Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1832-05-17


and hoop iron; aud on iron slit, rolled, or
hammered for band iron, scroll iron, or
easement rods, three cents per lb. on
iron spikes, four cents per ID, on iron
nails, cut or wrought, five cents per ID; ;
on tacks, brads, and sprigs, not exceed
| ing l6 ounces to the thousand, five
cents per thousand, exceeding sixteen
ounces to the thousand, five cents per
1lb; on square wire, used for the manu-
fac&ure ofsiretchers for umbrellas, twelve
per cent ad vslorem; on snvils and an
chon, and all parts thereof, manufacture
ed in whole or in part, two cents per h.
OH iron cables, or chains, or parts there
of, manufactured in whole, or in part,
three cents per h. and no drawback shall
be allowed on the expectation Of iron ca
bes or parts thereof; on mill cranks and
mill irons, of wrought iron, four cents per
lb., on mill saws, one dollar each; on
blacksmth's hammers and sledges, two
and half cents per lb.; or muskets one
dollar, and fifty cents per stand; on rifles
two dollars and fifty cents each; on all
other fire arms thirty per cent ad valo-
rem.
| 10th. On axes, AIDES, hatchets, draw
ing knives, cutting knives, sickles, or
reapng hooks, scythes, spades, shovels,
squares of iron or steel, bride bits Of all
descriptions, steelyards and scale beams,
socket chisels, vices and screws of iron,
called wood screws, thirty per cent ad
vaorem: Provided, that said articles
shall not be imported at a less rate of
duty than would have been chargeable
on the material constituting their chief
value, if imported IN an manufactured
+ state.
Ilth. On steel, one dollar and fifty
cents per ll2lbs.
10Th. On japanned wares of all kinds,
on plated wares of all kinds, and on all
manufactures, not otherwise specified,
made Of brass, ron, steel, pewter, lead or
tin, or of which either of these metals is
a component material, a duty of twenty
five per cent. ad valorem: Provided that
all articles manufactured, in whole, of
sheet, rod, hoop, bolt, or bar iron, or of
iron wire, or Of which sheet, rod, hoop,
bolt, or bar iron, or iron wire, shall con-
stitute the greatest weight, and which are
not otherwise specified, shall pay the
same duty per lb that is charged by this
act on sheet, rod, hoop, bolt, or bar ircn,
or on iron wire, of the same number re-
spectivcly: Provided, also, that the said
last mentioned rates shall not be less than
the said duty Of twenty-five per cent ad
valorem.
18th. That all scrap and old iron shall
pay duty Of twelve dollars and fifty cts.
per ton; that nothing shall be deemed old
iron that has not been in actual use; and
all pieces of iron Except old> of more
than six inches in length shall be rated
as bar, bolt, rod, or hoop iron, as the
case may be, and pay duty accordingly.
! 18th. On manufactured hemp, fifty
dollars per ton; on sail duck, ten cents
square yard; and, on cotton bagging,
three and IA hale cents a square yard.
18th. On all manufactures of silk, or
Of which silk shall be a component part,
coming from beyond the Cape of Good
Hope, twenty-five per cent. ad valorem;
and on all other manufactures of silk, or
Of which silk shall be component part,
twenty per cent.
10th. On brown sugar and syrup for
making sugar, two and half cents per
pound; and on white claycd, or powder
ed sugar, three and one third cents per
Id.
18th. On salt, five cents per fifly-six
lbs.
18th On coffee, half cent per ID.
10Th. On teas Of all kinds imported
from China, or other places east Of the
Cape Of Good Hope, and in vessels of
the United States, one cent per lb. On
all teas imported from any other place, or
in vessels other than the United States,
ten cents per lb.
Goth. On states Of all kinds twenty-five
per cent. ad valorem.
2lst. On window glass, not above by
10 inches in size, 8 dollars per hundred
square feet; not above 10 by l2 inches,
So and so cts. per hundred square feet
and if above 10 by l2 inches, dollars
per hundred square feet; Provided that
all window glass imported in plates, uncut,
shall be charged with the highest rates
of duty hereby imposed. On apotheca-
ries' vials, of the capacity of four ounces
and less, one dollar per gross; and not
exceeding eight ounces, one dollar and
twenty-five cents per gross. i
god. On olive oil, in casks, IL 2 cts.
a gallon. /
23d. On the wines of France, viz
red wines, 6 cents gallon; white wines,
in casks, 10 cents a gallon; and wines Of
all sorts, in bottles, % cents gallon.
24th. On the following articles. ad
valorem duty of u per cent viz: barley;