The Arkansas banner., 1844-04-03

duty of twenty-five per centum ad valorem; instead of the various duties imposed by the said act.
 SEC. 9 find 5e | further enacted, That from and after the first day of September, in the year aforesaid, the duties imposed by the said act upon the articles hereinafter men toned, shallbe changed, modified, ndreduced in the manner following-that is to say:
 FirSi Onspirits from grain, of first proof, forty-two cents per gallon; of second proof, forty-fve cents per gallon; of third proof, foIty-eigh. cents per gallon; of fourth proof, ffty-two cents per gallon; of fifth proof, sixty cents per gallon; above fifty proof, seventy five cents per gallon; on spirits from other materials than grain, of first and second proof, thirty-eight cents per gallon; of third proof, forty-two cents per gallon; of fourth proof, forty-eight cents per gallon; of fifth proof, flty-seven cents per gallon; above fifth proof, seventy cents per gallon, instead of the various duties imposed by the said act.
 Second. On wines of all sorts there shall be levied duty of thirty per centum ad va lorem, instead of tie various duties imposed by the said act.
 SEC. TO- find Je it further enacted, That from and after the first day of September, in the year aforesaid, the following articles, viz: Unmanulactured cotton, guano, and sulphate of quinine, shall be exempt from duty.
 SEC. Il find be t funther enacted, That from and after the first day of September, in the year aforesaid, so much of the sixteenth section of the act entitled an act to provide revenue from imports, and to change and modify existing laws imposing duties on inn ports and for other purposes,o approved on the thirteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, which directs the manner in which the market value or wholesale price of goods, wares, and mer- chandise, imported into the United States, Iand-subject to at valorem duties, or duties based upon the value of the square yard, or any specified quantity or parcel of such goods, shall be ascertained, be and the same is hereby so far modified, that to said value or price to be ascertained as provided for in said section, shall be added only the costs and charges, which shall have been incurred to and at the place of exportation.
 SEC. 12. find De u further enacted, That all ad valorem duties authorized to be levied under this act, or of the act of which this is amendatory, which shall exceed twenty-five per centum ad valorem, shall, on the first day of September 1S45, be reduced to that rate.
 SEC 13. find De 4 further eaected, That all duties imposed by the said act, hereby amended, which are not herenbefore changed, increased, altered, modified, or reduced, shall be and remain, and shall be levied and col lected m the same manner as other duties upon imports; and all clauses, provisos, and other provisions of the said act not hereby altered, amended, or expressly repealed, shall be and remain in as full force and effect as if the same had been re-enacted in this act.
 SEC IA. find De q further enacted, That the twelfth section of the said act shall be, and the same is hereby, so far modified, that all goods imported from within, or this side of the Cape of Good Hope may remain in the public stores for the term of one hundred and twenty days, instead of the term of sixty days, as prescribed in the said section; and that all goods imported from beyond the Cape of Good Hope may remain in the pub lie stores for the term of one hundred and fifty days, instead of the term of ninety days. prescribed in the said section: Pr0rided, That, at the time oft payment of duties of all such goods, whether the same, or any DOT tion thereof, be sold for the payment of such duties or not, interest," at the rate of six per centum per annum, upon the duties payable from the time of the entry to the time of pay ment, shall also be paid as part ef the duties chargeable upon such goods.