New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-18

works Of art, the production of American
artists: Provided, That the fact of such
pred lotion be verified by the certificate of
any consul or minister of the United States
Endorsed upon the written declaration of the
artist: And provided further, That all
paintings, statuary, fountains, and other
works OF art, the production and property
ment OF duties in any custOmhouse OF the
United States, shall be surrendered to such
artist without payment of duties or charge,
upon his affidavit filed in the department OF
the Secretary of the Treasury that the same
are the production of such artist.
Paintings, statuary, fountains, and other
works of art, imported expressly for pre-
sentation to national institutions or to any
State. or to any municipal corporation.
Philosophical and scientific apparatus,
instruments, and preparations, statuary,
casts of marble, bronze, alabaster.
or plaster of Paris, paintings.
drawings and etchings, specially imported
in good faith, for the use of any society or
institution Incorporated or established for
rary purposes, or encouragement OF the fine
arts, and not intended for sale.
Household effects of persons and families
returning or emigrating from foreign coun-
tries, which have been in actual use abroad
by them, and not intended for any other
person or persons or for sale, not eXceedin <
the value Of five hundred dollars.
Phosphates, crude or native, for fertiliz-
ing purposes
seeds imported by the Department of Agri-
culture, or the United States Botanic Gar
den.
Platinum vases or retorts for chemical
uses, or parts thereof.
POtassa, muriate OF. rf....-
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
bagging.
Rhubarb.
Resins, crude, not otherwise provided for.
Rose leaves.
Saffron and safflower
Sarsaparilla, crude.
Seaweed, not otherwise provided for.
Scammony, CT resin of scammOny.
= Sandal wood. : JiEi - H'
Seeds: cardamon, caraway, cOriander,
fenugreek, fennel, cummin, and other seeds
not otherwise provided for.
SIENNA, in leaves.
Shells of every description, not manufac.
tured
Shrimps, or other shell fish.
Skeletons, and other preparations Of anat
Omy. f..aEsg .ssET r-tC
Silkworm eggs.
Specimens of natural history, botany, and
mineralOgy, when imported for cabinets as
Squills, or silla.
Sweepings of silver or gold.
TapiOca, cassava, or cass;ida.
Tea plants. ef
Turtles.
Verdigris, or subacetate of copper.
Wood ashes, and I've OF, and beet-roo,
ashes.
the manufacture of paper.
Worm seed, Levant.
Xylonite, or Xylotile. t.-..-
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 for
and adapted to be used for, steam-towage
ON canals, and not now manufactured Ill
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, ant
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, Tina,
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 manutrc
tured into gunpOwder in the United States
and exported therefrom, shall be construed
to mean the element of nitre so used
whether it be it the nitrate of potash or III
trate of soda.
SEC. 25. And be it further enacted, Tha
section fifteen Of the act approved Jul,
entitled An act increasing, temporarily
the duties on imports, and for other puI
poses.n and section four Of the act in amend
ment thereof, approved March three, eight
cen hundred and sixty-fve, be, and Thu
same are hereby, SO amended, that no ship
vessel, steamer boat, barge or fiat belong
ing te any citizen Of the United States
trading from one port or point within tn
United States, to another port or point with
in the United States or employed in tn
bank, whale or other fisheries, shall here
after be subject to the tonnage tax or dut.
provided for in said acts: and the prOvis
in section one hundred and three OF tn
"Act to provide internal revenue to supper
the government and to pay the interest o.
the public debt, and for other purposes,
approved June thirty, eighteen hundre
and sixty -four, requiring an annual speciaa
tax to be paid by boats, barges, and flats. /
hereby repealed. s.st.. .-.-.
SEC. 90. And be it further enacted. Tha
all imported goods, wares. and merchants
which may 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 for COZ
sumption than if the same were lmporte
respectively after that day; and all good!
wares. and merchandise remaining IN bonde
warehouses on the day and year this &C
shall take effect, and upon which the dutle
shall have been paid, shall be entitled to
refund of the difference between the amour
of duties paid and the amount Of dutie
said goods, wares, and merchandise wOul
he subject to if the same were imported IT
spectively after that day.
SEC. q. And be it further enacted, Tha
all provisions of existing laws whereby an
tax or duty is laid upon requests or Dc
yises. or transfers by deed, grant, OF gif
made OF Intended to take effect after tn
Z death of the grantor, OF any real or pei
sonal property, in trust or otherwise, fo
public uses Of a literary, educational Q
charitable character, or upon any real
nersonal estate which may become sublet
to any trust as aforesaid under any past
future disposition, which, if made in fave
of an individual, would confer on him
succession, be and the same are hereby r.
pealed. and no taxes heretofore lie lie
hereunder, but not paid, shall be coile ct,
SEC %. And be it further enacted, Ths
in all cases where tobacco is required to
put in wooden packages, as provided .
section sixty-two OF an act enttied AN a a.
imposing taxes on all distilled spirits an
tobacco, and for other purposes" approve
July twenty, eighteen hundred and sixt!
eight, it shall be lawful for the Comml'