Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-02-24

WASHINGTON, Feb 23.--The following
is the text of the tax bill as passed:
Section l. THAI from and after the dale
of the passage Of this act, there shall be
levied and collected on all distilled spirits
thereafter produced in the United States,
a tax of ninety cents on each proof gallon,
or wine gallon when below proof, TO be
paid by the distiller, owner or parSOn haY-
ing possession thereof, before removal from
the distillerY or bonded warehouse, aud so
much of section 3251 of the revised statutes
ofthe United States as is inconsistent here
with IS hereby repealed.
Sec. 2. That section 55GS of the Revised
Statutes be and the same is hereby amend
ed by striking ont the words, "twenty
cents a pound and inserting in lieu
thereof the words. s'tWentv-fOur cents a
pound;" provided that section 1894
of the Revised Statutes be and the
same is hereby amended by striking out
the word Give wherever it occurs therein
and inserting in lieu thereof the word
'six," and by striking out the word ''sixty"
and inserting "seventy-fve," {" increasing the
duty on cigars from s. to So
a thousand, and on cigarettes from $3.50 TO
s. T5, provided that the increase Of tax
herein provided for shall not apply to to-
baccO, cigars or cigarettes on which the tax
under the existing law shall have been
paid when this act taxes effect.
Sec. ,. That on all mOlaSSes, cOncentrat-
ed mOlasses, tank bottoms, syrup Of sugar,
cane juice, melada, and on sugar, according
to duty of standard color, imported from
foreign countries. there shall be levied,
collected and paid, in addition to the duties
now imposed in schedule q, section 2jO4,
Of the revised statutes, an amount equal
to % per cent Of said duties as levied upon
the several articles and grades herein desig-
mated; Provided, that concentrated melada,
or concrete, shall hereafter be classed as
sugar, dutiable according to color Of
the duties standard, and melada
shall be known and defined g
an article made in the process Of sugar
making, cane juice boiled down to sugar
point and containing all sugar and mo
lasses resulting from the boiling process;
without any process Of purging or clarifca-
tion. and any and all productions of sugar
cane imported in bags, mats, baskets,
or other than light packages. shall lie
considered sugar dutiable as such; and pro
vided further, that of the drawback on re-
fined sugars exported, allowed by section
3Ol9 of the revised sta utes Of the United
States, only one per cent. of the amount so
allowed shall be retained by the United
States.
Sec. l. That so much of section 2jO3 of
the revised statutes as provides that only
ninety per centum of several duties and
rates of duty imposed on certain articles
therein enumerated by section 2j04, shall
be levied, collected and paid, be and the
same is hereby repealed, and the several
duties and rates of duty prescribed in said
section 2jO4, shall be and remain as by that
section levied, without abatement Of ten
per centum as provided in section 25O3.
Sec. 3. That the increase Of duties pro-
vided by this act shall not apply TO any
goods, wares or merchandise, actually on
shipboaTd, and bound to the United States,
on or before the 10th day Of February, 1873,
nor on any such goods, wares OF merchan-
disc on deposit IN warehouses or public
stores at the date Of the passage Of this act.
Section six provides that nothing in the
act Of Feb. Is, lSI5-s'the little tariff act
shall be construed 10 impose any dutyOn
boiling cloths heretofore admitted free Of
duty, or to require stamps on entries Of re-
ceipts in pass-b books Of savings banks.