New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-29
oRFIcIAL.
Laws Of the United States Passed at the
second Session of the Forty-First
Congress-.

| America IN Congress assembled, That OF
and after the first day of August, eighteen
hundred and seventy-twO, in lieu of the du
| ties heretofore imposed by law on the arti
cles hereinafter enumerated or provided for
| imported from foreign countries, there shall
be levied, collected and paid the following
duties and rates Of duty, that is to say:
On all slack coal or eulm, such as will pass
| through a half-inch screen, forty cents per
ton of tweBty-eight bushels, eighty pounds
to the bushel.
On all bituminOus coal and shale, seventy
five cents per ton Of twenty-eight bushels,
| eighty pounds to the bushel.
| On salt, IN bulk, eight cents per one hun
bred pounds.
On SALT in bags, sacks, barrels, or other
/ packages, twelve cents per one hundred
/ pounds.
On oat meal, ene-halfcent per pound
On potatoes, fifteen cents per bushel.
On bend OF betting leather, and on Span
ish or other sole leather, fifteen per centum
ad valOTem.
On ealfskins, tanned, or tanned and
dressed, twenty-five per eentum ad va
| loren.
| On upper leather of all kinds. and on
skins dressed and finished of all kinds, not
herein otherwise provided for, twenty per
| centum ad valOTem.
On all skins for morocco. tanned but I'M
finished, ten per centum ad valOrem.
On chiccOry root. ground OF unground,
one cent per pound.
On all timber, squared or sided, not 9th
erwise provided for, one cent per cubic foot.
On sawed boards, planks, deals, and
other lumber of hemlock, wildwood, syca-
more, and Eastwood, ore dollar per thou
sand feet, board measure,
On all other varieties of sawed lumber,
two dollars per thousand feet board meas
ure; provided that when lumber of any
sort is planed or finished, in addition TO
the rates herein provided, there shall be
levied and paid, for each side so planed or
finished, fifty cents per thousand feet; and
if planed on one side and tOngued and
grOOved, one dollar per thousand feet; and
if planed on two sides and tODgued and
grOoyed, one dollar and fifty cents per
thousand feet.
On hubs for wheels, posts, last,blocks,
wagon blocks, oar blocks, gun blocks, head
ing blocks, and all like blocks or sticks,
rOugh-hewn or sawed only, twenty per
centum ad Yalorem. ~ Er
On pickets and palings, twenty per centum
ad valorem.
On laths, fifteen cents per thousand pieces.
On all shingles, thirty-fye cents per theu-
sand.
On pine clapboards, two dollars per thou
sand.
On spruce elapboards, one dollar and fifty
cents per thousand.
On house or cabinet furniture, in pieces or
rough and not finished, thirty per centum ad
val0rem.
On cabinet wares and house furniture fin
ished, thirty five per eentum ad valorem.
On casks and barrels, empty, and on sugar
box shocks and packing boxes of wood not
otherwise provided for, thirty per centum
ad valorem.
On fruit, shade, lawn and ornamental
trees, shrubs, plants and flower seeds, not
otherwise provided for, twenty per centum
ad valorem. '.,.-r-
On garden seeds, and all other seeds for
agricultural and horticultural purposes not
otherwise provided for, twenty per centum
ad valorem.
On ginger, ground, three cents per pound.
On ginger, preserved or picked, thirty-five
per centum ad valOrem.
On ginger, essence of, thirty-hve per
centum ad valOrem.
On chocolate five cents per pound, and on
cocoa prepared or manufactured, two cents
per pound.
SEC. ?. That on and after the first day
of August, eighteen hundred and seventy
two, in lieu of the duties imposed
by law on the articles in this section emu
merated, there shall be levied, collected
and paid on the goods, wares, and merchan-
vided for, imported from foreign countries,
ninety per centum of the several duties and
rates of duty now imposed by law upon said
articles severally, it being the intent of this
section to reduce existing duties on said
articles ten per centum of such duties. that is
to say
On all manufactures of cotton of which
cotton is the component part of chief value.
On all woods, hair of the alpaca goat, and
nd oil OF zTIb "
or in in part of wool or hair of the alpaca,
and other like animals, except as herein
after provided.
On all iron and steel, and on all manufae-
lures of iron and steel, of which such metals
or either of them, shall be the component
part OF chief value, excepting cotton ma
ehinery.
On all metals not herein otherwise provid-
ed for, and on all manufactures OF metals of
which either of them is the component part
of Chief value, excepting percussion caps
watches, iewelry, and other articles of or
nament provided, that all wire rope and
wire strand or chain made of iron wire,
either bright, cOppered, galvanized, or
coated with other metals, shall pay the
same rate of duty that is now levied on the
iron wire of which said rope or strand or
chain is made; and all wire rope and wire
strand or chain made of steel wire, either
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other metals, shall pay the same rate of duty |
that is now levied on the steel wire of
which said rope or strand or chain is made, |
On all paper, and manufactures Of paper,
excepting unsized printing paper, books |
and other printed matter, not herein speci-
fically provided for.
On all manufactures of India rubber
gutta-percha, or straw, and on oil cloths Of !
all descriptions.
a., los md oil ON nm o.
pipe clay, fine clay, and fuller's earth.
On all leather not otherwise herein pro |
vided for, and on all manufactures of skins, |
bone, ivory, horn and leather, except gloves |
and mittens, and Of which either of said ar
ticles is the component part of chief value, |
and on liquOrice paste or hquOrice juice.
SEC. 3. That ON and after the first day |
of October next there shall be collected |
and paid on all goods, wares and merchan-
disc of the growth or produce of countries
east Of the Cape of Good Hope Except wool,
raw cotton and raw silk, as reeled |
from the cocoon, or not further adj
vanced than tram, thrown or Organzine,) !
when imported from places west of the |
Cape of Good Hope, duty of ten per cen |
tum ad valOrem, in addition to the duties |
imposed on any such article when imported !
directly from the place or places OF their
growth or production.
SEC. 4. That on and after the first day Of |
August, eighteen hundred and seventy
two, IN view of the duties heretofore
imposed by law on the articles mentioned
in this section, there shall be levied,
collected and paid on the goods, wares and
merchandise IN this section enumerated,
imported from foreign countries, the fol-
lowing duties and rates Of duty, that is to
say:
On all burlaps, and like manufactures of
fax, iute, or hemp, or of which fax, lutte or
hemp shall be the component material OF
chief value. excepting such as NAV be suita-
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