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[PUBLIC RESOLUTION 9.]

A RESOLUTION to correct certain errors in the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the payment of outstanding Treasury Notes, to authorize a Loan, to regulate and fix the duties on Imports and for other purposes," approved the second of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-one.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act entitled "An act to provide for the payment of outstanding treasury notes, to authorize a loan, to regulate and fix the duties on imports and for other purposes," approved the second March, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, shall be so far altered and corrected as to strike from said act the following words, that is to say, from the list of articles exempt from duty "wool, unmanufactured, and all hair of the goat, alpaca, and other like animals, unmanufactured, the value whereof, at the last port or place from whence exported to the United States shall be eighteen cents, or under, per pound," from section twenty-four, as follows:

SEC. 24. And be it further enacted, That all goods, wares, and merchandise, which may be in the public stores on the day and year aforesaid, shall be subject to no other duty upon entry thereof than if the same were imported respectively after that day; and from section thirteen, as follows: "On woollen shawls, or shawls of which wool shall be the chief component material, a duty of sixteen cents per pound, and in addition thereto, twenty per centum ad valorem.”

Approved 2d March, 1861.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE,

Washington, March 13, 1861.

I do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and accurate copy of the original on file in this department.

W. HUNTER, Chief Clerk.

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The following act of Congress, approved July 14, 1862, the provisions of which relating to duties on imports go into effect from and after the 1st day of August, 1862, is published for the information and government of the Officers of the Customs at the several ports and of all others concerned. S. P. CHASE,

[PUBLIC--No. 134.]

Secretary of the Treasury.

AN ACT increasing, temporarily, the duties on imports, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the first day of August, Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, in lieu of the duties heretofore imposed by law on the articles hereinafter mentioned there shall be levied, collected, and paid, on the goods, wares and merchandise herein enumerated and provided for, imported from foreign countries, the following duties and rates of duty, that is to say:

On syrup of sugar, or of sugar cane, or concentrated molasses, or concentrated melado, two cents per pound;

On all sugar not above number twelve, Dutch standard in color, two and one-half cents per pound;

On all sugar above number twelve, and not above number fifteen, Dutch standard in color, three cents per pound;

On all sugar above number fifteen, not stove-dried, and not above number twenty, Dutch standard in color, three and one-half cents per pound; On all refined sugar in form of loaf, lump, crushed, powdered, pulverized, or granulated, and all stove-dried or other sugar above number twenty, Dutch standard in color, four cents per pound: Provided, That the standards by which the color and grades of sugars are to be regulated shall be selected and furnished to the collectors of such ports of entry as may be necessary, by the Secretary of the Treasury, from time to time, and in such manner as he may deem expedient;

On sugar candy, not colored, six cents per pound; on all other confec tionery, made wholly or in part of sugar, and on sugars, after being refined, when tinctured, colored, or in any way adulterated, ten cents per pound;

On molasses, six cents per gallon: Provided, That all syrups of sugar or sugar cane, concentrated molasses or concentrated melado, entered under the name of molasses, or any other name than syrup of sugar, or of sugar cane, concentrated molasses, or concentrated melado, shall be liable to for feiture to the United States, and the same shall be forfeited.

On cigars of all kinds, valued at five dollars or less per thousand, thirty

five cents per pound; valued at over five dollars and not over ten dollars per thousand, sixty cents per pound; valued at over ten and not over twenty dollars per thousand, eighty cents per pound; valued at over twenty dollars per thousand, one dollar per pound; and in addition thereto on all cigars valued at over ten dollars per thousand, ten per centum ad valorem: Provided, That paper cigars, or cigarettes, including wrappers, shall be subject to the same duties imposed on cigars;

On snuff, thirty-five cents per pound;

On tobacco, in leaf, unmanufactured and not stemmed, twenty-five cents per pound;

On stemmed, and tobacco manufactured of all descriptions, not otherwise provided for, thirty-five cents per pound.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the day and year aforesaid, in addition to the duties heretofore imposed by law on the articles hereinafter mentioned and included in this section, there shall be levied, collected, and paid on the goods, wares, and merchandise herein enumerated and provided for, imported from foreign countries, the following duties and rates of duty, that is to say:

On brandy, for first proof, twenty-five cents per gallon;

On other spirits, manufactured or distilled from grain or other materials, for first proof, fifty cents per gallon;

On cordials and liqueurs of all kinds, and arrack, absynthe, kirschenwasser, ratafia, and other similar spirituous beverages not otherwise provided for, twenty-five cents per gallon;

On bay rum, twenty-five cents per gallon;

On ale, porter and beer, in bottles or otherwise, five cents per gallon; On all spirituous liquors not otherwise enumerated, sixteen and two-thirds per centum ad valorem: Provided, That no lower rate or amount of duty shall be levied, collected and paid, on brandy, spirits, and all other spirituous beverages, than that fixed by law for the description of first proof, but shall be increased in proportion for any greater strength than the strength of first proof: And provided further, That bottles containing wines subject to ad valorem duties shall be liable to and pay the same rate of duty as that fixed upon the wines therein contained.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That from and after the day and year aforesaid, in addition to the duties heretofore imposed by law on the articles hereinafter mentioned and included in this section, there shall be levied, collected, and paid, on the goods, wares, and merchandise herein enumerated and provided for, imported from foreign countries, the following duties and rates of duty, that is to say:

On bar iron, rolled or hammered, comprising flats not less than one inch or more than seven inches wide, nor less than one-quarter of an inch or more than two inches thick; rounds not less than one-half an inch nor more than four inches in diameter; and squares not less than one-half an inch nor more than four inches square, not exceeding in value the sum of fifty

dollars per ton, two dollars per ton; exceeding in value the sum of fifty dollars per ton, three dollars per ton;

On bar iron, rolled or hammered, comprising flats less than one-quarter of an inch thick or more than seven inches wide, rounds less than one-half an inch or more than four inches in diameter, and squares less than onehalf an inch or more than four inches square, five dollars per ton;

On all iron imported in bars for railroads and inclined planes made to patterns and fitted to be laid down on such roads or planes without further manufacture, one dollar and fifty cents per ton;

On boiler or other plate iron, five dollars per ton;

On iron wire, drawn and finished, not more than one-fourth of an inch in diameter nor less than number sixteen, wire gauge, one dollar per one hundred pounds; over number sixteen and not over number twenty-five, wire gauge, one dollar and fifty cents per one hundred pounds; over or finer than number twenty-five, wire gauge, two dollars per one hundred pounds: Provided, That wire covered with cotton, silk, or other material, shall pay five cents per pound in addition to the foregoing rates;

On hollow-ware, glazed or tinned, one-half cent per pound;

On sadirons, tailors' and hatters' irons, stoves, and stove plates, onefourth of one cent per pound;

On band and hoop iron and slit rods, and all other descriptions of rolled or hammered iron, not otherwise provided for, five dollars per ton; On cut nails and spikes, one-fourth of one cent per pound;

On iron cables or cable chains, or parts thereof, seventy-five cents per one hundred pounds: Provided, That no chains made of wire or rods of a diameter less than one-half of one inch shall be considered a chain cable; On anvils, one dollar per one hundred pounds;

On anchors, or parts thereof, fifty cents per one hundred pounds;

On wrought board nails, spikes, rivets, bolts, bed-screws, and wrought hinges, one-fourth of one cent per pound;

On chains, trace chains, halter chains, and fence chains, made of wire or rods, not under one-fourth of one inch in diameter, one-fourth of one cent per pound; under one-fourth of one inch in diameter and not under number nine, wire gauge, one-half of one cent per pound; under number nine, wire gauge, five per centum ad valorem;

On blacksmiths' hammers, and sledges, and axles, or parts thereof, onehalf of one cent per pound;

On horseshoe nails, one cent per pound;

On steam, gas, and water tubes, and flues of wrought iron, one-fourth of one cent per pound;

On wrought iron railroad chairs, and wrought iron nuts and washers, ready punched, five dollars per ton;

On smooth or polished sheet iron, by whatever name designated, one-half cent per pound;

On sheet iron, common or black, not thinner than number twenty, wire gauge, three dollars per ton; thinner than number twenty, and not thinner

than number twenty-five, wire gauge, four dollars per ton; thinner than number twenty-five, wire gauge, five dollars per ton;

On tin plates galvanized, galvanized iron, or iron coated with any metal by electric batteries, one-half cent per pound;

On locomotive tire, or parts thereof, one cent per pound;

On mill-irons, and mill-cranks of wrought iron, and wrought iron for ships, steam-engines, and locomotives, or parts thereof, weighing each twenty-five pounds or more, one-fourth of one cent per pound;

On screws, commonly called wood-screws, one cent and a half per pound; On screws, washed or plated, and all other screws of iron, except woodscrews, five per centum ad valorem;

On all manufactures of iron, not otherwise provided for, five per centum ad valorem;

On cast iron, steam, gas, and water pipes, twenty-five cents per one hundred pounds; on all other castings of iron, not otherwise provided for, nor exempted from duty, five per centum ad valorem: Provided, That the following descriptions of iron, manufactures of iron, and manufactures of steel, shall not be subject to any additional duty or rates of duty under the provisions of this act, that is to say: iron in pigs; cast iron butts and hinges; old scrap iron; malleable iron, and malleable iron castings, not otherwise provided for; cut-tacks, brads, and sprigs; cross-cut, mill, pit, and drag saws;

On steel in ingots, bars, sheets, or wire, not less than one-fourth of an inch in diameter, valued at seven cents per pound or less, one-fourth of one cent per pound; valued at above seven cents per pound and not above eleven cents per pound, one-half cent per pound; valued above eleven cents per pound, and on steel-wire and steel in any form, not otherwise provided for, five per centum ad valorem;

On skates valued at twenty cents or less per pair, two cents per pair; when valued at over twenty cents per pair, five per centum ad valorem.

On iron squares, marked on one side, two cents and a half per pound; on all other squares made of iron or steel, five cents per pound;

On files, rasps, and floats, of all descriptions, two cents per pound, and in addition thereto, five per centum ad valorem;

On all manufactures of steel, or of which steel shall be a component part, not otherwise provided for, five per centum ad valorem: Provided, That no allowance or reduction of duties for partial loss or damage shall be hereafter made in consequence of rust of iron or steel, or upon the manufactures of iron or steel, except on polished Russia sheet iron;

On bituminous coal, ten cents per ton of twenty-eight bushels, eighty pounds to the bushel; on all other coal, ten cents per ton of twenty-eight bushels, eighty pounds to the bushel;

On coke and culm of coal, five per centum ad valorem.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That from and after the day and year aforesaid, in addition to the duties heretofore imposed by law on the articles hereinafter mentioned and included in this section, there shall be lev

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