New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-11-09

Platinum vases or reterts for chemlcaI
uses, or parts thereof.
POtassa, muriate OF.
Quassla wood.
Rags, of cotton, linen, .ute and hemp,
and paper waste, or waste or clippings OF
any kind fit only for the manufacture OF
paper, including waste rope and waste
bagglng.
Rhubarb.
Resins, crude, not otherwise provided for
Rose leaves.
Saffron and satf1Ower.
Sarsaparilla, crude.
Seaweed, not otherwise provided for.
ScammOny, or resin OF sesmmony.
Sandal wood.
Seeds: cardamOn, caraway, coriander,
fenugreek, fennel, cuInmin, and other seeds
not otherwise provided for.
Sienna, in leaves.
Shells Of every description, not manutac-
tured.
Shri1nps, or other shell fish.
Skeletons, and other preparations OF anat-
omy.
Silkworm eggs.
Specimens Of natural history, botany, and
mineralogy, when imported for cabinets as
objects of taste or science, and not tor sale.
Squills, or silla.
Sweepings Of silver or gold.
Tapioca, cassava, or cassada.
Tea plants.
Turtles.
Verdigris, or subacetate of copper.
Wood ashes, and I've OF, and beet-root
ashes.
Woods. viz; poplar, or other woods foH
the manufacture of paper.
Worm seed, Levant.
Xylonite, or Xylotile.
SEC. q. And be it further enacted. That
for the ter OF two years from and after
the passage of this act, and no longer. ma
chinery and apparatus designed only Tor,
and adapted to be used for. steam-towage
on canals, and not now manufactured in
the United States may be imported by any
State. or by any person duly authorized by
the legislature OF any State, free of duty,
subject to such regulations as may be pre-
scribed by the Secretary of the Treasury.
And also that for the term of two years
from and after the passage of this act, and
no longer. steam-plOw machinery, adapted
to the cultivation of the soil, may be i'm
ported by any person for his own use, free
of duty, subject to such regulations Of the
Secretary Of the Treasury as before pro-
vided.
SEC. "a. And be it further enacted, That
the word saltpetre,' as used in section
seven of the act of March three, eighteen
hundred and siXty-three, allowing draw
back OF duty on foreign saltpetre manure
tured into gunpowder in the United States,
anu tuCIClAUlu, SIdil NC COESli utu
to mean the element OF nitro so used,
whether it be it the nitrate OF potash or III
trate of soda.
SEC. % And be it further enacted, That
section fifteen of the act approved July
fourteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-twO,
entitled =" An act increasing, temporarily,
the duties on imports, and for other pur-
poses" and section four of the act in amend
ment thereof, approved March three, eight
cen hundred and sixty five, be, and the
same are hereby, SO amended, that no ship,
vessel, steamer, boat, barge or fat belong
ing te any citizen Of the United States,
trading from one port or point within the
United States, to another port or point with
in the United States, or employed in the
bank, whale or other fisheries, shall here
after be subject to the tonnage tax or duty
provided for in said acts; and the provisO
III section one hundred and three of the
Act to provide internal revenue to support
the government and to pay the interest on
the public debt, and for other purposes.-
approved June thirty, eighteen hundred
and siNty-four. requiring an annual special
tax to be paid by boats, barges, and fats, is
hereby repealed.
SEC. 26. And be it further enacted. That
all imported goods, wares, and merchandise.
which may be in the public stores or bonded
warehouses on the day and year this act
shall take effect, shall be subjected to no.
other duty upon the entry thereof for con-
sumption than if the same were imported
respectively after that day; and all goods,
wares, and merchandise reulaininp in handed
warehouses on the day and year this act
shall take effect, and upon which the duties
shall have been paid, shall be entitled to a
refund OF the difference between the amount
OF duties paid and the amount of duties
said goods, wares, and merchandise would
he subject to IT the same We're imported re-
spectively after that day.
SEC. q. And be it further enacted, That
all provisions of existing laws whereby anv
tax or duty is laid upon requests or de-
made or intended to take effect after the
oeatn OF the grantor, of any real or per-
sonai property, in trust or otherwise, for
puollc uses OF literary, educational or
charitable character, or upon any real or
personal estate which may become subject
10 any trust as aforesaid under any past or.
future disposition, which, if made in favor
OF an individual, would confer on him a
succession, be and the same are hereby re-
pealed, and no taxes heretofore levied
hereunder, but not paid, shall be collected
SEC. ~ And be it further enacted. That
IN all eases where tobacco is required to be.
put in wooden packages, as provided nv.
section slXty-two OF an act entitled IAN act
imposing taxes on all distilled spirits and
W. "h" Aol otnCI purposes, approved
July twenty. eighteen hundred and s;xtv
eight, it shall be lawful for the Commits.
sioner of Internal Revenue to allow the.
same to be put up in metallic packages.
PROVIDED; That they shall be SO constructed
with such corrugations for RECEIVING and
protecting the revenue stamps as the Com
missioner may approve.
SEC. %. And be it further enacted That
whenever any merchandise, except wine.
Mstliled spirits, and perishable or explosive,
articles, or articles in bulk, imported at the
ports OF New York, in the State of New
York: Philadelphia, in the State of Penpsyl-
VI Nania; Boston, in tile State of Massachusetts.
baltimore, in the State of Maryland: Port,
land. IN the State of Maine: Port Huron. in
the State of Michigan; New Orleans. in the,
state OF Louisiana and San Francisco. in
the State OF California, shall appear by the
invoice or bill Of lading and by the manifest
% be consigned to and destined for either of
the ports specified in section thirty-tiye Of
TINS act, the collector at the port of arrival
shall permit the owner, agent, or consiensa
70 make entry thereof for warehouse or i'm
nedate transportation, in triplicate. sett;nc
1orth the particulars in such entry and thss
route by which such goods are to he ~"
warded, whether by land or water. III
entry having been compared with the y; no