New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-26

Rose leaves.
Saffron and SafiiOwer.
Sarsaparilla, crude.
Seaweed, not otherwise provided for.
ScammOny, CT resin of scammony.
Sandal wood.
fenugreek, fennel, cummin and other seeds
not otherwise provided for.
SIENNA, in leaves.
Shells Of every description, not ranufac-
tured.
Sl.rimps. or other shell fish.
Skeletons, and other preparations OF anat-
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 lye 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-towaSe
on canals. and not now manufactured III
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 he 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, anu
no longer. steam-plow machinery, adapted
20 c,tIfix ion Of ll,. st,Ii be.
ported by any person for his own use tree
OF duty. subject to such regulations o. 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 siXtethree. allowing draw
back of duty on foreign saltpetre manure
trred into ginpowder in the United States.
and exported therefrom shall be construed
to mean the element OF nitro so used.
whether it be it the nitrate OF potash or Iii
trate OF soda.
Sec 25. And be it further enacted. That
section fifteen OF the act approve" July
fourteen, eighteen hundred and slXty-two
entitled :. An act increasing. temporarily
the duties on imports, and Tor other pur
poses.n and section four of the act in aInentt
ment thereof, approved March three. eight
cen hundred and siXty-hve, be, and the
same are hereby, SO amended, that no ship
vessel. steamer, boat, barge or Hat 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
in the United States, or employed III the
bank, whale or other fisheries. shall here
after be subject to the tonnage tax or duty
provided for in said acts; and the provls'
in section one hundred and three Of thu
E.Act to provide internal revenue to supper
the government and to pay the interest OF
the public debt, and for other purposes
approved June thirty, eighteen hundred
and sixty-four, requiring an annual specla
tax to be paid by boats, barges, and hats, L
hereby repealed.
SEC. 26. And be it further enacted. Tha
all imported goods, wares and merchants
which NAV be in the public stores or bonde'
warehouses on the day and year this &c
shall take effect shall be subjected to n
other duty upon the entry thereof Tor cor
sumption than if the same We're lmporte
respectively after that day: and all Soods
wares and merchandise remaining III bonde
warehouses on the day and year tins &C
shall take effect, and upon which the dutle
shall have been paid, shall be entitled to
refund of the difference between the alnoun
of duties paid and the amount OF dutle
said goods, wares, and merchandise woul
be subject to if the same were imported IT
spectively after that day.
Sec. o. And be it further enacted, Tha
all provisions of existing laws whereby an
tax or duty is laid upon requests or d.
vises. or transfers by deed, grant, or cit
made or intended to take effect after tn
death of the grantOr, of any real or PEI
sonaI property, in trust or otherwise. fC
pub]ic uses of literary. educational c
charitable character, or upon any real {
personal estate which may become sub]e'
to any trust as aforesaid under any past
oh, q
of an individual, would confer on hlm
succession, be and the same are hereby r
pealed and no taxes heretofore leVle
Hereunder but not paid. shall be coiiecIe'
SEC. 2S And be it further enacted, IN;
in all cases where tobacco Is required 10
put in wooden packages, as proTldeu
section sixty-two of an act entitled AN a.
imposing taxes on all distilled spirits an
tobacco, and for other purposes" approve
July twenty, eighteen hundred and ski
eight it shall be lawful for the Comml
:sioner OF Internal Revenue>to allow Il
same to be put up in met&lic package
Provided. That they shall be so constructe
with such cOrrugatiOns for receiving an
protecting the revenue stamps as the Con
missioner may approve
SEC. o. And be it further enacted, ThG
whenever any merchandise, except win
distilled spirits, and perishable or eyplosi,
articles. or articles in bulk, imported at Il
Dorts of New York, IN the State OF Ne
York: Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsy
--an;a. Roston. in the State Of Massachuseti
RaIt;more in the State of Maryland; Por
land. in the State of Maine Port Huron,
the State of Michigan; New Orleans, in t
State of Louisiana; and San Francisco,
the State of California, shall appear by t
invoice or bill of lading and by the mantle
to be consigned to and destined for either
the ports specified in SECTION t mo th of ary
this act, the collector at .ne pors o. arr,
to tom make entry thereof for warehouse or i
mediate transportation, in triplicate, setti
route by which such goods are to be f
warded, whether by land oF>water; 7
entry having been compared WIN the
voice and duly sworn 70, ana sJcm az ei "a
Ing been made as win satisfy the custol