PERU.

MILITARY TARIFF IMPOSED BY CHILL

Minister Christiancy, writing under date of May 29, 1881, submits the following to the Department:

The Chilian military authorities having established a tariff of customs duties on imports and exports, which I presume will be adhered to while their military occupation of the Peruvian littoral shall be continued, and as that occupation may last for a long time, I have thought it might be well that our merchants and shipowners should have information upon the subject, inasmuch as it might affect their actions in any question bearing upon commercial adventures to Peru. For these reasons I here inclose a decree of Admiral Patricio Lynch, commander-in-chief of the Chilian forces here, dated the 24th instant, but not published until the 27th instant, when it appeared in the "Orden" and the "Actualidad," of Lima, and in "El Dia," of Callao.

Patricio Lynch, Rear-Admiral and General-in-Chief of the Army of Chili:

Whereas I have on this date decreed the following:

Considering that it is just that the Government of Chili should obtain from the territory occupied by their military forces all the benefit compatible with the interest of its commerce and industry

I decree:

DUTIES UPON IMPORTS.

ARTICLE 1. The merchandise imported into the port of Callao shall pay a duty of 25 per cent. upon its value, with the exception of the following, which shall pay: ART. 2. A duty of 15 per cent. upon

Tar and pitch for use of ships.

Animals alive or killed and dressed.

Quicksilver in jars.

Charcoal and mineral coal.

Oakum for caulking.

Woolen felt (barred) for use of shipping.

Pig-iron in bars, unwrought, square, round, or in plates.

Iron axles or champs (or hoops).

Fresh prints.

Printing presses and utensils.

Machinery for agriculture and mining.

Flower seeds and garden seeds.

Printing ink.

ART. 3. A duty of 10 per cent. on

Sub. 1. Chilian products, and those kinds of merchandise free or nationalized in Chili.

Sub. 2. Peruvian products coming from ports occupied by Chilian arms.

ART. 4. A specific duty.

Sub. 1. Brandies, bottles of the common size, 4 pesos per dozen.

Brandies, 42 cents per liter.

Coffee, 15 cents per kilogram.

Beer, 1 peso and 25 cents per dozen bottles.

Beer, 12 cents per liter.

Cigars, 3 pesos per kilogram.

Alcohol (pure), 50 cents per liter.

Gin, 3 pesos per dozen bottles.

Gin, 32 centavos per liter.

Sweetened liquors, 4 pesos and 50 cents per dozen bottles.

Sweetened liquors, 48 cents per liter.

Lard, 5 cents per kilogram.

Snuff, 3 pesos per kilogram.

Burning rum (or burning alcohol), 4 pesos per dozen bottles.

Burning rum (or burning alcohol), 42 cents per liter.

Havana tobacco, 2 pesos per kilogram.

Any other tobacco, 1 peso per kilogram.

Tea, 75 cents per kilogram.

White wine, 32 cents per liter.

White wine, 3 pesos per dozen bottles.

Red wine, $2.25 per dozen bottles.

Red wine, 25 cents per liter.

Paraguay tea, 6 cents per kilogram.

Sub. 2. Products of Chili and those naturalized in Chili, subject to specific duties, shall pay 25 per cent. of those established in last above.

Sub. 1. Peruvian products coming from ports occupied by the Chilian arms shall pay the same duties as Chilian products subject to a specific duty.

ART. 5. The valuation shall be according to the Peruvian tariff of 1880.

ART. 6. The collector of customs will prescribe the special rules and modes of proceeding to which the documents shall be submitted, which shall be presented for dispatch.

ART. 7. All other duties upon importation in force at the time of occupation shall be collected in the form which the chief collector of customs shall determine.

ART. 8. All merchandise which shall be disembarked should be immediately dispatched for consumption. If from exceptional circumstances, properly certified by the chief collector of customs, it shall not be possible to dispatch from the port the merchandise disembarked, these may be deposited in the stores of the custom-house for fifteen days. The compensation for storage shall be equivalent to 2 per cent of the value of the merchandise. If at the expiration of fifteen days the merchandise shall not have been dispatched, the collector of customs shall proceed to sell them at auction to the highest bidder, and after deducting the costs of the sale and the duties due, the residue shall remain in deposit to the credit of the party entitled thereto.

EXPORT DUTIES.

ART. 9. Every product or manufacture which shall be exported by neutrals shall be free of duty (except)

ART. 10. There shall be excepted from the last above article (9) the following, which shall pay:

Cotton, each 100 kilograms, $1.25.

Grained sugar and muscovado, each 100 kilograms, $1.25.

Sugar, concrete or pressed in cakes, each 100 kilograms, 80 cents.

Hides of horned cattle, each 30 cents.

Alpaca wool, for each 100 kilograms, $5.

Common wool, for each 100 kilograms, $2.25.

Bar silver and old silverware, per kilogram, $1.40.

PAYMENT OF DUTIES.

ART. 11. The duties may be paid, at the option of the payer, (1) In the silver peso of any nationality, provided always that, by weight and standard, they shall not be worth less than those of Chili; (2) in gold coin, computing the peso at 38 pence each; (3) in the fiscal bills of Chili at such rates of discount as shall be fixed by this headquarters within the first two weeks of each month.

ART. 12. This decree shall take effect from and after the 8th of June, proximo. The decrees of the 22d January and the 15th February last are repealed.

Let it be recorded, published, and an account given to the supreme government for its approval. That it may be brought to the knowledge of all, let it be published in the daily papers and posted in the most public places in this city and of Callao. Given in the House of Government in Lima, this 24th of May, 1881.

MANUEL B. DIAZ B., Secretary-General.

PATRICK LYNCH.

Patrick Lynch, Rear-Admiral and General-in-Chief of the Army of Chili:
Whereas I have this day decreed as follows:

Considering that it is proper to establish proper regulations for the internment (conveyance to the interior) and exportation of merchandise

I decree:

FOR INTERNMENT.

ARTICLE 1. For the internment of merchandise, Peruvian ports in which no customhouses have been established shall be considered as minor ports and as dependencies of the custom-house at Callao.

Consequently, all merchandise that has paid the duties charged at that customhouse may be sent to those ports.

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ART. 2. Merchants desiring to avail themselves of the privilege granted by the foregoing article shall to that end obtain a custom-house permit in triplicate, in which, in addition to the quantity, kind, and weight of the goods, the port of their destination shall be stated, together with the name of the vessel which is to convey them.

One of the copies shall be left at the custom-house, another shall be delivered to the party interested, and the third shall be sent to the port of destination, so that the commander of the blockading forces, or of the military forces of the place, may permit the discharge of the goods.

ART. 3. When the goods which it is desired to send to the ports to which this decree refers may, in the judgment of the collector of customs, be appraised on board without the necessity of discharging them, this shall be permitted, on payment of the proper duties in cash and security being furnished that any difference that may be detected on their discharge in the port of destination shall be made good.

ART. 4. The collector of customs shall adopt such measures as he may deem most suitable for the protection of the interests of the Treasury, even though they may modify the foregoing provisions, and he shall duly report the adoption of any such measures to the Treasury Department.

FOR EXPORTATION.

ART. 5. Merchants wishing to export sugar, or any article subject to export duties, from any port lying north or south of Callao, may do so by complying with the following provisions:

1st. They shall present an application to the collector of customs at Callao, in which is mentioned the name of the port (or ports) in which the goods are to be discharged, together with the number of quintals or the quantity which it is proposed to export.

On arranging for the payment of duties on the merchandise to be exported, the parties interested shall furnish a certificate of deposit, or a promissory note, indorsed to the satisfaction of the collector, by way of security for the amount of those duties. 2d. The payment of said amount shall be required if, during the period which shall be fixed by the collector, and which shall not exceed one month, it shall not be satisfactorily shown that the exportation has been impossible, owing to some unforeseen occurrence, or to vis major.

3d. Notwithstanding the provisions contained in the foregoing paragraph, the collector may require the payment of the export duties to be made in cash whenever he shall think proper so to do.

ART. 6. The duties having been paid, or a sufficient guarantee having been furnished for their payment, the collector shall issue an order in duplicate, in which shall be stated the name of the vessel which is to receive the goods, the exact quantity of the latter, the name of the port (or ports) in which they are to be discharged, and any other particulars that may tend to prevent abuses.

Both copies shall bear the approval and seal of the military commander of Callao. ART. 7. The order referred to in the foregoing article shall be delivered to the party interested, and shall be considered a sufficient permit by the commanding officer of the blockading force, or by the military officer in command of the port from which the exportation takes place.

The military commander, or, in his absence, the commander of the blockading force, shall retain one of the copies of the order for the purpose of sending it, as speedily as possible, to the collector of customs at Callao, after having certified to the quantity of merchandise shipped.

The other copy shall be returned to the party interested, after the annotation entered upon the one which is reserved has been copied thereupon.

ART. 8. The collector of customs at Callao, as soon as he shall receive the copies sent him by the military commander, or the commander of the blockading squadron, shall proceed to collect the duties on the goods, in case they have not yet been paid.

ART. 9. Any exports made in violation of the foregoing articles will render the party making them amenable to the penalties provided for the prevention and repression of smuggling.

Let it be recorded and communicated.

Therefore,

To the end that it may become known to all, let it be published both in the newspapers and handbills, and let the latter be posted in the most public places of this city and of Callao.

Done at Lima, in the Government Hall, May 25, 1881.

MANUEL DIAZ B., Secretary-General.

P. LYNCH.

THE NEW PERUVIAN TARIFF.

REPORT BY ACTING CONSUL BRENT, OF CALLAO.

I have the honor to transmit herewith a copy of a decree issued yesterday by General Iglesias, at Lima, organizing the new customs system, with a translation of the same.

By this ordinance, which is declared to be of a temporary character, a deduction of fifteen per cent. is made on nearly all classes of dutiable goods from the tariff established by the Chilian authorities whilst in possession of the northern and central coast of Peru.

In the accompanying translation of the decree I have made certain explanatory notes that seemed to be required.

CONSULATE OF THE UNITED STATES,

H. M. BRENT,

Callao, October 25, 1883.

[Translation.]

Acting Consul.

MIGUEL IGLESIAS, PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC.

Whereas it is necessary in the present embarrassed condition of the country to equalize the burdens to be borne with the requirements of the nation.

It is equitable and proper to establish national credit, complying strictly and faithfully with all the obligations contracted by the State.

That although the burthens now imposed on the Republic may be heavy, they are essentially of a transitory character and only to subsist until the opening of the National Assembly.

I decree:

1. That the customs tariff in force in the Republic up to the 13th January, 1881, is now re-established with the following modifications:

The articles and merchandise comprehended in the first, second, third, fourth, and sixth sections of the tariff will pay an additional 10 per cent. ad valorem.

Those of the fifth and ninth sections, 5 per cent. additional ad valorem; those of the eighth section, 15 per cent. ad valorem.

The articles specified in the seventh section remain subject to the former charge.* 2. All articles imported free by virtue of the former tariff will now pay 5 per cent. ad valorem. (Agricultural and mining tools; printing paper, &c.)

3. The sums to be received from the additional duties established will be collected separately, and will form a sinking fund for the redemption of the Government paper money.

This money is to be redeemed monthly, and the manner of so proceeding will form the subject of a special decree.

4. The customs dues, as now established, accruing to the former tariff, must be paid in silver coin, and the additional dues specified in this decree must also be covered in silver coin or in Government bank-notes, at the current value attached to this paper money, to be determined by the Callao customs officers.

5. This decree goes into immediate effect at Callao, and within fifteen days from date in the other custom-houses of the Republic.

The minister of the treasury is encharged with the execution of this order.
Given at the Government House, in Lima, October 24, 1883.

MIGUEL IGLESIAS.

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Fourth section. Silk goods...

lumber, grain, coal, &c

Sixth section. Manufactured articles, fancy, household utensils, machinery,

Fifth section. Furniture of all kinds, clothing, trunks, &c.

Seventh section. Food and provisions

Eighth section. Wines, liquors, ales.

Ninth section. Medicines and drugs

*Explanatory note by the acting consul.

BRITISH GUIANA.

TARIFF OF BRITISH GUIANA.

[Ordinance No. 5, of 1882.]

Publication by His Excellency Sir Henry Turner Irving, Knight, Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Colony of British Guiana, Vice-Admiral and Ordinary of the same, &c., &c., &c., with the advice and consent of the Honorable the Court of Policy, combined with the financial representatives of the inhabitants of said colony.

To all to whom these presents do, may, or shall come greeting, be it known:

Whereas a statement has been laid before our present combined assembly, showing the amount of supplies which will be necessary to defray the colonial expenditure for the current year; and whereas it is expedient that the necessary taxes required to defray the colonial expenditure should be raised, levied, and collected by ordinance: Be it therefore enacted by his excellency the governor of the colony of British Guiana, with the advice and consent of the court of policy thereof and of the financial representatives of the inhabitants of the said colony in combined court assembled, as follows:

1. There shall be raised, levied, collected, and paid the several duties, as the same are respectively set forth in figures in the schedule herein contained, upon all goods, wares, and merchandise enumerated in the same schedule, which shall be imported into British Guiana, or taken out of bond for consumption in the colony, on and after the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, and until the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three:

Schedule of duties payable on articles imported or taken out of bond for consumption on and after 1st July, 1882, until 1st July, 1883.

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