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FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 6, 7, 8. 1870. 397 CHAP. VI. —An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to reduce internal Taxes, and Dec. 22, 1870.. for other Purposes," approved July jourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy. Be it enacted by the Senate and Muse of Representatives of the United AMW). 262. States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of section Customsduties twenty-one of the act to reduce internal taxes, and for other purposes, ap- °” ““€"*'· proved July fourteen, eighteen hundred and seventy, as relates to sugar, be amended so [that] it will read- On all sugar not above number seven, Dutch standard in color, one and three quarter cents per pound. On all sugar above number seven, and not above number ten, Dutch standard in color, two cents per pound. On all sugar above number ten, and not above number thirteen, Dutch standard in color, two and one quarter cents per pound. On all sugar. above number thirteen, and not above number sixteen, Dutch standard in color, two and three quarter cents per pound. On all sugar above number sixteen, and not above number twenty, Dutch standard in color, three and one quarter cents per pound. On all sugar above number twenty, Dutch standard in color, and on all refined loaf, lump, crushed, powdered, and granulated sugar, four cents per pound : Provided, That the Secretary. of the Treasury shall, by Pmvtsiouusto regulation, prescribe and require that samples from packages of sugar ”·mPl“· shall be taken by the proper officers, in such manner as to ascertain the true quality of such sugar; and the weights of sugar imported in casks or weights how boxes shall be marked distinctly by the custom—house weigher, by scoring to M ¤¤¤Yk°d· the figures indelibly on each package: And provided further, That all Siru(ps,&c. sirup of sugar, sirup of sugar-cane juice, melada, concentrated melada, or f£:;:w”‘§0"}.g;__ concentrated molasses, entered under the name of molasses, shall be for- {-.-,;;,.,,1, ieited to the United States. Aernovnn, December 22, 1870. CHAP. VII -—An Act making Appropriation for Revenue Cutters. Deo. 22, 1870. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the sum of three hundred f Approprigtion thousand dollars be, and the same hereby is, appropriated, out of any O‘;."S€;’3'(;*$;’r‘; moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the Secre— for ti,,,.,.,,,,,,,,, tary of the Treasury to construct steam cutters for the revenue marine w’vi¤<>- service, the same not to exceed in tonnage the maximum recommended Tonnage notto by the commission appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury, Decem- °X°°°d» °· ber sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. APPROVED, December 22, 1870. CHAP. VIII. —An Act to authorize the Jersey Shore National Bank, Pennsylvania, to DSO_ gg, 1g7g_ change its Location. mi Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Jersey Shore Na- Jersey Shore tional Bank, now located in Jersey Shore, Lycoming county, Pennsyl-§1§t‘°g§;UB;"§s vanin, is hereby authorized to change its location to the city of Williams- 1,,,,3;;,,,, {gw;]. port, Lycoming county, State of Pennsylvania. Whenever the stock- li¤¤15P<>f¢.P¤· holders representing three fourths of the capital of said bank, at a meeting called for that purpose, determine to make such change, the president and cashier shall execute a certificate under the corporate seal of the bank specifying such determination, and shall cause the same to be recorded in the office of the comptroller of the currency, and thereupon such change of location shall be eitected, and the operations of discount and deposit of said bank shall be carried on under the name of the Wil- New name. liamsport National Bank, in the city of Williamsport, Lycoming county, State of Pennsylvania.