Chapter VI. *to amend an Act entitled “An Act to reduce internal Taxes, and for other Purposes,” approved July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy*
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CHAP. VI.— An Act *to amend an Act entitled “An Act to reduce internal Taxes, and for other Purposes,” approved July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy*. Dec. 22, 1870.1870, ch. 255, § 21.*Ante*, p. 262. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Customs duties on sugar. That so much of section twenty-one of the act to reduce internal taxes, and for other purposes, approved 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, byProvision as to samples. regulation, prescribe and require that samples from packages of sugar 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 casksWeights how to be marked. or boxes shall be marked distinctly by the custom-house weigher, by scoring the figures indelibly on each package: *And provided further*, That allSirups, &c. entered as molasses to be forfeited. sirup of sugar, sirup of sugar-cane juice, melada, concentrated melada, or concentrated molasses, entered under the name of molasses, shall be forfeited to the United States.
Approved, December 22, 1870.