New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-22
OFFICTAL.
Laws Of the Unised States Passed at the
Second Session Of the FOrty-First
Congress.
GENERAL NATURE-No. I'LL

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| 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 OF 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 half-ineh screen, forty cents per
ton Of twenty eight bushels, eighty pounds
| to the bushel.
On all bituIninOus 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
| dred pounds.
On salt, in bags, sacks, barrels, or other
| packages, twelve cents per one hundred
1 pounds.
On oat meal, ene-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 centum
/ ad valOrem.
On calf-skins, 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
| eentum ad valOrem.
| On all skins for morocco, tanned but I'M
| finished ten per centum ad valOrem.
On chiccOFy 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 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 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 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 yalOrem.
On pickets and palings, twenty per centum
ad valorem.
On laths, fifteen cents per thousand pieces.
On all shingles, thirty-fye 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 ad
valOrem.
On cabinet wares and house furniture, fin
ished, thirty five per centum ad yalOrem.
On casks and barrels, empty, and on sugar
box shocks and packing boxes of wood not
otherwise provided for, thirty per eentum
ad valorem.
On fruit, shade, lawn and ornamental
trees, shrubs, plants and flower seeds, not
otherwise provided for, twenty per centum
ad valOTem.
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-fve per
centum ad valOrem.
On chocolate five cents per pound, and on
cocoa, prepared or manufactured, two cents
per pound.
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 severaly, 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 manufactures wholly
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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, jewelry, and other articles of or
nament provided that all wire rope and 1
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
bright, cOppered, galvanized, or coated with !
JbuGI AuCtals EAldAA buN EtAlAlb LdAt bl ulatN
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,
unsized printing paper, books
and other printed matter, not herein speci-
ically provided for.
On all manufactures of India rubber
or straw, and on oil cloths of
al descriptions.
On glass and glassware, and on unwrOught
pipe clay, fine clay, and fuller's earth.
On all leather not otherwise herein pro-
7ided for, and on all manufactures of skins,
bone, ivory, horn and leather, except gloves
md mittens, and of which either of said ar
icles is the component part of chief value,
md on hquorice paste or liquOrice juice.
SEC. 3. That on and after the first day
# October next there shall be collected
md paid on all goods, wares and merchan-
lise OF the growth or produce of countries
ast Of the Cape Of Good Hope Except WOOL
aw cotton and raw silk, as reeled
rom the cocoon, or not further ad-
-anced than tram, thrown or Organzine,) |
when imported from places west of the
Cape Of Good Hope, duty Of ten per cen
Jun 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
by law on the articles mentioned
n tins section, there shall be levied, |
and paid on the goods, wares and
merchandise in this section enumerated, |
from foreign countries, the fol.
owing duties and rates of duty, that is to
,ay:
On all burlaps, and like manufactures of
lax, jute, or hemp, or of which flax, lutte or
lemp shall be the component material of
'hief value, excepting such as NAV be suita-
Die for bagging tor cotton, thirty per centum