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THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 68. 1861. 183 Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That from and after the day and year aforesaid there shall be levied, collected, and paid on the importation of the articles hereinafter mentioned, the following duties, that is to Say: First: On salt, four cents per bushel of fifty-six pounds: Provided, That S*"*· salt imported in bags, or not in bulk, shall pay a duty of six cents per bushel of fifty-six pounds; on bristles, four cents per pound; on honey, ten cents per gallon ; on vinegar, six cents per gallon; on mackerel, two dollars per barrel; on herring, pickled or salted, one dollar per barrel ; on pickled salmon, three dollars per barrel; on all other fish pickled, in barrels, one dollar and fifty cents per barrel; on all other foreign caught fish imported otherwise than in barrels or half barrels, or whether fresh, smoked, or dried, salted or pickled, not otherwise provided for, fifty cents per one hundred pounds. Second: On beef and pork, one cent per pound; on hams and bacon, Beet pork, two cents per pound; on cheese, four cents per pound; on wheat, twenty °°’¤· ’l°°• &°· cents per bushel; on butter, four cents per pound; on lard, two cents per pound; on rye and barley, nfteen cents per bushel; on Indian corn or maize, ten cents per bushel; on oats, ten cents per bushel; on potatoes, ten cents per bushel ; on cleaned rice, one cent per pound; on uncleaned rice or paddy, Efty cents per one hundred pounds; on sage and sago flour, fifty cents per one hundred pounds; on tlaxseed or linseed, sixteen cents per bushel of fifty-two pounds; on hemp and rapeseed, ten cents per bushel of fifty-two pounds; on raw hides and skins of all kinds, whether dried, salted, or pickled, not otherwise provided for, five per centum ad valorem. Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That from and after the day and year aforesaid there shall be levied, collected, and paid, on the importation of the articles hereinafter mentioned, the following duties, that is to say: First: On cassia., Your cents per pound; on cassia buds, eight cents Spicgacnp per pound; on cloves, four cents per pound; on pepper, two cents per pound; Emi $8% ¤¤*·¤» on Cayenne pepper, three cents per pound; on ground Cayenne pepper, °‘ four cents per pound; on pimento, two cents per pound; on cinnamon, ten cents per pound; on mace and nutmegs, fifteen cents per pound; on pruues, two cents per pound; on plums, one cent per pound; on dates, onehalf of one cent per pound; on currants, two cents per pound; on figs, three cents per pound; on sultana., muscatel, and bloom raisins, either in boxes or jars, two cents per pound; on all other raisins, one cent per pound ; on almonds, two cents per pound ; on shelled almonds, four cents per pound; on all nuts not otherwise provided for, except those used for dyeing, one cent per pound. Sec. 12. And 6c it further enacted, That from and after the day and year aforesaid there shall be levied, collected, and paid, on the importation of the articles hereinafter mentioned, the following duties, that is to say : First: On all wool unmanufactured, and all hair of the alpaca, goat, r,?,,,,,,,,,,,;,,,,,,,, and other like animals, unmanufactured, the value whereof at the last port ed ww! Md Miror place from whence exported to the United States, shall be less than eighteen cents per pound, five per centum ad valorem; exceeding eigh- pm, Pp_ 294_ teen cents per pound, and not exceeding twenty-four cents per pound, 559- there shall be levied, collected, and paid, a duty of three cents per pound; exceeding twenty-four cents per pound, there shall be levied, collected, and paid, a duty of nine cents per pound: Provided, That any wool of the sheep, or hair of the alpaca, the goat, and other like animals which shall be imported in any other than the ordinary condition, as now and heretofore practised, or which shall he changed in its character or condition for the purpose of evmling the duty, or which shall be reduced in value by the admixture of dirt or any foreign substance to eighteen cents per Mixed Vim pound or less, shall be subject to pay a duty of nine cents per pound, any- dm, &c_ thing in this act to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, also, That when wool of different qualities is imported in the same bale, bag or