Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1833-03-27
REVENUE BILL.

N-' ~ " Hloulty inc ACT OF tne fourteenth
Oh July, one thousand eight hundred and
thirty-two, and all other acts imposing duties
or imports.
Be it enacted, &c. That, from and after the
thirty first day OF December, one thousand
eight hundred and thirty three, in all cases
where duties are imposed on foreign imports by
The act of the fourteenth day of July, one thou
sand eight hundred and thirty two, entitled 'An
act to alter and amend the several acts imposing
duties on IMPORTS" or by any other act, shall
exceed twenty per centum on the value thereof,
one tenth part Of such excess shall be deducted !;
from and after the thiriy-first cav of Decem-
Der ore thousand eight hundred and thirty
seven, another tenth part thereof shall be de-
Quoted; from and after the thirty first day of
December, one thousand eight hundred and
thirty -seven, another tenth : part thereof,
shall be deducted; from and after the thirty
first day of December, one thousand eight
hundred and thirtynine, another tenth part
thereof shall be deducted; and from and after
The thirty first day of ID December, one thousand
eight hundred and iorty-one, one half of the
residue of such excess shall be deducted and
from and after the thrteth day of June one
thousand eight hundred and iorty-two, the other
half thereof shall be deducted.
Sec 2. And be 1t further enacted, That so
much of the second section of the act OF the
fourteenth of July aforesaid as fixes the rate
of duty on all niiled and faIed cloth. known
by the name of plains, kerseys, or Kendall cot
tons. of which wool is the only material, the
value whereof does Eot exceed thirty five cents
il square yard, at five per centum ad valorem,
shall be, and the same is hereby, repeated And
the said articles shall be subject to the same
duty OF htty per centum, as is provided by the
said second section for other manufactures of
wool which duty shall be liable to the same
deductions as are prescribed by the first section
of this act.
Sec. 3. And belt further enacted, That until
the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight
hundred and torty>two, the duties imposed by
existing laws, as modified by this act, shall re-
main and continue to be collected And from
and after the day last aforesaid, all duties upon
imports shall be collected in ready money; and
all credits now allowed by law, in the payment
of duties, shall be, and hereby are abolished,
and such duties shall be laid for the purpose of
raising such revenue as may be necessary to AMI
economical administration of the Government;
and from and alter the day last aforesaid, the
duties required to be paid by law on goods,
wares, and merchandise, shall be assessed upon
the value thereof at the port where the same
shall be entered, under such regulations as may
be prescribed by law.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That in
addition to the articles now exempted by the
act of the fourteenth of July, one thousand
eight hundred and thirty-two, and the existing
laws, from the payment of duties, the following
articles imported from and after the thirty first
day of December, one thousand eight hundred
and thlrty-three, and until the ihrtleth day Of
June, one thousand eight hundred and forty
two, shall also be admitted to entry, free from
duty, to wit :-bleached and unbleached linens,
table linen, linen napkins, and linen cambricks,
and worsted stuff goods, shawls and other ma
nufactures of silk and worsted, manufactures
of silk, or of which silk shall be the component
material of chief value, coming from this side
of the Cape of Good Hope, except sewing silk
Sec 5. And be it further enacted, That from
and after the said !hrteth day of June, one
thousand eight hundred and forty-two, the fol-
lowing articles shall be admitted to entry free
from duty to wit: indigo, quicksilver. sulphur,
crude salipetre, grindstones, refined borax,
emery, opium, tin in plates and sheets, gum
arabic, gum senegal, lac dye, madden root, nuts
and berries used in dying saffron, tumeric
woad or pastel, aloes, ambergris, burgundy
pitch, cochinaai, camomIle flowers, coriander
seed, catsrp, chalk, cocolus indicus, horn plates
for lanterns, OK horns and tips, Indian rubber,
manufactured ivory, jumper berries, musks,
nuts of all kinds, oil of juniper, unmanniac-
tured rattans and reeds, tortoise shell, tin foil,
shelac, vegetables used principally in dying
and composing dyes, weld, and all articles en-
ployed chiefly in dying, except alum, copperas,
bichromate of potash, prussiate OF potash, chro-
mate of potash, and nitrate Of lead. aqua FORTS
md tartaric acids. And all iInposts on which
the first section of this act may operate, and all
articles now admitted to entry free from duty,
or paying less rate of duty than twenty per
centnm ad valorem before the said thirteth day
IF June, one thousand eight hundred and forty
two, from and after that day may be admitted
10 entry sabiect to such duty, not exceeding
twenty per centum ad valorem, as shall be pro-
glded for by law.
SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That SO
mach of the act of the fourteenth day of July,
1872, or OF any other act as is Inconsistent with
his act, shall be, and the same is hereby re-
repealed: Provided, That nothing herein con-
aiaed shall be SO construed as to prevent the
passage, prior or subsequent TO the said thlrtieth