Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1863-06-11

list of duty free goods shall psy an advaloren duty
of Eve per cent calculated upon their market value
RULE II.
Duty Free Goods.
Gold and silver bullion, foreign coins. four, In
dian meal, sagO, biscuit preserved meats, and vege
tables.
Cheese, butter confectionery
Foreign clothing, jswelry, plated ware, perfum-
cry soap of al. kinds.
Charcoal frewood candles, (fOrsign,) tobacco
(foreign,) cigars, (foreign.)
Wine beer, spirits hosehOld stores, ships stores,
personal baggage stationary, earpetng, drnggetting
cutlery, foreign medicines, and glass and crystal
ware.
The above commodities pay import or export
duty: but if transported into the interior viii with
the exception OF personal baggage, gold and silver
bullion and foreign coins psy transit duty at the
rate Of two and half per cent. ad vtOrem.
freight or part freight Of duty free goods (per-
sOnal baggage, gold and silver b6liOn and foreign
coins excepted) viii render the vessel carrying
them, though no other be on board, liable to ton
mage dues.
RULE III.
Contraband Goods.
Import and and export trade is alike prohibited
in the following articles:
GunpOwder, shot, cannon. fowling- rifles,
musksts. pistols, and all other munitions and i'm j.
plements of wur, and salt.
RULE ".
Weights and. Measures.
In the calculations of the tariff the weight of a
pecul Of one hundred eatties is held to be equal to
one hundred and forty-One and one third pounds
avoirdupois, and the length Of chang of ten Chi
feet to be equal to hundred and forty y-one
english inches. Tse
One Chinese ehih 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 contra
band.
The restrictions affecting trade in opium, cash,
grain pulse sulphur birthstone, saltpetre and spell
ter, are relaxed under the following conditions:
l. Opium viii heneeforth pay thirty taeIs per
pecul import duty The importer viii sell it only at
the poot. It will be carried into the interior by
Chinese only, aud only as Chinese property; the
foreign trader will not be allowed 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 pacing transit duties
shall not extend to the article Cf opium the transit
duties on which wiz be arranged as the Chinese
Government see fit; nor in future reYsions Of the
tari is the same rule of revision to be- applied to
opium as to other goods.
2. Copper ca5h.-The export of cash to any for
eign port prohibited; but it shall be lawful for
citizens of the United Sta es to ship it at one of the
open ports of China to another on compliance with
the following regulation: The shipper shall give
notice of the amount Of cash he desires to Ship and
the port Of its distinction, and shall bind himself,
either by bond with two sufficient sursties, or by
depOsiting such other security may be deemed by
the eastOms satisfactory, to return within six
months from the date Of clearance TO the collector
at the port of shipment, the certificate issued by
him, with an acknowledgement thereon of the re-
cep5 of cash at the port of destination by the col
ector at that port, who shall thereto afx his seal
or falling the production Of the certificate to for
felt a sum equal in valbe to the cash shipped
Cash Will pay duty inwards OF outwards but
freight, or partfreight, Of cash though other
cargo be board, will render the vessel carrying it
liable to tonnage dues.
3. The export Of rice and all other grams whatsO-
ever, native or foreign, no matter where grown or
whence importer, to any foreign port is prohi5i
ted but these con- mOdities may be carried by citi
zens of the United States from of the open ports
of China to another, under the same conditions in
respect to security as cash. on payment at the port
Of shipment of the duty specified in the tariff.
No import duty shall be. leyyable upon rice or
grain, but freight part freight Of rice grain,
though no other cargo be board, will render the
vessel importing it liable to tonnage dues.
i. Pulse.-The export Of pulse and bean cacke
from Tang-Ch and Nin-Chwang unper the Amer
lean flag is prohibited From any Of the other
open ports they may be shipped on payment of the
tariff duty either to other ports of China or to for
eign countries.
5. Saltpetre, sulphur, birthstone, and speter, be-
ing deemed by the Chinese to be munitions Of war
shall not be imported by citizens of the United
States save al the requsition of the Chinese gov
ernment, or for sale to Chinese duly authorized to
purchase them. No permit to land them shall be
issued until the customs have proof that the neees
sary authority has been given to the purchaser 1t
shall not be lawful for ctz Of the United States
to carry these commodities up the Yang -Kiang
into any port other than those open on the sea-
bard, ner to accompany them into the interior on
behalf of Chinese. They must be sold at the ports
only and except at the pOrts they viii qe regarded
as Chinese property.
Infections of the CONDITIONS, as above set forth
under which trade in opium, cash. grain, pulse, sui
phur, birthstone, saltpetre and speler may be hence
forward carried on, will be punishable by conhsca-
tiOn of all the goods concerned.
RULE VI.
Liability Of Vessels Entering Ports
For the prevention of misunderstanding, it is
agreed that Americaa vessels uust be reported to th
Consul within tFenty-four hours, coun ting from
the time the vessel comes within the limits Of tht
port and that the rule be applied to the forty
eight hOnrs allowed by article 10 of the treaty t
remain in port without payment of tonnage cues
| The limits Of the ports shall be defined by tht
customs, with all censi GRAFTON for the convenience