(ACT of April 27th, 1816.)

wood, Nicaragua, and other dye woods; wood unmanufactured, of any kind, zinc, teutenague or spelter.

14. SEC. 3. An addition of ten per centum shall be made to the several rates of duties above specified and imposed, in respect to all goods, wares, and merchandise, on the importation of which in American or foreign vessels a specific discrimination has not been herein already made, which, after the said thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, 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.

[Sections Iv. and v., relate to Drawbacks. See Drawback.]

15. SEC. VI. The duty on the tonnage of vessels, and the boun ties, 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 anywise 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.

16. SEC. VII. 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 re-enacted 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 And that all acts, and parts of acts, which are contrary to this act, and no more, shall be, and the same are hereby repealed. [Infra, 22.]

17. SEC. VIII. 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.

ACT of January 14th, 1817. Pamphlet edit. 200.

An act supplementary to an act to regulate the duties on imports and tonnage.

18. SEC. 1. The tonnage duties to be paid by ships or vessels which shall be entered in the United States, excepting only such foreign ships or vessels as shall be entered from any foreign port or place to or with which vessels of the United States are not ordinarily permitted to go and trade, shall be the same as are provided by the act, entitled "An act imposing duties on the tonnage of ships or vessels," passed on the twentieth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety. Provided always, That nothing in this act contained shall 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 on tonnage of vessels. [Infra 19, 23, 25.]

ACT of March 3d, 1817. Pamphlet edit. 237.

19. On all foreign ships or vessels which shall be entered in the United States, after the thirtieth day of June next, from any foreign port or place, to and with which vessels of the United States are not (ordinariland) permitted to enter and trade, there shall be paid a duty the rate of two dollars per ton, to be levied and collected in the same manner, and under the same regulations, -as are prescribed by law in relation to the duties upon tonnage now in force. [Infra 23, 25, 31.]

ACT of April 20th, 1818. Pamphlet edit. 163.

An act to increase the duties on iron in bars and bolts, iron in pigs, castings, nails, and alum.

20. SEC. 1. 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 herein after mentioned, that is to say: on iron in pigs, fifty cents er hundred weight; on iron castings, seventy-five cents per hundred weight; on nails, four cents per pound; on spikes, three cents per pound; on iron in bars and bolts, manufactured without rolling, seventy-five cents per hundred weight; on anchors, two cents per pound; and on alum, two dollars per hundred weight.

21. SEC. II. 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:

(ACT of April 20th, 1818.)

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. [Infra, 24, 25, 27, 31.]

[SEC. III. See Drawbrack.]

22. SEC. IV. 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 re-enacted by, this act. [Infra 28, 34.]

ACT of April 20th, 1818. Pamphlet edit. 164.

An act concerning tonnage and discriminating duties, in certain cases. 23. SEC. 1. So much of the several acts imposing duties on the tonnage of vessels in the ports of the United States, as imposes a discriminating duty between foreign vessels and vessels of the United States, is hereby repealed, so far as respects vessels truly and wholly belonging to the subjects of the king of the Netherlands; such repeal to take effect from the time the government aforesaid abolished the discriminating duties between her own vessels and the vessels of the United States arriving in the ports or places aforesaid.

24. SEC. II. So much of the several acts imposing duties on goods, wares, and merchandise, imported into the United States, as imposes a discriminating duty between goods imported into the United States, in foreign vessels and in vessels of the United States, be, and the same is hereby repealed, so far as the same respects the produce or manufactures of the territories in Europe, of the king of the Netherlands, or such produce and manufactures as can only be, or most usually are, first shipped from a port or place in the kingdom aforesaid, the same being imported in vessels truly and wholly belonging to subjects of the king of the Netherlands; such repeal to take effect from the time the government aforesaid abolished its discriminating duties between goods, wares, and merchandise, imported in vessels of the United States and vessels belonging to the nation aforesaid.

ACT of April 20th, 1818. Pamphlet edit. 179.

25. SEC. 1. The secretary of the treasury is hereby directed to cause to be repaid or remitted all alien or discriminating duties,

(ACT of April 20th, 1818.)

either upon tonnage or merchandise imported, in respect to all British vessels, which have been entered in ports of the United States, at any time between the third day of July, inclusive and the eighteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, which have been paid, or secured to be paid, contrary to the provisions of the convention, regulating commerce between the territories of the United States and of his Britannic Majesty, bearing date the third day of July, eighteen hundred and fifteen: Provided, that this act shall not take effect until a similar provision shall be made by the government of Great Britian, in favour of American vessels, in regard to duties on tonnage and merchandise, entered in the British European ports during the same period.

ACT of April 20, 1818. Pamphlet edit. 179.

An act to increase the duties on certain manufactured articles imported into the United States.

26. SEC. I. 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 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 cent. 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.

27. SEC. II. 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. III. See Drawback.]

28. SEC. IV. The existing laws shall extend to, and be in force for, the collection of the duties imposed by this act on goods,

(ACT of March 3d, 1819.)

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 re-enacted by this act. And all acts and parts of acts, which are contrary to this act, shall be, and are hereby repealed.

ACT of April 20, 1818. Pamphlet edit. 181.

29. SEC. IV. The ad valorem rates of duty upon goods, wares, and merchandise, shall be estimated by adding twenty per cent. to the actual cost thereof, if imported from the Cape of Good Hope, or from any island, port, or place beyond the same, and ten per cent. on the actual cost thereof, if imported from any other place or country, including all charges, commissions, outside packages, and insurance.

ACT of April 20, 1818. Pamphlet edit. 191.

30. SEC. I. The fourth paragraph of the first section, of the act entitled, an "act to regulate the duties on imports and tonnage,' passed the twenty-seventh of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, shall, from and after the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, continue to operate in the same manner and to have the same effect, until the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, that the abovementioned fourth paragraph now has, and will continue to have until the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen. Any law to the contrary notwithstanding. [Supra, 12.]

ACT of March 3, 1819.

Pamphlet edit. 74.

An act in addition to an act concerning tonnage, and discriminating duties in certain cases.

31. SEC. 1. The act passed on the twentieth of April, one housand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled "an act concerning tonnage, and discriminating duties in certain cases," is hereby extended in all its provisions, and limitations to the vessels of Prussia, of the city of Hamburgh, and of the city of Brenien.

32. SEC. II. The act passed on the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, entitled, an act to repeal so much. of the several acts, imposing duties on the tonnage, on [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, and also the act to which this is B b