Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-07-12


Articles not enumerated in the list of ex-
ports but enumerated in the list of imports,
when exported, shall pay the amount of duty
set against them in the list of imports; and
similarly, articles not enumerated in the list
OF imports but enumerated in the list of ex-
ports, when imported will pay the amount
OF duty set against them in the list of exports
Articles not enumerated in either list, nor
IN the list Of duty free goods, shall pay an ad
ratoren1 duty Of five per cent calculated upon
their Darket value.
RULE II.
Duty Free Goods.
Gold and silver bullion, foreign coins, flour,
Indian meal, sage, biscuit, preserved meats,
and vegetables
Cheese, butter, confectionery.
Foreign clothing, jewelry, plated ware, per-
tumery, soap of all kinds.
Charcoal, fire wood, candles (foreign,) to-
bacco, (toreign,) cigars, (foreign.)
VINE, beer, spirits, household stores, ships,
stores, personal baggage, stationery, carpet
ing, drugetng, cutlery, foreign medicines,
and glass and crystal ware.
The above commodities pay no import or
export duty; but if transported into the inte-
rlor Will, with the exception of personal bag
gage, gold and silver bullion, and foreign
half per cent ad ralorem
A freight or part freight of duty free goods
personal baggage, gold and silver bullion,
and foreign coins excepted) will render the
vessel carrying them, though no other be on
board, liable to tonnage dues.
RULE III.
COnt7a6and Goods
Import and export trade is alike prohibited
in the following articles:
Gunpowder, shot, cannon, fowling pieces,
rifles, muskets, pistols, and all other NUM-
lions and implements of war, and salt.
RULE ".
Weights and Measures
In the calculations of the tariff, the weight
OF pecal Of one hundred catties is held to be
equal to one hundred and thirty-three and
one-thrd pounds avordupois, and the length
OF chang of ten Chinese feet to be equal to
one hundred and forty-one English inches.
One Chinese chih is held to equal fourteen
and one-tenth inches English, and four yards
hhglsll, less three inches, to equal one chang.
RULE V.
Regarding certain commodities heretofore
COHtrdbdnd.
The restrictions affecting trade in opium,
cash, grain, pulse, sulphur, brimstone salt
petre, and spelter, are relaxed underline fol-
lowing conditions =
l. Opium will henceforth paw thirty taels
per pecul import duty. The importer will sell
it only at the port 1t will be carried into the
interior by Chinese only, and only as Chinese
property; the foreign trader will not be al
lowed to accompany it. The provision of the
treaty Of Tientsin, comforting privileges by
virtue of the most favored clause. so far as
respects citizens of the United States going
into the interior to trade, or paving transit
duties, shall not extend to the article of opi.
UNI, the transit duties on which will be ar
ranged as the Chinese government see fit: nor
in future revisions of the tariff is the same
rule of revision to be applied TO opium as to
other goods
2. Copper Cash.-The export of cash to
any foreign port is prohibited; but it shall be
lawful for citizens Of the United States to ship
it one of the open ports of China to another
on compliance with the following regulations /:
The shipper shall give notice of the amount of
cash he desires to ship and the port of its des-
tnation, and shall bind himself, either by a
bond with two sufficient suretes, or by de-
posting such other security as may be deem
ed by the customs satisfactory, to return,