Customs Tariff of 1842 with Senate Debates Thereon Accompanied by Messages of the President, Treasury Reports, and Bills |
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... eight- een hundred and forty - three , in bars or otherwise , for railways or inclined planes , shall be entitled to the benefits of the provisions of existing laws , exempting it from the payment of duty on proof of its having been ...
... eight- een hundred and forty - three , in bars or otherwise , for railways or inclined planes , shall be entitled to the benefits of the provisions of existing laws , exempting it from the payment of duty on proof of its having been ...
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... eight cents per pound ; over No. 25 , eleven cents per pound ; silvered or plated wire , thirty per centum ad valorem ; brass or copper wire , twenty - five per centum ad valorem ; cap or bonnet wire , covered with silk , twelve cents ...
... eight cents per pound ; over No. 25 , eleven cents per pound ; silvered or plated wire , thirty per centum ad valorem ; brass or copper wire , twenty - five per centum ad valorem ; cap or bonnet wire , covered with silk , twelve cents ...
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... eight ounces or under , except tumblers , a duty of twelve cents per pound ; on plain , moulded , or pressed ... eight ounces , and not exceeding in capacity , one quart each , a duty of three dollars per gross ; when exceeding the ...
... eight ounces or under , except tumblers , a duty of twelve cents per pound ; on plain , moulded , or pressed ... eight ounces , and not exceeding in capacity , one quart each , a duty of three dollars per gross ; when exceeding the ...
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... eight cents per square foot ; and all exceeding eighteen by twelve inches , ten cents per square foot : Provided ... eight inches , five cents per square foot ; above that , and not exceeding fourteen by ten inches , seven cents per ...
... eight cents per square foot ; and all exceeding eighteen by twelve inches , ten cents per square foot : Provided ... eight inches , five cents per square foot ; above that , and not exceeding fourteen by ten inches , seven cents per ...
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... 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 when bound or in boards , and when in sheets or pamphlets , fifteen cents ...
... 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 when bound or in boards , and when in sheets or pamphlets , fifteen cents ...
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Common terms and phrases
20 per cent amendment amount appraisers bar iron Benton bottles Buchanan bushel casks cents per gallon cents per pound cents per square centum ad valorem collected collector committee compromise act Congress Connecticut consignee cordage cost cotton Crittenden dollars and fifty dollars per dozen drawback duties on imports Evans exceeding exported fifty cents five cents foreign further enacted glass Government Hampshire hemp home valuation hydrometer inches interests iron John Kentucky labor leather legislation levied manufactures material merchandise Nathaniel Silsbee otherwise specified ounces paid pig iron port proposed protection Provided question rate of duty Senator seventy-five cents ships or vessels silk Simmons South Carolina spirits square yard sugar Tallmadge tariff thereof thirty per centum thousand eight hundred tion Treasury twenty per centum twenty-five cents twenty-five per centum United valorem duty vote wares William Woodbury wool yeas and nays Yeas-Messrs
Popular passages
Page 334 - Whereas it is necessary for the support of government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures, that duties be laid on goods, wares, and merchandises imported: Be it enacted, etc.
Page 304 - ... on such nonenumerated article the same rate of duty as is chargeable on the article which it resembles paying the highest...
Page 241 - The amendment was ordered to be engrossed and the bill to be read a third time. The bill was read the third time.
Page 202 - The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid 7 per cent., into a spoon that has paid 15 per cent., flings himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid 22 per cent.
Page 202 - ... that comes from abroad, or is grown at home ; taxes on the raw material, taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man ; taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite and the drug that restores him to health ; on the ermine which decorates the judge and the rope which hangs the criminal ; on the poor man's salt and the rich man's spice ; on the brass nails of the coffin and the ribands of the bride ; at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay.
Page 195 - An act to provide revenue from imports, and to change and modify existing laws imposing duties on imports, and for other purposes...
Page 41 - An act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, and to grant preemption rights...
Page 361 - States shall be first satisfied, and the priority hereby established shall extend as well to cases in which a debtor, not having sufficient property to pay all his debts, makes a voluntary assignment thereof, or in which the estate and effects of an absconding, concealed, or absent debtor are attached by process of law, as to cases in which an act of bankruptcy is committed.
Page 51 - Act of Congress, to be entered in the ports of the United States on payment of the same duties as shall then be paid on goods, wares, and merchandise imported in vessels of the United States.
Page 312 - ... 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 and by order of any college, academy, school, or seminary of learning in the United States...