the said presiding justice is duly commissioned and qualified; or if the said certificate be given by the governor, the secretary of state, the chancellor or keeper of the great seal, it shall be under the great seal of the state in which the said certificate is made. And the said records and exemplifications, authenticated as aforesaid, shall have such faith and credit given to them in every court and office within the United States, as they have by law or usage in the courts or offices of the state from whence the same are, or shall be taken.
To what acts the provisions of this law shall apply.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all the provisions of this act, and the act to which this is a supplement, shall apply as well to the public acts, records, office books, judicial proceedings, courts and offices of the respective territories of the United States, and countries subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, as to the public acts, records, office books, judicial proceedings, courts and offices of the several states.
Approved, March 27, 1804.
Statute Ⅰ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. LVII.—An Act for imposing more specific duties on the importation of certain articles; and also, for levying and collecting light money on foreign ships or vessels, and for other purposes.[1]
Additional articles exempted from duty.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the thirtieth day of June next, the following articles, in addition to those already exempted from duty, shall and may be imported free from any duty, namely, rags of linen, of cotton, of woollen and of hempen cloth; bristles of swine, regulus of antimony, unwrought clay, unwrought burr stones, and the bark of the cork tree.
Additional duties imposed.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the thirtieth day of June next, the duties now in force upon the articles herein after enumerated and described, at their importation into the United States, shall cease; and that, in lieu thereof, there shall be thenceforth laid, levied and collected upon the said articles, at their said importation, the several and respective rates or duties following, that is to say:
Specific articles and rates.On foreign caught dried fish, fifty cents per quintal; on foreign caught pickled fish, as follows, to wit: On salmon, one hundred cents per barrel; on mackerel, sixty cents per barrel; on all other pickled fish, forty cents per barrel; on cables, tarred cordage, white lead, red lead, almonds, currants, prunes and plums, figs, raisins imported in jars and boxes, and muscadel raisins, two cents per pound; on all other kinds of raisins, one cent and a half per pound; on tallow, yellow ochre in oil, anchors and sheet iron, one cent and a half per pound; on Spanish brown, dry yellow ochre, slit and hoop iron, one cent per pound; on starch, three cents per pound; on hair powder, glue, and seines, four cents per pound; on pewter plates and dishes, four cents per pound; on untarred cordage, two cents and a half per pound; on quicksilver, six cents per pound; on Chinese cassia and gunpowder, four cents per pound; on cinnamon and cloves, twenty cents per pound; on mace, one dollar and twenty-five cents per pound; on nutmegs, fifty cents per pound; on black glass quart bottles, sixty cents per gross; on window glass, as follows:—On all not above eight inches by ten, one dollar and sixty cents per hundred square feet; not above ten inches by twelve, one dollar and seventy-five cents per hundred square feet; and on all above ten inches by twelve, two dollars and twenty-five cents per hundred square feet; on segars, two dollars per thousand; on kid and Morocco shoes, fifteen cents a pair; on foreign lime, fifty cents per cask containing sixty gallons; and on Sicily wine, thirty cents per gallon.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That an addition of ten per centum