from the excess thereof beyond twenty per centum.
there' will be deducted, from aud after the 31st December next,
ten per centum : that is to say, where such proportion shall he
equal to fifty per centum, there shall he deducted ten per cen-
t= upon thirty per centum, or three dollars; and from and
after the 31st liccember, 1835, the like deduction shall be made
from the same excess, or ten per centum upon thirty per cen
tum, being three dollars more; and in the same manner, at the
several periods specifiedlB39, from and after which, one half
in the said act of the 2d March, 1833.
excess will be deducted, and the other
untofilthe t hr
ee s3i
dl
us 31st Do
fe cseuiculb, er,
half thereof from and after the 3Uth of June, 1842.
From the proportion of the duty thus ascertained upon the
wines of France, in addition to the said ten per centum, theme
will also be deducted such further per centum as will be neces-
sary to preserve the discrimination in favor of such wines, sti-
pidated in the convention between the United States and his
Majesty the King of the -French, concluded at Paris on the 4th
It may be proper to observe (hat all manufactures of cotton,
1831, arid authorized by law.
of July,
or of which cotton shall he a component part, will be appraised,
estimated and ascertained, and the number of yards, square
Yards, or otherwise, parcel or quantities, and of such actual value
thereof as the case may require, will be ascertained, and just
' and proper entries thereof-made, according to the foregoing
regulations.
- It is believed that the value of foreign imports, referred to in
the Act of the 2d of March, 18.33, is not the assumed value on
which the duty upon all manufactures of cotton. or of which
cotton shall be a component part, is directed to be estimated
under the act of the 14th July, 1832—viz.: of thirty cents, if not
dyed, colored, painted or stained, though valued at less then
thirty cents ; and of thirty-five cents, if dyed, colored, painted
or stained, though valued at less than thirty-five cents the square
yard. This value is merely artificial, and assumed by previous
laws as a means of augmenting the ad valorem rate of duty hn-
posed, for the purpose of protection, upon such articles ; and the
amount of the duty, although ascertained by the adoption of the
minimum principle, is the proportion which the sum collected
by the government bears to the actual value of the article ; and,
therefore, a quantity of such cottons, costing in fact eights- dol
lars, but valued for the purposes of the Act of the 11th of-July,
1832, at two hundred and forty dollars, really pays a duty of 75
per cent. upon the true value thereof.
The act of the 2d of March, 1833. however, proceeds upon a
different principle, and aims at a different purpose. It obviously
intends to make an equal deduction from the duty on- all foreign
imports, and ultimately to reduce it to a rate not exceeding
twenty per centum upon the 'real, and.not assumed, value of
the articles imported. This last purpose is explicitly stated in
the last clause of the sth section, which provides "that all im-
ports on which the Ist section of this act may operate, and all
articles now admitted to entry from duty, or paying a less rate
of duty than twenty per centum ad valorem, before the said 30111
day of June, 1842; from and after that day, may he admitted to
entry, subject to such duty, not exceeding twenty per centum
ad valorem, as shall be provided for by law." And the •first
section, which has been al_eady referred 'to, expressly provides
for the deduction, after the 30th of June, 18-12; of all excess of
foreign imports above twenty per centum on the value thereof,
which shall' have been imposed by previous laws, -and to which
, they may then be subject.
The object of thus establishing a general ad valorem duty on
foreign imports, and of equalizing the rate, can only be attained
by calculating the duty on the real, instead of the assumed
value. This purpose is more particularly manifest from the
last clause of the 3d section, which provides, that from and af-
ter the 30th of June, 1842, "the duties required to be paid by
law on goods, wares, and merchandize, shall he assessed on the
value thereof at the port where the same shall be entered, un-
der such regulations as may be prescribed by law." Each of
these clauses relates to the actual value of the foreign import.
and they differ only in estimating that value ; previously to the
30th of June, 1812, the value in the foreign country being taken,
and after that time, the value at the port of entry. The ob:int
of neither can be accomplished at any period, by adhering
either to the nominal value assumed by previous acts, or to the
rate of ad valorem founded upon such assumption.
In all importations of manufactures of cotton. therefore, or
of whit II cotton shall be a component part, after the 31st of De-
cember, 1833, the value thereof will be ascertained in the man-
ner aforesaid, aud from the amount which the rate of duty un-
der the act of the 14th July, 1832, or any other act, shall exceed
twenty per cent= on such value, the deduction required by
the act of the 2d of March, 1833, will be made accoruiag to the
foregoing rules.
Though these rules and regulations will not go into effect un-
til the Ist of January next, they have been thus early adopted
and made public for the purpose of giving timely notice to the
manufacturers and merchants. and ail others concerned; and
especially as to the verification, by the Consuls abroad, of the
invoices of importations to be made after that time.
LOUIS M‘LANE, Secretary of the Treasury.

Their 111ajesties are at St. .Tames'a. This day tho.
birthday will be celebrated at Court, with great sp;eudour.

It was stated, lately, in the Admiralty Court, that Sir John
Nichol is to hold the cace of judge of that court in rum-
mendam with his present offices. There is a precedent for this,
we believe, in the case of Sir Lionel Jenkins, in the reignof
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Charles 1. or 11.

E„TEa, May 21,8 o'clock p.m.—The inquest upon the body
of the late Dr. !-Tennis has just terminated. After having re-
tired two hours the jury returned a verdict to the following
effect :—`.That Peter Hennis, Varl., M.D.. came by his death
from a pisthl-ball, fired by Sir John Jefftott, of Haidon, in 6,4
county of Devon, on the 10th of May; and that Captain Geo.
Halsted, Charles Milford, and Robert. Holland were then aid-
ing and abetting the said Sir John Jeffcott ; and, further, that
Sir John Jeffcott, Captain George Halsted, Charles Milford.
and Robert Holland are severally guilty of wilful murder. The
jurors, considering that Captain George Halsted did everything
in his power to prevent the duel, regret that they feel them-
selves compelled by the law to return this verdict against him."
Dr. Hennis's funeral will take place on Thursday morning, et
Siduiell's Church.

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