The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1883-03-10
The New sariG.
Spssisi 90 shs n. o, Picayuns.


the following Rice cleaned, 23 eeDts per
pound; unclaaned, IL eents per pound;
paddy, II csnts per pound; rice -four
and rice meal, 90 per centum ad valorem.
Jute butts, 95 per ten; jute. 90 per cent
ad valorem sun sisal grass aud other
vegetable substances not specially emu
merated, SIS per tor.
Bagging for cotton or other manufac-
tures not specially enumerated suitable
to the uses for which cotton bagging is
applied, composed in whole or In part
Of hemp, jute, jute butts, fax, gunny
cloth or other material, and valued at
seven cents or less per square yard, one
and one half cents per pound valued
at over seven cents per square yard, one
and one-half cents per pound; yalaed
at over niue cents per square yard, two
cents per pound.
Salt in bags, sacks, or other packages
twelve cents per one hundred pounds,
in bulk eight cents per one hundred
pounds.
Steel railway bars are $i7 per ton.
Iron and steel cotton ties, hoops for
baling purposes not thinner than No. 20
wire gauge, IS per centnm ad valorem.
Champagne aud all sparkling wines in
bottles exceeding pint aud not over q
quart each, are 81 per dozen bottles.
Still wines SOC. per gallon, and Sl6O
per ease Of one dosen bottles containing
over a pint and not exceeding one
quart.
The sugar dsties as fixed by the bill
will take effect on and after June lat
next. The othe A. customs duties take
effect on the lst u July next.
The sugar dq are IS follows: sll
sugars not above. No. ID, Dutel, stand
ard, testing by the polasiscops not above
75dsgresa, shall pay duty of ] 40 l0oc'
psr pound, and for every additional de-
gree or fraction Of degree shown BY
the polariscope test, they shall pay
4-I00o. psr pound additional. All su-
CARA above No. 10, Dutch standard, shall
be classified by tho Dutch atandard OF
color and pay as follows:
On all sugars above No. l3, and not
above No. I6. Dntch standard, Q 75-l00c'
per pound. All angar above No. Is, and
not above No. 90, Dutch standard, three
Osnts per pound. All sugars above No.
90, Dutch standard, three and fifty bun
dredths cents per pound. Molasses test
ing not above Sc degrees by polariscope
shall pay a duty Of fur cents per gal.
Ion; ,nolasses testing above So degreei
siaii pay duty Of eight cents per gal.
Ion.
The duties on sugar, while = serious
reductions from existing rates, are com
pensated in degree by the adoption o
the polariscope, which breaks np those
frauds Of coloring and undervalaatioE
which now reduce practically the nOmi
nal profession given 10 this interest. !
Is thought here that as the duties on "a
gars above No. 13 are practically pro
hibitory under the bill, the effort of inn
porters viii bs to bring ID sugara of a
high grade az possible and yet 80 as no
70 pass that limit. Sugars abovs No
10 and not above l3, BY the present law
are charged two and eighty one-hun
aredths cents per pound. If the sugar
TO be brought in shall test "a degress
% il probable they will largely do, th'
duty under the new Law win b. two ant
sixteen- n-hundredths cents, or reduction
Of 1T least sIxty-dve hundredfhs cent
on tllis grads. This reduction is partial
II oFset BY tho gain Of tho p0lariscope
and is In any event . lneky escape from
what at one time threatened to be de
atraction ofthis great interest Of Loaisi
ana.