United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/22nd Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 62
Chap. LXII.—An Act to explain and amend the act to alter and amend the several acts imposing duties on imports passed July fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, so far as relates to hardware, and certain manufactures of copper and brass, and other articles.
Certain provisoes suspended till June 1, 1834.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisoes of the tenth and twelfth clauses of the second section of the act to alter and amend the several acts imposing duties on imports, passed July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, be, and the same are hereby suspended until the first day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-four.
Repeal of duties on copper bottoms, &c. repealed.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, so much of the act to alter and amend the several acts imposing duties on imports, passed July the fourteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, as repeals the duties heretofore levied on copper bottoms cut round, and copper bottoms raised to the edge, and still bottoms cut round and turned upon the edge, and parts thereof, and on copper plates or sheets, weighing more than thirty-four ounces per square foot, commonly called braziers’ copper, and on tobacco leaves, or unmanufactured, be, and the same is hereby repealed.
Duty on sheet and rolled brass.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That nothing contained in the act of the fourteenth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, to alter and amend the several acts imposing duties on imports, shall be so construed as to authorize the exemption, from the payment of duty on sheet and rolled brass, but the same shall be charged with the payment of a duty of twenty-five per centum ad valorem.
Approved, March 2, 1833.