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TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 55. 1833.

Existing lawscontinued untilJune 30, 1842.

Duties to bepaid in cash,&c.

Goods to bevalued at portsof entry.

Articles freeafter Dec. 31,1833.

Articles freeafter June 30,1842.

Duties on cer-tain classes ofarticles afterJuneflSO, 1S42.

Conflicting actsrepealed.

Proviso.

articles shall be subject to the same duty of fifty per centum, as is pro-vided by the said second section for other manufactures of wool; whichduty shall be liable to the same deductions as are prescribed by the first sec-tion of this act.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That, until the thirtieth day of June,one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, the duties imposed by existinglaws, as modified by this act, shall remain and continue to be collected.And from and after the day last aforesaid, all duties upon imports shallbe collected in ready money; and all credits now allowed by law, in thepayment of duties, shall be, and hereby are abolished ; and such dutiesshall be laid for the purpose of raising such revenue as may be necessaryto an economical administration of the government; and from and afterthe day last aforesaid, the duties required to be paid by law on goods,wares, and merchandise, shall be assessed upon the value thereof at theport where the same shall be entered, under such regulations as may beprescribed by law.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That, in addition to the articles nowexempt by the act of the fourteenth of July, one thousand eight hundredand thirty-two, and the existing laws, from the payment of duties, thefollowing articles imported from and after the thirty-first day of Decem-ber, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, and until the thirtieth dayof June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, shall also [be] ad-mitted to entry, free from duty, to wit: bleached and unbleached linens,table-linen, linen napkins, and linen cambrics, and worsted stuff goods,shawls, and othermanufactures of silk and worsted, manufactures of silk,or of which silk shall be the component material of chief value, comingfrom this side of the Cape of Good Hope , except sewing silk.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That from and after the said thir-tieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, the followingarticles shall be admitted to entry, free from duty, to wit: indigo, quick-silver, sulphur, crude saltpetre, grindstones, refined borax, emory, opium,tin in plates and sheets, gum Arabic, gum Senegal , lac dye, madder,madder root, nuts and berries used in dyeing, saffron, turmeric, woad orpastel, aloes, ambergris, Burgundy pitch, cochineal, chamomile flowers, cori-ander seed, catsup, chalk, cocculus indicus, horn plates for lanterns, oxhorns, other horns and tips, india-rubber, manufactured ivory, juniperberries, musk, nuts of all kinds, oil of juniper, unmanufactured rattansand reeds, tortoise shell, tin foil, shellac, vegetables used principally indyeing and composing dyes, weld, and all articles employed chiefly fordyeing, except allum, copperas, bichromate of potash, prussiate of potash,chromate of potash, and nitrate of lead, aqua fortis, and tartaric acids.And all imports on which the first section of this act may operate, and allarticles now admitted to entry [free] from duty, or paying a less rate of dutythan twenty per centum ad valorem, before the said thirtieth day of June,one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, from and after that day maybe admitted to entry subject to such duty, not exceeding twenty percentum ad valorem, as shall be provided for by law.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That so much of the act of the four-teenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, or ofany other act, as is inconsistent with this act, shall be, and the same ishereby, repealed: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be soconstrued as to prevent the passage, prior or subsequent to the said thir-tieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, of any actor acts, from time to time, that may be necessary to detect, prevent, orpunish evasions of the duties on imports imposed by law, nor to preventthe passage of any act, prior to the thirtieth day of June, one thousandeight hundred and forty-two, in the contingency either of excess or defi-ciency of revenue, altering the rates of duties on articles which, by theaforesaid act of fourteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and