Annual Report of the Boston Board of Trade, Merchants Exchange ..., Volume 5 |
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24 per cent 3d March act of 3d Appeal of Messrs article in question bags bales banks bbls bleached Board of Trade borax Boston Broad st bushels Calcutta capital casks cents per foot Charles Charlestown classification in schedule Commercial st Commercial whf Commission Merchants Committee Congress st cts per lb December 31 decision Dry Goods Imp duty of 24 exports fabric Federal st follows foreign free of duty George gum benzoin Hardware Dealers hhds imports India India st iron James John June 30 Jute Kilby st Leather Deal's manufactures composed wholly Merchandise Milk st months otherwise provided painted or dyed Pearl st Pilot pilotage port pounds rate of 24 rate of duty rates of pilotage Saltpetre Samuel Sapan wood schedule H Ship Shoe & Leather tariff act tariff of 1857 Tarpaulin Cove Light tons Total vessels Vineyard Sound wharf wholly of cotton William wool York
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Page 169 - Act, which is similar, either in material, quality, texture, or the use to which it may be applied, to any article enumerated in this Act as chargeable with duty, shall pay the same rate of duty which is levied on the enumerated article which it most resembles in any of the particulars before mentioned...
Page 174 - ... on such nonenumerated article the same rate of duty as is chargeable on the article which it resembles paying the highest...
Page 169 - Manufactures of goats' hair or mohair, or of which goats' hair or mohair shall be a component material, not otherwise provided for. Manufactures of silk, or of which silk shall be a component material, not otherwise provided for.
Page 163 - States ; animal carbon, (bone black;) animals living of all kinds ; argol, or crude tartar ; articles in a crude state, used in dyeing or tanning, not otherwise provided for ; bark, Peruvian; bells, old, and bell metal; berries, nuts, flowers, plants and vegetables used exclusively in dyeing or in composing dyes, but no article shall be classed as such that has undergone any manufacture...
Page 189 - ... Philosophical and scientific apparatus, utensils, instruments, and preparations, including bottles and boxes containing the same, specially imported in good faith for the use and by order of any society or institution incorporated or established solely for religious, philosophical, educational, scientific, or literary purposes, or for the encouragement of the fine arts, or for the use or by order of any college, academy, school or seminary of learning in the United States...
Page 169 - ... on the enumerated article which it most resembles in any of the particulars before mentioned ; " And if any non-enumerated article equally resembles two or more enumerated articles, on which different rates...
Page 178 - ... caps; gloves; leggins, mits, socks, stockings, wove shirts and drawers, made on frames, composed wholly of cotton, worn by men, women, and children...
Page 187 - ... oakum; oil, spermaceti, whale, and other fish, of American fisheries, and all other articles the produce of such fisheries; paintings and statuary, the production of American artists residing abroad, and all other paintings and statuary; Provided, The same be imported in good faith as objects of taste, and not of merchandise...
Page 164 - Manufactures of wool, or of which wool shall be the component material of chief value, not otherwise provided for.
Page 215 - TBADE, for the purpose of promoting trade and commerce, in the city of Boston and its vicinity, with all the powers and...