Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-06-13


vided for, twenty per cent. al voloreza.
On all skins for morocco, tanned but
unfinished, ten per cent. al valoretn.
LUMBER.
On all timber, squared or sided, not
otherwise provided for, one cent per
cubic foot. On sawed boards, plank,
deals and other lumber of hemlock,
whitewood, sycamore and basswood, 81
per ], 600 feet board measure. On all
other varieties of sawed lumber 81 per
1000 feet board measure, 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 fin.
ished fifty cents per 1000 feet, and if
planed on one side and tongued and
groeved 81 per 1000 feet, and if planed
on two sides and tongued and grooved
81 so 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 0d V0iorena; on pickets and
palings, twenty per centum al vulorea,:
on laths, fifteen cents per thousand
pieces; on all shingles, thirty-five cents
per thousand; on pine clapboards, g
per thousand; on spruce clapboaras,
81 50 per thousand; on house or cabi-
net furniture, in pieces or rough and
not finished, thirty per centum od
V0lorena; on cabinet wares and house
furniture, finished, thirty-five per cent
um ad valorem.
Duty on number OF miscellaneous
articles is as follows: chocolate, five cents
per pound; prepared cocoa, two cents
per pound; chicory root, one cent per
h.; oatmeal one half cent per pound;
potatoes, fifteen cents per bushel {;
ground ginger, three cents per pound,
preserved or picked, thirty-five pei
cent ad valorena garden seeds, and all
seeds, not otherwise provided for, twen-
ty per cent. ad vaLorena empty bar
re]s and casks, sugar box shocks and
wooden packing boxes not otherwise
taxed, thirty per cent. 0d V0l0rena ;
fruit, shade, lawn and ornamental trees,
shrubs, plants and flower seeds, moi
otherwise provided for, twenty pc,
centum dd v0l0rea,a.
ARTICLES UNDER THE TEN PER CENT. RE.
DUCrION.
On and after Aug. l, 1872, the duties
on the following articles will be reduced
ten per cent:
On every fabric of which cotton is
the chief part; on all woods and mate
rial of alpaca or similar hair Except as
provided hereafter); on all iron and
steel, and manufactures made of them,
or IN which they are the chief part, ex-
cept cotton machinery; on all metals
not otherwise provided for, and metal
lie articles, except gun caps, jewelry
and ornament; provided that iron and
steel wire rope and chain shall pay the
same duty as iron and steel wire; on
all paper and paper manufactures, ex-
cept unsized printing paper, books and
printed matter not specifically provided
for; on India rubber, gutta percha,
or straw and oilcloth on glass and
glassware, pipe clay, fried clay and
fuller's earth !; on leather not otherwise
provided for, Iquorice, and on all man
ufactures of skins, bone, ivory, horn
and leather, or things of which they
form the chief part, excepting gloves
and mittens.
DUTY FOR BOUNDING THE CAPE.
The third section of the bill provides
that on October LIST, 1872, a defferential
duty shall be imposed of ten per cent.
0d val0rena on all products of Asia and
East Africa, which are imported into
Europe and thence re-shippcd to Amer.
lea, except wool, raw cotton and raw
silk, as reeled from the cocoon. or not
further advanced than tram, thrown OF
organzined.
On and after August /, 1872, the old
duties on the following imported arti
cles shall be amended to the rates Civ
en- below:
On all burlaps and like manufactures
OF flax, jute or hemp, or of which they
form the chief part, except for baggine
for covering, thirty per centum ad vai:
Oren, on all oil.cloth foundations OF
foor-cloth canvas made of fax, iute OF
hemp shall form the chief part,
forty per centum al valorem on
all bags, cotton bags, and
bagging, and oil other like manufac.
lures not herein otherwise provided
for. except bagging for cotton com
posed wholly or in part of fax, hemp,
jate, gunny cloth, gunny bags or Other
material, forty per centum ad valorem
on cotton bagging or other manufac.
lures not otherwise provided for, suita.
BILE for the uses to which cotton bag
ging is applied, composed in whole o,
in part Of hemp, jute, flax, gunny
baggs, gunny cloth, or othel
material, and valued at seven cents
or less per square yard, one
and one-half cents per pound
! valued at over seven cents per square
yard, two and one-fourth cents pei
pound; OH insulators for use excius
lively in telegraphy, except those made
of glass, twenty-five per centum aG
val0rene on bouillons or cannetille
and metal threads, file or gespinst
twenty-five per centum ad v0loreae
on emery ore, Sc ton, and on emery
grains, two cents pound on cork'
and cork bark, manufactured, thirty
per centum al valorem; on acids, viz.
'acetic, acetous and pyroligcneous, d
specific gravity of one and forty-seve1
thousandths and less, five cents pel
pound acetic, acetous and pyroligne
oN5, VI opCCAAo SAdS1Cy ONcI Ou'
and forty. seven thousandtlls, thir
ty cents per pound; carboli'
liquid, ten per centum al ratore'a
gallic, 81 per pound; sulphuric, FUN
ing (Nordhansen), one cent per pound
tannic, 81 per pound; tartaric, fiftee,
cents per pound; on acetates of ammo
uia, twenty five cents per pound
bar ryta, twenty-five cents per pound
iron, twenty five cents per pound; lead
brown, five cents per pound; white
ten cents per pound; potassa, twenty
five cents per pound: soda, twenty -tiv,
cents per pound; strontla, twenty -tiv,
cents per pound; blue vitriol, fou
cents per pound.
The new rates of duty upon tho fol
lowing articles are, per ID. J: Retinet
camphor, five cents alorato of potash
three cents; Rochelle snlts, five cents
sal soda and soda ash, quarter cent
santonine, three dollars; ground mus
t,rd III bulk, ten cents, and in pack
age fourteen cents; currants, one cent
figs and raisins, two and half cents
dates and prunes, u.,rr.mt; ~, electro
plated iron and tls-rl,tr>, two cents
crude saltpetre, one cent, and o.