The national Republican., 1861-03-02
THE NEW TARIFF BILL.


From an abstract Of the bill in the Philadel.
phia Press, we take the following:
HOW DUTIES SHALL De ASSESSED.
When merchandise of the same material or
description, but Of different values, are invoiced
at an average price, and lot otherwise provi.
ded for, the duty shall be assessed upon the
whole invoice, at the rate the highest valued
goods in such invoice are subject to under this
act. The words value and valued, used in this
act, shall be construed and understood as mean.
ing true market value of the goods, wares,
and merchandise, in the principal m arkets Of
the country from whence exported at the date
Of expectation. .
DUTIES ON SUGARS, NoLAssEs, AND SUGAR CANE.
Raw sugar, one cent per pound white and
clayed, one cent per pound; advanced beyond
No. IL, and not yet refined, one cent and half
per pound refined, two cents per pound re.
fined and colorod sugar and sugar candy, FIVE
cents per pound confectionery, thirty per cent.
ad valorem. Molasses, four cents per gallon.
Any attempt to introduce sugar cane, syrups
of sugar, concentrated molasses or melado,
renders the articles liable to forfeiture to the
United States.
WINES, BRANDIES, AND sPIRITUOUs LIQUORS.
First.proof brandy, one dollar per gallon ;
other frst-proof spirits, forty cents per gallon
cordials and liquors, Of all kinds, fifty cents
per gallon; arrack, absynthe, kirchenwasser,
rata6a, and other similar beverages, fifty cents
per gallon bay rum, twenty-five cents per gal
lon; Madeira, sherry, and port wines, seventy.
five cents per gallon; champagne and spark.
ling wines, Burgundy and hook, in bottles one
dollar, in casks fifty cents per gallon; claret,
Marseiles, Teneriffe, Sicily, Canary, Malaga,
and other wines, thirty cents per gallon. lmi.
tations of liquor, the same duty as the real ar.
ticle.
CIGARS AND TOBACCO.
Cigars valued at FIVE dollars or less per thou.
sand, twenty cents per pound; over five, and
under ten, forty cents per pound; over ten,
sixty cents per pound, and ten pei, cent. ad
valorem; snuff, ten cents per pound; manu-.
factured tobacco, in leaf twenty per cent. ad
valorem; oil other tobacco, thirty per cent. ad
valorem.
DRUGS, CHEMICALS, ETC.
Sugar, acetate, or nitrate Of lead, chromate
and bichromate of potash, three cents per
pound hydriodate and prussiate of potash,
chronic acid and iodide, fifteen per cent. ad
valorem pipe clay and ochrey earths, when
dry, thirty-fve cents per hundred pounds, when
ground in oil, one dollar and thirty FIVE cents
per hundred pounds seed oils, twenty cents
per gallon; coal oils ten cents per gallon
slums and alumnia, fifty cents per hundred
pounds; copperas, green vitriol, and sulphate
Of iron, twenty-five cents per pound refined
camphor, six cents per pound refined borax,
three cents per pound tallow, one cent per
pound tallow candles, two cents per pound
spermaceti and wax, eight cents per pound
stearne and other candles, and tapers, four
cents per pound turpentne, ten cents per gal.
Ion; opium, one dollar per pound morphine
and its salts, one dollar and twenty-five cents
per ounce iquorce paste or juice, three cents
per pound.
SALT, SALT FISH AND MEATS, RICE, HIDES, ETC.
Salt, four cents per bushel Of ffty-six pounds
Provided, That salt imported in bags, or not in
of ffty-six pounds; on bristles, four cents per
egar, six cents per gallon on mackerel, two
dollars per barrel on herrings, picked or salt.
ed, one dollar per barrel on picked salmon,
three dollars per barrel; on all other fish, pic.
kled. in barrels, one dollar and fifty cents per
barrel; on all other foregn-caught fish, in
ported otherwise than in barrels or half barrels,
or whether fresh, smoked, or dried, salted or
picked, not otherwise provided for, fifty cents
per 100 pounds. 2. On beef and pork, one cent
per pound; on hams and bacon, two cents per
pound on cheese, four cents per pound on
wheat, twenty cents per bushel ou butter, four
cents per pound on lard, two cents per pound ;
on rye and barley, fifteen cents per bushel; on
Indian corn or maize, ten cents per bushel on
oats, ten cents per bushel; on potatoes, ten
cents per bushel on cleaned rice, one cent per
pound on uncleaned rice or paddy, fifty cents
per one hundred pounds; on sago and sago
flour, fifty cents per one hundred pounds; on
aaxsssd Or iusssd, sixteen ssnts per busksl Of