Litchfield enquirer., 1842-09-08


Gems, Pearls, &C..
Wines-lMaaeira. Sherry, San Lucar &
Canary, per gallon GO 60
seTs Burgundy, and c la. in bottles q
'Teneriffe and Claret in casks
White,n0t enumerated, OF France ,Au-
stsia, Prus- Sard'a, Portugal in casks = q e
Red, Of do in casks 6 6
do d. in bottles W
White and Red Of Spain, Germany, ,.,o
and the Med. not emu, in casks ~ ~ ~
Wines 40 Of sicly 3G Madeira u and MARSHA e
Other wines Of Sicily
All other Wines and other than those OF
France, Aust Prus. ,sar a,Porsl' in bottles %
do in casks
The following list comprises all the impor.
tant articles to he admitted duty free:
l. All articles imported for the use OF the
United States.
9. All goods, the product Of the United
States, exported and brought back, and
books and personal and household effects Of
citizens of the United States dying abroad.
3. Paintings and stauary. the production OF
American artists residing abroad.
4. Wearing apparel in actual use, and 9TH
er personal effects, and tools of trade, ofper-
son arriving in the United States.
5. Philosophical apparatus. instruments
books, maps, and charts, statues, statuary'
busls and casts, paintings, drawings engfa"
wings, etchings, specimens OF sculpture, ca0-
ineis Of coins, medals, gems, and all other
collections of Antiquities, provided the same
be specially imported 10 good faith for the
use land BY the or,ier) of any society incor-
poraled or established for philosophical or
literary purposes, or for the use and by the
order OF any college, academy, school, or
seminary of learning in the United States.
6. Anatomical preparations. models OF
machinery, AID Of other inventions and AM
provemeDtS in the arts /; specimens IN natu-
raj history, mineralogy, and botany trees,
shrubs, plants, bulbs or roots. and garden
seeds, not otherwise specified berries, nnts'
and vegetables, used principally in dyeing
or composing dyes; all dyewo0ds in stick :
whale and other fish oils Of American fisher
les, and I'LL other articles the produce OF said
fisheries animals imported for breed fish,
fresh caught, imported for daily consump-
ton fruit, green or ripe, from the West In
dies, IL. bulk tea and coffee. when imported
in American vessels from the places of their
growth.
z. Adhesive felt for sheathing vessels, al.
oes, antimony, crude argol. asafetido, ava
root, barilla, bark of cork tree unmanufactur-
ed bells of bell metal, and chimes of bells
brass in pigs or bars. and old brass Brazil
wood, crude birthstone and -four of sulphur,
bullion. burr stones unwrought. cochineaI,
coins and gold and silver, copper imported
in any shape for the use of the mint. copper
in pigs, or bar, and copper ore, old copper,
cream of tartar, fiints, ground fints, gold bull
lion, gold epaulettes, grindstones. gum Ara
bic, gum Senegal, gum tragacanth, india rub
Der, oakum, lac dye, leeches, madden, moth
er Of Pearl, nickel, nux vomica, palm leaf
manufactured, palm oil, Peruvian bark, pla-
tina. ivory, plaster of Paris, ratans and reeds,
saltpetrc when crude, sarsaparilla shellac,
silver epaulets and wings, and stones, stones
called rotten.
These duties are imposed by the FIRST nine sections
Section 10. enaets that on oil unenumerated orti.
cles shall be imposed duty Of 20 per cent ad valor.
Section II. An additional 10 per cent. shall be lev
Jed on ill goods which shall be mporsd IN
nation 10 made by the bill and 10 per cent addition,
al on all goods except those brought from beyond
the Cape Of Good Hope in foreign yesses-provided
no treaty stipulations be infringed thereby.
Section r. All duties shall be paid in cash-or the
goods will be sold after 60 days detention.
Section IS, prescribes the method OF selling, and
means for the owner to recover the overplus
Sections IA allows a drawback on foreign sugar re-
fined in and exported from the United States, equal
in amount to the duty paid on the foreign sugar OF
ss sa Ss on aSd annua
duced cent.
Sectioa is enacts that no drawback shall be allow
ed to goods entitled 10 dehenture, unless exported
within three years after their import.
Section Is provides the mode of valuation 1T all
goods paying 0d u1lorem duties, enacting that all
costs, charges and commissions except insurance
shall be added to the market value.
Section IL empowers collectors sad appraisers to
take testimony necessary for valuation.
Ssciioa 10 provides for cases Of Disagreement on
SsciOa 10 enacts penalties for attempts to evade
the payment Of duties
500 20 imposes on non-enumerated articles the
same duties as those enumerated which they most
Ssei;os 81 directs the method Of appraisal
Nectioa % provides for ports where there are no
So. g directs the Secretary Of the Treasury to
make necessary rules for faithful appraisais.
Secioa - directs collectors to follow the oeeFeta
Sssfisn Is provides that the act shall not apply %
vessels that shall have et their last port Eass OF the
Cepes Good Hope and Henlopen, Sept j, I6az;
Sscfioa % provides that the penalties OF tne u" Oh
June So 1042, shall be continued.
Gsctioa 81 land DistEibutionl omitted
Sscsisa 8, % and 80 lStFuck out IN SenatsJ
&ariieR 81 requires the Secretary annually 70 as.
certain end report what articles have paid duty OF
more than 80 per cent. I'D valoFem.
SsciiOA, - prohibits the importation OIL indecent
Ssei;ea $ s.tablshss q ton at 20 hundred weight
NJ ll9 Ne. each.
A new Section 10 added in the Senate, enactng
that while the Distribution Of the Public Lands Is
suspended the 20 per cent. SLOWED 70 the Western
nlaies shall also Be suspended