shall be imported in ships or vessels not of the United States: Provided, That this additional duty shall not apply to goods, wares, and merchandise imported in ships or vessels not of the United States, entitled by treaty, or by any act or acts of Congress, to be entered in the ports of the United States, on the payment of the same duties as are paid on goods, wares, and merchandise imported in ships or vessels of the United States.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That there shall be allowed a drawback of the duties by this act imposed on goods, wares, and merchandise, imported into the United States, upon the exportation thereof within the time and in the manner prescribed by the existing laws, subject to the following provisions, that is to say: that there shall not be an allowance of the drawback of duties in the case of goods imported in foreign vessels from any of the dominions, colonies, or possessions of any foreign Power, to and with which the vessels of the United States are not permitted to go and trade; that there shall not be an allowance of the drawback of duties for the amount of the additional duties by this act imposed on goods imported in vessels not of the United States; that there shall not be an allowance of the drawback in case of foreign dried and pickled fish, and other salted provisions, fish oil, or playing cards; that there shall be deducted and retained, from the amount of the duties on goods exported with the benefit of drawback (other than spirits), two and a half per centum; and that there shall be retained, in the case of spirits exported with the benefit of drawback, two cents per gallon upon the quantity of spirits, and also three per centum on the amount of duties payable on the importation thereof. But, nevertheless, the provisions of this act shall not be deemed in any wise to impair any rights and privileges which have been or may be acquired by any foreign nation, under the laws and treaties of the United States, upon the subject of exporting goods from the United States, with the benefit of a drawback of the duties payable upon the importation thereof.

SEC. 5. And be further enacted, That, after the thirtieth day of June next, in all cases of entry of merchandise for the benefit of drawback, the time of twenty days shall be allowed, from the date of the entry, for giving the exportation bonds for the same: Provided, That the exporter shall, in every other particular, comply with the regulations and formalities heretofore established for entries of exportation for the benefit of drawback.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the duty on the tonnage of vessels, and the bounties, advances, and drawbacks, in the case of exporting pickled fish, of the fisheries of the United States, in the case of American vessels employed in the fisheries, and in the case of exporting sugar refined within the United States, shall be and continue the same as the existing law provides: Provided, always, That this provision shall not be deemed in any wise to impair any rights and privileges which have been or may be acquired by any foreign nation, under the laws and treaties of the United States, relative to the duty of tonnage on vessels.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the existing laws shall extend to and be in force for the collection of the duties imposed by this act on goods, wares, and merchandise imported into the United States, and for the recovery, collection, distribution, and remission of all fines, penalties, and forfeitures, and for the allowance of the

drawbacks and bounties by this act authorized, as fully and effectually as if every regulation, restriction, penalty, forfeiture provision, clause, matter, and thing, in the existing laws contained, had been inserted in and reenacted by this act. And that all acts, and parts of acts, which are contrary to this act, and no more, shall be, and the same are hereby, repealed.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the act passed the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, entitled "An act to repeal so much of the several acts imposing duties on the tonnage of ships and vessels, and on goods, wares, and merchandise imported into the United States, as imposes a discriminating duty on tonnage between foreign vessels and vessels of the United States, and between goods imported into the United States in foreign vessels and vessels of the United States," shall apply and be in full force as to the discriminating duties established by this act on the tonnage of foreign vessels, and the goods, wares, and merchandise therein imported. Approved, April 27, 1816.

Tariff on iron and alum, of April 20, 1818.

"An act to increase the duties on iron in bars and bolts, iron in pigs, castings, nails, and alum," passed the House of Representatives, April 15, 1818, by the following vote: Yeas, 88; nays, 47. (See Journal House of Representatives, 1st sess. 15th Cong., p. 469.)

YEAS.

New Hampshire: Salma Hale, Jno. F. Parrott (2). Massachusetts: Benjamin Adams, Walter Folger, jr., Joshua Gage, Nathaniel Ruggles, Jonathan Mason (5).

Rhode Island: James B. Mason (1).

Connecticut: Uriel Holmes, Jonathan O. Mosely (2).

Vermont: Heman Allen, Samuel C. Crafts, William Hunter, Orsamus C. Merrill, Charles Rich, Mark Richards (6).

New York: Daniel Cruger, Jno. R. Drake, Benjamin Ellicott, Josiah Hasbrouck, Jno. Herkimer, Thomas H. Hubbard, William Irving, Dorrance Kirtland, Thomas Lawyer, Jno. Palmer, James Porter, Jno. Savage, Tredwell Scudder, Jno. C. Spencer, Jno. W. Taylor, Caleb Tompkins, George Townsend, Peter H. Wendover, Isaac Williams, David A. Ogden (20).

New Jersey: Benjamin Bennett, Jos. Bloomfield, Charles Kinsey, Jno. Linn, Henry Southard, Ephraim Bateman (6).

Pennsylvania: Andrew Boden, Henry Baldwin, Isaac Darlington, Jos. Heister, Jos. Hopkinson, Samuel D. Ingham, William Maclay, William P. Maclay, David Marchand, Robert Moore, Jno. Murray, Alexander Ogle, Thomas Patterson, Thomas J. Rogers, Jno. Sergeant, Adam Seybert, Christian Tarr, James M. Wallace, Jno. Whiteside, William Wilson (20).

Delaware: Willard Hall (1).

Maryland: Thomas Culbreth, Peter Little, Samuel Ringgold (3). Virginia: Burwell Bassett, Edward Colston, Charles F. Mercer, James Pindall, Henry St. George Tucker (5).

North Carolina: George Mumford, Lemuel Sawyer, Felix Walker (3).

South Carolina: Elias Earle, Stephen D. Miller (2).

Georgia: Joel Crawford (1).

Kentucky: Richard C. Anderson, jr., Jos. Desha, David Trimble, David Walker (4).

Ohio: Levi Barber, Philemon Beecher, Jno. W. Campbell, William H. Harrison, Samuel Herrick, Peter Hitchcock (6).

Indiana: William Hendricks (1).

Total yeas, 88.

NAYS.

New Hampshire: Josiah Butler, Clifton Clagett, Arthur Livermore (3).

Massachusetts: Marcus Morton, Jeremiah Nelson, Thomas Rice, Zabdiel Sampson, Nathaniel Silsbee, Solomon Strong, Ezekiel Whitman (7).

Connecticut: Ebenezer Huntington, Timothy Pitkin, Samuel B. Sherwood, Thomas S. Williams (4).

Maryland: Jno. C. Herbert, George Peter, Philip Reed, Philip Stuart (4).

Virginia: Archibald Austin, Philip P. Barbour, William A. Burwell, Robert S. Garnett, Jno. Floyd, James Johnson, William McCoy, Hugh Nelson, Thomas M. Nelson, James Pleasants, Ballard Smith, George F. Strother (12).

North Carolina: Weldon N. Edwards, Daniel M. Forney, Thomas Settle, Jesse Slocumb, Lewis Williams (5).

South Carolina: William Lowndes, Henry Middleton (2).

Georgia: William Terrell (1).

Kentucky: George Robertson, Thomas Speed (2).

Tennessee: William G. Blount, Thomas Claiborne, Thomas Hogg, Francis Jones, Jno. Rhea (5).

Louisiana: Thomas B. Robertson (1).

Mississippi: George Poindexter (1).

Total nays, 47.

Passed the Senate April 18, 1818. (Yeas and nays not taken.)

Copy of tariff on iron and alum, April 20, 1818.

AN ACT To increase the duties on iron in bars and bolts, iron in pigs, castings, nails, and alum.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, from and after the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, the duties now by law levied, collected, and paid, on iron in pigs, iron castings, nails, on iron in bars and bolts, excepting iron manufactured by rolling, and on alum, imported into the United States, shall cease and determine; and there shall be levied, collected, and paid, in lieu thereof, the several and specific duties hereinafter mentioned, that is to say: On iron in pigs, fifty cents per hundred weight; on iron castings, seventy-five cents per hundredweight; on nails, four cents per pound; on spikes, three cents per pound; on iron bars and bolts, manufactured without rolling, seventy-five cents per hundredweight; on anchors, two cents per pound; and on alum, two dollars per hundredweight."

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That an addition of ten per centum shall be made to the several rates of duties above specified and imposed upon the several goods, wares, and merchandise aforesaid, which, after. the said thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, shall be imported in ships or vessels not of the United States: Provided, That this additional duty shall not apply to such goods, wares, and merchandise, imported in ships or vessels not of the United States entitled by treaty, or by any act or acts of Congress, to be entered in the ports of the United States, on the payment of the same duties as are paid on goods, wares, and merchandise, imported in ships or vessels of the United States.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be allowed a drawback of the duties by this act imposed on goods, wares, and merchandise imported into the United States, upon the exportation thereof within the time and in the manner prescribed in the fourth section of the act entitled "An act to regulate the duties on imports and tonnage," passed on the twenty-seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the existing laws shall extend to and be in force for the collection of the duties imposed by this act on goods, wares, and merchandise, imported into the United States, and for the recovery, collection, distribution, and remission, of all fines, penalties, and forfeitures, as fully and effectually as if every regulation, restriction, penalty, forfeiture, provision, clause, matter, and thing, in the existing laws contained, had been inserted in and reenacted by this act.

Approved April 20, 1818.

Tariff of April 20, 1818.

"An act to increase the duties on certain manufactured articles imported into the United States;" passed the House of Representatives April 15, 1818. (Yeas and nays not taken.)

Passed the Senate April 18, 1818. (Yeas and nays not taken.)

Copy of the act of April 20, 1818.

AN ACT To increase the duties on certain manufactured articles imported into the United States.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, the duties now in force upon the articles hereinafter enumerated and described, at their importation into the United States, shall cease; and that, in lieu thereof, there shall be thenceforth laid, levied, and collected, upon the said articles, at their importation, the several and respective rates or duties following, that is to say: On articles manufactured from copper, or of which copper is the material of chief value, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; on silver plated saddlery, coach and harness furniture, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; on cut glass, thirty per centum ad valorem; on tacks, brads, and sprigs, not exceeding sixteen ounces to the thousand, five cents on every thousand thereof; and on tacks, brads, and sprigs, exceeding

sixteen ounces to the thousand, the same duty as on nails; brown Russia sheetings, not exceeding fifty-two archines in each piece, one dollar and sixty cents per piece; white Russia sheetings, not exceeding fifty-two archines in each piece, two dollars and fifty cents per piece.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That an addition of ten per centum shall be made to the several rates of duties above specified and imposed in respect to all such goods, wares, and merchandise, which, after the said thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, shall be imported in ships or vessels not of the United States: Provided, That this additional duty shall not apply to goods, wares, and merchandise, imported in ships or vessels not of the United States, entitled by treaty, or by any act or acts of Congress, to be entered in the ports of the United States, on the payment of the same duties as are paid on goods, wares, and merchandise, imported in ships or vessels of the United States.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be allowed a drawback of the duties, by this act imposed, on goods, wares, and merchandise, imported into the United States, upon the exportation thereof within the time and in the manner prescribed in the fourth section of the act entitled "An act to regulate the duties on imports and tonnage," passed on the twenty-seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the existing laws shall extend to and be in force for the collection of the duties imposed by this act on goods, wares, and merchandise, imported into the United States, and for the recovery, collection, distribution, and remission, of all fines, penalties, and forfeitures, and for the allowance of the drawbacks by this act authorized, as fully and effectually as if every regulation, restriction, penalty, forfeiture, provision, clause, matter, and thing, in the existing laws contained, had been inserted in and reenacted by this act. And that all acts, and parts of acts, which are contrary to this act, shall be, and the same are hereby repealed.

Approved, April 20, 1818.

Tariff on wines, March 3, 1819.

"An act to regulate the duties on certain wines," passed the House of Representatives February 26, 1819. (Yeas and nays not taken.) Passed the Senate March 3, 1819. (Yeas and nays not taken.)

Copy of the act of March 3, 1819.

AN ACT To regulate the duties on certain wines.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, from and after the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, the duties now by law levied, collected, and paid, on wine not enumerated in the "Act to regulate the duties on imports and tonnage," passed the twenty-seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, when imported in bottles or cases, of seventy cents per gallon, and on wine not enumerated in said act, when imported otherwise than in bottles or cases, of twenty-five cents per gallon, shall cease and determine; and there shall be levied, collected,