The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-03-06
HIGHLY I,IPORrAxr BILL.
The New Tarin ON HeOIens.

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/ 1.-THE New farm on weOIens.
The amendatory tariff act passed both
houses on Saturday, and at once be-
came law by the signature of the
President. It divides wools for dutia-
bic purposes into three classes. The
hrst of these includes woods used for
clothing, including such as have been
heretofore imported from Buenos
| Ayers, Australasia, the Cape of Good
Hope, Russia, Great Britain and Cana
da- The second includes what are
known as combing wools, and the third
those designated carpet woods and other
similar woods from oriental countries.
Woods Of the first class, when worth
not over 81 cents per pound at the place
Of shipment, are to be taxed ten cents a
! pound and eleven per cent. ad yalorem.
| When the value exceeds 81 cents, the
duty will be twelve cents and ten per
cent. ad valorem. Upon woods of the
second class, and upon Alpaca goat and
other hair, the duty is fixed al ten cents
pound and eleven per cent. ad vaIo
rem. When worth more than the above
sum, the duty is TO be twelve cents a
pound and ten per cent. ad valorem.
Ga the third class, when worth over
twelve cents pound, the duty is TO be
six cents a pound, the duty being
doubled when Ihe wool or hair Is mixed,
or so fixed as to attempt to evade the
regular duty. Where different Wools
are imported in the same bag, the duty
is to be averaged. Washed wool Is
charged double the duty, and secured
wool treble the duty OF unwashed,
Sheep skins and Angora goat skins,
raw or nnwashed, are charged with
duty of thirty per cent. ad vaIorem, and
wooden rags, shoddy, &c, twelve cents
q pound.
The following rates are hereafter to
be charged on the articles specified: On
wooden cloths, shawls, and all manu-
factures, wholly or in part wool, fuy
cents a pound and thirty-tive cents ad
valorem. On hannels, blankets, hats,
knit goods, balmorals, yarns, &c, when
all wool, twenty cents pound: When
not valued at forty cents or less, twenty
cents n pound; valued at forty to sixty
cents, thirtypcents: sixty TO eighty,
forty cents, and eighty cents, fifty cents
q pound An Ad yHlorem duty on all
the above articles of thirty-dve per
cent. Is to be levied. The duty on belts
for machinery is fixed at twenty cents
a pound and thirty-fiye per cent. ad
valorem. That on bunting is twenty
cents a square yard and thirty i've per
cent. ad Valoren. Women's and chill
dreu's dress goods valued at not over
twenty cents square yard, are taxed
six cents and thirty-tive per cent. ad
yalorem square yard The duty is
eight cents yard and forty per cent.
ad yalorem where the value of the IA
brio exceeds twenty cents a square
yard.
The duty on goods weighing four
ounces or over square yard, is fifty
cents pound andFhirty- per cent ad
valorem. Ready made clothing, ready
made balmorals and all ready made
woolen articles, knit goods excepted,
are to be levied on at the rate OF fifty
cents pound and forty per cent. ad va
Iorem.
The duty on webbing, beItings,
bindings, braids, lgalloons, frinRes,
gimps, cords, taSsels, dress trimmings,
head nets, bottoms or tassel buttons, or
buttons of other forms for tassels or or
nameuts, wrought by hand or braided
by machinery, made OF wool, worsted
or mobair, or OF which wool, worsted
mixed with silk, nfty cents pound,
and hfty per cent ad valorem.
The duties on carpets are as follows:
Administer and Anlusia, woven whole,
tifty per cent ad -yalorem; Saxony,
Wilton and Tourney velvets, seventy
cents square yard, and thirty-five per
cent ad valorem. Brussels carpets,
wrought by the Jacquard loom, forty
four cents a square yard, aud thirty i've
per cent ad valorem. Patent velvet
and tapestry carpets, forty cents a
square yard, ana thirty-five per cent.
ad valorem-
Tapestry Brussels, twenty-eight cents
a square yard, and thirty-tive per cent
ad valorem; ingrains, three-pIy, and
chain Venetians, seventeen cents a
square yard, and thirty five per cent.
ad yAlorem; Venetian and two-ply in
grain carpets, twelve cents a square
yard and thirty-five per cent. ad valo-
rem; druggets and bookings, twenty
five cents a square yard and thirty-fiVe
per cent ad yaloretI,; hemp and jute
carpeting, eight cents a square yard;
other wool, 1ax and cotton carpets, not
specified, forty per cent. ad valOrem-
Mats, rugs, screens, DC, are to pay a
duty proportioned TO the fabrics out of
which they are made, where they are
composed of the above named carpets.
All other mats, &c, are to pay h duty
of Eorty-five per cent. ad Yalorem. Oil
cloths for floors, stamped, painted or
printed, valued at my cents or less per
square yard, are to pay duty OF thirty
nve per cent ad TalOren; when valued
atover hfty cents Il square yard, forty
five per cent ad valorem; all other oil
cloths, except oil cloth or water proof
cloth. pay The same duty. The duty
on oil silk cloth Is sixty per cent. ad
valorem-
Mr. GREHEY's IDEA OF PosrERTH.-I
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