Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-03-12
The New Resenue Bill.
THE new Tax and Tariff bill passed b,
Congress provides as follows:

Congress provides as lolIoWS:
SECTION / That from sad d az after the date Of
lected on all distilled spirits thereafter produced
in the United States tax oI ninety cents on each
proof gallon, or wine gallon when below proof to
be paid by the distiler, owner, or person having
possession thereof before removal from the dis
tillery or bonded warehouse, and SO much of Sec.
3251 of the Revised Statutes of the United States
as is inconsistent herewith il repealed.
SEC. 2. That Sec. 3,368 Of the Revised Statues
be- and the same is hereby. amended by striking
out the words twenty cents pcund' and in
serting in lieu thereof the ", words "t@wenty,four wen
Revised Statues be, and the same is here
by, amended by striking out the word
fve'' wherever it occurs therein, and inserting
ont the word sixty and inserting seventy-fve,H
increasing the duty on cigars from SIS to
So thousand and cigarettes. from $3.50 to
S2.75: Provided, That the. increase of tax
herein provided for sl.all not apply to
tobacco, cigars or cigarettes on which the tax
under the existing law shall have been paid when
this act takes effect.
SEC 3. That ON all molasAes, concentrated mo-
lasses, tank bottoms sirup Of sugar, cane-iuice,
melada, and on sugar according to the Dutch
standard color, imported ffsm foreign countries,
there there shall III d,fia be aeVled aa g
Sec. 2,5A of the Revised %attutes, an amount
equal to 25 per cent of said uties as levied upon
the several articles and grades herein designated:
Pfovided, That concentrated melada or concrete
shall hereafter be classed as sugar, dutiable ac-
cording to the color of the Dutch standard, and
melada shall be known and defined as an article
made in the process of sugar making, being the
cane juice boiled down the sugar point, and
containing all the sugar and molasses resulting
from the boiling process without any process Of
purging or clarifcation, and any and all produc-
tion of sugar imported in bags, mats, baskets
or other than light packages shall be considered
sugar and dutiable as such: Pr0Uided fur
ther, That of the drawback on refined
sugar exported, allowed by Sec. 3O19
of the Revised Statutes of the United
States only per cent. of the amount so allowed
shall be retained by the United States.
SEC. 4. That so much of Sec. 2,5O3 of the Re-
vised Statutes as provides that only 80 percentum
of the several duties and rates of duty imposed
on certain articles therein enumerated by Sec.
2,5O4 shall be levied, collected and paid be, and
the same is hereby, repealed, and the several
duties and rates of duty prescribed in said Sec.
25O4 shall be and remain by that section levied
without abatement of 10 per cent, provided in
Sec. 2,503.
SEC 5. That the increase of duties provided by
this act shall not apply to any goods, wares or
actually on shlpboard or bound to
the United States on or before the 10th day CT
1875, nor on any such goods, wares or
on deposit in warehouses or public
stores at the date of the passage of this act.
Sec. 6 provides that nothing in the act of Feb.
g. 1875 (the Little Tariff act) shall be construed to
impose any duty on bolting cloths heretofore ad-
mitted free of duty to require the of stamps
on entries or receipts in the passbooks OF savings
banks.