Mr. MORRILL. I call for the special order. The House according] proceeded to the con. sideration of House bill o. 780, to protect the revenue, and for other purposes. The 1st section provxdes that from and after the 1st day of August. 1866, in lieu of the duties now imposed y law on the articles mentioned and embraced in this section, there shall be levied, collected, and paid on cigars, cigar ettes, and cheroots of all kinds, $2 60 perpound, and, in addition thereto, 50%. advalorem; and no tare for the box 111which any cigars, cheroots, or cigarettes are packed shall be allowed in ascertaming the weight; provided that paper cigars and cigarettes, including wrappers, shall be subject to the same duties as are imposed upon cigars; and provided further, that on and after the 1st day of August, 1806, no cigars shall be imported unless the same are packed in boxes 0 not more than 500 cigars in each box; and no entry of any imported cigars shall be allowed of less quantity than 3,000 in a sin gle ackage; and all cigars on importation shalrlie placed in public store or bonded ware house, and shall not be removed therefrom until the same shall have been inspected and a stamp affixed to each box indicatm such in spection, with the date thereof; the SecyTreasury being authorized to provide the requisite stamps, and to make all necessary regulations for carrying these provisions of law into effect. On cotton, 3 cents perpound. On all compounds or preparations of which distilled spirits is a component part of chief value, there shall be levied a duty not less than that imposed upon distilled spirits. The 2nd section provides that the proviso in section 4 of an not entitled “An act amendatory of certain acts imposing duties upon foreign importations, " approved March 3, 1865, shall be construed to include any ship, vessel, or steamer to or from any port in the SandwichIslands or Society Islands. The 3rd section provides that so much of an act entitled “An act to authorize protection to be 'ven to citizens of the U.S. who may iscover deposits of guano, ” aproved AugustlB, 1856, asprohibits the export thereof, is hereby suspended in relation to all persons who have complied with the provisions of section 2 of said set, for 5 years from and alter the 14th of July, 1867. The 4th section repeals all laws and parts of laws allowing fishing bounties to vessels hereafter licensed to engage in the fisheries; provided, that, from and after the date of the passage of this act, vessels licensed to engage in the fisheries may take on board imported salt in bond to be used in curing fish, under such remlations as the SecyTreas u shall prescribe, and upon proof that said an t has been used in curing fish the duties on the same shall be remitted. The 5th section provides that from and after the passage of this act all goods, wares, or merchandise arriving at the ports of NewYork, Boston and Portland, or any other port of the U.S. which may be specially desig nated by the SecyTreasury, and destinecf' for places in the adjacent british Provinces, may be entered at the customhouse, and conveyed in transit through the territory of the U.S. without the payment of duties, under such rules, regulations, and conditions for the protection of the revenue as the SecyTreasury may prescribe. The stxth section provides that imported goods, wares, or merchandise in bond, or duty paid, and products or manufactures of the U.S., may, with the consent of the proper authorities of the Provinces aforesaid, be transported from one port or place in the U.S. to another port or place therein, over the territory of said Provinces, by such routes, and under such rules, regulations, and conditions, as the SecyTreasury may rescribe; and the goods, wares, and merciau diseso transported, shall, upon arrival in the U.S. from the Provinces aforesaid, be treated in regard to the liability to or exemption from duty or tax as if the transportation had taken place entirely within the limits of the U.S. The 7th section provides that whenever it shall be shown to the satisfaction of the SecyTreasury that more moneys have been paid to the collector of customs, or others acting as such, than the law requires, and the parties have failed to compl with the require ments of the 14th an 15th sections of the act entitled “ An act to increase the duties on imports, and for other purposes." approvedJune 30, 1864, and the SecyTreasury shall be satisfied that said non-com pliance with the requirements as above stated was owing to circumstances beyond the control of the importer, consignee, or agent making such payments, he may draw his warrant upon the Treasurer in favor of the person or persons entitled to the overpayment, directin the said Treasurer to refund the same out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. The 8th section provides that the provisions of the 2nd, ird, and 4th sections of the act approved March 2, 1833, entitled “An not further to provide for the collection of duties on imports, ” and of the 12th section of the act approved March 3, 1863, entitled “An act to prevent and punish frauds upon the revenue, to provide for the more certain and speedy collection of claims in favor of the U.S., and for other purposes, ” shall be taken and deemed as extending to and embracing all cases arising or which may have heretofore arisen, and all suits and prosecutions heretofore brought and now pending, or which may hereafter be brought against any officer of the U.S or other person by reason of any acts done or proceedings had by such oficer or other person, under authority or color of the act approved March 12, 1863, entitled “An act to provide for the collection of abandoned property, and for the prevention of frauds in insurrectionary districts within the' U.S., ” or the not approved July 2, 1864, entitled “An act in addition to the several acts concerning commercial intercourse between loyal and insurrectionary States and to provide for the collection of captured and abandoned property, and the prevention of frauds in States declared in insurrection;" provided that such acts done or proceedings ad under the 2 acts last aforesaid, or under color thereof, shall have been done and had under the authority or by the direction of the Executive Government of the U.S and provided further that when a recovery shall have been, or shall hereafter be, had in any such suit or prosecution brought, or which may hereafter be brought, as aforesaid, the payment of the amount recovered, as provided for in the said 12th section of the act approved March 3, 1863, aforesaid, shall be made out of the moneys arising and obtained from the proceeds of sales and leases and fees collected and paid over to the Government under the 2 acts approved March 12, 1863, and July2 1864, aforesaid, in relation to captured an abandoned property. The 9th section provides that in determining the dutiable value of imported merchan dise, except in cases herein 0t erwise provided for, there shall be added to the cost, or to the actual wholesale price or general market value at the time of exportation in the principal mar kets of the country from whence the same shall have been imported into the U.S., the cost of transportation, shipment, and tran shipment, with all the expenses included from the place of growth, prouction, or manufacture, whether by land or Water, to the vessel in which shipment is made to the U.S.; the value of the sack, box, or coverin of any kind in which such goods are containe; commission at the usual rates, but in no case less than 2 and ahalf%.; brokerage. export duty, and all other actual or usual charges for putting up, preparing, and packing for transportation or shipment. And all charges of a general character incurred in the purchase of a general invoice shall be distributed pro'rata among all parts of such invoice; and every part thereof charged with duties based on value shall be advance according to its proportion, and all wines or other articles aying specific duty by grades shall be graded)and pay duty according to the actual value so determined; provided, that all additions made to the entered value of merchandise for charges shall be regarded as part of the actual value of such merchandise, and if such addition shall exceed by ten%. the value so declared in the entry, in addition to the duties imposed by law, there shall be levied, collected, and paid a duty of 20%. on such value; provided, that the dutyshall in no case be assessed upon an amount less than the invoice or entered value. The 10th section provides that the 2nd proviso in section 21 of an act e ti tled “An act increasing temporarily the du 'es on imports, and for other purposes, ” approved July 14, 1862, which provides that any goods remainingin public store or bonded ware oase beyond 3 years shall be regarded as aban doned to the Government, and sold under such regulations as the SecyTreasury may prescribe, and the proceeds paid into the Treasury, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to authorize the SecyTreasury, in case of any sale under the said provision, to pay to the owner, consignee, or agent of such goods, the proceeds thereof, after deducting duties, charges, and expenses, in conformity with the provision of the 1st section of the warehouse act iffAugust U, 1846. The 11th section provides that durii the period of one year from the passage of this act, there may be imported into the U.S. free of duty, any machinery designed solely for and adapted to the manufacture of sugar from beets, including all the preliminary processes requisite therefor, but not including any machinery which may be used for any other manufactures. The 12th section provides that upon the reimportation of articles once exports of the growth, product, or manufacture of the U.S., upon which no internal tax has been assessed or paid, or upon which such tax has been paid and refunded by allowance or drawback, there shall be levied, collected, and paid a duty equal to the tax imposed by the internalrevenue laws upon such articles. The 13th section provides that there shall be established in and attached to the dept of the Treasury a bureau to be styled the Bureau of Statistics, and the SecyTreasury is hereby authorized to appoint a Director to superintend and conduct the business of said bureau, who shall be aid an annual salary of $3, 500; that it shal be the duty of the Director of the Bureau of Sta tistics to prepare the report on the statistics of commerce and navigation, esports and imports, now required by law to be submitted annually to Congress by the SecyTreasury, and said report, embracing the returns of the commerce and navigation, the exports and imports of the U.S. to the close of the fiscal year, shall be submitted to Congress in a printed form on or before the lst day of December next succeeding; and the said Director, as soon as practicable after the organization of this office, shall, under the direction of the SecyTreasury, prepare and publish monthly reports of the exports and imports of the U.S., including the quantities and values of goods warehoused or withdrawn from warehouse, and such other sta tistics relative to the trade and industry of the country as the SecyTreasury may consider expedient; that the Director of the Bureau of Statistics shall also preare an an nual statement of vessels registere, enrolled, and licensed under the laws of the U.S., together with the class, name, tonnage, and place of registry of each vessel, and such other information as the SecyTreasury may deem proper to embodyitherein; and to enable the said Director to furnish the information required, the SecyTreasury shall have power, under such regulations as he shall prescribe, to establish and provide asystein of numbering all vessels so registered, enrolled, and licensed; and each vessel so numbered shall have her number deeplycarved or otherwise permanently marked on her main beam; and it at any time she shall cease to be so marked, such vessel shall be no longer recognized as a vessel of the U.S.; that the said Director shall also prepare an annual statement of all merchandise assing in transit through the U.S. to loreign countries, each description of merchandise, so far as prac ticable, warehoused, withdrawn from ware house for consumption, for exportation, for transportation to other districts, and remaining in the warehouse at the end of each fiscal ear; that it shall be the further duty of said irector to collect, digest, and arrange, for the use of Congress. the statistics of the manufactures of the U.S., their localities, sources of raw material, markets, exchanges with the producing regions of the country, transportation of products, wages, and such other conditions as are found to affect their prosperity; and to aid him in the discharge of these duties, the several clerks now employed in the preparation of statistics in the Treasury Dept, or any bureau thereof, may be placed under his so ervision and direction; and, in addition, the SecyTreasury shall detail such other clerks as may be necessary to fully carry out the provisions of this act; and that the expenses of the Bureau of Statistics for clerical service publication of reports, stationery, books, an statistical peri odicals and papers required by the bureau, shall be defrayed on the order and approval of the SecyTreasury, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated; and that all letters and documents to and from the Director of the Bureau of Statistics, relating to the duties and business of his office, shall be transmitted, by mail free of postage.