Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-04-01
THE NEW TARIFF.
Items that Interest Merchants and
Producers of Southern California.

Schedule G Of the new tariff fixes the
rates Of duties on many articles handled
by groeers MS follows:
Animals, alive, twenty per cent. al
vaiorem.
Beef and pork, one cent per pound.
Hams and bacon, two cents per pound.
Meat. extract Of, twenty per cent. ad
raiorem.
Cheese, four cents per pound.
Butter, and substitutes therefor, four
cents per pound.
Lard, two cents per pound.
Wheat, twenty cents per bushel.
Rye and barley, ten cents per bushel.
barley, pearled, patent or hulled, one
half cent per pound.
Barley, malt, per bushel Of thirty y-four
pounds, twenty cents.
Indian corn or maize, ten cents per
bushel.
Oats, ton cents per bushel.
Cornmeal ten cents per bushel Of for
ty-eight pounds.
Oatmeal, one.half cent per pound.
Rye -four one-half cent per pound.
Wheat -four, twenty per cent. ad
valorem.
Potato or corn starch, two cents per
pound; rice starch, two and one-half
cents per pound; other starch, two aud
one-half cents per pound.
Hay, two dollars per ton.
Honey, twenty cents per gallon.
Hops, eight cents per pound.
Milk, preserved or condensed. twenty
per cent. ad saiorcm.
Potatoes, fifteen cents per bushel of
sixty pounds.
Vegetables. in their natural state, or
in salt or brine, not specially enumera-
ted or provided for in this act, ton per
per cent. ad paiorem.
Vegetables, prepared or preserved, of
all kinds. not otherwise provided for,
thirty per cent. ad raiorem.
Chicory root, ground or unground,
burnt or prepared, two cents per pound.
Vinegar, seven and one-half cents per
gallon. The standard for vinegar shall
be taken to that strength which requires
thirty-five grains OF bi-carbonate OF
potash to neutralizo one ounce Troy OF
vinegar, and all import duties that
may by law .be imposed on vinegar i'm.
ported from foreign countries shall
bo collected according to this standard.
Dates, plums and prunes, one cent per
pound.
Figs, two cents per pound.
Oranges, in boxes OF capacity not ex.
ceeding two and one-half cubic feet,
twenty-five cents per box; in one.half
boxes, capacity not exceeding one and
onefourth cubic feet, thirteen cents per
half-box; In bulk, one dollar and sixty
cents per thousand; in barrels, capacity
not exceeding that of the one hundred
and ninety-six pounds flour barrel, fifty.
five cents per barrel.
Lemons, in boxes Of capacity not ex-
ceedng two and one half cubic feet,
thirty cents per box; in one half boxes,
capacity not exceeding one and one
fourth cubic feet, sixteen cents per half
box; in bulk. two dollars per thousand.
Lemons and oranges, in packages, not
specially enumerated or provided for in
this act, twenty per cent ad uaiorem.
Lines and grapes, twenty per cent. ad
palore,a.
Rasins, two cents per pound.
Fruits, preserved in their own juices,
fruit juice, twenty per cent, ad vaioren,.
Nuts Almonds, five cents per pound;
shelled, seven and one-h half cents per
pound: filberts and walnuts Of all kinds;
three cents per pound.
Peanuts or ground beans, one cent per
pounds; sholled, one and one.half cents
per pound.
Nuts of all kinds, shelled or unshelled,
not specially enumerated orprovided for
in this act, two cents per pound.
Mustard, ground or preserved, in bot.
ties or otherwise, ten cents per pound.