The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1818-09-23

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tivcs of the said Wi,hsm Devices.
BE IL enacted 6y fAe Senate and N0use If
Rehresentat'pes of the Uaited sfares Of .dme
rica, in Congress assembled, That there be
paid 70 Sa'ah Devices, reiiet of colonel Vii
liam Devices, aud the heirs asd legal repe
sentaIives Of the said colonel William De-
wees, deceased, the sum of eight Thousand
dollars, in full OF all claims the estate Of the
said deceased may have against the United
States, for the loss Of properly, owing to It's
being tseen tor public use; and that the said
sum be paid out OF any moneys in the Treas
ury not otherwise appropriated.
April IL, lslS-Approved
JAMES MONROE.
AN ACT to increase the Duties on certain
Manufactured Articles imported into the
United States.
BE enacted by he Senafe and House Of
Representatives Of the United States Of .4ne
RIGA, in Congress assembled, That, from sno
after the thirteth day of June, one thousand
eight hundred and eightcen, the duties now
IN force upon the articles hereinafter enum.
Grated and described, at their i'm portation 10
10 the United States, shall cease and that,
In lieu thereof, there shall be theOceforth
laid, levied, and collected, upon the said ar
iicles, at their importation, the several and
respective rates or duties following, that i.
10 say On articles manufactured from cop
per, or of which copper is the material of
chief value, twenty-five per cenium ad valor-
en- /; on silver-2latee saddieEy, coach aud hsr-
ness furniture, twenty hye per ccntUm ad
valorem on cut glass, thirty per cenlun I'D
vaio. en- on tacks, bfads, and sprigs, MOI ex
ceedIng sixteen ounces to the thousand, five
gents on every thousand thereof; and on Tao X,
b. ads, and sprigs, exceeding sixteen ounces.
TO he thousand, the same duiy as on mans;
b,own Russia shcetings, not exceeding hty.
two archines in each piece, ono dollar AMI
sixty cents per piece; white Russia sheoiings,
not exceeding fly 20 archines IN each piece,
two dollars and fny cents per piece.
See. Q .6nd be IL further enacted, That
on addition Of ten per cenium shall be msde
TO the several rates Of duties above specified
and imposed, in respect to all such goods,
wares, aud merchandise, which, after the said
thirtieth day of Juno, one thousaad eight hun.
dred and eighteen, shall be imported in ships
or vessels not of the United Sta,cs Provfded,
That this additional duty shall not spp'y to
goods, wares, and merchandise, imported in
ships or vessels not OF the United States, co.
titled by treaty, or by aoy act or acts of Con.
gress, to be entered in the ports of the Unit
ed States, on the payment OF the same duties
rs are paid on goods, wares, and merchandise,
imported in ships or vessels Of the United
States.
Sec. 3. .And be il further enacted, That
there snail be allowed drawback of the do
ties, by this act imposed, on goods, wares,
and merchandise, imported into the United
States, upon the expectation thereof within
the time, and in the manner, prescribed in
the fourth section OK the act, entitled f" An act
to regulate the duties on imports aud tonnage,
passed on the twenty seventh day Of April,
ono thousand eigh, hundred and sixteen.
Sec. &. .dnd be IL further enacted, That
the existing laws shall extend 10, and be in
10 so,. the collection of the duties imposed
bJhs ic,, on goods, wares, and merchandise,
imfsstted into the United States; and for the
recovery, collection, distribution, and rsmis-
sion, Of all Gnes, penalties, and forfeitures !;
and for the allowance Of the drawbacks by
this aci authorized, as folly and effsctually as
II every regulation, restriction, penalty, for
feiture, provision, clause, mater, and thing,
in The existing laws contained, had been in.
serred 10, and re-enacted by, this act. And
that ell acts, and parts OF acts, which are con-
trary TO this act, shall be, and The same are
hereby, repealed.
April 20, lsis-Apprnved,
JAMES MONROE.