New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-04
OFFICIAL.
Laws Of the United States Passed &C the
second Session OF the Forty-First
Congress-
GENERAL NArURR-No. I'LL

reduce internal taxes, and for other pur
poses.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House o.
Representatives Of the United States Of
America in Congress assembled, That on
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
clss 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 culm, snch as will pass
through a halfinch screen, forty cents per
ton Of tweRty-eight bushels, eighty pounds
TO the bushel.
On all bituminous coal and shale, seventy
five cents per ton of twenty-eigbt bushels,
eighty pounds to the bushel
On salt, in bulk, eight cents per one hun
dred pounds.
On salt, in bags, sacks, barrels, or other
packages, twelve cents per one hundred
pounds.
On Oat meal, enc half cent per pound.
On potatoes, fifteen cents per bushel.
On bend or betting leather, and on Span
ish or other sole leather, fifteen per ceEtum
ad valorem.
On calf-skins, tanned, or tanned and
dressed, twenty-five per eeRtum 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 valorenl.
On all skins for morocco, tanned but I'M
finished, ten per centum ad valorem.
On chiccOry root. ground or ungrOund,
one cent per pound.
On all timber, squared or sided, not 9th
erwise provided for, one cent per cubic foot
On sawed boards, plaDks, deals, and
other lumber Of hemlOck, wildwood, syca-
more, and Eastwood, one 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 go planned or
finished, fifty cents per thousand feet; and
if planed on one side and tongued and
grOoved, one dollar per thousand feet; and
grOoved, one dollar and fifty cents per
feet.
On hubs for wheels, posts, last-blocks,
wagon blocks, oar blocks, gun blocks, head
ing blocks, and all like blocks or sticks,
or sawed only, twenty per
centum ad Valorem.
On pickets and palings, twenty per centum
ad valorem.
On laths, fifteen cents per thousand pieces.
On all shingles, thirty-fve cents per thou
sand.
On pine clapboards, two dollars per thou
sand.
On spruce clapbOards, one dollar and fifty
cents per thousand.
On house or cabinet furniture, in pieces or
rough and not finished, thirty per eentum ad
galOrem.
On cabinet wares and house furniture, fin
shed, thirty-ive per centum ad valOrem.
On casks and barrels. empty, and on sugar
box shocks and packing boxes Of wood not
provided for, thirty per centum
I'd ValOrem.
On fruit, shade, lawn and ornamental
rees, shrubs, plants and flower seeds, not
otherwise provided for, twenty per centum
ID val0rem.
On garden seeds, and all other seeds for
agricultural and horticultural purposes not
otherwise provided for, twenty per centum
ID ValOrem.
On ginger, ground, three cents per pound.
On ginger, preserved or picked, thirty-fve
er centum ad valorem.
On ginger, essence of, thirty-fve per
entum' ad val0rem.
On chocolate i've cents per pound, and on
ocoa, prepared or manufactured, two cents
en- pound
SEC. 2 That on and after the first day
f August eighteen hundred and seventy
wo, in lieu of the duties imposed
Y law on the articles in this section emu
lerated, there shall be levied, collected
nd paid on the goods, wares, and merchan-
Use in this section enumerated and pro-
ided for, imported from foreign countries,
inety per centum of the several duties and
stes of duty now imposed by law upon said
rticles severally, it being the intent of this
,ctiOn to reduce existing duties on said
rticles ten per centum OF such duties. that is |
say .....
On all manufactures of cotton of which |
DttOn is the component part OF chief value. |
On all woods, hair Of the alpaca goat, and |
her animals, and all manufactures wholly |
in in part of wool or hair of the alpaca, |
i'd other like animals, except as herein |
ter provided.
On all iron and steel, and on all manufac- /
res of iron and steel, of which such metals /
either of them, shall be the component /
lrt OF chief value, excepting cotton ma
inery.
On all metals not herein otherwise prOvid- |
for, and on all manufactures OF metals of /
hich either of them is the component part |
chief value, excepting percussion caps,
atches, iewelry. and other articles of or
.ment provided, that all wire rope and
re strand or chain made of iron wire,
her bright, coppered, galvanized, or
ated with other metals, shall pay the
me rate of duty that is now levied on the
N wire Of which said rope or strand or
ain is made; and all wire rope and wire
and or chain made of steel wire, either
light, cOppered, galvanized, or coated with
DER metals, shall pay the same rate of duty
ut is now levied on the steel wire of
lich said rope or strand or chain is made.
On all paper, and manufactures of paper,
Aepting unsized printing paper, books
Gher printed matter, not herein speci-
rr,,++, gOvided for.
iii dasoy manufactures of India rubber
Op g1ass or straw, and on oil cloths Of
On All ieaths sware, and on unwrought |
vi6ed for - ~, 9nd fuller's earth.
hone ivnTv horn a. otherwise herein pro-
and mitte91s l and e. of " Rufactures of skins,
tieles is the component pa, o1oeSt si9fes
and on liquorice paste or li9fe ~ sSiG l a.
SEC. 3. That on and after i a. il,; oaiu0'
OF October next there shall ~ ASle0,
and paid on all goods, wares anaaIi,.u4
disc OF the growth or produce of cSo6go,tu
east of the Cape of Good Hope Except al ~.
raw cotton and raw silk, as rec |
from the cocoon, or not further ad
Vaneed than tram, thrown or organzine,l
when imported from places west of the
Cape OF Good Hope, a 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.
eollegted and paid on the goods, wares and
iileIehandise in this section enumerated.
ported from foreign countries, the fol
say: O''''' 'i'HV - ~
On all burlaps, and like manufactures IF