Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue in force for two years, and from thence unto the end of the next session of Congress, and no longer.

8th July, 1797. 1 Ses. 5 Con.

"AN ACT

To continue in force, for a limited time, a part of an act intituled an act making further provision for securing and collecting the duties on foreign and domestic distilled spirits, stills, wines, and teas.”

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the thirteenth section of the act passed on the fifth day of June, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, and intituled "An act making further provision for securing and collecting the duties on foreign and domestic distilled spirits, stills, wines and teas," be, and the same hereby is conti ued in force untill the end of the first session of the sixth congress.

7th April, 1798, 2 ses. 5 con. [The 13th section continued by the above act authorizes the president of the United States to make certain allowances to collectors and inspectors of the Revenue, so that the said allowances shall not exceed in the whole, the sums heretofore allowed, by more than one third.]

AN ACT

To continue in force "an act laying an additional duty on salt imported into the United States; and for other purposes.

[This act continues in force for the term of ten years from the third of March, 1800, and from thence to the end of the next session of congress thereafter, the act of 8th July, 1797, laying an additional duty on salt.]

7th May, 1800. 1 sess. 6 con.

All the acts laying a duty on salt, were repealed by the act of 3d March, 1807.

AN ACT

To lay additional duties on certain articles imported.

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House

Additional duties

on sugar, molasses, and such articles

have paid ten

per cent.

of Representatives of the United States of Ame- as rica, in Congress assembled, That from and after the thirtieth day of June next, the following duties, in addition to those now in force, and payable on the several articles hereinafter enumerated, shall be laid, levied, and collected upon those articles respectively, at their importation into the United States from any foreign port or place, that is to say; upon all brown sugar, one half cent per pound; upon all sugar-candy, two cents and one half per pound; upon all molasses, one cent per gallon; and upon all goods, wares and merchandizes now paying a duty of ten per centum, ad valorem, two and one half per centum ad valorem.

Duties on wines.

Additional duty on such articles impo ted in fo reign vessels.

How the duties are to be collect.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the thirtieth day of June next, the duties now imposed and payable on wines, imported into the United States from any foreign port or place, shall cease and be abolished; and that in lieu thereof the following duties shall thenceforth be laid, levied, and collected upon all wines so imported in casks, bottles, or other vessels, that is to say: upon all Malmsey, Madeira, and London particular Madeira wine. fifty-eight cents per gallon; upon all other Madeira wine, fifty cents per gallon; upon all Burgundy, Champaign, Rhenish, and Tokay wine, forty-five cents per gallon; upon all Sherry wine, forty cents per gallon; upon all St. Lucar wine, forty cents per gallon; upon all Claret and other wines not enumerated, when imported in bottles or cases, thirty-five cents per gallon; upon all Lisbon, Oporto, and other Portugal wines, thirty cents per gallon; upon all Teneriffe, Fayall, Malaga, Saint George, and other Western Island wine, twenty-eight cents per gallon; and upon all other wines when imported otherwise than in bottles or cases, twenty-three cents per gallon.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That an addition of ten per centum shall be made to the several rates of duties above specified and imposed, in respect to all such goods, wares and merchandizes as aforesaid, as shall after the said thirtieth day of June be imported in ships or vessels not of the United States.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the duties laid by this act shall be levied and collected in the same manner, and under the same regu

lations and allowances as to drawbacks, mode of security, and time of payment respectively, with the several duties now in force on the respective articles hereinbefore enumerated.

Sec. 5. repealed by the act of 6th April. 1802, repealing internal taxes.]

of the proceeds of those duties.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the Appropriation proceeds of the duties, laid by this act, shall be solely appropriated and applied for the discharge of the interest and principal of the debts of the United States, heretofore contracted during the present year.

13th May 1800, 1 sess. 6 con.

AN ACT

For imposing more specific duties on the importation of certain articles; and also, for levying and collecting light money on foreign ships or vessels; and for other

purposes.

cles exempted

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That from and after the thirtieth day of June next, the following articles, Additional arti in addition to those already exempted from duty, from duty. shall and may be imported free from any duty, namely, rags of linen, of cotton, of woollen and of hempen cloth; bristles of swine, regulus of antimony, unwrought clay, unwrought burrstones, and the bark of the cork tree.

Sec 2. And be it further enacted, "That from Additional duties. and after the thirtieth day of June next, the du

imposed.

Specific articles and rates.

ties now in force upon the articles hereinafter enumerated and described, at their importation into the United States, shall cease; and that, in lieu thereof, there shall be thenceforth laid, levied and collected upon the said articles, at their said importation, the several and respective rates or duties following, that is to say:

On foreign caught dried fish, fifty cents per quintal:

On foreign caught pickled fish, as follows, to wit;

On salmon, one hundred cents per barrel; on mackarel, sixty cents per barrel; on all other pickled fish, forty cents per barrel:

On cables, tarred cordage, white lead, red lead, almonds, currants, prunes and plums, figs, raisins imported in jars and boxes, and muscadel raisins, two cents per pound:

On all other kinds of raisins, one cent and a half per pound:

On tallow, yellow ochre in oil, anchors and sheet iron, one cent and a half, per pound:

On spanish brown, dry yellow ochre, slit and hoop iron, one cent, per pound:

On starch, three cents per pound:

On hair powder, glue, and seines, four cents, per pound:

On pewter plates and dishes, four cents, per pound:

On untarred cordage, two cents and a half, per pound:

On quicksilver, six cents per pound:

On chinese cassia and gun-powder, four cents, per pound: