Chapter II. to increase the Duties on Tea, Coffee, and Sugar. Dec. 24, 1861.Post, p. 611. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the date Duties onof the passage of this act, in lieu of the duties heretofore impos

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Chap. II.— An Act *to increase the Duties on Tea, Coffee, and Sugar.* Dec. 24, 1861.*Post*, p. 611. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That from and after the date Duties onof the passage of this act, in lieu of the duties heretofore imposed by law on articles hereinafter mentioned, 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 Teas.Coffee.Sugar.rates of duty, that is to say:

First. On all teas, twenty cents per pound. Second. On coffee of all kinds, five cents per pound. Third. On raw sugar, commonly called Muscovado 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 *Ante*, pp. 179, 194.molasses or concentrated melado, two cents and a half 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, three cents per pound: on refined sugars, whether loaf, lump, crushed, or pulverized, five cents per pound; on sugars after being refined, when they are tinctured, colored, or in any way adulterated, and on sugar candy, eight, cents per pound; on molasses, six cents per Proviso.gallon: *Provided*, That all sirups of sugar or of sugar cane, concentrated molasses or concentrated melado, entered under the name of molasses, or any other name than sirup of sugar or of sugar cane, concentrated molasses or concentrated melado, shall be liable to forfeiture to the United States, and the same shall be forfeited.

Approved, December 24, [1861.]