Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-05-03

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fifteen per cent.
will Instance a few Of the descriptions
Of copper, which are to be considered III
,be light ola non-enumerated article.
/. Copper bottoms, cut round anu cop
per bottoms raised at the edge.
?. Copper in plates or Sheets Weighing
more than thirty. -four ounces per square
foot, commonly called Brazier' copper
I, ba. been intimated to the treasury
that large contracts have been maae Id
swedea, by citizens of the United o'a'es'
ior uorts ofanehors; with view, II is sup
nO.ed of eyading the payment OF the spe,
r;6c duty of two GEMS per pound imposed
IN ANCHORS, by the act Of the goth OF A
pnl, 1915. :,
II is stated that the stems are made IN
o,e or two parts, according to the size oil
.he anchors for which they are intended ;
,h,t the 6ues form another part; that the
n,lms are made into separate parts: ana
that the several parts are made to fit so ex'
,ct,v, that, after their importation, they re-
,,;re nothing more than the mere process
Of welding, to form them into complete an
chors.
The object and policy Of the Legislature,
in laying specific duty Of two cents per
ntnnd on anchors, were, no doubt, to en-
courage our own manufactures OF this article
1t is, therefore, considered not only equi-
table. but consistent with the spirit and lR-
tention of the law, that parts Of anchors
should pay the same rate of duty as anchors
By law, duty of one dollar and nifty
cents, per pair, is laid on boots. A que'-
ton has been made whether laced boots or
bootees should pay the same rate OF duty as
boots, which has been decided in the mega
tive il being considered equitable that Ia
ced boots or bootees should pay duty only
in uroportion to their comparative value
with boots and, upon that principle, II has
been adiudged tat they should be charged
with an ad valorem duty OF thirty per cent
as manufactures OF leather.
The present tariff, excerpts worsted and
stuff goods, from the payment OF the rate
of duty imposed on other woollen goods, OF
of which wool is the material of chief va
lue, and not being otherwise provided lor
are considered non-enumerated article
and liable to an al valorem duty OF htteer
per cent.
Ii has been commended by some impor
.ers, thai toiienetts and vaisntias, come with
in the definition of o9orstsd and stuff goods
which construction, however, has not beer
acceded to by the Treasury.
The uorsted aud staff goods, contem
plated by law, as an exception 10 7"oole1
manufactures Of all description, are such
as are called bombazetts, esmlets, caiiman-
Goes. ratinetts, wildboars, shalloons, mo-
reens, and the ike, all Of which are COM
posed entirely OF UOo!.
Both, valertias and to,lenetts, are COM
posed of cotton and Tool, aud IN some
there is a small mixture OF six; consequent
ly they do not come within the meaning Of
aporsted and gf'goods, contemplated by
law, but are, strictly speaking, woollen
manufactures, and liable to an ad valoren
duty Of twenty-five per cent. their mate
terial of chief valu being cool.
1t may be well, here to apprize you, thai
the Limitation, in the fourth paragraph, Of
the first section OF the act of the 9Th April,
1916, as 10 the time when the duty OF TWEEN
Nhve per cent, ad valorem, should cease
to be chargeable on woolsn goods, having
been extended, by an act passed on the
Goth April, 1915, to the 3oth June, 1895
an ad valorem duty OF twenty-five per cent
will be demandable on woollen manuiac,
lures Of all descriptions, or OF which wool
is the material OF chief value excepting
blankets, wooden rugs, and worsted and
stuff goods, until the said 3oth day of June
1896.
A question has also been made as to the
duty properly chargeable on sad irons.
From the circumstance OF the handle:
being made OF drought iron, and being at.
fixed to them after having been cast ant
the bottoms and SIDES being made smoott
by grinding after that operation, it has beer
decided, that sad irons should be consider
ed in the lightof manufactures Of iron, ant
pay duty accordingly.
On an importation ofsome Uisiting card,