TARIFF ACT; CALLED "MR. CLAY'S BILL."

AN ACT To modify the act of the 14th July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and all other acts imposing duties on imports. Passed March 2, 1833.

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, in all cases where duties are imposed on foreign imports by the act of the fourteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, entitled, "An act to alter and amend the several acts imposing duties on imports," or by any other act, shall exceed twenty per centum on the value theroof, one tenth part of such excess shall be deducted; from and after the thirtyfirst day of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, another tenth part thereof shall be deducted; from and after the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, another tenth part thereof shall be deducted; from and after the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirtynine, another tenth part thereof shall be deducted; and from and after the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, one half of the residue of such excess shall be deducted; and from and after the thirtieth day of June, one thousand oight hundred and forty two, the other half thereof shall be deducted.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That so much of the second section of the act of the fourteenth of July aforesaid, as fixes the rate of duty on all milled and fulled cloth, known by the name of plains, kerseys, or Kendal cottons, of which wool is the only material, the value whereof does not exceed thirty-five cents a square yard, at five per centum ad valorem, shall be, and the same is hereby repealed. And the said articles shall be subject to the same duty of fifty per centum, as is provided by the said second section for other manufactures of wool; which duty shall be liable to the same deductions as are prescribed by the first section of this act.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted. That until the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, the duties imposed by existing laws, as modified by this act, shall remain and continue to be collected. And from and after the day last aforesaid, all duties upon imports shall be collected in ready money; and all credits now allowed by law, in the payment of duties, shall be, and hereby are, abolished; and such duties shail be laid for the purpose of raising such revenue as may be necessary to an economical administration of the government; and from and after the day last aforesaid, the duties required to be paid by law on goods, wares, and merchandise, shall be assessed upon the value thereof at the port where the same shall be entered, under such regulations, as may be prescribed by law.

Sec. 4 And be it further enacted, That, in addition to the articles now exempted by the act of the fourteenth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and the existing laws, from the payment of duties, the following articles imported from and after the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, and until the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty.two, shall also be admitted to entry, free from duty, to wit; bleached and unbleached linens, table linen, linen napkins, and linen cambrics, and worsted staff goods, shawls and other manufactures of silk and worsted, manufactures of silk, or of which silk shall be the component material of chief value, coming from this side of the Cape of Good Hope, except sewing silk.

Bec. 5. And be it further enacted, That from and after the said thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, the following articles shall be admitted to entry, free from duty, to wit: indigo, quicksilver, sulphur, crude saltpetre, grindstones, refined borax, emery, opium, tin in plates and sheets, gum Arabic, gum Senegal, lac dye, madder, inadder root, nuts, and berries used in dyeing, saffron, turmerie, woad or pastel, aloes, ambergris Burgundy pitch, cochineal, camomile flowers, coriander seed, catsup, chalk, coculus indicus, horn plates for lanthorns, ox horns, other horns and tips, India rubber, unmanufactured ivory, juniper berries, musk, nuts of all kinds, oil of juniper, unmanufactured rattans and reeds, tortoise shell, tin foil, shellac, vege tables used principally in dyeing and composing dyes, weld, and all articles employed chiefly for dyeing, except alum, copperas, bichromate of potash, prussiate of potash, chromate of potash, nitrate of lead, aqua fortis, and tartaric acids. And all imports on which the first section of this act may operate, and all articles now admitted to entry free from duty, or paying less rate of duty than twenty per centum ad valorein, before the said thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, from and after that day, may be admitted to entry subject to such duty, not exceeding twenty per centum ad valorem, as shall be provided for by law.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That so much of the act of the fourteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, or of any other act, as is inconsistent with this act, shall be, and the same is hereby repealed: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to prevent the passage prior or subsequent to the said thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, of any act or acts, from time to time, that may be necessary to detect, prevent, or punish evasions of the duties on imports imposed by law, nor to prevent the passage of any act, prior to the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, in the contingency either of excess or deficiency of revenue, altering the rate of duties on articles which, by the aforesaid act of fourteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirtytwo, are subject to a less rate of duty than twenty per centum ad valorum, in such manner as not to exceed that rate, and so as to adjust the revenue to either of the said Contingencies.

Approved March 2, 1833.]

THE PUBLIC LANDS.

Exhibit in relation to the sales of the Public Lands, for the year 1834, and three quarters of 1835.

Whole amount received for sales of Public Lands from 1787 to Dec. 31,

1834,* (for 37,501,238 43 acres,) $58,709,466 16.

*1835 estimated by Treasury Department from returns of three quarters 9,000,000 acres, $12,250,000 0.

DEPOSITE BANKS.

Statement of amount of money in the Treasury that is subject to draft on the 31st March, 1836, as far as ascertained from the returns received,) and exclusive of unavailable funds,) with the several places of deposite.

RECEIPTS OF GOLD AT THE MINT, FROM THE GOLD MINES IN THE UNITED

The total amount received, from 1804 to 1823, did not exceed $2,500 per

annum.

EXPORTS OF FOREIGN BULLION AND COIN, FROM THE UNITED STATES TO

.$17,911,632

Aggregate excess of imports over exports, in 1835.

In each of the five states in Italics, the governor is elected by the legis lature; in the other states by the people. By the new constitution of North Carolina, the governor, in future, is to be elected by the people.

The governors of territories are appointed by the President and Senate of the United States. Acts admitting Michigan and Arkansas as States, have passed the Senate of the United States, and are now before the house of Representatives.

*Stevens T. Mason has been elected by the people, governor of Michigan. † Appointed Secretary of Wisconsin.