Chapter LI. supplementary to “An act to regulate the duties on imports and tonnage.”March 3, 1817. [Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Act of July 20, 1790, ch. 30
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Chap. LI.— An Act supplementary to “An act to regulate the duties on imports and tonnage.”March 3, 1817. [Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Act of July 20, 1790, ch. 30. Act of April 27, 1816, ch. 107. Act of Jan. 14, 1817, ch. 3. Ad valorem duty to be on the net cost of the article whence imported. States of America, in Congress assembled,* That in all cases where an ad valorem duty shall be charged, it shall be calculated on the net cost of the article at the place whence imported, (exclusive of packages, commissions, charges of transportation, export duty, and all other charges) with the usual addition, established by law, of twenty per cent. on all merchandise imported from places beyond the Cape of Good Hope, and of ten per cent. on articles imported from all other places.
Approved, March 3, 1817.