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FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.

SESS. I.

CHS. 10-11.

1897.

CHAP. 10.-An Act To allow the distillery of tb- New England Distilling Corpany and the rectifying house of Mullins and Crigler, both situated in Covington,
Kentucky, to be operated within six hundred feet of each other.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That the distillery of the New
England Distilling Company and the rectifying house of Mullins and
Crigler, both situated in Covington, Kentucky, and having their respective premises separated from each other by a distance of only five hundred and forty-eight feet, in a direct line, may, to avoid special hardship
to the proprietors of said premises, both continue to be operated as now
situated, and in like manner as they have been operated, in the belief
that the premises were duly separated according to law, for twelve
years past, notwithstanding that the said premises are not distant from
each other full six hundred feet in a direct line as required by the general statutes in that regard.
Approved, July 19, 1897.
CHAP. 11.-An Act To provide revenue for the Government and to encourage
the industries of the United States.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That on and after the passage
of this Act, unless otherwise specially provided for in this Act, there
shall be levied, collected, and paid upon all articles imported from foreign countries, and mentioned in the schedules herein contained, the
rates of duty which are, by the schedules and paragraphs, respectively
prescribed, namely:
SCHEDULE A.-CHEMICALS, OILS, AND PAINTS.

151
July 19, 1897.

New England
tilling
Company TDsand

Mullins and Crigler
rcttifying house may
ated as now situated.

pR.S., ss.3266,3280,

July 24, 1897.

TaSsff of18p4
Vol. 26,p. 567.
vol. 28, p 50
Duties on imports.

SCMDUE A.

1. ACIDS: Acetic or pyroligneous acid, not exceeding the specific Cemicals, oils, and
gravity of one and forty-seven .one-thousandths, three-fourths of one PAcids.
cent per pound; exceeding the specific gravity of one and forty-seven
one-thousandths, two cents per pound; boracic acid, five cents per
pound; chromic acid and lactic acid, three cents per pound; citric
acid, seven cents per pound; salicylic acid, ten cents per pound; sulphuric acid or oil of vitriol not specially provided for in this Act, onefourth of one cent per pound; tannic acid or tannin, fifty cents perpound;
gallic acid, ten cents per pound; tartaric acid, seven cents per pound;
all other acids not specially provided for in this Act, twenty-five per
centum ad valorem.
2. All alcoholic perfumery, including cologne water and other toilet
waters and toilet preparations of all kinds, containing alcohol or in the
preparation of which alcohol is used, and alcoholic compounds not
specially provided for in this Act, sixty cents per pound and forty-five
per centum ad valorem.
3. Alkalies, alkaloids, distilled oils, essential oils, expressed oils, rendered oils, and all combinations of the foregoing, and all chemical compounds and salts not specially provided for in this Act, twenty-five per
centum ad valorem.
4. Alumina, hydrate of, or refined bauxite, six-tenths of one cent per
pound; alum, alum cake, patent alum, sulphate of alumina, and aluminous cake, and alum in crystals or ground, one-half of one cent per
pound.
5. Ammonia, carbonate of, one and one-half cents per pound; muriate of, or sal ammoniac, three-fourths of one cent per pound; sulphate
of, three-tenths of one cent per pound.
6. Argols or crude tartar or wine lees crude, containing not more
than forty per centum of bitartrate of potash, one cent per pound; containing more than forty per centum of bitartrate of potash, one and
one-half cents per pound; tartars and lees crystals, or partly refined
argols, containing not more than ninety per centum of bitartrate of
potash, and tartrate of soda or potassa, or Rochelle salts, four cents per

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pound; containing more than ninety per centum of bitartrate of potash,
scHEDjiA.
Chemicals, oils, and
five cents per pound; cream of tartar and patent tartar, six cents per
paints-oninued.

pound.
7. Blacking of all kinds, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.
8. Bleaching powder, or chloride of lime, one-fifth of one cent per
pound.
9. Blue vitriol or sulphate of copper, one-half of one cent per pound.
10. Bone char, suitable for use in decolorizing sugars, twenty per
centum ad valorem.
11. Borax, five cents per pound; borates of lime or soda, or other
borate material not otherwise provided for, containing more than thirtysix per centum of anhydrous boracic acid, four cents per pound; borates
of lime or soda, or other borate material not otherwise provided for,
containing not more than thirty-six per centum of anhydrous boracic
acid, three cents per pound.
12. Camphor, refined, six cents per pound.
13. Chalk (not medicinal nor prepared for toilet purposes) when
ground, precipitated naturally or artificially, or otherwise prepared,
whether in the form of cubes, blocks, sticks or disks, or otherwise,
including tailors', billiard, red, or French chalk, one cent per pound.
Manufactures of chalk not specially provided for in this Act, twentyfive per centum ad valorem.
14. Chloroform, twenty cents per pound.

Coal-tar prepara-

ti<os.

Drug.

15. Coal-tar dyes or colors, not specially provided for in this Act,
thirty per centum ad valorem; all other products or preparations of

coal tar, not colors or dyes and not medicinal, not specially provided
for in this Act, twenty per centum ad valorem.
16. Cobalt, oxide of, twenty-five cents per pound.
17. Collodion and all compounds of pyroxylin, whether known as
celluloid or by any other name, fifty cents per pound; rolled or in
sheets, unpolished, and not made up into articles, sixty cents per
pound; if in finished or partly finished articles, and articles of which
collodion or any compound of pyroxylin is the component material of
chief value, sixty-five cents per pound and twenty-five per centum ad
valorem.
18. Coloring for brandy, wine, beer, or other liquors, fifty per centum
ad valorem.
19. Copperas or sulphate of iron, one-fourth of one cent per pound.
20. Drugs, such as barks, beans, berries, balsams, buds, bulbs, bulbous roots, excrescences, fruits, flowers, dried fibers, dried insects,
grains, gums and gum resin, herbs, leaves, lichens, mosses, nuts, nutgalls, roots, stems, spices, vegetables, seeds (aromatic, not garden
seeds), seeds of morbid growth, weeds, and woods used expressly for
dyeing; any of the foregoing which are drugs and not edible, but which
are advanced in value or condition by refining, grinding, or other process, and not specially provided for in this Act, one-fourth of one cent
per pound, and in addition thereto ten per centum ad valorem.

21. Ethers: Sulphuric, fbrty cents per pound; spirits of nitrous ether,
twenty five cents per pound; fruit ethers, oils, or essences, two dollars
per pound; ethers of all kinds not specially provided for in this Act,
Proviso.

Minimum rate.

one dollar per pound: Provided, That no article of this paragraph
shall pay a less rate of duty than twenty-five per centum ad.valorem.

22. Extracts and decoctions of logwood and other dyewoods, and
extracts of barks, such as are commonly used for dyeing or tanning,
not specially provided for in this Act, seven-eighths of one cent per
pound; extracts of quebracho and of hemlock bark, one-half of one
cent per pound; extracts of sumac, and of woods other than dyewoods,
not specially provided for in this Act, five eighths of one cent per pound.
23. Gelatin, glue, isinglass or fish glue, and prepared fish bladders
or fish sounds, valued at not above ten cents per pound, two and onehalf cents per pound; valued at above ten cents per pound and not
above thirty-five cents per pound, twenty five per centum ad valorem;
valued above thirty-five cents per pound, fifteen cents per pound and
twenty per centum ad valorem.

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24. Glycerin, crude, not purified, one cent per pound; refined, three
cents per pound.
25. Indigo, extracts, or pastes of, three-fourths of one cent per
pound; carmined, ten cents per pound.
26. Ink and ink powders, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.
27. Iodine, resublimed, twenty cents per pound.
28. Iodoform, one dollar per pound.
29. Licorice, extracts of, in paste, rolls, or other forms, four and onehalf cents per pound.
30. Chicle, ten cents per pound.
31. Magnesia, carbonate of, medicinal, three cents per pound; calcined, medicinal, seven cents per pound; sulphate of, or Epsom salts,
one-fifth of one cent per pound.
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SCHEDULE A.
Chemicals, oils, and
paints-Continued.

Oils.

32. Alizarin assistant, sulpho-ricinoleic acid, and ricinoleic acid, by
whatever name known, whether liquid, solid, or in paste, in
the manufacture of which fifty per centum or more of castor
oil is used, thirty cents per gallon; in the manufacture of
which less than fifty per centum of castor oil is used, fifteen
cents per gallon; all other alizarin assistant, not specially provided for in this Act, thirty per centum ad valorem.
33. Castor oil, thirty-five cents per gallon.
34. Cod-liver oil, fifteen cents per gallon.
35. Cotton-seed oil, four cents per gallon of seven and one-half pounds
weight.
36. Croton oil, twenty cents per pound.
37. Flaxseed, linseed, and poppy-seed oil, raw, boiled, or oxidized,
twenty cents per gallon of seven and one-half pounds weight.
38. Fusel oil, or amylic alcohol, one-fourth of one cent per pound.
39. Hemp-seed oil and rape-seed oil, ten cents per gallon.
40. Olive oil, not specially provided for in this Act, forty cents per
gallon; in bottles, jars, tins, or similar packages, fifty cents per
gallon.
41. Peppermint oil, fifty cents per pound.
42. Seal, herring, whale, and other fish oil, not specially provided for
in this Act, eight cents per gallon.
43. Opium, crude or unmanufactured, and not adulterated, con- opium
taining nine per centum and over of morphia, one dollar per pound;
morphia or morphine, sulphate of, and all alkaloids or salts of opium,
one dollar per ounce; aqueous extract of opium, for medicinal uses,
and tincture of, as laudanum, and other liquid preparations of opium,
not specially provided for in this Act, forty per centum ad valorem;
opium containing less than nine per centum of morphia, and opium
prepared for smoking, six dollars per pound; but opium prepared for
smoking and other preparations of opium deposited in bonded warehouses shall not be removed therefrom without payment of duties, and
such duties shall not be refunded.
PAINTS, COLORS, AND VARNISHES:

44. Baryta, sulphate of, or barytes, including barytes earth, unmanufactured, seventy-five cents per ton; manufactured, five dollars and twenty-five cents per ton.
45. Blues, such as Berlin, Prussian, Chinese, and all others, containing ferrocyanide of iron, in pulp, dry or ground in or mixed
with oil or water, eight cents per pound.
46. Blanc-fixe, or artificial sulphate of barytes, and satin white, or
artificial sulphate of lime, one-half of one cent per pound.
47. Black, made from bone, ivory, or vegetable substance, by whatever name known, including bone black and lampblack, dry
or ground in oil or water, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.
48. Chrome yellow, chrome green, and all other chromium colors in
the manufacture of which lead and bichromate of potash or
soda are used, in pulp, dry, or ground in or mixed with oil or
water, four and one-half cents per pound.

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painta-Contnued.

1897.

49. Ocher and ochery earths, sienna and sienna earths, and umber
and umber earths, not specially provided for, when crude or

50.
51.
52.
53.
54.

55.
56.
57.

58.

59.
60.

61.
Potash.

SEss. I. CH. 11.

not powdered, washed or pulverized, one-eighth of one cent
per pound; if powdered, washed or pulverized, three-eighths
of one cent per pound; if ground in oil or water, one and onehalf cents per pound.
Orange mineral, three and three-eighths cents per pound.
Red lead, two and seven-eighths cents per pound.
Ultramarine blue, whether dry, in pulp, or mixed with water,
and wash blue containing ultramarine, three and three-fourths
cents per pound.
Varnishes, including so-called gold size or japan, thirty-five per
centum ad valorem; spirit varnishes, one dollar and thirtytwo cents per gallon and thirty-five per centum ad valorem.
Vermilion red, and other colors containing quicksilver, dry or
ground in oil or water, ten cents per pound; when not containing quicksilver but made of lead or containing lead, five cents
per pound.
White lead, white paint and pigment containing lead, dry or in
pulp, or ground or mixed with oil, two and seven-eighths cents
per pound.
Whiting and Paris white, dry, one-fourth of one cent per pound;
ground in oil, or putty, one cent per pound.
Zinc, oxide of, and white paint or pigment containing zinc, but
not containing lead, dry, one cent per pound; ground in oil,
one and three-fourth cents per pound; sulfid of zinc white, or
white sulphide of zinc, one and one-fourth cents per pound;
chloride of zinc and sulphate of zinc, one cent per pound.
All paints, colors, pigments, lakes, crayons, smalts and frostings,
whether crude or dry or mixed, or ground with water or oil or
with solutions other than oil,not otherwise speciallyprovided for
in this Act, thirty per centum ad valorem; all paints, colors and
pigments, commonly known as artists'paints or colors, whether
in tubes, pans, cakesorotherforms, thirtypercentum ad valorem.
Paris green, and London purple, fifteen per centum ad valorem.
Lead: Acetate of, white, three and one-fourth cents per pound;
brown, gray, or yellow, two and one-fourth cents per pound;
nitrate of, two and one-half cents per pound; litharge, two
and three-fourth cents per pound.
Phosphorus, eighteen cents per pound.

POTASH:

62. Bichromate and chromate of, three cents per pound.
63. Caustic or hydrate of, refined, in sticks or rolls, one cent per
pound; chlorate of, two and one-half cents per pound.
64. Hydriodate, iodide, and iodate of, twenty-five cents per pound.
65. Nitrate of, or saltpeter, refined, one-half cent per pound.
66. Prussiate of, red, eight cents per pound; yellow, four cents per
pound; cyanide of potassium, twelve and one-half per centum
ad valorem.
Preparations.

PREPARATIONS:

67. Medicinal preparations containing alcohol, or in the preparation
of which alcohol is used, not specially provided for in this Act,
fifty-five cents per pound, but in no case shall the same pay
less than twenty-five per centum ad valorem.
68. 5Medicinal preparations not containing alcohol or in the preparation of which alcohol is not used, not specially provided for in
this Act, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; calomel and other
mercurial medicinal preparations, thirty-five per centum ad
valorem.
69. Plasters,healing or curative, of all kinds, and court-plaster, thirtyfive per centum ad valorem.

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SCHEDULE A.
70. Preparations used as applications to the hair, mouth, teeth, or Chemicals,
oils, and
powders,
pomades,
aints-Continued.
pastes,
P
skin, such as cosmetics, dentifrices,
and other toilet articles, and articles of perfumery, whether in
sachets or otherwise, not containing alcohol or in the manufacture of which alcohol is not used, and not specially provided
for in this Act, fifty per centum ad valorem.
71. Santonin, and all salts thereof containing eighty per centum or
over of santonin, one dollar per pound.
Soap.
SOAP:
72. Castile soap, one and one-fourth cents perpound; fancy, perfumed,
and all descriptions of toilet soap, including so-called medicinal
or medicated soaps, fifteen cents per pound; all other soaps
not specially provided for in this Act, twenty per centum ad
valorem.
Soda.
SODA:
73. Bicarbonate of soda, or supercarbonate of soda, or saleratus, and
other alkalies containing fifty per centum or more of bicarbonate of soda, three-fourths of one cent per pound.
74. Bichromate and chromate of soda, two cents per pound.
75. Crystal carbonate of soda, or concentrated soda crystals, or
monohydrate, or sesquicarbonate of soda, three-tenths of one
cent per pound; chlorate of soda two cents per pound.
76. Hydrate of, or caustic soda, three-fourths of one cent per pound;
nitrite of soda, two and one-half cents per pound; hypo-sulphite
and sulphide of soda, one-half of one cent per pound.
77. Sal soda, or soda crystals, not concentrated, two-tenths of one
cent per pound.
78. Soda ash, three eighths of one cent per pound; arseniate of soda,
one and one-fourth cents per pound.
79. Silicate of soda, or other alkaline silicate, one-half of one cent per
pound.
80. Sulphate of soda, or salt cake, or niter cake, one dollar and twentyfive cents per ton.
81. Sea moss, ten per centum ad valorem.
82. Sponges, twenty per centum advalorem; manufactures of sponges,
or of which sponge is the component material of chief value, not specially
provided for in this Act, forty per centum ad valorem.
83. Strychnia, or strychnine, and all salts thereof, thirty cents per

ounce.

84. Sulphur, refined or sublimed, or flowers of, eight dollars per ton.
85. Sumac, ground, three-tenths of one cent per pound.
86. Vanillin, eighty cents per ounce.
SCHEDULE B.-EARTHS, EARTHENWARE, AND GLASSWARE.

BRICK AND TILE:
87. Fire-brick, weighing not more than ten pounds each, not glazed,
enameled, ornamented, or decorated in any manner, one dollar
and twenty-five cents per ton; glazed, enameled, ornamented,
or decorated, forty-five per centum ad valorem; brick, other
than fire-brick, not glazed, enameled, painted, vitrified, ornamented, or decorated in any manner, twenty-five per centum
ad valorem; if glazed, enameled, painted, vitrified, ornamented, or decorated in any manner, forty-five per centum ad
valorem.
88. Tiles, plain unglazed, one color, exceeding two square inches in
size, four cents per square foot; glazed, encaustic, ceramic
mosaic, vitrified, semi-vitrified, flint, spar, embossed, enameled,
ornamental, hand painted, gold decorated, and all other
earthenware tiles, valued at not exceeding forty cents per
square foot, eight cents per square foot; exceeding forty cents
per square foot, ten cents per square foot and twenty-five per
centum ad valorem.

SCHEDULE B.

Earths, earthenware, and glassware.
Brick and tile.

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Earths, earthen

ware, andglasgareiCoentline,
and

piater.

SESS. I. CH. 11.

1897.

CEMENT, LIME, AND PLASTER:

89. Roman, Portland, and other hydraulic cement, in barrels, sacks,
or other packages, eight cents per one hundred pounds, including weight of barrel or package; in bulk, seven cents per one

hundred pounds; other cement, twenty per centum ad valorem.
90. Lime, five cents per one hundred pounds, including weight of
barrel or package.
91. Plaster rock or gypsum, crude, fifty cents per ton; if ground or
calcined, two dollars and twenty-five cents per ton; pearl
hardening for paper makers' use, twenty per centum ad valorem.
92. Pumice stone, wholly or partially manufactured, six dollars per
ton; unmanufactured, fifteen per centum ad valorem.
Clays or earths.

CLAYS OR EARTHS:

93. Clays or earths, uuwroglit or unmanufactured, not specially provided for in this Act, one dollar per ton; wrought or manufactured, not specially provided for in this Act, two dollars per
ton; china clay or kaolin, two dollars and fifty cents per ton;
limestone rock asphalt containing not more than fifteen per
centum of bitumen, fifty cents per ton; asphaltum and bitumen,
not specially provided for in this Act, crude, if not dried, or
otherwise advanced in any manner, one dollar and fifty cents
per ton; if dried or otherwise advanced in any manner, three
dollars per ton; bauxite, or beauxite, crude, not refined or
otherwise advanced in condition from its natural state, one
dollar per ton; fullers' earth, unwrought and unmanufactured,
one dollar and fifty cents per ton; wrought or manufactured,
three dollars per ton.
Earthenware

china.

and EARTHENWARE

AND CHINA:

94. Common yellow, brown, or gray earthenware, plain, embossed, or

salt-glazed common stoneware, and crucibles, all the foregoing
not decorated in any manner, twenty-five per centum ad valorem;
Rockingham earthenware not decorated, forty per centum ad
valorem.
95. China, porcelain, parian, bisque, earthen, stone, and crockery
ware, includingclock cases with or without movements, plaques,
ornaments, toys, toy tea sets, charms, vases and statuettes,
painted, tinted, stained, enameled, printed, gilded, or otherwise
decorated or ornamented in any manner, sixty per centum ad
valorem; if plain white and without superadded ornamentation of any kind, fifty-five per centun ad valorem.
96. All other china, porcelain, parian, bisque, earthen, stone, and
crockery ware, and manufactures thereof, or of which the
same is the component material of chief value, by whatever
name known, not specially provided for in this Act, if painted,

tinted, stained, enameled, printed, gilded, or otherwise decorated or ornamented in any manner, sixty per centun ad
valorem; if not ornamented or decorated, fifty-five per centum
ad valorem.
97. Articles and wares composed wholly or in chief value of earthy
or mineral substances, or carbon, not specially provided for in
this Act, if not decorated in any manner, thirty-five per centum
ad valorem; if decorated, forty-five per centum ad valorem.
98. Gas retorts, three dollars each; lava tips for burners, ten cents
per gross and fifteen per centum ad valorem; carbons for electric lighting, ninety cents per hundred; filter tubes, forty-five
per centum ad valorem; porous carbon pots for electric batteries, without metallic connections, twenty per centum ad
valorem.
Glass and glass- GLASS AND GLASSWARE:

ware.

99. Plain green or colored, molded or pressed, and flint, lime, or lead
glass bottles, vials, jars, and covered or uncovered demijohns

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SCmnEDuE Band carboys, any of the foregoing, filled or unfilled, not otherwise specially provided for, and whether their contents be ware, andglassware-dutiable or free, (except such as contain merchandise subject Continued.

to an ad valorem rate of duty, or to a rate of duty based in
whole or in part upon the value thereof, which shall be dutiable at the rate applicable to their contents) shall pay duty as
follows: If holding more than one pint, one cent per pound;
if holding not more than one pint and not less than onefourth of a pint, one and one-half cents per pound; if holding less than one fourth of a pint, fifty cents per gross: Provided. That none of the above articles shall pay a less rate of

Proviso.

duty than forty per centum ad valorem.
100. Glass bottles, decanters, or other vessels or articles of glass, cut,
engraved, painted, colored, stained, silvered, gilded, etched,
frosted, printed in any manner or otherwise ornamented, decorated, or ground (except such grinding as is necessary for
fitting stoppers), and any articles of which such glass is the
component material of chief value, and porcelain, opal and
other blown glassware; all the foregoing, filled or unfilled, and
whether their contents be dutiable or free, sixty per centum ad
valorem.
101. Unpolished, cylinder, crown, and common window glass, not
exceeding ten by fifteen inches square, one and three-eighths
cents per pound; above that, and not exceeding sixteen by
twenty-four inches square, one and seven-eighths cents per
pound; above that, and not exceeding twenty-four by thirty
inches square, two and three-eighths cents per pound; above
that, and not exceeding twenty-four by thirty-six inches square,
two and seven-eighths cents per pound; above that, and not
exceeding thirty by forty inches square, three and three-eighths
cents per pound; above that, and not exceeding forty by sixty
inches square, three and seven-eighths cents per pound; above
that, four and three-eighths cents per pound: Provided, That Provio.
Computation ofduty

unpolished cylinder, crown, and common window glass, imported on window glass imin boxes, shall contain fifty square feet, as nearly as sizes will ported in boxes.

permit, and the duty shall be computed thereon according to
the actual weight of glass.
102. Cylinder and crown glass, polished, not exceeding sixteen by
twenty-four inches square, four cents per square foot; above
that, and not exceeding twenty-four by thirty inches square,
six cents per square foot; above that, and not exceeding
twenty-four by sixty inches square, fifteen cents per square
foot; above that, twenty cents per square foot.
103. Fluted, rolled, ribbed, or rough plate glass, or the same containing a wire netting within itself, not including crown,
cylinder, or common window glass, not exceeding sixteen by
twenty-four inches square, three-fourths of one cent per square
foot; above that, and not exceeding twenty-four by thirty
inches square, one and one-fourth cents per square foot; all
above that, one and three-fourths cents per square foot; and
all fluted, rolled, ribbed, or rough plate glass, weighing over
one hundred pounds per one hundred square feet, shall pay an
additional duty on the excess at the same rates herein imposed:
Provided, That all

of the above plate glass, when ground,

smoothed, or otherwise obscured, shall be subject to the same
rate of duty as cast polished plate glass unsilvered.
104. Cast polished plate glass, finished or unfinished and unsilvered,
not exceeding sixteen by twenty-four inches square, eight cents
per square foot; above that, and not exceeding twenty-four by
thirty inches square, ten cents per square foot; above that, and
not exceeding twenty-four by sixty inches square, twenty-two
and one-half cents per square foot; all above that, thirty-five
cents per square foot.

Proviso.

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Marble, etc.

SESS. I. CH. 11.

1897.

105. Cast polished plate glass, silvered, cylinder and crown glass,
silvered, and looking-glass plates, exceeding in size one hundred and forty-four square inches and not exceeding sixteen
by twenty-four inches square, eleven cents per square foot;
above that, and not exceeding twenty-four by thirty inches
square, thirteen cents per square foot; above that, and not
exceeding twenty-four by sixty inches square, twenty-five cents
per square foot; all above that, thirty-eight cents per square
foot.
106. But no looking-glass plates or plate glass, silvered, when framed,
shall pay a less rate of duty than that imposed upon similar
glass of like description not framed, but shall pay in addition
thereto upon such frames the rate of duty applicable thereto
when imported separate.
107. Cast polished plate glass, silvered or unsilvered, and cylinder,
crown, or common window glass, silvered or unsilvered, when
bent, ground, obscured, frosted, sanded, enameled, beveled,
etched, embossed, engraved, flashed, stained, colored, painted,
or otherwise ornamented or decorated, shall be subject to a
duty of five per centum ad valorem in addition to the rates
otherwise chargeable thereon.
108. Spectacles, eyeglasses, and goggles, and frames for the same, or
parts thereof, finished or unfinished, valued at not over forty
cents per dozen, twenty cents per dozen and fifteen per centum
ad valorem; valued at over forty cents per dozen and not over
one dollar and fifty cents per dozen, forty-five cents per dozen
and twenty per centum ad valorem; valued at over one dollar
and fifty cents per dozen, fifty per ceptum ad valorem.
109. Lenses of glass or pebble, ground and polished to a spherical,
cylindrical, or prismatic form, and ground and polished piano
or coquill glasses, wholly or partly manufactured, with the
edges unground, forty-five per centum ad valorem; if with
their edges ground or beveled, ten cents per dozen pairs and
forty-five per centum ad valorem.
110. Strips of glass, not more than three inches wide, ground or polished on one or both sides to a cylindrical or prismatic form,
and glass slides for magic lanterns, forty-five per centum ad
valorem.
111. Opera and field glasses, telescopes, microscopes, photographic
and projecting lenses and optical instruments, and frames or
mountings for the same; all the foregoing not specially provided for in this Act, forty-five per centurn ad valorem.
112. Stained or painted glass windows, or parts thereof, and all mirrors, not exceeding in size one hundred and forty-four square
inches, with or without frames or cases, and all glass or manufactures of glass or paste, or of which glass or paste is the
component material of chief value, not specially provided for
in this Act, forty-five per centum ad valorem.
113. Fusible enamel, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.
MARBLE AND STONE, AND MANUFACTURES OF:

114. Marble in block, rough or squared only, sixty-five cents per cubic
foot; onyx in block, rough or squared, one dollar and fifty cents
per cubic foot; marble or onyx, sawed or dressed, over two
inches in thickness, one dollar and ten cents per cubic foot;
slabs or paving tiles of marble or onyx, containing not less
than four superficial inches, if not more than one inch in thickness, twelve cents per superficial foot: if more than one inch
and not more than one and one-half inches in thickness, fifteen
cents per superficial foot; if more than one and one-half inches
and not more than two inches in thickness, eighteen cents per
superficial foot; if rubbed in whole or in part, three cents per

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159

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superficial foot in addition; mosaic cubes of marble, onyx, or
stone, not exceeding two cubic inches in size, if loose, one cent
per pound and twenty per centum ad valorem; if attached to
paper or other material, twenty cents per superficial foot ard
thirty-five per centum ad valorem.
115. Manufactures of agate, alabaster, chalcedony, chrysolite, coral,
cornelian, garnet, jasper, jet, malachite, marble, onyx, rock
crystal, or spar, including clock cases with or without
movements, not specially provided for in this Act, fifty per
centum ad valorem.
Stone116. Burr stones, manufactured or bound up into millstones, fifteen
per centum ad valorem.
117. Freestone, granite, sandstone, limestone, and other building or
monumental stone, except marble and onyx, unmanufactured
or undressed, not specially provided for in this Act, twelve
cents per cubic foot.
118. Freestone, granite, sandstone, limestone, and other building or
monumental stone, except marble and onyx, not specially provided for in this Act, hewn, dressed, or polished, fifty per
centum ad valorem.
119. Grindstones, finished or unfinished, one dollar and seventy-five
cents per tof.
Slate120. Slates, slate chimney-pieces, mantels, slabs for tables, roofing
slates, and all other manufactures of slate, not specially provided for in this Act, twenty per centum ad valorem.
SCHEDULE C.-METALS AND MANUFACTURES OF.

121. Iron ore, including manganiferous iron ore, and the dross or
residuum from burnt pyrites, forty cents per ton: Provided, That in
levying and collecting the duty on iron ore no deduction shall be made
from the weight of the ore on account of moisture which may be chemically or physically combined therewith; basic slag, ground or unground,
one dollar per ton.
122. Iron in pigs, iron kentledge, spiegeleisen, ferro-manganese, ferrosilicon, wrought and cast scrap iron, and scrap steel, four dollars per
ton; but nothing shall be deemed scrap iron or scrap steel except waste
or refuse iron or steel fit only to be remanufactured.
123. Bar iron, square iron, rolled or hammered, comprising flats not
less than one inch wide nor less than three-eighths of one inch thick,
round iron not less than seven-sixteenths of one inch in diameter, sixtenths of one cent per pound.
124. Round iron, in coils or rods, less than seven-sixteenths of one
inch in diameter, and bars or shapes of rolled or hammered iron, not
specially provided foi in this Act, eight-tenths of one cent per pound:
Provided, That all iron in slabs, blooms, loops, or other forms less finished than iron in bars, and more advanced than pig iron, except castings, shall be subject to a duty of five-tenths of one cent per pound:
Provided further, That all iron bars, blooms, billets, or sizes or shapes
of any kind, in the manufacture of which charcoal is used as fuel, shall
be subject to a duty of twelve dollars per ton.
125. Beams, girders, joists, angles, channels, car-truck channels, T T,
columns and posts or parts or sections of columns and posts, deck and
bulb beams, and building forms, together with all other structural
shapes of iron or steel, whether plain or punched, or fitted for use, fivetenths of one cent per pound.
126. Boiler or other plate iron or steel, except crucible plate steel and
saw plates hereinafter provided for, not thinner than number ten wire
gauge, sheared or unsheared, and skelp iron or steel sheared or rolled
in grooves, valued at one cent per pound or less, five-tenths of one cent

SCHEDULE B.
Earths, earthenware, and glasswareContinued.

Stone.

Slate.

ScFDTULM C.
Metals and manufactures of.
Iron ore, etc.
Proviso.
No deduction from
weight on account of
moisture, etc.

Pig iron, etc.

Bar iron, etc.

Round iron, etc.

Prorisos.
Slabs, etc.
Charcoal iron.

Structural iron.

Plate iron, etc.

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iSct dUL c.
per pound; valued above one cent and not above two cents per pound,
Metals and mannfactures
of-continsix-tenths of one cent per pound; valued above two cents and not above
ned
.
four cents per pound, one cent per pound; valued at over four cents per
Provo.o
pound, twenty-five per centum ad valorem: Provided, That all sheets or
sheets,
plates of iron or steel thinner than number ten wire gauge shall pay
duty as iron or steel sheets.
Anchors, etc.
127. Iron or steel anchors or parts thereof, one and one-half cents
per pound; forgings of iron or steel, or of combined iron and steel, of
whatever shape or whatever degree or stage of manufacture, not specially provided for in this Act, thirty-five per centum ad valorem; antifriction ball forgings of iron or steel, or of combined iron and steel,
forty-five per centum ad valorem.
128. Hoop, band, or scroll iron or steel, not otherwise provided for in
Hoop, etc.
this Act, valued at three cents per pound or less, eight inches or less
in width, and less than three-eighths of one inch thick and not thinner
than number ten wire gauge, five-tenths of one cent per pound; thinner than number ten wire gauge and not thinner than number twenty
wire gauge, six-tenths of one cent per pound; thinner than number
twenty wire gauge, eight-tenths of one cent per pound: Provided, That
proviso.
Iron, etc., barrel barrel hoops of iron or steel, and hoop or band iron or hoop or band
steel flared, splayed or punched, with or without buckles or fastenings,
o e
shall pay one-tenth of one cent per pound more duty than that imposed
on the hoopor band iron or steel from which they are made; steel bands
or strips, untempered, suitable for making band saws, three cents per
pound and twenty per centum ad valorem; if tempered, or tempered
and polished, six cents per pound and twenty per centum ad valorem.
129. Hoop or band iron, or hoop or band steel, cut to lengths, or
wholly or partly manufactured into hoops or ties, coated or not coated
with paint or any other preparation, with or without buckles or fastenings, for baling cotton or any other commodity, five-tenths of one cent
per pound.
130. Railway bars, made of iron or steel, and railway bars made in
Railway bar, etc.
part of steel, T rails, and punched iron or steel flat rails, seven-twentieths of one cent per pound; railway fish-plates or splice-bars, made of
iron or steel, four-tenths of one cent per pound.
131. Sheets of iron or steel, common or black, of whatever dimenSheet iron or steel.
sions, and skelp iron or steel, valued at three cents per pound or less,
thinner than number ten and not thinner than number twenty wire
gauge, seven-tenths of one cent per pound; thinner than number
twenty wire gauge and not thinner than number twenty-five wire
gauge, eight-tenths of one cent per pound; thinner than number
twenty-five wire gauge and not thinner than number thirty-two wire
gauge, one and one-tenth cents per pound; thinner than number thirtytwo wire gauge, one and two-tenths cents per pound; corrugated or
proviso.
crimped, one and one-tenth cents per pound: Provided, That all sheets
Plates.
of common or black iron or steel not thinner than number ten wire
gauge shall pay duty as plate iron or plate steel.
Galvanized plates.
132. All iron or steel sheets or plates, and all hoop, band, or scroll
iron or steel, excepting what are known commercially as tin plates,
terne plates, and taggers tin, and hereinafter provided for, when galvanized or coated with zinc, spelter, or other metals, or any alloy of
those metals, shall pay two-tenths of one cent per pound more duty
than if the same was not so galvanized or coated.
Polished sheets.
133. Sheets of iron or steel, polished, planished, or glanced, by whatProrio.
ever name designated, two cents per pound: Provided, That plates or
Cleaned by acid, etc. sheets of iron or steel, by whatever name designated, other than the
polished, planished, or glanced herein provided for, which have been
pickled or cleaned by acid, or by any other material or process, or which
are cold-rolled, smoothed only, not polished, shall pay two-tenths of
one cent per pound more duty than the corresponding gauges of common or black sheet iron or steel.
Tin plates, etc.
134. Sheets or plates of iron or steel, or taggers iron or steel, coated
with tin or lead, or with a mixture of which these metals, or either of

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them, is a component part, by the dipping or any other process, and
commercially known as tin plates, terne plates, and taggers tin, one
and one-half cents per pound.
135. Steel ingots, cogged ingots, blooms, and slabs, by whatever process made; die blocks or blanks; billets and bars and tapered or beveled bars; mill shafting; pressed, sheared, or stamped shapes; saw
plates, wholly or partially manufactured; hammer molds or swaged
steel; gun-barrel molds not in bars; alloys used as substitutes for steel
in the manufacture of tools; all descriptions and shapes of dry sand,
loam, or iron-molded steel castings; sheets and plates and steel in all
forms and shapes not specially provided for in this Act, all of the above
valued at one cent per pound or less, three-tenths of one cent per pound;
valued above one cent and not above one and four-tenths cents per
pound, four-tenths of one cent per pound; valued above one and fourtenths cents and not above one and eight-tenths cents per pound, sixtenths of one cent per pound; valued above one and eight-tenths cents
and not above two and two-tenths cents per pound, seven-tenths of one
cent per pound; valued above two and two-tenths cents and not above
three cents per pound, nine-tenths of one cent per pound; valued above
three cents per pound and not above four cents per pound, one and
two-tenths cents per pound; valued above four cents and not above
seven cents per pound, one and three-tenths cents per pound; valued
above seven cents and not above ten cents per pound, two cents per
pound; valued above ten cents and not above thirteen cents per pound,
two and four-tenths cents per pound; valued above thirteen cents and
not above sixteen cents per pound, two and eight-tenths cents per
pound; valued above sixteen cents per pound, four and seven-tenths
cents per pound.
WIRE:

161

1S97.

SCHEDULE C.
Metals and manufactures of-Continued.
Steel ingots, etc.
Saw plates.

Wire.

136. Wire rods: Rivet, screw, fence, and other iron or steel wire rods, Rods.
whether round, oval, fiat, or square, or in any other shape, and
nail rods, in coils or otherwise, valued at four cents or less per
pound, four-tenths of one cent per pound; valued over four
cents per pound, three-fourths of one cent per pound: Provided, Provsos.
That all round iron or steel rods smaller than number six wire
gauge shall be classed and dutiable as wire: Providedfurther,
That all iron or steel wire rods which have been tempered or Additional duty
treated in any manner or partly manufactured shall pay an when tempered, etc.
additional duty of one-half of one cent per pound.
137. Round iron or steel wire, not smaller than number thirteen wire Round iron, etc.
gauge, one and one-fourth cents per pound; smaller than number thirteen and not smaller than number sixteen wire gauge,
one and one-half cents per pound; smaller than number sixteen
wire gauge, two cents per pound: Provided, That all the fore- Valied t more than
going valued at more than four cents per pound shall pay forty 4 cents per pound to
per centum ad valorem. Iron or steel or other wire not specially pay ad valorem duty.
provided for in this Act, including such as is commonly known
as hat wire, or bonnet wire, crinoline wire, corset wire, needle
wire, piano wire, clock wire, and watch wire, whether flat or
otherwise, and corset clasps, corset steels and dress steels, and
sheet steel in strips, twenty-five one-thousandths of an inch
thick or thinner, any of the foregoing, whether uncovered or
covered with cotton, silk, metal, or other material, valued at
more than four cents per pound, forty-five per centum ad
valorem: Provided, That articles manufactured from iron, Manufactures.
steel, brass, or copper wire, shall pay the rate of duty imposed
upon the wire used in the manufacture of such articles, and in
addition thereto one and one-fourth cents per pound, except
that wire rope and wire strand shall pay the maximum rate ot
duty which would be imposed upon any wire used in the
manufacture thereof, and in addition thereto one cent per
pound; and on iron or steel wire coated with zinc, tin, or any
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other metal, two-tenths of one cent per pound in addition to
the rate imposed on the wire from which it is made.

SCKoDULE C.
Metalsandmanufactnres of-Continued.

GENERAL PROVISIONS.

General provisions.

138. No allowance or reduction of duties for partial loss or damage in
consequence of rust or of discoloration shall be made upon any description of iron or steel, or upon any article wholly or partly manufactured
of iron or steel, or upon any manufacture of iron or steel.
139. All metal produced from iron or its ores, which is cast and malDefinition of steel.
leable, of whatever description or form, without regard to the percentage
of carbon contained therein, whether produced by cementation, or converted, cast, or made from iron or its ores, by the crucible, Bessemer,
Clapp-Griffith, pneumatic, Thomas-Gilchrist, basic, Siemens-Martin, or
open-hearth process, or by the equivalent of either, or by a combination
of two or more of the processes, or their equivalents, or by any fusion
or other process which produces from iron or its ores a metal either
granular or fibrous in structure, which is cast and malleable, excepting
what is known as malleable-iron castings, shall be classed and denominated as steel.
140. No article not specially provided for in this Act, which is wholly
tued from tin plate, or partly manufactured from tin plate, terne plate, or the sheet, plate,
hoop, band, or scroll iron or steel herein provided for, or of which
etc.
such tin plate, terne plate, sheet, plate, hoop, band, or scroll iron or
steel shall be the material of chief value, shall pay a lower rate of duty
than that imposed on the tin plate, terne plate, or sheet, plate, hoop,
band, or scroll iron or steel from which it is made, or of which it shall
be the component thereof of chief value.
141. On all iron or steel bars or rods of whatever shape or section
Additional rates for
which are cold rolled, cold drawn, cold hammered, or polished in any
cold-rolled bars, etc.
way in addition to the ordinary process of hot rolling or hammering,
there shall be paid one-fourth of one cent per pound in addition to the
rates provided il this Act on bars or rods of whatever section or shape
which are hot rolled; and on all strips, plates, or sheets of iron or steel
of whatever shape, other than the polished, planished, or glanced sheetiron or sheet-steel hereinbefore provided for, which are cold rolled, cold
hammered, blued, brightened, tempered, or polished by any process to
such perfected surface finish or polish better than the grade of cold
rolled, smoothed only, hereinbefore provided for, there shall be paid
one cent per pound in addition to the rates provided in this Act upon
plates, strips, or sheets of iron or steel of common or black finish; and
on steel circular saw plates there shall be paid one-half of one cent per
pound in addition to the rate provided in this Act for steel saw plates.
Ane. r ,1.
No rust allowance.

Man,,facturesofirn

MANUFACTURES

OF IRON AND STEEL.

siad steel.

r.ftte,wheels.
1st.,.1.

142. Anvils of iron or steel, or of iron and steel combined, by whatever process made, or in whatever stage of manufacture, one and seveneighths cents per pound.
143. Axles, or parts thereof, axle bars, axle blanks, or forgings for
axles. whether of iron or steel, without reference to the stage or state
of manufacture, valued at not more than six cents per pound, one cent
in per pound: Prorided, That when iron or steel axles are imported fitted
in wheels, or parts of wheels, of iron or steel, they shall be dutiable at
the same rate as the wheels in which they are fitted.
144. Blacksmiths' hammers and sledges, track tools, wedges, and
crowbars, whether of iron or steel, one and one-half cents per pound.
145. Bolts, with or without threads or nuts, or bolt-blanks, and fin
ished hinges or hinge-blanks, whether of iron or steel, one and one-half
cents per pound.
146. Card-clothing manufactured from tempered steel wire, forty-live
cents per square foot; all other, twenty cents per square foot.

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1897.

147. Cast-iron pipe of every description, four-tenths of one cent per
pound.
148. Cast-iron vessels, plates, stove-plates, andirons, sad-irons, tailors'

163
C.
SCHEDULE
MIetals
and mianufactures of-Continued.
Cast-iron pipe

irons, hatters' irons, and castings of iron, not specially provided for in
this Act, eight-tenths of one cent per pound.
149. Castings of malleable iron not specially provided for in this Act,
nine-tenths of one cent per pound.
150. Cast hollow-ware, coated, glazed, or tinned, two cents per pound.
151. Chain or chains of all kinds, made of iron or steel, not less than
three-fourths of one inch in diameter, one and one-eighth cents per
pound; less than three-fourths of one inch and not less than threeeighths of one inch in diameter, one and three-eighths cents per pound;
less than three-eighths of one inch in diameter and not less than fivesixteenths of one inch in diameter, one and seven-eighths cents per
pound; less than five-sixteenths of one inch in diameter, three cents
per pound; but no chain or chains of any description shall pay a lower
rate of duty than forty-five per centum ad valorem.
152. Lap welded, butt welded, seamed, or jointed iron or steel boiler
tubes, pipes, flues, or stays, not thinner than number sixteen wire
gauge, two cents per pound; welded cylindrical furnaces, made from
plate metal, two and one-half cents per pound; all other iron or steel
tubes, finished, not specially provided for in this Act, thirty-five per
centum ad valorem.
CUTLERY:

153. Penknives or pocketknives, clasp knives, pruning knives, and
budding knives of all kinds, or parts thereof, and erasers or
manicure knives, or parts thereof, wholly or partly manufactured, valued at not more than forty cents per dozen, forty per
centum ad valorem; valued at more than forty cents per dozen
and not exceeding fifty cents per dozen, one cent per piece and
forty per centum ad valorem; valued at more than fifty cents
per dozen and not exceeding one dollar and twenty-five cents
per dozen, five cents per piece and forty per centum ad valorem;
valued at more than one dollar and twenty-five cents per dozen
and not exceeding three dollars per dozen, ten cents per piece
and forty per centum ad valorem; valued at more than three
dollars per dozen, twenty cents per piece and forty per centum

ad valorem: Provided, That blades, handles, or other parts of
either or any of the foregoing articles, imported in any other
manner than assembled in finished knives or erasers, shall be

Cutlery.

Proviso.
astb

idprted

subject to no less rate of duty than herein provided for penknives, pocketknives, clasp knives, pruning-knives, manicure
knives, and erasers valued at more than fifty and not more
than one dollar and fifty cents per dozen. Razors and razor
blades, finished or unfinished, valued at less than one dollar
and fifty cents per dozen, fifty cents per dozen and fifteen per
centum ad valorem; valued at one dollar and fifty cents per
dozen and less than three dollars per dozen, one dollar per
dozen and fifteen per centum ad valorem; valued at three dollars per dozen or more, one dollar and seventy-five cents per
dozen and twenty per centum ad valorem. Scissors and
shears, and blades for the same, finished or unfinished, valued
at not more than fifty cents per dozen, fifteen cents per dozen
and fifteen per centum ad valorem; valued at more than fifty
cents and not more than one dollar and seventy-five cents per
dozen, fifty cents per dozen and fifteen per centum ad valorem;
valued at more than one dollar and seventy-five cents per
dozen, seventy-five cents per dozen and twenty-five per centum
ad valorem.
154. Swords, sword-blades, and side-arms, thirty-five per centum ad

valorem.

swords,

etc.

un-

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tutes of--Cntined.
Knives, etc.

Provio.

Minimum rate.

Firearms.

prouiso.
out locks. ete.

Nails. etc.

SESS.. I.

CH. 11.

1897.

155. Table, butchers', carving, cooks', hunting, kitchen, bread, butter, vegetable, fruit, cheese, plumbers', painters', palette,
artists', and shoe knives, forks and steels, finished or unfinished, with handles of mother-of-pearl, shell or ivory, sixteen
cents each; with handles of deer horn, twelve cents each; with
handles of hard rubber, solid bone, celluloid or any pyroxyline
material, five cents each; with handles of any other material
than those above mentioned, one and one-half cents each, and
in addition, on all the above articles, fifteen per centur ad
valorem: Provided, That none of the above-named articles
shall pay a less rate of duty than forty-five per centum ad
valorem.
156. Files, file-blanks, rasps, and floats, of all cuts and kinds, two and
one-half inches in length and under, thirty cents per dozen; over two
and one-half inches in length and. not over four and one-half inches,
fifty cents per dozen; over four and one-half inches in length and under
seven inches, seventy-five cents per dozen; seven inches in length and
over, one dollar per dozen.
FiREAMs:

157. Muskets, muzzle-loading shotguns, rifles, and parts thereof,
twenty-five per centum ad valorem.
158. Double-barreled, sporting, breech-loading shotguns, combination
shotguns and rifles, valued at not more than five dollars, one
dollar and fifty cents each and in addition thereto fifteen per
centum ad valorem; valued at more than five dollars and not
more than ten dollars, four dollars each and in addition thereto
fifteen per centum ad valorem each; valued at more than ten dollars, six dollars each; double barrels for sporting breech-loading
shotguns and rifles further advanced in manufacture than rough
bored only, three dollars each; stocks for double-barreled sporting breech-loading shotguns and rifles wholly or partially manufactured, three dollars each; and in addition thereto on all
such guns and rifles, valued at more than ten dollars each, and
on such stocks and barrels, thirty-five per centum ad valorem;
on all other parts of such guns or rifles, and fittings for such
stocks or barrels, finished or unfinished, fifty per centum ad
valorem: Provided, That all double-barrel sporting breechloading shotguns and rifles imported without a lock or locks or
other fittings shall be subject to a duty of six dollars each and
thirty-five per centumr ad valorem; single-barreled breechloading shotguns, or parts thereof, except as otherwise specially provided for in this Act, one dollar each and thirty-five
per centum ad valorem. Revolving pistols or parts thereof,
seventy-five cents each and twenty-five per centum ad valorem.
159. Sheets, plates, wares, or articles of iron, steel, or other metal,
enameled or glazed with vitreous glasses, forty per centuin ad valorem.
NAILS, SPIKES, TACKS, AND NEEDLES:

160. Cut nails and cut spikes of iron or steel, six-tenths of one cent
per pound.
161. Horseshoe nails, hob nails, and all other wrought iron or steel
nails not specially provided for in this Act, two and one-fourth
cents per pound.
162. Wire nails made of wrought iron or steel, not less than one inch
in length and not lighter than number sixteen wire gauge, onehalf of one cent per pound; less than one inch in length and
lighter than number sixteen wire gauge, one cent per pound.
163. Spikes, nuts, and washers, and horse, mule, or ox shoes, of
wrought iron or steel, one cent per pound.
164. Cut tacks, brads, or sprigs, not exceeding sixteen ounces to the
thousand, one and one-fourth cents per thousand; exceeding

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sixteen ounces to the thousand, one and one-half cents per

pound.

165

1897.

t

165. Needles for knitting or sewing machines, including latch needles,
one dollar per thousand and twenty-five per centum ad valorem;
crochet needles and tape needles, knitting and all other needles,
not specially provided for in this Act, and bodkins of metal,
twenty-five per centum ad valorem.
PLATES:

SCHEDTaE C.

Metalsandmanufac.

tures of-Continued.

Engraved

plates,

166. Steel plates engraved, stereotype plates, electrotype plates, and etc.
plates of other materials, engraved or lithographed, for printing, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.
167. Rivets of iron or steel, two cents per pound.
SAWS:

Saws.

168. Crosscut saws, six cents per linear foot; mill saws, ten cents
per linear foot; pit, and drag saws, eight cents per linear foot;
circular saws, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; steel band
saws, finished or further advanced than tempered and polished,
ten cents per pound and twenty per centum ad valorem; hand,
back, and all other saws, not specially provided for in this Act,
thirty per centum ad valorem.
169. Screws, commonly called wood screws, made of iron or steel,
more than two inches in length, four cents per pound; over one inch
and not more than two inches in length, six cents per pound; over
one-half inch and not more than one inch in length, eight and one-half
cents per pound; one-half inch and less in length, twelve cents per
pound.
170. Umbrella and parasol ribs and stretchers, composed in chiefvalue
of iron, steel, or other metal, in frames or otherwise, fifty per centum
ad valorem.
171. Wheels for railway purposes, or parts thereof, made of iron or
steel, and steel-tired wheels for railway purposes, whether wholly or
partly finished, and iron or steel locomotive, car, or other railway tires
or parts thereof, wholly or partly manufactured, one and one-half cents
per pound; and ingots, cogged ingots, blooms, or blanks for the same,
without regard to the degree of manufacture, one and one-fourth cents
per pound: Provided, That when wheels for railway purposes, or parts
thereof, of iron or steel, are imported with iron or steel axles fitted in
them, the wheels and axles together shall be dutiable at the same rate
as is provided for the wheels when imported separately.
MISCELLANEOUS METALS AND MANUFACTURES OF.

Screws.

Provio.
itWel

8

with axles

Ante, p. 162.

Miscellaneous met
als.

172. Aluminum, and alloys of any kind in which aluminum is the
component material of chief value, in crude form, eight cents per
pound; in plates, sheets, bars, and rods, thirteen cents per pound.
173. Antimony, as regulus or metal, three-fourths of one cent per
pound.
174. Argentine, albata, or German silver, unmanufactured, twentyfive per centum ad valorem.
175. Bronze powder, twelve cents per pound; bronze or Dutch-metal
or aluminum, in leaf, six cents per package of one hundred leaves.
176. Copper in rolled plates, called braziers' c piper, sheets, rods,
pipes, and copper bottoms, two and one-half cents per pound: sheathing or yellow metal of which copper is the component material of chief
value, and not composed wholly or in part of iron ungalvanized, two
cents per pound.
GOLD AND SILVER:

177. Gold leaf, one dollar and seventy-five cents per package of five
hundred leaves.
178. Silver leaf, seventy-five cents per package of five hundred leaves.

Gold and silver.

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tuMre of-8Conted.r

Lead.

SESS. I.

CH. 11.

1897.

179. Tinsel wire, lame or lahn, made wholly or in chief value of gold,
silver, orother metal, five cents per pound; bullions and metal
threads, made wholly or in chief value of tinsel wire, lame or
lahn. five cents per pound and thirty-five per centum ad
valorem; laces, embroideries, braids, galloons, trimmings, or
other articles, made wholly or in chief value of tinsel wire, lame
or lahn, bullions, or metal threads, sixty per centum ad valorem.
180. Hooks and eyes, metallic, whether loose, carded or otherwise,
including weight of cards, cartons, and immediate wrappings and labels,
five and one-half cents per pound and fifteen per centum ad valorem.
LEAD:

181. Lead-bearing ore of all kinds, one and one-half cents per pound
on the lead contained therein: Provided, That on all importations of lead-bearing ores the duties shall be estimated at the
Lead-bearing orea.
port of entry, and a bond given in double the amount of such
estimated duties for the transportation of the ores by common
carriers bonded for the transportation of appraised or unappraised merchandise to properly equipped sampling or smelting establishments, whether designated as bonded warehouses
or otherwise. On the arrival of the ores at such establishments
they shall be sampled according to commercial methods under
the supervision of Government officers, who shall be stationed
at such establishments, and who shall submit the samples thus
obtained to a Government assayer, designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall make a proper assay of the
sample, and report the result to the proper customs officers,
and the import entries shall be liquidated thereon, except in
case of ores that shall be removed to a bonded warehouse to be
refined for exportation as provided by law. And the SecrePost, p. 210.
tary of the Treasury is authorized to make all necessary regulations to enforce the provisions of this paragraph.
182. Lead dross, lead bullion or base bullion, lead in pigs and bars,
lead in any form not specially provided for in this Act, old
refuse lead run into blocks and bars, and old scrap lead fit only
to be remanufactured; all the foregoing, two and one-eighth
cents per pound; lead in sheets, pipe, shot, glaziers' lead and
lead wire, two and one-half cents per pound.
183. Metallic mineral substances in a crude state, and metals
nnwrought, not specially provided for in this Act, twenty per centurn
ad valorem; monazite sand and thorite, six cents per pound.
184. Mica, unmanutactured, or rough trimmed only, six cents per
pound and twenty per centumn ad valorem; mica, cut or trimmed, twelve
cents per pound and twenty per centum ad valorem.
185. Nickel, nickel oxide, alloy of any kind in which nickel is a component material of chief value, in pigs, ingots, bars, or sheets, six cents
per pound.
186. Pens, metallic, except gold pens, twelve cents per gross.
187, Penholder tips, penllolders or parts thereof, and gold pens,
twenty-five per centum ad valorem.
188. Pins with solid heads, without ornamentation, including hair,
safety, hat, bonnet, and shawl pins; any of the foregoing composed
wholly of brass, copper, iron, steel, or other base metal, not plated, and
not commonly known as jewelry, thirty-five per centum ad valorem.
189. Quicksilver, seven cents per pound. The flasks, bottles. or other
vessels in which quicksilver is imported shall be subject to the same
rate of duty as they would be subjected to if imported empty.
1!0. Type metal, one and one-half cents per pound for the lead contained therein; new types, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.
191. Watch movements, whether imported in cases or not, if having
Watch movements.
not more than seven jewels, thirty-five cents each: if having more than
seven jewels and not more than eleven jewels, fifty cents each: if having
Proiso.

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H. 11.

167

1897.

SCHEDULE C.
more than eleven jewels and not more than fifteen jewels, seventy- Metals and manufacof-Continued.
tures
than
more
not
and
jewels
fifteen
than
more
having
if
each:
cents
five
seventeen jewels, one dollar and twenty-five cents each; it having more
than seventeen jewels, three dollars each, and in addition thereto, on
all the foregoing, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; watch cases and
parts of watches, including watch dials, chronometers, box or ship, and
parts thereof, clocks and parts thereof, not otherwise provided for in
this Act, whether separately packed or otherwise, not composed wholly
or in part of china, porcelain, parian, bisque or earthenware, forty per
centuin ad valorem; all jewels for use in the manufacture of watches or
clocks. ten per centum ad valorem.
192. Zinc in blocks or pigs, one and one-half cents per pound; in
sheets, two cents per pound; old and worn-out, fit only to be remanufactured, one cent per pound.
193. Articles or wares not specially provided for in this Act, composed
wholly or in part of iron, steel, lead, copper, nickel, pewter, zinc, gold, silver, platinum, aluminum or other metal, and whether partly or wholly
manufactured, forty-five per centum ad valorem.

SCHEDULE D.-WOOD AND MANUFACTURES OF.

SCHEDILE D.

Wood and manufactures of.

194. Timber hewn, sided, or squared (not less than eight inches
square), and round timber used for spars or in building wharves, one
cent per cubic foot.
195. Sawed boards, planks, deals, and other lumber of whitewood,
sycamore, and basswood, one dollar per thousand feet board measure;
sawed lumber, not specially provided for in this Act, two dollars per
thousand feet board measure; but when lumber of any sort is planed
or finished, in addition to the rates herein provided, there shall be
levied and paid for each side so planed or finished fifty cents per thousand feet board measure; and if planed on one side and tongued and
grooved, one dollar per thousand feet board measure; and if planed on
two sides and tongued and grooved, one dollar and fifty cents per
thousand feet board measure; and in estimating board measure under
this schedule no deduction shall be made on board measure on account
of planing, tongueing and grooving: Provided, That if any country or Proviso.
on
dependency shall impose an export duty upon saw logs, round unmanu- posing export dutyl
factured timber, stave bolts, shingle bolts, or heading bolts, exported to saw log"s etc.
the United States, or a discriminating charge upon boom sticks, or
chains used by American citizens in towing logs, the amount of such
export duty, tax, or other charge, as the case may be, shall be added as
an additional duty to the duties imposed upon the articles mentioned
in this paragraph when imported from such country or dependency.
196. Paving posts, railroad ties, and telephone, trolley, electric-light
and telegraph poles of cedar or other woods, twenty per centum ad
valorem.
197. Kindling wood in bundles not exceeding one-quarter of a cubic
foot each, three-tenths of one cent per bundle; if in larger bundles,
three-tenths of one cent for each additional quarter of a cubic foot or
fractional part thereof.
198. Sawed boards, planks, deals, and all forms of sawed cedar,
lignumn-vitwe, lancewood, ebony, box, granadilla, mahogany, rosewood,
satinwood, and all other cabinet woods not further manufactured than
sawed, fifteen per centum ad valorem; veneers of wood, and wood,
unmanufactured, not specially provided for in this Act, twenty per
centum ad valorem.
199. Clapboards, one dollar and fifty cents per thousand.
200. Hubs for wheels, posts, heading bolts, stave bolts, last-blocks,
wagon-blocks, oar-blocks, heading-blocks, and all like blocks or sticks,
rough-hewn, sawed or bored, twenty per centum ad valorem; fence
posts, ten per centum ad valorem.
201. Laths, twenty-five cents per one thousand pieces.

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CH. 11.

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202. Pickets, palings and staves of wood, of all kinds, ten per centum
ad valorem.
203. Shingles, thirty cents per thousand.
204. Casks, barrels, and hogsheads, (empty), sugar-box shooks, and
packing-boxes (empty), and packing-box shooks, of wood, not specially
provided for in this Act, thirty per centum ad valorem.
205. Boxes,.barrels, or other articles containing oranges, lemons,
limes, grape fruit, shaddocks or pomelos, thirty per centum ad valorem:
Provided, That the thin wood, so called, comprising the sides, tops and
Proviso.
Orange and lemon bottoms of orange and lemon boxes of the growth and manufacture
b hook.
of the United States, exported as orange and lemon box shooks, may
be reimported in completed form, filled with oranges and lemons, by
the payment of duty at one-half the rate imposed on similar bores of
entirely foreign growth and manufacture.
206. Chair cane or reeds, wrought or manufactured from rattans or
reeds, ten per centum ad valorem; osier or willow prepared for basket
makers' use, twenty per centum ad valorem; manufactures of osier or
willow, forty per centum ad valorem.
207. Toothpicks of wood or other vegetable substance, two cents per
one thousand and fifteen per centum ad valorem; butchers' and packers' skewers of wood, forty cents per thousand.
208. House or cabinet furniture, of wood, wholly or partly finished,
and manufactures of wood, or of which wood is the component material
of chief value, not specially provided for in this Act, thirty-five per
centum ad valorem.

SCHEDuLE D.
Wood and manufac-

tures of-continued.

SCHEDULEE.
Sugar, molasses,
and manufactures of.

Proriso.
Hawaiian treaty not
impair*l.
Vol. 1,.p. 625.
Vol. 25. p. 1:99.
Vol. 26, p. 844.

SCHEDULE E.-SUGAR, MOLASSES, AND MANUFACTURES OF.
209. Sugars not above number sixteen Dutch standard in color, tank
bottoms, sirups of cane juice, melada, concentrated melada, concrete
and concentrated molasses, testing bythe polariscope not above seventyfive degrees, ninety-five one-hundredths of one cent per pound, and for
every additional degree shown by the polariscopic test, thirty-five onethousandths of one centperpound additional, and fractions of a degree
in proportion; and on sugar above number sixteen Dutch standard in
color, and on all sugar which has gone through a process of refining,
one cent and ninety-five one-hundredths of one cent per pound; molasses
testing above forty degrees and not above fifty-six degrees, three cents
per gallon; testing fifty-six degrees and above, six cents per gallon;
sugar drainings and sugar sweepings shall be subject to duty as mnolasses or sugar, as the case may be, according to polariscopic test: Prorided, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to abrogate or in any manner impair or affect the provisions of the treaty of
commercial reciprocity concluded between the United States and the
King of the Hawaiian Islands on the thirtieth day of January, eighteen
hundred and seventy-five, or the provisions of any Act of Congress
heretofbre passed for the execution of the same.
210. Maple sugar and maple sirup, four cents per pound; glucose or
grape sugar, one and one-half cents per pound; sugar cane in its natural state, or unmanufactured, twenty per centum ad valorem.
211. Saccharine, one dollar and fifty cents per pound and ten per
centum ad valorem.
212. Sugar candy and all confectionery not specially provided for in
this Act, valued at fifteen cents per pound or less, and on sugars after
being refined, when tinctured, colored or in any way adulterated, four
cents per pound and fifteen per centum ad valorem; valued at more
than fifteen cents per pound, fifty per centumn ad valorem. The weight
and the value of the immediate coverings, other than the outer packing
case or other covering, shall be included in the dutiable weight and the
value of the merchandise.

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CH. 11.

SCHEDULE F.-TOBACCO AND MANUFACTURES

169

1897.
OF.

SCHEDULE F.

Tobacco and manufactures of.

213. Wrapper tobacco, and filler tobacco when mixed or packed with Wrappers.
more than fifteen per centum of wrapper tobacco, and all leaf tobacco
the product of two or more countries or dependencies when mixed or
packed together, if unstemmed, one dollar and eighty-five cents per
pound; if stemmed, two dollars and fifty cents per pound; filler tobacco Fillers.
not specially provided for in this Act, if unstemmed, thirty-five cents
per pound; if stemmed, fifty cents per pound.
214. The term wrapper tobacco as used in this Act means that quality Definitions, "wrapof leaf tobacco which is suitable for cigar wrappers, and the term filler per,"
er.
tobacco means all other leaf tobacco. Collectors of customs shall not
permit entry to be made, except under regulations to be prescribed by
the Secretary of the Treasury, of any leaf tobacco, unless the invoices of
the same shall specify in detail the character of such tobacco, whether
wrapper or filler, its origin and quality. In the examination for classification of any imported leaf tobacco, at least one bale, box, or package
in every ten, and at least one in every invoice, shall be examined by the
appraiser or person authorized by law to make such examination, and
at least ten hands shall be examined in each examined bale, box, or
package.
215. All other tobacco, manufactured or unmanufactured, not specially provided for in this Act, fifty-five cents per pound.
216. Snuff and snuff flour, manufactured of tobacco, ground dry, or
damp, and pickled, scented, or otherwise, of all descriptions, fifty-five
cents per pound.
217. Cigars, cigarettes, cheroots of all kinds, four dollars and fifty
cents per pound and twenty-five per centum ad valorem; and paper
cigars and cigarettes, including wrappers, shall be subject to the same
duties as are herein imposed upon cigars.
SCHEDULE G.-AGRICULTURAL

PRODUCTS AND PROVISIONS.

ANIMALS, LIVE:

SCHEDULE G.

Agricultural products and provisions.
Live animals.

218. Cattle, if less than one year old, two dollars per head; all other
cattle if valued at not more than fourteen dollars per head,
three dollars and seventy-five cents per head; if valued at
more than fourteen dollars per head, twenty-seven and onehalf per centum ad valorem.
219. Swine, one dollar and fifty cents per head.
220.. Horses and mules, valued at one hundred and fifty dollars or
less per head, thirty dollars per head; if valued at over one
hundred and fifty dollars, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.
221. Sheep, one year old or over, one dollar and fifty cents per head;
less than one year old, seventy-five cents per head.
222. All other live animals, not specially provided for in this Act,
twenty per centum ad valorem.
BREADSTUFFS AND FARINACEOUS SUBSTANCES:

223.
224.
225.
226.
227.
228.
229.

Barley, thirty cents per bushel of forty-eight pounds.
Barley-malt, forty-five cents per bushel of thirty-four pounds.
Barley, pearled, patent, or hulled, two cents per pound.
Buckwheat, fifteen cents per bushel of forty-eight pounds.
Corn or maize, fifteen cents per bushel of fifty-six pounds.
Corn meal, twenty cents per bushel of forty-eight pounds.
Macaroni, vermicelli, and all similar preparations, one and onehalf cents per pound.
230. Oats, fifteen cents per bushel.
231. Oatmeal and rolled oats, one cent per pound; oat hulls, ten cents
per hundred pounds.
232. Rice, cleaned, two cents per pound; uncleaned rice, or rice free
of the outer hull and still having the inner cuticle on, one and
one-fourth cents per pound; rice flour, and rice meal, and rice

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SCHDrLE G.

Agricultural products andprovisonsd-

continueJ

Dairy products.

CH. 11.

1897.

broken which will pass through a sieve known commercially

as number twelve wire sieve, one-fourth of one cent per pound;

paddy, or rice having the outer hull on, three-fourths of one
cent per pound.
233. Rye, ten cents per bushel; rye flour, one-half of one cent per
pound.
234. Wheat, twenty-five cents per bushel.
235. Wheat flour, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.
DAIRY PRODUCTS:

236.
237.
238.
239.

Butter, and substitutes therefor, six cents per pound.
Cheese, and substitutes therefor, six cents per pound.
Milk, fresh, two cents per gallon.
Milk, preserved or condensed, or sterilized by heating or other
processes, including weight of immediate coverings, two cents
per pound; sugar of milk, five cents per pound.

Farm and fieldprod- FABMI AND FIELD PRODUCTS:

ncts.

SESS. I.

240. Beans, forty-five cents per bushel of sixty pounds.
241. Beans, pease, and mushrooms, prepared or preserved, in tins,
jars, bottles, or similar packages, two and one-half cents per
pound, including the weight of all tins, jars, and other immediate coverings; all vegetables, prepared or preserved, including
pickles and sauces of all kinds, not specially provided for in
this Act, and fish paste or sauce, forty per centum ad valorem.
242. Cabbages, three cents each.
243. Cider, five cents per gallon.
244. Eggs, not specially provided for in this Act, five cents per dozen.
245. Eggs, yolk of, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; albumen,
egg or blood, three cents per pound; dried blood, when soluble,
one and one-half cents per pound.
246. Hay, four dollars per ton.
247. Honey, twenty cents per gallon.
248. Hops, twelve cents per pound; hop extract and lupulin, fifty
per centum ad valorem.
249. Onions, forty cents per bushel; garlic, one cent per pound.
250. Pease, green, in bulk or in barrels, sacks, or similar packages,
and seed pease, forty cents per bushel of sixty pounds; pease,
dried, not specially provided for, thirty cents per bushel; split
pease, forty cents per bushel of sixty pounds; pease in cartons, papers, or other small packages, one cent per pound.
251. Orchids, palms, draca'nas, crotons and azaleas, tulips, lhyacinths, narcissi, jonquils, lilies, lilies of the valley, and all
other bulbs, bulbous roots, or corms, which are cultivated for
their flob ers, and natural flowers of all kinds, preserved or
fresh, suitable for decorative purposes, twenty-five per centum
ad valorem.
252. Stocks, cuttings or seedlings of Myrobolan plum, Mahaleb or
Mazzard cherry, three years old or less, fifty cents per tlhousand plants and fifteen per centum ad valorem; stocks, cuttings or seedlings of pear, apple, quince and the St. Julien
plum, three years old or less, and evergreen seedlings, one
dollar per thousand plants and fifteen per centurn ad valorem;
rose plants, budded, grafted, or grown on their own roots, two
and one-half cents each; stocks, cuttings and seedlings of all
fruit and ornamental trees, deciduous and evergreen. shrubs
and vines, manetti, multiflora, and brier rose, and all trees,
shrubs, plants and vines, commonly known as nursery or
greenhouse stock, not specially provided for in this Act,
twenty-five per centum ad valorem.
253. Potatoes, twenty-five cents per bushel of sixty pounds.

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254. Seeds: Castor beans or seeds, twenty-five cents per bushel of
fifty pounds; flaxseed or linseed and other oil seeds not spe- ucts and provisionscially provided for in this Act, twenty-five cents per bushel of Continued.
fifty-six pounds; poppy seed, fifteen cents per bushel; but no
drawback shall be allowed upon oil cake made from imported
seed, nor shall any allowance be made for dirt or other impurities in any seed; seeds of all kinds not specially provided
for in this Act, thirty per centum ad valorem.
255. Straw, one dollar and fifty cents per ton.
256. Teazles, thirty per centum ad valorem.
257. Vegetables in their natural state, not specially provided for in
this Act, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

FIS:
FISH:

Fish.

258. Fish known or labeled as anchovies, sardines, sprats, brislings,
sardels, or sardellen, packed in oil or otherwise, in bottles,
jars, tin boxes or cans, shall be dutiable as follows: When in
packages containing seven and one-half cubic inches or less,
one and one-half cents per bottle, jar, box or can; containing
more than seven and one-half and not more than twenty-one
cubic inches, two and one-half cents per bottle, jar, box or
can; containing more than twenty-one and not more than
thirty-three cubic inches, five cents per bottle, jar, box or can;
containing more than thirty-three and not more than seventy
cubic inches, ten cents per bottle, jar, box or can; if in other
packages, forty per centum ad valorem. All other fish, (except
shellfish), in tin packages, thirty per centum ad valorem; fish
in packages containing less than one-half barrel, and not specially provided for in this Act, thirty per Centum ad valorem.
259. Fresh-water fish not specially provided for in this Act, one-fourth
of one cent per pound.
260. Herrings, pickled or salted, one-half of one cent per pound;
herrings, fresh, one-fourth of one cent per pound.
261. Fish, fresh, smoked, dried, salted, pickled, frozen, packed in ice
or otherwise prepared for preservation, not specially provided
forin this Act,three-fourths of one centper pound; fish,skinned
or boned, one and one-fourth cents per pound; mackerel, halibut or salmon, fresh, pickled or salted, one cent per pound.
Fruits and nuts.

FRUITS AND NUTS:

262. Apples, peaches, quinces, cherries, plums, and pears, green or
ripe, twenty-five cents per bushel; apples, peaches, pears, and
other edible fruits, including berries, when dried, desiccated,
evaporated or prepared in any manner, not specially provided
for in this Act, two cents per pound; berries, edible, in their
natural condition, one cent per quart; cranberries, twenty-five
per centum ad valorem.
263. Comfits, sweetmeats, and fruits preserved in sugar, molasses,
spirits, or in their own juices, not specially provided for in this
Act, one cent per pound and thirty-five per centum ad valorem;
if containing over ten per centum of alcohol and not specially
provided for in this Act, thirty-five per centum ad valorem and
in addition two dollars and fifty cents per proof gallon on the
alcohol contained therein in excess of ten per centum; jellies
of all kinds, thirty-five per centum ad valorem; pineapples preserved in their own juice, twenty-five per centun ad valorem.
264. Figs, plums, prunes, and prunelles, two cents per pound; raisins
and other dried grapes, two and one-half cents per pound;
dates, one-half of one cent per pound; currants, Zante or other,
two cents per pound; olives, green or prepared, in bottles, jars,
or similar packages, twenty-five cents per gallon; in casks or
otherwise than in bottles, jars, or similar packages, fifteen
cents per gallon.

Frt

ad

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SCHEDULE G.
Agricultural prodnct and proviioContinued.

Meat products.

SESS.. I.

H.11.

1897.

265. Grapes in barrels or other packages, twenty cents per cubic foot
of capacity of barrels or packages.
266. Oranges, lemons, limes, grape fruit, shaddocks or pomelos, one
cent per pound.
267. Orange peel or lemon peel, preserved, candied, or dried, and
cocoanut meat or copra desiccated, shredded, cut, or similarly
prepared, two cents per pound; citron or citron peel, preserved,
candied, or dried, four cents per pound.
268. Pineapples, in barrels and other packages, seven cents per cubic
foot of the capacity of barrels or packages; in bulk, seven dollars per thousand.
Nuts269. Almonds, not shelled, four cents per pound; clear almonds,
shelled, six cents per pound.
270. Filberts and walnuts of all kinds, not shelled, three cents per
pound; shelled, five cents per pound.
271. Peanuts or ground beans, unshelled, one-half of one cent per
pound; shelled, one cent per pound.
272. Nuts of all kinds, shelled or unshelled, not specially provided
for in this Act, one cent per pound.
MEAT PRODUCTS:

273. Bacon and hams, five cents per pound.
274. Fresh beef, veal, mutton, and pork, two cents per pound.
275. Meats of all kinds, prepared or preserved, not specially provided for in this Act, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.
276. Extract of meat, not specially provided for in this Act, thirty-

five cents per pound; fluid extract of meat, fifteen cents per
pound, but the dutiable weight of the extract of meat and of
the fluid extract of meat shall not include the weight of the
package in which the same is imported.
277. Lard, two cents per pound.
278. Poultry, live, three cents per pound; dressed, five cents per
pound.
279. Tallow, three-fourths of one cent per pound; wool grease, includ-

ing that known commercially as degras or brown wool grease,
one-half of one cent per pound.

Miscellaneous prod. MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCTS:

ucts.

280. Chicory-root, raw, dried, or undried, but unground, one cent per
pound; chicory root, burnt or roasted, ground or granulated,
or in rolls, or otherwise prepared, and not specially provided
for in this Act, two and one-half cents per pound.
281. Chocolate and cocoa, prepared or manufactured, not specially
provided for in this Act, valued at not over fifteen cents per
pound, two and one-half cents per pound; valued above fifteen
and not above twenty-four cents per pound, two and one-half
cents per pound and ten per centum ad valorem; valued above
twenty-four and not above thirty-five cents per pound, five
cents per pound and ten per centumn ad valorem; valued above
thirty-five cents per pound, fifty per centun ad valorem. The
weight and value of all coverings, other than plain wooden,

shall be included in the dutiable weight and value of the foregoing merchandise; powdered cocoa, unsweetened, five cents
per pound.
282. Cocoa-butter or cocoa-butterine, three and one-half cents per

pound.
283. Dandelion-root and acorns prepared, and articles used as coffee,
or as substitutes for coffee not specially provided for in this
Act, two and one-half cents per pound.

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284. Salt in bags, sacks, barrels, or other packages, twelve cents per
one hundred pounds; in bulk, eight cents per one hundred cnts and lrrovisionspounds: Provided, That imported salt in bond may be used in Continued.
curing fish taken by vessels licensed to engage in the fisheries, Provisos.
and in curing fish on the shores of the navigable waters of the use in curing bod,
United States, under such regulations as the Secretary of the etc., refund, erc. or
Treasury shall prescribe; and upon proof that the salt has been duties.
used for either of the purposes stated in this proviso, the duties
on the same shall be remitted: Provided further, That export- Exporters of meats,
ers of meats, whether packed or smoked, which have been etc.
cured in the United States with imported salt, shall, upon satisfactory proof, under such regulations as the Secretary of the
Treasury shall prescribe, that such meats have been cured
with imported salt, have refunded to them from the Treasury
the duties paid on the salt so used in curing such exported
meats, in amounts not less than one hundred dollars.
285. Starch, including all preparations, from whatever substance produced, fit for use as starch, one and one-half cents per pound.
286. Dextrine, burnt starch, gum substitute, or British gum, two cents
per pound.
287. Spices: Mustard, ground or prepared, in bottles or otherwise,
ten cents per pound; capsicum or red pepper, or cayenne pepper, two and one-half cents per pound; sage, one cent per
pound; spices not specially provided for in this Act, three
cents per pound.
288. Vinegar, seven and one-half cents per proof gallon. The standard proof for vinegar shall be taken to be that strength which
requires thirty-five grains of bicarbonate of potash to neutralize one ounce troy of vinegar.
SCHEDULE H.-SPIRITS, WINES, AND OTHER BEVERAGES.
SPIRITS.

SPIRITS.

SCHEDULE H.
Spirits, wines, and
ther beverages.

289. Brandy and other spirits manufactured or distilled from grain Spirits.
or other materials, and not specially provided for in this Act, two dollars and twenty-five cents per proof gallon.
290. Each and every gauge or wine gallon of measurement shall be
counted as at least one proof gallon; and the standard for determining
the proof of brandy and other spirits or liquors of any kind imported
shall be the same as that which is defined in the laws relating to internal revenue: Provided, That it shall be lawful for the Secretary of the Proripo-.
r
g
Treasury, in his discretion, to authorize the ascertainment of the proof
of wines, cordials, or other liquors, by distillation or otherwise, in cases
where it is impracticable to ascertain such proof by the means prescribed by existing law or regulations: And providedf/rther, That any Liquors in casks,
t
brandy or other spirituous or distilled liquors imported in any sized dec.ifro'nltcrie"to
cask, bottle, jug, or other package, of or from any country, dependency, similar sized casks,
or province under whose laws similar sized casks, bottles, jugs, or other etc.
packages of distilled spirits, wine, or other beverage put up or filled in
the United States are denied entrance into such country, dependency,
or province, shall be forfeited to the United States; and any brandy or Casks of less than
other spirituous or distilled liquor imported in a cask of less capacity 10 galons.
than ten gallons from any country shall be forfeited to the United
States.
291. On all compounds or preparations of which distilled spirits are
a component part of chief value, there shall be levied a duty not less
than that imposed upon distilled spirits.
292. Cordials, liqueurs, arrack, absinthe, kirschwasser, ratafia, and
other spirituous beverages or bitters of all kinds, containing spirits, and
not specially provided for in this Act, two dollars and twenty-five cents
per proof gallon.

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293. No lower rate or amount of duty shall be levied, collected, and
scuaxt- H.
Spirits, wines, and
otherbeverage--Con- paid on brandy, spirits, and other spirituous beverages than that fixed
by law for the description of first proof; but it shall be increased in
tinned.
proportion for any greater strength than the strength of first proof, and
all imitations of brandy or spirits or wines imported by any names
whatever shall be subject to the highest rate of duty provided for the
genuine articles respectively intended to be represented, and in no case
less than one dollar and fifty cents per gallon.
294. Bay rum or bay water, whether distilled or compounded, of first
proof, and in proportion for any greater strength than first proof, one
dollar and fifty cents per gallon.
Wines.

WINES.

295. Champagne and all other sparkling wines, in bottles containing
each not more than one quart and more than one pint, eight dollars per
dozen; containing not more than one pint each and more than one-half
pint, four dollars per dozen; containing one-half pint each or less, two
dollars per dozen; in bottles or other vessels containing more than one
quart each, in addition to eight dollars per dozen bottles, on the quantity in excess of one quart, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents
per gallon; but no separate or additional duty shall be levied on the
bottles.
Stillwines.
296. Still wines, including ginger wine or ginger cordial and vermuth, in casks or packages other than bottles or jugs, if containing
fourteen per centum or less of absolute alcohol, forty cents per gallon; if
containing more than fourteen per centum of absolute alcohol, fifty cents
per gallon. In bottles or jugs, per case of one dozen bottles or jugs, containing each not more than one quart and more than one pint, or twentyfour bottles or jugs containing. each not more than one pint, one
dollar and sixty cents per case; and any excess beyond these quantities found in such bottles or jugs shall be subject to a duty of five
cents per pint or fractional part thereof, but no separate or additional
Provisos.
duty shall be assessed on the bottles orjugs: Provided, That any wines,
classed as spiSrith ginger cordial, or vermuth imported containing more than twenty-four
per centum of alcohol shall be classed as spirits and pay duty accordNo breakage allow- ingly: And provided further, That there shall be no constructive or
n ce
other allowance for breakage, leakage, or damage on wines, liquors,
0 C.
cordials, or distilled spirits. Wines, cordials, brandy, and other spirituous liquors, including bitters of all kinds, and bay rum or bay
water, imported in bottles or jugs, shall be packed in packages containing not less than one dozen bottles or jugs in each package, or duty
shall be paid as if such package contained at least one dozen bottles
or jugs, and in addition thereto, duty shall be collected on the bottles
DIty on jugs.
or jugs at the rates which would be chargeable thereon if imported
empty. The percentage of alcohol in wines and fruit juices shall be
determined in such manner as the Secretary of the Treasury shall by
regulation prescribe.
Al e
' c.
297. Ale, porter, and beer, in bottles or jugs, forty cents per gallon,
but no separate or additional duty shall be assessed on the bottles or
jugs; otherwise than in bottles or jugs, twenty cents per gallon.
tMalt
extract.
298. Malt extract, fluid, in casks, twenty cents per gallon; in bottles
or jugs, forty cents per gallon; solid or condensed, forty per centtlu ad
valorem.
Cherry juicer. etc.
)99. Cherryjuiceand prunejice, or prune wine, and other fruit juices
not specially provided for in this Act, containing no alcohol or not
more than eighteen per centum of alcohol, sixty cents per gallon; if
containing more than eighteen per centum of alcohol, sixty cents per
gallon, and in addition thereto two dollars and seven cents per proof
gallon on the alcohol contained therein.
Ginger ale, etc.
300. Ginger ale, ginger beer, lemonade, soda water, and other similar
beverages containing no alcohol in plain green or colored, molded or
sparkling wines.

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pressed, glass bottles, containing each not more than three-fourths of
SCHEDULE H.
a pint, eighteen cents per dozen; containing more than three-fourths of otherbeverages- Cona pint each and not more than one and one-half pints, twenty-eight ti n led.
cents per dozen; but no separate or additional duty shall be assessed
on the bottles; if imported otherwise than in plain green or colored,
molded or pressed, glass bottles, or in such bottles containing more
than one and one-half pints each, fifty cents per gallon and in addition
thereto, duty shall be collected on the bottles, or other coverings, at the
rates which would be chargeable thereon if imported empty.
301. All mineral waters and all imitations of natural mineral waters, Mineral waters, etc.
and all artificial mineral waters not specially provided for in this Act,
in green or colored glass bottles, containing not more than one pint,
twenty cents per dozen bottles. If containing more than one pint and
not more than one quart, thirty cents per dozen bottles. But no separate duty shall be assessed upon the bottles. If imported otherwise
than in plain green or colored glass bottles, or if imported in such bottles containing more than one quart, twenty-four cents per gallon, and
in addition thereto duty shall be collected upon the bottles or other
covering at the same rates that would be charged thereon if imported
empty or separately.
SCHEDULE I.-COTTON MANUFACTURES.

SCHEDULE I.

Cotton manufactures.

302. Cotton thread and carded yarn, warps or warp yarn, in singles, Thread and yarn.
whether on beams or in bundles, skeins or cops, or in any other form,
except spool thread of cotton hereinafter provided for, not colored,
bleached, dyed, or advanced beyond the condition of singles by grouping or twisting two or more single yarns together, three cents per
pound on all numbers up to and including number fifteen, one-fifth of
a cent per number per pound on all numbers exceeding number fifteen
and up to and including number thirty, and one-fourth of a cent per
number per pound on all numbers exceeding number thirty; colored,
bleached, dyed, combed or advanced beyond the condition of singles by
grouping or twisting two or more single yarns together, whether on
beams, or in bundles, skeins or cops, or in any other form, except spool
thread of cotton hereinafter provided for, six cents per pound on all
numbers up to and including number twenty, and on all numbers
exceeding number twenty and up to number eighty, one-fourth of one
cent per number per pound; on number eighty and above, three-tenths
of one cent per number per pound; cotton card laps, roping, sliver or
roving, forty-five per centum ad valorem.
303. Spool thread of cotton, including crochet, darning, and embroid- spool thread.
ery cottons on spools or reels, containing on each spool or reel not exceeding one hundred yards of thread, six cents per dozen; exceeding one
hundred yards on each spool or reel, for every additional hundred yards
or fractional part thereof in excess of one hundred, six cents per dozen
spools or reels; if otherwise than on spools or reels, one-half of one cent
for each one hundred yards or fractional part thereof: Provided, That Provisoin no case shall the duty be assessed upon a less number of yards than Assessmentofduty.
is marked on the spools or reels.
304. Cotton cloth not bleached, dyed, colored, stained, painted, or Cotton cloth.
printed, and not exceeding fifty threads to the square inch, counting
the warp and filling, one cent per square yard; if bleached, one and
one-fourth cents per square yard; if dyed, colored, stained, painted, or
printed, two cents per square yard.
305. Cotton cloth, not bleached, dyed, colored, stained, painted, or
printed. exceeding fifty and not exceeding one hundred threads to the
square inch, counting the warp and filling, and not exceeding six square
yards to the pound, one and one-fourth cents per square yard; exceeding six and not exceeding nine square yards to the pound, one and onehalf cents per square yard; exceeding nine square yards to the pound,
one and three-fourths cents per square yard; if bleached, and not

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provio.
Finer quality.

I'-rviso.

Fineruality.

SEss. I.

CH. 11.

1897.

exceeding six square yards to the pound, one and one-half cents per

square yard; exceeding six and not exceeding nine square yards to the

pound, one and three-fourths cents per square yard; exceeding nine
square yards to the pound, two and one-fourth cents per square yard;
if dyed, colored, stained, painted, or printed, and not exceeding six
square yards to the pound, two and three-fourths cents per square
yard; exceeding six and not exceeding nine square yards to the pound,
three and one-fourth cents per square yard; exceeding nine square
yards to the pound, three and one-half cents per square yard: Provided,
That on all cotton cloth not exceeding one hundred threads to the square
inch, counting the warp and filling, not bleached, dyed, colored, stained,
painted, or printed, valued at over seven cents per square yard, twentyfive per centum ad valorem; bleached, valued at over nine cents per
square yard, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; and dyed, colored,
stained, painted, or printed, valued at over twelve cents per square
yard,, there shall be levied, collected, and paid a duty of thirty per
centum ad valorem.
306. Cotton cloth, not bleached, dyed, colored, stained, painted, or
printed, exceeding one hundred and not exceeding one hundred and
fifty threads to the square inch, counting the warp and filling, and not
exceeding four square yards to the pound, one and one-half cents per
square yard; exceeding four and not exceeding six square yards to the
pound, two cents per square yard; exceeding six and not exceeding
eight square yards to the pound, two and one-half cents per square
yard; exceeding eight square yards to the pound, two and three-fourths
cents per square yard; if bleached, and not exceeding four square yards
to the pound, two and one-half cents per square yard; exceeding four
and not exceeding six square yards to the pound, three cents per square
yard; exceeding six and not exceeding eight square yards to the pound,
three and one-half cents per square yard; exceeding eight square yards
to the pound, three and three-fourths cents per square yard; if dyed,
colored, stained, painted, or printed, and not exceeding four square
yards to the pound, three and one-half cents per square yard; exceeding four and not exceeding six square yards to the pound, three and
three-fourths cents per square yard; exceeding six and not exceeding
eight square yards to the pound, four and one-fourth cents per square
yard; exceeding eight square yards to the pound, four and one-half
cents per square yard: Prorided, That on all cotton cloth exceeding
one hundred and not exceeding one hundred and fifty threads to the
square inch, counting the warp and filling, not bleached, dyed, colored,
stained, painted, or printed, valued at over nine cents per square yard,
thirty per centum ad valorem; bleached, valued at over eleven cents
per square yard, thirty-five per centum ad valorem; dyed, colored,
stained, painted, or printed, valued at over twelve and one-hllf cents
per square yard, there shall be levied, collected, and paid a duty of
thirty-five per centum ad valorem.
307. Cotton cloth not bleached, dyed, colored, stained, painted, or
printed, exceeding one hundred and fifty and not exceeding two hundred threads to the square inch, counting the warp and filling, and not
exceeding three and one-half square yards to the pound, two cents per
square yard; exceeding three and one-half and not exceeding four
and one-half square yards to the pound, two and three-fourths cents
per square yard; exceeding four and one-half and not exceeding six
square yards to the pound, three cents per square yard; exceeding six
square yards to the pound, three and one-half cents per square yard;
if bleached, and not exceeding three and one-half square yards to the
pound, two and three-fourths cents per square yard; exceeding three
and one-half and not exceeding four and one-half square yards to the
pound, three and one-half cents per square yard; exceeding four and
one-half and not exceeding six square yards to the pound, four cents
per square yard; exceeding six square yards to the pound, four and
one-fourth cents per square yard: if dyed, colored, stained, painted, or

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printed, and not exceeding three and one half square yards to the
pound, four and one-fourth cents per square yard; exceeding three and
one-half and not exceeding four and one-half square yards to the
pound, four and one-half cents per square yard; exceeding four and
one-half and not exceeding six square yards to the pound, four and
three-fourths cents per square yard; exceeding six square yards to the
pound, five cents per square yard: Provided, That on all cotton cloth
exceeding one hundred and fifty and not exceeding two hundred
threads to the square inch, counting the warp and filling, not bleached,
dyed, colored, stained, painted, or printed, valued at over ten cents per
square yard, thirty-five per centum ad valorem; bleached, valued at
over twelve cents per square yard, thirty-five per centum ad valorem;
dyed, colored, stained, painted, or printed, valued at over twelve and
one-half cents per square yard, there shall be levied, collected, and paid
a duty of forty per centum ad valorem.
308. Cotton cloth not bleached, dyed, colored, stained, painted, or
printed, exceeding two hundred and not exceeding threehundred threads
to the square inch, counting the warp and filling, and not exceeding
two and one-half square yards to the pound, three and one-half cents
per square yard; exceeding two and one-half and not exceeding three
and one-half square yards to the pound, four cents per square yard;
exceeding three and one-half and not exceeding five square yards to
the pound, four and one-half cents per square yard; exceeding five
square yards to the pound, five cents per square yard; if bleached, and
not exceeding two and one-half square yards to the pound, four and
one-half cents per square yard; exceeding two and one-half and not
exceeding three and one-half square yards to the pound, five cents per
square yard; exceeding three and one-half and not exceeding five square
yards to the pound, five and one-half cents per square yard; exceeding
five square yards to the pound, six cents per square yard; if dyed, colored, stained, painted, or printed, and not exceeding three and onehalf square yards to the pound, six and one-fourth cents per square
yard; exceeding three and one-half square yards to the pound, seven
cents per square yard: Provided, That on all such cotton cloths not
bleached, dyed, colored, stained, painted, or printed, valued at over
twelve and one-half cents per square yard; bleached, valued at over
fifteen cents per square yard; and dyed, colored, stained, painted, or
printed, valued at over seventeen and one-half cents per square yard,
there shall be levied, collected, and paid a duty of forty per centum ad
valorem.
309. Cotton cloth not bleached, dyed, colored, stained, painted, or
printed, exceeding three hundred threads to the square inch, counting
the warp and filling, and not exceeding two square yards to the pound,
four cents per square yard; exceeding two and not exceeding three
square yards to the pound, four and oue-half cents per square
yard; exceeding three and not exceeding four square yards to the
pound, five cents per square yard; exceeding four square yards to the
pound, five and.one-half cents per square yard; if bleached and not
exceeding two square yards to the pound, five cents per square yard;
exceeding two and not exceeding three square yards to the pound, five
and one-half cents per square yard; exceeding three and not exceeding
four square yards to the pound, six cents per square yard; exceeding
four square yards to the pound, six and one-half cents per square yard;
if dyed, colored, stained, painted, or printed, and not exceeding three
square yards to the pound, six and one-half cents per square yard;
exceeding three square yards to the pound, eight cents per square yard:
Provided, That on all such cotton cloths not bleached, dyed, colored,
stained, painted, or printed, valued at over fourteen cents per square
yard; bleached, valued at over sixteen cents per square yard; and
dyed, colored, stained, painted, or printed, valued at over twenty cents
per square yard, there shall be levied, collected, and paid a duty of
forty per centum ad valorem.
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SCHEDULE I.
Cotton manufactures-Continued.

Proviso.

Finer quality.

Proviso.
Finer quality.

Proviso.
Finer quality.

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310. The term cotton cloth, or cloth, wherever used in the paragraphs
of this schedule, unless otherwise specially provided for, shall be held
Definition
to include all woven fabrics of cotton in the piece or otherwise, whether
figured, fancy, or plain, the warp and filling threads of which can be
counted by unraveling or other practicable means.
311. Cloth, composed of cotton or other vegetable fiber and silk,
whether known as silk-striped sleeve linings, silk stripes, or otherwise,
of which cotton is the component material of chief value, eight cents
per square yard and thirty per centum ad valorem: Provided, That
Proimao
no such cloth shall pay a less rate of duty than fifty per centum ad
valorem. Cotton cloth, filled or coated, three cents per square yard
and twenty per centum ad valorem.
Handkerchiefs or 312. Handkerchiefs or mufflers composed of cotton, whether in the
mufflers.
piece or otherwise and whether finished or unfinished, if not hemmed,
or hemmed only, shall pay the same rate of duty on the cloth contained therein as is imposed on cotton cloth of the same description,
weight, and count of threads to the square inch; but such handkerchiefs or mufflers shall not pay a less rate of duty than forty-five per
centum ad valorem. If such handkerchiefs or mufflers are hemstitched,
or imitation hemstitched, or revered, or have drawn threads, they shall
pay a duty of ten per centum ad valorem in addition to the duty here.
inbefore prescribed, and in no case less than fifty-five per centum ad
valorem; if such handkerchiefs or mufflers are embroidered in any
manner, whether with an initial letter, monogram, or otherwise, by
hand or machinery, or are tamboured, appliqued, or trimmed wholly or
in part with lace or with tucking or insertion, they shall not pay a less
rate of duty than sixty per centum ad valorem.
313. Cotton cloth in which other than the ordinary warp and fill,
ing threads have been introduced in the process of weaving to form a
figure, whether known as lappets or otherwise, and whether unbleached,
bleached, dyed, colored, stained, painted, or printed, shall pay, in addition to the duty herein provided for other cotton cloth of the same
description, or condition, weight, and count of threads to the square
inch, one cent per square yard if valued at not more than seven cents
per square yard, and two cents per square yard if valued at more than
seven cents per square yard.
Clothing,eto.
314. Clothing, ready-made, and articles of wearing apparel of every
description, including neck-ties or neckwear composed of cotton or
other vegetable fiber, or of which cotton or other vegetable fiber is the
component material of chief value, made up or manufactured, wholly
or in part, by the tailor, seamstress, or manufacturer, and not otherProviso.
ndia-ruobber ix wise provided for in this Act, fifty per centum ad valorem: Provided,
That any outside garment provided for in this paragraph having indiatures.
rubber as a component material shall pay a duty of fifteen cents per
pound and fifty per centum ad valorem.
plushes, etc.
315. Plushes, velvets, velveteens, corduroys, and all pile fabrics, cat
or uncut; any of the foregoing composed of cotton or other vegetable
fiber, not bleached, dyed, colored, stained, painted, or printed, nine
cents per square yard and twenty-five per centum ad valorem; if
bleached, dyed, colored, stained, painted, or printed, twelve cents per
CrUurovs of vge. square yard and twenty-five per centum ad valorem: Provided, That
table fiber, etc.
corduroys composed of cotton or other vegetable fiber, weighing seven
ounces or over per square yard, shall pay a duty of eighteen cents per
square yard and twenty-five per centum ad valorem: Provided further,
Manufacturel
That manufactures or articles in any form including such as are commonly known as bias dress facings or skirt bindings, made or cut from
plushes, velvets, velveteens, corduroys, or other pile fabrics composed
of cotton or other vegetable fiber, shall be subject to the foregoing rates
of duty and in addition thereto ten per centum ad valorem: Provided
Minimum.
further. That none of the articles or fabrics provided for in this paragraph shall pay a less rate of duty than forty-seven and one-half per
centum ad valorem.
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316. Curtains, table covers, and all articles manufactured of cotton C SCHEDU I.
Cotton manufacchenille or of which cotton chenille is the component material of chief tres--Continued.

value, fifty per centum ad valorem.

317. Stockings, hose and half-hose, made on knitting machines or

stockings.

frames, composed of cotton or other vegetable fiber, and not otherwise
specially provided for in this Act, thirty per centum ad valorem.
318. Stockings, hose and half-hose, selvedged, fashioned, narrowed,
or shaped wholly or in part by knitting machines or frames, or knit by
hand, including such as are commercially known as seamless stockings,
hose and half-hose, and clocked stockings, hose or half-hose, all of the
above composed of cotton or other vegetable fiber, finished or unfinished, valued at not more than one dollar per dozen pairs, fifty cents
per dozen pairs; valued at more than one dollar per dozen pairs, and
not more than one dollar and fifty cents per dozen pairs, sixty cents
per dozen pairs; valued at more than one dollar and fifty cents per
dozen pairs, and not more than two dollars per dozen pairs, seventy
cents per dozen pairs; valued at more than two dollars per dozen pairs,
and not more than three dollars per dozen pairs, one dollar and twenty
cents per dozen pairs; valued at more than three dollars per dozen
pairs and not more than five dollars per dozen pairs, two dollars per
dozen pairs; and in addition thereto, upon all the foregoing, fifteen per
centum ad valorem; valued at more than five dollars per dozen pairs,
fifty-five per centum ad valorem.
319. Shirts and drawers, pants, vests, union suits, combination suits,

Underwear, etc.

320. Bandings, beltings, bindings, bone casings, cords, garters lin.

Bandings, beltings,

tights, sweaters, corset covers and all underwear of every description
made wholly or in part on knitting machines or frames, or knit by
hand, finished or unfinished, not including stockings, hose and halfhose, composed of cotton or other vegetable fiber, valued at not more
than one dollar and fifty cents per dozen, sixty cents per dozen and
fifteen per centum ad valorem; valued at more than one dollar and
fifty cents per dozen and not more than three dollars per dozen, one
dollar and ten cents per dozen, and in addition thereto fifteen per
centum ad valorem; valued at more than three dollars per dozen and
not more than five dollars per dozen, one dollar and fifty cents per
dozen, and in addition thereto twenty-five per centum ad valorem;
valued at more than five dollars per dozen and not more than seven
dollars per dozen, one dollar and seventy-five cents per dozen, and in
addition thereto thirty-five per centum ad valorem; valued at more
than seven dollars per dozen and not more than fifteen dollars per
dozen, two dollars and twenty-five cents per dozen, and in addition
thereto thirty-five per centum ad valorem; valued above fifteen dollars
per dozen, fifty per centum ad valorem.

ing for bicycle tires, ribbons, suspenders and braces, tapes, tubing, and etc.
webs or webbing, any of the foregoing articles made of cotton or other
vegetable fiber, whether composed in part of india-rubber or otherwise,
and not embroidered by hand or machinery, forty-five per centum ad
valorem; spindle banding, woven, braided or twisted lamp, stove, or
candle wicking made of cotton or other vegetable fiber, ten cents per
pound and fifteen per centum ad valorem; loom harness or healds made
of cotton or other vegetable fiber, or of which cotton or other vegetable
fiber is the component material of chief value, fifty cents per pound and
twenty-five per centum ad valorem; boot, shoe, and corset lacings made
of cotton or other vegetable fiber, twenty-five cents per pound. and
fifteen per centum ad valorem; labels, for garments or other articles,
composed of cotton or other vegetable fiber, fifty cents per pound and
thirty per centum ad valorem.
321. Cotton table damask, forty per centum ad valorem; cotton duck,
thirty-five per centum ad valorem.
322. All manufactures of cotton not specially provided for in this Act,
forty-five per centum ad valorem.

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.

Flax, hemp, jute,

ax.

tes

Hemp.
Yarn.
Cables. etc.

SEss. I.

Cu. 11.

1897.

SCHEDULE J.-FLAX, HEMP, AND JUTE, AND MANUFACTURES OF.

323. Flax straw, five dollars per ton.
324. Flax, not hackled or dressed, one cent per pound.
325. Flax, hackled, known as "dressed line," three cents per pound.
326. Tow of flax, twenty dollars per ton.
327. Hemp, and tow of hemp, twenty dollars per ton; hemp, hackled,
known as "line of hemp," forty dollars per ton.
328. Single yarns made of jute, not finer than five lea or number, one
cent per pound and ten per centum ad valorem; if finer than five lea or
number, thirty-five per centum ad valorem.
329. Cables and cordage, composed of istle, Tampico fiber, manila,
sisal grass or sunn, or a mixture of these or any of them, one cent per
pound; cables and cordage made of hemp, tarred or untarred, two
cents per pound.
330. Threads, twines, or cords, made from yarn not finer than five lea
or number, composed of flax, hemp, or ramie, or of which these substances or either of them is the component material of chief value, thirteen cents per pound; if made from yarn finer than five lea or number,
three-fourths of one cent per pound additional for each lea or number,
or part of a lea or number, in excess of five.
331. Single yarns in the gray, made of flax, hemp, or ramie, or a
mixture of any of them, not finer than eight lea or number, seven cents
per pound; finer than eight lea or number and not finer than eighty lea
or number, forty per centum ad valorem; single yarns, made of flax,
hemp, or ramie, or a mixture of any of them, finer than eighty lea or number, fifteen per centum ad valorem.
332. Flax gill netting, nets, webs, and seines shall pay the same duty
per pound as is imposed in this schedule upon the thread, twine, or
cord of which they are made, and in addition thereto twenty-five per
centum ad valorem.
333. Floor mattings, plain, fancy or figured, manufactured from straw,
round or split, or other vegetable substances not otherwise provided for,
including what are commonly known as Chinese, Japanese, and India
straw mattings, valued at not exceeding ten cents per square yard,
three cents per square yard; valued at exceeding ten cents per square
yard, seven cents per square yard and twenty-five per centurn ad
valorem.
334. Carpets, carpeting, mats and rugs made of flax, hemp, jute, or
other vegetable fiber (except cotton), valued at not exceeding fifteen
cents per square yard, five cents per square yard and thirty-five per
centum ad valorem; valued above fifteen cents per square yard, ten cents
per square yard and thirty-five per centum ad valorem.
335. Hydraulic hose, made in whole or in part of flax, hemp, ramie,
or jute, twenty cents per pound.
336. Tapes composed wholly or in part of flax, woven with or without
metal threads, on reels, spools, or otherwise, and designed expressly
for use in the manufacture of measuring tapes, forty per centunl ad
valorem.
337. Oilcloth for floors, stamped, painted, or printed, including linoloum or corticene, figured or plain, and all other oilcloth (except silk
oilcloth) under twelve feet in width not specially provided for herein,
eight cents per square yard and fifteen per centum ad valorem; oil
cloth for floors and linoleum or corticene, twelve feet and over in width,
inlaid linoleum or corticene, and cork carpets, twenty cents per square
yard and twenty per centum ad valorem; waterproof cloth, composed
of cotton or other vegetable fiber, whether composed in part of indiarubber or otherwise, ten cents per square yard and twenty per centum
ad valorem.
338. Shirt collars and cuffs, composed of cotton, forty-five cents per
dozen pieces and fifteen per centum ad valorem; composed in- whole or
in part of linen, forty cents per dozen pieces and twenty per centum ad
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: 339. Laces, lace window curtains, tidies, pillow shams, bed sets,
SCHEDriJ.
insertings, flouncings, and other lace articles; handkerchiefs, napkins, and manufacturesofwearing apparel, and other articles, made wholly or in part of lace,7 Continued.
Laces, etc.
or in imitation of lace; nets or nettings, veils and veilings, etamines,
vitrages, neck rufflings, ruchings, tuckings, flutings, and quillings;
embroideries and all trimmings, including braids, edgings, insertings,
tiouncings, galloons, gorings, and bands; wearing apparel, handkerchiefs, and other articles or fabrics embroidered in any manner by hand
or machinery, whether with a letter, monogram, or otherwise; tamboured or appliqueed articles, fabrics or wearing apparel; hemstitched
or tucked flouncings or skirtings, and articles made wholly or in part
of rufflings, tuckings, or ruchings; all of the foregoing, composed wholly
or in chief value of flax, cotton, or other vegetable fiber, and not elsewhere specially provided for in this Act, whether composed in part of
india rubber or otherwise, sixty per centum ad valorem: Provided, Proviso.
That no wearing apparel or other article or textile fabric, when embroid- Minimum.
ered by hand or machinery, shall pay duty at a less rate than that
imposed in any schedule of this Act upon any embroideries of the materials of which such embroidery is composed.
340. Lace window curtains, pillow shams, and bed sets, finished or
unfinished, made on the Nottingham lace-curtain machine or on the
Nottingham warp machine, and composed of cotton or other vegetable.
fiber, when counting five points or spaces between the warp threads to
the inch, one cent per square yard; when counting more than five such
points or spaces to the inch, one-half of one cent per square yard in
addition for each such point or space to the inch in excess of five; and
in addition thereto, on all the foregoing articles in this paragraph,
twenty per centum ad valorem: Provided, That none of the above- proviso.
named articles shall pay a less rate of duty than fifty per centum ad Minimum.
valorem.
341. Plain woven fabrics of single jute yarns, by whatever name
known, not exceeding sixty inches in width, weighing not less than six
ounces per square yard and not exceeding thirty threads to the square
inch, counting the warp and filling, five-eighths of one cent per pound
and fifteen per centum ad valorem; if exceeding thirty and not exceeding fifty-five threads to the square inch, counting the warp and filling,
seven-eighths of one cent per pound and fifteen per centum ad valorem.
342. All pile fabrics of which flax is the component material of chief
value, sixty per centum ad valorem.
343. Bags or sacks made from plain woven fabrics, of single jute
yarns, not dyed, colored, stained, painted, printed, or bleached, and
not exceeding thirty threads to the square inch, counting the warp and
filling, seven-eighths of one cent per pound and fifteen per centum ad
valorem.
344. Bagging for cotton, gunny cloth, and similar fabrics, suitable
for covering cotton, composed of single yarns made of jute, jute butts,
or hemp, not bleached, dyed, colored, stained, painted, or printed, not
exceeding sixteen threads to the square inch, counting the warp and
filling, and weighing not less than fifteen ounces per square yard,
six-tenths of one cent per square yard.
345. Handkerchiefs composed of flax, hemp, or ramie, or of which
these substances, or either of them, is the component material of chief
value, whether in the piece or otherwise, and whether finished or unfinished, not hemmed or hemmed only, fifty per centum ad valorem; if
hemstitched, or imitation hemstitched, or revered, or with drawn
threads, but not embroidered or initialed, fifty-five per centLum ad
valorem.
346.- Woven fabrics or articles not specially provided for in this Act,
composed of flax, hemp, or ramie, or of which these substances or either
of them is the component material of chief value, weighing four and
one-half ounces or more per square yard, when containing not more than
sixty threads to the square inch, counting the warp and filling, one and

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ndma hufac p j,
ContinIed.

prom.
Minimun.

SCHEDnIL

K.

Wool and manufaotl ra of wool.

SESS. .

Ci. 11.

1897.

three-fourths cents per square yard; containing more than sixty and not
more than one hundred and twenty threads to the square inch, two and
three-fourths cents per square yard; containing more than one hundred

and twenty and not more than one hundred and eighty threads to the
square inch, six cents per square yard; containing more than one hundred and eighty threads to the square inch, nine cents per square yard,
and in addition thereto, on all the foregoing, thirty per centum ad
valorem: Provided, That none of the foregoing articles in this paragraph shall pay a less rate of duty than fifty per centum ad valorem.
Woven fabrics of flax, hemp, or ramie, or of which these substances or
either of them is the component material of chief value, including such
as is known as shirting cloth, weighing less than four and one-half
ounces per square yard and containing more than one hundred threads
to the square inch, counting the warp and filling, thirty-five per centum
ad valorem.
347. All manufactures of flax, hemp, ramie, or other vegetable fiber,
or of which these substances, or either of them, is the component material of chief value, not specially provided for in this Act, forty-five per
centum ad valorem.
SCHEDULE K.-WOOL AND MANIIFACTURES OF WOOL.

348. All wools, hair of the camel, goat, alpaca, and other like ani-

mals shall be divided, for the purpose of fixing the duties to be charged
thereon, into the three following classes:
349. Class one, that is to say, merino, mestiza, metz, or metis wools,
classifcation.
or other wools of Merino blood, immediate or remote, Down clothing
wools, and wools of like character with any of the preceding, including
Bagdad wool, China lamb's wool, Castel Branco, Adrianople skin wool
or butcher's wool, and such as have been heretofore usually imported
into the United States from Buenos Ayres, New Zealand, Australia,
Cape of Good Hope, Russia, Great Britain, Canada, Egypt, Morocco,
and elsewhere, and all wools not hereinafter included in classes two
and three.
350. Class two, that is to say, Leicester, Cotswold, Lincolnshire,
Down combing wools. Canada long wools, or other like combing wools
of English blood, and usually known by the terms herein used, and
also hair of the camel, Angora goat, alpaca, and other like animals.
351. Class three, that is to say, Donskoi, native South American,
Cordova, Valparaiso, native Smyrna, Russian camel's hair, and all such
wools of like character as have been heretofore usually imported into
the United States from Turkey, Greece, Syria, and elsewhere, excepting
improved wools hereinafter provided for.
352. The standard samples of all wools which are now or may be hereStandard amples.
after deposited in the principal custom-houses of the United States,
under the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall be the
standards for the classification of wools under this Act, and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to renew these standards and to
make such additions to them from time to time as may be required,
and he shall cause to be deposited like standards in other customhouses of the United States when they may be needed.
353. Whenever wools of class three shall have been improved by the
admixture of Merino or English blood, from their present character as
represented by the standard samples now or hereafter to be deposited
in the principal custom-houses of the United States, such improved
wools shall be classified for duty either as class one or as class two, as
the case may be.
354. The duty on wools of the first class which shall be imported
washed shall be twice the amount of the duty to which they would be
subjected if imported unwashed; and the duty on wools of the first and
second classes which shall be imported scoured shall be three times the
duty to which they would be subjected if imported unwashed. The

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SCHEDULE K.
duty on wools of the third class, if imported in condition for use in Wool
and manufaccarding or spinning into yarns, or which shall not contain more than tures of-Continued.
eight per cent of dirt or other foreign substance, shall be three times
the duty to which they would otherwise be subjected.
355. Unwashed wools shall be considered such as shall have been
shorn from the sheep without any cleansing; that is, in their natural
condition. Washed wools shall be considered such as have been washed
with water only on the sheep's back, or on the skin. Wools of the
first and second classes washed in any other manner than on the sheep's
back or on the skin shall be considered as scoured wool.
356. The duty upon wool of the sheep or hair of the camel, Angora
goat, alpaca, and other like animals, of class one and class two, which
shall be imported in any other than ordinary condition, or which has
been sorted or increased in value by the rejection of any part of the
original fleece, shall be twice the duty to which it would be otherwise
Proviso.
subject: Provided, That skirted wools as imported in eighteen hundred Skirted
and ninety and prior thereto are hereby excepted. The duty upon wool cepted. wools exof the sheep or hair of the camel, Angora goat, alpaca, and other like
animals of any class which shall be changed in its character or condition for the purpose of evading the duty, or which shall be reduced in
value by the admixture of dirt or any other foreign substance, shall be
twice the duty to which it would be otherwise subject. When the duty
assessed upon any wool equals three times or more that which would be
assessed if said wool was imported unwashed, the duty shall not be
doubled on account of the wool being sorted. If any bale or package
of wool or hair specified in this Act invoiced or entered as of any specified class, or claimed by the importer to be dutiable as of any specified
class, shall contain any wool or hair subject to a higher rate of duty
than the class so specified, the whole bale or package shall be subject
to the highest rate of duty chargeable on wool of the class subject to
such higher rate of duty, and if any bale or package be claimed by the
importer to be shoddy, mungo, flocks, wool, hair, or other material of
any class specified in this Act, and such bale contain any admixture of
any one or more of said materials, or of any other material, the whole
bale or package shall be subject to duty at the highest rate imposed
upon any article in said bale or package.
of duty.
357. The duty upon all wools and hair of the first class shall be Rates
Wools.
eleven cents per pound, and upon all wools or hair of the second class
twelve cents per pound.
358. On wools of the third class and on camel's hair of the third
class the value whereof shall be twelve cents or less per pound, the
duty shall be four cents per pound.
359. On wools of the third class, and on camel's hair of the third
class, the value whereof shall exceed twelve cents per pound, the duty
shall be seven cents per pound.
360. The duty on wools on the skin shall be one cent less per pound
than is imposed in this schedule on other wools of the same class and
condition, the quantity and value to be ascertained under such rules as
the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe.
361. Top waste, slubbing waste, roving waste, ring waste, and garnetted waste, thirty cents per pound.
362. Shoddy, twenty-five cents per pound; noils, wool extract, yarn
waste, thread waste, and all other wastes composed wholly or in part
of wool, and not specially provided for in this Act, twenty cents per
pound.
363. Woolen rags, mungo, and flocks, ten cents per pound.
364. Wool and hair which have been advanced in any manner or by
any process of manufacture beyond the washed or scoured condition,
not specially provided for in this Act, shall be subject to the same
duties as are imposed upon manufactures of wool not specially provided
for in this Act.

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SUDC K-K - :365. On yarns made wholly or in part of wool, valued at not more
tes-oont'anueda
than thirty cents per pound, the duty per pound shall be two and oneYar-l.
half times the duty imposed by this Act on one pound of unwashed

wool of the first class; valued at more than thirty cents per pound, the

Cloths, etc.

Blankets, etc.

Prordo.
grs

Dressgoods, etc.

Proviso.
Higber

grade.

Dress goods.

Proriso.

igher grades.
Clothing, etc.

duty per pound shall be three and one-half times the duty imposed by
this Act on one pound of unwashed wool of the first class, and in addition thereto, upon all the foregoing, forty per centum ad valorem.
366. On cloths, knit fabrics, and all manufactures of every description made wholly or in part of wool, not specially provided for in this
Act, valued at not more than forty cents per pound, the duty per pound
shall be three times the duty imposed by this Act on a pound of
unwashed wool of the first class;. valued at above forty cents per pound
and not above seventy cents per pound, the duty per pound shall be
four times the duty imposed by this Act on one pound of unwashed
wool of the first class, and in addition thereto, upon all the foregoing,
fifty per centum ad valorem; valued at over seventy cents per pound,
the duty per pound shall be four times the duty imposed by this Act on
one pound of unwashed wool of the first class and fifty-five per centum
ad valorem.
367. On blankets, and flannels for underwear composed wholly or in
part of wool, valued at not more than forty cents per pound, the duty
per pound shall be the same as the duty imposed by this Act on two
pounds of unwashed wool of the first class, and in addition thereto
thirty per centum ad valorem; valued at more than forty cents and not
more than fifty cents per pound, the duty per pound shall be three
times the duty imposed by this Act on one pound of unwashed wool of
the first class, and in addition thereto thirty-five per centum ad valorem.
On blankets composed wholly or in part of wool, valued at more than
fifty cents per pound, the duty per pound shall be three times the duty
imposed by this Act on one pound of unwashed wool of the first class,
and in addition thereto forty per centum ad valorem. Flannels composed wholly or in part of wool, valued at above fifty cents per pound,
shall be classified and pay the same duty as women's and children's
dress goods, coat linings, Italian cloths, and goods of similar character
and description provided by this Act: Provided, That on blankets over
three yards in length the same duties shall be paid as on cloths.
368. On women's and children's dress goods, coat linings, Italian
cloths, and goods of similar description and character of which the
warp consists wholly of cotton or other vegetable material with the
remainder of the fabric composed wholly or in part of wool, valued at
not exceeding fifteen cents per square yard, the duty shall be seven
cents per square yard; valued at more than fifteen cents per square
yard, the duty shall be eight cents per square yard; and in addition
thereto on all the foregoing valued at not above seventy cents per
pound, fifty per centurn ad valorem; valued above seventy cents per
pound, fifty five per centum ad valorem: Provided, That on all the
foregoing, weighing over four ounces per square yard, the duty shall
be the same as imposed by this schedule on cloths.
369. On women's and children's dress goods, coat linings, Italian
cloths, bunting, and goods of similar description or character composed
wholly or in part of wool, and not specially provided for in this Act,
the duty shall be eleven cents per square yard; and in addition thereto
on all the foregoing valued at not above seventy cents per pound, fifty
per centum ad valorem; valued above seventy cents per pound, fiftyfive per centum ad valorem: Provided, That on all the foregoing, weighing over four ounces per square yard, the duty shall be the same as
imposed by this schedule on cloths.
370. On clothing, ready-made, and articles of wearing apparel of
every description, including shawls whether knitted or woven, and
knitted articles of every description, made up or manufactured wholly
or in part, felts not woven and not specially provided for in this Act,
composed wholly or in part of wool, the duty per pound shall be four

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times the duty imposed by this Act on one pound of unwashed wool of Sc- 1 LF K
the first class, and in addition thereto sixty per centum ad valorem.
tures of-Continued.
371. Webbings, gorings, suspenders, braces, bandings, beltings, Webbings, etc.
bindings, braids, galloons, edgings, insertings, flouncings, fringes,
gimps, cords, cords and tassels, laces and other trimmings and articles
made wholly or in part of lace, embroideries and articles embroidered
by hand or machinery, head nets, netting, buttons or barrel buttons or
buttons of other forms for tassels or ornaments, and manufactures of
wool ornamented with beads or spangles of whatever material composed, any of the foregoing made-of wool or of which wool is a component material, whether composed in part of india-rubber or otherwise,
fifty cents per pound and sixty per centum ad valorem.
372. Aubusson, Axminster, moquette, and chenille carpets, figured Carpets.
or plain, and all carpets or carpeting of like character or description,
sixty cents per square yard, and in addition thereto forty per centum
ad valorem.
' 373. Saxony, Wilton, and Tournay velvet carpets, figured or plain,
and all carpets or carpeting of like character or description, sixty cents
per square yard, and in addition thereto forty per centum ad valorem.
374. Brussels carpets, figured or plain, and all carpets or carpeting
of like character or description, forty-four cents per square yard, and
in addition thereto forty per centum ad valorem.
375. Velvet and tapestry velvet carpets, figured or plain, printed on
the warp or otherwise, and all carpets or carpeting of like character or
description, forty cents per square yard, and in addition thereto forty
per centum ad valorem.
376. Tapestry Brussels carpets, figured or plain, and all carpets or
carpeting of like character or description, printed on the warp or otherwise, twenty-eight cents per square yard, and in addition thereto forty
per centum ad valorem.
377. Treble ingrain, three-ply, and all chain Venetian carpets, twentytwo cents per square yard, and in addition thereto forty per centum
ad valorem.
378. Wool Dutch and two-ply ingrain carpets, eighteen cents per
square yard, and in addition thereto forty per centum ad valorem.
379. Carpets of every description woven whole for rooms, and Oriental,
Berlin, Aubusson, Axminster, and similar rugs, ten cents per square
foot and in addition thereto, forty per centum ad valorem.
380. Druggets and bockings, printed, colored, or otherwise, twentytwo cents per square yard, and in addition thereto forty per centum ad
valorem.
381. Carpets and carpeting of wool, flax, or cotton, or composed in
part of either, not specially provided for in this Act, fifty per centum
ad valorem.
382. Mats, rugs for floors, screens, covers, hassocks, bed sides, art Mats, rugs, etc.
squares, and other portions of carpets or carpeting made wholly or in
part of wool, and not specially provided for in this Act, shall be subjected to the rate of duty herein imposed on carpets or carpetings of
like character or description.
383. Whenever, in any schedule of this Act, the word "wool" is used "Wool," definition
in connection with a manufactured article of which it is a component
material, it shall be held to include wool or hair of the sheep, camel,
goat, alpaca or other animal, whether manufactured by the woolen,
worsted, felt, or any other process.
ScHzDUcL L.

SCHEDULE L.-SILKS AND SILK GOODS.

Silksandsilkgoods.

384. Silk partially manufactured from cocoons or from waste silk, and
not further advanced or manufactured than carded or combed silk,
forty cents per pound.
385. Thrown silk, not more advanced than singles, tram, organzine,
sewing silk, twist, floss, and silk threads or yarns of every description,

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,
except spun silk, thirty per centum ad valorem; spun silk in skeins,
SCHsDLL.
Silks and silk
cops, warps, or on beams, valued at not exceeding one dollar per pound,
goodsntinouei.

velvets, etc.

twenty cents per pound and fifteen per centum ad valorem; valued at
over one dollar per pound and not exceeding one dollar and fifty cents
per pound, thirty cents per pound and fifteen per centum ad valorem;
valued at over one dollar and fifty cents per pound and not exceeding
two dollars per pound, forty cents per pound and fifteen per centum ad
valorem; valued at over two dollars per pound and not exceeding two
dollars and fifty cents per pound, fifty cents per pound and fifteen per
centum ad valorem; valued at over two dollars and fifty cents per pound,
sixty cents per pound and fifteen per centum ad valorem; but in no
case shall the foregoing articles pay a less rate of duty than thirty-five
per centum ad valorem.
386. Velvets, velvet or plush ribbons, chenilles, or other pile fabrics,

cut or uncut, composed of silk, or of which silk is the component
material of chief value, not specially provided for in this Act, one dollar and fifty cents per pound and fifteen per centum ad valorem;
plushes, composed of silk, or of which silk is the component material
of chief value, one dollar per pound and fifteen per centum ad valorem;
but in no case shall the foregoing articles pay a less rate of duty than
fifty per centum ad valorem.
woven fabrics, etc.

Handkerchiefs, etc.

387. Woven fabrics in the piece, not specially provided for in this

Act, weighing not less than one and one-third ounces per square yard
and not more than eight ounces per square yard, and containing not
more than twenty per centum in weight of silk, if in the gum, fifty
cents per pound, and if dyed in the piece, sixty cents per pound; if
containing more than twenty per centum and not more than thirty
per centum in weight of silk, if in the gum, sixty-five cents per pound,
and if dyed in the piece, eighty cents per pound; if containing more
than thirty per centum and not more than forty-five .per centum in
weight of silk, if in the gum, ninety cents per pound, and if dyed in
the piece, one dollar and ten cents per pound; if dyed in the thread
or yarn and containing not more than thirty per centum in weight of
silk, if black (except selvedges), seventy-five cents per pound, and if
other than black, ninety cents per pound; if containing more than
thirty and not more than forty-five per centum in weight of silk, if
black (except selvedges), one dollar and ten cents per pound, and if
other than black, one dollar and thirty cents per pound; if containing
more than forty-five per centum in weight of silk, or if composed
wholly of silk, if dyed in the thread or yarn and weighted in the dyeing so as to exceed the original weight of the raw silk, if black (except
selvedges), one dollar and fifty cents per pound, and if other than
black, two dollars and twenty-five cents per pound; if dyed in the
thread or yarn, and the weight is not increased by dyeing beyond the
original weight of the raw silk, three dollars per pound; if in the gum,
two dollars and fifty cents per pound; if boiled off, or dyed in the
piece, or printed, three dollars per pound; if weighing less than one
and one-third ounces and imo: e than one-third of an ounce per square
yard, if in the gum, or if dyed in the thread or yarn, two and one-half
dollars per pound; if weighing less than one and one third ounces and
more than one-third of an ounce per square yard, if boiled off, three
dollars per pound; if dyed or printed in the piece, three dollars and
twenty-five cents per pound; if weighing not more than one-third of
an ounce per square yard, four dollars and fifty cents per pound; but
in no case shall any of the foregoing fabrics in this paragraph pay a
less rate of duty than fifty per centum ad valorem.
388. Handkerchiefs or mufflers composed wholly or in part of silk,

whether in the piece or otherwise, finished or unfinished, if not hemmed
or hemmed only, shall pay the same rate of duty as is imposed on goods in
the piece of the same description, weight, and condition as provided for
in this schedule; but such handkerchiefs or mufflers shall not pay a less
rate of duty than fifty per centum ad valorem; if such handkerchiefs

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or mufflers are hemstitched or imitation hemstitched, or revered or have
SCHEDULE L.
Silks and silk
l
drawn threads, or are embroidered in any manner, whether with an goods-Continued.
initial letter, monogram, or otherwise, by hand or machinery, or are
tamboured, appliqued, or are made or trimmed wholly or in part with
lace, or with tucking or insertion, they shall pay a duty of ten per centum
ad valorem in addition to the duty hereinbefore prescribed, and in no
case less than sixty per centum ad valorem.
389. Bandings, including hat bands, beltings, bindings, bone casings, Bandings, etc.
braces, cords, cords and tassels, garters, gorings, suspenders, tubings,
and webs and webbings, composed wholly or in part of silk, and whether
composed in part of india-rubber or otherwise, if not embroidered in
any manner by hand or machinery, fifty per centum ad valorem.
390. Laces, and articles made wholly or in part of lace, edgings, Laces.
insertings, galloons, chiffon or other flouncings, nets or nettings and
veilings, neck rufflings, ruchings, braids, fringes, trimmings, embroideries and articles embroidered by hand or machinery, or tamboured or
appliqued, clothing ready made, and articles of wearing apparel of
every description, including knit goods, made up or manufactured in
whole or in part by the tailor, seamstress, or manufacturer; all of the
above-named articles made of silk, or of which silk is the component
material of chief value, not specially provided for in this Act, and silk
goods ornamented with beads or spangles, of whatever material composed, sixty per centum ad valorem: Provided, That any wearing
i
ber mixroo
apparel or other articles provided for in this paragraph (except gloves) tures.
when composed in part of india-rubber, shall be subject to a duty of
sixty per centum ad valorem.
391. All manufactures of silk, or of which silk is the component silk.
material of chief value, including such as have india-rubber as a component material, not specially provided for in this Act, and all Jacquard
figured goods in the piece, made on looms, of which silk is the component material of chief value, dyed in the yarn, and containing two or
more colors in the filling, fifty per centum ad valorem: Provided, That ProXtnres.
all manufactures, of which wool is a component material, shall be classified and assessed for duty as manufactures of wool.
392. In ascertaining the weight of silk under the provisions of this eigl r t a i n n g
schedule, the weight shall be taken in the condition in which found in
the goods, without deduction therefrom for any dye, coloring matter, or
other foreign substance or material.
SCHEDULE M.-PULP, PAPERS, AND BOOKS.

Pulp,
books.

papers,

and

PULP AND PAPEB:
393. Mechanically ground wood pulp, one-twelfth of one cent per "Plp a d paper.
pound, dry weight; chemical wood pulp, unbleached, one-sixth
of one cent per pound, dry weight; bleached, one-fourth of one
cent per pound, dry weight: Provided, That if any country or rdditional duty
dependency shall impose an export duty on pulp wood exported from countries imposto the United States, the amount of such export duty shall be ilgexport duty.
added, as an additional duty, to the duties herein imposed
upon wood pulp, when imported from such country or dependency.
394. Sheathing paper and roofing felt, ten per centum ad valorem.
395. Filter masse or filter stock, composed wholly or in part of wood
pulp, wood flour, cotton or other vegetable fiber, one and onehalf cents per pound and fifteen per centum ad valorem.
396. Printing paper, unsized, sized or glued, suitable for books and
newspapers, valued at not above two cents per pound, threetenths of one cent per pound; valued above two cents and not
above two and one-half cents per pound, four-tenths of one cent
per pound; valued above two and one-half cents per pound and
not above three cents per pound, five-tenths of one cent per
pound; valued above three cents and not above four cents per

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SCawBBIE -M.N
Pulp, papers. and
li6ko-Contnued.
Proiso.

Additional duty
from countries impoaing export duty.

SEss. I.

CH. 11.

1897.

pound, six-tenths of one cent per pound; valued above-four
cents and not above five cents per pound, eight-tenths of one
cent per pound; valued above five cents per pound, fifteen per
centum ad valorem: Provided, That if any country or dependency shall impose an export duty upon pulp wood exported to
the United States, there shall be imposed upon printing paper
when imported from such country or dependency, an additional
duty of one-tenth of one cent per pound for each dollar of
export duty per cord so imposed, and proportionately for fractions of a dollar of such export duty.
397. Papers commonly known as copying paper, stereotype paper,
paper known as bibulous paper, tissue paper, pottery paper,
and all similar papers, white, colored or printed, weighing not
over six pounds to the ream of four hundred and eighty sheets,
on a basis of twenty by thirty inches, and whether in reams or
any other form, six cents per pound and fifteen per centum ad
valorem; if weighing over six pounds and not over ten pounds
to the ream, and letter copying books, whether wholly or partly
manufactured, five cents per pound and fifteen per centum ad
valorem; crepe paper and filtering paper, five cents per pound
and fifteen per centum ad valorem.
398. Surface-coated papers not specially provided for in this Act
two and one-haif cents per pound and fifteen per centum ad
valorem; if printed, or wholly or partly covered with metal or
its solutions, or with gelatin or flock, three cents per pound
and twenty per centum ad valorem; parchment papers, two
cents per pound and ten per centum ad valorem; plain basic
photographic papers for albumenizing, sensitizing, or baryta
coating, three cents pei pound and ten per centum ad valorem; albumenized or sensitized paper or paper otherwise surface coated for photographic purposes, thirty per centum ad
valorem.

Manufacturers of MANUFACTURES OF PAPER:

Pa

elopes.

Prints, etc.

399. Paper envelopes, plain, twenty per centum ad valorem; if bordered, embossed, printed, tinted, or decorated, thirty-five per
centum ad valorem.
400. Lithographic prints from stone, zinc, aluminum or other material,
bound or unbound (except cigar labels, flaps, and bands, lettered, or otherwise, music and illustrations when forming a part
of a periodical or newspaper and accompanying the same, or
if bound in or forming a part of printed books, not specially
provided for in this Act), on paper or other material not
exceeding eight one-thousandths of one inch in thickness,
twenty cents per pound; on paper or other material exceeding
eight one-thousandths of one inch and not exceeding twenty
one-thousandths of one inch in thickness, and exceeding thirtyfive square inches, but not exceeding four hundred square
inches cutting size in dimensions, eight cents per pound;
exceeding four hundred square inches cutting size in dimensions, thirty-five per centum ad valorem; prints exceeding
eight one-thousandths of one inch and not exceeding twenty
one-thousandths of one inch in thickness, and not exceeding
thirty-five square inches cutting size in dimensions, five cents
per pound; lithographic prints from stone, zinc, aluminum or
other material, on cardboard or other material. exceeding
twenty one-thousandths of one inch in thickness, six cents per
pound; lithographic cigar labels, flaps and bands, lettered or
blank, printed from stone, zinc, aluminum or other material,
if printed in less than eight colors (bronze printing to be
counted as two colors), but not including labels, flaps and
bands printed in whole or in part in metal leaf, twenty cents

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1897.

SCHEDULE M.
per pound. Labels, flaps and bands, if printed entirely in Pulp,
papers, and
bronze printing, fifteen cents per pound; labels, flaps and books-Continued.
bands printed in eight or more colors, but not including labels,
flaps and bands printed in whole or in part in metal leaf, thirty
cents per pound; labels, flaps and bands printed in whole or in
part in metal leaf, fifty cents per pound. Books of paper or
other material for children's use, containing illuminated lithographic prints, not exceeding in weight twenty-four ounces
each, and all booklets and fashion magazines or periodicals
printed in whole or in part by lithographic process or decorated by hand, eight cents per pound.'
401. Writing, letter, note, hand-made, drawing, ledger, bond, record,
tablet, and typewriter paper, weighing not less than ten
pounds and not more than fifteen pounds to the ream, two
cents per pound and ten per centum ad valorem; weighing
more than fifteen pounds to the ream, three and one half cents
per pound and fifteen per centum ad valorem; but if any such
paper is ruled, bordered, embossed, printed, or decorated in
any manner, it shall pay ten per centum ad valorem in addition to the foregoing rates: Provided, That in computing the Proviao.
180,000 inches to be
duty on such paper every one hundred and eighty thousand a ream.
square inches shall be taken to be a ream.
402. Paper hangings and paper for screens or fireboards, and allother
paper not specially provided for in this Act, twenty-five per
centum ad valorem; all Jacquard designs of one line paper, or
parts of such designs, finished or unfinished, thirty-five per
centum ad valorem; all Jacquard designs cut on Jacquard
cards, or parts of such designs, finished or unfinished, thirtyfive per centum ad valorem.

MANUFACTURES OF PAPER:

403. Books of all kinds, including blank books and pamphlets, and Booksphotographs,
engravings bound or unbound, photographs, etchings, maps, etc.
charts, music in books or sheets, and printed matter, all the
foregoing not specially provided for in this Act, twenty-five per
centum ad valorem.
404. Photograph, autograph, and scrap albums, wholly or partly
manufactured, thirty-five per centunm ad valorem.
405. All fancy boxes made of paper, or of which paper is the component material of chief value, or if covered with surface-coated
paper, forty-five per centum ad valorem.
406. Playing cards, in packs not exceeding fifty-four cards and at a Cards.
like rate for any number in excess, ten cents per pack and
twenty per centum ad valorem.
407. Manufactures of paper, or of which paper is the component
material of chief value, not specially provided for in this Act,
thirty-five per centum ad valorem.
SCHEDULE N.-SUTNDRIES.

408. Beads of all kinds, not threaded or strung, thirty-five per centum
ad valorem; fabrics, nets or nettings, laces, embroideries, galloons,
wearing apparel, ornaments, trimmings and other articles not specially
provided for in this Act, composed wholly or in part of beads or spangles
made of glass or paste, gelatin, metal, or other material, but not composed in part of wool, sixty per centum ad valorem.
409. Braids, plaits, laces, and willow sheets or squares, composed
wholly of straw, chip, grass, palm leaf, willow, osier, or rattan, suitable
for making or ornamenting hats, bonnets, or hoods, not bleached, dyed,
:colored or stained, fifteen per centum ad valorem; if bleached, dyed,
colored or stained, twenty per centum ad valorem; hats, bonnets, and
hoods, composed of straw, chip, grass, palm leaf, willow, osier, or rat-

SCHEDULE N.
Sundries.
Beads, etc.

Braids, etc.

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tan, whether wholly or partly manufactured, but not trimmed, thirtyfive per centum ad valorem; if trimmed, fifty per centum ad valorem.
But the terms "grass" and "straw" shall be understood to mean these
substances in their natural form and structure, and not the separated
fiber thereof.
410. Brushes, brooms and feather dusters of all kinds, and hair pencils in quills or otherwise, forty per centum ad valorem.
411. Bristles, sorted, bunched or prepared, seven and one-half cents
per pound.

Buttons and button BUTTONS AND BUTTON FORMS:
forms.

412. Trousers buckles made wholly or partly of iron or steel, or parts
thereof, valued at not more than fifteen cents per hundred,
five cents per hundred; valued at more than fifteen cents per
hundred and not more than fifty cents per hundred, ten cents
per hundred; valued at more than fifty cents per hundred,
fifteen cents per hundred; and in addition thereto on each and
all of the above buckles or parts of buckles, fifteen per centum
ad valorem.
413. Button forms: Lastings, mohair, cloth, silk, or other manufactures of cloth, woven or made in patterns of such size, shape,
or form, or cut in such manner as to be fit for buttons exclusively, ten per centum ad valorem.
414. Buttons or parts of buttons and button molds or blanks, finished
or unfinished, shall pay duty at the following rates, the line
button measure being one-fortieth of one inch, namely: Buttons
known commercially as agate buttons, metal trousers buttons,
(except steel), and nickel bar buttons, one-twelfth of one cent
per line per gross; buttons of bone, and steel trousers buttons,
one-fourth of one cent per line per gross; buttons of pearl or
shell, one and one-half cents per line per gross; buttons of
horn, vegetable ivory, glass, or metal, not specially provided
for in this Act, three-fourths of one cent per line per gross, and
in addition thereto, on all the foregoing articles in this paragraph, fifteen per centum ad valorem; shoe buttons made of
paper, board, papier mache, pulp or other similar material, not
specially provided for in this Act, valued at not exceeding
three cents per gross, one cent per gross; buttons not specially
provided for in this Act, and all collar or cuff buttons and
studs, fifty per centum ad valorem.
coal
415. Coal, bituminous, and all coals containing less than ninety-two
per centum of fixed carbon, and shale, sixty-seven cents per ton of
twenty-eight bushels, eighty pounds to the bushel; coal slack or culm,
such as will pass through a half-inch screen, fifteen cents per ton of
Protrio.
twenty-eight bushels, eighty pounds to the bushel: Provided, That on
Drawback when all coal imported into the United States, which is afterwards used for
used by American
stelam vessels engaged fuel on board vessels propelled by steam and engaged in trade with
in foreign trade, etc. foreign countries, or in trade between the Atlantic and Pacific ports
of the United States, and which are registered under the laws of the
United States, a drawback shall be allowed equal to the duty imposed
by law upon such coal, and shall be paid under such regulations as the
Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe; coke, twenty per centum ad
valorem.
416. Cork bark, cut into squares or cubes, eight cents per pound:
manufactured corks over three-fourths of an inch in diameter measured
at larger end, fifteen cents per pound; three-fourths of an inch and less
in diameter, measured at larger end, twenty-five cents per pound; cork,
artificial, or cork substitutes, manufactured from cork waste and not
otherwise provided for, eight cents per pound.
417. Dice, draughts, chessmen, chess balls, and billiard, pool, and
bagatelle balls, of ivory, bone, or other materials, fifty per centum ad
valorem.

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SEss. I.. CH. 11.

1897.

418. Dolls, doll heads, toy marbles of whatever materials composed,
and all other toys not composed of rubber, china, porcelain, parian,
bisque, earthen or stone ware, and not specially provided for in this
Act, thirty-five per centum ad valorem.
419. Emery grains, and emery manufactured, ground, pulverized, or
refined, one cent per pound; emery wheels, emery files, and manufactures of which emery is the component material of chief value, twentyfive per centum ad valorem:
EXPLOSIVE SUBSTANCES:

420. Firecrackers of all kinds, eight cents per pound, the weight to
include all coverings, wrappings, and packing material.
421. Fulminates, fulminating powders, and like articles, not specially
provided for in this Act, thirty per centum ad valorem.
422. Gunpowder, and all explosive substances used for mining, blasting, artillery, or sporting purposes, when valued at twenty
cents or less per pound, four cents per pound; valued above
twenty cents per pound, six cents per pound.
423. Matches, friction or lucifer, of all descriptions, per gross of
one hundred and forty-four boxes, containing not more than
one hundred matches per box, eight cents per gross; when
imported otherwise than in boxes containing not more than
one hundred matches each, one cent per one thousand matches.
424. Percussion caps, thirty per centum ad valorem; cartridges,
thirty-five per centum ad valorem; blasting caps, two dollars
and thirty six cents per one thousand caps.
425. Feathers and downs of all kinds, including bird skins or parts
thereof with the feathers on, crude or not dressed, colored, or otherwise
advanced or manufactured in any manner, not specially provided for
in this Act, fifteen per centum ad valorem; when dressed, colored, or
otherwise advanced or manufactured in any manner, including quilts
of down and other manufactures of down, and also dressed and finished
birds suitable for millinery ornaments, and artificial or ornamental
feathers, fruits, grains, leaves, flowers, and stems or parts thereof, of
whatever material composed, not specially provided for in this Act,
fifty per centum ad valorem.
426. Furs, dressed on the skin but not made up into articles, and
furs not on the skin, prepared for hatters' use, including fur skins carroted, twenty per centum ad valorem.
427. Fans of all kinds, except common palm-leaf fans, fifty per centum
ad valorem.
428. Gun wads of all descriptions, twenty per centum ad valorem.
429. Hair, human, if clean or drawn but not manufactured, twenty
per centum ad valorem.
430. Hair, curled, suitable for beds or mattresses, ten per centum ad
valorem.
431. Haircloth, known as "crinoline" cloth, ten cents per square
yard; haircloth, known as "hair seating," and hair press cloth,twenty
cents per square yard.
432. Hats, bonnets, or hoods, for men's, women's, boys', or children's
wear, trimmed or untrimmed, including bodies, hoods, plateaux, forms,
or shapes, for hats or bonnets, composed wholly or in chief value of fur
of the rabbit, beaver, or other animals, valued at not more than five
dollars per dozen, two dollars per dozen; valued at more than five dollars per dozen and not more than ten dollars per dozen, three dollars
per dozen; valued at more than ten dollars per dozen and not more
than twenty dollars per dozen, five dollars per dozen; valued at more
than twenty dollars per dozen, seven dollars per dozen; and in addition
thereto on all the foregoing, twenty per centum ad valorem.
433. Indurated fiber ware and manufactures of wood or other pulp,
and not otherwise specially provided for, thirty-five per centum ad
valorem.

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Scoamorm N.
JEWELRY AND PRECIOUS STONES
434. Articles commonly known as jewelry, and parts thereof, finished
Cie.
ntl
Lndu
re
or unfinished, not specially provided for in this Act, including
dJiese
and P

precious stones set, pearls setor strung, and cameos in frames,
sixty per centum ad valorem.
435. Diamonds and other precious stones advanced in condition or
value from their natural state by cleaving, splitting, cutting,
or other process, and not set, ten per centum ad valorem; imitations of diamonds or other precious stones, composed of
glass or paste, not exceeding an inch in dimensions, not
engraved, painted, or otherwise ornamented or decorated, and
not mounted or set, twenty per centum ad valorem.
436. Pearls in their natural state, not strung or set, ten per centum
ad valorem.
Leather and manu- LEATHER, AND MANUFACTURES

Hides.
Drawback.

Band,

et c

sole leather,

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sion

itale for coner-

into mannfac-

tured articles.
Gloves.

OF:

437. Hides of cattle, raw or uncured, whether dry, salted, or pickled,
fifteen per centum ad valorem: Provided. That upon all leather
exported, made from imported hides, there shall be allowed a
drawback equal to the amount of duty paid on such hides, to
be paid under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury
may prescribe.
438. Band or belting leather, sole leather, dressed upper and all
other leather, calfskins tanned or tanned and dressed, kangaroo, sheep and goat skins (including lamb and kid skins)
dressed and finished, chamois and other skins and bookbinders' calfskins, all the foregoing not specially provided forin
this Act, twenty per centum ad valorem; skins for morocco,
tanned but unfinished, ten per centum ad valorem; patent,
japanned, varnished or enameled leather, weighing not over
ten pounds per dozen hides or skins, thirty cents per pound
and twenty per centum ad valorem; if weighing over ten pounds
and not over twenty-five pounds per dozen, thirty cents per
pound and ten per centum ad valorem; if weighing over twentyfive pounds per dozen, twenty cents per pound and ten per
centum ad valorem; pianoforte leather and pianoforte action
leather, thirty-five per centum ad valorem; leather shoe laces,
finished or unfinished, fifty cents per gross pairs and twenty
per centum ad valorem; boots and shoes made of leather,
twenty-five per centum ad valorem: Provided, That leather
cut into shoe uppers or vamps or other forms, suitable for
conversion into manufactured articles, shall be classified as
manufactures of leather and pay duty accordingly.
Gloves439. Gloves made wholly or in part of leather, whether wholly or
partly manufactured, shall pay duty at the following rates, the
lengths stated in each case being the extreme length when
stretched to their full extent, namely:
440. Women's or children's "glace" finish, Schmaschen (of sheep
origin), not over fourteen inches in length, one dollar and
seventy-five cents per dozen pairs; over fourteen inches and
not over seventeen inches in length, two dollars and twentyfive cents per dozen pairs; over seventeen inches in length,
two dollars and seventy-five cents per dozen pairs; men's
"gglace" finish, Schmaschen (sheep), three dollars per dozen
pairs.
441. Women's or children's " glace" finish, lamb or sheep, not over
fourteen inches in length, two dollars and fifty cents per dozen
pairs; over fourteen and not over seventeen inches in length,
three dollars and fifty cents per dozen pairs; over seventeen
inches in length, four dollars and fifty cents per dozen pairs;
men's "glace" finish, lamb or sheep, four dollars per dozen
pairs.

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442. Women's or children's "glace" finish, goat, kid, or other leather

SCHEDUEc n.
Sundries--Contin-

445. In addition to the foregoing rates there shall be paid the follow-

Cumuatve duties.

447. Harness, saddles and saddlery, or parts of either, in sets or in

Harness, etc.

than of sheep origin, not over fourteen inches in length, three ued.
dollars per dozen pairs; over fourteen and not over seventeen
inches in length, three dollars and seventy-five cents per dozen
pairs: over seventeen inches in length, four dollars and seventyfive cents per dozen pairs; men's "glace" finish, kid, goat, or
other leather than of sheep origin, four dollars per dozen pairs.
443. Women's or children's, of sheep origin, with exterior grain surface removed, by whatever name known, not over seventeen
inches in length, two dollars and fifty cents per dozen pairs;
over seventeen inches in length, three dollars and fifty cents
per dozen pairs; men's, of sheep origin, with exterior surface
removed, by whatever name known, four dollars per dozen
pairs.
444. Women's or children's kid, goat, or other leather than of sheep
origin, with exterior grain surface removed, by whatever name
known, not over fourteen inches in length, three dollars per
dozen pairs; over fourteen inches and not over seventeen
inches in length, three dollars and seventy-five cents per dozen
pairs; over seventeen inches in length, four dollars and seventyfive cents per dozen pairs; men's, goat, kid, or other leather
than of sheep origin, with exterior grain surface removed, by
whatever name known, four dollars per dozen pairs.
ing cumulative duties: On all leather gloves, when lined, one
dollar per dozen pairs; on all pique or prix seam gloves, forty
cents per dozen pairs; on all gloves stitched or embroidered,
with more than three single strands or cords, forty cents per
dozen pairs.
446. Glove tranks, with or without the usual accompanying pieces,
shall pay seventy-five per centum of the duty provided for the
gloves in the fabrication of which they are suitable.
parts, finished or unfinished, forty-five per centum ad valorem.

Miscellaneous m

MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURES:

448. Manufactures of amber, asbestos, bladders, cork, catgut or whip

gut or worm gut, or wax, or of which these substances or either
of them is the component material of chief value, not specially
provided for in this Act, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.
449. Manufactures of bone, chip, grass, horn, india-rubber, palm leaf,
straw, weeds, or whalebone, or of which these substances or
either of them is the component material of chief value, not
specially provided for in this Act, thirty per centum ad valorem; but the terms "grass" and "straw" shall be understood
to mean these substances in their natural form and structure,
and not the separated fiber thereof.
450. Manufactures of leather, finished or unfinished, manufactures ot
fur, gelatin, gutta-percha, human hair, ivory, vegetable ivory,
mother-of-pearl and shell, plaster of paris, papier mache, and
vulcanized india-rubber known as "hard rubber," or of which
these substances or either of them is the component material
of chief value, not specially provided for in this Act, and shells
engraved, cut, ornamented, or otherwise manufactured, thirtyfive per centum ad valorem.
451. Masks, composed of paper or pulp, thirty-five per centum ad
valorem.
452. Matting made of cocoa fiber or rattan, six cents per square yard;
mats made of cocoa fiber or rattan, four cents per square foot.
453. Musical instruments or parts thereof, pianoforte actions and
parts thereof, strings for musical instruments not otherwise enumerated,
cases for musical instruments, pitch pipes, tuning forks, tuning hammers, and metronomes; strings for musical instruments, composed
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wholly or in part of steel or other metal, all the foregoing, forty-five
per centum ad valorem.
454. Paintings in oil or water colors, pastels, pen and ink drawings,
and statuary, not specially provided for in this Act, twenty per centum
ad valorem; but the term " statuary" as used in this Act shall be understood to include only such statuary as is cut, carved, or otherwise
wrought by hand from a solid block or mass of marble, stone, or alabaster, or from metal, and as is the professional production of a statuary
or sculptor only.
455. Peat moss, one dollar per ton.
456. Pencils of paper or wood filled with lead or other material, and
pencils of lead, forty-five cents per gross and twenty-five per centum
ad valorem; slate pencils, covered with wood, thirty-five per centum
ad valorem; all other slate pencils, three cents per one hundred.
457. Pencil leads not in wood, ten per centum ad valorem.
458. Photographic dry plates or films, twenty-five per centum ad
valorem.
459. Pipes and smokers' articles: Common tobacco pipes and pipe
bowls made wholly of clay, valued at not more than forty cents per
gross, fifteen cents per gross; other tobacco pipes and pipe bowls ot
clay, fifty cents per gross and twenty-five per centum ad valorem;
other pipes and pipe bowls of whatever material composed, and all
smokers' articles whatsoever, not specially provided for in this Act,
including cigarette books, cigarette book covers, pouches for smoking
or chewing tobacco, and cigarette paper in all forms, sixty per centum
ad valorem.
. 460. Plows, tooth and disk harrows, harvesters, reapers, agricultural
drills, and planters, mowers, horserakes, cultivators, threshing machines
and cotton gins, twenty per centum ad valorem.
461. Plush, black, known commercially as hatters' plush, composed
of silk, or of silk and cotton, such as is used exclusively for making
men's hats, ten per centum ad valorem.
462. Umbrellas, parasols, and sun shades covered with material other
than paper, fifty per centum ad valorem. Sticks for umbrellas, parasols,
or sun shades, and walking canes, finished or unfinished, forty per
centum ad valorem.
463. Waste, not specially provided for in this Act, ten per centum ad
valorem.
FREE LIST.
SEC. 2. That on and after the passage of this Act, unless otherwise
specially provided for in this Act, the following articles when imported
shall be exempt from duty:
464. Acids: Arsenic or arsenious, benzoic, carbolic, tiuoric, hydrochloric or muriatic,*nitric, oxalic, phosphoric, phthalic, picric or nitropicric, prussic, silicic, and valerianic.
465. Aconite.
466. Acorns, raw, dried or undried, but unground.
467. Agates, unmanufactured.
468. Albumen, not specially provided for.
469. Alizarin, natural or artificial, and dyes derived from alizarin or
from anthracin.
470. Amber, and amberoid unmanufactured, or crude gum.
471. Ambergris.
472. Aniline salts.

473. Any animal imported specially for breeding purposes shall be
admitted free: Provided, That no such animal shall be admitted free
unless pure bred of a recognized breed, and duly registered in the book
of record established for that breed: And provided further, That certificate of such record and of the pedigree of such animal shall be produced and submitted to the customs officer, duly authenticated by the
proper custodian of such book of record, together with the affidavit of

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the owner, agent, or importer that such animal is the identical animal FREE LIST-Contindescribed in said certificate of record and pedigree: And provided ned.
further, That the Secretary of Agriculture shall determine and certify Sctretary of Agrito the Secretary of the Treasury what are recognized breeds and pure etc., what are recogbred animals under the provisions of this paragraph. The Secretary nized breeds.

of the Treasury may prescribe such additional regulations as may be
required for the strict enforcement of this provision.

Cattle, horses, inattle,

etc.,

tray-

sheep, or other domestic animals straying across the boundary line into
any foreign country, or driven across such boundary line by the owner
for temporary pasturage purposes only, together with their offspring,
may be brought back to the United States within six months free of
duty, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the
Treasury.
Animals for exhibi474. Animals brought into the United States temporarily for a period
44Aition,
etc
not exceeding six months, for the purpose of exhibition or competition tio e

for prizes offered by any agricultural or racing association; but a bond
shall be given in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secre-

Bomd

tary of the Treasury; also teams of animals, including their harness

Immigrants' teams.

and tackle and the wagons or other vehicles actually owned by persons
emigrating from foreign countries to the United States with their families, and in actual use for the purpose of such emigration under such
regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe; and wild

animals intended for exhibition in zoological collections for scientific
and educational purposes, and not for sale or profit.
475. Annatto, roucou, rocoa, or orleans, and all extracts of.
476. Antimony ore, crude sulphite of.
477. Apatite.
478. Arrowroot in its natural state and not manufactured.
479. Arsenic and sulphide of, or orpiment.
480. Arseniate of aniline.
481. Art educational stops, composed of glass and metal and valued
at not more than six cents per gross.
482. Articles in a crude state used in dyeing or tanning not specially
provided for in this Act.
483. Articles the growth, produce, and manufacture of the United
States, when returned after having been exported, without having been
advanced in value or improved in condition by any process of manufacture or other means; casks, barrels, carboys, bags, and other vessels
of American manufacture exported filled with American products, or
exported empty and returned filled with foreign products, including
shooks and staves when returned as barrels or boxes; also quicksilver
flasks or bottles, of either domestic or foreign manufacture, which shall

ild animals.

frtabrotarad.

have been actually exported from the United States; but proof of the tProof

r t

e

of identity.

identity of such articles shall be made, under general regulations to be
prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, but the exemption of bags
from duty shall apply only to such domestic bags as may be imported
by the exporter thereof, and if any such articles are subject to internal
tax at the time of exportation, such tax shall be proved to have been
paid before exportation and not refunded: Provided, That this para-

graph shall not apply to any article upon which an allowance of drawback has been made, the reimportation of which is hereby prohibited
except upon payment of duties equal to the drawbacks allowed; or to
any article manufactured in bonded warehouse and exported under any
provision of law: And provided further, That when manufactured
tobacco which has been exported without payment of internal-revenue
tax shall be reimported it shall be retained in the custody of the collector of customs until internal-revenue stamps in payment of the legal
duties shall be placed thereon.
484. Asbestos, unmanufactured.
485. Ashes, wood and lye of, and beet-root ashes.
486. Asafetida.
487. Balm of Gilead.

rayment of duties.

Macnufactured

to-

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488. Barks, cinchona or other from which quinine may be extracted.

489. Baryta, carbonate of, or witherite.
490. Beeswax.

Binding twine, etc.

Prootr.

491. Binding twine: All binding twine manufactured from New Zealand hemp, istle or Tampico fiber, sisal grass, or sunn, or a mixture of
any two or more of them, of single ply and measuring not exceeding
six hundred feet to the pound: Provided, That articles mentioned in

porngimportdutyon this paragraph if imported from a country which lays an import duty
ke articles, etc.
on like articles imported from the United States, shall be subject to a

Book. etc

duty of one-half of one cent per pound.
492. Bells, broken, and bell metal broken and fit only to be remanu
factured.
493. Birds, stuffed, not suitable for millinery ornaments.
494. Birds and land and water fowls.
495. Bismuth.
496. Bladders, and all integuments and intestines of animals and
fish sounds, crude, dried or salted for preservation only, and unmanufactured, not specially provided for in this Act.
497. Blood, dried, not specially provided for.
498. Bolting cloths composed of silk, imported expressly for milling
purposes, and so permanently marked as not to be available for any
other use.
499. Bones, crude, or not burned, calcined, ground, steamed, or otherwise manufactured, and bone dust or animal carbon, and bone ash, fit
only for fertilizing purposes.
500. Books, engravings, photographs, etchings, bound or unbound,

maps and charts imported by authority or for the use of the United
States or for the use of the Library of Congress.
501. Books, maps, music, engravings, photographs, etchings, bound
or unbound,and charts, which shall have been printed more than twenty
years at the date of importation, and all hydrographic charts, and publications issued for their subscribers or exchanges by scientific and
literary associations or academies, or publications of individuals for
gratuitous private circulation, and public documents issued by foreign
Governments.
502. Books and pamphlets printed exclusively in languages other
than English; also books and music, in raised print, used exclusively
by the blind.
503. Books, maps, music, photographs, etchings, lithographic prints,
and charts, specially imported, not more than two copies in any one
invoice, in good faith, for the use or by order of any society or institution incorporated or established solely for religious, philosophical, educational, scientific, or literary purposes, or for the encouragement of
the fine arts, or for the use or by order of any college, academy, school,
or seminary of learning in the United States, or any State or public
library, and not for sale, subject to such regulations as the Secretary of
the Treasury shall prescribe.
504. Books, libraries, usual and reasonable furniture, and similar
household effects of persons or families from foreign countries, all the
foregoing if actually used abroad by them not less than one year, and
not intended for any other person or persons, nor for sale.
505. Brass, old brass, clippings from brass or Dutch metal, all the
foregoing, fit only for remanufacture.
506. Brazil paste.
507. Brazilian pebble, unwrought or unmanufactured.
508. Breccia, in block or slabs.
509. Bristles, crude, not sorted, bunched, or prepared.
510. Broom corn.
511. Bullion, gold or silver.
512. Burgundy pitch.
513. Cadmium.
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515. Camphor, crude.
516. Castor or castoreum.
FREE LisT-Contin517. Cat gut, whip gut, or worm gut, unmanufactured.
ned.
518. Cerium.
519. Chalk, crude, not ground, precipitated, or otherwise manufactured.
520. Chromate of iron or chromic ore.
521. Civet, crude.
522. Clay: Common blue clay in casks suitable for the manufacture
of crucibles.
523. Coal, anthracite, not specially provided for in this Act, and coal
stores of American vessels, but none shall be unloaded.
524. Coal tar, crude, pitch of coal tar, and products of coal tar known
as dead or creosote oil, benzol, toluol, naphthalin, xylol, phenol, cresol,
toluidine, xylidin, cumidin, binitrotoluol, binitrobenzol, benzidin,
tolidin, dianisidin, naphtol, naphtylamin, diphenylamin, benzaldehyde,
benzyl chloride, resorcin, nitro-benzol, and nitro-toluol; all the foregoing not medicinal and not colors or dyes.
525. Cobalt and cobalt ore.
526. Cocculus indicus.
527. Cochineal.
528. Cocoa, or cacao, crude, and fiber, leaves, and shells of.
529. Coffee.
530. Coins, gold, silver, and copper.
531. Coir, and coir yarn.
532. Copper in plates, bars, ingots, or pigs, and other forms, not
manufactured or specially provided for in this Act.
533. Old copper, fit only for manufacture, clipping from new copper,
and all composition metal of which copper is a component material of
chief value not specially provided for in this Act.
534. Copper, regulus of, and black or coarse copper, and copper
cement.
535. Coral, marine, uncut, and unmanufactured.
536. Cork wood, or cork bark, unmanufactured.
537. Cotton, and cotton waste or flocks.
538. Cryolite, or kryolith.
539. Cudbear.
540. Curling stones, or quoits, and curling-stone handles.
541. Curry, and curry powder.
542. Cutch.
543. Cuttlefish bone.
544. Dandelion roots, raw, dried, or u. dried, but unground.
545. Diamonds and other precious stones, rough or uncut, and not Diamonds, etc.
advanced in condition or value from their natural state by cleaving,
splitting, cutting, or other process, including miners', glaziers' and
engravers' diamonds not set, and diamond dust or bort.
546. Divi-divi.
547. Dragon's blood.
548. Drugs, such as barks, beans, berries, balsams, buds, bulbs, and Drop
bulbous roots, excrescences, fruits, flowers, dried fibers, and dried
insects, grains, gums, and gum resin, herbs, leaves, lichens, mosses,
nuts, nutgalls, roots, and stems, spices, vegetables, seeds aromatic, and
seeds of morbid growth, weeds, and woods used expressly for dyeing;
any of the foregoing which are drugs and not edible and are in a crude
state, and not advanced in value or condition by refining or grinding,
or by other process, and not specially provided for in this Act.
549. Eggs of birds, fish, and insects: Prorided,however, That this Egg et.
shall not be held to include the eggs of game birds or eggs of birds not Gmebirds'eggsexused for food, the importation of which is prohibited except specimens eluded
for scientific collections, nor fish roe preserved for food purposes.
550. Emery ore.
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552. Fans, common palm-leaf, plain and not ornamented or decorated
in any manner, and palm leaf in its natural state, not colored, dyed, or
otherwise advanced or manufactured.
553. Felt, adhesive, for sheathing vessels.
554. Fibrin, in all forms.
555. Fish, fresh, frozen, or packed in ice, caught in the Great Lakes
or other fresh waters by citizens of the United States.
556. Fish skins.
557. Flint, flints, and flint stones, unground.
558. Fossils.
559. Fruits or berries, green, ripe, or dried, and fruits in brine, not
specially provided for in this Act.
560. Fruit-plants, tropical and semitropical, for the purpose of propagation or cultivation.
561. Furs, undressed.
562. Fur skins of all kinds not dressed in any manner and not
specially provided for in this Act.
563. Gambier.
564. Glass enamel, white, for watch and clock dials.
or
565. Glass plates or discs, rough-cut or unwrought, for use in the
manufacture of optical instruments, spectacles, and eye glasses, and

FRBEMuIr-conthned

.

Eish.

Glass plates
discs.
Prov8so.e

Piscs exceeding

8inchesdiameter. etc.

suitableoonly for such use: Provided, however, That such discs exceeding eight inches in diameter may be polished sufficiently to enable the

character of the glass to be determined.
566. Grasses and fibers: Istle or Tampico fiber, jute, jute butts,
manila, sisal grass, sunn, and all other textile grasses or fibrous vegetable substances, not dressed or manufactured in any manner, and not
specially provided for in this Act.
567. Gold-beaters' molds and gold-beaters' skins.
568. Grease, and oils (excepting fish oils), such as are commonly used
in soap making or in wire drawing, or for stuffing or dressing leather,
and which are fit only for such uses, and not specially provided for in
this Act.
569. Guano, manures, and all substances used only for manure.
570. Gntta percha, crude.
571. Hair of horse, cattle, and other animals, cleaned or uncleaned,
drawn or undrawn, but unmanufactured, not specially provided for in
this Act; and human hair, raw, uncleaned, and not drawn. .
572. Hide cuttings, raw, with or without hair, and all other glue stock.
573. Hide rope.
574. Hones and whetstones.
575. Hoofs, unmanufactured.
576. Hop roots for cultivation.
577. Horns and parts of, unmlanufactured, including horn strips and
tips.
578. Ice.
579. India rubber, crude, and milk of, and old scrap or refuse India
rubber which has been worn out by use and is fit only for remanufacture.
580. Indigo.

581. Iodine, crude.
582. Ipecac.
583. Iridium.
584. Ivory tusks in their natural state or cut vertically across the
grain only, with the bark left intact, and vegetable ivory in its natural
state.
585. Jalap.
586. Jet, unmanufactured.
.87. Joss stick, or Joss light.
588. Junk. old.

589. Kelp.
590. Kieserite.
591. Kyanite, or cyanite, and kainite.

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592. Lac dye, crude, seed, button, stick, and shell.
FREEE
593. Lac spirits.
ued.
594. Lactarene.
595. Lava, unmanufactured.
596. Leeches.
597. Lemon juice, lime juice, and sour orange juice.
598. Licorice root, unground.
599. Lifeboats and life-saving apparatus specially imported by societies incorporated or established to encourage the saving of human life.
600. Lime, citrate of.
601. Lithographic stones, not engraved.
602. Litmus, prepared or not prepared.
603. Loadstones.
604. Madder and munjeet, or Indian madder, ground or prepared,
and all extracts of.
605. Magnesite, crude or calcined, not purified.
606. Magnesium, not made up into articles.
607. Manganese, oxide and ore of.
608. Manna.
609. Manuscripts.
610. Marrow, crude.
611. Marshmallow or althea root, leaves or flowers, natural or unmanufactured.
612. Medals of gold, silver, or copper, and other metallic articles
actually bestowed as trophies or prizes, and received and accepted as
honorary distinctions.
613. Meerschaum, crude or unmanufactured.
614. Minerals, crude, or not advanced in value or condition by refining or grinding, or by other process of manufacture, not specially provided for in this Act.
615. Mineral salts obtained by evaporation from mineral waters,
when accompanied by a duly authenticated certificate and satisfactory
proof, showing that they are in no way artificially prepared, and are
only the product of a designated mineral spring.
616. Models of inventions and of other improvements in the arts,
including patterns for machinery, but no article shall be deemed a
model or pattern which can be fitted for use otherwise.
617. Moss, seaweeds, and vegetable substances, crude or unmanufactured, not otherwise specially provided for in this Act.
618. Musk, crude, in natural pods.
619. Myrobolans.
620. Needles, hand sewing, and darning.
621. Newspapers and periodicals; but the term "periodicals" as
herein used shall be understood to embrace only unbound or papercovered publications, issued within six months of the time of entry,
containing current literature of the day and issued regularly at stated
periods, as weekly, monthly, or quarterly.
622. Nuts: Brazil nuts, cream nuts, palm nuts and palm-nut kernels;
cocoanuts in the shell and broken cocoanut meat or copra, not shredded,
desiccated, or prepared in any manner.
623. Nux vomica.
624. Oakum.
625. Oil cake.
6i26. Oils: Almond, amber, crude and rectified ambergris, anise or Oils.
anise seed, aniline, aspic or spike lavender, bergamot, cajeput, caraway, cassia, cinnamon, cedrat, chamomile, citronella or lemon grass,
civet, cocoanut, fennel, ichthyol, jasmine or jasimine, juglandium, j uniper, lavender, lemon, limes, mace, neroli or orange flower, enfleurage
grease, nut oil or oil of nuts not otherwise specially provided for in this
Act, orange oil, olive oil for manufacturing or mechanical purposes fit
only for such use and valued at not more than sixty cents per gallon,
ottar of roses, palm, rosemary or anthoss, sesame or sesamum seed or

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LT-contn- bean, thyme, origanum red or white, valerian; and also spermaceti,

whale, and other fish oils of American fisheries, and all fish and other

Proito.
coentries
d t
a y.

fr
products, of such fisheries; petroleum, crude or refined: Provided,That
impo ing if there be imported into the United States crude petroleum, or the

products of crude petroleum produced in any country which imposes a
duty on petroleum or its products exported from the United States,
there shall in such cases be levied, paid, and collected a duty upon said
crude petroleum or its products so imported equal to the duty imposed
by such country.
627. Orange and lemon peel, not preserved, candied, or dried.
628. Orchil, or orchil liquid.
629. Ores of gold, silver, copper, or nickel, and nickel matte; sweepings of gold and silver.
630. Osmium.
631. Palladium.
632. Paper stock, crude, of every description, including all grasses,
fibers, rags (other than wool), waste, including jute waste, shavings,
clippings, old paper, rope ends, waste rope, and waste bagging, including old gunny cloth and old gunny bags, fit only to be converted into
paper.
633. Paraffin.
634. Parchment and vellum.
635. Pearl, mother of, and shells, not sawed, cut, polished or otherwise manufactured, or advanced in value from the natural state.
636. Personal effects, not merchandise, of citizens of the United
States dying in foreign countries.
637. Pewter and britannia metal, old, and fit only to be remanufactured.
638. Philosophical and scientific apparatus, utensils, instruments,
and preparations, including bottles and boxes containing the same,
specially imported in good faith for the use and by order of any society
or institution incorporated or established solely for religious, philosophical, educational, scientific, or literary purposes, or for the encouragement of the fine arts, or for the use or by order of any college, academy,
school, or seminary of learning in the United States, or any State or
public library, and not for sale, subject to such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe.
639. Phosphates, crude.
640. Plants, trees, shrubs, roots, seed-cane, and seeds, imported by
the Department of Agriculture or the United States Botanic Garden.
641. Platina, in ingots, bars, sheets, and wire.
642. Platinum, unmanufactured, and vases, retorts, and other apparatus, vessels, and parts thereof composed of platinum, for chemical
uses.

643. Plumbago.
644. Potash, crude, or "black salts"; carbonate of potash, crude or
refined; hydrate of, or caustic potash, not including refined in sticks
or rolls; nitrate of potasor r saltpeter, crude; sulphate of potash, crude
or refined, and muriate of potash.
ProfeMional books,

et c

Thetrical effects.

Bonds.

645. Professional books, implements, instruments, and tools of trade,

occupation, or employment, in the actual possession at the time, of persons emigrating to the United States; but this exemption shall not be
construed to include machinery or other articles imported for use in any
manufacturing establishment, or for any other person or persons, orfor
sale, nor shall it be construed to include theatrical scenery, properties,

and apparel; but such articles brought by proprietors or managers of
theatrical exhibitions arriving from abroad, for temporary use by them
in such exhibitions, and not for any other person, and not for sale, and
which have been used by them abroad, shall be admitted free of duty
under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe;
but bonds shall be given for the payment to the United States of such
duties as may be imposed by law upon any and all such articles as shall

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not be exported within six months after such importation: Provided, FREE LIST-ContinThat the Secretary of the Treasury may in his discretion extend such ,ed.
period for a further term of six months in case application shall be made Provi 80therefor.

Extending term.

646. Pulu.
647. Quinia, sulphate of, and all alkaloids or salts of cinchona bark.
648. Bags, not otherwise specially provided for in this Act.
649. Regalia and gems, statuary, and specimens or casts of sculpture, Regalia, et.
where specially imported in good faith for the use and by order of any
society incorporated or established solely for religious, philosophical,
educational, scientific, or literary purposes, or for the encouragement
of the fine arts, or for the use and by order of any college, academy,
school, or seminary of learning in the United States, or any State or
public library, and not for sale; but the term "regalia" as herein used
shall be held to embrace only such insignia of rank or office or emblems
as may be worn upon the person or borne in the hand during public
exercises of the society or institution, and shall not include articles of
furniture or fixtures, or of regular wearing apparel, nor personal property of individuals.
650. Rennets, raw or prepared.
651. Saffron and safflower, and extract of, and saffron cake.
652. Sago, crude.
653. Salacin.
654. Salep, or salop.
655. Sausages, bologna.
656. Seeds: Anise, caraway, cardamom, cauliflower, coaner, cor,
cotton,
cummin, fennel, fenugreek, hemp, hoarhound, mangel-wurzel, mustard,
rape, Saint John's bread or bean, sugar beet, sorghum or sugar cane
for seed; bulbs and bulbous roots, not edible and not otherwise provided for; all flower and grass seeds; all the foregoing not specially
provided for in this Act.
657. Sheep dip, not including compounds or preparations that can
be used for other purposes.
658. Shotgun barrels, in single tubes, forged, rough bored.
659. Shrimps and other shell fish.
660. Silk, raw, or as reeled from the cocoon, but not doubled, twisted,
or advanced in manufacture in any way.
661. Silk cocoons and silk waste.
662. Silkworm's eggs.
663. Skeletons and other preparations of anatomy.
664. Skins of all kinds, raw (except sheepskins with the wool on),
and hides not specially provided for in this Act.
665. Soda, nitrate of, or cubic nitrate.
666. Specimens of natural history, botany, and mineralogy, when
imported for scientific public collections, and not for sale.
667. Spices: Cassia, cassia vera, and cassia buds; cinnamon and spice.
chips of; cloves and clove stems; mace; nutmegs; pepper, black or
white, and pimento; all the foregoing when unground; ginger root,
unground and not preserved or candied.
668. Spunk.
669. Spurs and stilts used in the manufacture of earthen, porcelain,
and stone ware.
670. Stamps; foreign postage or revenue stamps, canceled or
uncanceled.
671. Stone and sand: Bnrrstone in blocks, rough or unmanufactured;
cliff stone, unmanufactured; rotten stone, tripoli, and sand, crude or
manufactured, not otherwise provided for in this Act.
672. Storax, or styrax.
673. Strontia, oxide of, and protoxide of strontian, and strontianite,
or mineral carbonate of strontia.
674. Sulphur, lac or precipitated, and sulphur or brimstone, crude, in
bulk, sulphur ore as pyrites, or sulphuret of iron in its natural state,

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usr-Contn- containing in excess of twenty-five per centum of sulphur, and sulphur
not otherwise provided for.
675. Sulphuric acid which at the temperature of sixty degrees FahSulphuric acid.
renheit does not exceed the specific gravity of one and three hundred
and eighty thousandths, for use in manufacturing superphosphate of
lime or artificial manures of any kind, or for any agricultural purposes:
From countries im- Provided, That upon all sulphuric acid imported from any country,
posing import duty whether independent or a dependency, which imposes a duty upon sulphuric acid imported into such country from the United States, there
shall be levied and collected a duty of one-fourth of one cent per
pound.
676. Tamarinds.
677. Tapioca, cassava or cassady.
678. Tar and pitch of wood.
679. Tea and tea plants.
680. Teeth, natural, or unmanufactured.
681. Terra alba, not made from gypsum or plaster rock.
682. Terra japonica.
683. Tin ore, cassiterite or black oxide of tin, and tin in bars, blocks,
pigs, or grain or granulated.
684. Tobacco stems.
685. Tonquin, tonqua, or tonka beans.
686. Turmeric.
687. Turpentine, Venice.
688. Turpentine, spirits of.
689. Turtles.
690. Types, old, and fit only to be remanufactured.
691. Uranium, oxide and salts of.
692. Vaccine virus.
693. Valonia.
694. Verdigris, or subacetate of copper.
695. Wax, vegetable or mineral.
696. Wafers, unleavened or not edible.
697. Wearing apparel, articles of personal adornment, toilet articles,
Wearing apparel,
et
and similar personal effects of persons arriving in the United States;
c.
Limit of exemption. but this exemption shall only include such articles as actually accompany and are in the use of, and as are necessary and appropriate for
the wear and use of such persons, for the immediate purposes of the
journey and present comfort and convenience, and shall not be held to
apply to merchandise or articles intended for other persons or for sale:
I'rorided, That in case of residents of the United States returning from
Proviso.
weringiparel,etic. abroad, all wearing apparel and other personal effects taken by them
of residentso fI'nite out of the United States to foreign countries shall be admitted free of
States returning
6 from
l
duty, without regard to their value, upon their identity being estababroad.tl
lished, under appropriate rules and regulations to be prescribed by the
L.imit of value of Secretary of the Tretiasury, but no more than one hundred dollars in
abroad trflmitteid free. value of articles purchased abroad by such residents of the United
States shall be admitted free of duty upon their return.
698. Whalebone, unmanufactured.
(699. Wood: Logs and round unmanufactured timber, including pulpWood]
woods, firewood, handle-bolts, shingle-bolts, gun-blocks for gun-stocks
rough-hewn or sawed or planed on one side, hop-poles, ship-timber and
ship-planking; all the foregoing not specially provided for in this Act.
700. Woods: Cedar, lignum-vitie, lancewood, ebony, box, granadilla,
mahogany, rosewood, satinwood, and all forms of cabinet woods, in the
log, rough, or hewn only; briar root or briar wood and similar wood
unmanufactured, or not further advanced than cut into blocks suitable
for the articles into which they are intended to be converted; bamboo,
rattan, reeds unmanufactured, India malacca joints, and sticks of partridge, hair wood, pimento, orange, myrtle, and other woods not specially provided for in this Act, in the rough, or not further advanced
than cut into lengths suitable for sticks for umbrellas, parasols, sunshades, whips, fishing rods, or walking canes.
FREE

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701. Works of art, drawings, engravings, photographic pictures, and FREE LIST-COntinphilosophical and scientific apparatus brought by professional artists, ed
lecturers, or scientists arriving from abroad for use by them temporarily Works of art etcfor exhibition and in illustration, promotion, and encouragement of art,
science, or industry in the United States, and not for sale, shall be
admitted free of duty, under such regulations as the Secretary of the
Treasury shall prescribe; but bonds shall be given for the payment to Bonds.
the United States of such duties as may be imposed by law upon any
and all such articles as shall not be exported within six months after
such importation: Provided, That the Secretary of the Treasury may,
pon of time
in his discretion, extend such period for a further term of six months
in cases where applications therefor shall be made.
702. Works of art, collections in illustration of the progress of the
arts, sciences, or manufactures, photographs, works in terra cotta,
parian, pottery, or porcelain, antiquities and artistic copies thereof in
metal or other material, imported in good faith for exhibition at a fixed
place by any State or by any society or institution established for the
encouragement of the arts, science, or education, or for a municipal corporation, and all like articles imported in good faith by any society or
association, or for a municipal corporation for the purpose of erecting a
public monument, and not intended for sale, nor for any other purpose
than herein expressed; but bonds shall be given under such rules and
regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, for the payment of lawful duties which may accrue should any of the articles aforesaid be sold, transferred, or used contrary to this provision, and such
articles shall be subject, at any time, to examination and inspection by
the proper officers of the customs: Provided, That the privileges of this Proviso.
Commercial assoclaand the preceding section shall not be allowed to associations or cor- tions,
etc.
porations engaged in or connected with business of a private or commercial character.
703. Works of art, the production of American artists residing temporarily abroad, or other works of art, including pictorial paintings on
glass, imported expressly for presentation to a national institution, or
to any State or municipal corporation, or incorporated religious society,
college, or other public institution, except stained or painted windowglass or stained or painted glass windows; but such exemption shall be
subject to such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may
prescribe.
704. Yams.
705. Zaffer.
SEC. 3. That for the purpose of equalizing the trade of the United Reciprocal trade
States with foreign countries, and their colonies, producing and export- prov1s1ons.
ing to this country the following articles: Argols, or crude tartar, or
wine lees, crude; brandies, or other spirits manufactured or distilled
from grain or other materials; champagne and all other sparkling
wines; still wines, and vermuth; paintings and statuary; or any of
them, the President be, and he is hereby, authorized, as soon as may President may nebe after the passage of this Act, and from time to time thereafter, to agreents,etec.
enter into negotiations with the governments of those countries exporting to the United States the above-mentioned articles, or any of them,
with a view to the arrangement of commercial agreements in which
reciprocal and equivalent concessions may be secured in favor of the
products and manufactures of the United States; and whenever the
government of any country, or colony, producing and exporting to the
United States the above mentioned articles, or any of them, shall enter
into a commercial agreement with the United States, or make concessions in favor of the products, or manufactures thereof, which, in
the judgment of the President, shall be reciprocal and equivalent, he
shall be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to suspend, dur- stiespen'ot,f dng
ing the time of such agreement or concession, by proclamation to that time of agreement.
effect, the imposition and collection of the duties mentioned in this
Act, on such article or articles so exported to the United States from
such country or colony, and thereupon and thereafter the duties levied,

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collected, and paid upon such article or articles shall be as follows,
namely:
dur- Argols, or crude tartar, or wine lees, crude, five per centum ad valorem.

Brandies,or other spirits manufactured or distilledfrom grainor other
materials, one dollar and seventy-five cents per proof gallon.
Champagne and all other sparkling wines, in bottles containing not

Brandies, etc.
champagne, etc.

more than one quart and more than one pint, six dollars per dozen;
containing not more than one pint each and more than one half pint,
three dollars per dozen; containing one-half pint each or less, one dollar and fifty cents per dozen; in bottles or other vessels containing more
than one quart each, in addition to six dollars per dozen bottles on the
quantities in excess of one quart, at the rate of one dollar and ninety
cents per gallon.

still wine, etc.

Still wines, and vermuth, in casks, thirty-five cents per gallon; in

bottles or jugs, per case of one dozen bottles or jugs containing each
not more than one quart and more than one pint, or twenty-four bottles
or jugs containing each not more than one pint, one dollar and twentyfive cents per case, and any excess beyond these quantities found in
such bottles or jugs shall be subject to a duty of four cents per pint or
fractional part thereof, but no separate or additional duty shall be
assessed upon the bottles or jugs.
Paintngset.

Paintings in oil or water colors, pastels, pen and ink drawings, and

statuary, fifteen per centum ad valorem.

Revocation of sus- The President shall have power, and it shall be his duty, whenever
penson, etc.
he shall be satisfied that any such agreement in this Section mentioned

is not being fully executed by the Government with which it shall have
been made, to revoke such suspension and notify such Government
thereof.
And it is further provided that with a view to secure reciprocal trade
with countries producing the following articles, whenever and so often
ee., crot
countries imposing
a
s the President shall be satisfied that the Government of any country,
duties, etc., on Americeaagricultrl, etc., or colony of such Government, producing and exporting directly or
President to sus-

pcon.
d

indirectly to the United States coffee, tea, and tonquin, tonqua, or tonka
beans, and vanilla beans, or any of such articles, imposes duties or
other exactions upon the agricultural, manufactured, or other products
of the United States, which, in view of the introduction of such coffee,
tea, and tonquin, tonqua, or tonka beans, and vanilla beans, into the
United States, as in this Act hereinbefore provided for, he may deem
to be reciprocally unequal and unreasonable, he shall have the power
and it shall be his duty to suspend, by proclamation to that effect, the
provisions of this Act relating to the free introduction of such coffee,
tea, and tonquin, tonqua, or tonka beans, and vanilla beans, of the

products.

products of such country or colony, for such time as lie shall deem just;
dour and in smch case and during such suspension duties shall be levied,
collected, and paid upon coffee, tea, and tonquin, toiiqua, or tonka

iBgRatesofu

beans, and vanilla beans, the products or exports, direct or indirect,
from such designated country, as follows:
coffee.

On coffee, three cents per pound.

Tea.

On tea, ten cents per pound.

Tonquin, etc
Reuduction

treatye
tby

On tonquin, tonqua, or tonka beans, fifty cents per pound; vanilla
beans, two dollars per pound; vanilla beans, commercially known as
cuts, one dollar per pound.
of the
SEC. 4. That whenever the President of the United States, by and
t
with the advice and consent of the Senate, with a view to secure reciprocal trade with foreign countries, shall, within the period of two years

from and after the passage of this Act, enter into commercial treaty or
treaties with any other country or countries concerning the admission
into any such country or countries of the goods, wares, and merchandise of the United States and their use and disposition therein, deemed
to be for the interests of the United States, and in such treaty or treaties, in consideration of the advantages accruing to the United States

therefrom, shall provide for the reduction during a specified period, not
exceeding five years, of the duties imposed by this Act, to the extent

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of not more than twenty per centum thereof, upon such goods, wares,
or merchandise as may be designated therein of the country or countries with which such treaty or treaties shall be made as in this section
provided for; or shall provide for the transfer during such period from
the dutiable list of this Act to the free list thereof of such goods, wares,
and merchandise, being the natural products of such foreign country
or countries and not of the United States; or shall provide for the
retention upon the free list of this Act during a specified period, not
exceeding five years, of such goods, wares, and merchandise now
included in said free list as may be designated therein; and when any
such treaty shall have been duly ratified by the Senate and approved Ratification by Senby Congress, and public proclamation made accordingly, then and ateete.
thereafter the duties which shall be collected by the United States
upon any of the designated goods, wares, and merchandise from the
foreign country with which such treaty has been made shall, during
the period provided for, be the duties specified and provided for in such
treaty, and none other.
Additional duty on
SEC. 5. That whenever any country, dependency, or colony shall pay articlesfromcountries
or bestow, directly or indirectly, any bounty or grant upon the exporta- paying exportbounty,
tion of any article or merchandise from such country, dependency, or etc.
colony, and such article or merchandise is dutiable under the provisions of this Act, then upon the importation of any such article or
merchandise into the United States, whether the same shall be imported
directly from the country of production or otherwise, and whether such
article or merchandise is imported in the same condition as when exported from the country of production or has been changed in condition
by remanufacture or otherwise, there shall be levied and paid, in all
such cases, in addition to the duties otherwise imposed by this Act, an
additional duty equal to the net amount of such bounty or grant, however the same be paid or bestowed. The net amount of all such bounties or grants shall be from time to time ascertained, determined, and
declared by the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall make all needful
regulations for the identification of such articles and merchandise and
for the assessment and collection of such additional duties.
SEC. 6. That there shall be levied, collected, and paid on the impor- Dnty on nonenutation of all raw or unmanufactured articles, not enumerated or pro- mer ted rticle.
vided for in this Act, a duty of ten per centum ad valorem, and on all
articles manufactured, in whole or in part, not provided for in this Act,
a duty of twenty per centum ad valorem.
Nonenurmeratedl
SEC. 7. That each and every imported article, not enumerated in this articles
to pay duty
Act, which is similar, either in material, quality, texture, or the use charged on similar
to which it may be applied, to any article enumerated in this Act as articles.
R. ~., ~ec. 2499, p. 458
chargeable with duty, shall pay the same rate of duty which is levied
on the enumerated article which it most resembles in any of the particulars before mentioned; and if any nonenumerated article equally Ifresemblingtwoor
resembles two or more enumerated articles on which different rates of rm,' to pa highest
duty are chargeable, there shall be levied on such nonenumerated article the same rate of duty as is chargeable on the article which it resembles paying the highest rate of duty; and on articles not enumerated,
manufactured of two or more materials, the duty shall be assessed at
the highest rate at which the same would be chargeable if composed
wholly of the component material thereof of chief value; and the words
"component material of chief value," wherever used in this Act, shall
be held to mean that component material which shall exceed in value
any other single component material of the article; and the value of
each component material shall be determined by the ascertained value
of such material in its condition as found in the article. If two or more
rates of duty shall be applicable to any imported article, it shall pay
duty at the highest of such rates.
SEC. 8. That all articles of foreign manufacture, such as are usually country of orig
ty to
or ordinarily marked, stamped, branded, or labeled, and all packages sarked
containing such or other imported articles, shall, respectively, be plainly VoL 28, p. 547
marked, stamped, branded, or labeled in legible English words in a

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conspicuous place, so as to indicate the country of their origin and the
quantity of their contents; and until so marked, stamped, branded, or
labeled they shall not be delivered to the importer. Should any
article of imported merchandise be marked, stamped, branded, or
labeled so as to indicate a quantity, number, or measurement in excess
of the quantity, number, or measurement actually contained in such
article, no delivery of the same shall be made to the importer until the
mark, stamp, brand, or label, as the case may be, shall be changed so
as to conform to the facts of the case.
SEC. 9. That section thirty-three hundred and forty-one of the Revised
Statutes of the United States be, and hereby is, amended to read as

follows:

tam on barrels,
SEC. 3341. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall cause to
liquors, how supplied be prepared, for the payment of such tax, suitable stamps denoting
and sod.
the amount of tax required to be paid on the hogsheads, barrels, and
etc., of fermented

halves, thirds, quarters, sixths, and eighths of a barrel of such fermented liquors (and shall also cause to be prepared suitable permits
for the purpose hereinafter mentioned), and shall furnish the same to
the collectors of internal revenue, who shall each be required to keep
on hand at all times a sufficient supply of permits and a supply of
stamps equal in amount to two months' sales thereof, if there be any
brewery or brewery warehouse in his district; and such stamps shall
be sold, and permits granted and delivered by such collectors, only to
the brewers of their district, respectively.
"Such collectors shall keep an account of the number of permits
delivered and of the number and value of the stamps sold by them to
each brewer."

R. .. se. 338 pp.SEC. 10. That section thirty-three hundred and ninety-four of the
Vol. 2 p. i8.
Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended, be, and the same
Pot, . 449.
is hereby, further amended, so as to read as follows:
Tax on cigars.
" Upon cigars which shall be manufactured and sold, or removed for

n cigarettes
creased.

consumption or sale, there shall be assessed and collected the following
taxes, to be paid by the manufacturer thereof: On cigars of all descriptions made of tobacco, or any substitute therefor, and weighing more
than three pounds per thousand, three dollars per thousand; on cigars,
made of tobacco, or any substitute therefor, and weighing not more
in than three pounds per thousand, one dollar per thousand; on cigarettes, made of tobacco, or any substitute therefor, and weighing more

than three pounds per thousand, three dollars per thousand; on cigarettes, made of tobacco, or any substitute therefor, and weighing not

Pro
tin
f more than three pounds per thousand, one dollar per thousand: ProClassification of
cigars and cigarettes. vided, That all rolls of tobacco, or any substitute therefor, wrapped

Dies and stamps for
cigars, etc

Proiso.

taenmpfoitiou

with tobacco, shall be classed as cigars, and all rolls of tobacco, or any
substitute therefor, wrapped in paper or any substance other than
tobacco, shall be classed as cigarettes.
"And the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval ot

the Secretary of the Treasury, shall provide dies and adhesive stamps
for cigars weighing not more than three pounds per thousand: Provided,
o
f That such stamps shall be in denominations of ten, twenty, fifty, and

one hundred, and the laws and regulations governing the packing and
removal for sale of cigarettes, and the affixing and canceling of the
stamps on the packages thereof, shall apply to cigars weighing not
more than three pounds per thousand.

Content. etbc., of
"None of the packages of smoking tobacco and fine-cnt chewing
of tobacco.
etc.. prescribed.
tobacco and cigarettes prescribed by law shall be permitted to have
packages

packed in, or attached to, or connected with, them, any article or thing
whatsoever, other than the manufacturers' wrappers and labels, the
internal revenue stamp and the tobacco or cigarettes, respectively, put
up therein, on which tax is required to be paid under the internal rev-

No offer of prize, enue laws; nor shall there be affixed to, or branded, stamped, marked,
gt. etc
written, or printed upon, said packages, or their contents, any promise

or offer of, or any order or certificate for, any gift, prize, premium,

payment, or reward."

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SEC. 11. That no article of imported merchandise which shall copy or Articles simulating
trade-marks,
simulate the name or trade-mark of any domestic manufacture or man- domestic
etc., not admitted.
ufacturer. or which shall bear a name or mark, which is calculated to Vol. 28 p. 547.
induce the public to believe that the article is manufactured in the
United States, shall be admitted to entry at any custom-house of the
United States. And in order to aid the officers of the customs in enforcing this prohibition, any domestic manufacturer who has adopted trademarks may require his name and residence and a description of his
trade-marks to be recorded in books which shall be kept for that purpose in the Department of the Treasury, under such regulations as the
Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe, and may furnish to the
Department facsimiles of such trade-marks; and thereupon the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause one or more copies of the same to be
transmitted to each collector or other proper officer of the customs.
SEC. 12. That all materials of foreign production which may be neces- Admission bof mafor building
sary for the construction of vessels built in the United States for foreign terials
shipsforforeign trade.
account and ownership, or for the purpose of being employed in the Ro., se 2513, p.491.
foreign trade, including the trade between the Atlantic and Pacific
.5
ports 'of the United States, and all such materials necessary for the
building of their machinery, and all articles necessary for their outfit
and equipment, may be imported in bond under such regulations as the
Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe; and upon proof that such
materials have been used for such purposes no duties shall be paid
thereon. But vessels receiving the benefit of this section shall not be
allowed to engage in the coastwise trade of the United States more
than two months in any one year except upon the payment to the
United States of the duties of which a rebate is herein allowed: Pro- Proviso.
vided, That vessels built in the United States for foreign account and aF"'sgn veeot
ownership shall not be allowed to engage in the coastwise trade of the trade.
United States.
SEC. 13. That all articles of foreign production needed for the repair Admission free of
to repair ships
of Americanvesselsengaged inforeigntrade,including thetrade between articles
in foreign trade.
the Atlantic and Pacific ports of the United States, may be withdrawn R.s., ee.25'4. p. 49 1.
from bonded warehouses free of duty, under such regulations as the
Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe.
SEC. 14. That the sixteenth section of an Act entitled "An Act to Sec. 16, vol. 23, p. 57,
remove certain burdens on the American merchant marine and encour- amended.
age the American foreign carrying trade, and for other purposes,"
approved June twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, be
amended so as to read as follows:
"SEC. 16. That all articles of foreign or domestic production needed Articles of foreign
aid from
and b
d mn
ordoinestieproduction
and actually withdrawn
from bonded wareouse
warehouses and bonded manu- for supplies may be
facturing warehouses for supplies (not including equipment) of vessels withdrawn from bond
of the United States engaged in foreign trade, or in trade between the
Atlantic and Pacific ports of the United States, may be so withdrawn
from said bonded warehouses, free of duty or of internal-revenue tax,
as the case may be, under such regulations as the Secretary of the
Treasury may prescribe; but no such articles shall be landed at any 'ot toshe lantded at
port of the United States."
n
SEC. 15. That all articles manufactured in whole or in part of imported nondauresmnfaecnr
materials, or of materials subject to internal-revenue tax, and intended Vol. 28, . 548.
fbr exportation without being charged with duty, and without having
anl internal-revenue stamp affixed thereto, shall, under such regulations
as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, in order to be so manufactured and exported, be made and manufactured in bonded warehouses
similar to those known and designated in Treasury Regulations as
bonded warehouses, class six: Prorided, That the manufacturer of such Pro so,.
articles shall first give satisfactory bonds for the faithful observance of
all the provisions of law and of such regulations as shall be prescribed
by the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided further, That the manu- Spirits not perfacture of distilled spirits from grain, starch, molasses or sugar, includ- m'it t ed
ing all dilutions or mixtures of them or either of them, shall not be
permitted in such manufacturing warehouses.

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Exemption
dutyet.

Transfer of materi-

are

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Whenever goods manufactured in any bonded warehouse established
under the provisions of the preceding paragraph shall be exported

directly therefrom or shall be duly laden for transportation and immediate exportation under the supervision of the proper officer who shall
be duly designated for that purpose, such goods shall be exempt from
duty and from the requirements relating to revenue stamps.
Any materials used in the manufacture of such goods, and any packages, coverings, vessels, brands, and labels used in putting up the same
may, under the regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury, be conveyed without the payment of revenue tax or duty into any bonded
manufacturing warehouse, and imported goods may, under the aforesaid regulations, be transferred without the exaction of duty from any
bonded warehouse into any bonded manufacturing warehouse; but this

Machinery etc., ex-

privilege shall not be held to apply to implements, machinery, or appa-

Supervision

No articles or materials received into such bonded manufacturing
warehouse shall be withdrawn or removed therefrom except for direct

of

ar-

ratus to be used in the construction or repair of any bonded manufacturing warehouse or for the prosecution of the business carried on
therein.

shipment and exportation or for transportation and immediate exportation in bond under the supervision of the officer duly designated therefor by the collector of the port, who shall certify to such shipment and
exportation, or ladening for transportation, as the case may be, describing the articles by their mark or otherwise, the quantity, the date of
exportation, and the name of the vessel. All labor performed and
services rendered under these provisions shall be under the supervision
of a duly designated officer of the customs and at the expense of the
Accounts

and re-

turns.

stateent of manuctrer,et.

manufacturer.
A careful account shall be kept by the collector of all merchandise

delivered by him to any bonded manufacturing warehouse, and a sworn
monthly return, verified by the customs officers in charge, shall be made
by the manufacturers containing a detailed statement of all imported
merchandise used by him in the manufacture of exported articles.

Before commencing business the proprietor of any manufacturing
warehouse shall file with the Secretary of the Treasury a list of all the

articles intended to be manufactured in such warehouse, and state the
formula of manufacture and the names and quantities of the ingredients to be used therein.
for
Regulations.

tatnfer

expor-

R.S..,sec.3433,p.67.

Articles manufactured under these provisions may be withdrawn
under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe

for transportation and delivery into any bonded warehouse at an exterior port for the sole purpose of immediate export therefrom.
The provisions of Revised Statutes thirty-four hundred and thirty-

three shall, so far as may be practicable, apply to any bonded manufacturing warehouse established under this Act and to the merchandise
conveyed therein.
books,

lottery ticket,
et., prohibited.
.21
.

Detention

bibited goods.

of pro-

SEC. 16. That all persons are prohibited from importing into the

United States from any foreign country any obscene book, pamphlet,
paper, writing, advertisement, circular, print, picture, drawing, or other
representation, figure, or image on or of paper or other material, or any
cast, instrument, or other article of an immoral nature, or any drug or
medicine, or any article whatever for the prevention of conception or
for causing unlawful abortion, or any lottery ticket or any advertisement of any lottery. No such articles, whether imported separately or
contained in packages with other goods entitled to entry, shall be
admitted to entry; and all such articles shall be proceeded against,
seized, and forfeited by due course of law. All such prohibited articles
and the package in which they are contained in the course of importa-

tion shall be detained by the officer of customs, and proceedings taken
against the same as hereinafter prescribed, unless it appears to the
satisfaction of the collector of customs that the obscene articles contained in the package were inclosed therein without the knowledge or
Proriso.

consent of the importer, owner, agent, or consignee: Provided, That

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the drugs hereinbefore mentioned, when imported in bulk and not put Drugs il bulk.
up for any of the purposes hereinbefore specified, are excepted from
the operation of this section.
SEC. 17. That whoever, being an officer, agent, or employee of the Gov- Penalty to .officer,
ernment of the United States, shall knowingly aid or abet any person etc., aiding violation.
engaged in any violation of any of the provisions of law prohibiting
importing, advertising, dealing in, exhibiting, or sending or receiving
by mail obscene or indecent publications or representations, or means
for preventing conception or procuring abortion, or other articles of
indecent or immoral use or tendency, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall for every offense be punishable by a fine of not
more than five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment at hard labor for
not more than ten years, or both.
SEC. 18. That any judge of any district or circuit court of the United Proceedingsforseiz
States, within the proper district, before whom complaint in writing of lre, etc.
any violation of the two preceding sections is made, to the satisfaction
of such judge, and founded on knowledge or belief, and if upon belief,
setting forth the grounds of such belief, and supported by oath or
affirmation of the complainant, may issue, conformably to the Constitution, a warrant directed to the marshal or any deputy marshal in the
proper district, directing him to search for, seize, and take possession of
any such article or thing mentioned in the two preceding sections, and
to make due and immediate return thereof to the end that the same
may be condemned and destroyed by proceedings, which shall be conducted in the same manner as other proceedings in the case of municipal seizure, and with the same right of appeal or writ of error.
SEC. 19. That machinery for repair may be imported into the United Maedhinerd for reStates without payment of duty, under bond, to be given in double the paying duty.
appraised value thereof, to be withdrawn and exported after said R. , se. 2511 p. 490.
machinery shall have been repaired; and the Secretary of the Treasury
is authorized and directed to prescribe such rules and regulations as
may be necessary to protect the revenue against fraud and secure the
identity and character of all such importations when again withdrawn
and exported, restricting and limiting the export and withdrawal to the
same port of entry where imported, and also limiting all bonds to a
period of time of not more than six months from the date of the importation.
SEC. 20. That the produce of the forests of the State of Maine upon John
Lunber
St.
River 'fron
admitted
the Saint John River and its tributaries, owned by American citizens, free of dty.
and sawed or hewed in the Province of New Brunswick by American R.S., 8ee:.250, p. 490.
citizens, the same being otherwise unmanufactured in whole or in part,
which is now admitted into the ports of the United States free of duty,
shall continue to be so admitted, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall from time to time prescribe.
SEC. 21. That the produce of the forests of the State of Maine upon Lumber from St.
the Saint Croix River and its tributaries owned by American citizens,
s., e e. 2509. p. 490.
and sawed or hewed in the Province of New Brunswick by American
citizens, the same being otherwise unmanufactured in whole or in part,
shall be admitted into the ports of the United States free of duty,
under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall from
time to time prescribe.
SEC. 22. That a discriminating duty of ten per centum ad valorem, iongoDiscrimiinatingd'
addition to the duties imposed by law, shall be levied, collected, and vessels.
paid on all goods, wares, or merchandise which shall be imported in 45 amended.2
vessels not of the United States, or which being the production or
manufacture of any foreign country not contiguous to the United States,
shall come into the United States from such contiguous country; but
this discriminating duty shall not apply to goods, wares, or merchandise
which shall be imported in vessels not of the United States, entitled at
the time of such importation by treaty or convention to be entered in
the ports of the United States on payment of the same duties as shall
then be payable on goods, wares, and merchandise imported in vessels
of the United States, nor to such foreign products or manufactures as
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shall be imported from such contiguous countries in the usual course of
strictly retail trade.

SEC. 23. That no goods, wares, or merchandise, unless in cases proImportations only
ships or
of contry of origin. vided for by treaty, shall be imported into the United States from any
in Americai

s., sec. 2497, p.458.

foreign port or place, except in vessels of the United States, or in such

Limitation upon the
foregoing
R. S. se. 2498, p. 5.

SEC. 24. That the preceding section shall not apply to vessels or
goods, wares, or merchandise imported in vessels of a foreign nation

Importation of neat
prohibite.
proVso.
absencdof dsi
s., sec. 2943, p 457.

SEC. 25. That the importation of neat cattle and the hides of neat
cattle from any foreign country into the United States is prohibited:
Provided, That the operation of this section shall be suspended as to
any foreign country or countries, or any parts of such country or countries, whenever the Secretary of the Treasury shall officially determine,

cattle

foreign vessels as truly and wholly belong to the citizens or subjects of
that country of which the goods are the growth, production, or manufacture, or from which such goods, wares, or merchandise can only be,
or most usually are, first shipped for transportation. All goods, wares,
or merchandise imported contrary to this section, and the vessel
wherein the same shall be imported, together with her cargo, tackle,
apparel, and furniture, shall be forfeited to the United States; and
such goods, wares, or merchandise, ship, or vessel, and cargo shall
be liable to be seized, prosecuted, and condemned in like manner, and
under the same regulations, restrictions, and provisions as have been
heretofore established for the recovery, collection, distribution, and
remission of forfeitures to the United States by the several revenue
laws.
which does not maintain a similar regulation against vessels of the
United States.

and give public notice thereof that such importation will not tend to
the introduction or spread of contagious or infectious diseases among
the cattle of the United States; and the Secretary of the Treasury is
hereby authorized and empowered, and it shall be his duty, to make all
necessary orders and regulations to carry this section into effect, or
to suspend the same as herein provided; and to send copies thereof to
the proper officers in the United States, and to such officers or agents
of the United States in foreign countries as he shall judge necessary.

SEC. 26. That any person convicted of a willful violation of any of
Penalty.
R.S.. ec.2495.p.458. the provisions of the preceding section shall be fined not exceeding five

hundred dollars, or imprisoned not exceeding one year, or both, in the
discretion of the court.

SEC. 27. That upon the reimportation of articles once exported, of
owed drawbacks, the growth, product, or manufacture of the United States, upon which
:.s.,.ee.500 ,p.459. no internal tax has been assessed or paid, or upon which such tax has

Reimported articles

Vl2'

Free iutry frotn

baandonled or sunken
eels a ft er t o

yS.se

Vol.

8

c.257, p.490
p.51.

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, except articles manufactured in bonded
warehouses and exported pursuant to law, which shall be subject to
the same rate of duty as if originally imported.
SEC. 28. That whenever any vessel laden with merchandise, in whole
or in part subject to duty, has been sunk in any river, harbor, bay, or
waters subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, and within
its limits, for the period of two years, and is abandoned by the owner

thereof, any person who may raise such vessel shall be permitted to

bring any merchandise recovered therefrominto the port nearest to the
place where such vessel was so raised free from the payment of any
duty thereupon, but under such regulations as the Secretary of the
Treasury may prescribe.
SEC. 29. That the works of manufacturers engaged in smelting or
Smeltingworksinay
he.n8sde. bonded re refining metals, or both smelting and refining, in the United States may
be designated as bonded warehouses under such regulations as the Secv,. 28. i.551.
retary of the Treasury may prescribe: Prorided,That such manufac'ro, ioti.
EntryI o ores. etc., turers shall first give satisfactory bonds to the Secretary of the Treasury.

inbond.

Ores or metals in any crude form requiring smelting or refining to make

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them readily available in the arts, imported into the United States to
be smelted or refined and intended to be exported in a refined but
unmanufactured state, shall, under such rules as the Secretary of the
Treasury may prescribe, and under the direction of the proper officer,
be removed in original packages or in bulk from the vessel or other
vehicle on which they have been imported, or from the bonded warehouse in which the same may be, into the bonded warehouse in which
such smelting or refining, or both, may be carried on, for the purpose
of being smelted or refined, or both, without payment of duties thereon,
and may there be smelted or refined, together with other metals of home
or foreign production: Provided, That each day a quantity of refined Quantity of refined
metal to be daily set
metal equal to ninety per centum of the amount of imported metal aside forexport,
etc.
smelted or refined that day shall be set aside, and such metal so set
aside shall not be taken from said works except for transportation to
another bonded warehouse or for exportation, under the direction of
the proper officer having charge thereof as aforesaid, whose certificate,
describing the articles by their marks or otherwise, the quantity,
the date of importation, and the name of vessel or other vehicle by
which it was imported, with such additional particulars as may from
time to time be required, shall be received by the collector of customs
as sufficient evidence of the exportation of the metal, or it may be
removed under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may
prescribe, upon entry and payment of duties, for domestic consumption, and the exportation of the ninety per centum of metals hereinbefore provided for shall entitle the ores and metals imported under
the provisions of this section to admission without payment of the
duties thereon: Providedfurther, That in respect to lead ores imported Lead ores.
under the provisions of this section the refined metal set aside shall
either be reexported or the regularduties paid thereon within six months
from the date of the receipt of the ore. All labor performed and services rendered under these regulations shall be under the supervision Supervision.
of an officer of the customs, to be appointed by the Secretary of the
Treasury, and at the expense of the manufacturer.
SEC. 30. That where imported materials on which duties have been Drabacks.
paid are used in the manufacture of articles manufactured or produced
in the United States, there shall be allowed on the exportation of such
articles a drawback equal in amount to the duties paid on the materials
used, less one per centum of such duties: Provided, That when the
rti'
partly of
articles exported are made in part from domestic materials the imported domestic material.
materials, or the parts of the articles made from such materials, shall so
appear in the completed articles that the quantity or measure thereof
may be ascertained: And provided further, That the drawback on any Existing law.
article allowed under existing law shall be continued at the rate herein
provided. That the imported materials used in the manufacture or ldentifying importproduction of articles entitled to drawback of customs duties when ed artiles.
exported shall, in all cases where drawback of duties paid on such
materials is claimed, be identified, the quantity of such materials used
and the amount of duties paid thereon shall be ascertained, the facts of
the manufacture or production of such articles in the United States and
their exportation therefrom shall be determined, and the drawback due
thereon shall be paid to the manufacturer, producer, or exporter, to the
agent of either or to the person to whom such manufacturer, producer,
exporter, or agent shall in writing order such drawback paid, under
such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe.
SEC. 31. That all goods, wares, articles, and merchandise manufac- conaietlaTorforbi
tured wholly or in part in any foreign country by convict labor shall den entry.
not be entitled to entry at any of the ports of the United States, and VoL 28,. 552.
the importation thereof is hereby prohibited, and the Secretary of the
Treasury is authorized and directed to prescribe such regulations as
may be necessary for the enforcement of this provision.
Collection of cusSEC. 32. That sections seven and eleven of the Act entitled "An Act toms revenu.
to simplify
in
the laws
to
2,
to simplify the laws
in relation
relation
to the
the collection
collection of
of the
the revenues.
revenues," pp.l134,
auended.

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FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.

SEss. I.

CH. 11.

1897.

approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, be, and the same
are hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
SEC. 7. That the owner, consignee, or agent or any imported merAdditionstoinvoice
chandise which has been actually purchased may, at the time when he
vaes to rvae sanme
shall make and verify his written entry of such merchandise, but not
afterwards, make such addition in the entry to the cost or value given
in the invoice or pro forma invoice or statement in form of an invoice,
which he shall produce with his entry, as in his opinion may raise the
same to the actual market value or wholesale price of such merchandise
at the time of exportation to the United States, in the principal markets
Made only where of the country from which the same has been imported; but no such
addition shall be made upon entry to the invoice value of any imported
actual purbcase.
merchandise obtained otherwise than by actual purchase; and the colAppraisement.
lector within whose district any merchandise may be imported or
entered, whether the same has been actually purchased or procured
otherwise than by purchase, shall cause the actual market value or
wholesale price of such merchandise to be appraised; and if the
subject to an
Penaltyif appraised appraised value of any article of imported merchandise
exceeds de lared ad valorem duty or to a duty based upon or regulated in any manner
by the value thereof shall exceed the value declared in the entry, there
value.
shall be levied, collected, and paid, in addition to the duties imposed by
law on such merchandise, an additional duty of one per centum of the
total appraised value thereof for each one per centum that such
appraised value exceeds the value declared in the entry, but the additional duties shall only apply to the particular article or articles in
each invoice that are so undervalued, and shall be limited to fifty per
Additional duties centum of the appraised value of such article or articles. Such addiot tobe penal, etc. tional duties shall not be construed to be penal, and shall not be
remitted, nor payment thereof in any way avoided, except in cases
arising from a manifest clerical error, nor shall they be refunded in
case of exportation of the merchandise, or on any other account, nor
shall they be subject to the benefit of drawback: Provided, That if the
Provisos
eries appraised value of any merchandise shall exceed the value declared in
Fraudulnent
the entry by more than fifty per centum, except when arising from a
manifest clerical error, such entry shall be held to be presumptively
fraudulent, and the collector of customs shall seize such merchandise
and proceed as in case of forfeiture for violation of the customs laws,
and in any legal proceeding that may result from such seizure, the
undervaluation as shown by the appraisal shall be presumptive evidence
offraud, and the burden of proof shall be on the claimant to rebut the
Pr,.,f.
same and forfeiture shall be adjudged unless he shall rebut such presumption of fraudulent intent by sufficient evidence. The forfeiture
Forfeitures.
provided for in this section shall apply to the whole of the merchandise
or the value thereof in the case or package containing the particular
Pro formnna invoices. article or articles in each invoice which are undervalued: Provided,
ftrther, That all additional duties, penalties or forfeitures applicable
to merchandise entered by a duly certified invoice, shall be alike appli
cable to merchandise entered by a pro forma invoice or statement in
to be the form of an invoice, and no forfeiture or disability of any kind,
No forfeiture
6v
Secretary
remitted
incurred under the provisions of this section shall be remitted or mitiot the Tree'asury
gated by the Secretary of the Treasury. The duty shall not, however,
be assessed in any case upon an amount less than the invoice or entered
value.
Ascertainment of SEC. 11. That, when the actual market value as defined by law, of
al n
any article of imported merchandise, wholly or partly manufactured and
.
subject to an ad valorem duty, or to a duty based in whole or in part
on value, can not be otherwise ascertained to the satisfaction of the
appraising officer, such officer shall use all available means in his power
to ascertain the cost of production of such merchandise at the time of
exportation to the United States, and at the place of manufacture; such
cost of production to include the cost of materials and of fabrication,
all general expenses covering each and every outlay of whatsoever
nature incident to such production, together with the expense of pre-

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paring and putting up such merchandise ready for shipment, and an
addition of not less than eight nor more than fifty per centum upon the
total cost as thus ascertained; and in no case shall such merchandise Minimum appraisebe appraised upon original appraisal or reappraisement at less than the me"t.
total cost of production as thus ascertained. It shall be lawful for Wholesale price of
similar merchandise
appraising officers, in determining the dutiable value of such merchan- in
United States may
dise, to take into consideration the wholesale price at which such or be considered.
similar merchandise is sold or offered for sale in the United States, due
allowance being made for estimated duties thereon, the cost of transportation, insurance, and other necessary expenses from the place of
shipment to the United States, and a reasonable commission, if any has
been paid, not exceeding six per centum.
SEC. 33. That on and after the day when this Act shall go into effect etc.,
tGoods
not entered,
at operative
(late
all goods, wares, and merchandise previously imported, for which no subject to duties hereentry has been made, and all goods, wares, and merchandise previously '
entered without payment of duty and under bond for warehousing,
transportation, or any other purpose, for which no permit of delivery
to the importer or his agent has been issued, shall be subjected to the
duties imposed by this Act and to no other duty, upon the entry or the
withdrawal thereof: Provided, That when duties are based upon the Duties based upon
weight of merchandise deposited in any public or private bonded ware- weight of merchanhouse, said duties shall be levied and collected upon the weight of such
etc
merchandise at the time of its entry.
SEC. 34. That sections one to twenty-four, both inclusive, of an Act Reo 2a'p. 509etc
entitled "An Act to reduce taxation, to provide revenue for the Government, and for other purposes," which became a law on the twentyeighth day of August; eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and all acts
and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are
hereby repealed, said repeal to take effect on and after the passage of
e
this Act, but the repeal of existing laws or modifications thereof em- not affected.
braced in this Act shall not affect any act done, or any right accruing or accrued, or any suit or proceeding had or commenced in any civil
cause before the said repeal or modifications; but all rights and liabilities under said laws shall continue and may be enforced in the same
manner as if said repeal or modifications had not been made. Any
offenses committed and all penalties or forfeitures or liabilities incurred
prior to the passage of this Act under any statute embraced in or
changed, modified, or repealed by this Act may be prosecuted or punished in the same manner and with the same effect as if this Act had
not been passed. All Acts of limitation, whether applicable to civil notaict'rel. etc.
causes and proceedings or to the prosecution of offenses or for the
recovery of penalties or forfeitures embraced in or modified, changed,
or repealed by this Act shall not be affected thereby; and all suits,
proceedings, or prosecutions, whether civil or criminal, for causes
arising or acts done or committed prior to the passage of this Act may
be commenced and prosecuted within the same time and with the same
effect as if this Act had not been passed: And provided further, That Ownership of imnothing in this Act shall be construed to repeal the provisions of portedmerchandise.
section three thousand and fifty-eight of the Revised Statutes as 588. vol.24p. 415.
amended by the Act approved February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, in respect to the abandonment of merchandise
to underwriters or the salvers of property, and the ascertainment of
dutiesthereon: And provided further, That nothing in this Act shall strinntfi.ortitrade
be construed to repeal or in any manner affect the sections numbered void.
seventy-three, seventy-four, seventy-five, seventy-six, andseventy-seven Vol. 28. p. 70.
of an Act entitled "An Act to reduce taxation, to provide revenue for
the Government, and for other purposes," which became a law on the
twenty-eighth day of August, eighteen hundred and ninety-four.
Approved, July 24, 1897.