Chapter XLV. *regulating the Duties on imported Copper and Copper Ores.* Feb. 24, 1869. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That from and after the passage Customs duty on copper and copper ores.of this act, in lieu of the duties heret
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Chap. XLV.— An Act *regulating the Duties on imported Copper and Copper Ores.* Feb. 24, 1869. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That from and after the passage Customs duty on copper and copper ores.of this act, in lieu of the duties heretofore imposed by law on the articles hereinafter mentioned, there shall be levied, collected, and paid on the articles herein enumerated and provided for, imported from foreign countries, the following specified duties and rates of duty, that is to say:
On all copper imported in the form of ores, three cents on each pound of fine copper contained therein; on all regulus of copper, and on all black or coarse copper, four cents on each pound of fine copper contained therein; on all old copper, fit only for remanufacture, four cents per pound; on all copper in plates, bars, ingots, pigs, and in other forms not manufactured or herein enumerated, including sulphate of copper or blue vitriol, five cents per pound; on copper in rolled plates called braziers’ copper, sheets, rods, pipes, and copper bottoms, eyelets, and all manufactures of copper, or of which copper shall be a component of chief value, not otherwise herein Increased duty not to apply, &c.provided for, forty-five per centum ad valorem: *Provided,* That the increased duty imposed by this act shall not apply to any of the articles therein enumerated which shall have been in course of transit to the United States, and actually on shipboard on the nineteenth of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine.
SCHUYLER COLFAX, *Speaker of the House of Representatives.* B. F. WADE, *President of the Senate pro tempore.* In the House of Representatives, U. S., February 23, 1869. The President of the United States, having returned to the House of Representatives, in which it originated, the bill entitled “An act regulat ing the duties on imported copper and copper ores,” with his objections thereto, the House of Representatives proceeded, in pursuance of the Con stitution, to reconsider the same; and *Resolved,* That the bill do pass, two thirds of the House of Representa tives agreeing to pass the same.
Attest: EDWD. McPHERSON, *Clerk H. R. U. S.* FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. III. CH. 45, 46, 47. 1869. 275 In Senate of the United States, February 24, 1869. The Senate having proceeded, in pursuance of the Constitution, to reconsider the bill entitled “An act regulating the duties on imported copper and copper ores,” returned to the House of Representatives by the President of the United States, with his objectio ns, and sent by the House of Representatives to the Senate, with the message of the President returning the bill: *Resolved,* That the bill do pass, two thirds of the Senate agreeing to pass the same.
Attest: GEO. C. GORHAM. *Secretary of the Senate, U. S.*