Phenix Gazette

Mr. Davis, of Massachusetts, submitted the following; which, when the bill H. R. No. 561, to reduce and equalize the Duties on Imports shall be taken up for consideration, he will move as an amendment thereto:

Strike out all after the enacting clause, and insert— That from and after the day of Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, the following articles of merchandise, when imported into the United States, may be entered free of duty, to wit: teas of all kinds brought from China, or any place beyond the Cape of Good Hope; coffee of all kinds, cocoa, almonds, figs, currants, raisins, prunes, plums, dates, grapes, filberts, tamarinds in sugar or molasses, black pepper, Cayenne pepper, cinnamon, cloves, cassia, nutmegs, mace, pimento, ginger, camphor, gum arabic, gum senegal, indigo, cochineal, madder, madder root, shell lac, lac dye, sumach, wood or post oak bark, roots, nuts and berries used in dying, argol, turmeric, linseed, rape seed and hemp seed oil, crude salt petre, India rubber, brass in plates, saffron, sago, Peruvian bark, juniper berries, oil of juniper, tortoise shell, sponge, ivory unmanufactured, horn, horn tips, horn plates for lanthorns, coral, opium, aloes, calomel, chamomile flowers, coriander seed, cantharides, corrosive sublimate, burgundy pitch, gamboge, hemlock, henbane, corks, quicksilver, ambergris, cutlasses, daggers, sabres, dirks, hangers, epaulettes, wings of gold or silver, feathers, filtering stones, hones, hair pencils, ivory black, mill-stones, nuts of all kinds, reeds and rattans unmanufactured, rotten stone, spy glasses and telescopes, sextants, quadrants, paintings, drawings, tin in plates and sheets, quills, flax.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, instead of the duties now payable by law on the following articles of merchandise when imported into the United States, there shall be levied and collected on the same, when imported in vessels of the United States, from and after the day of , Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, the following duties, to wit: on all teas imported from any place other than as above specified, or in vessels not of the United States, ten cents a pound; on Madeira and Sherry wine, whether in casks or bottles, and on all other wine in bottles, eight cents a gallon, in addition to the duty on the bottles; on all other wines two cents a gallon; on all manufactures of silk, seven per cent. ad valorem: Provided, however, That nothing contained in this act shall affect the rights secured by treaty to foreign vessels.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the English pound sterling shall hereafter be valued at four dollars and eighty cents, instead of four dollars and forty-four cents, in assessing and collecting duties.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed.