The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-05-18
THE TARIFF BILL.

wise it, when the committee shall formally report
the result of its labOrs There is not much proba-
bility Of change from the present conditions, how
ever, as Mr.. Dawes and other leaders of the House
approve the tariff portion as it stands. The in
ternal revenue part of the bill will be proceeded
with ON Monday, and probably finished by Tuesday
night
SECTION LON and after the 1st day Of July, 1872,
In lieu OF the duties heretofore imposed by law on
the articles hernafter enumerated OF provided for,
imported from foreign countries, there shall be
levied, collected and paid the following duties and
rates of duty, tnat is to say
On all bituminous coal ana shale, seventy-five
cents per ton of twentyeight bushels, eighty
pounds to the bushel on coke and cnlm of coal.
fifteen per cent ad valorem; on chicory root,
on salt, in bulk, eight cents per one hundred
pounds; Oh salt, in bass, sacks, barrels or other
packages twelve cents per one hundred pounds;
on bend or betting leather, and Spanish or
other sole leather fifteen per centum ad vaorem.
On all skins and Morocco, tanned, but unfinished,
ten per centum al valorem On cal fskns, tanned,
twenty per centum adj valorem.
SEC. 2-0n and after the day and year when this
act shall take effect, in lieu OF tie duties imposed
by law on the articles in this section enumerated,
there shall be levied, collected and paid on the
goods wares and merchandise in this section emu
merated and provided for, imported from foreign
countries ninety per centum OF the several duties
and rates of duty now imposed by law upon said ar
tcies sevcraly 1t being the intent Of this section to
reduce existing duties said articles ten per
centum of such duties that Is to say =
On all manufactures OF cotton or which cotton Is
the component part OF chief value; on all woods,
hair OF the alpaca goat and other like animals, and
the alpaca and other like animals on all iron, and
on all manufactures OF iron OF which iron Is the COM
ponent part Of chief value excepting cotton ma
Of which steel shall shall be 9 component part
OF chief value; provided that cotton ma.
chinery shall pay no less duty than the material of
which 1t is constructed and provided that oil wire
rope and wire strand or chain made OF iron wire,
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 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 metals not herein other
wise provided for, and all manufactures
of metals of which either OF them is the compo
nent part OF chief value excepting watches, jew
elry and other articles Of ornament; on all plate
glass on all paper; provided that the dutyon print
ing paper, whether sized unsized shall be equal
| to twenty per cent adj valorem; on all manuiac-
lures of inda.rubber, gutta percha or straw, and
on oilcoths OF all descriptions; provided that the
rate OF duty upon umbrellas, parasols and sun
shades shall in no case be less than Is imposed upon
goods OF the same material and quality as the COW
erings thereof; on lumber and manufactures Of
lumber. s. Is @eltC
\SEC. 3.-On and after the day and year when this
act shall take effect III lieu 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
following duties and rates OF duty that is to say
On all burlaps and like manufactures OF fax.
| tute or hemp, or Of which flax, jute or hemp shall
| be the component material Of chief value, except
ing such as may be suitable for use as baggng for
covering for cotton, or Tor the uses to Which such
bagging Is applied, thirty per cent ad valorem; on
oil Oilc0th foundations or floor cloth canvas made
hemp shall be the component material of chief
value forty per cent ad yalorem; on all bags, cot
manufactures not Herein otherwise provided
for and not suitable for use as
baggng for covering cotton, composed wholly or in
part OF hax hemp Jute, gunny cloth, gunny bags or
other material, forty per centum ad valorem; on
fine fax dressed manufactured, suitable for
shoe thread and tailOrs' thread, valued at twenty
FIVE cents per pound more, three ourths of cent
per pound; on insulators made of earthenware or
other materials, except glass for use exclusively
rem; on freestone, sandstone, granite and
all building or monumental stone, except
tyGvc -centum ad valorem; on coal tar, reduced
or asphalt, pitch, bitumen or cement manufactured
from coal tar or Its resdnum ninety per cent Of ex-
| listing duties; on corks and cork bark, manufac-
tnred, thirty per centum ad yalorem; on acids,
viz.-aectic, acetous and pyrolgneous, OF specific
| gravity Of one thousand and forty-seven or
less, five cents per pound; acetic acetous
thousand and forty-seven, three cents per pound !;
carbollc liquid, ten per centum ad yalorem; gallo,
cent per pound; tannc 81 per pound tararic
ten cents per pound; on acetates of ammonia,
twenty-five cents per pound baryta, twenty-five
cents per pound iron, twenty-five cents per pound
lead, brown, five cents per pound; white, ten
cents per pound; magnesia, twenty-five cents
soda, twenty cents per pound; strontia, twenty
1ve cents per pound; zinc, twenty-five cents per
on 9S FORTY per cent az On
glass or tins fourteen cents per pound; on emery
ore Sc per ton; on emery, grain, two cents per
pound; on preserved or condensed milk, thirty-nve
per cent ad valOrem; on fire crackers, 81 per box
OF forty packs not exceeding eighty to each pack,
and In the same proportion for a greater or
less number; on all copper imported In the form
OF ores, two and half cents on each pound Of fine
copper contained therein; on all regulus of copper
n
each pound of fine copper contained therein on all
old "copper" fit only for remanufacture, three and one
ingots pigs and in other forms not manufactured
or herein enumerated, including sulphate of cop
ee her
rods, pipes and copper bottoms, ana all
manufactures OF copper or of which copper shall be
component or chief value not otherwise herein
provided for forty percentum ad valorem; on tin
In sheet and plates, fifteen percentum al valorem:
wood screws over two inches in length four cents
per pounds; less than two inches and over three
quarters OF an inch in length six cents per pound;
less than three-quarters of an inch in length nine
cents per pound; on mosic iron made of sand by
one process 80 80 per ton; on blue vitrol, three
cents per pound; on camphor, crude, fifteen
per pound quinia, ten percentum
al valorem on rochelle salts, five cents per pound;
sal soda and soda ash, one-fourth of a cent per
pound; on santonine, per pound; on strychnia,
fifty cents per ounce; on medicinal preparations,
all not specified, thirty per centum ad valorem; on
bay rum or bay water, whether distilled or COM
pounded, 81 per gallon of first proof and In proper
ton for any greater strength than first proof; on
rum essence or oil and bay rum essence or
OIL, fifty cents per ounce; on books, printed
and all other printed paper bound or in
sheets eXceptnewspapers magazines and periodi-
cas- and except books maps and charts especially
imported In good faith for the OF any society in
corporated or established for philosophical, literary
or religious purposes or the encouragement Of hne
arts, or by the order OF any college, academy school
or seminary of learning In the United States for
its or that of its instructors, and
books printed in other than the English language
and books printed in the English language
of on edition unrevised for twenty years.
twelve and one-half cents per pound; on newspa-
pers, magazines and periodicals unbound, six cents
per pound; on zante and other currants, one cent
per pound; figs two and one-half cents per pound;
on raisins, two and one-half cents per pound.
SEC. 4,--That all laws and parts OF laws requiring
that all duties on imports shall be paid in coin be
and they are hereby so far modified that hereafter
Qpe.third Of all duties on imports may be paid BY
the individual or corporation paying the sar.ie to
the proper collecting officer OF the United states of
such import duties in the leaai lender notes OF The
United States, and the other two-thirds OF
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