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TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 227. 1832.

Baskets, beads,indigo, &c.

Articles notspecified.

Certain articlesimported fromand after March3, 1833, to beexempted fromduty.

Proviso.

Parts of actsrepealed.

of Austria than are now, or may be, by this act levied upon red winesof Spain when the said wines are imported in casks.

Twenty-fourth. On the following articles an ad valorem duty of fifteenper centum, namely, barley, grass or straw baskets, composition, wax, oramber beads; all other beads not otherwise enumerated, lamp black;indigo, bleached and unbleached linens; shell or paper boxes, hair brace-lets, hair not made up for head dresses, bricks, paving tiles, brooms ofhair or palm leaf, cashmere of Thibet , down of all kinds, feathers forbeds.

Twenty-fifth. All articles not herein specified, either as free or asliable to a different duty, and which, by the existing laws, pay an advalorem duty higher than fifteen per centum, to pay an ad valorem dutyof fifteen per centum, from and after the said third day of March, onethousand eight hundred and thirty-three, (a)

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That, in addition to the articlesexempted from duty by the existing laws, the following articles, importedfrom and after the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred andthirty-three, shall be exempted from duty; that is to say, teas of all kindsimported from China or other places east of the Cape of Good Hope ,and in vessels of the United States , coffee, cocoa, almonds, currants,prunes, figs, raisins in jars and boxes, all other raisins, black pepper,ginger, mace, nutmegs, cinnamon, cassia, cloves, pimento, camphor,crude saltpetre, flax unmanufactured, quicksilver, opium, quills unpre-pared, tin in plates and sheets, unmanufactured marble, argol, gum ara-bic, gum Senegal , epaulettes of gold and silver, lac dye, madder, madderroot, nuts and berries used in dyeing, saffron, turmeric, woad or pastel;aloes, ambergris, Burgundy pitch, bark, Peruvian, cochineal, capers,chamomile flowers, coriander seed, cantharides, castanas, catsup, chalk,cocculus indicus, coral,dates, filberts, filtering stones, frankincense, grapes,gamboge, hemlock, henbane, horn plates for lanthorns, ox horns, otherhorns and tips, India rubber, ipecacuanha, ivory unmanufactured, juni-per berries, musk, nuts of all kinds, olives, oil of juniper, paintings anddrawings, rattans unmanufactured, reeds unmanufactured, rhubarb, rottenstone, tamarinds, tortoise shell, tin foil, shellac, sponges, sago, lemons,limes, pine apples, cocoa nuts and shells, iris or orris root, arrow root,bole ammoniac, Colombo root, annotto, annise-seed, oil of annise-seed,oil of cloves, cummin seed, sarsaparilla, balsam tolu, assafoetida, ava root,alcornoque, canella alba, cascarilla, haerlem oil, hartshorn, manna, senna,tapioca, vanilla beans, oil of almonds, nux vomica, amber, platina, bustsof marble, metal or plaster, casts of bronze or plaster, strings of musicalinstruments, flints, kelp, kermes, pins, needles, mother of pearl, hair un-manufactured ; hair pencils, Brazil paste, tartar crude, vegetables suchas are used principally in dyeing and in composing dyes, weld, and allarticles used principally for dyeing, coming under the duty of twelve anda half per centum, except bichromate of potash, prussiate of potash,chromate of potash, and nitrate of lead, aquafortis, and tartaric acids;all other dyeing drugs, and materials for composing dyes, all other medi-cinal drugs, and all articles not enumerated in this act nor the existinglaws, and which are now liable to an ad valorem duty of fifteen percentum, except tartar emetic and Rochelle salts, sulphate of quinine,calomel and corrosive sublimate, sulphate of magnesia, glauber salts:Provided, That nothing in this act contained shall be so construed asto reduce the duties upon alum, copperas, manganese, muriatic or sul-phuric acids, refined saltpetre, blue vitriol, carbonate of soda, red lead,white lead or litharge, sugar of lead or combs.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the third dayof March aforesaid, so much of any act of Congress as requires the

(a) The twenty-fifth clause of the second section of the tariff act of 1832, includes within itsterms all bindings whether worsted or woollen. Whiting v- Bancroft, 1 Story C. C. R. 560.

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