New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-02
OFFICIAL.
Laws Of the United States Passed at the
second Session Of the FOFty-First
Congress.


An act to reduce duties on imports, and to
reduce internal taxes, and for other pur-
poses.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
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-
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 ali slack coal or culm, such as will pass
through half-inch screen, forty cents per
ton Of twenty-eight bushels, eighty pounds
70 the bushel
On all bituminous coal and sbale, seventy
five cents per ton of twenty-eight 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 sne-half cent per pound.
On potatoes, fifteen cents per bushel.
On bend OF betting leather, and on Span
ish or other sole leather, fifteen per centum
adj valorem
On calfskins, tanned, or tanned and
dressed, twenty-five per eeRtum ad va
On upper leather of all kinds, and on
skins dressed and finished of all kinds, not
herein otherwise provided for, twenty per
centum ad valOrem.
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, planks, deals, and
| other lumber Of heInlock, wildwood, syca-
more, and bass-wOOd, 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 OF finished, IN addition to
the rates herein provided there shall be
| levied and paid, for each side SO planned or
| finished, fifty cents per thousand feet; and
| If planed on one side and tongued and
! grOOved, one dollar per thousand feet; and
| if pIaned on two sides and tOngued and
| grOoved, 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 valOrem.
On pickets and palings, twenty per centum
| ad val0rem.
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 centum al
| valOrem.
On cabinet sand house furniture, fin
ished, thirty-ive per centum 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.
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-hve
per centum ad valOrem.
On ginger, essence OF, thlrty-hve per
centum ad valOrem.
On chocolate five cents per pound, and on
cocoa, prepared or manufactured, two cents
SEC 2. 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-
disc in this section enumerated and pro-
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
other animals, and all manufacturer wholly
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 manufac-
lures of iron and steel. of which such metals
or either of them, shall be the component
part OF chief value, excepting cotton ma
chinery.
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
mtment provided, that all wire rope and
wire strand or chain made of iron wire,
either bright, eOppered, galvanized, or
&C ated 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
bright, cOppered, galvanized, or coated with
, 1ther metals, shall pay the same rate OF duty
vt is now levied on the steel wire of
n said rope or strand or chain is made
excel paDer, and manufactures OF paper,
and otu unsized printing paper, books
J tically PRINTED matter, not herein specl-
! On all ned for.
gutta-percha, factures Of India rubber
, all descriptiOns.'raw, and on oil cloths Of
On glass and glas
pipe clay, fine clay, are, and on unwrought
On all leather not Guller's earth.
vided for and on all maHwise herein pro-
bone, ivory, horn and leathetures of skins,
and mittens, and of which eitKcept gloves
ticles is the component part Of Of said ar
and on liquOriee paste OF lquOricef value,
SEC. 3. That on and after the tfee.
of October next there shall be cOliday
and paid on all goods, wares and merchd
disc of the growth or produce Of cOuntrit
east OF the Cape of Good Hope Except woo
raw cotton and raw silk, as reele
from the cocoon, or not further az
vanced than tram, thrown or Organzine
when imported from places west of tn
Cape Of Good Hope, duty of ten per Gel
tum ad valorem, in addition to the dutit
imposed on any such article when impOrte
directly from the place or places of the
growth or production.
SEC. 4. That on and after the first day {
August, eighteen hundred and seventy
two, in view of the duties heretOfoI
imposed by law on the articles mentione
IN this section, there shall be Levied
collected and paid on the goods, wares an
merchandise in this section enumerated
imported from foreign countries, the 70