Annual report of the Secretary of the treasury on the state of the finances

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1858 - United States - 72 pages
 

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Page 229 - August, 1789, in the necessary support and maintenance and repairs of all light-houses, beacons, buoys, and public piers, erected, placed or sunk before the passage of the act, within any bay, inlet, harbor, or port of the United States...
Page 86 - California, and of the 12th section of the Act of Congress approved on the 31st of August, 1852, entitled An Act making appropriations for the Civil and Diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three and for other purposes...
Page 338 - ... books, maps and charts imported by authority of the joint library committee of Congress, for the use of the library of Congress ; provided, that if, in any case, a contract shall have been made with any bookseller, importer, or other person, for books, maps or charts, in which contract the bookseller, importer, or other person aforesaid, shall have paid the duty, or included the duty in said contract, in such case the duty shall not be...
Page 350 - Manufactures, articles, vessels, and wares, not otherwise provided for, of brass, copper, gold, iron, lead, pewter, platina, silver, tin, or other metal, or of which either of those metals or any other metal shall be the component material of chief value.
Page 346 - Mint; cotton; felt, adhesive, for sheathing; garden seeds, and other seeds not otherwise provided for; goods, wares, and merchandise, the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United States exported to a foreign country, and brought back to the United States...
Page 361 - Wearing apparel in actual use and other personal effects (not merchandise), professional books, implements, instruments, and tools of trade, occupation, or employment, of persons arriving in the United States.
Page 356 - Sheathing copper ; but no copper to be considered such, and admitted free, except in sheets of forty-eight inches long and fourteen inches wide, and weighing from fourteen to thirty-four ounces the square foot. Sheathing metal. Specimens of natural history, mineralogy, or botany. Trees, shrubs, bulbs, plants, and roots, not otherwise provided for.
Page 78 - An act to provide for the better organization of the Treasury, and for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public revenue...
Page 340 - ... socks, stockings, wove shirts and drawers, and all similar articles made on frames, worn by men, women, or children, and not otherwise provided for...
Page 360 - ... type metal; types, new or old; vanilla beans; verdigris; velvet, in the piece, composed wholly of cotton; velvet, in the piece, composed of cotton and silk, but of which cotton is the component material of chief value...

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