St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1861-09-12
T9e yntelligentcr.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES,
Passed at the First Session OF the Thirty
Seventh Congress.
IPUBLIc--No. 401

Passed mt the First Session OF the Thirty
Seventh Congress.
PUBLIc-7No. 40
| AN ACT to provide increased revenue from
imports, to pay interest on the public debt,
and for other purposes.
BE saai by he Sfdte and Ho,,se If Representatives
@ TIE Tinted States II 4metcd ia G0,grsSs ossepLleI That
from and after the date of the passage of this
act, in lieu OF the duties heretofore imposed
by law on the articles hereinafter mentioned.
and on such as may now be exempt from duty.
there shall be levied, collected, and paid, on
the goods, wares, and merchandise herein
enumerated and provided for, imported from
foreign countries, the following duties and
rates of duty, that is to say: First, On raw
sugar, commonly called muscovado or brown
sugar, and on sugars not advanced above num-
Der twelve, Dutch standard, by clayng, boil.
ing, clarifying, or other process, and on sirup
OF sugar or of sugar cane and concentrated
molasses, or concentrated melado, two cents
per pound and on white and clayed sugar,
when advanced beyond the raw state above
number twelve, Dutch standard by clarifying,
or other process, and not yet refined, two and
half cents per pound on refined sugars.
whether loaf, lump, crushed. or pulverized.
four cents per pound on sugars after being
refined, when they are tinctured. colored, or
in any way adultented, and ON sugar candy,
SIX cents per pound on mo'asses, five cents
per gallon Prortded, That all sirups of sugar
or OF sugar cane. concentrated molasses OF me-
iado, entered under the name of molasses, or
any other name than sirup of sugar or of sugar
cane, concentrated molasscs, or concentrated
melado, shall be liable to forfeiture to the
United States. On all teas, fifteen cents per
pound on almonds, four cents per pound
shelled almonds, six cents per pound; on
birthstone, crude, three dollars per ton; on
birthstone, in rolls, six dollars per ton; on
coffee, OF all kinds, four cents per pound on
cocoa, three cents per pound on cocoa
leaves and cocoa shells, two cents per pound
on cocoa, prepared or manufactured, eight
cents per pound; on chicory root one cent
per pound and on chicory ground two cents
per pound on chocolate, six cents per pound
on cassia, ten cents per pound cassia buds,
fifteen cents per pound ON cinnamon, twen-
ty cents per pound; on cloves, eight cents
per pound; ON cayenne pepper, six cents per
pound; on cayenne pepper ground, eight
cents per pound on currants, five cents per
pound on argol, three cents per pound on
cream tartar, six cents per pound on tartaric
acid, tartar emctic, and rochelle salts, ten
cents per pound on dates, two cents per
pound; ON figs, five cents per pound on GIN
ger root, three cents per pound on ginger,
ground, five cents per pound; on liquoriee
paste and juice, five cents per pound liquor
ice root, one cent per pound ON mace and
nutmegs, twenty-five cents per pound: on
nuts of all kinds, not otherwise provided for,
two cents per pound; on pepper, six cents per
pound on pimento, six cents per pound on
plums, five cents per pound on pruncs, five
cents per pound on raisins, five cents per
pound ; on unmanufactured Russia hemp, forty
dollars per ton on Manila and other hemps
Of India, twenty-five dollars per ton on lead,
ha.y ILL.
one hundred pounds; in sheets, two dollars
and twenty cents per one hundred pounds;
on white lead, dry or ground in oil, and red
lead, two dollars and twenty-ti cents per
one hundred pounds; on salt, i'm sacks. cigh-
teen cents per one hundred pounds, and in
bulk, twelve cents per one hundred pounds
on soda ash, one-half cent per pound on BIZ
carbonate of soda, one cent per pound on sal
soda one-half cent per pound ; ON caustic soda,
one cent per pound ON chloride of lme thr-
ty cents per one hundred pounds on saltpetre,
crude, one cent per pound, refined, or partial
ly refined, two cents per pound; spirits of
turpentine, ten cents per gallon on oil of
cloves, seventy cents per pound; on brandy,
one dollar and twenty-five cents per gallon
on spirits distilled from grain, or other mate
rials, fifty cents per gallon; on gum copal,
and other gums or resinous substances used
for the same or similar purposes as gum eopal,
ten cents per pound.
SEc ?. And be IL further enacted, That, from
and after the day and year aforesaid there
shall be levied, collected, and paid, on the
importation Of the articles hereinafter men.
toned, the following duties, that is to say
On arrow root, twenty per centum ad yalorem
ON ginger, preserved or picked, thirty per
oentum AL yalorem; ON lines, lemons,
oranges, bananas, and plantain, twenty per
eentum ad valorem on Peruvian bark, fifteen
n
per centum ad valorem on rags, of whatever
material, ten per centum all valorem ON gun
powder, thirty per centum AL valorem; ON
feathers and downs, thirty per centum AL val
orem on hides, ten per >entum all yalorem
on sole and bend leather, thirty per centum
AL valorem on India rubber, raw or unman-
factured, ten per centum al valorem; on
India-rubber shoes and boots, thirty per
centum advalorem on ivory, unmanufactur-
ed, and on vegetable ivory, ten per centum
al valorcm; ON wines of all kinds, fifty per
ccntum ad yalorem on silk in the gum not
more advanced in the manufacture than single
tram and thrown or organzine. twenty-five
per ccntum ad valorem ON all silks valued at
not over one dollar per square yard thirty per
centum al yalorem on all silks valued over
one dollar per square yard, forty per centum
al valorem on all silk yelvets or velvets of
which silk is the component material Of chief
value, valued at three dollars per square yard
or under, thirty per centum AL yalorem; val
ued at over three dollars per square yard,
forty per centum ad valorem on floss silks,
thirty per centum AL yalorem on silk rib
bons, galloons, braids, tringes, laces, tassels,
buttons, button cloths, trimmings and on
silk twist, twist composed Of mohar and silk,
sewing silk, in gum or purified, and all other
manufactures Of silk, or Of which silk shall be
the component material of chief value, not
otherwise provided for, forty per centum al
valorem.
SEC. 8. And lie IL further enacted, That all ar
ticlcs, goods, wares and merchandise, imported
from beyond the Cape Of Good Hope in for
eign vessels, not entitled by reciprocal treaties
to be exempt from discriminating duties, ton
mage, and other charges, and all other articles,
goods, wares, and merchandise not imported
direct from the place of their growth or pro-
duction, or in foreign vessels, entitled by rcci-
procal treaties to be exempt from discriminat-
ing duties, tonnage, and other charges, shall
be subject TO pay in addition to the duties
imposed by this act, ten pea centum ad valo-
rem Prorided, That this rule shall not apply
to goods, wares, and merchandise imported
from beyond the Cape Of Good Hope in Amer
| lean vessels. fal tli 1&8 23
SEC 4. And be a.further enacted, That, from
and after the passage Of this act, there shall
be allowed, on all articles wholly manufactur-
| ed of materials imported, ON which duties
| have beef paid when exported, drawback,
equal in amount to the duty paid on such ma
terials and no more, to be ascertained under
such regulations as shall be prescribed by the
Secretary of the Treasury PrOpided, That ten
per centum ON the amount of all drawbacks,
SO allowed, shall be retained for the use of the
| United States by the collectors paying such
drawbacks, respectively.
SEC. 8. And be IL further enacted, That all
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sbipboard and bound to the United States, aud
all goods wares, and merchandise, on deposit
in warehouses or public stores at the date of
the passage OF this act, shall be subject To pay
such duties as provided by law before and at
the time Of the passage OF this act Prouiaed.