The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-03-10
The Revenue Law.

The following is the new revenue
law as passed by both houses of Con-
gress, and approved by the President:
Section /. That, from and after the
date of 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 distill
possession thereof, before removal
from the distillery or bonded ware
house, and so much of section 3, 251 of
the revised statutes of the United
States as is consistent herewith is
hereby repealed.
See. 2. That section 1865 of the
revised statutes be and the same is,
| hereby amended, by striking out the
words twenty cents pound and
inserting in lieu thereof the words
"twenty-four cents a pound. provi-
ded that section ) 1914 of the revised
statutes be, and the same is hereby
amended, by striking out the word
five" wherever it occurs therein, and
inserting in lieu thereof the word
six, and by striking out the word
sixty, and inserting "seventy-five, }"
increasing the duty on cigars from So
to So thousand, aud on cigarettes
from g 80 to s2.75; provided chat the
increase of tax therein provided for
shall not apply to tobacco, cigars, or
cigarettes on which tax under exist
ing laws shall have been paid when
this act takes effect.
Sec. g. That all molasses, concen-
trated molasses, tank bottoms, syrup
of sugar cane juice. melada, and on
sugar, according to Dutch standard of
color, imported from foreign coun
tries, there shall be levied. collected
and paid, in addition to the duties
now imposed in schedule G., section
2,5O4, OF revised statutes, an amount
equal to twenty-five per cent. of said
duties, as levied upon the several ar
ticles and grades herein designated:
provided that concentrated melada, or
concrete, shall hereafter be classed as
sugar, dutiable according to the color
Of the Dutch standard, and melada
shall be known and defined as an arti-
Gle made in the process of sugar max
ing; cane juice boiled down to the su-
gar point and containing all sugar and
molasses resulting from the boiling
process, without any process OF purg-
ing or Qualification, and any and all
productions of sugar cane imported
in bags, mat baskets, or other than
light packages, shall be considered
sugar and dutiable as such; and pro-
vided further, that of the drawback
on refined sugars exported, allowed by
section 3,Ol9 of the revised statutes of
the United States, only one per cent.
"a l. Ill II, III l.
tanned by the United States.
Sec. 4. That SO much of section
2,503 Of the revised statutes as pro
vides that only ninety per centum of
the several duties and rates of duty
enumerated by section 2,504 shall be
same is hereby repealed, and the sew
ed in said section 1904 shall be and
remain as by that section levied, with
out abatement of the ten per centum
as provided in section 2.503.
Sec. 5. That increase of duties pro-
vided by this act shall not apply to
any goods. wares or merchandise actu-
ally on shipboarG and bound to the
United States on or before the 10th
day Of February, 1875, or any such
goods, wares Or merchandise on de-
post in warehouses or public 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 i'm
pose any duty on boiling clothes,
heretofore admitted free of duty, or
to require the use of stamps on entries
of receipts in pass-books of savings
banks.