The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-04-15
THE NEW TAX BILL.


new tax and tariff bill passed by the
United States Congress-:
SECTION 1. That from and after the
date of the passage of this act there
shall be levied and collected on all dis
titled spirits thereafter produced in the
United States tax of ninety cents on
each proof gallon, or wine gallon when
below proof, to be paid by the distiller,
owner, or person having possession
thereof before the removal from the dis
tillery or bonded warehouse, and so
much of Sec. 3,251 of the Revised
Statutes of the United States as is in
consistent herewith is repealed
SEC. q That Sec. 3,368 of the Re-
viscd Statutes be and the same is
hereby, amended by striking out the
words "twenty cents pound" and in
serting in lieu thereof the words
"twenty-lour cents pound" Provided,
That Sec. 1891 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 "six," aud by striking out
the word "siz'y" and inserting "soven-
ty-fve," increasing the duty on cigars
from SIS to Sc thousand and cigarettes
from S2,6Q to S2,75; Procidef, That
the increase of tax herein provided Tor
shall not apply to tobacco, cigars or
cigarettes on which the tax under the
existing laws shall have been paid when
this act takes effect.
SEC. 3. That on all molasses, con-
centrated molasses, tank bottom, sirup
Of sugar, cane juice, melada, and on
sugar according TO the Dutch standard
color, imported from foreign countries.
there shall be levied, collected aud
paid, in addition to duties now imposed
in Schedule G, Sec. 5504 of the Re-
Sised Statutes, an amount equal to
twenty-five per cent Of said duties as
levied upon the several articles and
grades herein designated: Provided,
That concentrated meiada or concrete
shall hereafter be olassed as sugar,
dutiable according to the color of the
Dutch standard, and mcada shall be
known and defined as an article made 10
the process of sugar-making, being the
cane juice boiled down to the sugar
point, and containing all the sugar and
molasses resulting from the boiling pro-
cess without any process of purgipg or
clarificatien, ard any and all produc-
ton Of sugar cane imported in mats,
bags, baskets, OF other than light pack
ages, shall. be considered sngar and du-
table as such: Provided, further, That
OF the drawbacks on refined sugar ex-
ported allowed by Sec. 3,0l9 of the Re-
vlsed Statutes of the United States, only
one per cent. of the amount so allowed
shall be retained BY the United States.
SEC. / That so much of Sec 2,503
of the Revised Statutes as provides that
only ninety per ctntum Of the several
duties and rates of duty imposed on Ger.
tain articles therein enumerated by Sec.
2,5C ( shall be levied, collected and paid
be, and the same is hereby, repealed.
aud the several duties and rates OF duty
prescribed IN SAID sec. E,0UI shall be
and remain as by that section levied
without abatement Of ten per cent, pro-
vided in Sec. 2,503.
SEC. g. That the increase Of duties
provided by this act shal! not apply TO
any goods wares or merchandise actu-
ally On shipboard and bouuc to the
United States on or before the tenth
day OF February, 1873, nor on any
such goods, wares or merchandise on
deposit in warehouses or pubic stores at
the date OF the passage OF this act,
SEC, 6 provides that nothing in the
act of February 8, 1875 (the Little
Tariff act) shall be construed to impose
any duty On bolting cloths heretofore
admitted free OF duty, or to require the
use Of stamps on entries or receipts in
the pass-books or savings banks.