184, second session Forty-Second Congress) the following figures are compiled, (cents omitted:) Comparing the postal revenues, expenditures, and deficiency of 1868 with 1871, the percentage of increase in revenue is 23; the percentage of increase in expenditures is 7%; and the percentage of decrease in deficiency is 321. GOLD FLUCTUATIONS.* Period. First quarter..... 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 105 172 169 234 1448 140 144 136 1234 101 134 151 148 125 132 13341301104 109 159 251 160 167 1417 141 144 115 1014 140 166 128 125 132 137 131 1107 124 145 285 146 155 146 150 1621 122 109 122 185 138 143 138 140 130 111 137 1563 260 149 154 145 140 131 114 122 140 189 144 1314 133 132 119 110 Mean annual average (computed from the highest and lowest monthly quotations) during the above period: 1862, 1133; 1863, 146; 1864, 203; 1865, 158; 1866, 141); 1867, 138§; 1868, 139; 1869, 1343; 1870, 1147. D.-MANUFACTURES.† Total value, gross production, at the censuses of 1850, 1860, and 1870. * Showing the variations in value of United States currency. †These returns are official, of date June 10, 1872, but are subject to revision and change. The census of 1870 does not include the products of mines and fisheries under the head of manufactures, as had previously been the case. In 1860 the products of mines and fisheries amounted to about ninety million dollars. Increase: 1860 over 1850, 85 per cent.; 1870 over 1860. 123 per cent.; 1870 over 1850, 323 per cent. H.-CUSTOMS SCHEDULE, Showing the changes made therein by the acts of May 1 and June 6, 1872. (See General Notes at foot of page.) GENERAL NOTES.-1. The column for 1870 is condensed from Young's Custom-House Statistics and Heyl's Rates of Duties, &c.; that of 1872 is made up direct from the law, with the coöperation of the office of the Commissioner of Customs. 2. Goods in bonded warehouse may be withdrawn under present tariff. 3. A drawback is allowed on exported fire-arms, scales, balances, shovels, spades, axes, hatchets, hammers, plows, cultivators, mowing-machines, and reapers with stocks or handles of American wood, where the imported raw material predominates. 4. Materials for ship-building, imported in bond, are free under certain conditions. 5. Materials for repairing American vessels in foreign trade, free. 6. Several articles of mixed composition aremarked the same in 1872 as in 1870 column, because it is impossible to judge whether or not the ten per cent. reduction applies to them. That will be determined in each case by the material predominating. 7. R. means reduction. 8. N. o. p. means not otherwise provided for. *Specific gravity changed to 1.047. (1872.) Fuming per pound. 1 cent. (1872.) Exempt from duty: teams of animals, including harness and tackle, actually owned by immigrants to the United States and in actual use for purposes of such immigration; all animals brought into the United States temporarily and for a period not exceeding six months, for the purposes of exhibition or competition. (Act of July 1870.) crude, n. o. p.. Blacking, of all descript's... 30 p. ct. Black lead, (plumbago)...... ton $10. Bladders. manufactures of.. 30 p. ct. Bone black and ivory drop..25 p. ct. Bono dice, draught, chess men, chess balls, and bagatelle balls....... 50 p. ct. manufactures of, n. o. p... 35 p. ct. Bonnets, hats, &c., of straw, chip, &c........................ Books, blank... Books, printed, bound or not, periodicals, &c Borate of lime.. Borax, crude or tincal....... refined Boxes, of paper, and other fancy Braids, and other tr'm'gs 20 p. ct. 30 p. ct. fre. 30 p. ct. 10 p.ct. R. 40 p. ct. 25 p. ct. of grass. straw, &c......... 30 p. ct. Brandy, (1870, and other spirit from grain, &c.... pf. gal. $2. pf. gal, $2. Brass, (copper not compo nent of chief value, 1869,) bars or pigs.... 15 p. ct. old, fit for remanuf. only.. 15 p. ct. manufactures of, n. o. p... 35 p. ct. Brazil paste............... 10 p. ct. ..... 10 p.ct. R. free. *Free under decision of the United States Supreme Court. 40 p. ct. yarns, &c., v. 24 cents or less per lb...... ditto, &c.. value above 24 cents per lb.... thread, or linen thread, *Flowers, leaves, plants, for medicinal purposes in a crude state, not otherwise provided, free, 1872. The rates upon window-glass-rough plate, fluted, rolled, unpolished cylinder, crown, and common window; polished cylinder and crown; cast or polished, not silvered; and cast or polished, silvered or looking-glass frames; are the same as required by act of June 30, 1864, as above, less ten per cent. by act of June, 1872. If not jewelry or articles of ornament. roots, barks, and seeds |