Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-04-24
IPublic-No. 271
AN ACT reducing the duty on imports, and
for other purpeses

| t"' 0'"o' purposes
BE IL enacted by the Senate and House OF
Representatives of the United States of dra
! erica an Congress assembled, That on and az
ter the first day of July, eighteen hundred
and fifty ad valorem duties shall be
imposed, in lieu OF those now imposed upon
goods, wares and merchandise imported from
abroad into the United States, as follows. viz:
Upon the articles enumerated in schedule
| and of the tariff act of eighteen hundred
and forty-six, duty of thirty per centurn,
and upon those enasnerated in schedules c,
| ID, L, +, G, and III, of said act, the duties of
s~ensy-fous per centun. nineteen per cent
urn, fifteen per centum, twelve per ceutum,
eight per centum, and four per eentum. re-
spectively, with such exceptions as hereinafter
made; and all articles so imported as afore-
said and not enumerated in the said schedules.
nor in the schedule |, shall pay duty of fif-
| teen per centum.
Sec. 2. 1rd be ii further enacted. That
all manufactures composed wholly of cotton,
which are bleached, printed, painted, or dyed,
and de LANES, shall be transferred to schedule
9. Sapanned leather or skins of all kinds
shall be transferred to schedule -. Ginger.
green, ripe, dried, preserved or picked; ochers.
ochrey earths, medicinal roots, leaves, gums
and resins in a crude state not otherwise pro-
vIded for; wares, chemical earthern, or potte-
ry of a capacity exceeding ten gallons, shall
be transferred to schedule E. Borate of lime
and codella, or tow OF hemp orflax, shall be
transferred TO schedule +. Antimony. crude
or regalas of; barks of all kinds not otherwise
provided for; camphor, crude; cantharides;
carbonate Of soda; emery, in lump or puver-
lZed; fruits, green, ripe, or dried: gums Ara
bic, Barbary, copal, East India, yeddo, Sene-
gal, substitute, tragacanth, and all other gums
and resins, IN crude state; machinery exclu-
slvely designed and expressly imported for
the manufacture of flax and linen goods:
sponges; tin in plates or sheets, galvanized o,
ungalvanlzed; woods. namely, cedar. lignum-
vitae, ebony, box, granadhlla, mahogany, rcee
wood, satin wood, and all cabinet woods, shall
be transferred TO schedule G. Acids, acetic
benzoic, boraclc, citric, muriatIc, white and
yellow, oxalc, pyroigenous and tartaric. and
all other ACIDS OF every description used for
chemical or manufacturing purposes not 9th
erwlSe provided Tor; aloeS; amber; ambergris;
annlseed; annato, roucon or orleans: arsenic
articles not IN crude state used in diving or
tanning not otherwise provided for: assafoeti-
da; asPhaltum; barila; bleaching powder. or
chloride Of hme; borax crude; boucho leaves.
E."psicne crude in bulk, canoes, mosaics
Silsnonds, gems, pearls, rubies, and other pre-
s-",1s stones, mot set;) chalk; clay; cochineal:
cocoa eoeoanuts, and cocoa shells: cork tree
bark cream Of tartar; extract OF iudl-o. ex
tracts and decoctons of logwood and other
dyewoods not otherwise provided for; extract
OF madder; flint, ground grindstones; gutta
percha unmanunfactured; india rubber in bot
ties; slabs or sheets, unmanufactured; india
rubber milk of; indigo; lac spirits; lac sulphur;
hastings cut in strips or patterns Of the size
and shape for shoes slippers, boots, bootees.
CATERS or buttons exclusively, not combined
with india rubber; manufactures of mobair
cloth, silk twist, or other manufactures of
cIoth suitable for the manufacture of shoes.
cut in slips or patterns of the size and shape
tor shoes, slippers boots, bootees, gaiters, or
buttons exclusively, not combined with india
rubber; music printed with lines, bound or
unbound; oils, palm, teal, and cocoanut; prus-
sian blue; soda ash; spices of all kinds; watch
materials and unfinished parts of watches and
woad, or pastel, shall be transferred to sched-
ue III.
Sec 3. Araa be 1t fa.rther enacted. That on
and after the first day of July, eighteen hun
dred and fifty seven, the goods, wares, and
merchandise mentioned in schedule |, made
part thereof, shall be exempt from duty, and
entitled to free entry:
SCHEDULE |.