day of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, the duty on coffee shall be one cent per pound, and no more; and from and after the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, the duty on cocoa shall be one cent per pound, and no more.Cocoa.
Teas imported from China, &c. And that from and after the thirty-first December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, the following rates of duty and no other, shall be levied and collected on teas imported from China, or other place east of the Cape of Good Hope, and in vessels of the United States, to wit: Imperial, Gunpowder, and Gomee, twenty-five cents per pound; Hyson and Young Hyson, eighteen cents per pound; Hyson skin, and other green teas, twelve cents per pound; Souchong and other black teas, except Bohea, ten cents per pound, and Bohea four cents per pound; and on teas imported from any other place, or in vessels other than those of the United States, the following rates, to wit:Teas imported from any other place, or in foreign bottoms, &c. Imperial, Gunpowder, and Gomee, thirty-seven cents; Hyson, and Young Hyson, twenty-seven cents; Hyson Skin, and other green teas, twenty cents; Souchong, and other black teas, except Bohea, eighteen cents; and Bohea, six cents per pound.
These duties applied to tea, &c., remaining in custom-house stores, &c.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That tea, cocoa, and coffee, which have been, or which shall be hereafter, put into the custom-house stores, under the bond of the importer, and which shall remain under the control of the proper officer of the customs, on the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, and the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, respectively, shall be subject to no higher duty than if the same were imported, respectively, after the said thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one:Proviso. Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to alter or postpone the time when the duty on the said tea, cocoa, and coffee shall be payable.
Approved, May 20, 1830.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. CII.—An Act to amend an act, entitled “An act to regulate the practice in the courts of the United States, for the district of Louisiana.”[1]
Act of May 26, 1824, ch. 181.
Mode of drawing and empanneling juries to conform to that of the state courts.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the mode of proceeding in drawing and empanneling juries in the courts of the United States for the Louisiana districts, shall be the same as is now provided by law in the district courts of the state of Louisiana; and that the judge of the United States’ courts in said district be, and he is hereby authorized, by rule, to adopt any amendment that may hereafter be made to the laws of the said state, prescribing the qualification of jurors, and providing for drawing and empanneling juries.
Duties of marshal and judge, &c., to conform to those of the state sheriff and judges.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all the duties prescribed by the laws of the state of Louisiana, to be performed by the sheriff, in relation to the drawing and summoning of jurors, shall be performed by the marshals, and those so prescribed for the parish judge, or the district judge of the state, shall be performed by the district judge of the United States. And that the duties so prescribed by the said state laws, imposed on any other state officer, shall be performed by such householders as shall be designated by the said judge of the district court of the United States.
Approved, May 20, 1830.- ↑ See notes to the act of May 26, 1824, ch. 181.
