Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-13
will All Taxes and Duties
be Collected.
CAPITOL AT SAN JUAN
Old Laws of Porto Rico Will Continue
Quarantine Station to be EStab-
lished-Their Money Has Been
Rated.

WASHINGTON, April 12.-The following
is a summary of the provisions of the
Porto Rican bill. 1t applies to the is
land Of Porto Rico and to the adjacent is
lands lying east Of the 14th meridian
which are designated Porto Rico. From
the date of the passage of the act the
same custom duties are levied on all
goods entering Porto Rico from foreign
countries as are levied on the same goods
entering the United States. save that cof-
fee. which has free entry into the United
States. is to pay a duty of 5 cents per
pound on entering Porto Rico. Scientific,
literary and artistic works and books and
pamphlets printed in the English Ian
guage ma enter Porto Rico free Of duty.
The tariff section of the bin relating to
duties between the United States and
Porto Rico is as follows:
That on and after the passage of this
act all merchandise coming into the
United States from Porto Rico and COM
ing into Porto Rico from the United
States shall be entered at the several
ports OF entry upon paymen of 10 per
cent of the duties which are required to
be levied. collected and paid Upon like ar
ticles of merchandise imported from for
SA6l dllu LII duUIllUu thereto
upon articles of merchandise of Porto
Rican manufacture coming into the
United States and withdrawn for con-
sumption or sale upon payment of a tax
equal to the internal revenue tax imposed
in the United States upon like articles of
merchandise or domestic manufacture;
such tax to be paid by internal revenue
stamp or stamps, to be purchased and
provided by the commissioner of internal
revenue and to be procured from the col
rector OF Internal revenue at most con-
Venlent port of entry of said merchandise
into the United States, and to be affixed
under such regulations as the commits
slonef or internal revenue, with such APP
prevail of the secretary of the treasury
snail prescribe and on all articles of
merchandise of United States manufac-
ture coming into Porto Rico in addition
to the duty above provided upon payment
or a TAX equal in rate and amount to the
internal revenue tax imposed in Porto
Rlco upon the like articles of Porto Rican
manufacture
PROVIDED, that on m after the date
when this act shall take effect. all mer-
chandise and articles, except coffee. NOT
dutlable under the tariff laws of the
onlted states. and all merchandise and
all articles entered into Porto Rico free
of duty under orders heretofore made nv
Inc secretary of war shall be admitted
lneo tne several ports thereof, when i'm
ported from the United States. FREQ IF
duty, all avs or parts of laws to the con-
trary Notwithstanding; and whenever the
legislative assembly shall have enacted
and put into operation a system of local
taxation to meet the necessities of the
government OF Porto Rico by this act es-
tabilshed, and shall by resolution duly
passed SO notify the president, he shall
make proclamation thereof and there
upon all tariff duties on merchandise and
articles pnjnO Mt Dor%o "a
United States or coming into the United
States from Porto Rico and from and af-
Ter such date all such merchandise and
articles shall be entered at the several
ports OF entry free of duty; and in no
event shall any duties be collected from
the hrst day of March, 1902, on merchan-
use ana articles going into Porto Rico
from the United States. or coming into
the United States from Porto Rico
me duties collected under the above
section shall be placed at the disposal of
the president to be used for the govern
ment and benefit of Porto Rico until the
government of Porto Rico shall have
been organized, when the moneys collect
ed shall be turned into the local. treasury
of Porto Rico.
Goods imported from Porto Rico and
under bond shall pay only the duty i'm
posed by this act"
The governmental provisions of the bill
are:
The capital shall be at San Juan. Per-
sons who We're Spanish subjects April II.
1879, and who have not elected to preserve
their allegiance to Spain are held to be
citizens of Porto Rico and entitled TO the
protection of the United States.
The designation of the body polite is
under the name 9TH People of Porto
Rico"
The laws and ordinances of Porto Rico
now in force shall continue in full force
and effect, except as altered by this act
or by military orders, and which are not
inconsistent with the laws of the United
States.
The old law f%orbidding the marriage of
priests and ministers Is repealed.
The vessels of Porto Rico are to be ma
tionalized and admitted to the benefits of
the United States coasting laws.
Quarantine stations are to be estab-
lished.
Porto Rico coin to be rated, the peso
being rated at 60 cents in the exchange.
three months after the act takes effect.
SDring Fever