The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-29
The Revised Tariff.

The act to amend existing customs AM
revenue laws, known as the Little Tarit
Bill, which passed Congress and is now await
ing the Presidents signature, contains thu
following interesting points in addition t.
those we have already published:
| The new rates for still wines are 40 cent:
per gallon, when imported in casks, 81 60 pei
case Of dozen quart bottles or twentv-foul
pints, any excess being subject to 5 cents pei
| pint or fractional part thereof, but no sepa
rate duty on the bottles; provided that any
wines imported containing more than "a PEI
centum of alcohol shall be forfeited to the
United States; provided, also, that there shall
be an allowance Of 5 per centum, and no more,
on all etfervescing wines, liquors, cordials and
distilled spirits in bottles, to be deducted
from the invoice quantity in lieu Of breakage.
All imported wines OF the character pro-
vided for in the preceding section, which may
remain in public store or bonded warehouse
on the day the act shall take effect, shall be
subject to no other duty upon the withdrawal
thereof for consumption than if the same were
imported; any such wines remaining on ship
board in the United States, duties unpaid,
shall for the purposes of this section be con-
sidered as constructively in public store or
bonded warehouses.
CHEMICALS AND GROCERIES,
ceries shall be charged On hops, cents
per pound; on cromate and bi-cromate of pO-
tassa, 4 cents per pound; on macaroni and
vermicelli, and on all similar preparations,
cents per pound; on nitro benzole, or oil of
mirbane, 10 cents per pound; on tin in plates
or sheets, and on terne and taggers tin, l Ito
cents per pound on anchovies and sardines,
packed in oil or otherwise in tin boxes, Is
cents per whole box measuring not more than
five inches long, four inches wide, and three
and one-half inches deep, y cents for each
half box measuring not more than five inches
long, four inches wide and one and FIVE
eighths inch deep, and 4 cents for each
quarter box, measuring not more than four
and three-quarter inches long, three and
half inches wide and one and half inch
deep; when imported in any other form, 90
per cent. ad valorem; provided that cans or
packages made OF tin or other material, con-
tanning fish of any kind admitted free of
duty under any existing law or treaty, not
exceeding one quart in contents, shall be sub
ject to a duty OF II cent on each package;
and when exceeding one quart shall be sub
ject to an additional duty OF Il cent for each
additional quart or fractional part thereof.
PENALTIES OF LIQUOR DEALERS
Wholesale and retail liquor dealers, rectif-
ers or manufacturers of stills who shall not
have paid the special tax or distillers who
fail to give bond or carry on business to
letraud the Government, shall be fined not
ess than 500 nor more than $4,000, and be
imprisoned not less than thirty days nor
more than two years. And all distilled spirits |
md wines, and all stills or other apparatus fit
'r intended to be used for the distillation or
Of spirits, or for the COM
pounding of liquors owned by such per-
IONS, wherever found, and all distilled /
spirits or wines, and personal property found
n the dlstlllery or rect ying establishment,
n IN any building, room, yard or Enclosure
Herewith, and used with or con-
tltutlng part of the premises, and all the
light, title and interest of such persons in
he lot or tract Of land on which such dstil-
cry is situated, and all right, title and in
crest therein OF every person who knowingly
las suffered or permitted the business OF
lstller there to be carried on, or has con-
lived at the same, and all personal property
wned by or in possession of any person who
AS permitted or suffered any building
ard or Enclosure, or any part thereof
D be used for purposes of ingress or
gress to or from such distillery which shall
9 found in such building, yard or Enclosure.
nd all the right title and interest of every
erson in any premises used for ingress or
gress to or from such distillery, who has
suffered or permitted such prem
les to be used for such ingress or egress,
hall be forfeited to the United States.
Persons using counterfeit stamps on liquor
ackages are to be fined not less than one
undred dollars, nor more than one thousand
ollars, and be imprisoned not more than
Tree years. Retail liquor dealers shall pay
twenty-five dollars license, wholesale one ,