TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess.II. Ch.270. 1842.
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half per pound; on sulphate of barytes, one half cent per pound; onlinseed, hempseed, and rapeseed oil, twenty-five cents per gallon; onputty, one cent and a half per pound.
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passageof this act there shall be levied, collected, and paid, on the importationof the articles hereinafter mentioned, the following rates of duty; thatis to say :
First. On bank, folio, quarto post of all kinds, and letter and banknote 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, colored for labels, colored for needles, marble or fancycolored, glass paper, morocco paper, pasteboard, pressing-board, sandpaper, tissue paper, and on all gold or silver paper, whether in sheets orstrips, twelve and a half cents per pound; on colored copperplate, print-ing, and stainers' paper, ten cents per pound; on binders’ boards, boxboards, mill boards, paper-makers’ boards, sheathing, wrapping, andcartridge paper, three cents per pound; and on all paper envelopes,whether plain, ornamental, or colored, and on all billet-doux or fancynote paper, of whatever form or size, when of less size than letterpaper, thirty per centum ad valorem; on music paper, with lines, andon paper gilt or covered with metal other than gold or silver, papersnuff boxes, japanned or not japanned, and other fancy paper boxes,twenty-five per centum ad valorem; on all paper hangings, or paper forscreens or fireboards, thirty-five per centum ad valorem ; on all blank orvisiting cards, twelve cents per pound; on playing cards, twenty-fivecents per pack; on blank books, when bound, twenty cents per pound;when unbound, fifteen cents per pound ; on all parchment and vellum,and on asses’ skin and imitation thereof, wafers, sealing-wax, and blacklead pencils, crayons of all kinds, and metallic pens, twenty-five percentum ad valorem; ink and ink powder of all kinds, twenty-five percentum ad valorem; quills, prepared or manufactured, twenty-five percentum ad valorem; quills, unprepared or unmanufactured, fifteen percentum ad valorem; on rags, of whatever material, waste or shoddy, aquarter of one cent per pound ; all other paper not enumerated, fifteencents per pound.
Second. On all books printed in the English language, or of which theEnglish forms the text, when bound thirty cents per pound, when insheets or boards, twenty cents per pound : Provided, That whenever theimporter shall prove, to the satisfaction of the collector, when the goodsare entered, that any such book has been printed and published abroadmore than one year, and not republished in this country, or has beenprinted and published abroad more than five years before such importa-tion, then and in such case said books shall be admitted at one half ofthe above rate of duties: Provided, That the said terms of one year andfive years, shall in no case commence, or be computed at and from a daybefore the passing of this act; on all books printed in Latin or Greek,or in which either language forms the text, when bound, fifteen centsper pound, when unbound, thirteen cents per pound; on all booksprinted in Hebrew , or of which that language forms the text, whenbound, ten cents per pound, and when unbound, eight cents per pound;Provided, That all books printed in foreign languages, Latin , Greek,and Hebrew excepted, shall pay a duty of five cents per volume whenbound or in boards, and when in sheets or pamphlets, fifteen cents perpound ; and editions of works in the Greek, Latin, Hebrew, or English language, which have been printed forty years prior to the date of im-portation, shall pay a duty of five cents per volume; and all reports oflegislative committees appointed under foreign Governments shall paya duty of five cents per volume; on polyglots, lexicons, and dictionaries,
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Paper, papersnuff boxes,fancy paperboxes, station-ery, rags, &c.
Books, &c.