Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-10-17

It prohibits from importation into the colo
MES, certain artic les from any foreign country.
1t admits Rum; Cocoa, Sugar Molasses, and
Coffee, from every country into Canada and No
va Scotia, on payment Of very light duties, &
admits all articles into their Colonies on pay
ment of light duties.
| 1t admits. many articles, duty freel into all
| her Colonies.
1t admits [duty free all goods from India,
and China.
Sec. III, enacts-Thar the duties imposed
prior to the 18th year George III. shall contin-
ue, as well as all Colonial duties, TO be applied
! to the uses for which they were imposed; but
shall not taken together exceed the duties,
imposed by this act.
| 1t admits all articles, not specifically prohibi-
ted, to be imported into the Colonies from all
nations being the produce of the nation to
which the ship belongs; and,
Itpermits the ex port from those Colonies,
IN foreign ships, of all their produce. & such ar
ticles as may legally be imported, therein, to "a
ny part of the world.-See sec. 4, of act July S,
| 1925.
II confines these permissions to those ma
! tons possessing Colonies, who will reciprocate,
and TO those having none who will place the
commerce and navigation of the British pos
sessions abroad, on the footing of the most IA
vored nation.
1t permits all goods, the produce and manu-
faCture Of the country TO which the ship belongs,
to be imported and deposited in the Public
Warehouses, the duty to. be paid only when
drawn out for consumption. The packages 10
be opened and sold in any port that may be re-
quired.
| SCHEDULE OF DUTIES
| A Schedule of Duties payable upon Goods,
Wares, and Merchandise, not being of The
| growth, production, or manufacture, of the
United Kingdom, or of any of the British
Possessions in America, or the West Indies,
! or within the limits Of the East-India Com
panys charter, imported into any of the Bri-
| fish Possessions in America or the w est
Indies.
Barrel Of Wheat Flour, not weigh
ing more than 1916 lbs. nett weight 81 IL
For every hundred weight Of Bis
cult or Bread SO Is
For every barrel Of Flour or Meal,
not weighing more than 1876 lbs. not
made from Wheat IS S-5
For every bushel of Wheat % IA
For every bushel of Peas, Beans,
Rye, Calavances, Oats, Barley, or In
dian Corn IS
Rice, for every hundred ID. nett VT. SIS 3-5
For every one thousand shingles,
not more than twelve inches in length | SIS 3-5
| For every one thousand shingles, be-
| ing more than twelve inches in length 8 ii
For every one thousand Red Oak
Slaves 3 35 l-3
| For every one thousand White Oak
Slaves or Headings rs
| For every one thousand feet of
White, Yellow, or Pitch Pine Lum-
Der, Of one inch thick 66 SO
| Other Kinds of Wood and Lumber,
per one thousand feet % Ia
| For every one thousand Wood
Hoops 10 %
Horses, Mules, Asses, Neat Cattle,
and all other live stock, for every one
hundred pounds Of the value a. a. 40
Spirits, viz:-Brandy, Geneva, or
CorGals, for every gallon % Ia
And further, the amount of any du-
ty payable for the time being Oh Spi-
rits, the manufacture of the United
Kingdom.
Wine, imported in bottles, the tun
containing 252 gallons 80 &c 2-3
Aud further, for every 1901 or
S444' a. 9 of the true and real va
lue thereof 35 50 l-3
And for every dozen Of foreign
quart bottles, in which such Wines
may be imported % Ia
Wine, not in bottles, for every 1901.
or S444 "a 40 of the true and real
value thereof SO 80 l-3
Coffee, Cocoa, Sugar, Molasses, and
Rum, imported into any of the Bril-
fish possessions in Mort, America,
viz: Coffee, for every cwt. II
Cocoa, for every cwt. II
Sugar, for every cwt. IL
Molasses, for every cwt &c %
Rum, for every gallon ii
And, further, the amount of any
duty payable for the time being on
Coffee, Cocoa, Sugar, Molasses, and
Rum, respectively, being the produce
of any of the British possessions i'll
South America or the West.Indes.
MIR. LLOYD, of Mass. said, he had some rea-
son to complain of the gentleman from Mary
land, who. had so fully and ably stated his opin-
ions, for that gentleman had very recently, he
believed only yesterday morning, remarked to
him that the subject of the regulation of the
British colonial trade would be brought before
the House of Representatives: that il would be