Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1862-10-23

Wood. piles, poles, and joists, per
! each o q 4 3
Wood, ware, per 100 catties IL G
Wood, wool, per 100 catties % 8
WILLIAM B. REED, [scal
Tnenumerated Goods.
Articles not enumerated in the list
OF exports 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
exports, 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 valorem duty of five
per centum, calculated upon their
market value.
Duty Free Goods.
Gold and silver bullion, foreign
coins, flour, Indian meal, sago, biscuit,
preserved meats, and vegetables.
Cheese, butter, confectionery.
Foreign clothing, .jewelry, plated
ware, perlumery, soap Of all kinds.
Charcoal, firewood, candles, for
eign,) tobacco, (foreign,) cigars, (for-
eign.)
Wine, beer, spirits, household stores,
ships stores, personal baggage, sta
tionery, carpeting. druggeting, cutie
ry, foreign medicines, and glass and
crystal ware.
The above commodities pay no i'm
port or export duty; but if transport
ed into the interior will, with the cx-
ception of personal baggage, gold and
silver bullion, and foreign coins, pay
transit duty at the rate of two and
half per cent. ad valorem.
A freight or part freight of duty
free goods (pcrsonal baggage, gold
and silver bullion, and foreign coins
excepted will render the vessel car.
fying them, though no other be on
board, liable to tonnage dues.
RULE III.
C0niraband Go0ds.
Import and export trade is alike
prohibited in the following articles
Gunpowder, shot, cannon, fowling
pieces, rifles, muskets, pistols, and all
other munitions and implements of
war, and salt.
RULE ".
Heights and Measures.
In the calculations of the tariff the
weight of pecul of one hundred cat
ties is held to be equal to one hundred
and thirty-three and one-third pounds
avoir dupois. and the length of clang
of ten Chinese feet to be equal to one
hundred and forty-one English inches.
One Chinese ehM is held to equal
fourteen and one-tenth inches English,
and four yards English. less three
inches, to equal one chang.
RULE V.
Regarding certain commodities heretofore coatraband
The restrictions affecting trade in
opium; cash, grain, pulse, sulphur,
birthstone, saltpetre, and spelter are
relaxed under the following condi-
lions:
l. Opium will henceforth pay thirty
taels per pecul import duty. The i'm
porter will sell ii 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 allowed to accompany it. The pro-
visions of the treaty of Tientsin. con-
ferring privileges by virtue of the
most favored clause, so far as res
poets citizens of the United States
going into the interior to trade or pay
ing transit duties, shall not extend to
the article of opium, the transit duties
on which will be arranged as the Chi
nese Government see fit /; nor in fu-
ture rcvisions of the tariff is the same
rule of revision to be applied to Opt
um as to other goods.
9. 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 at one Of
the open ports Of China to another, on
compliance with the following regula-
tions The shipper shall give notice
of the amount of cash he desires to
ship and the port of its destination,
and shall bind himself, either by a
bond with two sufficient sureties, or
| by depositing such other security as
may deemed by the customs satislac-
tory. to return, within six months
from the date of clearance, to the col
lector at the port of shipment, the Ger
tificate issued by him, with an &C.
knowledgement thereon of the receipt
of cash at the port Of destination by
the collector at that port, who shall
thereto aflix his seal or, failing the
production of the certificate. to forfeit
a sum equal in value to the cash ship
ped.
Cash will pay no duty inwards or
outwards but freight, or part freight
Of cash, though no other cargo be on
board, will render the vessel carry
ing it liable to tonnage dnes.
3. The export of rice and all other
graius whatsoever, native or foreign,
no matter where grown or whence I'M
ported, to any foreign port. is prohib
tied but these commodities may b,
carried by citizens of the UniteC
States from one of the open ports o
China to another, under the same con