--------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- | Third | Fourth | Tariff | Quarter | Quarter | Total --------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Import Duties |$1,947,152.48|$1,977,028.01|$ 8,775,930.47 Ten per cent. | | | on Imports | 521,216.92| 209,483.87| 970,536.99 Provisional | | | fifteen per | | | cent. on | | | Imports | 302,821.71| 267,337.93| 966,632.76 Export Duties | 359,135.46| 369,237.95| 1,301,082.37 Navigation Tax| 6,232.50| 5,305.00| 18,712.75 Loading Tax | 124,242.98| 91,509.85| 817,022.95 Unloading Tax | 129,965.77| 112,984.47| 512,451.17 Passenger Tax | 6,190.25| 6,229.75| 29,153.75 Merchants' | | | Bonds | 208.56| 228.84| 912.95 Fines | 13,346.50| 16,663.15| 70,814.50 Interest on | | | Promissory | | | Notes | ..........| ..........| 695.03 Excise Tax | 333,525.56| 205,179.59| 1,123,974.88 +-------------+-------------+-------------- Totals $3,474,038.69|$3,261,188.41|$14,587,920.57 Having treated as fully as possible on the revenue of Cuba in the past from customs and made such forecasts as to the probable revenue as would seem warranted by the official figures, the next chapter will be devoted to a summary of the schedules of the amended tariff now in force, which will probably remain during United States occupancy the customs revenue law of the Island. [Illustration: PALM-TREE BRIDGE.] CHAPTER XVI THE AMENDED CUBAN TARIFF--OFFICIAL After a careful consideration of the facts given in the foregoing chapter, Assistant-Secretary of the Treasury, William B. Howell, and the author recommended the adoption of the following amended tariff, the order for the establishment of which President McKinley signed on the 13th of December, 1898; and the tariff was promulgated and took effect in all Cuban ports in the possession of the United States January 1, 1899. The new tariff, at the time this volume goes to press, is reported by the several custom-houses of the Island as working smoothly, and yielding an amount of revenue equivalent to the estimates given in the chapters relating to the revenue of the Island. CUSTOMS TARIFF FOR PORTS IN CUBA FREE LIST The undermentioned articles may be imported into Cuba exempt from the duties stipulated in the tariffs on compliance with the prescribed conditions and the formalities established for every case in the customs ordinances: 346. Manures, natural. 347. Trees, plants, and moss, in natural or fresh state.