TARIFF-Continued. Articles. Rate of duty. Wool, manufactures of, all milled and fulled cloth, known by the name of plains, kerseys, or Kendall cottons, and all manufactures of wool or of which wool is a component material Wool, hats or cups of Wool, mits, gloves, bindings, and hosiery Woolen yarn, besides a specific duty four cents per pound Worsted stuff goods Worsted and silk, shawls and other manufactures of Wool, merino, shawls made of Wool, fells or hat bodies, made wholly or partly of Writing paper Wrought or cut iron nails 50 per cent. 30 per cent. 25 per cent. 50 per cent. 20 per cent. 50 per cent. Y. Yaru (see cotton) Yarn, linen, so called, used in the manufacture of mil 25 per cent. linets 25 per cent. Yarn, woolen, besides a specific duty of four cents per pound 50 per cent. 20 per cent. Free Table, exhibiting the biennial reduction of duty under the first section of the act of 2d March, 1833, on merchandise subject to an ad valorem duty exceeding 20 per cent. The 4th section of the act of the 2d of March, 1833, declares that, in addition to the articles now exempt by the act of the 14th of July, 1832, and the existing laws from the payment of duties, the following articles imported from and after the 31st day of December, 1833, and until the 30th day of June, 1842, shall also be admitted to entry free of duty, viz: Bleached and unbleached linens, Table linen, Linen napkins, Linen cambrics, Worsted stuff goods, Shawls, and other manufactures of silk and worsted, Manufactures of silk, or of which silk shall be the component material of chief value, coming from this side of the Cape of Good Hope, (except sewing silk.) The 5th section of the act exempts from duty after the 30th of June, 1842, the following articles, viz: Vegetables used principally in dyeing and composing dyes The same section declares that the following articles shall not be exempted from duty, viz; And all imports, on which the first section of this act may operate, and all articles now admitted to enter free from duty, or paying a less rate of duty than twenty per centum ad valorem, before the said thirtieth day of June, 1842, from and after that day, may be admitted to entry subject to such dury, not exceeding twenty per centum ad valorem, as shall be provided for by law. The 6th section of the same act provides "That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to prevent the passage prior or subsequent to the said 30th day of June, 1842, of any act or acts, from time to time, that may be necessary to detect, prevent, or punish evasions of the duties on imports imposed by law, nor to prevent the passage of any act, prior to the 30th day of June, 1842, in the contingency either of excess or deficiency of revenue altering the rates of duties on articles which, by the aforesaid act of 14th of July, 1832, are subject to a less rate of duty than twenty per centum ad valorem, in such manner as not to exceed that rate, and so as to adjust the revenue to either of the said contingencies.' TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Register's Office, July 23, 1841. T. L. SMITH, Register. |
