THE NEW TARIFF BILL.

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, Anne 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:

SUGARS AND MOLASSES.

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 stove dried refined sugar in form of loaf, lump, crushed, powdered, pulverized, or granulated, and all 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 confectionary, 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 forfeiture to the United States, and the same shall be forfeited.

CIGARS AND TOBACCO.

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

SPIRITS AND WINES.

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.

CORDIALS.

On cordials, and liquors 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.

METAL AND METAL GOODS.

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:

BAR IRON.

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 coniprising 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 one-half 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 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.

MISCELLANEOUS IRON.

On hollow-ware, glazed or tinned, one-half cent per pound. On sadirons, tailors' and hatters' irons, stoves, and stove plates, one-fourth 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, seventyfive cents per one hundred pounds; on anchors or parts thereof, fifty cents per one hundred pounds; on wrought board nails, spikes, rivets, bolts, bedscrews, and wrought hinges, one-fourth of one cent per pound.

CHAINS, ETC.

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 centun ad valorem; on blacksmith's hammers, and sledges, and axles, or parts thereof, one-half 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.

SHEET IRON.

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.

TIN AND TIN PLATES.

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 irons 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 wood screws, five per centum ad valorem; on all manufactures of iron, not otherwise provided for, five per centum ad valorem.

CAST IRON.

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 fol

lowing 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.

STEEL.

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.

COAL.

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 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:

COPPER.

On copper rods, bolts, nails, spikes, copper bottoms, copper in sheets or plates, called brazier's copper, and other sheets and manufactures of copper, not otherwise provided for, five per centum ad valorem.

ZINC, SPELTER, ETC.

On zinc, spelter, and teutenegue, unmanufactured, in blocks or pigs, twenty-five cents per one hundred pounds; on zinc, spelter, and teutenegue, in sheets, one-half of one cent per pound.

LEAD.

On lead, in pipes and shot, three-fourths of one cent per pound; on brass, in bars or pigs, and old brass, fit only to be remanufactured, five per centum

ad valorem.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That from and after the day and year aforesaid, in lieu of the duties heretofore imposed by law on the articles hereinafter mentioned, and on such as may now be exempt from duty, there

shall be levied, collected, and paid on the goods, wares, and merchandise enumerated and provided for in this section, imported from foreign countries, the following duties and rates of duty, that is to say:

DRUGS, DYES, ETC.

Acid, boracic, five cents per pound; citric, ten cents per pound; oxalic, four cents per pound; sulphuric, one cent per pound; tartaric, twenty cents per pound; gallic, fifty cents per pound; tannic, twenty-five cents per pound; alum, patent alum, alum substitute, sulphate of alumina, and aluminous cake, sixty cents per one hundred pounds; argols, or crude tartar, six cents per pound; cream tartar, ten cents per pound; asphaltum, three cents per pound; balsam copavia, twenty cents per pound; Peruvian, fifty cents per pound; tolu, thirty cents per pound; blanc fixe, enamelled white, satin white, or any combination of barytes and acid, two cents and a half per pound; barytes and sulphate of barytes, five mills per pound; burning fluid, fifty cents per gallon; bitter apples, colocynth, or coloquintida, ten cents per pound; borax, crude, or tincal, five cents per pound; refined, ten cents per pound; borate of lime, five cents per pound; buchu leaves, ten cents per pound; camphor, crude, thirty cents per pound; refined, forty cents per pound; cantharides, fifty cents per pound; cloves, fifteen cents per pound; cassia, fifteen cents per pound; cassia buds, twenty cents per pound; cinnamon, 25 cents per pound; cayenne pepper, 12 cents per pound; ground, 15 cents per pound; black pepper, 12 cents per pound; ground, 15 cents per pound; white pepper, 12 cents per pound; ground, 15 cents per pound; cocoulus indicus ten cents per pound; cuttlefish, bone, five cents per pound; cubebs, ten cents per pound; dragon's blood, ten cents per pound; emery, ore or rock, six dollars per ton; manufactured, ground, or pulverized, one cent per pound; ergot, twenty cents per pound; epsom salts, one cent per pound; glauber salts, five mills per pound; rochelle salts, fifteen cents per pound; fruit ethers, essences or oils of apple, pear, peach, apricot, strawberry, and raspberry, made of fusil oil or of fruit, or imitations thereof, two dollars and fifty cents per pound; French green, Paris green, mineral green, carmine lake, wood lake, dry carmine, Venetian red, vermillon, mineral blue, Prussian blue, chrome yellow, rose pink, extract of rosin, or analine colors, Dutch pink, and paints and painters' colors, (except white and red lead and oxide of zinc.) dry or ground in oil, and moist water. colors, used in the manufacture of paper hangings and colored papers and cards, not otherwise provided for, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; ginger root, ten cents per pound; ginger, ground, fifteen cents per pound; on gold leaf, one dollar and fifty cents per package of five hundred leaves; on silver leaf, seventy-five cents per package of five hundred leaves; gum aloes, six cents per pound; benzoin, ten cents per pound; sandarac, ten cents per pound; shellac, ten cents per pound; mastic, fifty cents per pound; copal, kowrie, damar, and all guns used for like purposes, ten cents per pound; honey, fifteen cents per gallon; iodine, crude, fifty cents per pound; resublimed, seventy-five cents per pound; ipecacuanba, or ipecac, fifty cents per pound; jalap, fifty cents per pound; licorice root, one cent per pound; paste or juice, five cents per pound; litharge, two and one-fourth cents per pound; magnesia, carbonate, six cents per pound; calcined, twelve cents per pound; manna, twenty-five cents per pound; nitrate of soda, one cent per pound; morphine and its salts, two dollars per ounce; mace and nutmeg, thirty cents per pound; ochres and ochrey earths, not otherwise pro