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 [Ho'jgE Bill, No. 230.] 
 
 HOUSE OF R^BPRESENTATIVES, November 26, 186 J.— Read 
 first Hni! seconi times?, made special order after Currency Bill, and 
 ordered to be printed. 
 
 [By Mr. Lyon, from Committee on Ways and Means.] 
 
 ^ BILL 
 
 To be entitled **Aa Act to amend An Act to provide revenue from 
 commodities imported from foreign countries,'" approved May 
 2l3t, 18G4. 
 
 1 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do 
 
 2 enact, That the first section of the act above recited be amended 
 
 3 80 that the duty imposed by the same on goods, products, wares, 
 
 4 and merchandise, imported from abroad for the Confederate 
 
 5 Stales, shall, after the passage of this act, be as follows : On 
 
 6 all articles enumerated in schedule A of said act, fifty per 
 
 7 centum ; on all articles enumerated in schedule B, forty per 
 
 8 centum ; on all articles enumerated in schedule C, thirty per 
 
 9 centum ;^n all articles enumerated in schedule D, twenty per 
 
 10 centum ; on all articles enumerated in schedule E, ten per 
 
 11 centum: Provided^ That nothing contained in this act shall bo 
 
 12 construed to impose any duty on articles now admitted duty 
 
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 13 free under acts passed since the passage of the said act of May 
 
 14 21st, 1S61. 
 
 1 Sec. 2. That the article of salt, in schedule F, be trans- 
 3 ferred to schedule G, so as to be admitted free of duty.