The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1842-11-22

value or wholesale PRIV 'u0icoi, ehe " 'iAS
square yards, parcels, or other quantities. as
the case NAV require. and OF such actual
markets value or wholesale price OF every
of them.
Sec. "a. And be it further enacted, That
it shall be the duty of all collectors and 9th,
er officers of the customs TO execute and
carry into effect all instructions OF the Sec
rotary of the Treasury relative to the. exc
cution of the revenue laws; and IN case
any difficulty shall arise as to the true con-
struction or meaning Of any part OF such
revenue laws, the decision of the Secretary
ofthe Treasury shall be conclusive and
binding upon all such collectors and other
officers of the customs.
Sec. %. And be it further enacted, That
nothing in this act contained shall apply to
goods shipped in vessel bound to any port
of the United States, actually having left
her last port Of landing eastward of the Cape
of Good Hope or beyond Cape Horn prior
to the first day of September, eighteen hum
dred and forty-two, and all legal provisions
and regulations existing Immediately before
the thirtieth day Of June, eighteen humid
red and forty-two, shall be applied to impor-
tsiions which may be made in vessels which
have left such last port of landing eastward
of the Cape of Good Hope or beyond Cape
Horn prior to said first day Of September,
eighteen hundred and forty-two.
Sec. &c. And be it further enacted, hat
the laws existing on the first day of June,
eighteen hundred and forty. two, shall
extend to and be in force for the collection
of the duties imposed by this act on goods,
wares, and merchandise imported into the
United States, and for the recovery, COL
lection, distribution and remission OF all
fines, penalties and forfeitures, and for the
allowance of the drawbacks by this act au-
thorized, as fully and effectually as if every
regulation, restriction, penalty, forfeiture,
provision, clause, matter. and thing in the
said laws contained, had been inserted in
and re-enacted by this act. And that all
provisions of any former law inconsistent
with this act, shall be, and the same are
hereby, repealed.
Sec. 81 And be it further enacted, That
it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the
Treasury, annually, to ascertain whittier,
for the year ending on the thirtieth of June
next preceding, the duty on any articles
have exceeded thirty-fve per centum ad va
lorem on the average wholesale market val
ne of such articles, in the several ports OF
the United States for the proceeding year {;
and. if so, he shall report tabular state
ment of such articles and excess of duty
to Congress at the commencement OF the
next annual session thereof, with such OBJ
servations and recommendations as he may
deem necessary for the improvement OF the
revenue.
Sec. %. And be it further enacted, That
the importation of all indecent and obscene
prints, paintings, Autographs, engravings,
and transparencies is hereby prohibited !;
and no invoice or package whatever, or
any part thereof, shall be admitted to entry
in which any such articles are contained !;
and all invoices and packages whereof any
such articles shall compose part are here
by declared to be liable to be proceeded
against, seized and forfeited, by due course
of law and the said articles shall be forth
with destroyed.
Sec. %. And be it further enacted, That
Wherever Tue worn ''iOH 10 uSeu III thiS at,
in reference to weight, it shall be deemed
and taken to be twenty hundred weight,
each hundred weight being one hundred and
twelve pounds avoirdupois.
Sec. 80. And be it further enacted, That
so long as the distribution of the nett pro-
ceeds of the sales of the public lands, drec-
ted to be made among the several States,
Territories, and District Of Columbia, by
the act entitled Gan act to appropriate the
proceeds of the sales Of the public lands and
to grant presumption rights" shall be and
remain suspended by virtue of this act, and
of the proviso of the sixth section of the act
aforesaid, the ten per centum of the said
proceeds directed to be paid by the said act
to the several States of Ohio, Indiana. Hi
nois, Alabama, Missouri, Mississippi, Lou
isiana, Arkansas, and Michigan, shall also
be and remain suspended.
JOHN WHITE,
Speaker of the House of Representatives..
WILLIE P. MANGUM.
President of the Senate pro temPore.
Approved, Aug. 80, 1912.
JOHN TYLER.