The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-03-07
The Rev 'E'sarsff EsiaI.

BILL TO REDUCE THE TARIFF ON IMPORTS.
The following is copy of the Bill to re-
tuce the Tariff on imports, passed in the
House of Representatives on Saturday:
Be it further enacted. That on and after
the first day OF July, one thousand eight hun.
dred and fiity-iye, there shall be reduction
Of twenty per centum on the rates Of duty
imposed by the act eutitled can act reduc.
ing the duty on imports, and for other pur-
poses," approved July thirteenth, one thou.
sand eight hundred and forty-six, on the
goods, wares and merchandise imported from
foreign countries enumerated and provided
for in schedules A, B., c; d, Z, F, &, and
Fl, and also those provided Tor in the third
section of said act. except as hereinafter
provided.
Sec, And be it further enacted, That the
following named articles embraced in the
schedule D of the said act oil July 81, lS46,
be and they are hereby transferred to sehed-
ule G, to owit:-Manutactures and articles o.
silk or of which silk shall be a component
material; that the manufactures and arti-
cles of fax, or of which nax shall be COM
ponent material, and blankets of all kinds
embraced in schedule L of the said act 10
3lst July, 1876, be transferred to schedule
d; that wool; manufactured shall be trans
ferred to schedule G; that flax uumanufac-
tured, silk raw, with or without the gum,
not being doubled, twisted, or advanced in
manufactures in any way; jute, manila, and
sisal grass, coir, and other vegetable sub
stances, unmanuiactured; nor otherwise pro-
vided for; lac spirits, lac sulphur, lamp BLACK,
Prussian- blue; articles in crude state used
in dyeing or tanning, not otherwise provided
for; birthstone, crude, in bulk; cream of tar
tar; extracts of indigo; india rubber, in bot!
ties; slabs or sheets unmanufactured; ex-
tract of madder, barilla, cudbear, bleaching
powder or chloride of lime, indigo, coch4
neal, wood or pastel acids, acetic, benzoic,
boracle, citric, muriatc. white and yellow
nitric, oxalic, pyroligneous and tartaric, and
all other acids used for chemical, medici-
nal, or manufacturing purposes not other
wise provided for, be transferred to sched-
ule H. And that salt, berries, nuts, flowers,
plants, and vegetabns used exclusively in
dyeing or in composing dyes; but no article
shall be classed as such that has undergone
any manufacture; Brazil wood, brazilletto /,
and all other dyewoods in sticks, burr stones,
wrought or unwreught; codilla, or tow of
hemp or fax; fruits and vegetables, green
or,ripe; not otherwise provided for; garden
seeds and all other seeds for agricultural,
Horticultural, medicinal, and manufacturing
purposes not otherwise provided for; boiling,
cloths; madden root, maddcr, ground or pre-
pared; ice; animals Of all kinds, be trans.
ferred to schedule I
SEC. And be stJlrther enacted, That all
goods, wares, and merchandise which shall
be imported from foreign countries, after the
passage of this act; and be in public stores
on the first day Of July aforesaid. shall be
subject on entry thereof for consumption
to no other duty than il the same had been
imported edrespectively after that day. .g5S
The remaining portion of the bill direct,
the mode Of proceeding ia case Of dissatis-