The Arkansas advocate., 1832-10-03

as ranuires inc aaaitloa of ten tW easY ner centnln 10 the cost DC value of any goods, wares or merchandise, ia estime- ting the duty thereon, or as imposes any duty ou such addition, shall be repealed.
 Sec. 5. .4ad be | further efacted, Fiat from aud after tie third day el March aforesaid, where the amount of duty on 1nerehandise, except wool, manufactures sva1l or of .yiaidl woui is a cotnPofiefs;; part imported into the United states lh any ship or vessel, on account ot one per ,. son only, or of several persons jaittij IF feresled shall not exceed two bundFe6 dollars inc same shall be paid Tn cash, without discount, and if It shall exceed that snia. shall, at the option of the ip porter or importers, be paid or secured 10 be paid, in the manner now required by law. one-half in three and one-half in six calender months; and that, from and af- ter the said third day of March, so much of ttie sixty y-secoud section of the act, ehti- tied An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage, approved the second day of March, one thousand seven hundred and Binety-nlne, as author lzes the deposite of teas under the bond of fhe importer or importers. shall be repeal- ed, And that so much of any existing law as requires teas. when imported i'll vessels of the United States, from places beyond the Cape of Good Hope. to be weighed, marked and certified shall be and the same is hereby repealed.
 Sec. 6. .4sd be | fiaaher enacted, That from and after the third day nf March aforesaid the duties on all wool. manulac- lures of wool or of which wool IS compo nent part. shall be paid in cash, without discount, or at the option of the importer, be placed in the public stores, under bond, lie icI< lo tl,an of tba customary storage and charges; and to the payment of interest at the rate ef six per ceHtum per annun while stored prouided, That the duty on the articles SD stored shall be paid oBe-half In three and sone-half in six months from the date of i'm pertation: Prorided, also. That if any instalment of duties be not paid when the same shall have become due, so much Of he said merchandise as may De necessary to discharge such instalment, shall oe s9ld at4puhlic auction, and retaining the sum necessary for the payment of such install snent of the duties, together with the ex penses of safe keeping and sale of such goods, the oyerpsas, ifany. shall be re turn ed by the collector to the importer or owner or to his agent or lawful represent ftive Ind proUided, also, That the inn porter, owner or consignee of such goods, may, at any time after the deposite shall have been made, withdr the whole or any part thereof, on pay the duties on wHat may be withdrawn, and the GUS tomary storage and charges, and of in- tcrest.
 Sec.7. lind be t further enacted. That in all cases where the duty now IS, or here afer may be imposed on any goods, wares or merchandise imported into the United States, shall, by law, be regulated by or I T. the value of the square yard or of any oth- CT quaatlty or parcel thereof; and in all eases wlere there Is or shall be imposed sany aA valorem rate of duty on any goods wares or merchandise imported into the Gnited States, if shall be the duty Of the collector within whose district the samte shall be imported or entered. 10 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 ascertained, and the number of such yards. parcels or quantities, aud such actual value of every of them as the case may requires and It shall in every such case ne the duty of the appraisers of the United States and every of them, and of every other person who l shall act as such appraiser, by all the req sonable ways or means in his or their pow CT, to ascertain, estimate and appraise the true and actual value, any invoice or afli dayit thereto to the contrary notwithstand- 1ng, of the said goods, wares and merchan- disc at the time purchased and place from whence he same shall have been imported iato the United States, and the number of such yards, parcels or quantities and such actual value of every of them as the case may require, and all such goods, wares and anesehandsses, being manufactures ofwool or whereof wool shall he a component part, which shall ue imported into tue United States in an unfinished condition shall in s every such appraisal ne taken. deemed and estimated by the said appraisers and every of1hem, and every person who shall act as such appraiser, to have been al the time purchased and place from whence the same were imported into the United States, of as great actual value as if the same had been entirely finished: Proui- ! ded, That in all cases where any goods wares or merchandise subject to an ad vai- orcm duty or whereon the duty is or shall be Ay law regulated by or be directed to be estimated or levied upon the value of the square yard or any other quantity or par eel thereof shall have been imported into the United States from country other than that in which the same were manu- factured or produced. the appraisers shall Fdtut tte SdiifS tHt CuFFSHt faiHe iHefP- of at the time of purchase, before such last exportation to the United States in the country where the same may have bren originally manufactured or produced.
 Sec. 8. Aud De Il farthey eaacfed. That 1t shall be lawful for the appraisers to call before them and examine upon oath, any owner, Importer, consignee or other per son, touching any matter or thing which they may deem material in ascertaininr