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292 THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 45. 1861. 1861,ch, 39. intoxicating drink ; and every person offending against the provisions0f A”“» P- 286- this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction P“‘· P- M2- thereof, before a. magistrate or court having criminal _]UI`1SdlCClOfl, shall be Penalty. punished by a ine of twenty-five dollars or xmpmsonmeut for thirty days, Approved, August 5, 1861.

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P"·’h P· 5* Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Specine duties States of America in Congress assembled, That, from and after the date °¤ °°"*“*“ im" of the passage of this act, in lieu of the duties heretofore imposed by law wm on the articles hereinafter mentioned, and on such as may now be exempt from duty, there shall be levied, collected, and paid, on the goods, wares, and merchandise herein enumerated and provided for, imported from foreign countries, the following duties and rates of duty, that is to say: First,

$**8***- On raw sugar, commonly called musoovado or brown sugar, and on sugars not advanced above number twelve, Dutch standard, by claying, boiling, clarifying, or other process, and on sirup of sugar or of sugar-cane and concentrated molasses, or concentrated melado, two cents per pound ; and on white and clayed sugar, when advanced beyond the raw state, above number twelve, Dutch standard, by clarifying or other process, and not yet refined, two and a half cents per pound; on refined sugars, whether loaf, lump, crushed, or pulverized, four cents per pound; on sugars after being refined, when they are tinctured, colored, or in any way adulterated, and _ on sugar-candy, six cents per pound; on molasses, five cents per gallon: &E"g$i$;s‘g“'* Provided, That all sirups of sugar or of sugar-cane, concentrated molasmciksm, to be ses or melado, entered under the name of molasses, or any other name ¤’¢¤‘f¤i*¤d- than sirup of sugar or of sugar-cane, concentrated molasses, or concentrated melado, shall be liable to forfeiture to the United States. On all TW- teas, fifteen cents per pound; on almonds, four cents per pound: shelled “m°“d“v &°' almonds, six cents per pound ; on brimstone, crude, three dollars per ton; on brimstone, in rolls, six dollars per ton; on coffee, of all kinds, four cents per pound; on cocoa, three cents per pound; on cocoa leaves and cocoa. shells, two cents per pound; on cocoa, prepared or manufactured, eight cents per pound; on chicory root, one cent per pound; and on chicory ground, two cents per pound; on chocolate, six cents per pound; on cassia, ten cents per pound; cassia. buds, fifteen cents per pound; on cinnamon, twenty cents per pound; on cloves, eight cents per pound; on cayenne pepper, six cents per pound; on cayenne pepper, ground, eight cents per pound; on currants, five cents per pound ; on argol, three cents per pound; on cream tartar, six cents per pound ; on tartaric acid, tartar emetic, and rochelle salts, ten cents per pound; on dates, two cents per pound; on figs, five cents per pound; on ginger root, three cents per pound; on ginger, ground, five cents per pound; on Iiquorice paste and juice, five cents per pound; liquorice root, one cent per pound; on mace and nutmegs, twenty-five cents per pound; on nuts of all kinds, not otherwise provided for, two cents per pound; on pepper, six cents per pound; on pimento, six cents per pound; on plums, five cents per pound; on prunes, five cents per pound; on raisins, five cents per pound; on unmanufactured Russia hemp, forty dollars per ton; on Manilla and other hemps of India, twenty-five dollars per ton ; on lead, in pigs or bars, one dollar and fifty cents per one hundred pounds; in sheets, two dollars and twenty- five cents per one hundred pounds; on white lead, dry or ground in oil, and red lead, two dollars and twenty-ve cents per one hundred pounds; on salt, in sacks, eighteen cents per one hundred pounds, and in bulk, twelve cents per one hundred pounds; on soda ash, one-half cent per pound; on bicarbonate of soda, one cent per pound; on sal soda, onehalf cent per pound; on caustic soda, one cent per pound; on chloride of