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one cent per pound; completely refined, two cents per nations: Provided, further. That all imitations of pound; on bleaching powder or chloride of lime, one brandy or spirits, or of any of the said wines, and all cent per pound; on vinegar, eight cents per gallon; on wines imported by any name whatever, shall be subject spirits of turpentine, ten cents per gallon; on beef and to the duty provided for the genuine article, and to the pork, two cents per pound; hams and bacon, three cents highest rate of duty applicable to the article of the same per pound; prepared meats, poultry, or game, in cases name: And provided, further. That when wines are or otherwise, and Bologna sausages, twenty-five per imported in bottles, the bottles shall pay a separate duty, centum ad valorem; on cheese, nine cents per pouid; according to the rate established by this act. On cor-2 butter, five cents per pound; on lard, three cents per dials and liqueurs of all kinds, sixty cents per gallon; on pound; maccaroni and vermicelli, gelatine, jellies, and arrack, absynthe, Kirschen wasser, ratafia, and other all similar preparations, thirty per centum ad valorem; similar spirituous beverages, not otherwise specified, on wheat, twenty-five cents per bushel; barley, twenty sixty cents per gallon; on ale, porter and beer, in bottles, cents per bushel; rye, fifteen cents per bushel; oats, ten twenty cents per gallon, otherwise than in bottles, fifteen cents per bushel; Indian corn, or maize, ten cents per cents per gallon; on tobacco in leaf, or unmanufactu bushel; wheat flour, seventy cents per one hundred and red, twenty per centuin ad valorem; on cigars of all twelve pounds; Indian meal, twenty cents per one hun-kinds, forty cents per pound; on snuff, twelve cents per dred and twelve pounds; potatoes, ten cents per bushel; pound; manufactured tobacco, other than snuff and on foreign caught fish, viz: dried or smoked, one dollar cigars, ten cents per pound. per one hundred and twelve pounds; on mackerel and herrings, pickled or salted, one dollar and fifty cents per after the passage of this act, the following articles shall SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That from and barrel; on pickled salmon, two dollars per barrel; on all be exempt from duty, namely: other fish, pickled, in barrels, one dollar per barrel; on all other pickled fish, imported otherwise than in barrels or half barrels, not specified, twenty per centum ad va lorem; and on sardines and other fish preserved in oil, twenty per centum ad valorem: Provided, That fresh caught fish, brought in for daily consumption, shall be to a foreign country, and brought back to the United exempt from duty. On fish glue, or singlass, twenty not merchandise, of citizens of the United States dying States, and books and personal and household effects, per centum ad valorem; on pickles, capers and sauces abrond.

of all kinds, not otherwise enumerated, thirty per centum]

First. All articles imported for. the use of the United States.

produce, or manufacture of the United States, exported Second. All goods, wares, or merchandise, the growth,

ad valorem; on castor oil, forty cents per gallon; neat's Third. Paintings and statuary, the production of foot and animal oils, and all volatile and essential oils, American artists residing abroad. not otherwise specified, twenty per centum ad valorem: Fourth. Wearing apparel in actual use, and other on all gums and other resinous substances, not specified, personal effects, not merchandise, professional books, in a crude state, fifteen per centum ad valorem; and on Instruments, implements, and tools of trade, occupation the said articles, when not in a crude state, and on or employment, of persons arriving in the United States. pastes, balsams, essences, tinctures, extracts, cosmetics, Fifth. Philosophical apparatus, instruments, books, and perfumes, not otherwise enumerated, twenty-five maps and charts, statues, statuary, busts and casts, of per centam ad valorem; on benzoic, citric, white or marble, bronze, alabaster, or plaster of paris, paintings, yellow muriatic, nitric, oxalic, pyroligneous, and tarta- drawings, engravings, etchings, specimens of sculpture, ric acids, twenty per centum ad valorem; on boracic cabinets of coins, medals, gens, and all other collections acid, five per centum ad valorem; borax or tincal, of antiquities, provided the same be specially imported twenty-five per centum ad valorem; on amber, amber-in good faith for the use of any society incorporated or gris, ammonia,, annatto, aniseed, arrow-root, vanilla established for philosophical or literary purposes, or for beans, French chalk, red chalk, juniper berries, manga- the encouragement of the fine arts, or for the use and by nese, nitrate of lead, chromate, bichromate, and prus- the order of any college, academy, school, or seminary siate of potash, Glauber and Rochelle salts, Epsom salts, of learning in the United States. or sulphate of magnesia, and all other chemical salts or Sixth. Anatomical preparations, models of machinepreparations of salts not enumerated, smalts, sal soda, ry, and of other inventions and improvements in the and all carbonates of soda, by whatever name designa- arts; specimens in natural history, mineralogy, and boted, other than soda ash, barilla and kelp, twenty per tany; trees, shrubs, plants, bulbs or roots, and garden centum ad valorem; on sulphate of quinine, forty cents seeds, not otherwise specified; berries, nuts, and vegetaper ounce avoirdupois; on soda ash, five per centum ad bles, used principally in dyeing or composing dyes; all dyewoods in stick; whale and other fish oils of American fisheries, and all other articles the produce of said Fifth. On brandy, one dollar per gallon; on other fisheries; animals imported for breed; fish, fresh caught, spirits manufactured or distilled from grain or other ma-imported for daily consumption; fruit, green or ripe, terials, for first and second proofs, sixty cents, for third from the West Indies, in bulk; tea and coffee, when proof, sixty-five cents, for fourth proof, seventy cents, imported in American vessels from the place of their for fifth proof, seventy-tive cents, and all above fifth growth or production.

valorem.

proof, nicety cents per gallon; on Madeira, Sherry, Sant Seventh. Adhesive felt for sheathing vessels, alcorLucar and Canary wines, in casks or bottles, sixty cents noque, aloes, antimony crude, argol, assafoetida, avaper gallon; on champaign wines, forty cents per gallon; root, barilla, bark of cork tree unmanufactured; bells on port, Burgundy, and claret wines, in bottles, thirty-or bell metal, old and only fit to be remanufactured, or five cents per gallon; on port and Burgundy wines, in parts thereof, and chimes of bells; bress in pigs or bars, casks, fifteen cents per gallon; on Teneriffe wines, in and old brass only fit to be remanufactured; Brazil casks or bottles, twenty cents per gallon; on claret wood, crude brimstone and flour of sulphur, bullion, wines, in casks, six cents per gallon; on the white wines, burr stones unwrought, cantharides, chalk, clay unnot enumerated, of France, Austria, Prussia, and Sar-wrought, cochineal, coins of gold and silver, copper imdinia, and of Portugal and its possessions, in casks, seven ported in any shape for the use of the mint; copper in and a half cents per gallon; in bottles, twenty cents per pigs or bars, and copper ore; plates or sheets of copper gallon: on the red wines, not enumerated, of France, for sheathing vessels, but none is to be so considered exAustria, Prussia and Sardinia, and of Portugal and its cept that which is 14 inches wide and 48 inches long, possessions, in casks, six cents per gallon; in bottles, and weighing from 14 to 34 ounces per square foot; old twenty cents per gallon; on the white and red wines of copper, fit only to be remanufactured; cream of tartar, Spain, Germany, and the Mediterranean, not enumera-emery, flints, ground flint, gold bullion, gold epauletts ted, in casks, twelve and a half cents per gallon, in bot-and wings, grindstones, gum Arabic, gum Senegal, tles, twenty cents per gallon; on Sicily, Madeira orgum tragacanth, India rubber, in bottles or sheets, or Marsala wines, in casks or bottles, twenty-five cents per otherwise, unmanufactured, and old junk, oakum, kelp, gallon; on other wines of Sicily, in casks or bottles, fif- kermes, lac leeches, madder, madder root, mother Eeen cents per gallon, on all other wines, not enumera-of pear, nickel tak v mica, palm leef unmanufac ted, and other than those of France, Austria, Prussia, tured, palm oil, Peruvian bark, pewter, when old and and Sardinia, and of Portugal and its possessions, when only fit to be remanufactured; platina unmanufactured, in bottles, sixty-five cents per gallon; when in casks, ivory unmanufactured, plaster of paris unground, rattwenty-five cents per gallon: Provided, That nothing tans and reeds unmanufactured, rhubarb, saltpetre when herein contained shall be construed or permitted to ope- crude, sarsaparilla, shellac, silver bullion, silver epaurate so as to interfere with subsisting treaties with foreign letts and wings, stones called polishing stones, stone

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