New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-29

Platinum vases or retorts for chemical
uses. or parts thereof.
Potassa, muriate Of.
Quassla 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
bagglng.
Rhubarb.
Resins, crude, not otherwise provided for.
Rose leaves.
Saffron and safflower.
Sarsaparilla, crude.
Seaweed, not otherwise provided for.
Scammony, or resin OF scammOny.
Sandal wood.
Seeds: cardamOn, caraway, cOrlander,
fenugreek, fennel. cummin, and other seeds
not otherwise provided for.
SIENNA, i'll leaves.
Shells of every description, not manufac-
tured.
Shrimps, 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 for sale.
Squills, or silla.
Sweepings of silver or gold.
TapiOca, cassaya, 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 for
| the manufacture of paper.
Worm seed, Levant.
Xylonite, or XylOtile.
SEC %. And be it further enacted. That
for the term 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 gllnpowder in the United States.
| and exported theretrOm, shall be construed
| to mean the element of nitre so used.
whether it be it the nitrate of potash or nj
| trate of soda.
SEC. %. And be it further enacted, That
| section fifteen of the act approved July
| fourteen. eighteen hundred and sixty-twO,
| entitled g 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 sikty-fve, be, and the
same are hereby, so amended, that no ship,
| vessel, steamer, boat. barge or fat belong
| ing to any citizen of the United States,
| trading from one port or point within the
| United States. to another port OF 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
| in 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 sixty-four, requiring an annual special
| tax to be paid by boats, barges, and flats, 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
OlIltI upon tlic tutIN lutTeOI IOf con-
| sumption than if 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 a
refund of the difference between the amount
| of duties paid and the amount of duties
| said goods, wares. and merchandise would
| be subject to if the same were imported re-
spectiveiy after that day
| SEC. 81. 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 9rantor, of any real or per-
sonal property, in trust or otherwise. for
| public uses OF a literary, educational or
charitable character, or upon any real or
| personal estate which may become subject
| to any trust az 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 1t further enacted That
| in all cases where tobacco is required TO he
| put in wooden packages, as provided by
| section SlXty-twO OF an act entitled IAN act
| imposing taxes on all distilled spirits and
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 tbs
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.
distilled 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 Pennsyl
vania Boston, in 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,
to be, consigned to and destined for either of
the ports specified in section thirtv-fye Of
this act, the collector at the port of arrival
shall permit the owner, agent or Consigned
to make entry thereof for warehouse or i'm.
mediate transportation, in triplicate, settin.
forth the particulars in such entry and ths
route by which such goods are to be for.
warded, whether by land or water. Tha
entry having been compared with the in.
voice and duly sworn to, and such an exam.
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