Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1842-10-22


cient length to be made into spikes and
bolts, shall be rated as bar, bolt, rod. or
hoop iron. as the case may be. and pay duty
accordingly: ProOaded, also, That all YES
sells of,cast iron, and all castings of iron
not rough as from the mould but partially
manufactured after the casting, or with
handles. rings, hoops, or other additions of
wrought iron, shall pay the same rates Of
duty herein imposed on all other manu-
features of wrought iron not herein emu
merated, if that shall amount to more than
the duty on castings.
Fourth. On muskets, one dollar and fifty
cents per stand; rifles, two dollars and fifty
cents each; on axes, ADDE'S, hatchets, plane
irons, socket chisels and vices, drawing
knives, cutting knives, sckIes or reapIng
hoops scythes, spades, shovels. squares Of
iron or steel, plated or polished steel sad
dery and brass saddlery, coach and har-
ness furniture of all descriptions, steel
yards and scale beams, and all fir" arms
other than muskets and rifles, and all side
arms, thirty per centum ad valorcm; on
square wire, used for the manufacture of
stretchers for umbrellas when cut in pieces
not exceeding the length suitable therefor,
twelve and half per centum ad valorem.
Fifth. On screws made of iron called
wood screws, twelve cents per pound; and
on all other screws of iron not specified,
thirty per cenlum ad valorem. on brass
screws thirty cents per pound; on sheet
and rolled brass. duty Of thirty per CEN
tum ad voorem; on brass battery or ham
mered kettles, twelve cents per pound.
Sixth. On cast. shear, and German steel
in bars, one dollar and fifty cents per one
hundred and twelve pounds; and on all
other steel in bars, two dollars and fifty
cents per one Kindred and twelve pouds; on
solid headed pins. and all other package
pins. not exceeding five thousand to the
pack of twelve papers, forty cents per
pack. and in the same proportion for a
greater or less quantity; on pound pins
twenty cents per pound; on sewing, tam
bouring, darnIng, netting, and knitting, and
all other kinds Of needles, duty Of twenty
per centum ad vaorem; on common timed
and apanned saddIery, of all descriptions
twenty per centum ad valorem.
Seventh. On japanned ware of all kinds
or papier mache, and plated and gilt ware
of ali kinds, and on cutlery of all kinds
aud all other manufactures. not otherwise
specified, made of brass, iron, steel, lead
copper, pewter, or tin, or of which eithe
of these metals is a component material
thirty per centum ad valorem: PrOrided
That all manufactures of iron and steel, o.
other metals, partly finished, shall pay the
same rates of duty as if entirely finished.
Eighth. On lead, in pigs, and bars, three
cents per pound; on old and scrap lead
one cent and half perPound; leaden pipes
eaden shot, and lead in sheets, or in any
other form not herein specified, four cent:
per pound; on type metal and stereotype
plates, twenty-five per centum ad valorem
types, whether new or old, twenty five pei
centum ad vaIorem: on copper bottoms
cut round. and copper bottoms raised a
the edge, and still bottoms cut round anc
turned up on the edge, and parts thereof
and on copper plates or sheets welghin!
more than thirty-fnur ounces per square
foot, commonly called brazIers' copper
thirty per centum ad valorem; on cope
rods and bolts, nails and spikes. four cent
per pound; and on patent sheathlnG meta
composed in part of copper, two cents pc
pound.
Ninth. On tin, in pigs, bars. or blocks
one per centum ad valorem; tin. in plate
or sheets, terne plates, taggers' tin, and til
foil, two and and half per centum ad va
loren; on silver plated metal in sheets, an
on argentine, alabata, or German silver. i
sheets or otherwise, manufactured, thlrt
per centum ad valorem; on manufacture
of German silver, bell metal, zinc, ano
bronze. thirty per centum al valorem; OF
zinc, in sheets, ten per centum ad valoren
ProUided That old bells, or parts thereo
fit only to be manufactured. shall not b
considered manufactures Of bell metal, bu
shall be admitted free of duty; on bronz
powder, bronze liquor, iron liquor, re
liquor, and seppia, twenty per centum a
. valorem.
Tenth. On COAL one dollar and scvcnt
, five cents per ton; on coke, or culm {
l coal, five cents per bushel.
! Sec. 5. And be 1t FURTHER enacted, Tina
r from and after the passage of this &C
! there shall be levied, collected and paid, o
\ the importation of the articles hereinafte
: mentioned, the following duties, that is t
J, say:
r FIRST On all vessels or wares, article
i and manufactures of cut glass, when II
: cutting on the articles does not exceed or
| third the height or length thereof a duty
|, twenty five cents per pound; when the Gu
n ting exceeds one-third the height or lcng
r but does not exceed one half the same,
n duty of thirty-hve cents per pound, wht
IS the cutting extends to or exceeds one ha
y the heigth or length thereof a duty of for
five cents per pound, on cut glass chand
lierS candlestickS luStreS lenses lamt