The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-12-27

If the act approved March second eighteen hundred
md thirtythree entitled IAN act further to provide
or the collection OF duties imports" and of the
weth section OF the actaDproyed March third eiph
cen hundred and sixty-three entitled AN act TO
prevent and punish frauds upon the revenue to nro
vide for the more speedy collection OF claims in favor
Of thei United States. and for other purposes shall
be taken and deemed as extending to and emhra |
cling all cases arising or which may have heretofore
arisen; and all suits and prosecutions heretofore
brought and now pending, or which may hereafter |
be brought against any officer of the United States
or other person by reason ofany acts done or pro-
ceedngs had by such officer or other person. under
authority or color OF the act approved March twelve
eighteen hundred and sixty-three. entitled IAN act
to provide for the COLLECTION ofabandoned property
and Tor the prevention OF frauds in insurrectionary
districts within the United States'' or the act APP
proved July two, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
entitled IAN act in addition to the several acts CON
cern1ug commercial intercourse between loyal and
insurrectionary States and to provide for the colec
ton OF captured and abandoned property and the |
prevention OF frauds in States declared in insurrec
tloA 0ot"cd That such acts done or proceed
ings had under the two acts done or proceeding
mao uhder inc Two acts last aforesaid or under col
OF lnereoi shail have been done and under the au
tnoIly or oy tne direction OF the of the executive
government of the Uuited States And Dropided
IIrMet, mat when recovery shall have been, OF
snail hereafter be. had in any suit or nrosecution
brought, or which may hereafter be brou0ht as
aforesaid the payment ofthe amount of the recov-
cred as provided in the said twelfth section of the
act approved March third, eighteen hundred and
sixty three aforesaid, shall be made ont of the
eys arising and obtained from the proceeds ofsalps
ana leases andafees collected and paid over TO the
government under the two acts approved March
twelve, eighteen hundred and sixtv.three and Jnly
second, eighteen hundred and sixty.four aforesaid
III G reiatioh 10 captured and abandoned property.
0EC' D. ana De H further enacted That in de-
termlnlng the dutlable value of merchandise
hereafter imported, there shall be added to
the cost, or to the actual wholesale price or
general market value at the time of exporta-
tlon in the principal markets of the country
from whence the same shall have been impor
TED INTO the United States, the cost of trans
portatlon, Shipment, and transhipment with
all the expenses included from the place of
growth, production or manufacture, whether
by land or water, I . the vessel in which ship
ment is made to the United States the value
OF the sack, box, or covering of any kind in
which such goods are contained commission
at the usual rates, but in no case less than two
and half per centum brokerage, export du-
ty, and all other actual or usual charges for.
putting up, preparing, and packing for trans
portatlon or shipment. And all charges of
general character incurred in the purchase OF
a general invoice shall be distributed pro rata
among all parts of such invoice and every
part thereof charged with duties based on
value shall be advanced according TO its nro-
portion, and all wines or other articles paving
specific duty by grades shall be graded and
pay duty according to the actual value so de-
termined Pro0ided, That all additions made
to the entered value of merchandise, for char
ges shall be regarded as part of the actual val
ue of such merchandise, and if such addition
shall exceed by ten per centum the value so
declared III the entry, in addition to the duties
imposed by law, there shall be levied collect
ed, and paid duty of twenty per centum on
such value: Provided, That the duty shall in
no case be assessed upon an amount less than
the invoice or entered value Provided further.
That nothing herein contained shall apply to
long comblng or carpet woods, costing twelve
cents or less per pound, unless the charges so
| aQQeQ snail carry the cost above fmo re
per pound in which case one cent per pound
duty shall be added
SEC. 10. Anad be 1t further enacted That the
second proviso in section twenty-on of an act
entitled An act increasing temporarily the
duties on imports, and for other purposes, APP
proved July fourteen, eighteen hundred and
sixty-two, which provides that any goods re-
naming III public store or bonded warehouse
beyond three years shall be regarded as aban-
doned 10 the government, and sold under such
regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury
may prescribe, and the proceeds paid into the
treasury, be, and the same is hereby, amended
so as to authorize the Secretary of the Treasu-
ry, IN case ofany sale under the said provision,
TO pay to the owner, consignee, or agent of
such goods, the proceeds thereof, after deduct
ing duties, charges and expenses, in conform
ity with the provision of the first section of
The warehouse act of August six, eighteen
hundred and forty-siX.
SEC. II. And be 1t further enacted, That du-
ring lthel period of one year from the passage
of this act, there may be imported into the
United States, free of duty, any machinery de-
signed solely for and adapted to the manu-
facture of sugar from beets, including all the
preliminary processes requisite therefor, but
not including any machinery which may be
used for any other manufactures.
SEC. ~ Ind be it further enacted, That upon
the transportation of articles once exported
OF the growth product, or manufacture of the
United States, upon which no internal tax has
been assessed or paid, or upon which such tax
has been paid refunded by allowance or draw
back, there shall be Levied collected, and paid
a duty equal to the tax imposed by the inter
nal revenue laws upon such articles.
SEC. ID. And be it farther enacted, That there
shall be established in and attached to the de-
partment of the Treasury bureau to be styled
The Bureau of Statistics" and the Secretary
of the Treasury is hereby authorized to APP
point director to superlntend and control the
business of said bureau, who shall be paid an
annual salary of thirty five hundred dollars
And it shall be the duty of the director of the
Bureau of Statistics to prepare the report on
the statistics of commerce and navigatlon,ex
ports and imports now required by law to be
submitted annually to Congress by the Secre-
tary of the Treasury and said report, embra-
cling the returns of the commerce and naviga-
ton, the exports and imports of the United
States to the close of the fiscal year, shall be
submitted to Congress in printed form on or
ing; and the said director, as soon as practic-
acle after the organization of this Office shall, |
under the direction of the Secretary prepare
and publish monthly reports of the exports |
and imports of the United States, including the |
quantities and values of goods warehoused or
Withdrawn from warehouse and other statis
tics relative to the trade and industry OF the
country such as the Secretary of the Interior
may consider expedient. And the director of
the Bureau of Statistics shall also prepare an
annual statement of vessels registered, en-
rolled and licensed under the laws of the Uni |
ted States, together with the class, name, ton |
mage and place of registry of each vessel, and
such other information as the Secretary of the |
Treasury may deem proper to embody there |
in; and to enable the said director to furnish |
the information required, the Secretary of the |
Treasury shall have power, under such regula- !
lions as he shall prescribe, to establish and pro-
vide q system of numbering vessels so regis |
istered, enrolled and licensed; and each yes |
sci so numbered shall have her number deeply |
carved or otherwise permanently marked on
her main beam and if at any time she shall
cease to be so marked, such vessel shall no
longer be recognized as vessel of the United |
States. The said director shall also prepare |
an annual statement Of all merchandise pass
ing in transit through the United States to for
eign countries, each description of merchandise |
so far as practicable, warehoused, withdrawn
from warehouse for consumption, for exporta- |
ton, for transportation to other districts, and
remaining in the warehouse at the end of each
fiscal year 1t shall be the further duty OF
said collector to collect digest and arrange, for
the use of Congress, the statistics of the man
ufactures of the United States, their localities,
sources of raw material, markets, exchanges |
with the producing regions of the country, |
transportation of products, wages and such
other conditions as are found to affect their
prosperity and to aid him in the discharge OF
these duties, the several clerks now employed
in the preparation of statistics in the Treasury |
Department, or any bureau thereof, may be
placed under his supervision and direction
and, in addition, the Secretary of the Treasury
shall detail such other clerks as may be neces-
sary to fully carry out the provisions of this
act. And the expenses of the Bureau of Sta
tistics for clerical service, publication of re-
ports, stationery, books and statistical peri
odicals and papers required by the bureau, Shall
be betrayed on the order and approval of the
Secretary of the Treasury, out of any moneys
in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated
And all letters and documents to and from
the director of the Bureau of Statistics relat- |