The Arkansas banner., 1846-11-04
puhl;c No 20

HuDIlc. NO. oS.
 AN ACT reducing tue duty on imports. and for
 other purposes.
 Sec. i. Be Il enacted by he Senate and House of Representatives of he Uaiied Staics of 3mericd n Congress assembled That from and after the first day of December next, in lieu of the duties here. toiore imposed by law on the articles hereinafter mentioned, and on such as may now be exempt from duy there shall beevie1 collected, and paid, on the goods wares, and merchandise herein emu merated and provided for, imported from foreign countries, the following rates of duty-that is 10 say
 On goods, wares, and merchandise mentioned in schedule A, duty of one Hundred per centum ad yalorem.
 On goods, wares. and merchandise mentioned in schedule B, duty of forty per centum ad valo- rem.
 On goods, wares, and merchandise mentioned in schedule C, duty of M,riy per centnm ad valo- rem.
 On goods, wares, and merchandise mentioned in schedule D. duty of ilcenty fre per centum ad va lorem.
 On goods, wares, and merchandise mentioned in schedule E, duty of tirenty per centum ad valo- rem.
 On goods, wares, and merchandise mentioned in schedule F, duty of JGfeen per centum ad valo' rem,
 On goods, wares, and merchandise mentioned in schedule G, aduty of len per eentum ad valorem. On goods, wares, and merchandise mentioned in schedule II, duty of fire per ceninm ad vaosem.
 Sec. ,. Be II further enacted That from and after the first day of December next, the goods, wares, and merchandise mentioned iu schedule shall be exempt from duty. Sec. 3. .4ad De t further cnacfed, That, from and after the first day of December next. there shall be levied, collected, aud paid on all goods, wares and merchandise imported from foreign coun- tries and not specially provided for in this act, duty of ticenty per centnm ad valorem Sec 1 .4nd De Il further cnacied, That in all cases in which the invoice entry shall not contain the weight or quantity Of measures ot goods, wares, or merchandise now weighed or measured or sauged. the same shall be weighed, gauged, or measured at the expense of the owner, agent. or consignee.
 Sec. ,. And be Il further enacted, That from and after the first day of December next in lieu of the bounty heretofore authorized by law to be paid on the exportaiion of pickled fish of the fisheries of the United States there shall bs allow ed on the exportation thereof, if cured with or- eign salt a drawback equal in amount 70 the duty paid on the salt and more to be aSceTained un- der such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury.
 Sec. G. .4ad Dc II further enacted, That all goods wares, and merchandise imported a!,ei the passage of this act and which may be in the DuDuE stores on tne SecotiH oi sall be subject ,o no other duty thereof than if the same were imported respectively after that day, Sec 2. .iad be it further eaacted. That the twelfth section of the act entitled "An act to provide revenue from imports, and to change and modify existing laws imposing duties on imports. and for other purposes" approved August thirty, eighteen hundred aud forty two,' shall be- and the same is hereby 50 far modified, that all goods i'm ported from this side the Cape of Good Hope or Cape Horn may remain in the public stores for the space of one year instead of the term of sixty days prescribed in the said section; and that all goods imported from beyond the Cape of Good Hope Or Cape Horn may remain in the public stores cue year instead oI the term of ninety days prescribed I m the said section.
 Sec. g. And De it furiher eaaeted, That il slta be lawful for the owner, consignee, agent of imports which have been actually purchased, on entry of the same, to make such addition In she entry to the cost CT valne given in the invoice, in his opinion may raise the same to the true mar ket value of such imports in the principal markets of the country whence the importation shall have been made, or in which the goods imported shall have been originally manufactured or produced. as
 the case may be; and 10 add thereto all costs and
 charges which under existing laws, would form part
 of the true value at the port where the same may De entered upon which the duties should be asses