Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-03-27
OFFICIAL.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
Passed at the Third Session of the ThirtySeventh
Con rtss
PUBLIC-No. Sc.

PUBLC-NO. 56.
AN ACT to modify existing laws imposing du-
ties on imports, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the senate and house Of
representatives of the United States OF Amer
lea in congress assembled, that all goods.
wares and merchandise now in public stores
or bonded warehouses, on which duties are
unpaid, having been in bond more than one
year and less than three years, when the act
entitled San act increasing temporarily the
duties on Imports, and for other purposes, ="
approved July fourteenth, eighteen hundred
and sixty-two, went into effect may be en-
tered for consumption and the bonds can
celed at any time before the first day of June
next, on payment of the duties at the rates
prescribed by the act aforesaid, and all acts
and parts of acts inconsistent with the provs
ions of this act are hereby repealed.
Sect. 2. And be it further enacted, that
section fourteen of an act entitled Gan act
increasing temporarily the duties on imports,
and for other purposes" approved July four
teenth, eighteen hundred sixty-two, be and
the same hereby is modified so as to allow
cotton and raw silk as reeled from the cocoon,
OF the growth or produce Of countries beyond
the Cape of Good Hope, to be exempt from
any additional duty when imported from
places this side of the Cape of Good Hope,
for two years from and after the passage Of
this act.
Sect. 8. And be it further enacted, that
so much of an act entitled Gan act to author
ize protection to be given to citizens of the
United States, who may discover deposits Of
guano," approved August eighteen, eighteen
hundred and ffty-six, as prohibits the export
thereof is hereby suspended in relation to all
persons who have complied with the provis-
ions of section second of said act for two
years from and after July fourteenth, eighteen
hundred and sixty-three.
Sect. 4. And be it further enacted, that
the provso in section fifteen of an act entitled
can act increasing temporarily the duties on
imports and for other purposes" approved
July fourteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-two,
shall be construed to include any ship, vessel,
or steamer to or from any port or place south
of Mexico down to and including Aspinwall
and Panama.
Sect. 5. And be it further enacted, that
in lieu of the duties now imposed by law there
shall be levied and collected upon printing
paper, unsized, used for books and newspa-
pers exclusively, twenty per centum ad valo-
rem; upon sudlac and sticklack the same du-
ties now imposed upon gum shellac; upon
polishing powders, of all descriptions, Frank
fort black, and Berlin, Chinese, fig and
wash blue, twenty-five per centum ad valo-
rem.
Sect. 6. And be it further enacted, that
from and after the passage of this act the duty
on petroleum and coal illuminating oil, crude
and not refinel, when imported from foreign
countries in crude state, shall be twenty per
centum ad valorem and no more.
Sect. 7. And be it further enacted, that
from and after the passage of this act there
shall be allowed drawback on foreign salt
petre manufactured into gunpowder in the
Uuited States, and exported therefrom, equal
in amount to the duty paid on the foreign salt
petre from which it shall be manufactured, tc
be ascertained under such regulations as shall
be prescribed by the secretary OF the treasury
and no more: Provided, that ten per centun
on the amount of all drawbacks so allowed
shall be retained for the use OF the unitet
States, by the collectors paying such draw
backs respectively
Approved, March 3, 1868.
PUBLIo-No. 81.