Chapter 6.
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CHAP. 6.— An act to amend the act entitled “An act to repeal the discriminating duties on goods produced east of the Cape of Good Hope,” approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two. Dec. 23, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Act repealing certain duties on goods produced east of Cape of Good Hope, amended.[R. S. 2501, 459](/us/rs/s2501/459).*Ante*, p. 58. That the act entitled “An act to repeal the discriminating duties on goods produced east of the Cape of Good Hope,” approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
" “That section twenty-five hundred and one of the Revised Statutes of the United States, which reads as follows: “There shall be levied, collected, and paid on all goods, wares, and merchandise of the growth or produce of the countries east of the Cape of Good Hope (except wool, raw cotton, and raw silk, as reeled from the cocoon, or not further advanced than tram, thrown, or organzine), when imported from places west of the Cape of Good Hope, a duty of ten per centum ad valorem in addition to the duties imposed on any such article when imported directly from the place or places of their growth or production, be, and the same is hereby, repealed from and after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-three; and all such goods as may be in public store or warehouse on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, or on shipboard in port, shall be subject to no other duty than if imported after that day.
” " Approved, December 23, 1882.