Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-04-19

Rican law, the following satisfactory
summary is given:
From the date of the passage of the
act the same customs 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 coffee, which has free entry
into the United States, is to pay a duty
OF . cents per pound on entering Porto
Rico. Scientific, literary and artistic
works and books and pamphlets
printed in the English language may
enter Porto Rico free of duty. The
tariff section of the bill 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
coming into Porto Rico from the
United States shall be entered at the
several ports of entry upon payment of
10 per cent. of the duties which are re-
quired to be levied, collected and
paid upon like articles of merchandise
imported from foreign countries; and
in addition thereto upon articles of
merchandise of Porto Rican manufac-
ture coming into the United States
and withdrawn for consumption or
sale upon payment of tax equal to
the internal revenue tax imposed in
the United States upon the like
articles of merchandise of domestic
manufacture; /such tax to be paid by
internal revenue stamp or stamps to
be purchased and provided by the COM
missioner of internal revenue and to
be procured from the collector of in
ternal revneue at or most convenient
to the port of entry of said merchan-
disc in the United States and to be
affixed under such regulations as the
commissioner of internal revenue,
with the APPROVAL of the secretary of
the treasury shall prescribe: and on
all articles of merchandise of United
States manufacture coming into Porto
Rico in addition to the duty above
provided upon payment of a tax equal
in rate and amount to the internal
revenue tax imposed in Porto Rico up
on the like articles of Porto Rican
manufacture.
Provided, that on and after the date
when this act shall take effect, all ner-
chandise and articles except coffee, not
dutiable under the tariff laws of the
United States, and all merchandise
and articles entered in Porto Rico free
of duty under orders heretofore made
by the secretary of war shall be ad-
mitted into the several ports thereof
when imported from the United States
free of duty, all laws or parts of laws
to the contrary notwithstanding; and
whenever the legislative assembly Of
Porto Rico shall have enacted and put
alton to meet the necessities Of the
government of Porto Rico, by this act
established, and shall by resolution
duly passed, so notified the president
he shall make proclamation hereof
and thereupon all tariff duties upoI
merchandise and articles going into
Porto Rico from the United States oil
coming into the United States from
Porto Rico and from and after such
date all such merchandise and article:
shall be entered at the several port:
of entry free of duty and in no even
shall any duties be collected after the
first day of March 1902 on merchandise
and articles going into Porto RicC
from the United States or coming
into the United States from Porte
Rico.
The duties collected under the
above section shall be placed at the
disposal of the president to be USED
for the government and benefit d
Porto Rico until the government o
Porto Rico shall have been organized
turned into the local treasury of Porte
Rico. Goods imported from Porte
Rico and under bond shall pay only
the duty imposed by this act"
The government provisions are:
The capitol shall be at San Juan
Persons who were Spanish subjects
April IL, 1899, and who have not elect
ed to preserve their allegiance t.
Spain are held to be citizens of Porte
Rico and entitled to the protection o
the United States. The designation
of the body polite is under the nam'
The People of Porto Rico.
The laws and ordinances Of Port
Rico now in force shall continue il
full force and effect, except as aitere'
by this act or by military orders AM
which are not inconsistent with tn
laws OF the United States.
The old law forbidding the marriag
of priests and ministers is repealed.
The vessels of Porto Rico are to b
nationalized and admitted to the ben
efits of the United States coastini
laws. Quarantine stations are TO b
established. Porto Rico coin to b
rated, the peso being rated at so cent
in the exchange Three months afte
the act takes effect Porto Rico coin
!. are not to be legal tender. Properr
"a usually under the control Of the Unit