The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-05
NEW TARIFF BILL
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revenue laws. Section 1885, relating to
internal taxes on tobacco was changed
revised statutes) to read as follows:
Upon tobacco and snuff manufactured
and sold, or removed for consumption OF
use. there shall be levied and collected
the following taxes:
On snuff manufactured of tobacco or
any substitute for tobacco ground dry
damp, picked, scented or otherwise of ali
descriptions. when prepared for use a
tax OF 8 cents per pound. And snuft
consumption shall be taxed as snuff and
snail be put up in packages and stamped
m the same manner as snuff.
On all chewing and smoking tobacco
hue cut cavendish plug or twist cut or
granulated, of every description on to-
bacco twisted by hand or reduced into a
condition to be consumed. or in any man.
ner other than the ordinary mode of
drying and curing prepared for sale or
consumption, ever If prepared without
the use of any machine or instrument
and on all fine cut shorts and refuse
scraps, clippings, cuttings and sweetings
OF tobacco tax of cents per pound
Sect;oa SSsa OF the revised statutes is
amended so as to read as follows:
Upon cigars, which shall be manufac-
tured or sold or removed for consumption
or sale. there shall be assessed and COL
lected the following taxes IN ha maid h1,
the manufacturer thereof on cigar sof ali
descriptions. made of tobacco or any
substitute therefore, s. per thousand on
cigarettes weighing not more than three
pounds per 900, 81 per 900: on cigarettes
weighing more than three pounds per
LOCO. So per LOCO. The house provisions
FOR duties on imported tobacco have, been
stricken out and the following duties in
serted on imported tobacco:
Wrapper tobacco and filler tobacco
when mixed or packed with more than
per cent Tin weight of wrapper tobacco
and all-leaf tobacco the product of two
or more countries or dependencies. when
mixed or packed together, if unstemmed.
Sl.50 per pound; filler tobacco not sDec-
tally provided for in this act if un-
stemmed 35 cents per pound; if stemmed
so cents per pound
paragraph is inserted defining to-
bacco terms as follows: The term wrap
per tobacco. as used in this act means
that quality of leaf tobacco which is suit
able for cigar wrappers. and the term
filler means all other leaf tobacco. Col
lectors of customs shall not permit entry
to be made except under regulations to
be prescribed by the secretary of the
treasury of any leaf tobacco unless the
invoices of the same shall specify in de-
tell the character of such tobacco. whe-
Their wrapper or filler. its origin and quail
ity. In the examination for classifications
of any imported leaf tobacco at least one
bale. box or package in every ton. and at
least one in every invoice, shall be eX-
amined by the appraiser or person au-
thorized by law to make such examina-
ton.
Other changes in the tobacco schedule
are rs follows:
All other tobacco, manufactured or I'M
not specially provided for
in this act. 40 cents per pound (house
rate go. Snuff and snuff -four and manu-
features of snuff, house rate 65. senate. 20
cents per pound. Cigars. cigarettes che
roots of all kinds. house. $3.50 per pound
and % per cent ad valorem; senate S4.c0
per pound and rs per cent ad valorem a
Is added that cigarettes of ali
kinds weighing less than four pounds
per LOCO shall pay a duty OF So per pound (
Metals-In the metal schedule the first
change of Importance Is made in para
graph 121 relating to coils or rods OF less
than seven-sixteenths of an inch in dia-
meter. which is made to include ham
nered as well as rolled iron and on which
The duty is reduced from the house rate
Of $40 10 7-10 cent per pound. There is
also q reduction of slabs, blooms, looms
etc. from $40 to 40 OF a cent per pound !
Beams, girderS. etc, are reduced from
;-10 to $40 of q cent. Boiler plate iron or
steel is reduced from 30 per cent to % per
cent ad valorem; anchors of iron or steel
from III cents per pound 10 l 2-10 cents
Railway bars T rails, etc. are reduced !
from 7-i0 to $40 of q cent per pound and |
Der pound.
The provisions of the house bill making |
Ill iron or steel wire rods which have
3een tempered or treated dutiable as
wire. is stricken out.
The duty of / cent per pound as fixed /
,y the house on lead ore was increased /
o III cents. and a provision added that /
he value should be estimated at the port |
If entry. whether designated as bonded /
or otherwise
There was no change on the rate fixed |