Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1841-10-04
WATCIIMAN g. STATE JOURNAL
s2IN ADVANCE, SO, so AT THE END OF THE YEAR.
b Y A U T no RITY.
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to the United States from and after the thirelh
day OF September, eighteen hundred and forty
one there shall he laid, collected and paid on all
articles which are now admitted free OF duty, or
which are chargeable with duty Of less than
twenty per centum nj valorem, duty OF twenty
per centum ad valorem, except on the following
articles, that, is to say muriac acid, sui
phurc acid oil of vitrol, alum, tartarjc
acid, 0qialortls blue Vtrol caonel, carbonate OF
soda, corrosive sublmate, combs, copperas indi.
go, nitrate of lead, red and white lead dry or
ground in oil, sugar of lead manganese sulphate
of nlagnesia, bicromate of potash chrom1te of
potash, prusslae of potash gauber salts, rochelle
snIts, sulphae OF qunne, refined satpetre, which
shall pay respectively the same rates of duty i'm |
posed on them under existing laws; and the fol.
lowing articles shall be exempt fiom duty, TO wit
tea aud coffee, all painting and statuary the pro-
duction of American artists abroad, all articles
imported for the use Of the United States, and
the following articles, when specifically imported
by order and for The use Of any society incorpor-
ated or established for philosophical or literary
purposes, or for the encouragement of the fine
arts, or by order and for the Use of any college,
academy, school or seminary of learning, in the
United States, 10 vii, philosophical apparatus, in
struments, books, maps, charts, statues busts of
marble, bronze, alabasler or plaster of Paris casts,
paintings, drawings, engravngs, specimens of
sculpture, cabinets of coins, gems, medals, all 9TH
er collections OF antiquities, stauaIy, modelling,
painting, drawing, etching, or engraving: and, al
so, all inportations of specimens in natural histo-
~, mineraogy, botany, and anatomical prepara-
tons, models of machinery, and the models of
other inventions, plants and trees, wearing appar-
ell, and other personal baggage in actual use, aud
the implements or tools of trade of persons arriy-
ing in the United States; crude anthony, regulus
OF antimony, animals imported for breed, argoI
gum arabic, aoes, ambergris, boe armenian, ar
row root, annotto, annseed, oil of anniseed, am
Der, assoi9iida, ava root, acornoque, alba camel
In har oF frao ,,f,
unwrough, brass in pigs or bars, old brass only
tit 10 be remanutactured, birthstone or SULPHUR
barrilla, brazlIeto, boracic acid Burgundy pitch
berries used for dying, smallz, lasting or pruneIa
used in the manufacture Of buttons and shoes
vanilla beans, balsa:n tou, gold and silver coins
aud bullion, clay unwrought, copper imported in
any shape for the use of the mini, copper in pigs
bars, or plates, or plates sheets of which cop
per is the fnaterial of chief value suited TO the
sheathing of ships, old copper fit only to be re-
manufactured, lapis caamInaris, cochineaI, cham
omlle flowers, corlander seed, caisup cantharides
castanas, chalk, cocuus indicus, colombo root
cummn seed, cascarla, cream of tartar, veeeta.
bIes, and nuts OF all kinds used principally in dve-
ing and composing dyes, lac dye, emery, epau-
lets and wings of gold or silver furs addressed
OF all kinds, haXseed or inseed, flax unmanufactu-
red, fustic, flints, ground flint grndstopes gam
boge, raw hides, hemlock, henbane horn plates
for lanterns, and other horns, Harlem OIL harris.
born hair unmanufactured hair pencils pecacu-
anna, ivory manufactured, iris root, iuniper
berries, oil OF juniper, kep, kermes, nadder mad
DC root, musk, mamma, marrow and other soap
stocks and soap stuffs, palm oil, mohar, mother
of. ~ needles, nux vomico orris root, oil of
alnay~ opium, palm leal platina, Peruvian bark,
old pewter hit only TO be ACKNOWLEDGEMENT plaster
of Paris, quicksilver, rags of any kind of cloth,
India rubber, reeds manufactured, rhubarb,
rotten stone, elephants aud other animals teeth,
polishing sIones brstlts, ralans manufactured,
r. uIa cuit
gum Senegal, saffron sbellick, soda ash, sponges,
sago, sars9parilla, SIENNA, sunac, tapioca, tanIa-
rlnd, crude tartar, teutenegue tin foil, tin in pigs,
bars, plates, or sheets, tips OF bone or horn, tor
tose shell, turmeric, weld, woad or pastel, Brazil
wood, Nicaragua wood, red wood, cam wood, log
wood, dye woods of all kinds, unmanu lactur ed
woods OF any kind, except rose wood, satin wood
and mahoganys whale and other fish oils of A.
nerican fisheries aud all other articles the pro-
dnce OF said fisheries, and zinc and, also, wool
manufactured, the value whereof at the place
of expectation shall not exceed eight cents pei
pound Providid That if any fine wool be
mixed with dirt other materials, and thus
be reduced in value TO eight cents per pound
or under, the appraisers shall appraise said
wool at such price as in their opinion it would
have cost had il not been SO mixed, and duty
theron shall be charged in conformity with suci
appraisal: find provided further, That when WOO
OF different qualities is imported in the same bale
bag or package, and any part thereof is worth
more than eight cents a pound valued as afore.
said, that part shall pay duty of twenty per
tum adj vaorem: PrOrided, That boards pIanks
stayes scantling, sawed timber, and all other de-
scripiions Of wood which shall have been wrought
into shapes that fit them respectively to any spe
cific and permanent use, without further manu-
fracture, shall be deemed and taken maDulaclu
red wood.
Sec. 2. find be II further enacted, That Their,
shall be levied, collected, and paid each ant
every non-enumerated article which hears simlli
tu,le either in MATERIAL quality, texture The us
TO which it may be applied, 10 any enumerated
article chargeable with Duty The same rate of dut
which is levied and charged on the enumerate'
article which it most resembles in any of the par
ticuars before mentioned and If any non emu
meraed article resembles TWO or more enunlera
ted articles on which different rates of duty ar,
now chargeable, there shall he levied, collected
and paid on such non enumerated article the SAM
rate of duty MS is chargeable on the article whcl
it res smbles paying the highest duty; and on al
articles manufactured from Two or more maleri
ais The duty shall be assessed at the highest rate
at which any of its component parts may be char
geable, Provided, That, it in virtue Of this sec
lion. any duty exceeding the rate OF twenty pc
centum ad valorem shall be levied prior 10 tn
thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty two
the same shall not in any wise affect the dispos
ton of the proceeds OF the public lands, pro
yided for by an act passed at the present session
Congress find provided further, That no dut
higher than twenty per centum al valorem,
virtue of the said section, shall be levied aud pal
on any manufactured article
Sec. g. And be IL further enacted, That iroI
and after the passage of this act, the drawback
payable on exported refined sugars, manuiactur
ed from foreign sugars, and on exported rum On
titled from foreign molasses, shall be reduced
proportion to the reduction which shall have bee
m ,de by law (ater the passage ofthe acts of Coz
gress of the twenty first of january, eighlee
hundred and twenty nine, aud twenty ninth {
May, eighteen hundred and thirty. allowing sal
drawbacks,) in the duties on The imported sugar
or moasses. out of which the same shall hav
been manufactured or distilled, and in no cas-
shah the drawback exceed the amount of impo