bited.] Horses and mares 456 301 Cloths, cassimeres, ladies' cloths, drapery, ratteens, &c., of black, blue-black, dark green, Carpets, great and small, of woollen fabric or mixed with linen thread, hemp or cotton, with fringes sewed Cloths and woollen sacks used in pressing out oil [Observation-Every description of printed woollen or half woollen goods, with the exception of those specifically mentioned, remain prohibited.] Wax tapers and all articles of white and coloured wax 0 Wadding cotton 50 Wadding silk Wafers, in boxes Gingerbread, &c. Herrings (salted), English and Scotch Indigo Ink powder Leathers, prepared skins of the elk and the stag Meerschaum, worked and mounted Macaroni and vermicelli of every description Machines containing any chemical inflammable matter, in cases, boxes with painted ornaments, or bronze, &c., the whole weighed together Marbles and porphyry, worked, without bronze or other ornaments Masks of every description Metals-copper moulds for the making of macaroni, vermicelli, and scent boxes [Observation.-Moulds for macaroni and vermicelli, arriving with and making part of the appa ratus for the manufacture, pass without paying duty.] per lb. 0 0 0 The following articles are freed from the additional custom-house O duty of 12 per cent., imposed in conformity with the Ukase of the 11th of November, 1831: Cinnamon and cinnamon flowers; cocoa in beans; coffee; caraway seeds; cloves; cubebs, roots of; ginger; galanga, roots of; lace, blonds, tulles, &c.; metals, viz. lead, tin, and quicksilver; mace; nutmegs; pepper of every description, whole or ground; tea (Kir pitchnii, Lougan, and every sort of tea of inferior quality); vanih Besides the above, the seeds of turnips, rape, as well as of various oleaginous grains, which are not specifically mentioned in the tariff, and which are known only by their local names, such as sourepa, rigey, &c., will be freed from ail custom-house dues on exportation for a period of six years, commencing from the 1st of January, 0 1837. 0 20 0 2 2 per hhd, 36 50 - per bottle 0 40 Picture frames of every description, with the pictures, per archine, and counting the fractions as entire archines [Observation.-Frames without the pictures are still prohibited.] Potatoes imported by sea General Rules. 1. The provisions of this tariff will begin to be put in force from the 1st January, 1837, and in the more remote custon-houses to which they cannot be communicated by that period they shall come into operation from the day on which they shall have been received. 2. All imported goods that are specified in this tariff that may remain bonded at the custom-houses, and upon which the duty shal not have been paid up to the aforesaid 1st January, 1837, or to the day upon which this tariff shall have been received at those customhouses at which it may arrive later than that day, shall enjoy haf the reduction of duty herein specified. In the same manner there shall be collected only one half the additional duty of 12 per cent. upon those species of merchandise from which it has been by a previous provision of this tariff altogether removed. With respect to those species of goods, limited in their number, of which the import ation was already permitted, and of which, from peculiar considera tions, the duty was either altogether removed or recently modified, such of them as are allowed to remain bonded to the 1st of January next shall pay duty under the old tariff. On the other hand, such of these species of goods as may be imported after the 1st of January, shall be subject to the regulations of this tariff. In the meantime, 0 40 however, a discretion is vested in the Minister of Finance to admit even this latter species of goods under the former regulations, when it shall be proved that their shipment took place previously to the 1st of January, or in ignorance of the change in the tariff. 0 50 per chetvert 0 50 [Observation.-The importation by land is free of duty.] Paper of every description which is not specifically exempted in another part of the tariff' [If mounted in gold, silver, or other metal, they Pearl, nother of, and imitation of remain prohibited.] Pimento, English Pepper, Jamaica Ditto, white, black, or red, ground Pens, writing • per lb. Riding whips, simple or mounted Slates Scent bags, of silk per lb. each • per lb. Scented waters of every description, in bottles of cut and polished crystal, with covers and stoppers of metal, and with ornaments in general, as well as in bottles not polished, but with moulded orna. ments, the whole to be weighed together Skins of the American marten or rats Ditto, bears Ditto, tigers, panthers, lions, zebras, and leopards Ditto, lynx Ditto, musk rat Sago, Indian Silk goods, either wholly silk or mixed with cotton, &c. not transparent, with coloured designs woven, embroidered, excepting those specially designated Silk, not transparent, interwoven with gold or silver threads, &c., except such as are specially designated [To this duty are assimilated silk goods of Turkish manufacture, the entrance of which was for merly prohibited.] 41002PA 20220ON 00004-0 3. The abolition of the additional duty of 12 per cent. upon particular species of tea, Congou, for instance, and other inferior qualities, will commence from the sales which will take place in the winter of 1837-38, comprising both the teas recently imported as well as what remain over since the last sales. 1 4. The additional duty of 12 per cent., from which the abovementioned articles have been freed, will not be levied upon merchandises of the same description hereafter admitted to importation in a raw state. On the contrary, until a new disposition shall be made, it will be collected upon all the other merchandises comprised in the present tariff, with the exception, however, of those customhouses in which the collection of this duty has not taken place at all. 80 5. Merchandises, the importation of which is permitted by the present tariff, shall be admitted upon the payment of the duty at O those custom-houses at which articles of the same kind have hitherto paid duty. Merchandise hereafter admitted may be imported through all the custom-houses of the first class. 0 0 50 15 0 6. The operation of this tariff is confined to those merchandises of which the duty is levied under the European tariff; and amongst the objects of the Asiatic tariff only to tea of a peculiar description, Congou and others of inferior quality. 7. Merchandises, the imporfation of which is permitted to the Trans-Caucasian Provinces by the Black Sea at a lower duty than that imposed by the present tariff, shall pay in the said provinces the same duty as before. 8. In the Trans-Caucasian Provinces every species of cotton manefacture, non-transparent and half-transparent, shall remain subject to the same duty as heretofore. 9. The fifth of the customs' duty levied at Odessa, for the benefit 0 of that town, will be collected conformably to former regulations But the duty of all merchandises passing into the interior of the Silk handkerchiefs, white or coloured, not transpa rent, excepting those specifically named 6 Ditto, flowered or embroidered Ditto, with gold or silver threads 10 Ditto, table covers, &c. Ditto, nightcaps, coloured and flowered 5 Ditto, ditto, and stockings, embroidered Ditto, carpets 8 [Every sort of silken manufacture not included in the above, as well as the ribbons of orders of nobility, are prohibited.] Ditto, tale Tooth picks of every description Teeth of every sort of fish Ditto of elephants and hippopotamus Ditto, ditto, in tablettes Ditto, ditto, for painters O empire through the custom-houses about Odessa, shall be paid under the provisions of the present tariff, beginning from the 1st of Janu 0 ary, 1837. 10. With respect to merchandises, the importation of which, 0 hitherto prohibited, is henceforth permitted, and which shall be seized as contraband after the publication of the present tariff, they shall be dealt with as goods permitted, but fraudulently imported. 11. It is left to the Minister of Finance to give instruction, such as 60 may be deemed proper, to the custom-houses respecting the deduction from the duty on account of tare. 0 10 922233 12. Any question that may arise upon the construction of this tariff shall be referred for decision to the Minister of Finance. The original is signed by the President of the Council of the Em 0 pire. 0 [The reader will find, under the head of NEW YORK, the last "tariff act" of the United States, that of March 2d, 1833, commonly called "the compromise act;" together with a circular of the Secretary of the Treasury, addressed to officers of the customs. These will enable him, with the abridged view before him of the tariff of duties, previous to the operation of that act, which is now presented, to determine for himself the duty on every article, at any period down to June 30th, 1842. To abridge the tariff as much as the editor has succeeded in doing, it has been necessary, not only to generalise the statements made as much as possible, and to avoid repetitions, unless in a very few instances where they were obviously expedient, but also to omit all mention of the articles which can now be freely imported, excepting where their insertion was essential for understanding what is actually stated. It may be added, that every one, desirous of having a distinct knowledge of the history of the protective and revenue systems of the United States, since the conclusion of the last war with Great Britain, should consult among the published statutes of Congress, the acts of the 27th of April, 1816, the 22d of May, 1824, and the 19th of May, 1828, besides those of the 14th of July, 1832, and of March 2d, 1833, already referred to. |