134, second session Forty-Second Congress) the, following figures are compiled, (centa omitted :) Comparing the postal revenues, expenditures, and deficiency of 1868 with 1871, the percentage of increase in revenue is 23; the percentage of increase in expenditures is 7%; and the percentage of decrease in deficiency is 321. Period. GOLD FLUCTUATIONS.* Highest. Lowest. First quarter.. 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 134 151 148 125 132 133 130 1104 125 132 137 131 1107 1434 138 140 1303 111 1314 133 132 119 110 Mean annual average (computed from the highest and lowest monthly quotations) during the above period: 1862, 1133; 1863, 146; 1864, 203; 1865, 1581; 1866, 1411; 1867, 138§; 1868, 139; 1869, 1343; 1870, 1143. D.-MANUFACTURES.† Total value, gross production, at the censuses of 1850, 1860, and 1870. *Showing the variations in value of United States currency. †These returns are official, of date June 10, 1872, but are subject to revision and change. The census of 1870 does not include the products of mines and fisheries under the head of manufac tures, as had previously been the case. In 1860 the products of mines and fisheries amounted to about ninety million dollars. Increase: 1860 over 1850, 85 per cent.; 1870 over 1860, 123 per cent.; 1870 over 1850, 323 per cent. 110,469.650 40.711.296 1.249,123 378.870.989 16.678.638 249,010 237.597.249 9,111,050 62 692,279 2.236.640 155,044,910 22.117.688 13,433,226 8.615.195 7,045.477 38,587.953 17.987.225 9,725 68 15,369.731 6,577,202 2.351.011 900,153 31.976.889 14,637,807 1,168.533 291.220 8,570,920 38.496,077 50,652,124 21,169,051 29,602,507 H.-CUSTOMS SCHEDULE, Showing the changes made therein by the acts of May 1 and June 6, 1872. (See General Notes at foot of page.) 50 p. ct. 20 p. ct. 50 p. ct. Bituminous substances, (20 p. ct. crude, n. o. p. 30 p. ct. Animals living‡. GENERAL NOTES.-1. The column for 1870 is condensed from Young's Custom-House Statistics and Heyl's Rates of Duties, &c.; that of 1872 is made up direct from the law, with the coöperation of the office of the Commissioner of Customs. 2. Goods in bonded warehouse may be withdrawn under present tariff. 3. A drawback is allowed on exported fire-arms, scales, balances, shovels, spades, axes, hatchets, hammers, plows, cultivators, mowing-machines, and reapers with stocks or handles of American wood, where the imported raw material predominates. 4. Materials for ship-building, imported in bond, are free under certain conditions. 5. Materials for repairing American vessels in foreign trade, free. 6. Several articles of mixed composition aremarked the same in 1872 as in 1870 column, because it is impossible to judge whether or not the ten per cent. reduction applies to them. That will be determined in each case by the material predominating. 7. R. means reduction. 8. N. o. p. means not otherwise provided for. *Specific gravity changed to 1.047. (1872.) fFuming per pound. 1 cent. (1872.) Exempt from duty: teams of animals, including harness and tackle, actually owned by immigrants to the United States and in actual use for purposes of such immigration; all animals brought into the United States temporarily and for a period not exceeding six months, for the purposes of exhibition ar competition. (Act of July 1870.) Blacking, of all descript's... 30 p. ct. Black lead, (plumbago)......on $10. Bladders, manufactures of.. 30 p. ct. Bone black and ivory drop..25 p. ct. Bone dice, draught, chess men, chess balls, and bagatelle balls.. 50 p. ct. manufactures of, n. o. p... 35 p. ct. Bonnets, hats, &c., of straw. chip, &c..... Books, blank... Books, printed, bound or not, periodicals, &c Borate of lime...... Borax, crude or tincal... refined ...... Boxes, of paper, and other fancy Braids, and other tr'm'gs free. 130 p. ct. 10p.ct. R. 40 p. ct. 25 p. ct. 25 p. ct. tb 5 c. tb 5 c. 25 p. ct. -free. lb 10 c. of grass, straw, &c......... 30 p. ct. Brandy, (1870, and other spirit from grain, &c.... pf. gal. $2. pf. gal, $2. Brass, (copper not compo nent of chief value, 1869.) bars or pigs...... 15 p. ct. old, fit for remanuf. only.. 15 p. ct. manufactures of, n..o. p... 35 p. ct. Brazil paste....... 10 p. ct. 10 p.et. R. free. *Free under decision of the United States Supreme Court. wax, pure, mixed tb 8 c. Itb 8 c. tallow.... tb 2 c. Ib 21 c. all other, n. o. p.... tb 2 c. Ib 2 c. Candy, not colored. tb 10 c. tb 10 c. Canes for walking, finished or not... Canvas, for saust. 30 p. ct. 10 p. ct. R. Capers.. 35 p. ct. 35 p. ct. of fur.. 35 p. ct. 35 p. ct. of silk. (See man'fac's Clocks, and parts thereof... 35 p. ct. app., ev. desc., wholly ready-m, silk, or if s. shall be mat' of chief val... 60 p. ct. all other, n. o. p..............35 p. ct. Cloves...... of cotton, wool, &c.)..... tb 3c. tb 3c. Card-cases. 55 p. ct. 35 p. ct. Coach furniture... 35 p. ct. * Carbolic liquid... 3 rates. 10 p. ct. Coal, bituminous and shale, ton $1.25. Cards, play, cost'g not over 25 cents per pack.... over 25 cents per pack.... pack, 35 c. Carpets, n. o. p....... Saxony, Wilton, and all other, n. o. p... ton 40c. pack, 25 c. culm of, and coke... 25 p. ct. ton 75c. ton 40c. tont 40c. Cobalt, and oxide of........ 20 p. ct. 20 p. ct. 40 p. ct. ores........ 10 p. ct. free. Cocoa.. ib 2c. prepared or manut'd. ib 5c. ib 2c. leaves and shells.. tb lc. yarns, &c., v. 24 cents or less per lb... 30 p. ct. 40 p. ct. 30 p. ct. ditto, &c.. value above 24 cents per lb..... thread, or linen thread, &c 40 p. ct. Flints..... 10 p. ct. 40 p. ct. free. Floor cloth, of whatever material, n. o. p. ...... (See Oil-Cloth.) *Flowers, leaves, plants, roots, barks, and seeds for medicinal purposes in a crude state, not otherwise provided, free, 1872. †The rates upon window-glass-rough plate, fluted, rolled, unpolished cylinder, crown, and common window; polished cylinder and crown; cast or polished, not silvered; and cast or polished, silvered or looking-glass frames; are the same as required by act of June 30, 1861, as above, less ten per cent. by act of June, 1872. If not jewelry or articles of ornament. |