New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-11-01

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Platinum vases or retorts for chemical
rSeS or parts thereon
POtassa, mrlllate OF.
Quassia wood.
Rags, of cotton, linen, .jute and hemp,
and paper waste. or waste or clippings OF
any kind fit only for the manufacture OF
paper, including waste rope and waste
baggng.
Rhubarb.
Resins, crude, not otherwise provided for.
Rose leaves.
Saffron and saifiower.
Sarsaparilla, crude.
Seaweed not otherwise provided tor.
Scammony, CT resin OF scammony.
Sandal wood.
Seeds: cardamOn, caraway, cOrIandeF,
fcnugreek, fennel. cummin, and other seeds
not otherwise provided for.
SIENNA, in leaves
Shells of every description not manutacr
tured.
Shrimps, or other shell fish,
Skeletons, and other preparations Of anat-
Omy.
Silkworm eggs.
Specimens of natural history, botany, and
mineraIogy, when imported for cabinets as
objects of taste or science, and not tor sale
Squills or sila.
Sweepings OF silver or gold.
Tapioca. cassava, or cassada.
Tea plants.
Turtles.
Verdgris, or siibacetate of copper.
Wood ashes, and I've OF, and beet-root
ashes.
Woods, viz poplar, or other woods for
the manufacture of paper
Worm seed, Levant.
Xylonite, or Xylotilc.
SEC. %. And be it further enacted That
for the term of two years from AMI after
the passage OF this act. and no longer, ma
chinery and apparatus designed only tor,
and adapted to he 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-
scIibed 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. p. 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 OH foreign saltpetre manufrc-
tured into grmpowder in the United States,
and exported thercfrOm shall be construed
TO mean the element of ntre 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 fiat belong
ing TO any citizen of the United States,
trading from one port or point within the
United States, to another port or point with
n 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 i'll said acts; and the provisO
n 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 0ther purposes"
approved June thirty. eighteen hundred
and >iNty-tour. requiring an annual special
tax to be paid by boats, barges, and fats, is
hereby repealed.
SEC. % And be it further enacted. That
all imported goods. wares and erchandise
which may be i'll 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 II the same were imported
respectively after that day: and all goods.
wares. and merchandise remaining in bonded
warehouses on the day and year this act
shall take effect, and upon which the duties
shall have been paid shall be entitled to q
refund OF the difference between the amount
OF duties paid and the amount of duties
said goods, wares, and merchandise would
pe subject to If the same We're imported re-
spectively after that day.
SEC. q. And be it further enacted, That
all provisions of existing laws whereby any
tax or duty is laid upon requests or de-
viseS, or transfers by deed, grant. or gift,
made or intended to take effect after the
death OF the grantor, of any real or per-
sonal property, III trust or otherwise, for
pubic uses of a literary. educational or
charitable character, or upon any real or
personal estate which may become subject
to any trust as aforesaid under any past or
future disposition, which, if made in favor
OF an individual, would confer on him q
succession, be and the same are hereby re-
pcaled. and no taxes heretofore levied
hereunder, but not paid, shall be collected,
SEC. %. And be it further enacted, That
IN all cases where tobacco is required to be
put IN wooden packages, as provided by
section siXty-two of an act entitled IAN act
t''-iHS 'tNto VIZ Spirits ami
tobacco and for other.purposes, approved
July twenty, eighteen hundred and sixty
eight, it shall be lawful for the Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue to allow the
same to he 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,
distliled spirits. and perishable or explosive
articles, or articles in bulk, imported at tho
ports OF New York, in the State OF New
York: Philadelphia, in the State OF Pennsyl-
wanna; Boston, i'll the 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
10 be consigned to and destined for either OF
the ports specified in section thirty five of
this act, the collector at the port OF arrival
shall permit the owner. agent, or consignec
TO make entry thereof for warehouse or i'm
mediate transportation, i'll triplicate, setting
forth the particulars in such entry and the
route by which such goods are to be for
warded, whether by land or water. The
entry having beepspompared with the in
voice and duly swolA to, and such an exam
ination of the goods and merchandise hav.
ing been made as will satisfy the customs