The Portland daily press., 1862-07-17
The Tariff Bill.

The bill increasing temporarily the duties on
imports, and for other purposes, now requires
only the Presidents signature to become
law.
Among the modified clauses of the most i'm
portant, are the following:
Sugar, above No. IL, and not above No. Is
Dutch standard in color, 3 cents per pound;-
above No 15. not stove-dried, and not above
No. 20 Dutch standard in color, cents per
pound; on all stove-dried or refined sugar, and
all other sugar above No. 20 Dutch standard in
color, 4 cents per pound.
The additional duties on spirituons liquors,
cordials, DC, remain as originally reported, ex-
cepting that spirits manufactured or distilled
from grain, or other material, first proof so
cents per gallon.
Bar iron, rolled or hammered, not exceeding
in value $50 per ton, 50 per ton: exceeding in
value that amount, s. per ton; while other
iron is So per ton, according to width and
thickness. On boiler or other plate iron, So
per ton; anyils, 81 per 100 lbs; sheet iron, So,
81, and s. per ton.
Zinc, speter, and teutonegal in sheets, one
half of one per cent per pound; the same, un-
manufactured, in blocks, or pipe, twenty-five
cents per 100 pounds.
On cork-wood, unmannfactured, thirty, in
lieu of the present duty of thirty per cent. ad
yalorem.
On corks, fifty per cent ad valorem.
Tin, in plates or sheets, terne and logger tin,
twenty-five per cent. ad valorem.
Delanes, not exceeding in value forty cents
per square yard, two cents per square yard
Liverpool, and other tread of cotton, ten per
cent. ad valorem.
The fourteenth section provides there shall
be levied. collected. and paid on all goods,
wares, and merchandise Of the growth or pro-
duce of countries beyond the Cape of Good
Hope, when imported from places this side of
the Cape of Good Hope, a duty of ten per
cent. ad valorem; and in addition to the duties
unpaid on any such articles, when imported di-
rectly from the place or places of their growth
or production; all goods, wares, and merchan-
disc, which may be in the public stores or
bonded warehouses, on the first day of August
next, may be withdrawn for consumption up
on the payment of duties now imposed there
on by law, provided the same shall be SO with
drawn within three months of the date of the
original importation; but all goods, wares, and
merchandise, which shall remain in the public
stores or bonded warehouses for more than
three months from the date of the original
importations il Withdraw for consumption, and
all goods on shipboard the first ofAugust next,
shall be subject to the duties prescribed in this
act. The privilege of purchasing supplies
from the public warehouses, duty free. are ex-
tended under such regulations as the Secreta-
ry of the Treasury may prescribe to the YES
sells of war of any nation in ports of the Unit
ed States which may reciprocate such privileg-
es toward the vessels of war of the United
States in its ports. No part Of the act Of in
ternal duties in relation to the stamp duties
shall be held to take effect before the lst of
September next AND SO much of that act as re-
lates to the appointment of collectors and as
SCISSOR, shall be held TO take effect the 21st of
July, instead of from and after its approval by
the President