ission, in execution of ion. It is sufficient to plaints are alleged by the American commis to a detailed review of having done my duty, the approval of my constitu- gard, attachment and con ents, the people of the United States, would un- thank you, cordially, gentle the maintenance of those republican principles, of lively gratitude, and w If for proofs of esteem. They a doubtedly afford me the highest satisfaction. which I have advanced from my earliest manhood, I fading recollection in my m am destined to be in future-as for all the time I I concur with you in the have been in the discharge of the duties of the pre-licy which ought to preval sidential office has been the case-the object of vitu- the general government. peration and gross abuse, I must even bear it with prise me, it affords me grea all the fortitude and composure I can call to my aid. the fine cotton growing cou I encounter but the fate which the great high priest surpassed by none in the of republicanism encountered in 1799 and 1800. The favor of the protection of disciple has no reason to anticipate a different or a own country against the milder fate than that encountered by his instructor. own limits, of the rival pr I shall follow in the footsteps of that illustrious man, tries are making rapid pr and act upon his principles, believing as was said by lieved that "the interests o my immediate predecessor, in his celebrated Day-ion, as well as the interest ton speech, that "if the Augean Stable is to be tion of society, are identi cleansed, it can only be done by recurring to the ty or adversity of any one principles of Thomas Jefferson." To the support of greater or less degree, i those principles my life has heretofore been devoted, looked forward, with conf and shall continue to be to the end. I tender to you, period when this great tru gentlemen, assurances of my high respect, ly impressed upon the Am course of the Mexican erpretation and execued upon them by the t of their joint labors, their functions under rules proper to be esof their proceedings, lize the prosecution of 1. These differences, hich the Mexican comeculiar views, terminass to the board by the the conduct and mansumed so much of the ey did not enter upon e claims presented for onths, from the period sed. It has thus hap s, to which the dura JOHN TYLER. imited by the conven- To Daniel Jackson, esq., president; and David Bryson, "On his route to Harrisburg, he will pass through -h the results of this the city of Pittsburg: Greensburg, Westmoreland e to be regretted, the county; Blairsville, Indiana co.; Hollidaysburg and high character of that Huntingdon, Huntingdon co.; Lewistown, Millin ay that his perfect con.co.; Mifflintown, Juniata, co., and from thence to swell as in pronounc-the capital of the state, which he will reach on above the reach of im- Monday the 3d of October, where he will be joined by his excellency Gov Porter, heads of departments, his excellency's aids, and the state central commitwill arrive on the morning of the 5th of October." tee, who will accompany him to Danville, where he undisposed of at the ission, the committee g the intimation to the etters of the Mexican the secretary of state, ary last, that they are g claims against the manner whatever barproceedings under it, eir intrinsic merits, to support of the governprosecuting them to a e claims as have been ertained, by the deciners, or of the umpire, of immediate demand That satisfaction, to faith, the plain intenonly rational end and on between the two ontingency, be rendernot convenient to be guage of the convendered by substituting le they serve the purn government further obligations, shall ento ultimate and effec War office, Aug. 23, 1842. To the editor of the Madisonian: SIR: I perceive, in the Madisonian of this morning, that I am charged with being opposed to the treaty between the United States and Great Britain, to which the senate is understood to have given its advice and consent a few days ago. Of the terms of that treaty, I am entirely ignorant, except through contradictory rumors; 1 have neither the influence nor the desire to interfere with the action of the senate upon it-always contenting myself with saying that I preferred an honorable peace, even to a successful war. Hoping that you will take pleasure in correcting the injustice you have done me, I remain, sir, your obedient servant, WINFIELD SCOTT. In acting upon this p shown how important, s operation. This will be b and firmness. The tarif congress by a combination and undisguised enemies, who sincerely desired to can manufactures, was unsettled and agitated s which ensued. With a sound currency out the union, emanating deral authority; with a t an adequate revenue, and culture, commerce and withdrawal of the proce lic lands from the comm sequence of the fluctuat the government is liable turbance, we may confid tion of prosperity. You do me the hond wish for my election as On this subject, I have r fully in a speech deliver ington, (of which I trans nothing further to add. didate or not, or if a Ca not, I pray you and my pides, whom you represe the friendly feelings to animated. And I beg that portion trouble to come, from sent, in person, to me y ces of my profound ack ing gratitude. I am, gentlemen, with and obedient servant, PROTEST BY To the house of represent By the constitution of ded, that "every bill house of representative not he shall return it, with his objections, to that | tion of religion of honor, and of law. To such a This is a matter for the people and states to decide; house in which it shall have originated, who shall tribunal does the constitution authorize the house of but until they shall have decided it, I shall feel myenter the objections at large upon the journal, and representatives to carry up its accusations against self bound to execute, without fear or favor, the law, proceed to reconsider it." any chief of the executive department whom it may as it has been written by our predecessors. In strict compliance with the positive obligation believe to be guilty of high crimes and misdemea- I protest against this whole proceeding of the house thus imposed upon me by the constitution, not having nors. Before that tribunal the accused is confronted of representatives, as ex parte and extra judicial. I been able to bring myself to approve a bill which with his accusers, and may demand the privilege, protest against it, as subversive of the common right originated in the house of representatives, entitled which the justice of the common law secures to the of all citizens to be condemned only upon a fair and "An act to provide revenue from imposts, and to humblest citizen, of a full, patient, and impartial in-impartial trial according to law and evidence before change and modify existing laws imposing duties on quiry into the facts, upon the testimony of witnesses, the country. I protest against it, as destructive of imports, and for other purposes," I returned the rigidly examined, and deposing in the face of day. all the comity of intercourse between the departsame to the house, with my objections to its becom- If such a proceeding had been adopted toward me, ments of this government, and destined, sooner or laing a law. These objections which had entirely sa- unjust as I should certainly have regarded it, I ter, to lead to conflict fatal to the peace of the countisfied my own mind of the great impolicy, if not the should, I trust, have met with a becoming constancy try and the integrity of the constitution. I protest unconstitutionality, of the measure, were presented a trial as painful as it would have been undeserved. against it in the name of that constitution, which is in the most respectful, and even deferential. terms. I would have manifested, by a profound submission not only my own shield of protection and defence, I would not have been so far forgetful of what was to the laws of my country, my perfect faith in her but that of every American citizen. I protest against due from one department of the government to ano- justice, and relying on the purity of my motives and it, in the name of the people, by whose will I stand ther, as to have intentionally employed, in my official the rectitude of my conduct, should have looked for- where I do, and by whose authority I exercised the intercourse with the house, any language that could ward with confidence to a triumphant refutation in power which I am charged with having usurped, and be, in the slightest degree, offensive to those to whom the presence of that country, and by the solemn to whom I am responsible for a firm and faithful disit was addressed. If, in assigning my objections to judgment of such a tribunal, not only of whatever charge, according to my own conviction of duty, of the bill, I had so far forgotten what was due to the charges might have been formally preferred against the high stewardship confided to me by them. I prohouse of representatives as to impugn its motives in me, but of all the calumnies of which I have hither- test against it, in the naine of all regulated liberty, passing the bill, I should owe, not only to that house, to been the unresisting victim. As it is, I have been and all limited government, as a proceeding tending but to the country, my most profound apology. Such acused without evidence, and condemned without a to the utter destruction of the checks and balances departure from propriety is, however, not complain- hearing. As far as such proceedings can accomplish of the constitution, and the accumulating in the ed of in any proceeding which the house has adopted. it, I am deprived of public confidence in the adminis- hands of the house of representatives, of a bare maIt has on the contrary, been expressly made a sub-tration of the government, and denied even the boast jority of Congress for the time being, an uncontrolject of remark, and almost of complaint, that the of a good name--a name transmitted to me from a led and despotic power. And I respectfully ask, that language in which my dissent was couched was stuthis. my protest, may be entered upan the journal of diously guarded and cautious. the house af representatives, as a solemn and formal Such being the character of the official communideclaration, for all time to come, of the injustice and cation in question, I confess I was wholly unprepared unconstitutionality of such a proceeding. for the course which has been pursued in regard to it. In the exercise of the power to regulate its own proceedings. the house, for the first time, it is believed, in the history of the government, thought proper to refer the message to a select committee of its own body, for the purpose (as my respect for the house would have compelled me to infer) of deliberately weighing the objections urged against the bill by the executive, with a view to its own judgment upon the question of the final adoption or rejection of the measure. patriot father, prized as my proudest inheritance, Washington, August 30, 1842. JOHN TYLER, THE NEW TARIFF ACT. An act to provide revenue from imports, and to change and modify existing laws imposing 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 passage of this act, 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, the following duties, that is to say: Why is a proceeding of this sort adopted at this Of the temper and feelings in relation to myself of time? Is the occasion for it found in the fact, that some of the members selected for the performance having been elected to the second office under the of this duty, I have nothing to say. That was a mat- constitution by the free and voluntary suffrages of ter entirely within the discretion of the house of the people, I have succeeded to the first, according representatives. But that committee, taking a diffe- to the express provisions of the fundamental law of rent view of its duty from that which I should have the same people? It is true that the succession of the First. On coarse wool unmanufactured, the value supposed had led to its creation, instead of confining vice president to the chief magistracy has never ocwhereof, at the last port or place whence exported itself to the objections urged against the bill, availed curred before, and that all prudent and patriotic to the United States shall be seven cents or under itself of the occasion formally to arraign the motives minds have looked on this new trial of the wisdom per pound, there shall be levied a duty of five per of the president for others of his acts since his in- and stability of our institutions with a somewhat centum ad valorem; and on all other unmannfactured duction into office. In the absence of all proof, and, anxious concern. I have been made to feel too sen- wool, there shall be levied a duty of three cents per as I am bound to declare, against all law or prece- sibly the difficulties of my unprecedented position, pound, and thirty per centum ad valorem; Provided, dent in parliamentary proceedings, and at the same not to know all that is intended to be conveyed in the That when wool of different qualities of the same time, in a manner which it would be difficult to re- reproach cast upon a president without a party. kind or sort, is imported in the same bale, bag, or concile with the comity, hitherto sacredly observed But I found myself placed in this most responsible package, and the aggregate value of the contents in the intercourse between independent and co-ordi- station by no usurpation or contrivance of my own. of the bale, bag, or package, shall be appraised by nate departments of the government, it has assailed I was called to it, under Providence, by the supreme the appraisers, at a rate exceeding seven cents per my whole official conduct, without a shadow of a law of the land, and the deliberately-declared will of pound, it shall be charged with a duty in conformity pretext for such assault, and, stopping short of im- the people. It is by these, the people, that I have to such appraisal: Provided further, That when wool peachment, has charged me, nevertheless, with offen- been clothed with the high powers which they have of different qualities, and different kinds or sorts, is ces declared to deserve impeachment. Had the ex-seen fit to confide to their chief executive, and been imported in the same bale, bag, or package, the contraordinary report which the committee thus made charged with the solemn responsibility under which tents of the bale, bag, or package, shall be appraised to the house been permitted to remain without the those powers are to be exercised. It is to them I at the value of the finest or most valuable kind or sanction of the latter, I should not have uttered a hold myself answerable, as a moral agent, for a free sort, and a duty charged thereon accordingly: Proviregret, or complaint, upon the subject. But, unac- and conscientious discharge of the duties which they ded further, That if bales of different qualities are companied as it is by any particle of testimony to have imposed upon me. It is not as an individual embraced in the same invoice, at the same price, the support the charges it contains, without a deliberate merely that I am now called upon to resist the en- the value of the bale of the best quality: Provided value of the whole shall be appraised according to examination, almost without any discussion, the croachment of unconstitutional power. I represent house of representatives has been pleased to adopt it the executive authority of the people of the United further, That if any wool be imported having in it as its own, and, thereby, to become my accuser be- States; and it is in their name, whose mere agent dirt, or any material or impurities, other than those fore the country, and before the world. The high and servant I am, and whose will declared it their naturally belonging to the fleece, and thus be reducharacter of such an accuser, the gravity of the fundamental law, I dare not, even were I inclined, ced in value to seven cents per pound or under, the charges which has been made, and the judgment to disobey, that I protest against every attempt to appraisers shall appraise said wool at such price as, pronounced against me, by the adoption of the re- break down the undoubted constitutional power of in their opinion, it would have cost had it not been port upon a distinct and separate vote of the house, this department without a solemn amendment of that so mixed with such dirt or impurities, and a duty leaves me no alternative but to enter into my solemn fundamental law. shall be charged thereon in conformity to such approtest against the proceedings, as unjust to myself I am determined to uphold the constitution in this, praisal: Provided also, That wool imported on the as a man, as an invasion of my constitutional powers as in other respects, to the utmost of my ability, and skin shall be estimated as to weight and value as as chief magistrate of the American people, and as a in defiance of all personal consequences. What may violation, in my person, of rights secured to every happen to an individual is of little importance; but Second. On all manufactures of wool, or of which citizen by the laws and the constitution. That con- the constitution of the country, or any of its great wool shall be a component part, except carpetings, stitution has entrusted to the house of representatives and clear principles and provisions, is too sacred to flannels, bockings and baizes, blankets, worsted stuff the sole power of impeachment. Such impeach- be surrendered, under any circumstances whatever, goods, ready-made clothing, hosiery, mitts, gloves, ment is required to be tried before the most august by those who are charged with its protection and de- caps, and bindings, a duty of forty per centum. tribunal known to our institutions. fence. Least of all should he be held guiltless, who Third. On Wilton carpets and carpeting, treble inThe senate of the United States, composed of the placed at the head of one of the great departments grain, Saxony, and Aubussen carpets and carpeting, representatives of the sovereignty of the states, is of the government. should shrink from the exercise a duty of sixty-five cents per square yard; on Brusconverted into a hall of justice, and in order to in- of its unquestionable authority on the most impor- sels and Turkey carpets and carpeting, fifty-five cents sure the strictest observance of the rules of evidence tant orcasions and should consent, without a strug-per square yard; on all Venetian and ingrain carpets and of legal procedure, the chief justice of the U.gle, to efface all the barriers so carefully created by and carpeting, thirty cents per square yard; on all States, the highest judicial functionary of the land. the people to control and circumscribe the powers other kinds of carpets and carpeting, of wool, hemp, is required to preside over its deliberations In the confided to their various agents. It may be desira- flax or cotton, or parts of either, or other material presence of each judicatory the voice of faction is ble, as the majority of the house of representatives not otherwise specified, a duty of thirty per centum presumed to be silent, and the sentence of guilt or has declared it is, that no such checks upon the will ad valorem: Provided, That bedsides, and other pornnocence is pronounced under the most solemn sanc- of the legislature should be suffered to continue. tions of carpets or carpeting, shall pay the rate other wool. of lar character. duty herein imposed on carpets or carpeting of simiFourth. On woollen blankets, the actual value of which at the place whence imported shall not excecd seventy-five cents each, and of the dimensions not exceeding seventy-two by fifty-two inches each, nor less than 45 by 60 inches each, a duty of fifteen per centum ad valorem; and on all other woollen blankets, a duty of twenty-five per cent. ad valorem. Fifth. On all manufactures, not otherwise specified, of combed wool or worsted, and manufactures of worsted and silk combined, a duty of thirty per centum ad valorem; on all hearth rugs, an ad valorem duty of forty per centum. Sixth. On woollen and worsted yarn, a duty of thirty per centum ad valorem. cloths, twenty per centum ad valorem: Provided, cast iron butts or hinges, two and a half cents per That if any silk manufacture shall be mixed with pound; on iron or steel wire, not exceeding No. 14, gold or silver, or other metal, it shall pay a duty of five cents per pound; and over No. 14, and not exthirty per centum ad valorem. ceeding No. 25, eight cents per pound; over No. 25, Second. On sewing silk, silk twist, or twist com-eleven cents per pound; silvered or plated wire, posed of silk and mohair, a duty of two dollars per thirty per centum ad valorem, brass or copper wire, pound of sixteen ounces; on pongees and plain white twenty-five per centum ad valorem; cap or bonnet silks for printing or coloring, one dollar and fifty wire, covered with silk, twelve cents per pound; cents per pound of sixteen ounces; on floss and other when covered with cotton thread or other material, similar silks, purified from the gum, dyed and pre-eight cents per pound; on round or square iron, or pared for manufacture, a duty of twenty-five per braziers' rods, of three sixteenth, to ten sixteenth of centum ad valorem; on raw silk, comprehending all an inch in diameter, inclusive, and on iron in nail or silks in the gum, whether in hanks, reeled, or other spike rods, or nail plates, slit, rolled, or hammered, wise, a duty of fifty cents per pound of sixteen and on iron in sheets, except taggers' iron, and on ounces; on silk umbrellas, parasols, and sun shades, hoop iron, and on iron, slit, rolled, or hammered, thirty per centom ad valorem; on silk or satin shoes for band iron, scroll iron, or casement rods, iron caSeventh. On woollen and worsted mitts, gloves, and slippers, for women or men, thirty cents per bles or chains, or parts thereof, manufactured in caps, and bindings, and on wollen or worsted hosie-pair; silk or satin laced boots or bootess, for women whole or in part, of whatever diameter, the links ry, that is to say, stockings, socks, drawers, shirts, or men, seventy-five cents per pair; silk or satin being of the form peculiar to chains for cables, two and all other similar manufactures made on frames, shoes and slippers, for children, fifteen cents per and a half cents per pound; on all other chains of a duty of thirty per centum ad valorem. pair; silk or satin laced boots or bootees, for children, iron, not othewise specified, the links being either Eighth. On flannels, of whatever material compo- twenty-five cents a pair; on men's silk hats, one dol-twisted or straight, and, when straight, of greater sed, except cotton, a duty of fourteen cents per lar each; silk or salin hats or bonnets, for women, length than those used in chains for cables, thirty square yard; on bockings and baizes, fourteen cents two dollars each; on silk shirts and drawers, whe-per centum ad valorem; on anchors or parts of anper square yard; on coach laces, thirty-five per cen- ther made up wholly or in part, forty per centum ad chors, manufactured in whole or in part, anvils, tum ad valorem; on Thibet, Angora, and all other valorem; silk caps for women, and turbans, orna-blacksmiths' hammers and sledges, two and a half goats' hair or mohair unmanufactured, one cent per ments for head dress, aprons, collars, caps, cuffs, cents per pound; on cut or wrought iron spikes, pound; on camlets, blankets, coatings, and all other braids, curls, or frizettes, chemisettes, mantillas, three cents per pound; and on cut iron nails, three manufactures of goats' hair or mohair, twenty per pelerines, and all other articles of silk made up by cents per pound; and on wrought iron nails, on axlecentum ad valorem. band in whole or in part, and not otherwise provided trees, or parts thereof, mill irons and mill cranks of Ninth. On ready-made clothing, of whatever ma- for, a duty of thirty per centum ad valorem. wrought iron, or wrought iron for ships, locomotives, terials composed, worn by men, women, or children, Third. On unmanufactured hemp, forty dollars and steam engines, or iron chains, other than chain except gloves, mitts, stockings, socks, wove shirts and drawers, and all other similar manufactures per ton; on Manilla, Sunn, and other hemps of India, cables, and on malleable irons or castings, four made on frames; hats, bonnets, shoes, boots, and on jute, Sisal grass, coir, and other vegetable sub-cents per pound; on steam, gas, or water tubes or stances, not enumerated, used for cordage, twenty-pipes, made of band or rolled iron, five cents per bootees, imported in a state ready to be used as five dollars per ton; on codilla, or tow of hemp or pound; on mill saws, cross cut saws, and pit saws, clothing by men, women, or children, made up either flax, twenty dollars per ten; on tarred cables and one dollar each; on tacks, brads and sprigs, not exby the tailor, manufacturer, or seamstress, an ad vacordage, five cents per pound; on untarred cordage, ceeding sixteen ounces to the thousand, five cents lorem duty of fifty per centum; on all articles worn 43 cents per pound; yarns, twine, and packthread, per thousand; exceeding sixteen ounces to the thouby men, women, or children, other than as above six cents per pound; on seines, seven cents per pound; sand. five cents per pound; on taggers' iron, five per specified or excepted, of whatever materials compo-on cotton bagging four cents per square yard; on any centum ad valorem: Provided, That all articles parsed, made up wholly or in part by hand, a duty of other manufacture, not otherwise specified, suitable tially manufactured, not otherwise provided for, shall forty per centum ad valorem; on all thread laces and for the uses to which cotton bagging is applied, whe pay the same rate of duty as if wholly manufacturinsertings, fifteen per centum ad valorem; on cotton ther composed in whole or in part of hemp or flax, ed: And provided, also, That no articles manufacturlaces, quillings, and insertings, usually known as or any other material, or imported under the desig-ed from steel, sheet, rod, hoop, or other kinds of iron, trimming laces, and on bobbinet laces of cotton, nation of gunny cloth, or any other appellation, and shall pay a less rate of duty than is chargeable on twenty per centum ad valorem; on laces, galloons, without regard to the weight or width, a duty of five the material of which it is composed, in whole or in tresses, tassels, knots, and stars of gold or silver, fine cents per square yard; on sail duck, seven cents per part, paying the highest rate of duty either by or half fine fifteen per centum ad valorem; on all articles embroidered in gold or silver, fine or half square yard; Russia and other sheetings, brown and weight or value, and a duty of fifteen per centum fine, when finished, other than clothing, twenty per other manufactures of hemp, or of which hemp Provided, That nothing shall be deemed old iron that white, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; and on all ad valorem on the cost of the article added thereto. Third. On all old or scrap iron, ten dollars per ton; centum ad valorem; and on clothing, finished in shall be a component part, not specified, twenty per whole or in part, embroidered in gold or silver, fifty centum ad valorem; on unmanufactured flax, twenty has not been in actual use, and fit only to be re-manper centum ad valorem. dollars per ton; on linens, and all other manufac-ufactured; and all pieces of iron, except old, of more tures of flax, or of which flax shall be a component than six inches in length, or of sufficient length to be part, not otherwise specified, a duty of twenty-five per centum ad valorem; on grass cloth, a duty of twenty-five per centum ad valorem. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the passage of this act, there shall be levied, collected, and paid, on the importation of the articles hereinafter mentioned, the following duties; that is to say; First. On cotton unmanufactured, a duty of three cents per pound. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passage of this act, there shall be levied, collected and paid, on the importation of the articles hereinafter mentioned, the following duties, that is to say: made into spikes and bolts, shall be rated as bar,bolt, rod, or hoop iron, as the case may be, and pay duty accordingly: Provided, also, That all vessels of cast iron, and all castings of iron not rough as from the mould, but partially manufactured after the casting or with handles, rings, hoops or other additions o wrought iron, shall pay the same rates of duty herein imposed on all other manufactures of wrought iron not herein enumerated, if that shall amount to more than the duty on castings. Fourth. On stamped, printed, or painted floor oil cloth, thirty-five cents per square yard; on furniture oil cloth made on Canton or cotton flannel, sixteen Second. On all manufactures of cotton, or of which cents per square yard; on other furniture oil cloth, cotton shall be a component part, not otherwise speci-ten cents per square yard; on oil cloth of linen, silk, fied, a duty of thirty per centum ad valorem, ex- or other materials, used for hat covers, aprons, coach cepting such cotton, twist, yarn, and thread, and curtains, or similar purposes, and on medicated oil such other articles as are herein provided for: Pro- cloths, a duty of twelve and a half cents per square Fourth. On muskets, one dollar and fifty cents per vided, That all manufactures of cotton, or of which yard; on Chinese or other floor matting, made of stand; rifles, two dollars and fifty cents each; on axes, cotton shall be a component part, not dyed, colored, flags, jute or grass, on all floor mattings not other-adzes, hatchets, plane irons, socket chisels and vices, printed or stained, not exceeding in value twenty wise specified, and on mats, of whatever materials drawing knives, cutting knives, sickles or reaping cents per square yard, shall be valued twenty cents composed, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. hooks, scythes, spades, shovels, squares of iron or per square yard; and if dyed, colored, printed, ar steel, plated or polished steel saddlery and brass sadstained, in whole or in part, not exceeding in value dlery, coach and harness furniture of all descriptions, thirty cents the square yard, shall be valued at thirty steelyards and scale beams, and all fire arms other cents per square yard, excepting veivets, cords, than muskets and rifles, and all side arms, thirty per moleskins, fustians, buffalo cloths, or goods manufaccentum ad valorem; on square wire, used for the matured by napping or raising, cutting or shearing, not First. On iron in bars or bolts, not manufactured nufacture of stretches for umbrellas, when cut in exceeding in value thirty-five cents the square yard, in whole or in part by rolling, seventeen dollars per pieces not exceeding the length suitable therefor, which shall be valued at thirty-five cents per square ton; on bar or bolt iron, made wholly or in part by twelve and a half per centum ad valorem. yard, and duty be paid thereon accordingly. rolling, twenty-five dollars per ton: Provided, That Third. All cotton twist, yarn, and thread, un-all iron in slabs, blooms, loops, or other form, less bleached and uncolored, the true value of which at finished than iron in bars or bolts, and more advanc-iron, not specified, thirty per centum ad valorem; on the place whence imported shall be less than sixty ed than pig iron, except casting, shall be rated as eents per pound, shall be valued at sixty cents per iron in bars or bolts, and pay a duty accordingly: pound, and shall be charged with a duty of twenty- Provided also, That iron imported prior to the third five per centum ad valorem; all bleached or colored day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-three, in cotton twist, yard, and thread, the true value of bars or otherwise, for railways or inclined planes which at the place whence imported shall be less shall be entitled to the benefits of the provisions of than seventy-five cents per pound, shall be valued at existing laws, exempting it from the payment of duseventy-five cents per pound, and pay a duty of twenty, on proof of its having been actually and permaty-five per centum ad valorem; all other cotton, twist, yarn, and thread, on spools or otherwise, shall pay a duty of thirty per centum ad valorem. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the passage of this act, there shall be levied, collected, and paid on the importation of the articles hereinafter mentioned, the following duties, that nently laid down for the use of any railway or in- Second. On iron in pigs, nine dollars per ton; on Fifth. On screw's made of iron called wood screws, twelve cents per pound; and on all other screws of brass screws thirty cents per pound; on sheet and rolled brass, a duty of thirty per centum ad valorem; on brass battery, or hammered kettles, twelve cents per pound. Sixth. On cast, shear and German steel in bars, one dollar and fifty cents per one hundred and twelve pounds, and on all other steel in bars, two dollars and fifty cents per one hundred and twelve pounds, on solid headed pins, and all other package pins, not exceeding five thousand to the pack of twelve papers, forty cents per pack, and in the same proportion for a greater or less quantity; on pound pins, twenty ets. per pound; on sewing, tambouring, darning, netting, and knitting, and all other kinds of needles, a duty of twenty per centum ad valorem; on common, tinned, and jappanned saddlery, of all descriptions, twenty per centum ad valorem. Seventh. On japanned ware of all kinds, or papier mache, and plated and gilt wares of all kinds, and on dies or felts made in whole or in part of wool, eighteen cents each. Ninth. On hats and bonnets for men, women, and children, from Panama, Manilla, Leghorn, Naples or elsewhere, composed of satin, straw, chip, grass, palm leaf, ratan, willow, or any other vegetable substance, or of hair, whalebone, or other material not otherwise specified, a duty of thirty-five per centum ad valorem: Provided, That all flats, braids, plaits, spartero, or willow squares, used for making hats or bonnets, shall pay the same rate of duty as manufactured hats or bonnets. entlery of all kinds, and all other manufactures, not by twelve inches, five cents per square foot; above otherwise specified, made of brass, iron, steel, lead, eighteen by twelve inches, six cents per square foot. copper, pewter, or tin, or of which either of these On all crown window glass not exceeding ten by 8 metals is a component material, thirty per centum ad inches, three and a half cents per square foot; above valorem: Provided, That all manufactures of iron that, and not exceeding ten by twelve inches, five and steel, or other metals, partly finished, shall pay cents per square foot; above that, and not exceeding the same rates of duty as if entirely finished. fourteen by ten inches, six cents per square foot; Eighth. On lead, in pigs and bars, three cents per above that, and not exceeding sixteen by eleven inpound; on old and scrap lead, one cent and a half per ches, seven cents per square foot; above that, and not pound; leaden pipes, leaden shot, and lead in sheets, exceeding eighteen by twelve inches, eight cents per or in any other form not herein specified, four cents square foot; and all exceeding eighteen by twelve inper pound; on type metal and stereotype plates, twen-ches, ten cents per square foot; Provided, That all ty-five per centum ad valorem, types, whether new glass imported in sheets or tables, without reference Tenth. On all ornamental feathers and artificial or old, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; on copper to form, shall pay the highest duties herein imposed flowers, or parts thereof, of whatever materials combottoms cut round, and copper bottoms raised at the on the different descriptions of window glass. On all posed, hair bracelets, chains, ringlets, curls or braids, edge, and still bottoms cut round and turned up on polished plate glass, whether imported as window human hair, cleaned and prepared for use, and on the edge, and parts thereof, and on copper plates or glass, or however otherwise specified, not silvered fans of every dscription, twenty-five per centum ad sheets weighing more than thirty-four ounces per and not exceeding twelve by eight inches, five cents valorem; on all hair, human or otherwise, uncleaned square foot, commonly called braziers' copper, thirty per square foot; above that, and not exceeding four and unmanufactured, ten per centum ad valorem; on per centum ad valorem; on copper rods and bolts, teen by ten inches, seven cents per square foot, above hair cloth or seating, and on hair belts and hair nails and spikes, four cents per pound; and on patent that, and not exceeding sixteen by eleven inches, gloves twenty-five per centum ad valorem; on curlsheathing metal composed in part of copper, two eight cents per square foot; above that, and not ex-ed hair and moss for beds or matrasses, ten per concents per pound. ceeding eighteen by twelve inches, ten cents per tum ad valorem; on feathers for beds, and on downs Ninth. On tin, in pigs, bars, or blocks, one per square foot, above that, and not exceeding twenty- of all kinds, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; ou centum ad valorem; tin in plates or sheets, terne two by fourteen inches twelve cents per square foot; India rubber oil cloth, webbing, shoes, braces, or plates, taggers' tin and tin foil, two and a half per all above twenty-two by fourteen inches, thirty per suspenders, or other fabrics or manufactured articles centum ad valorem; on silver plated metal in sheets, centum ad valorem; if silvered, an addition of twen- composed wholly in part of India rubber, thirty per and on argentine, alabata, or German silver, in sheets ty per centum shall be made to the duty; if framed, a centum ad valorem: Provided, That braces or susor otherwise, unmanufactured, thirty per centum ad duty of thirty per centum ad valorem: Provided, penders of that material, not exceeding in value two valorem; on manufactures of German silver, bell me- That on all cylinder or broad glass, weighing over dollars per dozen shall be valued at two dollars per tal, zinc and bronze, thirty per centum ad valorem; one hundred pounds per one hundred square feet, and dozen, and pay duty accordingly. On all clocks, on zinc in sheets, ten per centum ad valorem: Provi- on all crown glass weighing over one hundred and twenty-five per centum ad valorem; and on glaziers' ded, That old bells, or parts thereof, fit only to be re-sixty pounds per one hundred square feet, there shall diamonds when set, twenty-five per centum ad valomanufactured, shall not be considered manufactures be an additional duty on the excess of the same rate rem; on ship or box chronometers, twenty per cent. of bell metal, but shall be admitted free of duty; on as herein imposed. ad valorem; and on watches or parts of watches, and bronze powder, bronze liquor, iron liquor, red liquor On porcelain glass, on glass colored, or paintings on watch materials not specified 7 per centum ad valoand seppia, twenty per centum ad valorem. glass, a duty of thirty per centum ad valorem; on all rem; on diamonds, 7 per centum ad valorem; on Tenth. On coal, one dollar and seventy-five cents articles or manufactures of glass not specified, con- crystals of glass for watches, and on glasses, or pebper ton; on coke, or culm of coal, five cents per nected with other materials, rendering it impracticables for spectacles or eye glasses, when not set, two ble to seperate it and determine its weight twenty- dollars per gross; on gems, pearls or precious stones, five per centum ad valorem. seven per centum ad valorem; on imitations thereof, and compositions of glass or paste, on cameos and imitations thereof, and on mosaics not specified, of whatever materials composed, whether real or imitation, set or not set, seven and a half per centum ad valorem; on jewelry composed of gold, silver, or platina, and gold and silver leaf, twenty per centuo ad valorem; on gilt, plated, or imitation jewelry, and Dutch metal in leaf, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; on Scagliola table tops, and table tops of small or composition, inlaid with precious stones or marble pieces of composition, known as mosaics, on table tops of marble or composition, when inlaid with various colored marbles, and on alabaster and spar ornaments, thirty per centum ad valorem; on manufactures of services, vessels, and wares of all kinds, not otherwise specified, of silver or gold, or of which either of these metals shall be a component material of chief value, whether plain, chased, engraved or embossed, an ad valorem duty of thirty per centum. bushel. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passage of this act, there shall be levied, collected and paid, on the importation of the articles heremafter mentioned, the following duties; that is to say: Fifth. On China ware, porcelain ware, earthen ware, stone ware and all other ware composed of earth or mineral substances, not otherwise specified, whether gilt, painted, printed, plain, or glazed, a duty of thirty per centum ad valorem. First. On all vessels or wares and manufactures, of cut glass, when the cutting on the article does not Sixth. On tanned, sole, or bend leather, six cents exceed one third the height or length thereof, a duty per pound; on all upper leather, not otherwise speciof twenty-five cents per pound; when the cutting ex-fied, eight cents per pound; on calf and seal skins ceeds one third the height or length, but does not ex-tanned and dressed, five dollars per dozen; on sheep ceed one half the same, a duty of thirty-five cents skins tanned and dressed, or skivers, two dollars per per pound; when the cutting extends to or exceeds dozen; on goat skins or morocco tanned and dressed, one half the height or length thereof, a duty of forty-two dollars and fifty cents per dozen, on kid skins or five cents per pound; on cut glass chandeliers, candle morocco tanned and dressed, one dollar and fifty sticks, lustres, lenses, lamps, prisms and parts of the cents per dozen; on goat or sheep skin tanned, and same, and on all drops, icicles, spangles and orna- not dressed, one dollar per dozen; on all kid and ments, used for mountings, a duty of forty-five cents lamb skins tanned and not dressed, seventy-five cents per pound; on articles of plain, moulded, or pressed per dozen; and on skins tanned and dressed, otherglass, weighing over eight ounces, a duty of ten cents wise than in color, to wit: fawn, kid, and lamb, usuper pound; on articles of plain, moulded, or pressed ally known as chamois, one dollar per dozen; on glass, weighing eight ounces or under, except tum- men's boots and bootces of leather, wholly or parblers, a duty of twelve cents per pound; on plain, tially manufactured, one dollar and twenty-five cents moulded, or pressed tumblers, ten cents per pound; per pair; men's shoes and pumps, wholly or partially on all plain, moulded, or pressed glass, when stop-manufactured, thirty cents per pair, women's boots pered, or the bottoms ground or puntied, an addition- and bootees of leather, wholly or partially manufacal duty of four cents per pound. Provided, That all tured, fifty cents per pair; children's boots, bootees, articles of moulded or pressed glass, being cut, rou- and shoes, wholly or partially manufactured, fifteen ghed, or polished, in part or parts thereof, and all cents per pair; women's double soled pumps and other wares or articles of flint glass, not otherwise welts, wholly or partially manufactured, forty cents specified, shall pay the duty chargeable on articles per pair; women's shoes or slippers, wholly or parof cut glass of the description and glass to which tially manufactured, whether of leather, prunella, or they may severally belong. Second. On all apothecaries' vials and bottles not exceeding the capacity of six ounces each, one dollar and seventy-five cents per gross; apothecaries' vials and bottles exceeding six ounces, and not exceeding valorem. the capacity of sixteen ounces each, two dollars and Seventh. On men's leather gloves, one dollar and twenty-five cents per gross; on all perfumery and fan- twenty five cents per dozen; women's leather habit cy vials and bottles, uncut, not exceeding the capaci-gloves, one dollar per dozen; children's leather, haty of four ounces each, two dollars and fifty cents per bit gloves, fifty cents per dozen; women's extra and gross; and those exceeding four ounces, and not ex- demi length leather gloves, one dollar and fifty cents ceeding, in capacity, sixteen ounces each, three dollars per gross. other material, except silk, twenty-five cents per pair; Eleventh. On all manufactures of wood, not otherwises pecified, thirty per centum ad valorem: Provided, That boards, planks, staves, scantlings, hewn or sawed timber, unwrought spars and all other descriptions of wood which shall have been wrought into shapes that fit them, respectively, for any specific and permanent use without further manufacture, shall be deemed and taken as manufactured wood, and pay duty accordingly; and on timber, to be used in building wharves and fire wood, twenty per centum ad valorem: Provided also, That rough boards, planks, staves, scantling and sawed timber, not planned or wrought into any shape for use, shall pay a duty of twenty per centum ad valorem: And provided, further, That rose wood, satin wood, mahogany and cedar wood shall pay a duty of fifteen per centum ad valorem: on walking canes and sticks, frames and sticks for umbrellas, for parasols, and for sun shades, cabinet wares or household furniture not otherwise specified, musical instruments of all kinds, carriages and parts thereof, thirty per centum ad valorem: Provided, also, That strings for musical instruments, of catgut or whipgut, and all other strings or thread of similar materials, shall pay a duty of fifteen per centum ad valorem. per dozen; children's extra and demi length leather gloves, seventy-five cents per dozen; on leather caps Third. On black and green glass bottles and jars, or hats, leather braces or suspenders, and on all exceeding eight ounces, and not exceeding, in capa- other braces or suspenders, of whatever material city, one quart each, a duty of three dollars per gross; or materials composed, except India rubber, and when exceeding the capacity of one quart each, four on leather bottles, patent leather, and on all other Twelfth. On manufactured marble in the rough, dollars per gross; on demijohns and carboys, of the manufactures of leather, or of which leather is a slab, or block, twenty-five per centum ad volorem; capacity of half a gallon or less, fifteen cents each; component material of chief value, not otherwise on marble busts or statuary, not specially imported, when excceding, in capacity, half a gallon, and not specified, a duty of thirty-five per centum ad va- as hereinafter provided for, and on all other manuexceeding three gallons each, a duty of thirty cents lorem. factures of marble not specified, a duty of thirty per each; exceeding three gallons, fifty cents each. centum ad valorem; on slates of all kinds, paving Fourth. On cylinder or broad window glass, not tiles and bricks, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; exceeding eight by ten inches, two cents per square on baskets and other manufactures, not specified, of foot; above that, and not exceeding ten by twelve ingrass, straw, ozier or willow and palm leaf, twentyches, two and a half cents per square foot;above that, five per centum ad valorem; on wax, amber or comand not exceeding fourteen by ten inches, three and a position beads, and all other beads not otherwise half cents per square foot; above that, and not exenumerated, and shell or fancy boxes not otherwise ceeding sixteen by eleven inches, four cents per specified, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; on quare foot; above that, and not exceeding eighteen combs for the hair, of whatever material composed, Eighth. On furs of all kinds on the skin, undressed, five per centum ad valorem; on furs dressed on the skin, on all hatters' furs, whether dressed or undressed, not on the skin, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; fur hats, caps, muffs, tippets, and other manufactures of fur not specified, thirty-five per centum ad valorem; fur hat bodies, frames, or felts, manufactured, not put in form or trimmed, or otherwise, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; hats of wool, hat bo teen per centum ad valorem; on Windsor, shaving, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; on brushes and the text, when bound fifteen cents per pound, when Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passage of this act, there shall be levied, col lected and paid, on the importation of the articles hereinafter mentioned, the following rates of duty, that is to say: First. On raw sugar (commonly called brown sugar,) not advanced beyond its raw state, by claying, boiling, clarifying, or other process, and on sirup of sugar, or of sugar cane, and on brown clayed sugar, two and a half cents per pound; on all other sugars, when advanced beyond the raw state, by claying, boiling, clarifying, or other process, and not yet refiOn white or red leads, litharge, or acetate or chro-ned, four cents per pound; on refined sugar (whether mate of lead. dry or ground in oil, four cents per loaf, lump, crushed, or pulverized, and when, after pound; on whiting or Paris white, and all och res or being refined, they have been tinctured, colored, or ochry earths used in the composition of painters' co- in any way adulterated), and on sugar candy, six lor, when dry one cent per pound, when ground in oil cents per pound; on molasses, four and a half mills one cent and a half per pound; on sulphate of barytes, per pound: Provided, That all sirups of sugar or sugar one half cent per pound; on linseed, hempseed, and cane, entered under the designation of molasses, or rapeseed oil, twenty-five cents per gallon, on putty, any other appellation than "sirup of sugar" or of one cent and a half per pound. sugar cane, shall be liable to forfeiture to the United Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That from and af-States; on comfits, on sweetmeats, or fruits preserved ter the passage of this act, there shall be levied, col- in molasses, sugar, or brandy, and on confectionary lected, and paid, on the importation of the articles of all kinds, not otherwise specified, twenty-five per hereinafter mentioned, the following rates of duty; centum ad valorem: Provided further, That an inthat is to say: spection, under such regulations as the secretary of the treasury may prescribe, shall be made of all sugars and molasses imported from foreign countries, in order to prevent frauds, and to prevent the introduction of sugars, sirup of sugar, sirup of cane, or battery sirup, under the title of molasses, or in any First. On bank, folio, quarto post of all kind, and letter and bank note paper, seventeen cents per pound; on antiquarian, demy, drawing, elephant, double elephant, foolscap, imperial, medium, pot, pith, royal, super-royal and writing paper, fifteen cents per pound; on copperplate, blotting, copying, color-, other improper manner. ed for labels, colored for needles, marble or fancy Second. On cocoa, one cent per pound; chocolate, colored, glass paper, morocco paper, pasteboard, four cents per pound; on mace. fifty cents per pound; pressing board, sand paper, tissue paper, and on all nutmegs, thirty cents per pound; cloves, eight cents gold or silver paper, whether in sheets or strips, per pound; cinnamon, twenty-five cents per pound; twelve and a half cents per pound; on colored cop- oil of cloves, thirty cents per pound; Chinese cassia, perplate, printing, and stainers' paper, ten cents per five cents per pound; pimento, five cents per pound, pound; on binders' boards, box boards, mill boards, on black pepper, five cents per pound; Cayenne and paper makers' boards, sheathing, wrapping, and car- African, or Chili pepper, ten cents per pound; ginger, tridge paper, three cents per pound; and on all paper ground, four cents per pound; ginger in the root, envelopes, whether plain, ornamental, or colored, when not preserved, two cents per pound; on musand on all billetdoux, or fancy note paper, of what- tard, twenty-five per centum ad valorein; on musever form or size, when of less size than letter paper, tard seed, and on linseed, five per centum ad valorem; thirty per centum ad valorem; on music paper, with on camphor, refined, twenty cents per pound; crude lines, and on paper gilt or covered with metal, other camphor, five cents per pound; on indigo, five cents than g id or silver, paper snuff boxes, Japanned or per pound; on woad or pastel, one cent per pound: not japanned, and other fancy paper boxes, twenty on ivory or bone black, three-fourths of one cent per five per centum ad valorem; on all paper hangings, pound; on alum, one cent and a half per pound; on or paper for screens or fire boards thirty-five per cen- opium, seventy-five cents per pound; on quicksilver, tum ad valorem; on all blank or visiting cards, twelve five per centum ad valorem; on roll brimstone, calocents per pound; on playing cards, twenty five cents mel, and other mercurial preparations, corrosive per pack; on blank books, when bound twenty cents sublimate, and red precipitate, twenty-five per cenper pound; when unbound fifteen cents per pound; tum ad valorem; on glue, five cents per pound; on on all parchment and vellum, and on asses'-kins gunpowder, eight cents per pound; on copperas and and imitation thereof, wafers, sealing wax, and black green vitriol, two cents per pound; on blue or Rolead pencils, crayons of all kinds, and the metallic man vitriol, or sulphate of copper, four cents per pens, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; ink and pound; on oil of vitriol, or sulphuric acid, one cent ink powder of all kinds, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; quills prepared or manufactured, twenty five per centum ad valorem; quills, unprepared or unmanufactured, fifteen per centum ad valorem; on rags, of whatever material, waste or shody, a quarter of one cent per pound; on all other paper not enumerated, fifteen cents per pound. per pound; on almonds and prunes, three cents per Fourth. On salt, eight cents per bushel of fifty-six pounds; on saltpetre, partially refined, one-fourth of one cent per pound; completely refined, two cents per pound; on bleaching powder, or chloride of lime, one cent per pound; on vinegar, eight cents per gallon; on spirits of turpentine, ten cents per gallon; on beef and pork, two cents per pound; hams and bacon, three cents pound; prepared meats, poultry or game, in cases or otherwise, and Bologna sausages, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; on cheese, nine cents per pound; butter, five cents per pound; on lard, three cents per pound; macaroni and vermicelli, gelatine, jellies, and all similar preparations, thirty per centum ad valorem; on wheat, twenty-five cents per bushel, barley, twenty cents per bushel; rye, fifteen cents per bushel; oats, ten cents per bushel; Indian corn, or maize, ten cents per bushel; wheat flour, seventy cents per one hundred and twelve pounds; Indian meal, twenty cents per one hundred and twelve pound; potatoes, ten cents per bushel; on foreign-caught fish, viz: dried or smoked, one dollar per one hundred and twelve pounds; on mackerel and herrings, pickled or salted,. one dollar and fifty cents per barrel; on pickled Salmon, two dollars per barrel; on all other fish, pickled, in barrels, one dollar per harrel; on all other pickled fish, imported otherwise than in barrels or half barrels, not specified, twenty per centum ad valorem; and on sardines and other fish, preserved in oil, twenty per centum ad valorem; Provided, That freshcaught fish, brought in for daily consumption, shall be exempt from duty; on fish glue or isinglass, twenty per cent. ad valorem; on pickles, capers and sauces of all kinds, not otherwise enumerated, thirty per centum ad valorem; on eastor oil, forty cents per gallon; neats foot and animal oils, and all volatile and essential oils, not otherwise specified, twenty per centum ad valorem; and all guns and other resinous substances, not specified, in a crude state, fifteen per centum ad valorem; and on the said articles, when not in a crude state, and on pastes, balsams, essences, tinctures, extracts, cosmetics, and perfumes, not otherwise enumerated, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; on benzoic, citric, white and yellow muriatic, nitric, oxalic, pyroligneous, and tartaric acids twenty per centum ad valore:n; on boracic acid, five per centum ad valorem; borax or tincal, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; on amber, ambergris. ammonia, annetto. anniseed, arrow root, vanilla beans. French chalk red chalk. juniper berries. manganese, nitrate of lead chromate bichromate, and prussiate of potash glauber and Rochelle salts. Epsom salts or sulphate of magnesia and all other chymical salts or preparations of salts not enumerated, smalts. salsoda and all carbonates of soda. by whatever name designated, other than soda ash, barilla, and kelp. twenty per centum ad valorem; on sulphate of quinine. forty cents per ounce avoirdupois; on soda ash, five per centum ad valorem. Fifth. On brandy, one dollar per gallon; on other spirits manufactured or distilled from grain or other materials for first and second proofs, sixty cents; for third proof, sixty-five cents; for fourth proof, seventy cents; for fifth proof seventy-five cents; and all above fifth proof, ninety cents per gallon; on Madeira. Sherry San Lucar and Canary wine. in casks or bottles sixty cents per gallon; on Champain wines, forty cents per gallon; on Port Burgundy and claret wines in bottles. thirty-five cents per gallon; on Port Second. On all books printed in the English lanand Burgundy wines in casks fifteen cents per galguage, or of which English forms the text, when lon; on Teneriffe wines. in casks or bottles twenty bound thirty cents per pound, when in sheets or Third. On olive oil in casks, twenty cents per gal- cents per gallon; on claret wines in casks. six cents boards, twenty cents per pound: Provided, That lon; olive salad oil in bottles or petties, thirty per per gallon; on the white wines not enumerated of whenever the importer shit prove, to the satisfac- centum ad valorem; on other olive oil, not salad, and France. Austria, Prussia, and Sardinia and of Portion of the collector, when the goods are entered, not otherwise specified, twenty per centum ad valo-tugal and its possessions, in casks seven and a half that any such book has been printed and published rem; on spermaceti oil of foreign fisheries, twenty- cents per gallon. in bottles twenty cents per gallon; abroad more than one year, and not repablished in five cents per gallon; whale or other fish oil, not on the red wines, not enumerated. of France Austhis country, or has been printed and pubushed sperm, of foreign fisheries, fifteen cents per gallon, tria Prussia, and Sardinia, and of Portugal and its abroad more than five years before such importation, whalebone, the product of foreign fisheries, twelve possessions. in casks six cents per gallon; in bottles, then and in such case said books shall be admitted at and a half per centum ad valorem; on spermaceti or twenty cents per gallon; on the white and red wines one-half of the above rate of duties: Provided, That of Spain, Germany, and the Mediteranean, not enuthe said terms of one year and five years, shall in no merated, in casks, twelve and a half cents per gal. case commence, or be computed at and from a day lon, in bottles, twenty cents per gallon; on Sicily before the passing of this act, on all ooks printed Madeira, or Marsala wines, in casks or bottles in Latin or Greek; or in which either language forms twenty-five cents per gallon; on other wines of Sici wax candles, and on candles of spermaceti and wax |