New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-11-08

seeds imported by the department Oh Agrt-
| culture, or the United States Botanic Gar
! den.
Platinum vases or retorts for chemical
| uses, or parts thereof.
| Potassa, ulnrfate 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
bagging.
Rhubarb.
Resins, crude, not otherwise provided for.
| Rose leaves.
Saffron and sat1Ower.
Sarsaparilla crude.
| Seaweed. not otherwise provided for.
ScammOny. CT resin of scammony.
| Sandal wood.
Seeds: cardamon, caraway, coriander,
| fenugreek, fennel, cummin, and other seeds
| not otherwise provided for.
Senna in leaves.
Shells of every description, not manufac-
| tured.
Shrimps, or other shell fish.
Skeletons and other preparations OF anat-
| omy.
| SikwoFm eggs.
Specimens Of natural history, botany, and
| mineralogy, when imported for cabinets as
| objects of taste or science, and not for sale.
| S0uiils. 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, Leyant
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 des4 ned only tor,
and adapted to be used for, steam-tOwage
| on canals. and net 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
1 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,
and exported therefrom, 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. IS. 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 dutics on imports and for other pur-
poses. and section four of the act in amend
ment thereof. approved March three, eight
~.I.,.I -. Al.
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 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
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 fats, is
| hereby repealed.
SEC. &c. 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 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-
| spectiyely 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-
vlses. or transfers by deed, grant, or gift.
made or intended to take effect after the
| death of the grantOr, of any real or per-
sonai property, In trust or otherwise, for
| public uses OF literary, educational or
charitable character, or upon any real OF
| 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 a
succession. be and the same are hereby re-
peaied. 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 he
put Ill wooden packages, as provided bv
section slXty-two Of an act entitled IAN act
imposing imposing taxes s on all distilled spirits and
TOBACCO, and for other purposes" approved
Jhiy twenty eighteen hundred and sixty
eight, it shall be lawful for the Commits.
sloner OF Internal Revenue to allow tbe
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,
justified spirits, and perishable or explosive
articles, or articles in bulk, imported at the
ports OF New York. in the State of New
1ork: Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsyl-
wanna; Boston, in the State of Massachusetts:
Baltimore, in the State of Maryland; Port
land, III the State of Maine; Port Huron. in
She State OF Michigan; New Orleans. in the
state OF Louisiana and San Francisco. in
the State of California, shall appear by the
invoice or Dill of ladng and by the manifest
to be consigned TO and destined for either of
the ports specified in section thirtv-fve of
TINS act, ths collector at the port of arrival
shah permit the owner, agent, or consignee
to make entry thereof for warehouse or inn.
meGlate transportation, in triplicate setting
1orth 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 been compared with the in
voice and duly sworn to, and such an exam