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TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 270. 1842.

Sugar, syrups,molasses, sweetmeats, confec-tionery, &c.

Chocolate,spices, drugs,quicksilver,gunpowder,dried fruits,&c.

Olive oil, oiland whaleboneof foreign fish-eries.

five cents per pound; on books of engravings or plates, with or withoutletter press, whether bound or unbound, and on maps and charts, twentyper centum ad valorem.

Sec. 8. 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 duties : that is tosay,

First. On raw sugar (commonly called brown sugar), not advancedbeyond its raw state, by claying, boiling, clarifying, or other process,and on syrup of sugar, or of sugar cane, and on brown clayed sugar,two and a half cents per pound; on all other sugars, when advancedbeyond the raw state, by claying, boiling, clarifying, or other process,and not yet refined, four cents per pound; on refined sugars, (whetherloaf, lump, crushed, or pulverized, and when, after being refined, theyhave been tinctured, colored, or in any way adulterated), and on sugarcandy, six cents per pound; on molasses, four and one half mills perpound : Provided, That all syrups of sugar or of sugar cane, entered underthe designation of molasses, or any other appellation than “ syrup ofsugar” or of sugar cane, shall be liable to forfeiture to the United States ;on comfits, on sweetmeats, or fruits preserved in molasses, sugar, orbrandy, and on confectionary of all kinds, not otherwise specified,twenty-five per centum ad valorem : Provided further, That an inspec-tion, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may pre-scribe, shall be made of all sugars and molasses imported from foreigncountries, in order to prevent frauds, and to prevent the introduction ofsugars, syrup of sugar, syrup of cane, or battery syrup, under the titleof molasses, or in any other improper manner.

Second. On cocoa, one cent per pound; chocolate, four cents perpound; on mace, fifty cents per pound; nutmegs, thirty cents per pound;cloves, eight cents per pound; cinnamon, twenty-five cents per pound;oil of cloves, thirty cents per pound; Chinese cassia, five cents perpound; pimento, five cents per pound; on black pepper, five cents perpound; Cayenne and African, or Chili pepper, ten cents per pound;ginger, ground, four cents per pound; ginger, in the root, when notpreserved, two cents per pound; on mustard, twenty-five per centum advalorem; on mustard seed, and on linseed, five per centum ad valorem;on camphor, refined, twenty cents per pound; crude camphor, five centsper pound; on indigo, five cents per pound; on woad or pastel, one centper pound; on ivory or bone black, three-fourths of one cent per pound ;on alum, one cent and a half per pound; on opium, seventy-five centsper pound; on quicksilver, five per centum ad valorem; on roll brim-stone, calomel, and other mercurial preparations, corrosive sublimate,and red precipitate, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; on glue, fivecents per pound; on gunpowder, eight cents per pound; on copperasand green vitriol, two cents per pound; on blue or Roman vitriol, orsulphate of copper, four cents per pound; on oil of vitriol, or sulphuricacid, one cent per pound; on almonds and prunes, three cents perpound; on sweet oil of almonds, nine cents per pound; on dates, onecent per pound ; currants, three cents per pound; figs, two cents perpound; on all nuts not specified, except those used for dyeing, one centper pound; on muscatel and bloom raisins, either in boxes or jars, threecents per pound; and on all other raisins, two cents per pound; onolives, thirty per centum ad valorem.

Third. On olive oil in casks, twenty cents per gallon; olive salad oilin bottles or betties, thirty per centum ad valorem; all other olive oil,not salad, and not otherwise specified, twenty per centum ad valorem;on spermaceti oil of foreign fisheries, twenty-five cents per gallon; whaleor other fish oil, not sperm, of foreign fisheries, fifteen cents per gallon;whalebone, the product of foreign fisheries, twelve and a half per centum