imported.

Specific du- ad valorem; on lead, in pigs, bars, or sheets, two cents per ties on goods pound; on leaden shot, three and one half cents per pound; on red or white lead, dry, or ground in oil, four cents per pound; on Brussels, Turkey, and Wilton carpets and carpeting, fifty cents per square yard; on all venetian and ingrain carpets or carpeting, twenty-five cents per square yard; on all other kinds of carpets and carpeting, of wool, flax, hemp, or cotton, or parts of either, twenty cents per square yard; on oil cloth carpeting, and on oil cloths, of every description, a duty of thirty per centum ad valorem ; on all other carpets and carpeting, mats, and floor cloths, made of tow, flags, or any other material, a duty of thirty per centum ad valorem ; on hemp, at the rate of thirty-five dollars per ton; on tarred cables and cordage, four cents per pound; on untarred cordage, yarns, twine, pack thread, and seines, five cents per pound; on cotton bagging, three cents and three fourths of a cent per square yard; on iron, in bars or bolts, not manufactured, in whole or in part, by rolling, ninety cents per hundred and twelve pounds; on round iron, or braziers' rods, of three sixteenths to eight sixteenths of an inch diameter, inclusive; and on iron, in nail or spike rods, slit; and on iron, in sheets, and hoop iron; and on iron, slit or rolled, for band iron, scroll iron, or casement rods, three cents per pound; on iron spikes, four cents per pound; on iron nails, cut or wrought, five cents per pound; on tacks, brads, and sprigs, not exceeding sixteen ounces to the thousand, five cents per thousand; exceeding sixteen ounces to the thousand, five cents per pound; on iron or steel wire, not exceeding number eighteen, five cents per pound; over number eighteen, nine cents per pound; on square wire, used in the manufacture of stretchers for umbrellas, twelve per centum ad valorem; on anvils and anchors, two cents per pound; on iron cables or chains, or parts thereof, three cents per pound; and no drawback shall be allowed on the exportation of iron cables, or parts thereof; on mill cranks and mill irons, of wrought iron, four cents per pound; on mill saws, one dollar each; on blacksmiths' hammers and sledges, two and a half cents per pound; on muskets, one dollar and fifty cents per stand; on rifles, two dollars and fifty cents each; on all other fire arms, and on side arms, thirty per centum ad valorem; on cutting knives, scythes, sickles, and reaping hooks, spades and shovels, of iron or steel, thirty per centum ad valorem ; on screws of iron, weighing twenty-five pounds, or upwards, thirty per centum ad valorem ; on screws of iron, for wood, called wood screws, thirty per centum ad valorem; on vessels of cast iron, not otherwise specified, one and a half cents per pound; on all other castings of iron, not specified, one cent per pound; on all vessels of copper, thirty-five per centum ad valorem; on quills, prepared or manufactured, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; on slates and tiles, for building, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; on black lead pencils, forty per centum ad valorem; on tallow candles, five cents per pound; on spermaceti candles, eight cents per pound; on soap, four cents per pound; on lard, three cents per pound; on wheat, twenty-five cents per bushel; on oats, ten cents per

on goods imported.

bushel; on wheat flour, fifty cents per hundred weight; on po- Specific duties tatoes, ten cents per bushel; on coal, six cents per heaped bushel; on corks, twelve cents per pound; on prunelle, and other shoes or slippers of stuff or nankeen, twenty-five cents per pair; on laced boots or bootees, one dollar and fifty cents per pair; on linseed, rape seed, and hemp seed oil, twenty-five cents per gallon; on castor oil, forty cents per gallon; on ale, beer, and porter, imported in bottles, twenty cents per gallon; imported otherwise than in bottles, fifteen cents per gallon; on beef and pork, two cents per pound; on hams, and other bacon, three cents per pound; on butter, five cents per pound; on vinegar, eight cents per gallon; on alum, two dollars and fifty cents per hundred weight; on refined saltpetre, three cents per pound; on blue or Roman vitriol, four cents per pound; on oil of vitriol, three cents per pound; on Glauber salts, two cents per pound; on Epsom salts, four cents per pound; on camphor, crude, eight cents per pound; on camphor, refined, twelve cents per pound; on copperas, two dollars per hundred weight; on Cayenne pepper, fifteen cents per pound; on ginger, two cents per pound; on chocolate, four cents per pound; on currants and figs, three cents per pound; on plumbs, prunes, Muscatel raisins, and raisins in jars and boxes, four cents per pound; on all other raisins, three cents per pound; on window glass, not above eight inches by ten inches in size, three dollars per hundred square feet; not above ten inches by twelve inches in size, three dollars and fifty cents per hundred square feet; and if above ten inches by twelve inches in size, four dollars per hundred square feet: Provided, That all window glass, imported in Proviso. plates, uncut, shall be chargeable with the highest rate of duties hereby imposed. On black glass bottles, not exceeding the capacity of one quart, two dollars per groce; on bottles exceeding one quart, and not more than two quarts, two dollars and fifty cents per groce; over two quarts, and not exceeding one gallon, three dollars per groce; on demijohns, twenty-five cents each; on apothecaries' vials, of the capacity of four ounces, and less, one dollar per groce; on the same, above four ounces, and not exceeding eight ounces, one dollar and twenty-five cents per groce; on all wares of cut glass, not specified, three cents per pound, and, in addition thereto, an ad valorem duty of thirty per centum; on all other articles of glass, two cents per pound, and, in addition thereto, an ad valorem duty of twenty per centum; on all books, which the importer shall make it satisfactorily appear to the collector of the port at which the same shall be entered, were printed previous to the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five; and, also, on all books printed in other languages than English, four cents per volume, except books printed in Latin or Greek; and all books printed in Latin Vol. iv. p. or Greek, when bound, fifteen cents per pound; when not bound, thirteen cents per pound; on all other books, when bound, thirty cents per pound; when in sheets or boards, twenty-six cents per pound; on folio and quarto post paper, of all kinds, twenty cents per pound; on foolscap and all drawing and writing paper, seventeen cents per pound; on printing, copper

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plate, and stainers' paper, ten cents per pound; on sheathing paper, binders, and box boards, and wrapping paper, of all kinds, three cents per pound; on all other paper, fifteen cents per 12 1-2 cents pound: A duty of twelve and a half per centum ad valorem on all articles not herein specified, and now paying a duty of seven and a half per centum ad valorem; with the exception of patent adhesive felt, for covering ship's bottoms, which shall be admitted free of duty until June thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six.

on all articles not herein specified.

An addition of ten per cent.

the several

rates, &c.

Proviso.

§ 2. That an addition of ten per centum shall be made to the to be made to several rates of duties hereby imposed upon the several articles aforesaid, which, after the said respective times for the commencement of the duties hereby imposed, shall be imported in ships or vessels, not of the United States: Provided, That this addition shall not be applied to articles imported in ships or vessels, not of the United States, entitled by treaty, or by any act of congress, to be admitted on payment of the same duties that are paid on like articles imported in ships or vessels of the United States.

A drawback of the duties. im

act, to be

allowed, &c.

§ 3. That there shall be allowed a drawback of the duties by posed by this this act imposed upon the exportation of any articles that shall have paid the same, within the time, and in the manner, and subject to the provisions and restrictions, prescribed in the fourth section of the act, entitled "An act to regulate the duties on imports and tonnage," passed the twenty-seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.

Drawback allowed on co

4. That the drawback allowed by law on plain silk cloths, lored, &c. silk shall be allowed, although the said cloths, before the exportation cloths, &c. thereof, shall have been colored, printed, stained, dyed, stamped, or painted, in the United States. But, whenever any such cloths, so imported, shall be intended to be so colored, printed, stained, dyed, stamped, or painted, and afterwards to be exported from the United States, with privilege of drawback, each package thereof shall, before the same shall be delivered from the public stores, be opened and examined by an inspector of the customs, and the contents thereof measured or weighed, and the quality thereof ascertained, and a sample of each piece thereof reserved at the custom house; and a particular account or registry of such examination, describing the number of pieces in each package, their weight or measure, and the samples thereof reserved, shall be entered in the books of the custom house; and, after such examination, said goods shall be repacked in the original package, and the said original package shall be marked with a custom house mark. And, whenever any such goods, being thus colored, printed, stained, dyed, stamped, or painted, shall be entered at the custom house for exportation and drawback, the same shall be so entered in the original package, marked as aforesaid, and not otherwise, unless the person, so entering the same, shall give satisfactory evidence to the collector or naval officer, or one of them, that such original package has been lost or destroyed by accident; and no such application for drawback shall be made, except on the contents of entire packages; and upon application for such entry and drawback, the

contents of the packages so offered, shall be examined by an inspector of the customs, and measured or weighed, and compared with the original entry, registry, and samples; and if, upon such comparison and full examination, the collector shall be satisfied that the contents of each package are the same identical goods imported and registered as aforesaid, and not changed or altered, except by being colored, printed, stained, dyed, stamped, or painted, as aforesaid, then the person, so entering such goods, shall be admitted to the oath prescribed by law, to be used in cases of application for exportation of goods for the benefit of drawback, and shall, thereupon, be entitled to drawback, as in other cases: Provided, That the exporter shall, in every Proviso. other particular, comply with the regulations and formalities heretofore established for entries of goods for exportation, with the benefit of drawback. And if any person shall present, for exportation and drawback, any colored, printed, stained, dyed, stamped, or painted, silk, cloths, knowing the same not to be entitled to drawback, according to the provisions of this act, or shall wilfully misrepresent or conceal the contents or quality of any package as aforesaid, the said goods, so presented or entered for drawback, shall be forfeited, and may be seized by the collector, and proceeded with, and the forfeiture distributed, as in other cases.

laws to be in

5. That the existing laws shall extend to, and be in force The existing for, the collection of the duties imposed by this act, for the pro- force. secution and punishment of all offences, and for the recovery, collection, distribution, and remission, of all fines, penalties, and forfeitures, as fully and effectually as if every regulation, penalty, forfeiture, provision, clause, matter, and thing, to that effect, in the existing laws contained, had been inserted in, and re-enacted by, this act.

sions of the

6. that the provisions of the second section of the act of The provi congress, entitled "An act to regulate the duties on imports and 2d sec. of the tonnage," approved April twenty-seventh, one thousand eight act of 27th hundred and sixteen, shall extend and enure to the benefit of extended to April, 1816, schools and colleges within the United States, or the territories the benefit of colleges, &c. thereof, in the same manner, and under the like limitations and in the U. restrictions, as is provided in said act, with respect to seminaries States. of learning. [Approved, May 22, 1824.]

CHAP, 137. An act providing for a grant of land for the seat of government in the territory

of Florida, and for other purposes.

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That there shall be, and hereby is, One quarter granted to the territory of Florida, one entire quarter section of section of land granted to the land, or fractional section, not exceeding in quantity one quarter territory of section, for the seat of government in that territory, to be locat- Florida for the ed previously to the sale of the adjacent lands, under the autho- ment. rity of the governor thereof, at the point selected for the permanent seat of government for said territory.

seat of govern

such measures

2. That the governor and legislative council of the territory The governor, aforesaid, or a majority thereof, be, and they are hereby, author- &c. to adopt ized to adopt such measures as to them may seem expedient for for the sale of the sale of said tract of land, or any part thereof, for the purpose

said land, as

they may

of raising a fund for the erection of public buildings at said seat deem expedi- of government.

ent.

Three entire

tions to be re

3. That there shall be, and hereby are, reserved from sale, quarter sec- three entire quarter sections of lands of the United States, lying served for the contiguous to, and adjoining, the quarter section granted by the first section of this act, to be located by the governor of said territory.

U. States.

Part of the 7th section of the act of 3d

March, 1823, repealed.

Vol. iii. p. 1747.

rect numbers

evidence be

sioner of the

qause the en

4. That so much of the seventh section of the act of congress of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, entitled "An act amending and supplementary to the act, entitled An act to provide for the survey and disposal of the public lands in Florida,'" as prevents the appointment of a surveyor for Florida, until the commissioners shall have decided and reported on the private claims in said territory, be, and the same is hereby, repealed; and the eastern and western land districts in said territory shall be divided and separated by the Suwaney river, and not by the ancient line of division between the provinces of East and West Florida, as prescribed by the eighth section of the act aforesaid. [Approved, May 24, 1824.]

CHAP. 138. An act supplementary to an act, approved on the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, entitled "An act providing for the correction of errors in making entries of lands at the land offices."

Any mistake 1. Be it enacted, &c. That where any mistake, in relation to which has the correct numbers of any tract of land, not exceeding in quanbeen made by the person tity one half section, may have been heretofore made by any making the entry in rela- purchaser of the public lands of the United States at private sale, tion to the cor- and where one or more payments shall have been made by the of any tract of person making the entry, on any tract entered by mistake, and land, not ex- where such payment has not been forfeited, previously to the ceeding one half section, passing of this act, for a failure to complete the payments on on satisfactory such tract; and where the purchaser or purchasers may not, in ing produced relation to said tract, have in any way taken advantage of the to the commis- provisions of the act of the second of March, eighteen hundred general land and twenty-one, entitled "An act for the relief of the purchasers office, he shall of the public lands prior to the first day of July, eighteen huntry to be chan- dred and twenty," or of the act supplementary thereto, or the ged, &c. act continuing in force said supplementary act, and where the person or persons making the purchase has not, in any way, transferred his, her, or their, right to the certificate of purchase, or the tract so purchased, and where no patent shall have issued for the tract so erroneously purchased; and, also, in all cases of an entry hereafter made, of a tract of land not intended to be entered, by a mistake of the true numbers of the tract intended to be entered, where the tract, thus erroneously entered, does not, in quantity, exceed one half section; and where the certificate of the original purchaser or purchasers has not been assigned, or the right of the original purchaser or purchasers in any way transferred, and where six months, from the time the entry shall have been made, may not have elapsed, or the patent issued for the tract erroneously entered, the purchaser or purchasers, or, in case of his, her, or their death, the legal representatives, (not being assignees or transferrees,) may, either, in the cases of entry