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858

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

Approval to divest

United States title
R.., se. 2451, p.449,
amended.

Issue of new patents

350,351,356.

1922.

"SEC. 2451. That every. such adjudication shall be approved by the
Secretary of the Interior and shall operate only to divest the United
States of the title to the land embraced thereby, without prejudice to
the rights of conflicting claimants.
"SEC. 2456. That where patents have been already issued on entries

sanding.

CHS.

SESS. II.

which are approved by the Secretary of the Interior, the Commis-

a. .,sc. 2456, . 49, sioner of the General Land Office, upon the canceling of the outstanding patent, is authorized to issue a new patent, on such approval, to
to the person who made the entry, his heirs or assigns."
Approved September 20, 1922.

351.-An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to issue patent to
.
Lassen County, of California, for certain lands, and for other purposes

21]
Septeme[HrB.
[Public, No. 3171

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
Laen States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the
County, Calif., for Interior be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to issue patent
county uses
to Lassen County, California, for the following tract of public land,
to wit: The northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section
four, township thirty-seven north, range eleven east, Mount Diablo
base and meridian, Susanville land district, in the State of California,
upon payment therefor to the Secretary of the Interior for the GovernPayment.
ment of the United States the full sum of $1.25 per acre, which patent
shall be issued upon the express condition that Lassen County shall
use said tract of land for county uses and purposes only: Provided,
Provisos.
Reversion for nonThat whenever said lands cease to be used by said county for county
user, e.
uses and purposes only, or are attempted to be sold or conveyed, then,
in that event, title to said lands and the whole thereof shall revert to
Minig rights re- the United States: Providedfurther, That such patent shall contain
e d
a reservation to the United States of all gas, oil, coal, and other
.
v
mineral deposits that may be found in such land, and the right to
the use of the land for extracting the same.
Approved, September 20, 1922.
bEland.o

September 21, 19M2..
CHAP. 356.-An Act To provide revenue, to relate commerce with foreign
epH.
tem. 7451
countries, to encourage the industries of the United States, and for other purposes.
-[-ublic, No. 318.

122.

Tariff Act of

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled,
TITLE I.

TITLE I.
DUTIABLE

DUTIABLE LIST.

urS.

Duties on imports

vola.38,p

SECIrON 1. That on and after the day following the passage of
this Act, except as otherwise specially provided for m this Act, there
shall be levied, collected, and paid upon all articles when imported
from any foreign country into the United States or into any of its

gPhilippsneand V

possessions (except the Philippine Islands, the Virgin Islands, and the

Ttulaexcepted.

islands of Guam and Tutuila) the rates of duty which are prescribed
by the schedules and paragraphs of the dutiable list of this title,
namely:

SCHEDLE .
Chemicals, oils, and
painls.

Acids, and a
ydride.

an-

SCHEDULE

1.--CHEICALS,

CALS

OILS,

AND

OILS, AN

PAINTS.

TS.

PARAGRAPH 1. Acids and acid anhydrides: Acetic acid containing
by weight not more than 65 per centum of acetic acid, three-fourths
of 1 cent per pound; containng by weight more than 65 per centum,

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

SESs. II.

CiH. 356.

859

1922.

2 cents per pound; acetic anhydride, 5 cents per pound; boric acid,

cheSmicao,

and

14 cents per pound; chloroacetic acid, 5 cents per pound; citric acid, paints.
17 cents per pound; lactic acid, containing by weight of lactic acid
less than 30 per centum, 2 cents per pound; 30 per centum or more
and less than 55 per centum, 4 cents per pound; and 55 per centum
or more, 9 cents per pound: Provided, That any lactic-acid anhydride
present shall be determined as lactic acid and included as such: And
provided further, That the duty on lactic acid shall not be less than
25 per centum ad valorem; tannic acid, tannin, and extracts of
nutgalls, containing by weight of tannic acid less than 50 per centum,
4 cents per pound; 50 per centum or more and not medicinal, 10
cents per pound; 50 per centum or more and medicinal, 20 cents per
pound; tartaric acid, 6 cents per pound; arsenic acid, 3 cents per
pound; gallic acid, 8 cents per pound; oleic acid or red oil, 1½cents
per pound; oxalic acid, 4 cents per pound; phosphoric acid, 2 cents
per pound; pyrogallic acid, 12 cents per pound; stearic acid, 14
cents per pound; and all other acids and acid anhydrides not specially
provided for, 25 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 2. Acetaldehyde,

aldol

or acetaldol,

aldehyde

ammonia,

butyraldehyde, crotonaldehyde, paracetaldehyde, ethylene chlorohydrin, ethylene dichloride, ethylene glycol, ethylene oxide, glycol
monoacetate, propylene chlorohydrin, propylene dichloride, and propylene glycol, 6 cents per pound and 30 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 3. Acetone, acetone oil, and ethyl methyl ketone, 25 per
centum ad valorem.

PAR. 4. Alcohol: Amyl, butyl, propyl, and fusel oil, 6 cents per
pound; methyl or wood (or methanol), 12 cents per gallon; and
ethyl for nonbeverage purposes only, 15 cents per gallon.
PAR. 5. All chemical elements, all chemical salts and compounds,
all medicinal preparations, and all combinations and mixtures of any
of the foregong, all the foregoing obtained naturally or artificially
and not specially provided for, 25 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 6.

hydroxide or refined bauxite, one-half of 1

Aldehydes, etc.

ceton

Alcohol

CiChompoae

Aluminum

cent per pound; potassium aluminum sulphate or potash alum and
ammonium aluminum sulphate or ammonia alum, three-fourths of
1 cent per pound; aluminum sulphate, alum cake or aluminous cake,
containng not more than 15 per centum of alumina and more iron
than the equivalent of one-tenth of 1 per centum of ferric oxide,
three-tenths of 1 cent per pound; containing more than 15 per centum
of alumina or not more iron than the equivalent of one-tenth of 1
per centum of ferric oxide, three-eighths of 1 cent per pound; all
other aluminum salts and compounds not specially provided for,
25 per centum ad valorem.
m
PAR. 7. Ammonium carbonate and bicarbonate, 1½ cents per
pound; ammonium chloride, It cents per pound; ammonium nitrate,
1 cent per pound; ammonium perchlorate and ammonium phosphate,
14 cents per pound; ammonium sulphate, one-fourth of 1 cent per
pound; liquid anhydrous ammonia, 24 cents per pound.
PAR. 8. Antimony: Oxide, 2 cents per pound; tartar emetic or Antimony.
potassium-antimony tartrate, 6 cents per pound; sulphides and
other antimony salts and compounds, not specially provided for, 1
cent per pound and 25 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 9. Argols, tartar, and wine lees, crude or partly refined, con- Argols,tartrates,etc
taining not more than 90 per centum of potassium bitartrate, 5 per
centum ad valorem; containing more than 90 per centum of potassium bitartrate, 5 cents per pound; cream of tartar, Rochelle salts
or potassium-sodium tartrate, 5 cents per pound; calcium tartrate,
crude, 5 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 10. Balsams: Copaiba, fir or Canada, Peru, tolu, styrax, and BOs.S
all other balsams, all the foregoing which are natural and uncom-

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

860
.
SCHEULand
paints.
Nonalcoholic.
Gums.

CH. 356.

1922.

pounded, 10 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That no article
containing alcohol shall be classified for duty under this paragraph.
PAR. 11. Gums: Amber and amberoid unmanufactured, not
specially provided for, $1 per pound; arabic or senegal, ½ cent per
pound.
PAR.

Barium.

SESS. II.

12. Barium carbonate, precipitated, 1 cent per pound;

barium chloride, 1 cents per pound; barium dioxide, 4 cents per
pound; barium hydroxide, 1 cents per pound; and barium nitrate,
2 cents per pound.
PAR.13. Blackings, powders, liquids, and creams for cleaning or
Blackings.
polishing, not specially provided for, 25 per centum ad valorem:
Provided, That no preparations containing alcohol shall be classified
Nonalcoholic.
for duty under this paragraph.
PAR. 14. Bleaching powder or chlorinated lime, three-tenths of 1
Bleaching powder.
cent per pound.
eaffeine, tea waste,
PAR. 15. Caffeine, $1.50 per pound; compounds of caffeine, 25
etc.
per centum ad valorem; impure tea, tea waste, tea siftings and
sweepings, for manufacturing purposes in bond, pursuant to the provisions of the Act of May 16, 1908, entitled "An Act to amend an Act
Vol 35 p i.
to prevent the importation of impure and unwholesome tea, apvo , p. 712.
proved March 2, 1897," and the Act of May 31, 1920, entitled "An
Act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921," 1 cent per pound.
calcum carbide.
PAR. 16. Calcium carbide, 1 cent per pound.
calomel.
PAR. 17. Calomel, corrosive sublimate, and other mercurial preparations, 45 per centum ad valorem.
Chloroform,etc.

PAR. 18. Carbon tetrachloride, 2½cents per pound; chloroform, 6

cents per pound; tetrachloroethane and trichloroethylene, 35 per
centum ad valorem.
PAR. 19. Casein or lactarene, 21 cents per pound.
PAR. 20. Chalk or whiting or Paris white: Dry, ground, bolted, or
precipitated, 25 per centum ad valorem; ground in oil (putty),
three-fourths of 1 cent per pound; put up in the form of cubes, blocks,
sticks, or disks, or otherwise, including tailors', billiard, red, and
manufactures of chalk not specially provided for, 25 per centum ad
valorem.

Casein.
Chalk.

oCheictal"lcomnd

PAR. 21. Chemical compounds, mixtures, and salts, of which gold,

platinum, rhodium, or silver constitutes the element of chief value,
25 per centum ad valorem.
AR. 22. Chemical compounds, salts, and mixtures of bismuth, 35

Bismuth.

per centum ad valorem.
Medicinal
etc.

capsules,

Chemical elements,
etc.,coninigacool

PAR. 23. Chemicals,

drugs,

medicinal

and

similar

substances,

whether dutiable or free, w1hen imported in capsules, pills, tablets,
lozenges, troches, ampoules, jubes, or similar forms, including powders put up in medicinal doses, shall be dutiable at not less than 25
per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 24. Chemical elements, and chemical and medicinal compounds, preparations, mixtures, and salts, distilled or essential oils,
expressed or extracted oils, animal oils and greases, ethers and esters,
flavoring and other extracts, and natural or synthetic fruit flavors,
fruit esters, oils and essences, all the foregoing and their combinations
when containing alcohol, and all articles consisting of vegetable or
mineral objects immersed or placed in, or saturated with, alcohol,
except perfumery and spirit varnishes, and all alcoholic compounds
not specially provided for, if containing 20 per centum of alcohol or
less, 20 cents per pound and 25 per centum ad valorem; containing
more than 20 per centum and not more than 50 per centum of alcohol,
40 cents per pound and 25 per centum ad valorem; containing more
than 50 per centum of alcohol, 80 cents per pound and 25 per centum
ad valorem.

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

SESS. II.

Ci. 356.

861

1922.

PAR. 25. Chicle, crude, 10 cents per pound; refined or advanced

Chemas,¢,ols

in value by drying, straining, or any other process or treatment paints.
whatever beyond that essential to the proper packing, 15 cents per
pound.
PAR. 26. Chloral hydrate,

terpin hydrate,

thymol, urea,

and

and Chloralhydrateetc.

glycerophosphoric acid, and salts and compounds of glycerophosphoric
acid, 35 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 27. Coal-tar products: Acetanilide not suitable for medicinal Noa-tr prodnctso.
use, alpha-naphthol, aminobenzoic acid, aminonaphthol, aminophene- ors, dyes, etc.

tole, aminophenol, aminosalicylic acid, aminoanthraquinone, aniline
oil, aniline salt, anthraquinone, arsanilic acid, benzaldehyde not
suitable for medicinal use, benzal chloride, benzanthrone, benzidine,
benzidine sulfate, benzoic acid not suitable for medicinal use, benzoquinone, benzoyl chloride, benzyl chloride, benzylethylaniline, betanaphthol not suitable for medicinal use, bromobenzene, chlorobenzene,
chlorophthalic acid, cinnamic acid, cumidine, dehydrothiotoluidine,
diaminostilbene, dianisidine, dichlorophthalic acid, dimethylaniline,
dimethylaminophenol, dimethylphenylbenzylammonium hydroxide,
dimethylphenylenediamine, dinitrobenzene, dinitrochlorobenzene,
dinitronaphthalene, dinitrophenol, dinitrotoluene, dihydroxynaphthalene, diphenylamine, hydroxyphenylarsinic acid, metanilic acid,
methylanthraquinone, naphthylamine, naphthylenediamine, nitroaniline, nitroanthraquinone, nitrobenzaldehyde, nitrobenzene, nitronaphthalene, nitrophenol, nitrophenylenediamine, nitrosodimethylaniline, nitrotoluene, nitrotoluylenediamine, phenol, phenylenediamine, phenylhydrazine, phenylnaphthylamine, phenylglycine, phenylglycineorto-carboxylic acid, hthalic acid, phthalic anhydride,
phthalimide, quinaldine, quinoline, resorcinol not suitable for
medicinal use, salicylic acid and its salts not suitable for medicinal
use, sulfanilic acid, thiocarbanilide, thiosalicylic acid, tetrachlorophthalic acid, tetramethyldiaminobenzophenone, tetramethyldiaminodiphenylmethane, toluene sulfochlorlde, toluene sulfonamide,
tribromophenol, toluidine, tolidine, tolylenediamine, xylidine, anthracene having a purity of 30 per centum or more, carbazole having a
purity of 65 per centum or more, metacresol having a purity of 90
per centum or more, naphthalene which after the removal of all water
present has a solidifying point of seventy-nine degrees centigrade or
above, orthocresol having a purity of 90 per centum or more, paracresol having a purity of 90 per centum or more; all the foregoing
products in this paragraph whether obtained, derived, or manufactured from coal tar or other source; all distillates of coal tar, blast- Distillates, etc.
furnace tar, oil-gas tar, and water-gas tar, which on being subjected
to distillation yield in the portion distilling below one hundred and
ninety degrees centigrade a quantity of tar acids equal to or more than
5 per centum of the original distillate or which on being subjected to
distillation yield in the portion distilling below two hundred and fifteen
degrees centigrade a quantity of tar acids equal to or more than 75
an ufa'
per centum of the original distillate; all similar products by whatever Stuirmlrdc
name known, which are obtained, derived, or manufactured in whole

or in part from any of the products provided for in this paragraph,

or from any of the products provided for in paragraph 1549; all
mixtures, including solutions, consisting in whole or in part of any

Pt', p.'92.

uctseted

of the foregoing products provided for in this paragraph, except
sheep dip and medicinal soaps; all the foregoing products provided
for in this paragraph, not colors, dyes, or stains, color acids, color
bases, color lakes, leuco-compounds, indoxyl, indoxyl compounds,
ink powders, photographic chemicals, medicinals, synthetic aromatic
or odoriferous chemicals, synthetic resinlike products, synthetic
tanning materials, or explosives, and not specially provided for in Rate.
paragraph 28 or 1549, 40 per centum ad valorem based upon the price valuation.

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

862
ScHDULZ
pits.

1922.

a Title IV) of any similar competitive article manufactured or pro-

95 0

f no competitive artide.

ffe9mLedcompetive.

CH. 356.

American selling price (as defined in subdivision (f) of section 402,

1.
,a

.
Poo;
ate for two ears

noS,.egsf

SESS. II.

co-SrduSOtcails,
ghic

duced in the United States, and 7 cents per pound: Provide, That
for a period of two years beginning on the day following the passage
of this Act the ad valorem rate of duty shall be 55 per centum instead of 40 per centum. If there is no similar competitive article
manufactured or produced in the United States then the ad valorem
rate shall be based upon the United States value, as defined in subdivision td) of section 402, Title IV. For the purposes of this paragraph any coal-tar product provided for in this Act shall be considered similar to or competitive with any imported coal-tar product
which accomplishes results substantially equal to those accomplished
by the domestic product when used in substantially the same manner: Provided, That no duty imposed under this paragraph shall be
increased under the provisions of section 315.
PAR. 28.. Coal-tar products: All colors, dyes, or stains, whether
soluble or not in water, color acids, color bases, color lakes, leucocompounds, whether colorless or not, indoxyl and indoxyl compounds; ink powders; photographic chemicals; acetanilide suitable
for medicinal use, acetphenetidine, acetylsalicylic acid, antipyrine,
benzaldehyde suitable for medicinal use, benzoic acid suitable for
medicinal use, beta-naphthol suitable for medicinal use, guaiacol
and its derivatives, phenolphthalein, resorcinol suitable for medicinal
use, salicylic acid and its salts suitable for medicinal use, salol, and
other medicinals; sodium benzoate; saccharin; artificial musk,
benzyl acetate, benzyl benzoate, coumarin, diphenyloxide, methyl
anthranilate, methyl salicylate, phenylacetaldehyde, phenylethyl
alcohol, and other synthetic odoriferous or aromatic chemicals, including flavors, all of these products not marketable as perfumery,
cosmetics, or toilet preparations, and not mixed and not compounded,
and not containing alcohol; synthetic phenolic resin and all resinlike products prepared from phenol, cresol, phthalic anhydride,
coumarone, indene, or from any other article or material provided for
in paragraph 27 or 1549, all of these products whether in a solid,
semisolid, or liquid condition; synthetic tanning materials; picric
acid, trinitrotoluene, and other explosives except smokeless powders;
all of the foregoing products provided for in this paragraph, when
obtained, derived, or manufactured in whole or in part from any of

Natura colors, etc.

merican selling
pivaluation.

te fortwo years.

the products provided for in paragraph 27 or 1549; natural alizarin

and natural indigo, and colors, dyes, stains, color acids, color bases,
color lakes, leuco-compounds, indoxyl, and indoxyl compounds,
obtained, derived, or manufatured in whole or in part from natural
alizarin or natural indigo; natural methyl salicylate or oil of wintergreen or oil of sweet birch; natural coumarin; natural guaiacol and
its derivatives; and all mixtures, including solutions, consisting in
whole or in part of any of the articles or materials provided for in this
paragraph, excepting mixtures of synthetic odoriferous or aromatic
chemicals, 45 per centum ad valorem based upon the American selling
price (as defined in subdivision (f) of section 402, Title IV) of any
similar competitive article manufactured or produced in the United
States, and 7 cents per pound: Provided, That for a period of two

years beginning on the day following the passage of this Act 4the ad
valorem rate of duty shall be 60 per centum instead of

5 per

tidno ompetitive r- centum. If there is no similar competitive article manufactured or
produced in the United States then the ad valorem rate shall be
Por,P-9e.
petaitveeS

based upon the United States value, as defined in subdivision (d) of

section 402, Title IV. For the purposes of this paragraph any coaltar product provided for in this Act shall be considered similar to
or competitive with any imported coal-tar product which accomplishes results substantially equal to those accomplished by the

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

SESS. II.

CH. 356.

btM

1922.

and
domestic product when used in substantially the same manner: chemicDs, oils,
Provided, That no duty imposed under this paragraph shall be paints.
increased under the provisions of section 315: Provided, That the Post,p.s942.
on colors, to be established for
specific duty of 7 cents per pound herein provided for acids,
color colors, dyes, orstains.
color
water,
in
not
or
soluble
dyes, or stains, whether

indoxyl combases, color lakes, leuco-compounds, indoxyl, andwhich
shall be
strength
of
standards
on
pounds, shall be based
established by the Secretary of the Treasury, and that upon all
importations of such articles which exceed such standards of strength
the specific duty of 7 cents per pound shall be computed on the weight
which the article would have if it were diluted to the standard

strength, but in no case shall any such articles of whatever strength pcidescrptono
e marked
pay a specific duty of less than 7 cents per pound: Providedfurther, contentsto
oncontainersetc.
it
Act
this
of
passage
of
date
the
after
months
That beginning six

shall be unlawful to import or bring into the United States any such
color, dye, stain, color acid, color base, color lake, leuco-compound,
indoxyl, or indoxyl compound unless the immediate container and
the invoice shall bear a plain, conspicuous, and truly descriptive
statement of the identity and percentage, exclusive of diluents, of

such color, dye, stain, color acid, color base, color lake, leuco- Importing colors,
compound, indoxyl, or indoxyl compound contained therein: Pro- etc., with ase state
be etc.,tunlawful.n
vided further, That on and after the passage of this Act it shalldye,

unlawful to import or bring into the United States any such color,or instain, color acid, color base, color lake, leuco-compound, indoxyl, any
doxyl compound, if the immediate container or the invoice bears or
statement, design, or device regarding the article or the ingredients

sofs
substances contained therein which is false, fraudulent, or misleading
etc., to be
dyes,
for
the
of
enforcement
the
in
in any particular: Provided further, That
doted.
Treasury
the
of
Secretary
the
paragraph
this
in
provisos
foregoing
which

shall adopt a standard of strength for each dye or other article
strength
shall conform as nearly as practicable to the commercial
that if
1914;
1,
July
to
prior
States
United
in ordinary use in the
since
a dye or other article has been introduced into commercial usearticle
other
or
dye
such
for
strength
of
said date then the standard
strength
shall conform as nearly as practicable to the commercial
ordinarily
is
or
was
article
other
or
dye
in ordinary use; that if a
used in more than one commercial strength, then the lowest commercial strength shall be adopted as the standard of strength for
such dye or other article: Providedfurther,That any article or product

ptoo
etc.,to

other

s
imports.

or
which is within the terms of paragraph 1, 5, 38, 40, 61, 68, 84,
shall
1549,
or
28,
27,
paragraph
of
terms
the
within
as
1585, as well
be assessed for duty or exempted from duty as the case may be under
cobalt.
paragraph 27, 28, or 1549.
PAR. 29. Cobalt: Oxide, 20 cents per pound; sulphate and linoleate, 10 cents per pound; and all other cobalt salts and compounds,
Cellulose esters.
30 per centum ad valorem.
Liquid.
of
solutions
liquid
other
and
collodion
esters,
Cellulose
FAR. 30.
cents
35
cellulose,
of
or
pyroxylin, of other cellulose esters or ethers,
Blocks, sheets, etc.
per pound.
cellulose esters or
PAR. 31. Compounds of pyroxylin, of other (except
compounds
ethers, or of cellulose, by whatever name known
sheets, rods,
of cellulose known as vulcanized or hard fiber), in blocks,
tubes, or other forms, and not made into finished or partly finished
artiarticles, 40 cents per pound; made into finished or partly finished chief
po
of
material
component
the
is
foregoing
the
of
cles, of which any
value, 60 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That all such articles

(except photographic and moving-picture films), whether or not more
specifically provided for elsewhere, shall be dutiable under this
paragraph.

Appicatnio

864

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

SESS. II.

CH. 356.

1922.

SCHEDULE . d PAR. 32. Compounds of cellulose, known as vulcanized or hard
ibts. ls, ad fiber, made wholly or in chief value of cellulose, 35 per centum ad
Hard fiber cellulose valorem.
PAR. 33.
Casin compounds.

Compounds of casein, known as galalith, or by any other

name, in blocks, sheets, rods, tubes, or other forms, not made into
finished or partly finished articles, 25 cents per pound; made into
finished or partly finished articles of which any of the foregoing is the
component material of chief value not specially provided for, 40 cents
Noneiteregetabl

per pound and 25 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 34. Drugs, such as barks, beans, berries, buds, bulbs, bulb-

ous roots, excrescences, fruits, flowers, dried fibers, dried insects,
grains, herbs, leaves, lichens, mosses, roots, stems, vegetables, seeds
(aromatic, not garden seeds), seeds of morbid growth, weeds, and all
other drugs of vegetable or animal origin; any of the foregoing which
are natural and uncompounded drugs and not edible, and not specially provided for, but which are advanced in value or condition by
shredding, grinding, chipping, crushing, or any other process or
treatment whatever beyond that essential to the proper packing of the
drugs and the prevention of decay or deterioration pending manufacture, 10 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That the term "drug"

.proo*i.
Drg" defined.

wherever used in this Act shall include only those substances having
therapeutic or medicinal properties and chiefly used for medicinal

purposes: And provided further, That no article containing alcohol

Nonalcoholic

shall be classified for duty under this paragraph.

PAR. 35. Aconite, aloes, asafetida, cocculus indicus, ipecac, jalap,
manna; marshmallow or althea root, leaves and flowers; mat, and
pyrethrum or insect flowers; all the foregoing which are natural and
uncompounded, but which are advanced in value or condition by
shredding, grinding, chipping, crushing, or any other process or treatment whatever beyond that essential to proper packing and the pre-

Aconite, etc.

vention of decay or deterioration pending manufacture, 10 per centum
ad valorem: Provided, That no article containing alcohol shall be

Proviso.
Nonalcoholic.

classified for duty under this paragraph.
Buchu, coca leaves,

PAR. 36. Buchu leaves, 10 cents per pound; coca leaves, 10 cents

per pound; gentian, one-fourth of 1 cent per pound; licorice root,
one-half of 1 cent per pound; sarsaparilla root, 1 cent per pound; belladonna, digitalis, henbane, and stramonium, 25 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 37. Ergot, 10 cents per pound.
PAR. 3S. Ethers and esters: Diethyl sulphate and dimethyl sul-

Ergot.
Ethers and este.

phate, 25 per centum ad valorem; ethyl acetate, 3 cents per pound;
ethyl chloride, 15 cents per pound; ethyl ether, 4 cents per pound;
and ethers and esters of all kinds not specially provided for, 25 per
centum ad valorem: Provided, That no article containing more than

Atcohollinim.

10 per centum of alcohol shall be classified for duty under this para-

Dyeing and tanning

graph.
PAR. 39. Extracts, dyeing and tanning: Chestnut, cutch, chlorophyll, divi-divi, fustic, hemlock, logwood, mangrove, myrobalan, oak,

Persian berry, quebracho, sumac, saffron, safflower, saffron cake,
valonia, wattle, and other extracts, decoctions, and preparations of
vegetable origin used for dyeing, coloring, staining, or tanning, not
specially provided for, and combinations and mixtures of the foregoing articles in this paragraph, 15 per centum ad valorem: Provided,

Nonacohoic.

Flavoring extracts,

etc.
Nonalcoholic.

that no article containing alcohol shall be classified for duty under
this paragraph.

PAR. 40. Flavoring extracts and natural or synthetic fruit flavors,
fruit esters, oils, and essences, all the foregoing not containing alcoPa

hol, and not specially provided for, 25 per centum ad valorem.
Formaldehyde,

etc.

PAR. 41. Formaldehyde solution or formalin, 2 cents per pound;

solid formaldehyde or paraformaldehyde, 8 cents per pound; and
hexamethylenetetramine, 25 per centum ad valorem.

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1922.

PAR. 42. Edible gelatin, valued at less than 40 cents per pound, 20

Checal

oils. and

per centum ad valorem and 34 cents per pound; valued at 40 cents paints.
or more per pound, 20 per centum ad valorem and 7 cents per pound; Glues, etc.
gelatin, glue, glue size and fish glue, not specially provided for, valued
at less than 40 cents per pound, 20 per centum ad valorem and 14
cents per pound; valued at 40 cents or more per pound, 20 per centum
ad valorem and 7 cents per pound; casein glue, agar agar, isinglass
and other fish sounds, cleaned, split, or otherwise prepared, and
manufactures, wholly or in chief value of gelatin, glue or glue size, 25
per centum ad valorem.
Gycrin
PAR. 43. Glycerin, crude, 1 cent per pound; refined, 2 cents per
pound,

nk.

provided for, 30 per centum ad valorem.

Lcoric

per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 49. Lime, citrate of, 7 cents per pound.

Citrate of lime.

PAR. 44. Ink, and ink powders not specially provided for, 20 per
iodine.
centum ad valorem.
PAR. 45. Iodine, resublimed, 20 cents per pound.
PAR. 46. Bromine and all bromine compounds not specially pro- Bromne
d,chemicalcomvided for, 10 cents per pound.
PAB. 47. Lead: Acetate, white, 24 cents per pound; acetate, pounds.
brown, gray, or yellow, 2 cents per pound; nitrate, arsenate, and resinate, 3 cents per pound; and all other lead compounds not specially
PAR. 48. Licorice, extracts of, in pastes, rolls, or other forms, 25

Magnesium

PAR. 50. Magnesium: Carbonate, precipitated, 1½cents per pound; cass.
chloride, anhydrous, 1 cent per pound; chloride, not specially provided for, five-eighths of 1 cent per pound; sulphate or Epsom salts,
one-half of 1 cent per pound; oxide or calcined magnesia, medicinal,
3½cents per pound; oxide or calcined magnesia not suitable for
medicinal use, 34 cents per pound.ch
PAR. 51. Manganese: Borate, resinate, sulphate, and other man- ca ang
ganese compounds and salts, not specially provided for, 25 per centum
ad valorem.

chemi-

hei-

PAR. 52. Menthol, 50 cents per pound; camphor, crude, natural, Mnthl and camml o,
1 cent per pound; camphor, refined or synthetic, 6 cents per pound.
t
PAR. 53. Oils, animal: Sod, herring, and menhaden, 5 cents per adgreases.

gallon; whale and seal, 6 cents per gallon; sperm, 10 cents per gallon;
and all fish oils, not specially provided for, 20 per centum ad valorem;
wool grease, crude, including that known commercially as degras or
brown wool grease, one-half of 1 cent per pound; wool grease, not
crude, including adeps lane, hydrous and anhydrous, 1 cent per
pound; all other animal oils, fats, and greases, not specially provided
for, 20 per centum ad valorem.

Expressed and

PAR. 54. Oils, expressed or extracted: Castor oil, 3 cents per tratedo ans.
pound; hempseed oil, 1i cents per pound; linseed or flaxseed oil,
raw, boiled, or oxidized, 3- cents per pound; olive oil, weighing
with the immediate container less than forty pounds, 7½ cents per
pound on contents and container; olive oil, not specially provided
for, 64 cents per pound; poppy-seed oil, raw, boiled, or oxidized,
2 cents per pound; rapeseed oil,6 cents per gallon; all other expressed
and extracted oils, not specially provided for, 20 per centum ad
valorem.
PAR. 55. Coconut oil, 2 cents per pound; cottonseed oil, 3 cents Ccont etc.,il.
per pound; peanut oil, 4 cents per pound; and soya-bean oil, 24
cents per pound.
ieset.
solble
PAR. 56. Alizarin assistant, Turkey red oil, sulphonated castor or g
other sulphonated animal or vegetable oils, soaps made in whole or
in part from castor oil, and all soluble greases; all of the foregoing
in whatever form, and used in the processes of softening, dyeing,
tanning, or finishing, not specially provided for, 35 per centum ad
valorem.
42150°-23--55

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pscoo

and.

cantss

ydrogate

oils

Combinations of animalet.,oils.

1922.

PAR. 57. Hydrogenated or hardened oils and fats, 4 cents per

pound; other oils and fats, the composition and properties of which
have been changed by vulcanizing, oxidizing, chlorinating, nitrating,
or any other chemical process, and not specially provided for, 20 per
centum ad valorem.
PAR. 58. Combinations and mixtures of animal, vegetable, or
mineral oils or of any of them (except combinations or mixtures

and not speciallyprovided for, 25 per centum ad valorem: Provided,
That no article contaiining alcohol shall be classified for duty under

Nonalcoholic
Distilled

or esential

oil
o

CH. 356.

containing essential or distilled oils), with or without other substances,

Provio

Nro

Sss. II.

Opium, ca

etc

this paragraph.

PAR. 59. Oils distilled or essential: Lemon and orange, 25 per
centum ad valorem; clove, eucalyptus, peppermint, patchouli,
sandalwood, and all other essential and distilled oils not specially

provided for, 25 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That no article
moixed or compounded or containing alcohol shall be classified for
duty under this paragraph.
P . 6. . Opium containing not less than 8.5 per centum of

anhydrous morphine, crude or unmanufactured and not adulterated,
$3 per pound; powdered, or otherwise advanced beyond the condition of crude or unmanufactured, and containing 15 per centum or
less of moisture, $4 per pound; morphine, morphine sulphate, and
all opium alkaloids and salts, esters, and other derivatives thereof,
$3 per ounce; cocaine, ecgonine, and salts, esters, and other derivatives thereof, $2.60 per ounce; tincture of opium, such as laudanum,
and other liquid preparations of opium, not specially provided for,
60 per centum ad valorem; opium containing less than 8.5 per

Narotic
affected.1

ts not

centum of anhydrous morphine, $6 per pound: Provided, That

p 614; Vol
.
VsoVl,
Anup. 5g6.

nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to repeal or in
any manner impair or affect the provisions of an Act entitled "An
Act to prohibit the importation and use of opium for other than

Pmematals.

Act approved January 17, 1914.
PAR. 61. Perfume materials: Ambergris, castoreum, civet, and

PRea<to:

ous or aromatic substances, 40 cents per pound and 50 per centum
ad valorem: Provided, That only materials not marketable as per-

Higheralcoolic con-

tent
Perfumery, toilet
e.
prepations,

Floral aters, etc.

medicinal purposes," approved February 9, 1909, as amended by an

musk grained or in pods, 20 per centum ad valorem; anethol, citral,
geraniol, heliotropin, ionone, rhodinol, safrol, terpineol, vanillin, and
all natural or synthetic odoriferous or aromatic chemicals, all the
foregoing not mixed and not compounded, and not specially provided for, 45 per centum ad valorem; all mixtures or combinations
containing essential or distilled oils, or natural or synthetic odoriferfumery, cosmetics, or toilet preparations, and not containing more
than 10 per centum of alcohol, shall be classified for duty under
this paragraph: Providedfurther, That all of the foregoing materials
containing more than 10 per centum of alcohol shall be classified
for duty under paragraph 62 as toilet preparations.

PAR. 62. Perfumery, including cologne and other toilet waters,
articles of perfumery, whether in sachets or otherwise, and all

preparations used as applications to the hair, mouth, teeth, or skin,
such as cosmetics, dentifrices, tooth soaps, pastes, theatrical grease
paints, pomades, powders and other toilet preparations, all the
foregoing, if contaning alcohol, 40 cents per pound and 75 per
centum ad valorem; if not containing alcohol, 75 per centum ad
valorem.
PAR. 63. Floral or flower waters containing no alcohol, not specially

provided for, 20 per centum ad valorem; bay rum or bay water,
whether distilled or compounded, 40 cents per pound and 60 per
centum ad valorem.

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CH. 356.

867

1922.

PAR. 64. Paris green and London purple, 15 per centum ad

valorem.

PAR. 65. Phosphorus, 8 cents per pound.
PAR. 66. Plasters, healing or curative, of all kinds, and courtplaster, 20 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 67. Paints, colors, and pigments commonly known as artists'
paints or colors, whether in tubes, cakes, jars, pans, or other forms,
and not assembled in paint sets, kits, or color outfits, 40 per centum
ad valorem; paints, colors, and pigments in tubes, cakes, jars, pans,
or other forms, when assembled in paint sets, kits, or color outfits,
with or without brushes, water pans, outline drawing, stencils, or

other articles, 70 per centum ad valorem.

68. Pigments, colors, stains, and paints, including enamel
paints, whether dry, mixed, or ground in or mixed with water, oil,
or solutions other than oil, not specially provided for, 25 per centum
ad valorem.
PAR.

PAR. 69. Barytes ore, crude or unmanufactured, $4 per ton;

ground or otherwise manufactured, $7.50 per ton; precipitated barium

Chemia,

oils and

paints.

Paris green,
gr een London
L ndon

Phorus.P
Plasters
Artists paints, etc.

tc
specaly provided Sor.

Barytes.

sulphate or blanc fixe, 1 cent per pound.
PAR. 70. Blue pigments and all blues containing iron ferrocyanide Buepigments.
or iron ferricyanide, in pulp, dry, or ground in or mixed with oil or
water, 8 cents per pound; ultramarine blue, dry, in pulp, or ground
in or mixed with oil or water, wash and all other blues containing
ultramarine, 3 cents per pound.
PAR. 71. Bone black or bone char, blood char, and decolorizing
onecha'tc.
and deodorizing chars or carbons, 20 per centum ad valorem.
rom olo
PAR. 72. Chrome yellow, chrome green, and other colors containing
chromium, in pulp, dry, or ground in or mixed with oil or water, 25
per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 73. Gas black, lampblack, and all other black pigments, by
pigmentswhatever name known, dry or ground in or mixed with oil or water,
and not specially provided for, 20 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 74. Lead pigments: Litharge, 2½ cents per pound; orange Lead pigments.
mineral, 3 cents per pound; red lead, 2j cents per pound; white lead,
2½cents per pound; all pigments containing lead, dry or in pulp, or
ground in or mixed with oil or water, not specially provided for, 30
per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 75. Ochers, siennas, and umbers, crude or not ground, one- Ocher etc.
eighth of 1 cent per pound; washed or ground, three-eighths of 1 cent
per pound; iron-oxide and iron-hydroxide pigments not specially
provided for, 20 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 76. Satin white and precipitated calcium sulphate, one-half Satin whiteof 1 cent per pound.
PAR. 77. Spirit varnishes containing less than 5 per centum of pirit vam ishesmethyl alcohol, $2.20 per gallon and 25 per centum ad valorem;
spirit varnishes containing 5 per centum or more of methyl alcohol,
and all other varnishes, including so-called gold size or Japan, not
specially provided for, 25 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 78. Vermilion reds containing quicksilver, dry or ground Vermiionredsin or mixed with oil or water, 28 cents per pound.
Zinc oxides etc
PAR. 79. Zinc oxide and leaded zinc oxides containing not more
than 25 per centum of lead, in any form of dry powder, 1 cents per
pound; ground in or mixed with oil or water, 21 cents per pound;
thopone, and other combinations or mixtures of zinc sulphide and
barium sulphate, 1] cents per pound.
PA..
80. Potassium: Chromate and dichromate, 21 cents per Potass nm
pound; chlorate and perchlorate, 14 cents per pound; ferricyande
or red prussiate of potash, 7 cents per pound; ferrocyanide or yellow
prussiate of potash, 4 cents per pound; iodide, 25 cents per pound;
bromide, 10 cents per pound; bicarbonate, 14 cents per pound; carbonate, three-fourths of 1 cent per pound; hydroxide or caustic

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

868
SChE*DZ and
, a
aints.

SESS. II.

CH. 356.

1922.

potash, 1 cent per pound; nitrate or saltpeter, refined, one-half of 1

cent per pound; and permanganate, 4 cents per pound.
PAR. 81. Santonin, and salts of, 75 cents per pound.
PAR. 82. Soap: Castile, 15 per centum ad valorem; toilet, 30 per
Soap.
centum ad valorem; all other soap and soap powder not specially
provided for, 15 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 83. Sodium: Arsenate, 1 cent per pound; bicarbonate or
sodinm
baking soda, one-fourth of 1 cent per pound; borate or borax, refined,
one-eighth of 1 cent per pound; bromide, 10 cents per pound; carbonate, calcined, or soda ash, hydrated or sal soda, and monohydrated, one-fourth of 1 cent per pound; chlorate, 1½cents per pound;
chloride or salt, in bags, sacks, barrels, or other packages, 11 cents
sat
per one hundred pounds; in bulk, 7 cents per one hundred pounds;
chromate and dichromate, 1 cents per pound; formate, 2 cents per
pound; ferrocyanide or yellow prussiate of soda, 2 cents per pound;
hydroxide or caustic soda, one-half of 1 cent per pound; nitrite, 3
cents per pound; phosphate, one-half of I cent per pound- sesquicarbonate, one-fourth of 1 cent per pound; sulphate, crystallized, or
Glauber salt, $1 per ton; sulphate, anhydrous, $2 per toni sulphide,
containing not more than 35 per centum of sodium sulphide, threeeighths of 1 cent per pound; containing more than 35 per centum,
three-fourths of 1 cent per pound; silicate, sulphite, bisulphite, metabisulphite, and thiosulphate, three-eighths of 1 cent per pound.
PAR. 84. Sodium hydrosulphite, hydrosulphite compounds, sulhodium hydrosulhoxylate compounds, and all combinations and mixtures of the
phite, etc.
foregoing, 35 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 85. Staroh: Potato, 1I cents per pound; and all other
Starch.
starches not specially provided for, 1 cent per pound.
PAR. 86. Dextrine, made from potato starch or potato flour, 21
Dextrine.
cents per pound; dextrine, not otherwise provided for, burnt starch
or British gum, dextrine substitutes, and soluble or chemically
treated starch, 14 cents per pound.
PAR. 87. Strontium: Carbonate, precipitated, nitrate, and oxide,
Strontium.
25 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 88. Strychnine, and salts of, 15 cents per ounce.
Strychnine.
PAR. 89. Thorium nitrate, thorium oxide, and other salts of
Thorium,cerium,etc.
thorium not specially provided for, cerium nitrate, cerium fluoride,
and other salts of cerium not specially provided for, and gas-mantle
scrap consisting in chief value of metallic oxides, 35 per centum ad
valorem.
PAR. 90. Tin bichloride, tin tetrachloride, and all other chemical
Tin chemical cornpo
compounds, mixtures, and salts, of which tin constitutes the element
nds.
of chief value, 25 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 91. Titanium potassium oxalate, and all compounds and
Titanium corns
mixtures containing titanium, 30 per centum ad valorem.
poun
PAR. 92. Vanilla beans, 30 cents per pound; tonka beans, 25 cents
vanilla and tonka
beans
.
per pound.
PAR. 93. Zinc chloride, 1A cents per pound; zinc sulphate, threeZinc chlorides, etc.
fourths of 1 cent per pound; and zinc sulphide, 14 cents per pound.
Santnin.

SEDE2.

Earths, earthenware,
and lad9ware.

"rick,

Tres.

ath,
.etc.

SCHEDULE 2.-EARTHS, EARTHENWARE, AND GLASSWARE.

PAR. 201. Bath brick, chrome brick, and fire brick, not specially
provided for, 25 per centum ad valorem; magnesite brick, threefourths of 1 cent per pound and 10 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 202. Tiles, unglazed, glazed, ornamented, hand painted,
enameled, vitrified, semivitrified, decorated, encaustic, ceramic mosaic, flint, spar, embossed, gold decorated, grooved or corrugated,
and all other earthenware tiles and tiling by whatever name known,
expect pill tiles and so-called quarries or quarry tiles, red or brown,

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

SEss. U.

CH. 356.

869

1922.

and measuring seven-eighths of an inch or over in thickness, but in- ,atIseD,,rL
eluding tiles wholly or m part of cement, valued at not more than and glassware

40 cents per square foot, 8 cents per square foot, but not less than

45 nor more than 60 per centum ad valorem; valued at more than

Mants e.

40 cents per square foot, 50 per centum ad valorem; mantels, friezes,
and articles of every description or parts thereof, composed wholly
or in chief value of earthenware tiles or tiling, except pill tiles, 50
per centum ad valorem; so-called quarries or quarry tiles, red or
brown, and measuring seven-eighths of an inch or over in thickness,
3 cents per square foot, but not less than 30 per centum ad valorem.

me to
PAR. 203. Limestone (not suitable for use as monumental or L s

and
ime.

building stone), crude, or crushed but not pulverized, 5 cents per
one hundred pounds; lime, not specially provided for, 10 cents per
one hundred pounds, including the weight of the container; hydrated lime, 12 cents per one hundred pounds, including the weight
of the container.

PAR. 204. Crude magnesite, five-sixteenths of 1 cent per pound;
caustic calcined magnesite, five-eighths of 1 cent per pound; dead
burned and grain magnesite, not suitable for manufacture into

Manesite.

oxychloride cements, twenty-three fortieths of 1 cent per pound.
PAR. 205. Plaster rock or gypsum, ground or calcined, $1.40 per etc.m

ement

ton; white nonstaining Portland cement, 8 cents per one hundred
pounds, including the weight of the container; Keene's cement, and
other cement of which gypsum is the component material of chief
value, valued at $14 per ton or less, $3.50 per ton; valued above $14
and not above $20 per ton, $5 per ton; valued above $20 and not
above $40 per ton, $10 per ton- valued above $40 per ton, $14 per
ton; other cement, not specially provided for, 20 per centum ad
valorem.

Pa. 206. Pumice stone, unmanufactured, valued at $15 or less Pmnnestcm.

per ton, one-tenth of 1 cent per pound; valued at more than $15 per
ton, one-fourth of 1 cent per pound; wholly or partly manufactured,
fifty-five one-hundredths of 1 cent per pound; manufactures of pumice
stone, or of which pumice stone is the component material of chief
value, not specially provided for, 35 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 207. Clays or earths, unwrought or unmanufactured, including common blue clay and Gross-Almerode glass pot clay, not specially
provided for, $1 per ton; wrought or manufactured, not specially
provided for, $2 per ton; china clay or kaolin, $2.50 per ton; bauxite,
crude, not refined or otherwise advanced in condition in any manner,
$1 per ton; fuller's earth, unwrought and unmanufactured, $1.50
per ton; wrought or manufactured, $3.25 per ton; silica, crude, not
specially provided for, $4 per ton; silica, suitable for use as a pigment,
not specially provided for, $7.50 per ton; fluorspar, $5.60 per ton.

lays or es.

PAR. 208. Mica, unmanufactured, valued at not above 15 cents per MC

pound, 4 cents per pound; valued above 15 cents per pound, 25 per
centum ad valorem; mica, cut or trimmed, and mica splittings, 30
per centum ad valorem; mica plates, and built-up mica, and all
manufactures of mica or of which mica is the component material of
chief value, 40 per centum ad valorem; ground mica, 20 per centum
ad valorem.
PAl. 209. Talc, steatite or soapstone, and French chalk, crude and

unground, one-fourth of 1 cent per pound; ground, washed, powdered,
or pulverized (except toilet preparations), 25 per centum ad valorem;
cut or sawed, or in blanks, crayons, cubes, disks, or other forms, 1
cent per pound; manufactures (except toilet preparations), of which
talc, steatite or soapstone, or French chalk is the component material
of chief value, wholly or partly finished, and not specially provided
for, if not decorated, 35 per centum ad valorem; if decorated, 45 per,
centum ad valorem.

c, soa

e, et

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

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WTMHStgZ-

Bandgl

Earthenware

ware

trilBd.

SEBS. II.

CH. 356.

1922.

PAR. 210. Common yellow, brown, or gray earthenware made of
e natural, unwashed, and unmixed clay, plain or embossed; common
and salt-glazed stoneware; stoneware and earthenware crucibles; all the
foregoing not ornamented, incised, or decorated in any manner, 15 per

and
non-

centum ad valorem; ornamented, incised, or decorated in any manner
and manufactures wholly or in chief value of such ware, not specially provided for, 20 per centum ad valorem; and Rockingham
enware, 25 per centum ad valorem.
earthenware
PAR. 211. Earthenware and crockery ware composed of a nonvitrifled absorbent body, including white granite and semiporcelain

earthenware, and cream-colored ware, and stoneware, including clock
cases with or without movements, pill tiles, plaques, ornaments,
toys, charms, vases, statues, statuettes, mugs, cups, steins, lamps,
and all other articles composed wholly or in chief value of such ware;
plain white, plain yellow, plain brown, plain red, or plain black, not
painted, colored, tinted, stained, enameled, gilded, printed, ornamented, or decorated in any manner, and manufactures in chief
value of such ware not specially provided for, 45 per centum ad
valorem; painted, colored, tinted, stained, enameled, gilded, printed,
ornamented, or decorated in any manner, and manufactures m chief
value of such ware, not specially provided for, 50 per centum ad
valorem.
PAR. 212. China, porcelain, and other vitrified wares, including
eaand
=na
chemical porcelain ware and chemical stoneware, composed of a
vitrified nonabsorbent body which when broken shows a vitrified or
vitreous, or semivitrified or semivitreous fracture, and all bisque
and parian wares, including clock cases with or without movements,
plaques, pill tiles, ornaments, toys, charms, vases, statues, statuettes,
mugs, cups, steins, lamps, and all other articles composed wholly or
in chief value of such ware, plain white, or plain brown, not painted,
colored, tinted, stained, enameled, gilded, printed, or ornamented or
decorated in any manner, and manufactures in chief value of such
ware not specially provided for, 60 per centum ad valorem; painted,
colored, tinted, stained, enameled, gilded, printed, or ornamented or
decorated in any manner, and manufactures in chief value of such
with alined bone, ware not specially provided for, 70 per centum ad valorem; any of
the foregoing articles containing 25 per centum or more of calcined
bone, not painted, colored, tinted, stained, enameled, gilded, printed,
or ornamented or decorated in any manner, 50 per centum ad valorem;
painted, colored, tinted, stained, enameled, gilded, printed, or ornamented or decorated in any manner, 55 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 213. Graphite or plumbago, crude or refined: Amorphous,
Grsahite.
10 per centum ad valorem; crystalline lump, chip, or dust, 20 per
centum ad valorem; crystalline flake, 1½ cents per pound. As used
e
cstallne
in this paragraph, the term "crystalline flake' means graphite or
plumbago which occurs disseminated as a relatively thin flake throughout its containing rock, decomposed or not, and which may be or has
been separated therefrom by ordinary crushing, pulverizing, screening, or mechanical concentration process, such flake being made up
of a number of parallel laminse, which may be separated by mechanical means.
ticles of earthy or PAR. 214. Earthy or mineral substances wholly or partly manu. factured and articles, wares, and materials (crude or advanced in
msinerbs
condition), composed wholly or in chief value of earthy or mineral
substances, not specially provided for, whether susceptible of decoration or not, if not decorated in any manner, 30 per centum ad valorem;
if decorated, 40 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 215. Gas retorts, 20 per centum ad valorem; lava tips for
Gasretortetc.
burners, 10 cents per gross and 15 per centum ad valorem; and
magnesia clay supporters, consisting of rings, rods, and other forms
for gas mantles, 35 per centum ad valorem.

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

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CH. 356.

1922.

871

PAR. 216. Carbons and electrodes, of whatever material composed, Earthseateware,
glassware.
and wholly or partlyY manufactured, for producing electric arc light; nd
etc., for
carbons,
electrodes, composed wholly or in part of carbon or graphite, and electrical appliances.

wholly or partly manufactured, for electric furnace or electrolytic
purposes; brushes, of whatever material composed, and wholly or
partly manufactured, for electric motors, generators, or other electrical machines or appliances; plates, rods, and other forms, of whatever material composed, and wholly or partly manufactured, for
manufacturing into the aforesaid brushes; and articles or wares
composed wholly or in part of carbon or graphite, wholly or partly

Bottlesed
manufactured, not specially provided for, 45 per centum ad valorem.
PAB. 217. Plain green or colored, molded or pressed, and flint, filled.
lime, or lead glass bottles, vials, jars, and covered or uncovered
demijohns, and carboys, any of the foregoing, filled or unfilled, not
specially provided for, and whether their contents be dutiable or
free (except such as contain merchandise subject 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,
1 cent per pound; if holding not more than one pint and not less

than one-fourth of a pint, 1½ cents per pound; if holding less than

co.stred
one-fourth of a pint, 50 cents per gross: Provided, That the terms
"bottles," "vials," "jars," "demijohns," and "carboys," as used
herein, shall be restricted to such articles when suitable for use and
of the character ordinarily employed for the holding or transportation of merchandise, and not as appliances or implements in chemical
or other operations, and shall not include bottles for table service
and thermostatic bottles.
asware.
PAR. 218. Biological, chemical, metallurgical, phrmaceutical, and scientific, etc., utensurgical articles and utensils of all kinds, including all scientific
articles, utensils, tubing and rods, whether used for experimental
purposes in hospitals, laboratories, schools or universities, colleges,
or otherwise, all of the foregoing, finished or unfinished, composed
wholly or in chief value of glass or paste, or a combination of glass
and paste, 65 per centum ad valorem; illuminating articles of every Iuminating articles
description, including chimneys, globes, shades, and prisms, for use
in connection with artificial illumination, all of the foregoing, finished
or unfinished, composed wholly or in chief value of glass or paste,
or a combination of glass and paste, 60 per centum ad valorem; all Phted ss.
glassware commercially known as plated or cased glass, composed of
two or more layers of clear, opaque, colored, or semitranslucent
glass, or combinations of the same, 60 per centum ad valorem; Table and kitchen
table and kitchen articles and utensils, and all articles of every de- articles.
scription not specially provided for, composed wholly or in chief Blon.
value of glass or paste, or combinations of glass and paste, blown
or partly blown in the mold or otherwise, or colored, cut, engraved,
etched, frosted, gilded, ground (except such grinding as is necessary
for fitting stoppers or for purposes other than ornamentation),
painted, printed in any manner, sand-blasted, silvered, stained, or
decorated or ornamented in any manner, whether filled or unfilled,
or whether their contents be dutiable or free, 55 per centum ad va- r
lorem; table and kitchen articles and utensils, composed wholly or
in chief value of glass or paste, or a combination of glass and paste,
when pressed and unpolished, whether or not decorated or ornamented in any manner or ground (except such grinding as is necessary for fitting stoppers or for purposes other than ornamentation),
whether filled or unfilled, or whether their contents be dutiable or Proio.
free, 50 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That any of the articles Rateoontainersof
specified in this paragraph, if containers of merchandise subject to dutiable goods.
an ad valorem rate of duty or to a rate of duty based in whole or in
part upon the value thereof, shall be dutiable at the rate applicable
to their contents, but not less than the rate provided for in this

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paragraph: Provided further, That for the purposes of this Act,
Ea'rthsaa
auri-m.
' bottles with cut-glass stoppers shall with their stoppers be deemed
entireties.
pw-m
sheetiss. PPAR. 219. Cylinder, crown, and sheet glass, by whatever process
made, and for whatever purpose used, unpolished, not exceeding one
hundred and fifty square inches, 1J cents per pound; above that, and
not exceeding three hundred and eighty-four square inches, 1# cents
per pound; above that, and not exceeding seven hundred and twenty
square inches, 11 cents per pound; above that, and not exceeding
eight hundred and sixty-four square inches, 1 cents per pound; above
that, and not exceeding one thousand two hundred square inches,
2 cents per pound; above that, and not exceeding two thousand four
hundred square inches, 21 cents per pound; above that, 21 cents per
pound: Provided, That unpolished cylinder, crown, and sheet glass,
Bocapacty.
imported in boxes, shall contain fifty square feet, as nearly as sizes
will permit, and the duty shall be computed thereon according to the
actual weight of glass.

Polied

,ass. "

glass.

provo.
Grund,

et.

PxA. 220. Cylinder, crown, and sheet glass, by whatever process
made, polished, not exceeding three hundred and eighty-four square
inches, 4 cents per square foot; above that, and not exceeding seven
hundred and twenty square inches, 6 cents per square foot; above
that, and not exceeding one thousand four hundred and forty square
e inches, 12 cents per square foot; above that, 15 cents per square foot.
PAr 221. Fluted, rolled, ribbed, or rough plate glass, or the same
containing a wire netting within itself (not including crown, cylinder,
or sheet glass), not exceeding three hundred and eghty-four square
inches, three-fourths of 1 cent per square foot; all above that, 1
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
cast poised plate
glass.

with wirenetting.

rate of duty as cast polished plate glass unsilvered.

PAR. 222. Cast polished plate glass, finished or unfinished, and unsilvered, not exceeding three hundred and eighty-four square inches,
121 cents per square foot; above that, and not exceeding seven hundred and twenty square inches, 15 cents per square foot; all above

that, 171 cents per square foot. Plate glass described in this paragraph containing a wire netting within itself, not exceeding three
hundred and eighty-four square inches, 15 cents per square foot;
above that, and not exceeding seven hundred and twenty square
inches, 171 cents per square foot; all above that, 20 cents per square
Silvered plate glass.

Provis.

Mi-

Framed.

foot.

PAR. 223. 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 three hundred and
eighty-four square inches, 131 cents per square foot; above that,
and not exceeding seven hundred and twenty square inches, 16
cents per square foot; all above that, 21 cents per square foot: Provided, That none of the foregoing shall pay less duty than 35 per
centum ad valorem: Provided further, That no looking-glass plates
or 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

Bent, oamted applicable thereto when imported separate.
Pan. 224. Cast polished plate glass, silvered or unsilvered, and

etc., gass.

cylinder, crown, and sheet glass, by whatever process made, silvered
or unsilvered, polished or unpolished, when bent, ground, obscured,
frosted, sanded, enameled, beveled, etched, embossed, engraved,
flashed, stained, colored, painted, ornamented, or decorated, shall

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873

1922.

be subject to a duty of 5 per centum ad valorem in addition to the ESarCHEUt, 2
and glassware.
rates otherwise chargeable thereon.
PAR. 225. Spectacles, eyeglasses, and goggles, and frames for the Spectacles, etc.

same, or parts thereof, finished or unfinished, valued at not over 65
cents per dozen, 20 cents per dozen and 15 per centum ad valorem;
valued at over 65 cents per dozen and not over $2.50 per dozen, 60
cents per dozen and 20 per centum ad valorem; valued at over $2.50
per dozen, 40 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 226. Lenses of glass or pebble, molded or pressed, or ground

Lensesetc

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, 40 per centum ad valorem; with
the edges ground or beveled, 10 cents per dozen pairs and 35 per
centum ad valorem; strips of glass not more than three inches wide,
ground or polished on one or both sides to a cylindrical or prismatic
form, including those used in the construction of gauges, and glass
slides for magic lanterns, 35 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 227. Optical glass or glass used in the manufacture of lenses

Optia

glass.

or prisms for spectacles, or for optical instruments or equipment, or
for optical parts, scientific or commercial, in any and all forms, 45

per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 228. Azimuth mirrors, sextants, and octants; photographic et

t i l instr

umenct

and projection lenses, opera and field glasses, telescopes, microscopes,
and other optical instruments, and frames and mountings for the
same; all the foregoing not specially provided for, 45 per centum ad
valorem.
PAR. 229. Incandescent electric-light bulbs and lamps, with or

Electricamps,etc.

without filaments, 20 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 230. Stained or painted glass windows, and parts thereof;

dotaied glsswtc.

and all mirrors, not specially provided for, not exceeding in size one

hundred and forty-four square inches, with or without frames or cases,
50 per centum ad valorem; and all glass or manufactures of glass pMaiacuroedn ot
or paste, or of which glass or paste is the component material of chief

value, not specially provided for, 50 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 231. Smalts, frostings, and all ceramic and glass colors,

CerIaSiccorsenam-

PAR. 232. Marble, breccia, and onyx in block, rough or squared

Marble, bre cand

fluxes, glazes, and enamels, all the foregoing, ground or pulverized,
30 per centum ad valorem; in any other form, 40 per centum ad valorem; opal, enamel or cylinder glass tiles, tiling, and rods, 40 per
centum ad valorem.

only, 65 cents per cubic foot; marble, breccia, and onyx, sawed or
dressed, over two inches in thickness, $1 per cubic foot; slabs and paving tiles of marble, breccia, or onyx, containing not less than four
superficial inches, if not more than one inch in thickness, 8 cents per
superficial foot; if more than one inch and not more than one and
one-half inches in thickness, 10 cents per superficial foot; if more
than one and one-half inches and not more than two inches in thickness, 13 cents per superficial foot; if rubbed in whole or in part, 3
cents per superficial foot in addition; mosaic cubes of marble, breccia,
or onyx, not exceeding two cubic inches in size, if loose, one-fourth of
1 cent per pound and 20 per centum ad valorem; if attached to paper
or other material, 5 cents per superficial foot and 35 per centum ad
valorem.
PAR. 233. Marble, breccia, onyx, alabaster, and jet, wholly or ,M"aurs"s
partly manufactured into monuments, benches, vases, and other ble,etc.

articles, and articles of which these substances or any of them is the

ofmar

component material of chief value, and all articles composed wholly aSeiepreciousm

or in chief value of agate, rock crystal, or other semiprecious stone,
except such as are cut into shapes and forms fitting them expressly
for use in the construction of jewelry, not specially provided for, 50
per centum ad valorem.

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
SCHEDUen.

andglasswre.
Burrstones.
B
n

stone

SES.

II.

Cn. 356.

1922.

PAR. 234. Burrstones, manufactured or bound up into millstones,
15 per centum ad valorem.
PA.R. 235. Freestone, granite, sandstone, limestone, lava, and all
ther stone suitable for use as monumental or building stone, except

marble, breccia, and onyx, not specially provided for, hewn, dressed,
or polished, or otherwise manufactured, 50 per centum ad valorem;
unmanufactured, or not dressed, hewn, or polished, 15 cents per cubic

foot.
Grindstones.

Slate.

watch crystals.
SCHEDULE 3.

Metals and manufa-

SCHEDULE 3.-METALS AND MANUFACTURES OF.

PAR. 301. Iron in pigs iron kentledge, spiegeleisen containing more
than 1 per centum of carbon 75 cents per ton; wrought and cast scrap
iron, and scrap steel, valued at not more than 7 cents per pound, 75
cents per ton: Provided, That spiegeleisen for the purposes of this

in.
Proos.

Spie

PAB.236. Grindstones, finished or unfinished, $1.75 per ton.
PAR. 237. Slates, slate chimney pieces, mantles, slabs for tables,
roofing slates, and all other manufactures of slate, not specially providedfor, 15 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 238. Watch crystals, 60 per centum ad valorem.

Act stall be an iron manganese

lloy containin

ess than 30 per

centum of manganese: Providedfurther,That nothing shall be deemed
scrap iron or scrap steel except secondhand or waste or refuse iron or
steel fit only to be remanufactured.
PAR. 302. Manganese ore or concentrates containing in excess of
stel anios
30 per centum of metallic manganese, 1 cent per pound on the
trates. d
metallic manganese contained therein; molybdenum ore or concentrates, 35 cents per pound on the metallic molybdenum contained
therein; tungsten ore or concentrates, 45 cents per pound on the
metallic tungsten contained therein; ferromanganese containing
more than 1 per centum of carbon, 1. cents per pound on the metallic
manganese contained therein: Provied, That ferromanganese for
Provo.
the purposes of this Act shall be such iron manganese alloys as conMgese. se'
tain 30 per centum or more of manganese; manganese metal, manganese silicon, manganese boron, and ferromanganese and spiegeleisen
containing not more than 1 per centum of carbon, 1 cents per
pound on the manganese contained therein and 15 per centum ad
valorem; ferromolybdenum, metallic molybdenum, molybdenum
Molybdenum
powder, calcium molybdate, and all other compounds and alloys of
molybdenum, 50 cents per pound on the molybdenum contained
therein and 15 per centum ad valorem; ferrotungsten, metallic
Tungsten.
tungsten, tungsten powder, tungstic acid, and all other compounds of
tungsten, 60 cents per pound on the tungsten contained therein and
25 per centum ad valorem; ferrochromium tungsten, chromium
tungsten, chromium cobalt tungsten, tungsten nickel, and all other
alloys of tungsten not specially provided for, 60 cents per pound on
the tungsten contained therein and 25 per centum ad valorem;
ferrosilicon, containing 8 per centum or more of silicon and less than
silicn.
60 per centum, 2 cents per pound on the silicon contained therein;
containing 60 per centum or more of silicon and less than 80 per
centum, 3 cents per pound on the silicon contained therein; containing 80 per centum or more of silicon and less than 90 per centum,
4 cents per pound on the silicon contained therein; containing 90
per centum or more of silicon, and silicon metal, 8 cents per pound
on the silicon contained therein; ferrochrome or ferrochromium conChromium.
taining 3 per centum or more of carbon, 3½ cents per pound on the
chromium contained therein; ferrochrome or ferrochromium containing less than 3 per centum of carbon, and chrome or chromium
Designated alloys, metal, 30 per centum ad valorem; ferrophosphorus, ferrotitanium,
ferrovanadium, ferrouranium, ferrozirconium, zirconiumferrosilicon,
'
crap iron

or ste.

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. SESS. II. CH. 356.

1922.

ferroboron, titanium, zirconium, chromium nickel, vanadium nickel,
zirconium nickel, chromium vanadium, chromium silicon, zirconium

875
eSCDL E 3.
factures

of.

silicon, calcium silicide, and all alloys used in the manufacture of
steel not specially provided for, 25 per centum ad valorem; cerium Ceriu m metal, $2 per pound; ferrocerium and all other cerium alloys, $2 per
pound and 25 per centum ad valorem; ductile tantalum metal or Tantalum.

ductile nonferrous alloys of tantalum metal, 40 per centum ad
valorem.
PAR. 303. Muck bars, bar iron, and round iron in coils or rods, iron

Bars roundiron,etc.

in slabs, blooms, loops, or other forms less finished than iron in bars
and more advanced than pig iron, except castings; all of the foregoing, valued at not over 1 cent per pound, two-tenths of 1 cent per
pound; valued above 1 cent and not above 1½cents per pound,
three-tenths of 1 cent per pound; valued above 1½ and not above
23 cents per pound, five-tenths of 1 cent per pound; valued above
2½and not above 3½cents per pound, eight-tenths of 1 cent per
pound; valued above 3½and not above 5 cents per pound, 1 cent per
st
pound; valued above 5 cents per pound, 1½cents per pound.
PAR. 304. Steel ingots, cogged ingots, blooms and slabs, by what- Ingots, bars, etc.
ever process made; die blocks or blanks; billets and bars, whether
solid or hollow; shafting; pressed, sheared, or stamped shapes, not
advanced in value or condition by any process or operation subsequent to the process of stamping; hammer molds or swaged steel;
gun-barrel molds not in bars; alloys not specially provided for 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 not specially provided for; all of the foregoing
valued at not over 1 cent per pound, two-tenths of 1 cent per pound;
valued above 1 cent and not above 1½ cents per pound, three-tenths
of 1 cent per pound; valued above 1½ and not above 2k cents per
pound, five-tenths of 1 cent per pound; valued above 2½and not
above 3k cents per pound, eight-tenths of 1 cent per pound; valued
above 3k and not above 5 cents per pound, 1 cent per pound; valued
above 5 and not above 8 cents per pound, 1A7 cents per pound;
valued above 8 and not above 12 cents per pound, 2k cents per
pound; valued above 12 and not above 16 cents per pound, 3½cents
per pound; valued above 16 cents per pound, 20 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That on steel circular saw plates there shall be
levied, collected and paid an additional duty of one-fourth of 1 cent

Sheet s, plates, etc.

Provio.
Circula sawplates.

per pound.
PAR. 305. In addition to the rates of duty provided for in this Additonlduty, con
schedule on steel in all forms and shapes, by whatever process made, tanilgalloyS.

and by whatever name designated, whether cast, hot or cold rolled,
forged, stamped, or drawn, containing more than six-tenths of 1 per
centum of nickel, cobalt, vanadium, chromium, tungsten, molybdenum, or any other metallic element used in alloying steel, there Pr

shall be levied, collected, and paid 8 per centum ad valorem: Pro- Manganese and sihvided, That manganese and silicon shall not be considered as alloying con material unless present in the steel in excess of 1 per centum manga- xesslybdenum
nese or silicon: Provided further, That an additional cumulative and tungsten.

duty of 65 cents per pound on the molybdenum content in excess
of six-tenths of 1 per centum and 72 cents per pound on the tungsten
content in excess of six-tenths of 1 per centum shall be levied, collected, and paid on any material provided for in paragraph 304 containg molybdenum and tungsten.
PAR. 306. All metal produced from iron or its ores, which is cast ironCast

and malleable, 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, electric, Bessemer, Clapp-Griffith, pneumatic, ThomasGilchrist, basic, Siemens-Martin, or open-hearth process, or by the

mseable

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1922.

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.
PiR. 307. Boiler or other plate iron or steel, except crucible plate
oet
'Iron
steel and saw plate steel, not thinner than one hundred and nine
one-thousandths of one inch, cut or sheared to shape or otherwise, or
unsheared, and skelp iron or steel sheared or rolled in grooves, valued
at 1 cent per pound or less, seven-twentieths of 1 cent per pound;
valued above 1 cent per pound and not above 3 cents per pound,
five-tenths of 1 cent per pound; valued at over 3 cents per pound, 20
per centum ad valorem: Provided, That all sheets or plates of iron
inimu m th
or steel thinner than one hundred and nine one-thousandths of one
inch shall pay duty as iron or steel sheets.
PAn. 308. Sheets of iron or steel, common or black, of whatever
ShesBsetc.
dimensions, and skelp iron or steel, valued at 3 cents per pound or
less, thinner than one hundred and nine one-thousandths and not
thinner than thirty-eight one-thousandths of an inch, forty-five
one-hundredths of 1 cent per pound; thinner than thirty-eight onethousandths and not thinner than twenty-two one-thousandths of
an inch, fifty-five one-hundredths of 1 cent per pound; thinner
than twenty-two one-thousandths and not thinner than ten onethousandths of an inch, seventy-five one-hundredths of 1 cent per
pound; thinner than ten one-thousandths of an inch, eighty-five
one-hundredths of a cent per pound; corrugated or crimped, seventyfive one-hundredths of 1 cent per pound; all the foregoing when
valued at more than 3 cents per pound, 20 per centum ad valorem:
thickne.ss Provided, That all sheets or plates of common or black iron or steel
u
rom
not thinner than one hundred and nine one-thousandths of an inch
shall pay duty as plate iron or plate steel.
PAR. 309. All iron or steel sheets, plates, bars, and rods, and all
Cotedsheets, etc.
hoop, band, or scroll iron or steel, excepting what are known commercially as tin plates, terneplates, and taggers tin, when galvanized or
coated with zinc, spelter, or other metals, or any alloy of those metals,
shall pay two-tenths of 1 cent per pound more duty than if the same
Other metals im-was not so galvanized or coated; sheets or plates composed of iron,
steel, copper, nickel, or other metal with layers of other metal or
posed.
metals imposed thereon by forging, hammering, rolling, or welding,
Thermostatic metal, 30 per centum ad valorem; thermostatic metal in sheets, plates, or
etc.
other forms, 50 per centum ad valorem; sheets and plates of iron or
steel, polished, planished, or glanced, by whatever name designated,
1i cents per pound: Provided, That plates or sheets of iron or steel,
Pckled,etc.
by whatever name designated, other than 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 1 cent per pound
more duty than the rates provided on corresponding thicknesses of
common or black sheet iron or steel.
PAR. 310. Sheets or plates of iron or steel, or taggers iron or steel,
Tin pltes, et.
coated with tin or lead, or with a mixture of which these metals, or
either of them, is a component part, by the dipping or any other
process, and commercially known as tin plates, tereplates, and taggers tin, 1 cent per pound.
PAR. 311. No article not specially provided for which is wholly or
panubeces of tin
partly manufactured from tin plate, terneplate, or sheet, plate, hoop,
Plst
band, or scroll iron or steel, or of which such tin plate, terneplate
sheet, plate, hoop, band or scroll iron or steel shall be the material
chief value, shall pay a lower rate of duty than that imposed on the
tin plate, terneplate, or sheet, plate, hoop, band, or scroll iron or steel
escHaD

factures of.

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877

1922.

from which it is made, or of which it shall be the component thereof
of chief value.

MeDtls

factures of.
p es
shapes,

Structural
PAR. 312. Beams, girders, joists, angles, channels, car-truck chan- etc
and
columns
of
nels, tees, columns and posts, or parts or sections
posts, deck and bulb beams, and building forms, together with all
other structural shapes of iron or steel, not assembled, manufactured
or advanced beyond hammering, rolling, or casting, one-fifth of 1
cent per pound; any of the foregoing machined, drilled, punched,
assembled, fitted, fabricated for use, or otherwise advanced beyond
hammering, rolling, or casting, 20 per centum ad valorem; sashes,
frames, and building forms, of iron or steel, 25 per centum ad valorem.
a

PAR. 313. Hoop, band, and scroll iron or steel, not specially pro-

vided for, valued at 3 cents per pound or less, eight inches or less in
width, and thinner than three-eighths and not thinner than one
hundred and nine one-thousandths of one inch, twenty-five one-hundredths of 1 cent per pound; thinner than one hundred and nine onethousandths and not thinner than thirty-eight one-thousandths of
one inch, thirty-five one-hundredths of 1 cent per pound; thinner
than thirty-eight one-thousandths of one inch, fifty-five one-hun-

dredths of 1 cent per pound: Provided, That barrel hoops of iron or

loop,

b nd, and

Proio.

Barrelhoops.

steel, and hoop or band iron, or hoop or band steel, flared, splayed, or
punched, with or without buckles or fastenings, shall pay no more
duty than that imposed on the hoop or band iron or steel from which
they are made; bands and strips of iron or steel, whether in long or
short lengths, not specially provided for, 25 per centum ad valorem.

Cotton ties,

fourth of 1 cent per pound.

Wire rods.

PAR. 314. Hoop or band iron, and 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, onePAR. 315. Wire rods: Rivet, screw, fence, and other iron or steel
wire rods, whether round, oval, or square, or in any other shape, nail
rods and flat rods up to six inches in width ready to be drawn or rolled
into wire or strips, all the foregoing in coils or otherwise, valued at

etc.

not over 4 cents per pound, three-tenths of 1 cent per pound; valued Po
at over 4 cents per pound, six-tenths of 1 cent per pound: Provided, Wire classified.

That all round iron or steel rods smaller than twenty one-hundredths

of one inch in diameter shall be classified and dutiable as wire: Pro-

Tempred, etc.

videdfurther, That all iron or steel wire rods which have been tempered or treated in any manner or partly manufactured shall pay an

additional duty of one-fourth of 1 cent per pound: Providedurther,etc. brsroled, othedt

That on all iron or steel bars and rods of whatever shape or section
which are cold rolled, cold drawn, cold hammered, or polished in any
way in addition to the ordinary process of hot rolling or hammering,
there shall be paid one-eighth of 1 cent per pound in addition to the
rates provided 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 polished, planished, or glanced sheet
iron or sheet steel, which are 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, there
shall be paid two-tenths of 1 cent per pound in addition to the rates
provided on plates, strips, or sheets of iron or steel of common or
black finish of corresponding thickness or value.

PAR. 316. Round iron or steel wire, not smaller than ninety-five
one-thousandths of one inch in diameter, three-fourths of 1 cent per
pound; smaller than ninety-five one-thousandths and not smaller
than sixty-five one-thousandths of one inch in diameter, 1l cents
per pound; smaller than sixty-five one-thousandths of one inch in

Roundiron

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1922.

diameter, 1½cents per pound: Provided, That all of the foregoing
valued above 6 cents per pound shall pay a duty of 25 per centum
ad valorem; all wire composed of iron, steel, or other metal, nor

sMets
,ad
facturesof.

Pighterlvaiewire.

specially provided for (except gold, silver, or platinum); all flat wires

Flat, and strips,

and all steel in strips not thicker than one-quarter of one inch and
not exceeding sixteen inches in width, whether in long or short lengths,
in coils or otherwise, and whether rolled or drawn through dies or
rolls, or otherwise produced, 25 per centum ad valorem: Provided,
That all wire of iron, steel, or other metal coated by dipping, galvanCoated.
izing, sherardizing, electrolytic, or any other process with zinc, tin
or other metal, shall pay a duty of two-tenths of 1 cent per pound
in addition to the rate imposed on the wire of which it is made;
Coated telegraph telegraph, telephone, and other wires and cables composed of iron,
steel, or other metal (except gold, silver, or platinum), covered with
or composed in part of cotton, jute, silk, enamel, lacquer, rubber,
paper, compound, or other material, with or without metal covering,
35 per cehtum ad valorem; wire rope and wire strand, 35 per centum
Rope, etc.
ad valorem; spinning and twisting ring travelers, 35 per centum ad
valorem; wire heddles and healds, 25 cents per thousand and 30 per
centum ad valorem.
PAa. 317. All galvanized wire not specially provided for, not larger
Galwfied wire.
than twenty one-hundredths and not smaller than eight one-hundredths of one inch in diameter, of the kind commonly used for
fencing purposes, galvanized wire fencing composed of wires not larger
than twenty one-hundredths and not smaller than eight one-hundredths of one inch in diameter; and all wire commonly used for
Bahnag.
baling hay or other commodities, one-half of 1 cent per pound.
PAR. 318. Woven-wire cloth: Gauze, fabric, or screen, made of
ovenweloth.
wire composed of steel, brass, copper, bronze, or any other metal
or alloy, not specially provided for, with meshes not finer than thirty
wires to the lineal inch in warp or filling, 25 per centum ad valorem;
with meshes finer than thirty and not finer than ninety wires to the
lineal inch in warp or filling, 35 per centum ad valorem; with meshes
finer than ninety wires to the lineal inch in warp or filling, 45 per
centum ad valorem.
Anchors and forg- PAR. 319. Iron or steel anchors and parts thereof; forgings of iron
or steel, or of combined iron and steel, not machined, tooled, or otherwise advanced in condition by any process or operation subsequent
to the forging process, not specially provided for, 25 per centum ad
valorem.
PAR. 320. Electric storage batteries and parts thereof, storage
Storage batteries.
battery plates, and storage battery plate material, wholly or partly
manufactured, all the foregoing not specially provided for, 40 per
centum ad valorem.
PAR. 321. Antifriction balls and rollers, metal balls and rollers
Antifriction bals,
commonly used in ball or roller bearings, metal ball or roller bearings,
etc.
and parts thereof, whether finished or unfinished, for whatever use
intended, 10 cents per pound and 45 per centum ad valorem.
Railway
s t e

iron
e

Axles, etc.

Promo.
itted

PAR.

322. Railway fishplates or splice bars, and tie plates, made

of iron or steel, one-fourth of 1 cent per pound; rail braces, and all
other railway bars made of iron or steel, and railway bars made in
part of steel, T rails, and punched iron or steel flat rails, one-tenth of
1 cent per pound.
PAR. 323. Axles and parts thereof, axle bars, axle blanks, and
forgings for axles, of iron or steel, without reference to the stage or
state of manufacture, not specially provided for, valued at not more
than 6 cents per pound, six-tenths of 1 cent per pound: Provided,
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.

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

SESS. II.

CH. 356.

879

1922.

PAR. 324. Wheels for railway purposes, and parts thereof, of iron
or steel, and steel-tired wheels for railway purposes, wholly or partly
finished, and iron or steel locomotive, car, or other railway tires and
parts thereof, wholly or partly manufactured, 1 cent 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.
PAR. 325. Jewelers' and other anvils weighing less than five
pounds each, 45 per centum ad valorem; all other anvils of iron or
steel, or of iron and steel combined, by whatever process made, or in
whatever stage of manufacture, 1 cents per pound.
PAR. 326. Blacksmiths' hammers, tongs, and sledges, track tools,
wedges, and crowbars, of iron or steel, 1 cents per pound.
PAR. 327. Cast-iron pipe of every description, cast-iron andirons,
plates, stove plates, sadirons, tailors' irons, hatters' irons, but not
including electric irons, and castings and vessels wholly of cast iron,
including all castings of iron or cast-iron plates which have been
chiseled, drilled, machined, or otherwise advanced in condition by
processes or operations subsequent to the casting process but not
made up into articles, or parts thereof, or finished machine parts;
castings of malleable iron not specially provided for; cast hollow ware,
coated, glazed, or tinned, but not including enameled ware and hollow
ware containing electrical elements, 20 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 328. Lap-welded, butt-welded, seamed, or jointed iron or
steel tubes, pipes, flues, and stays, not thinner than sixty-five onethousandths of an inch, if not less than three-eighths of an inch in
diameter, three-fourths of 1 cent per pound; if less than three-eighths
and not less than one-fourth of an inch in diameter, 1i cents per
pound; if less than one-fourth of an inch in diameter, 1] cents per
pound: Provided, That no tubes, pipes, flues, or stays made of charcoal iron shall pay a less rate of duty than 1 cents per pound; cylindrical and tubular tanks or vessels, for holding gas, liquids, or other
material, whether full or empty; welded cylindrical furnaces, tubes
and flues made from plate metal, whether corrugated, ribbed, or
otherwise reinforced against collapsing pressure, and all other finished
or unfinished iron or steel tubes not specially provided for, 25 per
centum ad valorem; flexible metal tubing or hose, whether covered
with wire or other material, including any appliances or attachments
affixed thereto, not specially provided for, and rigid iron or steel
tubes or pipes prepared and lined or coated in any manner suitable
for use as conduits for electrical conductors, 30 per centum ad valorem.
PAI. 329. Chain and chains of all kinds, made of iron or steel, not
less than three-fourths of one inch in diameter, seven-eighths of 1
cent per pound; less than three-fourths and not less than threeeighths of one inch in diameter, 1- cents per pound; less than threeeighths and not less than five-sixteenths of one inch in diameter, 21
cents per pound; less than five-sixteenths of one inch in diameter,
4 cents per pound; sprocket and machine chains, of iron or steel,
and parts thereof, 35 per centum ad valorem; anchor or stud link
chain, two inches or more in diameter, 1 cents per pound; less than
two inches in diameter, 2 cents per pound: Provided, That all articles
manufactured wholly or in chief value of chain shall not pay a lower
rate of duty than that imposed upon the chain of which it is made,
or of which chain is the component material of chief value.
PAR. 330. Nuts, nut blanks, and washers, of wrought iron or steel,
six-tenths of 1 cent per pound; bolts, with or without threads
or nuts, and bolt blanks, of iron or steel, 1 cent per pound; spiral
nut locks, and lock washers, of iron or steel, 35 per centum ad valorem.

SCHEDlMLE S.

factures

of.

Railway wheels.

PTrovb"

Fitted on axles.

Anvils.

Blacksmiths'
ers, etc.

ham-

Cast-ironarticles.

Hollow ware.
Tubes, pipes, etc.

Pe*

ron.
ro

Chans.

Provio.

Nuts,

bolts,

and

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

880
scmUZ
factres of.
Nals, spis
etc.

a.
tks,

Biveet.

Horeshoes,

etc.

Steel wol.

Abrasive.

corset steels, etc.

Card clothing.

SEas. II.

CH. 356.

1922.

PAR. 331. Cut nails and cut spikes, of iron or steel, exceeding two
inches in length, four-tenths of 1 cent per pound; cut tacks and brads,
in

two inches
hobnails and cut nails, of iron or steel, not exceeding
other iron
and
nails,
horseshoe
valorem;
ad
centum
per
15
length,
per pound; nails,
or steel nails, not specially provided for, 1 cents
spikes, tacks, brads, and staples, made of iron or steel wire, not less
than one inch in length nor smaller than sixty-five one-thousandths
of one inch in diameter, four-tenths of 1 cent per pound; less than
one inch in length and smaller than sixty-five one-thousandths of
one inch in diameter, three-fourths of 1 cent per pound; spikes, 1tacks,
brads, and staples, not specially provided for, six-tenths of cent
per pound.
PAR. 332. Rivets, studs, and steel points, lathed, machined, or
brightened, and rivets or studs for nonskidding automobile tires,
30 per centum ad valorem; rivets of iron or steel, not specially

provided for, 1 cent per pound.
PAR. 333. Common horse, mule, or ox shoes, of wrought iron or

steel, one-fifth of 1 cent per pound; horse, mule, or ox shoes, punched,
adjustable
drilled or tapped, of wrought iron or steel, for use withcalked
shoes
wrought-iron or steel skid calks, and solid drop-forged
of wrought iron or steel, 1 cent per pound.

PAR. 334. Steel wool, 10 cents per pound; steel shavings, 5 cents

per pound; and in addition thereto, on all of the foregoing, 30 per
centum ad valorem.
PAR. 335. Grit, shot, and sand of iron or steel, in any form, threefourths of 1 cent per pound.
PAR. 336. Corset clasps, corset steels, and dress steels, whether
plain or covered with cotton, silk, or other material, 35 per centum
ad valorem.
PAR. 337. Card clothing not actually and permanently fitted to
and attached to carding machines or to parts thereof at the time
of importation, when manufactured with round iron or untempered
round steel wire, 20 per centum ad valorem; when manufactured
with tempered round steel wire, or with plated wire, or other than
round iron or steel wire, or with felt face, wool face, or rubber-face

cloth containing wool, 45 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 338. Screws, commonly called wood screws, of iron or steel,
25 per centum ad valorem.
Household hollow PAR. 339. Table, household, kitchen, and hospital utensils, and
or flat ware, not specially provided for; composed of iron or
wre,
etchollow

wood screws.

steel and enameled or glazed with vitreous glasses, 5 cents per pound
and 30 per centum ad valorem; composed wholly or in chief value

of aluminum, 11 cents per pound and 55 per centum ad valorem;
composed wholly or in chief value of copper, brass, steel, or other
base metal, not specially provided for, 40 per centum ad valorem;
and in addition thereto, upon any of the foregoing articles containing
electrical heating elements as constituent parts thereof, 10 per
centum ad valorem.
PAR. 340. Crosscut saws, mill saws, pit and drag saws, circular
Saws.
saws, steel band saws, finished or further advanced than tempered
and polished, hand, back, and all other saws, not specially provided
for, 20 per centum ad valorem; jewelers' or piercing saws, 40 cents
per gross.
PAR. 341. Steel plates, stereotype plates, electrotype plates, halfPrinting plates.
tone plates, photogravure plates, photo-engraved plates, and plates
of other materials, engraved or otherwise prepared for printing, and
plates of iron or steel engraved or fashioned for use in the production
of designs, patterns, or impressions on glass in the process of manucentum ad valorem; lithoLithographic plates. facturing plate or other glass, 25 per
graphic plates of stone or other material engraved, drawn, or prepared,
25 per centum ad valorem.

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

SEss.

II.

CH. 356.

881

1922.

PAR. 342. Umbrella and parasol ribs and stretchers, composed
wholly or in chief value of iron, steel, or other metal, in frames or
otherwise, and tubes for umbrellas, wholly or partly finished, 50 per
centum ad valorem.
PAR. 343. Spring-beard needles, and other needles for knitting,

Mets"
tal

Da nd man
manu-

facturesof.

sewing, shoe, or embroidery machines of every description, not specially provided for, and crochet needles, $1.15 per thousand and 40
per centum ad valorem; latch needles, $2 per thousand and 50 per
centum ad valorem; tape, knitting, and al other needles, not specially provided for, bodkins of metal, and needle cases or needle
books furnished with assortments of needles or combinations of needles
and other articles, 45 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 344. Fishhooks, fishing rods and reels, artificial flies, artificial
baits, snelled hooks, leaders or casts, and all other fishing tackle and
parts thereof, fly books, fly boxes, fishing baskets or creels, finished
or unfinished, not specially provided for, except fishing lines, fishing

nets, and seines, 45 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That any pro-

Umbrella ribs, etc

Needles, etc.

Fishing

tackle.

for art

hibition of the importation of feathers in this Act shall not be con- cial ies.
strued as applying to artificial flies used for fishing, or to feathers used Pot,.915.
for the manufacture of such flies.
PAB. 345. Saddlery and harness hardware: Buckles, rings, snaps,

Saddlery and har-

bits, swivels, and all other articles of iron, steel, brass, composition,
or other metal, not plated with gold or silver, commonly or commercially known as harness hardware, 35 per centum ad valorem; all articles of iron, steel, brass, composition, or other metal, not plated with
gold or silver, commonly or commercially known as saddlery or riding bridle hardware, 50 per centum ad valorem; all the foregoing, if

b
plated with gold or silver, 60 per centum ad valorem.l
PAR. 346. Belt buckles, trouser buckles, and waistcoat buckles, garments.

shoe or slipper buckles, and parts thereof, made wholly or partly of
iron, steel, or other base metal, valued at not more than 20 cents per
hundred, 5 cents per hundred; valued at more than 20 and not more
than 50 cents per hundred, 10 cents per hundred; valued at more
than 50 cents per hundred, 15 cents per hundred; and in addition
thereto, on all of the foregoing, 20 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 347. Hooks and eyes, wholly or in chief value of metal,

a n

ooks

whether loose, carded, or otherwise, including weight of cards, cartons, and immediate wrappings and labels, 4½ cents per pound and
25 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 348. Snap fasteners and clasps, and parts thereof, by what-

ever name known, or of whatever material composed, not plated with
gold, silver, or platinum, and not mounted on tape, 55 per centum
ad valorem; mounted on tape, including sew-on fasteners, 60 per
centum ad valorem.

PAR. 349. Metal trouser buttons (except steel) and nickel bar but-

PAR. 350. Pins with solid heads, without ornamentation, includ-

gross; with nib and barrel in one piece, 15 cents per gross.
42150-23--56

~ten

TmetoI buttons

tons, one-twelfth of 1 cent per line per gross; steel trouser buttons,
one-fourth of 1 cent per line per gross; buttons of metal, not specially
provided for, three-fourths of 1 cent per line per gross; and m addition thereto, on all of the foregoing, 15 per centum ad valorem;
metal buttons embossed with a design, device, pattern, or lettering,
45 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That the term "line" as used 'Linre
in this paragraph shall mean the line button measure of one-fortieth ment.
of one inch.
ing hair, safety, hat, bonnet, and shawl pins; and brass, copper,
iron, steel, or other base metal pins, with heads of glass, paste, or
fusible enamel; all the foregoing not plated with gold or silver, and
not commonly known as jewelrv, 35 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 351. Pens, metallic, not specially provided for, 12 cents per

dyes-

Pens

measure.

not lewery.

882

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
ndmanu-

C
els

2etures of.

pensthol ders

gold

SESS. II.

CH. 356.

1922.

PAR. 352. Penholder tips, penholders and parts thereof, gold pens,
combination penholders comprising penholders, penci, rubber
eraser, automatic stamp, or other attachments, 25 cents per gross
and 20 per centum ad valorem; mechanical pencils made of base

metal and not plated with gold, silver, or platinum, 45 cents per

gross and 20 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That pens and

Proviso.

Asessed separately, penholders shal be assessed for duty separately.
Fountain

pens,

etc.

artonSandfillersineluded.
Cutlery.

PAB. 353. Fountain pens, fountam-pen holders, stylographic pens,
and parts thereof, 72 cents per dozen and 40 per centum ad valorem:
Provided, That the value of cartons and fillers shall be included in
the dutiable value.
PAR. 354. Penknives, pocketknives, clasp knives, pruning knives,

budding knives, erasers, manicure knives, and all knives by whatever
name known, including such as are denominatively mentioned in this
Act, which have folding or other than fixed blades or attachments,
valued at not more than 40 cents per dozen, 1 cent each and 50
per centum ad valorem; valued at more than 40 and not more than
50 cents per dozen, 5 cents each and 50 per centum ad valorem;
valued at more than 50 cents and not more than $1.25 per dozen,
11 cents each and 55 per centum ad valorem; valued at more than
$1.25 and not more than $3 per dozen, 18 cents each and 55 per
centum ad valorem; valued at more than $3 and not more than $6
per dozen, 25 cents each and 50 per centum ad valorem; valued at
more than $6 per dozen, 35 cents each and 55 per centum ad valorem;
blades, handles, or other parts of any of the foregoing knives or
erasers shall be dutiable at not less than the rate herein imposed
upon knives and erasers valued at more than 50 cents and not exceeding $1.25 per dozen; cuticle knives, corn knives, nail files,
tweezers, hand forceps, and parts thereof, finished or unfinished, by
Assembled but not whatever name known, 60 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That
finished.
any of the foregoing, if imported in the condition of assembled, but
not fully finished, shall be dutiable at not less than the rate of duty
herein imposed upon fully finished articles of the same material and
quality, but not less in any case than 15 cents each and 55 per centum
Marking required.
ad valorem: Provided further, That all the articles specified in this
paragraph, when imported, shall have the name of the maker or
purchaser and beneath the same the name of the country of origin
die sunk conspicuously and indelibly on the shank or tang of at
least one or, if practicable, each and every blade thereof.
Kniveeforks,steels.
handles.

PAR. 355. Table, butchers', carving, cooks', hunting, kitchen,
bread, cake, pie, slicing, cigar, butter, vegetable, fruit, cheese, can-

ning, fish, carpenters' bench, curriers', drawing, farriers', fleshing,
hay, sugar-beet, beet-topping, tanners', plumbers', painters', palette
artists', shoe, and similar knives, forks, and steels, and cleavers, all
the foregoing, finished or unfinished, not specially provided for, with
handles of mother-of-pearl, shell, ivory, deer, or other animal horn,
silver, or other metal than aluminum, nickel silver, iron or steel, 16
cents each; with handles of hard rubber, solid bone, celluloid, or any
pyroxylin, casein, or similar material, 8 cents each; with handles of
any other material, if less than four inches in length, exclusive of
handle, 2 cents each; if four inches in length or over, exclusive of
handle, 8 cents each; and in addition thereto, on all of the foregoing,
Without handles.

45 per centum ad valorem; any of the foregoing without handles,

with blades less than six inches in length, 2 cents each and 45 per
Parg

required,

centum ad valorem; with blades six inches or more in length, 8
cents each and 45 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That all articles

specified in this paragraph, when imported, shall have the name of
the maker or purchaser and beneath the same the name of the
country of origin die sunk legibly and indelibly upon the blade in a
place that shall not be covered.

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

SESS. II.

CH. 356.

1922.

883

3. anDE
PAR. 356. Planing-machine knives, tannery and leather knives, ,C E
tobacco knives, paper and pulp mill knives, roll bars, bed plates, facturesof.
and all other stock-treating parts for pulp and paper machinery, Maine kneste.
shear blades, circular cloth cutters, circular cork cutters, circular
cigarette cutters, meat-slicing cutters, and all other cutting knives
and blades used in power or hand machines, 20 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 357. Nail, barbers', and animal clippers, pruning and sheep Sssors and sheal
shears, and all scissors and other shears, and blades for the same,
finished or unfinished, valued at not more than 50 cents per dozen,
31 cents each and 45 per centum ad valorem; valued at more than
50 cents and not more than $1.75 per dozen, 15 cents each and 45
per centum ad valorem; valued at more than $1.75 per dozen, 20
eir e.
cents each and 45 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That all articles Pr
g qu
specified in this paragraph, when imported, shall have die sunk
conspicuously and indelibly, the name of the maker or purchaser and
beneath the same the name of the country of origin, to be placed
on the outside of the blade, between the screw or rivet and the
handle of scissors and shears (except pruning and sheep shears), and
on the blade or handle of pruning and sheep shears and clippers.
PAR. 358. Safety razors, and safety-razor handles and frames, 10 Razorscents each and 30 per centum ad valorem; razors and parts thereof,
finished or unfinished, valued at less than 75 cents per dozen, 18
cents each; valued at 75 cents and less than $1.50 per dozen, 25 cents
each; valued at $1.50 and less than $3 per dozen, 30 cents each;
valued at $3 and less than $4 per dozen, 35 cents each; valued at
$4 or more per dozen, 45 cents each; and in addition thereto, on all
blade.
the foregoing, 45 per centum ad valorem: Proided, That finished or Petrazor
unfinished blades for safety razors shall pay a duty of 1 cent each
and 30 per centum ad valorem: Provided further, That all articles Marking required
specified in this paragraph, when imported, shall have the name of
the maker or purchaser and beneath the same the name of the
country of origin die sunk conspicuously and indelibly on the blade
or shank or tang of each and every blade and on safety razors and
parts thereof.
PAR. 359. Surgical instruments, and parts thereof, composed Sngcal, dentaletc.,
mets.
wholly or in part of iron, steel, copper, brass, nickel, aluminum, or
other metal, finished or unfinished, 45 per centum ad valorem;
dental instruments, and parts thereof, composed wholly or in part
of iron, steel, copper, brass, nickel, aluminum, or other metal, finished
or unfinished, 35 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That all articles Pan required.
specified in this paragraph, when imported, shall have the name of
the maker or purchaser and beneath the same the name of the
country of origin die sunk conspicuously and indelibly on the outside, or if a jointed instrument on the outside when closed.
PAR. 360. Philosophical, scientific, and laboratory instruments, etscientificapparatus,
apparatus, utensils, appliances (including drawing, surveying, and
mathematical instruments), and parts thereof, composed wholly or
in chief value of metal, and not plated with gold, silver, or platinum,
finished or unfinished, not specially provided for, 40 per centum ad
valorem: Provided, That all articles specified in this paragraph, Provuio
when imported, shall have the name of the maker or purchaser and Maringrequired.
beneath the same the name of the country of origin die sunk conspicuously and indelibly on the outside, or if a jointed instrument
on the outside when closed.
PAR. 361. Pliers, pincers, and nippers of all kinds, finished or Pliers, piners, etc.
unfinished, 60 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That all articles Pirequred.
specified in this paragraph, when imported, shall have the name of
the maker or purchaser and beneath the same the name of the
country of origin die sunk conspicuously and indelibly on the outside of the joint.

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

884
scasVLE s.
turesfa

SE8S. II.

CiH. 356.

1922.

PAR. 362. Files, file blanks, rasps, and floats, of whatever cut or
kind, two and one-half inches in length and under, 25 cents per

dozen; over two and one-half and not over four and one-half inches
in length, 471 cents per dozen; over four and one-half and under
seven inches in length, 621 cents per dozen; seven inches in length
and over, 771 cents per dozen.
swords nd sde PR. 363. Sword blades, and swords and side arms, irrespective of
quality or use, wholly or in part of metal, 50 per centum ad valorem.
M.
PAR. 364. Muzzle-loading muskets, shotguns, rifles, and parts
nzzle-lodinagm

Filets.

sts. etc.
Breh-lodingfowl-

ingpieces.

Pitot.
wthout ln
Pistois.

Watch

movements.

Jewels.
Proisos.
Dias tbe

thereof, 25 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 365. Double or single barreled breech-loading and repeating

shotguns, rifles, and combination shotguns and rifles, valued at not
more than $5 each, $1.50 each; valued at more than $5 and not
more than $10 each, $4 each; valued at more than $10 and not
more than $25 each, $6 each; valued at more than $25 each, $10
each; and in addition thereto, on all of the foregoing, 45 per centum
ad valorem; barrels for breech-loading and repeating shotguns and
rifles, further advanced in manufacture than roughbored only, $4
each; stocks for breech-loading shotguns and rifles, wholly or partly
manufactured, $5 each; and in addition thereto, on all of the foregoing, 50 per centum ad valorem; on all parts of such guns or rifles,
and fittings for such stocks or barrels, finished or unfinished, 55 per
centum ad valorem: Promided, That all breech-loading shotguns and
rifles imported without a lock or locks or other fittings shall be subject to a duty of $10 each and 55 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 366. Pistols: Automatic, magazine, or revolving, and parts
thereof and fittings therefor, valued at not more than $4 each, $1.25
each; valued at more than $4 and not more than $8 each, $2.50 each;
valued at more than $8 each, $3.50 each; and in addition thereto, on
all of the foregoing, 55 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 367. Watch movements, whether imported in cases or other-

wise, assembled or knocked down, if having less than seven jewels,
75 cents each; having seven and not more than eleven jewels, $1.25
each; having more than eleven and not more than fifteen jewels, $2
each; having more than fifteen and not more than seventeen jewels,
unadjusted, $2.75 each; having seventeen jewels and adjusted to temperature, $3.50 each; having seventeen jewels and adjusted to three
positions, $4.75 each; having seventeen jewels and adjusted to five
positions, $6.50 each; having more than seventeen jewels, adjusted or
unadjusted, $10.75 each; watchcases and parts of watches, chronometers, box or ship, and parts thereof, 45 per centum ad valorem; all

jewels for use in the manufacture of watches, clocks, meters, or compasses, 10 per centum ad valorem: enameled dials for watches or other

marked. instruments, 3 cents per dial and 45 per centum ad valorem: Provided,

That all watch and clock dials, whether attached to movements or
not, when imported shall have indelibly painted or printed thereon

Movements, toshow the name of the country of origin, and that all watch movements and
adjustments, plates, assembled or knocked down, and cases shall have the name of

the manufacturer or purchaser and the country of manufacture cut,
engraved, or die sunk conspicuously and indelibly on the plate of the
movement and the inside of the case, respectively, and the movement
and plates shall also have marked thereon by one of the methods indicated the number of jewels and adjustments, said numbers to be expressed both in words and in Arabic numerals, and if the movement
is not adjusted, the word "unadjusted" shall be-marked thereon by
one of the methods indicated, and none of the aforesaid articles shall
be delivered to the importer unless marked in exact conformity to this
Bearing ewes only. direction: Providedfurther, That only the number of the jewels which
serve a mechanical purpose as frictional bearings shall be marked as
herein provided.

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

SESS. II.

CH. 356.

885

1922.

d ma3uPAR. 368. Clocks and clock movements, including lever clock move- Met
ments, and clockwork mechanisms, cased or uncased, whether im- facturesof.
ported complete or in parts, and any device or mechanism having an mechms, etc.

essential operating feature intended for measuring time, distance, or
fares, or the flowage of water, gas, electricity, or similar uses, or for
regulating or controlling the speed of arbors, drums, disks, or similar
uses, or for recording, indicating, or performing any operation or function at a predetermined time or times, any of the foregoing whether
wholly or partly complete or knocked down (in which condition they
shall be appraised at the valuation of the complete article); cases and
casings for clockwork mechanisms imported separately; all the foregoing, 45 per centum ad valorem; and in addition thereto, upon any

A.ddtional

Provided, That all dials, whether attached to movements or not, when

Marking

for

of the foregoing articles or parts thereof, having jewels, but not more w
than two jewels, in the escapement, $1 each; having more than two
but not more than four jewels, $2 each; having more than four jewels,
$4 each; if without jewels in the escapement and valued at not over Values.
$1.10 each, 35 cents each; valued at more than $1.10 and not more
than $2.25 each, 70 cents each; valued at more than $2.25 but not
more than $5 each, $1 each; valued at more than $5 but not more
than $10 each, $2 each; valued at more than $10 each, $3 each; all
parts and materials for use in any of the foregoing if imported separately, and not specially provided for, 50 per centum ad valorem:
red on

imported, shall have indelibly painted, printed, or stamped thereon dials.v
the name of the country of origin, and the front or back plate of the
movement frame of any of the foregoing when imported shall have
the name of the maker or purchaser, the name of the country where
manufactured, and the number of jewels, if any, indelibly stamped

on the most visible part of same; but if such markings are in Similartoregistd
whole or in part sufficiently similar to the trade name or trade-mark etc., denied entry.

of an establshed American manufacturer as to be liable to deceive
the user in the United States, entry thereof shall be denied if such
trade name or trade-mark has been placed on file with the collector

of customs.
PAR. 369. Automobiles, automobile bodies, automobile chassis, part

motor cycles, and parts of the foregoing, not including tires, all of the
foregoing whether finished or unfinished, 25 per centum ad valorem:
Provided, That if any country, dependency, province, or other sub- f countcrvailing duty,
division of government imposes a duty on any article specified in this i rom country impsparagraph, when imported from the United States, in excess of the American product.

duty herein provided, there shall be imposed upon such article, when
imported either directly or indirectly from such country, dependency,
province, or other subdivision of government, a duty equal to that
imposed by such country, dependency, province, or other subdivision
of government on such article imported from the United States, but
in no case shall such duty exceed 50 per centum ad valorem.
motor
PAR. 370. Airplanes, hydroplanes, motor boats, and parts of the boats, et.
foregoing, 30 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 371. Bicycles, and parts thereof, not including tires, 30 per Pirleo.
centum ad valorem: Provided, That if any country, dependency, iffromtourng idump

province, or other subdivision of government imposes a duty on any
article specified in this paragraph, when imported from the United
States, in excess of the duty herein provided, there shall be imposed
upon such article, when imported either directly or indirectly from
such country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of government, a duty equal to that imposed by such country, dependency,
province, or other subdivision of government on such article imported
from the United States, but in no case shall such duty exceed 50 per
centum ad valorem.

ing higher duty on
Amencan product.

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

886
cls

fecturesof.

.m3,

Machine

SESS. II.

CH. 356.

1922.

PAR. 372. Steam engines and steam locomotives, 15 per centum ad

3a.

valorem; sewing machines, and parts thereof, not specially provided
etc ffor, valued at not more than $75 each, 15 per centum ad valorem;
valued at more than $75 each, 30 per centum ad valorem; cash registers, and parts thereof, 25 per centum ad valorem; printing presses,
not specially provided for, lawn mowers, and machine tools and parts
of machine tools, 30 per centum ad valorem; embroidery machines,
including shuttles for sewing and embroidery machines, lace-making
machines, machines for maing lace curtains, nets and nettings, 30
per centum ad valorem; knitting, braiding, lace braiding, and insuIating machines, and all other similar textile machinery or parts
thereof, finished or unfinished, not specially provided for, 40 per
centum ad valorem; all other textile machinery or parts thereof,
finished or unfinished, not specially provided for, 35 per centum ad
valorem; cream separators valued at more than $50 each, and other
centrifugal machines for the separation of liquids or liquids and solids,
not specially provided for, 25 per centum ad valorem; combined
adding and typewriting machines, 30 per centum ad valoremi all
other machines or parts thereof, finished or unfinished, not specially
tools de- provided for, 30 per centum ad valorem: Proided, That machine
tools as used in this paragraph shall be held to mean any machine
operating other than by hand power which employs a tool for work
on metal

Shovels, sythes. etc.

PAB. 373. Shovels, spades, scoops, scythes, sickles, grass hooks,

corn knives, and drainage tools, and parts thereof, composed wholly
or in chief value of iron, steel, lead, copper, brass, nickel, aluminum,
or other metal, whether partly or wholly manufactured, 30 per centum
ad valorem.

PAR. 374. Aluminum, aluminum scrap, and alloys of any kind

Alumitam.

in which aluminum is the component material of chief value, m crude
form, 5 cents per pound; in coils, plates, sheets, bars, rods, circles,
disks, blanks, strips, rectangles, and squares, 9 cents per pound.

etalic

PAR. 375. Metallic magnesium and metallic magnesium scrap, 40

Magnium.

cents per pound; magnesium alloys, powder, sheets, ribbons, tubing,
wire, and all other articles, wares, or manufactures of magnesium,

not specially provided for, 40 cents per pound on the metallic magnesium content and 20 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 376. Antimony, as regulus or metal, 2 cents per pound;

Antimony.

needle or liquated antimony, one-fourth of 1 cent per pound.
PAR.
PAR.
PAR.
PAR.

Bismuth.

Cadmium.
Metallic arsenic.
German ilver.

377.
378.
379.
380.

Bismuth, 7½ per centum ad valorem.
Cadmium, 15 cents per pound.
Metallic arsenic, 6 cents per pound.
German silver, or nickel silver, unmanufactured, 20 per

centum ad valorem; nickel silver sheets, strips, rods, and wire, 30
per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 381. Copper in rolls, rods, or sheets, 2½ cents per pound;
copper engravers plates, not ground, and seamless copper tubes and
tubmg, 7 cents per pound; copper engravers' plates, ground, and

Coppe.

brazed copper tubes, 11 cents per pound; brass rods, sheet brass,

Brass,

brass plates, bars, and strips, Muntz or yellow metal sheets, sheathing,
bolts, piston rods, and shafting, 4 cents per pound; seamless brass
tubes and tubing, 8 cents per pound; brazed brass tubes, brass angles
and channels, 12 cents per pound; bronze rods and sheets, 4 cents

Bronze.

per pound; bronze tubes, 8 cents per pound.

bronzpowder,
metallics,etc.

leaf

PAR. 382. Aluminum or tin foil less than six one-thousandths of

an inch in thickness, 35 per centum ad valorem; bronze powder, 14
cents per pound; aluminum powder, powdered foil, powdered tin,
brocades, flitters, and metallics, manufactured in whole or in part,
12 cents per pound; bronze, or Dutch metal, or aluminum, inleaf,

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

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CH. 356.

1922.

887

6 cents per one hundred leaves. The foregoing rate applies to leaf MetalsCandjmaL3fa
not exceeding in size the equivalent of five and one-half by five and tures of.
one-half inches; additional duties in the same proportion shall be
assessed on leaf exceeding in size said equivalent.
PAR. 383. Gold leaf, 55 cents per one hundred leaves. The fore- OdleS.
going rate applies to leaf not exceeding in size the equivalent of three
and three-eighths by three and three-eighths inches; additional
duties in the same proportion shall be assessed on leaf exceeding in
size said equivalent.
sil rleaf.
PAR. 384. Silver leaf, 5 cents per one hundred leaves.
e or
PAR. 385. Tinsel wire, made wholly or in chief value of gold, silver, lans wire la
or other metal, 6 cents per pound and 10 per centum ad valorem;
lame or lahn, made wholly or in chief value of gold, silver, or other
metal, 6 cents per pound and 20 per centum ad valorem; bullions and senluires of ti.
metal threads made wholly or in chief value of tinsel wire, lame or
lahn, 6 cents per pound and 35 per centum ad valorem; beltings, toys,
and other articles made wholly or in chief value of tinsel wire, metal
thread, lame or lahn, or of tinsel wire, lame or lahn and india rubber,
bullions, or metal threads, not specially provided for, 45 per centum
ad valorem; woven fabrics, ribbons, fringes, and tassels, made wholly
or in chief value of any of the foregoing, 55 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 386. Quicksilver, 25 cents per pound: Provided, That the Quicsver
flasks, bottles, or other vessels in which quicksilver is imported shall Flasks containing.
be subject to the same rate of duty as they would be subjected to if
Fuminat
imported empty.
PAR. 387. Azides, fulminates, fulminating powder, and other like
articles not specially provided for, 124 cents per pound.
PAR. 388. Dynamite and other high explosives, put up in sticks, Dynamite.
cartridges, or other forms, suitable for blasting, 1* cents per pound.
Type.
PAB. 389. New types, 20 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 390. Nickel oxide, 1 cent per pound; nickel, and nickel alloy of Nicke
any kind in which nickel is the component material of chief value,
in pigs or ingots, shot, cubes, grains, cathodes, or similar forms, 3
cents per pound; in bars, rods, plates, sheets, strips, strands, castings,
wire, tubes, tubing, anodes, or electrodes, 25 per centum ad valorem;
and in addition thereto, on all of the foregoing, if cold rolled, cold
drawn, or cold worked, 10 per centum ad valorem.
b
ole ca
PAR. 391. Bottle caps of metal, collapsible tubes, and sprinkler Met
tops, if not decorated, colored, waxed, lacquered, enameled, lithographed, electroplated, or embossed in color, 30 per centum ad
valorem; if decorated, colored, waxed, lacquered, enameled, lithographed, electroplated, or embossed m color, 45 per centum ad
valorem.
g
Bd
PAR. 392. Lead-bearing ores and mattes of all kinds, 14 cents o bearin es.
per pound on the lead contained therein: Provided, That such duty n copper mattes.
shall not be applied to the lead contained in copper mattes unless
actually recovered: Provided further, That on all importations of Deliery in bad to
lead-bearing ores and mattes of all kinds the duties shall be estimated smelt e.
at the port of entry and a bond given in double the amount of such
estimated duties for the transportation of the ores or mattes 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 other.sme
wise. On the arrival of the ores or mattes at such establishments they samplng at
superthe
under
methods
commercial
to
according
shall be sampled
vision 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

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tures of.

SE8S. II.

CH. 356.

1922.

rs- the proper customs officers, and the import entries shall be liquidated
thereon. And the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to make

elieq.idation of all necessary regulations to enforce the provisions of this paragraph.
PAR. 393. Lead bullion or base bullion, lead in pigs and bars, lead
Lead, metal.

dross, reclaimed lead, scrap lead, antimonial lead, antimonial scrap
lead, type metal, Babbitt metal, solder, all alloys or combinations
of lead not specially provided for, 2k cents per pound on the lead
contained therein; lead in sheets, pipe, shot, glazier's lead, and lead
wire, 2] cents per pound.
zinc bearing oe.
PAR. 394. Zinc-bearing ore of all kinds, containing less than 10 per
centum of zinc, shall be admitted free of duty; containing 10 per
centum or more of zinc and less than 20 per centum, one-half of 1
cent per pound on the zinc contained therein; containing 20 per
centum or more of zinc and less than 25 per centum, 1 cent per pound
on the zinc contained therein; containing 25 per centum of zinc, or
bond to more, 1j cents per pound on the zinc contained therein: Provided,
pro.'
That on all importations of zinc-bearing ores the duties shall be
smelter.
estimated at the 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
samPnsgto smntr 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
Liquidationofentry. officers, and the import entries shall be liquidated thereon. And the
Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to make all necessary regulations to enforce the provisions of this paragraph.
Zinc,metal.

PAR. 395. Zinc in blocks, pigs, or slabs, and zinc dust, 1{ cents per

pound; in sheets, 2 cents per pound; in sheets coated or plated with
nickel or other metal (except gold, silver, or platinum), or solutions,
2¼cents per pound- old and worn-out, fit only to be remanufactured,
1I cents per pound.
Metal print rollers
PAR. 396. Print rollers and print blocks used in printing, stamping,
and blocks
or cutting designs for wall or crepe paper, linoleum, oilcloth, or other
material, not specially provided for, composed wholly or in chief
value of iron, steel, copper, brass, or any other metal, 60 per centum
ad valorem.
Steel rolls.

PAR. 397. Cylindrical steel rolls ground and polished, valued at

25 cents per pound or over, 25 per centum ad valorem.
Metal cutting tools.
PAR. 398. Twist drills, reamers, milling cutters, taps, dies, and
metal-cutting tools of all descriptions, not specially provided for,
containing more than six-tenths of 1 per centum of tungsten or
molybdenum, 60 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 399. Articles or wares not specially provided for, if composed
Articles not specially
wholly or in chief value of platinum, gold, or silver, and articles or
Preious metas.
wares plated with platinum, gold, or silver, or colored with gold
lacquer, whether partly or wholly manufactured, 60 per centum ad
Basermetais.
valorem; if composed wholly or in chief value of iron, steel, lead,
copper, brass, nickel, pewter, zinc, aluminum, or other metal, but
not plated with platinum, gold, or silver, or colored with gold lacquer,
whether partly or wholly manufactured, 40 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 400. No allowance or reduction of duties for partial loss or
No rust l owance on
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.

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

SEss. II.

CH. 356.

889

1922.

SCHEDULE 4.-WOOD AND MANUFACTURES OF.

SCHEDULE 4.
Wood and manufactures of.

PAR. 401. Logs of fir, spruce, cedar, or Western hemlock, $1 per etc.

ruce'

from n.
r
thousand feet board measure: Provided, That any such class of logs
cut from any particular class of lands shall be exempt from such duty try imposing no export
if imported from any country, dependency, province, or other sub- estrictionetc.

division of government which has, at no time during the twelve
months immediately preceding their importation into the United
States, maintained any embargo, prohibition, or other restriction
(whether by law, order, regulation, contractual relation or otherwise,
directly or indirectly) upon the exportation of such class of logs from
such country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of government, if cut from such class of lands.
PAR. 402. Brier root or brier wood, ivy or laurel root, and similar blkser
wood unmanufactured, or not further advanced than cut into blocks
suitable for the articles into which they are intended to be converted,
10 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 403. Cedar commercially known as Spanish cedar, lignum-

root

etc.,

Cabetoods.

vite, lancewood, ebony, box, granadilla, mahogany, rosewood, satinwood, Japanese white oak, and Japanese maple, in the log, 10 per
centum ad valorem; in the form of sawed boards, planks, deals, and
all other forms not further manufactured than sawed, 15 per centum
ad valorem; veneers of wood and wood unmanufactured, not specially
provided for, 20 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 404. Hubs for wheels, posts, heading bolts, stave bolts, last etc.S

block

PAR. 405. Casks, barrels, and hogsheads (empty), sugar-box shooks, Casks

rr ls etc.

blocks, wagon blocks, oar blocks, heading blocks, and all like blocks
or sticks, rough-hewn, or rough shaped, sawed or bored, 10 per centum
ad valorem.
and packing boxes (empty), and packing-box shooks, of wood, not

oxes, etc., with cit
specially provided for, 15 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 406. Boxes, barrels, and other articles containing oranges, rs fruits.
lemons, limes, grapefruit, shaddocks or pomelos, 25 per centum ad proTso.
valorem: Provied, That the thin wood, so called, comprising the Made of domestic

sides, tops, and bottoms of fruit boxes of the growth or manufacture
of the United States, exported as fruit box shooks, may be reimported
in completed form, filled with fruit, by the payment of duty at onehalf the rate imposed on similar boxes of entirely foreign growth and
manufacture; but proof of the identity of such shooks shall be made

under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury.

PAR. 407. Reeds wrought or manufactured from rattan or reeds,

whether round, flat, split, oval, or in whatever form, cane wrought
or manufactured from rattan, cane webbing, and split or partially
manufactured rattan, not specially provided for, 20 per centum ad
valorem. Furniture made with frames wholly or in part of wood,
rattan, reed, bamboo, osier or willow, or malacca, and covered
wholly or in part with rattan, reed, grass, osier or willow, or fiber of
any kind, 60 per centum ad valorem; split bamboo, lI cents per
pound; osier or willow, including chip of and split willow, prepared
for basket makers' use, 35 per centum ad valorem: all articles not
specially provided for, wholly or partly manufactured of rattan, bamboo, osier or willow, 45 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 408. Toothpicks of wood or other vegetable substance, 25 per
centum ad valorem; butchers' and packers' skewers of wood, 25 cents
per thousand.

PAR. 409. Porch and window blinds, baskets, chair seats, curtains,

shades, or screens, any of the foregoing wholly or in chief value of
bamboo, wood, straw, papier-mach6, palm leaf, or compositions of
wood, not specially provided for, 35 per centum ad valorem; if
stained, dyed, painted, printed, polished, grained, or creosoted, 45
per centum ad valorem.

Pro

of identity.

eedsrattanetc

Toothpicks

and

skewers.
Porch blinds, screens,
etc.

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

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CH. 356.

1922.

PAR. 410. Spring clothespins, 15 cents per gross; house or cabinet

WscoId a

furniture wholy or in chief value of woo, wholly or partly finished,

tures of.m

hou s e wood flour, and manufactures of wood or bark, or of which wood or

iClts ep.

bark is the component material of chief value, not specially provided
for, 33½per centum ad valorem.

SCHEDULE 5.

SCHEDULE 5.-SuoAR, MOLASSES, AND MANUFACTURES OF.

Sugar, molasses, and
manufactures of.
Sugars, et

Molasses,
ups, etc.

SaSS. II.

PAR. 501. Sugars, tank bottoms, sirups of cane juice, melada, concentrated melada, concrete and concentrated molasses, testing by the
polariscope not above seventy-five sugar degrees, and all mixtures
containing sugar and water, testing by the polariscope above fifty
sugar degrees and not above seventy-five sugar degrees, 1-fI cents
per pound, and for each additional sugar degree shown by the polariscopic test, forty-six one-thousandths of 1 cent per pound additional,
and fractions of a degree in proportion.
i- PAR. 502. Molasses and sugar

sirups, not specially provided

for, testing not above 48 per centum total sugars, twenty-five
one-hundredths of 1 cent per gallon; testing above 48 per centum
total sugars, two hundred and seventy-five one-thousandths of 1 cent
additional for each per centum of total sugars and fractions of a per
Low gra emdasses centum in proportion; molasses testing not above 52 per centum
total sugars not imported to be commercially used for the extraction
of sugar, or for human consumption, one-sixth of 1 cent per gallon;
testing above 52 and not above 56 per centum total sugars not
Post, p. I1816.
imported to be commercially used for the extraction of sugar, or for
human consumption, one-sixth of 1 cent additional for each per
centum of total sugars and fractions of a per centum in proportion.
Maple suLg ar etc.
PAR. 503. Maple sugar and maple sirup, 4 cents per pound; dextrose testing not above 99.7 per centum and dextrose sirup, 1½ cents
Sugar ca
per pound. Sugar cane in its natural state, $1 per ton of two thousand
pounds; sugar contained in dried sugar cane, or in sugar cane in any
other than its natural state, 75 per centum of the rate of duty applicable to manufactured sugar of like polariscopic test.
Sacchari/

Candy
tionery. and

PAR. 504. Adonite, arabinose, dulcite, galactose inosite, inulin,

levulose, mannite, d-talose, d-tagatose, ribose, melibiose, dextrose
testing above 99.7 per centum, mannose, melezitose, raffinose, rhamnose, salicin, sorbite, xylose, and other saccharides, 50 per centum

cofec-

Tobacco and manufactures of.

Wrapper, filier and

Dein

Deniif

Invoicer-

termis.

ad valorem.
PAR. 505. Sugar candy and all confectionery not specially provided

for, and sugar after being refined, when tinctured, colored, or in any
way adulterated, 40 per centum ad valorem.
SCHEDULE 6.-TOBACCO AND MANUFACTURES

OF.

PAR. 601. Wrapper tobacco, and filler tobacco when mixed or

packed with more than 35 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, $2.10 per pound; if
stemmed, $2.75 per pound; filler tobacco not specially provided for,
per pound.
unstemmed, 35 cents per pound; if stemmed, 50incents
this title means
PAR. 602. The term "wrapper tobacco" as used

that quality of leaf tobacco which has the requisite color, texture,

emnts.and

burn, and is of sufficient size for cigar wrappers, and the term

"filler tobacco" means all other leaf tobacco. Collectors of customs
shall permit entry to be made, under rules and regulations to be
prescribed by the Secretar of the Treasury, of any leaf tobacco when
the invoices of the same shall specify in detail the character of such
tobacco, whether wrapper or filer, its origin and quality. In the

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

SESS. II.

CH. 356.

1922.

examination for classification of any imported leaf tobacco, at least TObo Dan 6.
one bale, box, or package in every ten, and at least one in every actures of.
invoice, shall be examined by the appraiser or person authorized by sifEation.for

law to make such examination, and at least ten hands shall be exam-

ined in each examined bale, box, or package.
PAR. 603. All other tobacco, manufactured or unmanufactured,
not specially provided for, 55 cents per pound; scrap tobacco, 35 cents

per pound.

PAR. 604. Snuff and snuff flour, manufactured.of tobacco, ground
dry, or damp, and pickled, scented, or otherwise, of all descriptions,
and tobacco stems, cut, ground, or pulverized, 55 cents per pound.
PAR. 605. Cigars, cigarettes, cheroots of all kinds, $4.50 per pound
and 25 per centum ad valorem, and paper cigars and cigarettes,
including wrappers, shall be subject to the same duties as are herein
imposed upon cigars.

dNotspecially

pro-

Scrap.
s nu f

cigarettes,
eigatrs
Post,p.939.

SCHEDULE 7.

SCHEDULE 7.--AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS AND PROVISIONS.

PAR. 701. Cattle, weighing less than one thousand and fifty pounds
each, 1½cents per pound; weighing one thousand and fifty pounds
each or more, 2 cents per pound; fresh beef and veal, 3 cents per
pound; tallow, one-half of 1 cent per pound; oleo oil and oleo stearin,
1 cent per pound.
PAR. 702. Sheep and goats, $2 per head; fresh mutton and goat
meat, 2½cents per pound; fresh lamb, 4 cents per pound.
PAR. 703. Swine, one-half of 1 cent per pound; fresh pork, threefourths of 1 cent per pound; bacon, hams, and shoulders, and other
pork, prepared or preserved, 2 cents per pound; lard, 1 cent per
pound; lard compounds and lard substitutes, 4 cents per pound.
PAR. 704. Reindeer meat, venison and other game (except birds)
not specially provided for, 4 cents per pound.
PAR. 705. Extract of meat, including fluid, 15 cents per pound.

Agricultural products and provisions.

Cattle-

eep

goa

Meat extrcts.

Fresh meats, pre
PAR. 706. Meats, fresh, prepared, or preserved, not specially pro- pared, etc.

vided for, 20 per centumr ad valorem: Provided, That no meats of any Inspection, etc.
kind shall be imported into the United States unless the same is
healthful, wholesome, and fit for human food and contains no dye,
chemical, preservative, or ingredient which renders the same unhealthful, unwholesome, or unfit for human food, and unless the Pure food require
same also complies with the rules and regulations made by the Secre- ments.
tary of Agriculture, and that, after entry into the United States in
compliance with said rules and regulations, said meats shall be
deemed and treated as domestic meats within the meaning of and
shall be subject to the provisions of the Act of June 30, 1906 (Thirty- 12. 34 pp 674, 76,
fourth Statutes at Large, page 674), commonly called the "Meat
Inspection Amendment," and the Act of June 30, 1906 (Thirtyfourth Statutes at Large, page 768), commonly called the "Food and
Drugs Act," and that the Secretary of Agriculture be and hereby is
authorized to make rules and regulations to carry out the purposes
of this provision, and that in such rules and regulations the Secretary iestrucion,l eeatc.
of Agriculture may prescribe the terms and conditions for the destruction of all such meats offered for entry and refused admission into the
United States unless the same be exported by the consignee within
the time fixed therefor in such rules and regulations.
PAR. 707. Milk, fresh, 2½ cents per gallon; sour milk and butter- Miland
milk, 1 cent per gallon; cream, 20 cents per gallon: Provided, That Gradi as ream or
fresh or sour milk containing more than 7 per centum of butter fat butter.
shall be dutiable as cream, and cream containing more than 45 per
centum of butter fat shall be dutiable as butter.
PAR. 708. Milk, condensed or evaporated: In hermetically sealed Condesedmik,etm
containers, unsweetened, 1 cent per pound, sweetened, 13 cents per

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892

per pound; cream powder, 7 cents per pound; and skimmed milk

tand provisions.
Butter, and substitutes.
cheese, and substi-

powder, 1½cents per pound; malted milk, and compounds or mixtures
of or substitutes for milk or cream, 20 per centum ad valorem.

PAR.709. Butter, 8 cents per pound; oleomargarine and other
butter substitutes, 8 cents per pound.
PAR. 710. Cheese and substitutes therefor, 5 cents per pound, but
not less than 25 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 711. Birds, live: Poultry, 3 cents per pound; all other,
valued at $5 or less each, 50 cents each; valued at more than $5 each,
20 per centum ad valorem.

Poultry,etc.
.

PAR. 712. Birds, dead, dressed or undressed: Poultry, 6 cents per

Dead.

1922.

7rod pound; all other, 1 cents per pound; whole milk powder, 3 cents

AscU

SEES. II. CH. 356.

pound; all other, 8 cents per pound; all the foregoing, prepared or
preserved in any manner and not specially provided for, 35 per
centum ad valorem.
PAR. 713. Eggs of poultry, in the shell, 8 cents per dozen; whole
eggs, egg yolk, and egg albumen, frozen or otherwise prepared or
preserved, and not specially provided for, 6 cents per pound; dried
whole eggs, dried egg yolk, and dried egg albumen, 18 cents per

pound.

ossa

PAR. 714. Horses and mules, valued at not more than $150 per
head, $30 per head; valued at more than $150 per head, 20 per
centum ad valorem.

Live an

PAR. 715. Live animals, vertebrate and invertebrate, not specially

provided for, 15 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 716. Honey, 3 cents per pound.

Honey.

PAR. 717. Fish, fresh, frozen, or packed in ice: Halibut, salmon,
mackerel, and swordfish, 2 cents per pound; other fish, not specially
provided for, 1 cent per pound.

Frsh.
prepared,

prserved,

PAR. 718. Salmon, pickled, salted, smoked, kippered, or otherwise

prepared or preserved, 25 per centum ad valorem; finnan haddie,
25 per centum ad valorem; dried fish, salted or unsalted, 1+ cents
per pound; smoked herring, skinned or boned, 2½cents per pound;
all other fish, skinned or boned, in bulk, or in immediate containers
weighing with their contents more than fifteen pounds each, 2½
cents per pound net weight.

Herrig and

Packed in oil, etc.

PAR.

719. Herring and mackerel, pickled or salted, whether or not

boned, when in bulk, or in immediate containers weighing with their
contents more than fifteen pounds each, 1 cent per pound net weight.
PAR. 720. Fish (except shellfish), by whatever name known, packed

in oil or in oil and other substances, 30 per centum ad valorem; all fish
(except shellfish), pickled, salted, smoked, kippered, or otherwise prepared or preserved (except in oil or in oil and other substances), in
immediate containers weighing with their contents not more than
fifteen pounds each, 25 per centum ad valorem; in bulk or in immediate containers weighing with their contents more than fifteen pounds
each, it cents per pound net weight.
Crab

meat,

fish

roe,

PAR. 721. Crab meat, packed in ice or frozen, or prepared or pre-

served in any manner, 15 per centum ad valorem; fish paste and fish
sauce, 30 per centum ad valorem; caviar and other fish roe for food
purposes, packed in ice or frozen, prepared or preserved, by the addition of salt in any amount, or by other means, 30 per centum ad
valorem.
arley.

PAR. 722. Barley, hulled or unhulled, 20 cents per'bushel of forty-

eight pounds; barley malt, 40 cents per one hundred pounds; pearl
Bucwheat

barley, patent barley and barley flour, 2 cents per pound.

PAR. 723. Buckwheat, hulled or unhulled, 10 cents per one hundred
pounds; buckwheat flour and grits or groats, one-half of 1 cent per
pound.

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

SfES.

II. CH. 356.

893

1922.

PAR. 724. Corn or maize, including cracked corn, 15 cents per
bushel of fifty-six pounds; corn grits, meal, and flour, and similar
products, 30 cents per one hundred pounds.
PAR. 725. Macaroni, vermicelli, noodles, and similar alimentary

scAgril 7prodprodAgricultural
uctsandprovisions.
CAUnorn.

Almentary pates

pastes, 2 cents per pound.
PAR. 726. Oats, hulled or unhulled, 15 cents per bushel of thirty- Oatstwo pounds; unhulled ground oats, 45 cents per one hundred pounds;
oatmeal, rolled oats, oat grits, and similar oat products, 80 cents per
one hundred pounds.
PAR. 727. Paddy or rough rice, 1 cent per pound; brown rice (hulls

removed), 14 cents per pound; milled rice (bran removed), 2 cents per
pound; broken rice, and rice meal, flour, polish, and bran, one-half of
1 cent per pound.
PAR. 728. Rye, 15 cents per bushel of fifty-six pounds; rye flour

Rice-

Rye

and meal, 45 cents per one hundred pounds.

PAR. 729. Wheat, 30 cents per bushel of sixty pounds; wheat flour,
semolina, crushed or cracked wheat, and similar wheat products not
specially provided for, 78 cents per one hundred pounds.
PAR. 730. Bran, shorts, by-product feeds obtained in milling wheat

Wheat

Cerealfeeds etc.

or other cereals, 15 per centum ad valorem; hulls of oats, barley,
buckwheat, or other grains, ground or unground, 10 cents per one
hundred pounds; dried beet pulp, malt sprouts, and brewers grains,
$5 per ton; mixed feeds, consisting of an admixture of grains or grain
products with oil cake, oil-cake meal, molasses, or other feedstuffs, 10
per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 731. Screenings, scalpings, chaff, or scourings of wheat,
flaxseed, or other grains or seeds: Unground, or ground, 10 per

centum ad valorem: Provided, That when grains or seeds contain
more than 5 per centum of any one foreign matter dutiable at a
rate higher than that applicable to the grain or seed the entire lot
shall be dutiable at such higher rate.
PAR. 732. Cereal breakfast foods; and similar cereal preparations,

Screenigsetc-

o.
withforeign matter.

Breakfast foods.

by whatever name known, processed further than milling, and not
specially provided for, 20 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 733. Biscuits, wafers, cake, cakes, and similar baked ar- cleBcits
tides, and puddings, all the foregoing by whatever name known,

baked ar

whether or not containing chocolate, nuts, fruits, or confectionery

of any kind, 30 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 734. Apples, green or ripe, 25 cents per bushel of 50 pounds;

Apples

dried, desiccated, or evaporated, 2 cents per pound; otherwise prepared or preserved, and not specially provided for, 2½cents per
pound.
PAR. 735. Apricots, green, ripe, dried, or in brine, one-half of 1

Apricos.

cent per pound; otherwise prepared or preserved, 35 per centum
ad valorem.
PAR. 736. Berries, edible, in their natural condition or in brine,

Berries.

1l cents per pound; dried, desiccated, or evaporated, 2½cents per
pound; otherwise prepared or preserved, and not specially provided for, 35 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 737. Cherries, in their natural state, sulphured, or in brine,

2 cents per pound; maraschino cherries and cherries prepared or
preserved in any manner, 40 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 738. Cider, 5 cents per gallon; vinegar, 6 cents per proof Crand vegar.
gallon: Provided, That the standard proof for vinegar shall be Vinegarstandard.

4 per centum by weight of acetic acid.
PAR. 739. Citrons and citron peel, crude, dried, or in brine, 2 etc

cents per pound; candied or otherwise prepared or preserved, 44
cents per pound; orange and lemon peel, crude, dried, or in brine,
2 cents per pound; candied, or otherwise prepared or preserved,
5 cents per pound.

orange

peel

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

894
aMnu L7.
ucts and

provijsi,

t
Grapes, raiins, etc.

SEss. II.

CH. 356.

1922.

PAR. 740. Figs, fresh, dried, or in brine, 2 cents per pound; prepared or preserved in any manner, 35 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 741. Dates, fresh or dried, 1 cent per pound; prepared or
preserved in any manner, 35 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 742. Grapes in bulk, crates, barrels or other packages, 25
cents per cubic foot of such bulk or the capacity of the packages,
according as imported; raisins, 2 cents per pound; other dried grapes,
2½ cents per pound; currants, Zante or other, 2 cents per pound.
P.

Citrustits.

743. Lemons, 2 cents per pound; limes, in their natural state,

or in brine, and oranges, 1 cent per pound; grapefruit, 1 cent per
pound.
PAR. 744. Olives in brine, green, 20 cents per gallon; ripe, 20

oi".
Peaches and pears.

cents per gallon; pitted or stuffed, 30 cents per gallon; dried ripe
olives, 4 cents per pound.
PA. 745. Peaches and pears, green, ripe, or in brine, one-half of
1 cent per pound; dried, desiccated, or evaporated, 2 cents per pound;
otherwise prepared or preserved, and not specially provided for, 35
.
per centum ad valorem.
.PAR. 746. Pineapples, 22J cents per crate of one and ninety-six

PiU ppss

one-hundredths cubic feet; in bulk, three-fourths of 1 cent each;
candied, crystallized, or glace, 35 per centum ad valorem; otherwise
prepared or preserved, and not specially provided for, 2 cents per
pound.

lnmsetc.

etcies, fruit

Fruits

not

butters,

per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 748. All jellies, jams, marmalades, and fruit butters, 35 per

centum ad valorem.
specially

provior

PAR. 749. Fruits in their natural state, or in brine, pickled, dried,
desiccated, evaporated, or otherwise prepared or preserved, and not

specially provided for, and mixtures of two or more fruits, prepared

Proviso.
rrved

PAR. 747. Plums, prunes, and prunelles, green, ripe, or in brine,
one-half of 1 cent per pound; dried, one-half of 1 cent per pound;
otherwise prepared or preserved, and not specially provided for, 35

sugar.

or preserved, 35 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That all specific
provisions of this title for fruits and berries prepared or preserved

shall include fruits and berries preserved or packed in sugar, or having
sugar added thereto, or preserved or packed in molasses, spirits, or
their own juices.

PAR. 750. Berries and fruits, of all kinds, prepared or preserved
in any manner, containing 5 per centum or more of alcohol shall pay
in addition to the rates provided in this title $5 per proof gallon on
nothing in this
Prohbtion At vio- the alcohol contained therein: Provided, however, That
Act shall be construed as permitting the importation of intoxicating
lations e.xluded
liquor in violation of the eighteenth amendment to the Constitution,
or any Act of Congress enacted in its enforcement.
PAR. 751. Tulip, lily, and narcissus bulbs, and lily of the valley
Flower bulbs, etc.
pips, $2 per thousand; hyacinth bulbs, $4 per thousand; crocus bulbs,
$1 per thousand; all other bulbs and roots, root stocks, clumps,
corms, tubers, and herbaceous perennials, imported for horticultural
purposes, 30 per centum ad valorem; cut flowers, fresh or preserved,
Cut flowers,
40 per centum ad valorem.
FAR. 752. Seedlings and cuttings of Manetti, multiflora, brier,
d
housrekseseerugosa, and other rose stock, all the foregoing not more than three
years old, $2 per thousand; rose plants, budded, grafted, or grown
on their own roots, 4 cents each; cuttings, seedlings, and grafted or
budded plants of other deciduous or evergreen ornamental trees,
shrubs, or vines, and all nursery or greenhouse stock, not specially
provided for, 25 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 753. Seedlings, layers, and cuttings of apple, cherry, pear,
k vint
ecit
phlum, quince, and other fruit stocks, $2 per thousand; grafted or
reserved in alcohol

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

SESS. II.

CH. 356. 1922.

895

7
budded fruit trees, cuttings and seedlings of grapes, currants, gooseD
al prod.
berries, or other fruit vines, plants or bushes, 25 per centum ad valorem. cnts and proviions.
PAR. 754. Almonds, not shelled, 4j cents per pound; shelled, 14 Almond
cents per pound; almond paste, 14 cents per pound.
PAR. 755. Cream or Brazil nuts, 1 cent per pound; filberts, not Creamnuts, etc.
shelled, 2½cents per pound; shelled, 5 cents per pound; pignolia
nuts, 1 cent per pound; pistache nuts, 1 cent per pound.
PAR. 756. Coconuts, one-half of 1 cent each; coconut meat, shred- coconuts.
ded and desiccated, or similarly prepared, 3½ cents perpound.
PAR. 757. Peanuts, not shelled, 3 cents per pound; shelled, 4 cents Peanuts.
per pound.
PAR. 758. Walnuts of all kinds, not shelled, 4 cents per pound; Walnutsandpecans.
shelled, 12 cents per pound; pecans, unshelled, 3 cents per pound;
shelled, 6 cents per pound.
PAR. 759. Edible nuts, shelled or unshelled, not specially provided Other edible nuts,
for, 1 cent per pound; pickled, or otherwise prepared or preserved, e
and not specially provided for, 35 per centum ad valorem; nut and
kernel paste not specially provided for, 25 per centum ad valorem: Provso
Provided, That no allowance shall be made for dirt or other impurities No dirt, etc., allowance
in nuts of any kind, shelled or unshelled.
PAR. 760. Oil-bearing seeds and materials: Castor beans, one-half Oil-bearineeds, etc.
of 1 cent per pound; flaxseed, 40 cents per bushel of fifty-six pounds;
poppy seed, 32 cents per 100 pounds; sunflower seed, 2 cents per
pound; apricot and peach kernels, 3 cents per pound; soya beans,
one-half of 1 cent per pound; cotton seed, one-third of 1 cent per
pound.
PAR. 761. Grass seeds: Alfalfa, 4 cents per pound; alsike clover, Grass seeds.
4 cents per pound; crimson clover, 1 cent per pound; red clover, 4
cents per pound; white clover, 3 cents per pound; clover, not specially provided for, 2 cents per pound; millet, 1 cent per pound;
timothy, 2 cents per pound; hairy vetch, 2 cents per pound; spring
vetch, 1 cent per pound; all other grass seeds not specially provided
roo
for, 2 cents per pound: Provided, That no allowance shall be made for No dirt allowance.
dirt or other impurities in seed provided for in this paragraph.
PAR. 762. Other garden and field seeds: Beet (except sugar beet), 4 seeds.
cents per pound; cabbage, 10 cents per pound; canary, 1 cent per
pound; carrot, 4 cents per pound; cauliflower, 25 cents per pound;
celery, 2 cents per pound; kale, 6 cents per pound; kohlrabi, 8 cents
per pound; mangelwurzel, 4 cents per pound; mushroom spawn, 1
cent per pound; onion, 15 cents per pound; parsley, 2 cents per pound;
parsnip, 4 cents per pound; pepper, 15 cents per pound; radish, 4
cents per pound; spinach, 1 cent per pound tree and shrub, 8 cents
per pound; turnip, 4 cents per pound; rutabaga, 4 cents per pound;
fower, 6 cents per pound; all other garden and field seeds not specially provided for, 6 cents per pound: Provided, That the provisions Use not restricted.
for seeds in this schedule shall include such seeds whether used for
planting or for other purposes.
PAR. 763. Beans, not specially provided for, green or unripe, one- Bea
half of 1 cent per pound; dried, 1I cents per pound; in brine, prepared
orpreserved in any manner, 2 cents per pound.
B
PAR. 764. Sugar beets, 80 cents per ton; other beets, 17 per centum
ad valorem.
PAR. 765. Lentils, one-half of 1 cent per pound; lupines, one-half
, nine.
lp
of 1 cent per pound.
PAR. 766. Mushrooms, fresh, or dried or otherwise prepared or Mush rms, t r ifa
preserved, 45 per centum ad valorem; truffles, fresh, or dried or
otherwise prepared or preserved, 25 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 767. Peas, green or dried, 1 cent per pound; peas, split, 11 Peas
cents per pound; peas, prepared or preserved in any manner, 2 cents
per pound.

896

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
7.o

scuMrMa

nctsandproi'ions

Oreons.

otatoes.

CH. 356.

1922.

PAR. 768. Onions, 1 cent per pound; garlic, 2 cents per pound.
PAR. 769. White or Irish potatoes, 50 cents per one hundred
pounds; dried, dehydrated, or desiccated potatoes, 21 cents per

pound; potato flour, 21 cents per pound.

PAR. 770. Tomatoes in their natural state, one-half of 1 cent per

Tomat.a

pound; tomato paste, 40 per centum ad valorem; all other, prepared
orpre'erved in any manner, 15 per centum ad valorem.

Torps.
vegetabirsinnatr
Poia.

PAR. 771. Turnips, 12 cents per one hundred pounds.

PAR. 772. Vegetables in their natural state, not specially provided

for, 25 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That in the assessment of

or duties on vegetables no segregation or allowance of any kind shall be

foreismoaret

preared, etc., vege

ss,

SESS. II.

made for foreign matter or impurities mixed therewith.

PAR. 773. Vegetables, if cut, sliced, or otherwise reduced in size,

or if parched or roasted, or if pickled, or packed in salt, brine, oil, or

sops, etc. prepared or preserved im any other way and not specially provided

for; sauces of all kinds, not specially provided for; soya eans, prepared or preserved in any manner; bean stick, miso, bean cake, and
similar products, not specially provided for; soups, pastes, balls,
puddings, hash, and all similar forms, composed of vegetables, or of
vegetables and meat or fish, or both, not specially provided for, 35
per centum ad valorem.

As,

sub

Cholate andoo.

Gingerroot.

PAR. 774. Acorns, and chicory and dandelion roots, crude, 1i cents

per pound; ground, or otherwise prepared 3 cents per pound; all
coffee substitutes and adulterants, and cofee essences, 3 cents per
pound.

PAR. 775. Chocolate and cocoa, sweetened or unsweetened, pow-

dered, or otherwise prepared, 171 per centum ad valorem, but not
less than 2 cents per pound; cacao butter, 25 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 776. Ginger root, candied, or otherwise prepared or pre-

served, 20 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 777. Hay, $4 per ton; straw, $1 per ton.
PAR. 778. Hops, 24 cents per pound; hop extract, $2.40 per pound;
Hops.
pesandspleseeds. lupulin, 75 cents per pound.
* AR. 779. Spices and spice seeds: Anise seeds, 2 cents per pound;
SPP
Hayandstraw.

caraway seeds, 1 cent per pound; cardamom seeds, 10 cents per pound;
cassia, cassia buds, and cassia vera, unground, 2 cents per pound;
ground, 5 cents per pound- cloves, unground, 3 cents per pound;
ground, 6 cents per pound; clove stems, unground, 2 cents per pound;
ground, 5 cents per pound; cinnamon and cinnamon chips, unground,
2 cents per pound; ground, 5 cents per pound; coriander seeds, onehalf of 1 cent per pound; cummin seeds, 1 cent per pound; fennel
seeds, 1 cent per pound; ginger root, not preserved or candied,
unground, 2 cents per pound; ground, 5 cents per pound; mace,
unground, 4 cents per pound; ground, 8 cents per pound; Bombay,
or wild mace, unground, 18 cents per pound; ground, 22 cents per
pound; mustard seeds (whole), 1 cent per pound; mustard, ground
or prepared in bottles or otherwise, 8 cents per pound; nutmegs,
unground, 2 cents per pound; ground, 5 cents per pound; pepper,
capsicum or red pepper or cayenne pepper, and paprika, unground,
2 cents per pound; ground, 5 cents per pound; black or white pepper,
unground, 2 cents per pound; ground, 5 cents per pound; pimento
(al spice), unground, 1 cent per pound; ground, 3 cents per pound;
whole pimientos, packed in brine or in oil, or prepared or preserved
in any manner, 6 cents per pound- sage, unground, 1 cent per pound;
ground, 3 cents per pound; mixed spices, and spices and spice seeds
not specially provided for, including all herbs or herb leaves in glass

other small packages, for culinary use, 25 per centum ad valorem:
Prhog,0or
No dirt llowane. Provided, That in all the foregoing no allowance shall be made for
Pepper shels pro- dirt or other foreign matter: Providedfurther, That the importation

itenr.

Teasels.

of pepper shells, ground or unground, is hereby prohibited.
Pea. 780. Teasels, 25 per centum ad valorem.

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

SESS. II.

CH. 356.

897

1922.

SCHEDULE 8.--SPIRITS, WINES, AND OTHER BEVERAGES.
PAR. 801. Nothing in this schedule shall be construed as in any
manner limiting or restricting the provisions of Title II or III of
the National Prohibition Act, as amended.
The duties prescribed in Schedule 8 and imposed by Title I shall

Spicritswns
other beverages.

and

orestictionofProl. 41, p. 307.
Ante, p. m.
additional
Duties revenue
taxe.t
internal

be in addition to the internal-revenue taxes imposed under existing
law, or any subsequent Act.
PAR. 802. Brandy

and other spirits manufactured or distilled

from grain or other materials, cordials, liqueurs, arrack, absinthe,
kirschwasser, ratafia, and bitters of all kinds (except Angostura
bitters) containing spirits, and compounds and preparations of
which distilled spirits are the component material of chief value
and not specially provided for, $5 per proof gallon; Angostura

bitters, $2.60 per proof gallon.
PAR. 803. Champagne and all other sparkling wines, $6 per gallon.

PAR. 804. Still wines, including ginger wine or ginger cordial,

Distiled sprits.

Angosturabitters.
w

parkling

ines

Stillwines.

vermuth, and rice wine or sake, and similar beverages not specially

provided for, $1.25 per gallon: Provided, That any of the foregoing
articles specified in this paragraph when imported containing more

than 24 per centum of alcohol shall be classed as spirits and pay
duty accordingly.
PAR. 805. Ale, porter, stout, beer, and fluid malt extract, $1 per
gallon; malt extract, solid or condensed, 60 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 806. Cherry juice, prune juice, or prune wine, and all other
fruit juices and fruit sirups, not specially provided for, containing
less than one-half of 1 per centum of alcohol, 70 cents per gallon;

containing one-half of 1 per centum or more of alcohol, 70 cents
per gallon and in addition thereto $5 per proof gallon on the alcohol
prodr
contained therein; grape juice, grape sirup, and othe similar
ucts of the grape, by whatever name known, containing or capable
of producing less than 1 per centum of alcohol, 70 cents per gallon;

containing or capable of producing more than 1 per centum of alco-

Alcoholic strength
classified as spirits.

Malt liquors.

Fruit juices and sir.

A l c o ol

c o n ten t

h ic

Grape juice, etc.

Alcoholic content.

hol, 70 cents per gallon, and in addition thereto $5 per proof gallon
on the alcohol contained therein or that can be produced therefrom.

PAR. 807. Ginger ale, ginger beer, lemonade, soda water, and

similar beverages containing no alcohol, and beverages containing
less than one-half of 1 per centum of alcohol, not specially provided
for, 15 cents per gallon.
PAR. 808. All mineral waters and all imitations of natural mineral
waters, and all artificial mineral waters not specially provided for,
10 cents per gallon.
PAR. 809. When any article provided for in this schedule is imported in bottles or jugs, duty shall be collected upon the bottles
or jugs at one-third the rate provided on the bottles or jugs if
imported empty or separately.
PAR. 810. 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 when imported shall be the same as that which is defined in
the laws relating to internal revenue. The Secretary of the Treasury,
in his discretion, may authorize the ascertainment of the proof of
wines, cordials, or other liquors and fruit juices by distillation or
otherwise, in cases where it is impracticable to ascertain such proof
by the means prescribed by existing law or regulations.
PAR. 811. No lower rate or amount of duty shall be levied, col-

Softdrinks.

Mineral waters.

Duty on bottles, etc.

Determination

Ascertainment
distilation,ete.

r-ate

mini,'

lected, and paid on the articles enumerated in paragraph 802 of

this schedule than that fixed by law for the description of first proof;
but it shall be increased in proportion for any greater strength than Increse
the strength of first proof, and all imitations of brandy, spirits, or
42150°-23--57

for greater

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

898
siCEDULE S.

SESS. II.

CH. 356.

1922.

wines imported by any names whatever shall be subject to the

' and highest rate of duty provided for the genuine articles respectively

othebev

oryorfeitue.

intended to be represented, and in no case less than $5 per proof
gallon: Provided, That any brandy or other spirituous or distilled
liquors imported in any sized cask, bottle, jug, or other packages, of

or from any country, dependency, or province under whose laws

similar sized casks, bottles, jugs, or other 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.
PAR. 812. There shall be no constructive or other allowance for
No breakage, etc.,
breakage, leakage, or damage on wines, liquors, cordials, or distilled
Exceptioified spirits, except that when it shall appear to the collector of customs
from the gauger's return, verified by an affidavit by the importer to
be filed within five days after the delivery of the merchandise, that
a cask or package has been broken or otherwise injured in transit
from a foreign port and as a result thereof a part of its contents,
amounting to 10 per centum or more of the total value of the contents of the said cask or package in its condition as exported, has
been lost, allowance therefor may be made in the liquidation of the
duties.
nte requrve forpedps

PAR. 813. No wines, spirits, or other liquors or articles provided

for in this schedule containing one-half of 1 per centum or more of
entt alcoholic on- alcohol shall be imported or permitted entry except on a permit
issued therefor by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, and any
with onehaf

such wines, spirits, or other liquors or articles imported or brought

into the United States without a permit shall be seized and forfeited
in the same manner as for other violations of the customs laws.
Enforcement regula-

SCHEDULE 9.

Cttonanactures.

Yac.
ot bleached, etc.

ijm.

Bleached, dyed, etc.

rovisns.

*ilmu
Vat dyed, etc.
waste, etc.

PAR. 814. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and

directed to make all rules and regulations necessary for the enforcement of the provisions of this schedule.
SCHEDULE 9.--COTTON MANUFACTURES.

PAR. 901. Cotton yarn, including warps, in any form, not bleached,
dyed, colored, combed, or plied, of numbers not exceeding number
40, one-fifth of 1 cent per number per pound; exceeding number 40
and not exceeding number 120, 8 cents per pound and, in addition
thereto, one-fourth of 1 cent per number per pound for every number
in excess of number 40; exceeding number 120, 28 cents per pound:
Provided, That none of the foregoing, of numbers not exceeding number 80, shall pay less duty than 5 per centum ad valorem and, in
addition thereto, for each number, one-fourth of 1 per centum ad
valorem; nor of numbers exceeding number 80, less than 25 per
centum ad valorem.
Cotton yarn, including warps, in any form, bleached, dyed, colored,

combed, or plied, of numbers not exceeding number 40, one-fourth
of 1 cent per number per pound; exceeding number 40 and not exceeding number 120, 10 cents per pound and, in addition thereto,
three-tenths of 1 cent per number per pound for every number in
excess of number 40; exceeding number 120, 34 cents per pound:
Provided, That none of the foregoing, of numbers not exceeding number 80, shall pay less duty than 10 per centum ad valorem and, in
addition thereto, for each number, one-fourth of 1 per centum ad
valorem; nor of numbers exceeding number 80,less than 30 per centum ad valorem: Providedfurther, That when any of the foregoing
yarns are printed, dyed, or colored with vat dyes, there shall be paid
a duty of 4 per centum ad valorem in addition to the above duties.
Cotton waste, manufactured or otherwise advanced in value, cotton card laps, sliver, and roving, 5 per centum ad valorem.

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

SEBs.

II.

CH. 356.

899

1922.

PAR. 902. Cotton sewing thread, one-half of 1 cent per hundred CottSoCnnfa9tres.
yards; crochet, darning, embroidery, and knitting cottons, put up sewing thread, etc.

for handwork, in lengths not exceeding eight hundred and forty yards,
one-half of 1 cent per hundred yards: Provided, That none of the
foregoing shall pay a less rate of duty than 20 nor more than 35 per
centum ad valorem. In no case shall the duty be assessed on a less
number of yards than is marked on the goods as imported.
PAR. 903. Cotton cloth, not bleached, printed, dyed, colored, or

woven-figured, containing yarns the average number of which does
not exceed number 40, forty one-hundredths of 1 cent per average
number per pound; exceeding number 40, 16 cents per pound and,
in addition thereto, fifty-five one-hundredths of 1 cent per average
number per pound for every number in excess of number 40: Provided, That none of the foregoing, when containing yarns the average
number of which does not exceed number 80, shall pay less duty
than 10 per centum ad valorem and, in addition thereto, for each
number, one-fourth of 1 per centum ad valorem; nor when exceeding
number 80, less than 30 per centum ad valorem.
Cotton cloth, bleached, containing yarns the'average number of

Pr. W so.

Cotblehed, etc.

Pro
M o

Blea c hed-

which does not exceed number 40, forty-five one-hundredths of 1
cent per average number per pound; exceeding number 40, 18 cents
per pound and, in addition thereto, three-fifths of 1 cent per average
number per pound for every number in excess of number 40: Pro- Pfim.
vided, That none of the foregoing, when containing yarns the average
number of which does not exceed number 80, shall pay less duty
than 13 per centum ad valorem and, in addition thereto, for each
number, one-fourth of 1 per centum ad valorem; nor when exceeding
number 80, less than 33 per centum ad valorem.
Cotton cloth, printed, dyed, colored, or woven-figured, containing Printed,

yarns the average number of which does not exceed number 40,

fifty-five one-hundredths of 1 cent per average number per pound;
exceeding number 40, 22 cents per pound and, in addition thereto,
sixty-five one-hundredths of 1 cent per average number per pound
for every number in excess of number 40: Provided, That none of the
foregoing, when containing yarns the average number of which
does not exceed number 80, shall pay less duty than 15 per centum
ad valorem and, for each number, five-sixteenths of 1 per centum ad
valorem; nor when exceeding number 80, less than 40 per centum ad

grd

woven

etc.

Provisos.

valorem: Provided further, That when not less than 40 per centum

vat dyed, etc.

PAR. 904. The term cotton cloth, or cloth, wherever used in this

Cloth defined.

In the ascertainment of the condi-

Determination

of the cloth is printed, dyed, or colored with vat dyes, there shall be
paid a duty of 4 per centum ad valorem in addition to the above
duties. Plain gauze or leno woven cotton nets or nettings shall be
classified for duty as cotton cloth.
schedule, unless otherwise specially provided for, shall be held to
include all woven fabrics of cotton, in the piece, whether figured,
fancy, or plain, and shall not include any article, finished or unfinished, made from cotton cloth.

tion of the cloth or yarn upon which the duties imposed upon cotton rat
cloth are made to depend, the entire fabric and all parts thereof
shall be included. The average number of the yarn in cotton cloth
herein provided for shall be obtained by taking the length of the
thread or yarn to be equal to the distance covered by it in the cloth
in the condition as imported, except that all clipped threads shall be
measured as if continuous; in counting the threads all ply yarns shall
be separated into singles and the count taken of the total singles;
the weight shall be taken after any excessive sizing is removed by
boiling or other suitable process.
PAR. 905. Tire fabric or fabric for use in pneumatic tires, including

cord fabric, 25 per centum ad valorem.

Tire fabric.

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

900

SEss. II.

CH. 356.

1922.

PAR. 906. In addition to the duty or duties imposed upon cotton
scEDvI 9.
CAdditionadutyon cloth in paragraph 903, there shall be paid the following duties,
namely: On all cotton cloths woven with eight or more harnesses,
speified weavgs.

or with Jacquard, lappet, or swivel attachments, 10 per centum ad
valorem; on all cotton cloths, other than the foregoing, woven with
drop boxes, 5 per centum ad valorem.

Maximum.
Traing cloth, winproof doth, etc.

PA.

Cthc ontin

In no case shall the duty or

duties imposed upon cotton cloth in paragraphs 903, or 903 and 906
exceed 45 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 907. Tracing cloth, 5 cents per square yard and 20 per centum
ad valorem; cotton window hollands, all oilcloths (except silk oilcloths
and oilcloths for floors), and filled or coated cotton cloths not specially
provided for, 3 cents per square yard and 20 per centum ad valorem;
waterproof cloth composed wholly or in chief value of cotton or other
vegetable fiber, whether or not in part of india rubber, 5 cents per
square yard and 30 per centum ad valorem.
silk or artificial
908. Cloth

chief value of cotton, containing

silk, shall be classified for duty as cotton cloth under paragraphs 903,
904, and 906, and in addition thereto there shall be paid on all such
cloth, 5 per centum'ad valorem: Provided, That none of the foregoing

Proau.
Tapestries Jcqard
eaves, etc.

PAR. 910. Pile fabrics, composed wholly or in chief value of cotton,

Pile fabrics.

Table damask.

Betsds,
tsetc

shall pay a rate of duty of more than 45 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 909. Tapeestries, and other Jacquard woven upholstery cloths,
Jacquard woven blankets and Jacquard woven napped cloths, all the
foregoing, in the piece or otherwise, composed wholly or in chief value
of cotton or other vegetable fiber, 45 per centum ad valorem.

sheets,

including plush and velvet ribbons, cut or uncut, whether or not the
pile covers the whole surface, and manufactures, in any form, made
or cut from cotton pile fabrics, 50 per centum ad valorem; terrywoven fabrics, composed wholly or in chief value of cotton, and
manufactures, in any form, made or cut from terry-woven fabrics,
40 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 911. Table damask, composed wholly or in chief value of
cotton, and manufactures, in any form, composed wholly or in chief
value of such damask, 30 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 912. Quilts or bedspreads, in the piece or otherwise, com-

posed wholly or in chief value of cotton, woven of two or more sets

of warp threads or of two or more sets of filling threads, 40 per

centum ad valorem; other quilts or bedspreads, wholly or in chief
value of cotton, 25 per centum ad valorem; sheets, pillowcases,
blankets, towels, polishing cloths, dust cloths, and mop cloths, composed wholly or in chief value of cotton, not Jacquard figured or
terry-woven, nor made of pile fabrics, and not specially provided for,

eabrides

th fast

r other ege,
cotton
t be

25 per centum ad valorem; table and bureau covers, centerpieces,
runners, scarfs, napkins, and doilies, made of plain-woven cotton
cloth, and not specially provided for, 30 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 913. Fabrics with fast edges not exceeding twelve inches in

width, and articles made therefrom; tubings, garters, suspenders,
braces, cords, tassels, and cords and tassels; all the foregoing composed wholly or in chief value of cotton or of cotton and india rubber,

and not specially provided for, 35 per centum ad valorem; spindle
banding, and lamp, stove, or candle wicking, made of cotton or other

vegetable fiber, 10 cents per pound and 12½ per centum ad valorem;
boot, shoe, or corset lacings, made of cotton or other vegetable
fiber, 15 cents per pound and 20 per centum ad valorem; loom harness, healds, and collets, made wholly or in chief value of cotton or
other vegetable fiber, 25 cents per pound and 25 per centum ad
valorem; labels for garments or other articles, composed of cotton
Iachi

tybing,

or other vegetable fiber, 50 per centum ad valorem;

belting, for

machinery, composed wholly or in chief value of cotton or other
vegetable fiber, or cotton or other vegetable fiber and india rubber,
30 per centum ad valorem.

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

SESS. II. Cn. 356.

901

1922.

PAR. 914. Knit fabric, in the piece, composed wholly or in chief cotonmEDanuas.
value of cotton or other vegetable fiber, made on a warp-knitting Knitfabric.
eg
machine, 55 per centum ad valorem; made on other than a warp- table fober.

knitting machine, 35 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 915. Gloves, composed wholly or in chief value of cotton or
other vegetable fiber, made of fabric knit on a warp-knitting machine,

Gloves.

if single fold of such fabric, when unshrunk and not sueded, and
having less than forty rows of loops per inch in width on the face
of the glove, 50 per centum ad valorem; when shrunk or sueded
or having forty or more rows of loops per inch in width on the face
of the glove, and not over eleven inches in length, $2.50 per dozen
pairs, and for each additional inch in excess of eleven inches, 10
cents per dozen pairs; if of two or more folds of fabric, any fold of
which is made on a warp-knitting machine, and not over eleven
inches in length, $3 per dozen pairs, and for each additional inch in
excess of eleven inches, 10 cents per dozen pairs, but in no case shall
any of the foregoing duties be less than 40 nor more than 75 per

centum ad valorem; made of fabric knit on other than a warp- Wovenfabri
ovena
knitting machine, 50 per centum ad valorem; made of woven fabric,
25 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 916. Hose and half-hose, selvedged, fashioned, seamless, or Hose andalf-ose

mock-seamed, finished or unfinished, composed of cotton or other
vegetable fiber, made wholly or in part on knitting machines, or knit

by hand, 50 per centum ad valorem.
Hose and half-hose, finished or unfinished, made or cut from

From knitted fabri

specially provided for, 30 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 917. Underwear and all other wearing apparel of every de-

andwearingpprel.

knitted fabric composed of cotton or other vegetable fiber, and not

scription, finished or unfinished, composed of cotton or other vegetable fiber, made wholly or in part on knitting machines, or knit by

hand, and not specially provided for, 45 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 918. Handkerchiefs and mufflers, composed wholly or in mufflers.
Co

chief value of cotton, finished or unfinished, not hemmed, shall pay
duty as cloth; hemmed or hemstitched, shall pay, in addition thereto,
10 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That none of the foregoing,

when containing yarns the average number of which does not exceed
number 40, shall pay less than 30 per centum ad valorem; nor when
exceeding number 40, less than 40 per centum ad valorem.

and

tton.

Minimum.

clothingand

earing

PAR. 919. Clothing and articles of wearing apparel of every de- apparel.

scription, manufactured wholly or in part, composed wholly or in
chief value of cotton, and not specially provided for, 35 per centum ad
valorem.

Shirt collars and cuffs, of cotton, not specially provided for, 30

Shirtcoarsandeufs

cents per dozen pieces and 10 per centum ad valorem.
Nottingham la
ce
m
PAR. 920. Lace window curtains, nets, nettings, pillow shams, and article
thegbed sets, and all other articles and fabrics, by whatever name known, Cetabe fib

plain or Jacquard figured, finished or unfinished, wholly or partly
manufactured, for any use whatsoever, made on the Nottingham
lace-curtain machine, and composed of cotton or other vegetable
fiber, when counting not more than five points or spaces between the
warp threads to the inch, 1i cents per square yard; when counting
more than five such points or spaces to the inch, three-fourths of 1
cent per square yard in addition for each point in excess of five; and
in addition thereto, on all the foregoing articles in this paragraph, 25
per centum ad valorem: Provided, That none of the foregoing shall Prin°m.
pay a less rate of duty than 60 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 921. All articles made from cotton cloth, whether finished or Cotton
p
unfinished, and all manufactures of cotton or of which cotton is the

component material of chief value, not specially provided for, 40 per
centum ad valorem.

ot
articls
ded fr.

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
F=achemp n
and manufactures of.

SESS. I.

CH. 356.

1922.

SCHEDULE 10.-FLAX, HEMP, AND JUTE, AND MANUFACTURES OF.

PAR. 1001. Flax straw, $2 per ton; flax, not hackled, 1 cent per
pound; flax, hackled, including "dressed line," 2 cents per pound;
flax tow and flax noils, crin vegetal, or palm-leaf fiber, twisted or not
twisted, three-fourths of 1 cent per pound; hemp and hemp tow, 1
cent per pound; hackled hemp, 2 cents per pound.
PAR. 1002. Sliver and roving, of flax, hemp, ramie, or other vegesliver and roving.
table fiber, not specially provided for, 20 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 1003. Jute yarns or roving, single, coarser in size than twentyJYare
pound, 2 cents per pound; twenty-pound up to but not including
et.g
ten-pound, 4 cents per pound; ten-pound up to but not including
five-pound, 5½cents per pound; five-pound and finer, 7 cents per
pound, but not more than 40 per centum ad valorem; jute sliver, 1l
cents per pound; twist, twine, and cordage, composed of two or more
jute yarns or rovings twisted together, the size of the single yarn or
roving of which is coarser than twenty-pound, 3½cents per pound;
twenty-pound up to but not including ten-pound, 5 cents per pound;
ten-pound up to but not including five-pound, 6½cents per pound;
five-pound and finer, 11 cents per pound.
1004. Single yarns, in the gray, made of flax, hemp, or ramie,
PAR.
P
7r~Dame
or a mixture of any of them, not finer than twelve lea, 10 cents per
pound; finer than twelve lea and not finer than sixty lea, 10 cents
per pound and one-half of 1 cent per pound additional for each lea or
part of a lea in excess of twelve; finer than sixty lea, 35 cents per
pound; and in addition thereto, on any of the foregoing yarns when
boiled, 2 cents per pound; when bleached, dyed, or otherwise treated,
5 cents per pound: Provided, That the duty on any of the foregoing
Prov".
r st - yarns shall not be less than 25 nor more than 35 per centum ad
tion.
Tdstwinestad valorem. Threads, twines, and cords, composed of two or more
yarns of flax, hemp, or ramie, or a mixture of any of them, twisted
together, the size of the single yarn of which is not finer than eleven
lea, 181 cents per pound; finer than eleven lea and not finer than
sixty lea, 18 cents per pound and three-fourths of 1 cent per pound
additional for each lea or part of a lea in excess of eleven; finer than
sixty lea, 56 cents per pound; and in addition thereto, on any of the
foregoing threads, twines, and cords when boiled, 2 cents per pound;
when bleached, dyed, or otherwise treated, 5 cents per pound: Provided, That the duty on the foregoing threads, twines, and cords shall
Minum.
be not less than 30 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 1005. Cordage, including cables, tarred or untarred, wholly
Cordage.
or in chief value of manila, sisal, or other hard fibers, three-fourths
of 1 cent per pound; cordage, including cables, tarred or untarred,
wholly or in chief value of sunn, or other bast fibers, but not including
cordage made of jute, 2 cents per pound; wholly or in chief value of
hemp, 2½ cents per pound.
PAR. 1006. Gill nettings, nets, webs, and seines, and other nets for
Fising nets, etc.
fishing, composed wholly or in chief value of flax, hemp, or ramie,
and not specially provided for, shall pay the same duty per pound
as the highest rate imposed in this Act upon any of the thread, twine,
or cord of which the mesh is made, and, in addition thereto, 10 per
centum ad valorem.
etc. PAR. 1007. Hose, suitable for conducting liquids or gases, comHoseefo iqs,
Vetable
.
posed wholly or in chief value of vegetable fiber, 17 cents per pound
and 10 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 1008. Fabrics, composed wholly of jute, plain-woven, twilled,
Jte fabrics.
and all other, not specially provided for, not bleached, printed,
stenciled, painted, dyed, colored, nor rendered noninflammable, 1
cent per pound; bleached, printed, stenciled, painted, dyed, colored,
or rendered noninflammable, 1 cent per pound and 10 per centum
ad valorem.
Flax

and hemp.

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

SESS. II.

CH. 356.

903

1922.

PAR. 1009. Woven fabrics, not including articles finished or unfinished, of flax, hemp, or ramie, or of which these substances or
any of them is the component material of chief value (except such as

FscheMDp ad ute
andmnufacturesof.
Woven fabrics.
Fax,hemp,eorrame.

are commonly used as paddings or interlinings in clothing), exceeding
thirty and not exceeding one hundred threads to the square inch,
counting the warp and filling, weighing not less than four and onehalf and not more than twelve ounces per square yard, and exceeding
twelve inches but not exceeding twenty-four inches in width, 55 per
centum ad valorem.

tonderWoven fabrics, such as are commonly used for paddings or inter- Paddin
axorhemp.
linings in clothing, composed wholly or in chief value of flax, or

hemp, or of which these substances or either of them is the component
material of chief value, exceeding thirty and not exceeding one
hundred and ten threads to the square inch, counting the warp
and filling, and weighing not less than four and one-half and not
more than twelve ounces per square yard, 55 per centum ad valorem;
composed wholly or in chief value of jute, exceeding thirty threads Juteto the square inch, counting the warp and filling, and weighing not
less than four and one-half ounces and not more than twelve ounces
per square yard, 50 per centun ad valorem.
PAR. 1010. Woven fabrics, not including articles finished or unfinished, of flax, hemp, ramie, or other vegetable fiber except cotton,
or of which these substances or any of them is the component mate-

rial of chief value, not specially provided for, 40 per centum ad
valorem.

^,otspecil

pro-

Vegetable fiber other
than cotton

PAR. 1011. Plain-woven fabrics, not including articles finished

Plinwoven

PAR. 1012. Pile fabrics, composed wholly or in chief value of

Pil

or unfinished, of flax, hemp, ramie, or other vegetable fiber, except
cotton, weighing less than four and one-half ounces per square yard,
35 per centum ad valorem.

fabrics.

abrics

vegetable fiber other than cotton, cut or uncut, whether or not
the pile covers the whole surface, and manufactures in any form,

Table damask.
made or cut from any of the foregoing, 45 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 1013. Table damask composed wholly or in chief value of Vegetable fiber other
vegetable fiber other than cotton, and manufactures composed than cotton
napkins
wholly or in chief value of such damask, 40 per centum ad valorem. Tow,
sheets,etc.
composed
unfinished,
or
finished
napkins,
and
Towels
1014.
PAR.
wholly or in chief value of flax, hemp, or ramie, or of which these Flahemporrame.

substances are, or any of them is, the component material of chief
value, not exceeding one hundred and twenty threads to the square
inch, counting the warp and filling, 55 per centum ad valorem;
exceeding one hundred and twenty threads to the square inch,
counting the warp and filling, 40 per centum ad valorem; sheets
and pillowcases, composed wholly or in chief value of flax, hemp,
or ramie, or of which these substances are, or any of them is, the

s wh
component material of chief value, 40 per centum ad valorem.
a
PAR. 1015. Fabrics with fast edges not exceeding twelve inches edg .te is. h
egcotabt
in width, and articles made therefrom; tubings, garters, suspenders, than

hen

braces, cords, tassels, and cords and tassels; all the foregoing composed wholly or in chief value of vegetable fiber other than cotton,
or of vegetable fiber other than cotton and india rubber, 35 per
centum ad valorem; 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, 30 per centum ad valorem.
FAR.

1016. Handkerchiefs composed wholly or in chief value of

vegetable fiber other than cotton, finished or unfinished, not hemmed,
35 per centum ad valorem; hemmed or hemstitched, or unfinished
having drawn threads, 45 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 1017. Clothing, and articles of wearing apparel of every apCparel

description, composed wholly or in chief value of vegetable fiber

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
te,
SFlC m,,
andsmaacresof.
Flaxoarsandcus.
ff
utebg

Baggngfor cotton.

floo

oil-

Woven artile

not

Linem,
cloth, etc.

SEss. II.

CH. 356.

1922.

other than cotton, and whether manufactured wholly or in part, not
specially provided for, 35 per centum ad valorem; shirt co ars and
fs, composed wholly or in part of flax, 40 cents per dozen and 10
per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 1018. Bags or sacks made from plain woven fabrics of single
jute yarns or from twilled or other fabrics composed wholly of jute,
not bleached, printed, stenciled, painted, dyed, colored, nor rendered
noninflammable, 1 cent per pound and 10 per centum ad valorem;
bleached, printed, stenciled, painted, dyed, colored, or rendered
noninflammable, 1 cent per pound and 15 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 1019. Bagging for cotton, gunny cloth, and similar fabrics,
suitable for covering cotton, composed of single yarns made of jute,
jute butts, or other vegetable fiber, 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 nor more than thirty-two ounces per square yard,
six-tenths of 1 cent per square yard; weighing more than thirty-two
ounces per square yard, three-tenths of 1 cent per pound.
PAR.

1020. Linoleum, including corticine and cork carpet, 35 per

PAR.

1021. Al woven articles, finished or unfinished, and all

PAR. ____
euding cortie
20 per centum ad valorem; mats
ad valorem; floor oilcloth,
centum
or rugs made of linoleum or floor oilcloth shall be subject to the same
rates of duty as herein provided for linoleum or floor oilcloth.

manufactures of vegetable fiber other than cotton, or of which such
fibers or any of them is the component material of chief value, not
specially provided for, 40 per centum ad valorem.
straw
ti,
carPAR. 1022. Common China, Japan, and India straw matting, and
ets o cotton,
flc oor coverings made therefrom, 3 cents per square yard; carpets,
carpeting, mats, matting, and rugs, made wholly of cotton, flax,
hemp, or jute, or a mixture thereof, 35 per centum ad valorem; all
other floor coverings not specially provided for, 40 per centum ad
valorem.
PAR. 1023. Matting made of cocoa fiber or rattan, 8 cents per
'ttan
o oibeor
square yard; mats made of cocoa fiber or rattan, 6 cents per square
foot.

feroth thancott.

wool ad manufac-

tures of.

crpetwools,etc.

SCHEDULE 11.-WOOL AND MANUFACTURES OF.

PAR. 1101. Wools, not improved by the admixture of merino or
English blood, such as Donskoi, native Smyrna, native South American, Cordova, Valparaiso, and other wools of like character or description, and hair of the camel, in the grease, 12 cents per pound;
washed, 18 cents per pound; scoured, 24 cents per pound. The duty
on such wools imported on the skin shall be 11 cents per pound: Probond
IPrtnder
t made into carpets vided, That such wools may be imported under bond in an amount to
eh v
duty re be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury and under such regulations
tded
as he shall prescribe; and if within three years from the date of
importation or withdrawal from bonded warehouse satisfactory proof
is furnished that the wools have been used in the manufacture of
rugs, carpets, or any other floor coverings, the duties shall be re,sed fior oth tih nmitted or refunded: Providedfurther,That if any such wools imported
carpets, etc.
under bond as above prescribed are used in the manufacture of articles
other than rugs, carpets, or any other floor coverings, there shall be
levied, collected, and paid on any wools so used in violation of the
bond, in addition to the regular duties provided by this paragraph,
20 cents per pound, which shall not be remitted or refunded on exportation of the articles or for any other reason. Wools in the grease
DefinitBm.
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.

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

SEss. II.

CH. 356.

1922.

905

PAR. 1102. Wools, not specially provided for, and hair of the An- wooMEU:I.
gora goat, Cashmere goat, alpaca, and other like animals, imported tures of.
er
m the grease or washed, 31 cents per pound of clean content; im- Oth wools.
ported m the scoured state, 31 cents per pound; imported on the
skin, 30 cents per pound of clean content.
PAR. 1103. If any bale or package containing wools, hairs, wool Hibghstpdutyapplicwastes, or wool waste material, subject to different rates of duty, be differentwools.
entered at any rate or rates lower than applicable, the highest rate
applicable to any part shall apply to the entire contents of such bale

or yackage.b
PAR. 1104. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and sciRe^,tionstobepr
directed to prescribe methods and regulations for carrying out the
provisions of this schedule relating to the duties on wool and hair.
PAR. 1105. Top waste, slubbing waste, roving waste, and ring
waste, 31 cents per pound; garnetted waste, 24 cents per pound;
noils, carbonized, 24 cents per pound; noils, not carbonized, 19 cents
per pound; thread or yarn waste, and all other wool wastes not
specially provided for, 16 cents per pound; shoddy, and wool extract,
16 cents per pound; mungo, woolen rags, and flocks, 7½cents per
pound. Wastes of the hair of the Angora goat, Cashmere goat, alpaca, and other like animals shall be dutiable at the rates provided
for similar types of wool wastes.

Waste noils, etc

Washed, not further

PAR. 1106. Wool, and hair of the kinds provided for in this schedule, advanced than roving.
which has been advanced in any manner or by any process of manufacture beyond the washed or scoured condition, including tops, but
not further advanced than roving, 33 cents per pound and 20 per
centum ad valorem.
a.
PAR. 1107. Yarn, made wholly or in chief value of wool, valued at
not more than 30 cents per pound, 24 cents per pound and 30 per
centum ad valorem; valued at more than 30 cents but not more than
$1 per pound, 36 cents per pound and 35 per centum ad valorem;
valued at more than $1 per pound, 36 cents per pound and 40 per
centum ad valorem.
PAR. 1108. Woven fabrics, weighing not more than four ounces Low wenht.
per square yard, wholly or in chief value of wool, valued at not more
than 80 cents per pound, 37 cents per pound and 50 per centum ad
valorem; valued at more than 80 cents per pound, 45 cents per pound
upon the wool content thereof and 50 per centum ad valorem:
Provided, That if the warp of any of the foregoing is wholly of cotton warp of cotton, etc.
or other vegetable fiber, the duty shall be 36 cents per pound and 50
Heavier weight tab
per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 1109. Woven fabrics, weighing more than four ounces per rics.
square yard, wholly or in chief value of wool, valued at not more
than 60 cents per pound, 24 cents per pound and 40 per centum ad
valorem; valued at more than 60 cents but not more than 80 cents
per pound, 37 cents per pound and 50 per centum ad valorem; valued
at more than 80 cents but not more than $1.50 per pound, 45 cents
per pound upon the wool content thereof and 50 per centum ad
valorem; valued at more than $1.50 per pound, 45 cents per pound
Pileabrces.
upon the wool content thereof and 50 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 1110. Pile fabrics, cut or uncut, whether or not the pile covers
the whole surface, made wholly or in chief value of wool, and manufactures, in any form, made or cut from such pile fabrics, 40 cents
Blanets, etc.
per pound and 50 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 1111. Blankets and similar articles, including carriage and
automobile robes and steamer rugs, made of blanketing, wholly or in
chief value of wool, not exceeding three yards in length, valued at
not more than 50 cents per pound, 18 cents per pound and 30 per
centum ad valorem; valued at more than 50 cents but not more than
$1 per pound, 27 cents per pound and 323 per centum ad valorem;
valued at more than $1 but not more than $1.50 per pound, 30 cents

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II.

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per pound and 35 per centum ad valorem; valued at more than $1.50
per pound, 37 cents per pound and 40 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 1112. Felts, not woven, wholly or in chief value of wool,
Felts.
valued at not more than 50 cents per pound, 18 cents per pound and
30 per centum ad valorem; valued at more than 50 cents but not more
than $1.50 per pound, 27 cents per pound and 35 per centum ad
valorem; valued at more than $1.50 per pound, 37 cents per pound
and 40 per centum ad valorem.
Fabrics
PAR. 1113. Fabrics with fast edges not exceeding twelve inches in
th ft
bris
width, and articles made therefrom; tubings, garters, suspenders,
braces, cords, and cords and tassels; all the foregoing if wholly or in
chief value of wool, 45 cents per pound upon the wool content thereof
and 50 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 1114. Knit fabrics in the piece, wholly or in chief value of
Knitfabrics.
wool, valued at not more than $1 per pound, 30 cents per pound and
In thepiece.
40 per centum ad valorem; valued at more than $1 per pound, 45
cents per pound and 50 per centum ad valorem.
Hose and half hose, and gloves and mittens, wholly or in chief
Hose and ha hose,
oves, and value of wool, valued at not more than $1.75 per dozen pairs, 36
cents per pound and 35 per centum ad valorem; valued at more than
$1.75 per dozen pairs, 45 cents per pound and 50 per centum ad
valorem.
Knit underwear, finished or unfinished, wholly or in chief value of
Underwear.
wool, valued at not more than $1.75 per pound, 36 cents per pound
and 30 per centum ad valorem; valued at more than $1.75 per pound,
45 cents per pound and 50 per centum ad valorem.
Outerwear and other articles, knit or crocheted, finished or unouterear,etc.
finished, wholly or in chief value of wool, and not specially provided
for, valued at not more than $1 per pound, 36 cents per pound and
40 per centum ad valorem; valued at more than $1 and not more
than $2 per pound, 40 cents per pound and 45 per centum ad valorem;
valued at more than $2 per pound, 45 cents per pound and 50 per
centum ad valorem.
PAR. 1115. Clothing and articles of wearing apparel of every
lothing, etc., not
description, not knit or crocheted, manufactured wholly or in part,
composed wholly or in chief value of wool, valued at not more than
$2 per pound, 24 cents per pound and 40 per centum ad valorem;
valued at more than $2 but not more than $4 per pound, 30 cents per
pound and 45 per centum ad valorem; valued at more than $4 per
pound, 45 cents per pound and 50 per centum ad valorem.

SCBaDOL
tures of.

Carpets and rugs.

PAR.

1116. Oriental, Axminster, Savonnerie, Aubusson, and other

carpets and rugs, not made on a power-driven loom; carpets and rugs
of oriental weave or weaves, produced on a power-driven loom;
chenille Axminster carpets and rugs, whether woven as separate
carpets and rugs or in rolls of any width; all the foregoing, plain or
figured, 55 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 1117. Axminster carpets and rugs, not specially provided for;
Brussels,
Ainstr,
Wilton carpets and rugs; Brussels carpets and rugs- velvet and tapstvteteestry carpets and rugs; and carpets and rugs of like character or
description, 40 per centum ad valorem.
Ingrain carpets, and ingrain rugs or art squares, of whatever
ngran, art squares,
et
material composed, and carpets and rugs of like character or descrip.
tion, not specially provided for, 25 per centum ad valorem.
All other floor coverings, including mats and druggets, not specially
Mats, druggets, etc.
provided for, composed wholly or in chief value of wool, 30 per
centum ad valorem.
Parts of any of the foregoing shall be dutiable at the rate provided
Parts fregoing.
for the complete article.
PAR. 1118. Screens, hassocks, and all other articles composed
Scs,hascks,etc.
wholly or in part of barpets or rugs, and not specially provided for,
30 per centum ad valorem.
Oriental,etc.

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907

1922.

PAB. 1119. All manufactures not specially provided for, wholly wscadEnufac
tures of.
or in chief value of wool, 50 per centum ad valorem. · y
i · .s Manufactures not
PAR. 1120. Whenever in this title the word "wool" is used in spoManuyfapervided fort
connection with a manufactured article of which it is a component Defintionof"wool.

material, it shall be held to include wool or hair of the sheep, camel,
Angora goat, Cashmere goat, alpaca, or other like animals, whether
manufactured by the woolen, worsted, felt, or any other process.

SCHEDULE 12.

SCHEDULE 12.-SILK AND SILK GOODS.

Silk and silk goods.
Partially

manuiac-

PAB. 1201. Silk partially manufactured, including total or partial tured,not spun.
degumming other than in the reeling process, from raw silk, waste
silk, or cocoons, or silk and artificial silk, and silk noils exceeding
two inches in length; all the foregoing not twisted or spun, 35 per
centum ad valorem.
PAR. 1202. Spun silk or schappe silk yarn, or yarn of silk and

Spun ya, etc.
etc.

artificial silk, and roving, in skeins, cops or warps, if not bleached,
dyed, colored, or advanced beyond the condition of singles by
grouping or twisting two or more yarns together, on all numbers up
to and icluding number 205, 45 cents per pound, and in addition
thereto ten one-hundredths of 1 cent per number per pound; exceeding number 205, 45 cents per pound, and in addition thereto
fifteen one-hundredths of 1 cent per number per pound; if advanced

beyond the condition of singles by grouping or twisting two or more

yarns together, the specific rate on the single yarn and in addition
thereto 5 cents per pound cumulative; if bleached, dyed, or colored,
the specific rate on unbleached yam and in addition thereto 10 cents
etc.
robs,
er pound cumulative: Povided, That any of the foregoing on
bobbins, spools, or beams, shall pay the foregoing specific rates,
according to the character of the yarn or roving, and in addition inimm
thereto 10 cents per pound: Provided further, That none of the
foregoing single yarn or roving shall pay a less rate of duty than
40 per centum ad valorem: And provided further, That none of the
foregoing two or more ply yarn shall pay a less rate of duty than 45 Determinationn osize
s
per centum ad valorem. In assessing duty on all spun silk or schappe numDber.
silk yarn, or yarn of silk and artificial silk, and roving, the number
indicating the size of the yarn or roving shall be determined by the
number of kilometers that weigh one kilogram, and shall, in all

Minimum

cases, refer to the size of the singles: And provided further, That in ment.
no case shall the duty be assessed on a less number of yards than is
marked on the skeins, bobbins, cops, spools, or beams.
PAR. 1203. Thrown silk not more advanced than singles, tram, or

Thrown, singles,

organzine, 25 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 1204. Sewing silk, twist, floss, and silk threads or yarns of thre,
any description, made from raw silk, not specially provided for, if
in the gum, $1 per pound, but not less than 35 per centum ad valorem;
if ungummed, wholly or in part, or if further advanced by any
process of manufacture, $1.50 per pound, but not less than 40 per
centum ad valorem. In no case shall the duty be assessed on a
less number of yards than is marked on the goods as imported.

assess

Minimum

etc.
it,
itc

assess-

PAR. 1205. Woven fabrics in the piece, composed wholly or in piWovenfabris.inthe
chief value of silk, not specially provided for, 55 per centum ad
valorem.

ush es ve v
PAR. 1206. Plushes, including such as are commercially known as Pl , et, etc.
hatter's plush, velvets, chenilles, velvet or plush ribbons, and all
other pile fabrics, cut or uncut, composed wholly or in chief value

of silk, 60 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 1207. Fabrics with fast edges, wholly or in chief value of

silk, not exceeding twelve inches in width, including ribbons, and
articles made therefrom, tubings, garters, suspenders, braces, cords,

fast
edges.

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1922.

tassels, and cords and tassels; all the foregoing composed wholly or
in chief value of silk or of silk and india rubber, not embroidered
in any manner by hand or machinery, and not specially provided
for, 55 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 1208. Knit fabrics, in the piece, composed wholly or in
nitfabrics.
chief value of silk, 55 per centum ad valorem; knit underwear, hose,
half hose, and gloves, finished or unfinished, composed wholly or in
chief value of silk, 60 per centum ad valorem; outerwear and other
goods, knit or crocheted, finished or unfinished, composed wholly
or in chief value of silk, 60 per centum ad valorem.
and
Pa. 1209. Handkerchiefs, and woven mufflers, composed wholly
m'e"
or in chief value of silk, finished or unfinished, not hemmed, 55 per
centum ad valorem; hemmed or hemstitched, 60 per centum ad
valorem.
1210. Clothing, and articles of wearing apparel of every
p
othing etc., not
description, not knit or crocheted, manufactured wholly or in part,
composed wholly or in chief value of silk, and not specially provided
scvLZo1s.

speciay provided for.

for, 60 per centum ad valorem.
PAB. 1211. All manufactures of silk, or of which silk is the com-

ponent material of chief value, not specially provided for, 60 per
centum ad valorem.

PAR. 1212. In ascertaining the weight or number of silk under

Ascegrttinment
.ords
ofth

the provisions of this schedule, either in the threads, yarns, or fabrics, the weight or number shall be taken in the condition in which
found in the goods, without deduction therefrom for any dye, coloring matter, or moisture, or other foreign substance or material.
The number of single threads to the inch in the warp provided for in
this title shall be determined by the number of spun or reeled singles
of which such single or two or more ply threads are composed.
PPA. 1213. Artificial silk waste, 10 per centum ad valorem;
Articial l.
artificial silk waste, not further advanced than sliver or roving, 20
cents per pound, but not less than 25 per centum ad valorem; yarns
made from artificial silk waste, if singles, 25 cents per pound; if
advanced beyond the condition of singles by grouping or twisting
pound; yarns, threads, and
yarns together, 30 cents per or
two or more
.olal
offyatirnstogetheri
fiaY~-ic r
tfilam
sik,
filaments of artificial or imitation silk, or of artificial or imitation
sil r horseair
horsehair, by whatever name known and by whatever process made,
if singles, 45 cents per pound; if advanced beyond the condition of
singles by grouping or twisting two or more yarns together, 50 cents
per pound; products of cellulose, not compounded, whether known
as visca, cellophane, or by any other name, such as are ordinarily
used in braiding or weaving and in imitation of silk, straw, or similar
substances, 55 cents per pound; but none of the foregoing yarns,
threads, or filaments, or products of cellulose shall pay a less rate
of duty than 45 per centum ad valorem. Knit goods, ribbons, and
other fabrics and articles composed wholly or in chief value of any
of the foregoing, 45 cents per pound and 60 per centum ad valorem.
SCHE)ULE

Papers and books.

r^n. paper.

Negotiations author- of
ized with country r*-

13.-PAPERS AND BOOKS.

PAR. 1301. Printing paper, not specially provided for, one-fourth
1 cent per pound and 10 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That if

stritigexportprit any country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of govern-

=pur8e

tec.,teof

ment shall forbid or restrict in any way the exportation of (whether

by law, order, regulation, contractual relation, or otherwise, directly
or indirectly), or impose any export duty, export license fee, or other
export charge of any kind whatsoever (whether in the form of additional charge or license fee or otherwise) upon printing paper, wood
pulp, or wood for use in the manufacture of wood pulp, the President
may enter into negotiations with such country, dependency, province,
or other subdivision of government to secure the removal of such

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CH. 356.

1922.

909

ap
"ULE 13os.
prohibition, restriction, export duty, or other export charge, and if it
is not removed he may, by proclamation, declare such failure of
negotiations, setting forth the facts. Thereupon, and until such goaations a f
ne0
duty
prohibition, restriction, export duty, or other export charge is thditional
removed, there shall be imposed upon printing paper provided for in
this paragraph, when imported either directly or indirectly from such
country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of government, Further amount to
an additional duty of 10 per centum ad valorem and in addition
thereto an amount equal to the highest export duty or other export
charge imposed by such country, dependency, province, or other
subdivision of government, upon either an equal amount of printing
paper or an amount of wood pulp or wood for use in the manufacture
of wood pulp necessary to manufacture such printing paper.
Paper board, pulpPAR. 1302. Paper board, wallboard, and pulpboard, including board,etc.
cardboard, and leather board or compress leather, not laminated,
glazed, coated, lined, embossed, printed, decorated or ornamented
in any manner, nor cut into shapes for boxes or other articles and not
specially provided for, 10 per centum ad valorem; pulpboard in rolls
for use in the manufacture of wallboard, 5 per centum ad valorem:
Provided, That for the purposes of this Act any of the foregoing less Thickess deemed
than nine one-thousandths of an inch in thickness shall be deemed to paper.
be paper; sheathing paper, roofing paper, deadening felt, sheathing
felt, roofing felt or felt roofing, whiether or not saturated or coated, Counter
g duty
10 per centum ad valorem. If any country, dependency, province, on imports from coun1
i',es fromp
or other subdivision of government imposes a duty on any article aes 'on
specified in this paragraph, when imported from the United States, United States.
in excess of the duty herein provided, there shall be imposed upon
such article, when imported either directly or indirectly from such
country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of government,
a duty equal to that imposed by such country, dependency, province,
or other subdivision of government on such article imported from the
United States.
Filter masse, fiber
PAR. 1303. Filter masse or filter stock, composed wholly or in ware, etc.
part of wood pulp, wood flour, cotton or other vegetable fiber, 20
per centum ad valorem; indurated fiber ware, masks composed of
paper, pulp or papier-mach6, manufactures of pulp, and manufactures of papier-mache, not specially provided for, 25 per centum ad
valorem.
PAR. 1304. Papers commonly known as tissue paper, stereotype Tissue, copying,
paper, and copying paper, india and bible paper, condenser paper, book, etc.
carbon paper, coated or uncoated, bibulous paper, pottery paper,
tissue paper for waxing, and all paper similar to any of the foregoing,
not specially provided for, colored or uncolored, white or printed,
weighing not over six pounds to the ream of four hundred and eighty
sheets on the basis of twenty by thirty inches, and whether in reams
or any other form, 6 cents per pound and 15 per centum ad valorem;
weighing over six pounds and less than ten pounds to the ream, 5
cents per pound and 15 per centum ad valorem; india and bible
paper weighing ten pounds or more and less than eighteen pounds to
the ream, 4 cents per pound and 15 per centuin ad valorem; crepe Provio.
paper, 6 cents per pound and 15 per centum ad valorem: Provided, Minimum.
That no article composed wholly or in chief value of one or more of
the papers specified in this paragraph shall pay a less rate of duty
than that imposed upon the component paper of chief value of which
such article is made.
ed urface, etc.
PAR. 1305. Papers with coated surface or surfaces, not specially
provided for, 5 cents per pound and 15 per centum ad valorem;
papers with coated surface or surfaces, embossed or printed otherwise than lithographically, and papers wholly or partly covered with
metal or its solutions (except as herein provided), or with gelatin,

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1922.

linseed oil cement, or flock, 5 cents per pound and 15 per centum ad
raSCHEDULEo.
Withdecorated sur- valorem; papers, including wrapping paper, with the surface or suraceetc.
faces wholly or partly decorated or covered with a design, fancy
effect, pattern, or character, except designs, fancy effects, patterns,
or characters produced on a paper machine without attachments, or
produced by lithographic process, 4J cents per pound, and in addition thereto, if embossed, or printed otherwise than lithographically,
or wholly or partly covered with metal or its solutions, or with gelatin
etcovered, etc.
or flock, 17 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That paper wholly or
partly covered with metal or its solutions, and weighing less than
fifteen pounds per ream of four hundred and eighty sheets, on the
basis of twenty by twenty-five inches, shall pay a duty of 5 cents per
pound and 17 per centum ad valoremr gummed papers, not specially
provided for, including simplex decalcomania paper not printed, 5
lotb-lined, etc.
cents per pound; cloth-lined or reinforced paper, 5 cents per pound
wax-coted, imita- and 17 per centum ad valorem; papers with paraffin or wax-coated
tion parchment, etc.
surface or surfaces, vegetable parchment paper, grease-proof and imitation parchment papers which have been supercalendered and rendered transparent or partially so, by whatever name known, all other
grease-proof and imitation parchment paper, not specially provided
for, by whatever name known, 3 cents per pound and 15 per centum

Ba, boxes, etc.

other articles, composed wholly or in chief value of any of the foregoing papers. not specially provided for, and all boxes of paper or
papier-mach6 or wood covered or lined with any of the foregoing
papers or lithographed paper, or covered or lined with cotton or other
vegetable fiber, 5 cents per pound and 20 per centum ad valorem;
hotogrphic,
sensi- plain basic paper for albumenizing, sensitizing, baryta coating, or
et c

tiz

ad valorem; bags, printed matter other than lithographic, and all

for photographic processes by using solar or artificial light, 3 cents

per pound and 15 per centum ad valorem; albumenized or sensitized
paper or paper otherwise surface coated for photographic purposes,
Transfer paper with 3 cents per pound and 20 per centum ad valorem; wet transfer paper
impnts.
or paper prepared wholly with glycerin or glycerin combined with
other materials, containing the imprints taken from lithographic
plates or stones, 65 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 1306. Pictures, calendars, cards, labels, flaps, cigar bands
etograthic,
placards, and other articles, composed wholly or in chief value of
paper lithographically printed in whole or in part from stone, gelatin,
metal, or other material (except boxes, views of American scenery
or objects, and music, and illustrations when forming part of a periodical or newspaper, or of bound or unbound books, accompanying the
same), not specially provided for, shall pay duty at the following
cLabels, lps, and rates: Labels and flaps, printed in less than eight colors (bronze
printing to be counted as two colors), but not printed in whole or in
part in metal leaf, 25 cents per pound; cigar bands of the same
number of colors and printings, 35 cents per pound; labels and flaps
printed in eight or more colors (bronze pnnting to be counted as two
colors), but not printed in whole or in part in metal leaf, 35 cents
per pound; cigarbands of the same number of colors and printings,
50 cents per pound; labels and flaps, printed in whole or in part in
metal leaf, 60 cents per pound; cigar bands, printed in whole or in
Embssed, etc.
part in metal leaf, 65 cents per pound; all labels, flaps, and bands,
not exceeding ten square inches cutting size in dimensions, if embossed
or die-cut, shall pay the same rate of duty as hereinbefore provided
for cigar bands of the same number of colors and printings (but no
extra duty shall be assessed on labels, flaps, and bands for embossing
'ge or die-cutting); fashion magazines or periodicals, printed in whole or
drFmashio
in part by lithographic process, or decorated by hand, 8 cents per
pound; decalcomanmas in ceramic colors, weighing not over one hundred pounds per one thousand sheets on the basis of twenty by thirty

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911

1922.

inches in dimensions, 70 cents per pound and 15 per centum ad

rpcad"IS.

valorem; weighing over one hundred pounds per one thousand sheets

on the basis of twenty by thirty inches in dimensions, 22 cents per
pound and 15 per centum ad valorem; if backed with metal leaf, 65
cents per pound; all other decalcomanias, except toy decalcomanias,
40 cents per pound; all other articles than those hereinbefore specifi- otir ar
cally provided for in this paragraph, not exceeding eight onethousandths of an inch in thickness, 25 cents per pound; exceeding
eight and not exceeding twenty one-thousandths of an inch in thickness, and less than thirty-five square inches cutting size in dimensions,
10 cents per pound; exceeding thirty-five square inches cutting size
in dimensions, 9½cents per pound, and in addition thereto on all of
said articles exceeding eight and not exceeding twenty one-thousandths of an inch in thickness, if either die-cut or embossed, onehalf of 1 cent per pound; if both die-cut and embossed, 1 cent per
pound; exceeding twenty one-thousandths of an inch in thickness, 71
cents per pound: Provided, That in the case of articles hereinbefore
specified the thickness which shall determine the rate of duty to be

PSrmination
of thimcns, catting

imposed shall be that of the thinnest material found in the article, sze,
but for the purposes of this paragraph the thickness of lithographs
mounted or pasted uponpaaper, cardboard, or other material shall
be the combined thickness of the lithograph and the foundation on
which it is mounted or pasted, and the cutting size shall be the area
which is the product of the greatest dimensions of length and breadth
of the article, and if the article is made up of more than one piece,
the cutting size shall be the combined cutting sizes of all of the lithographically printed parts in the article.
w iti
PAR. 1307. Writing, letter, note, drawing, handmade paper and

ng,draing,etc.

paper commercially known as handmade paper and machine handmade paper, japan paper and imitation japan paper by whatever
name known, Bristol board of the kinds made on a Fourdrinier Brboad etc.
machine, and ledger, bond, record, tablet, typewriter, manifold, and
onionskin and imitation onionskin paper, calendered or uncalendered,
weighing seven pounds or over per ream, and paper similar to any
of the foregoing, 3 cents per pound and 15 per centum ad valorem;
but if any of the foregoing is ruled, bordered, embossed, printed,

RUdd

rates: Provided, That in computing the duty on such paper every

Re°m computed.

lined, or decorated in any manner, other than by lithographic process,
it shall pay 10 per centum ad valorem in addition to the foregoing

roo.

one hundred and eighty-seven thousand square inches shall be
taken to be a ream.
PAR. 1308. Paper envelopes not specially provided for shall pay

the same rate of duty as the paper from which made and in addition
thereto, if plain, 5 per centum ad valorem; if bordered, embossed,
printed, tinted, decorated, or lined, 10 per centum ad valorem; if
lithographed, 30 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 1309. Jacquard designs on ruled paper, or cut on Jacquard
cards, and parts of such designs, 35 per centum ad valorem; hanging

Envelos.

p
Jacqaddesgn

paper, not printed, lithographed, dyed, or colored, 10 per centum ad
valorem; printed, lithographed, dyed, or colored, 1j cents per
pound and 20 per centum ad valorem; wrapping paper not specially
provided for, 30 per centum ad valorem; blotting paper, 30 per
centum ad valorem; filtering paper, 5 cents per pound and 15 per
centum ad valorem; paper not specially provided for, 30 per centum
ad valorem.
PAR. 1310. Unbound books of all kinds, bound books of all kinds Books,etc.
except those bound wholly or in part in leather, sheets or printed
pages of books bound wholly or in part in leather, pamphlets, music
in books or sheets, and printed matter, all the foregoing not specially
provided for, if of bona fide foreign authorship, 15 per centum ad

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valorem; all other, not specially provided for, 25 per centum ad
valorem; blank books, slate boos, drawings, engravings, photographs, etchings, maps, and charts, 25 per centum ad valorem; book
bindings or covers wholly or in part of leather, not specially provided
for, 30 per centum ad valorem; books of paper or other material for
children's books.
children's use, printed lithographically or otherwise, not exceeding
in weight twenty-four ounces each, with more reading matter than
letters, numerals, or descriptive words, 25 per centum ad valorem;
booklets, printed lithographically or otherwise, not specially provieBke", Pt car ds vided for, 7 cents per pound; booklets, wholly or in chief value of
paper, decorated m whole or in part by hand or by spraying,
whether or not printed, not specially provided for, 15 cents per
pound; all post cards (not including American views), plain, decorated, embossed, or printed except by lithographic process, 30 per
centum ad valorem; views of any landscape, scene,building, place
or locality in the United States, on cardboard or paper, not thinner
than eight one-thousandths of one inch, by whatever process printed
or produced, including those wholly or in part produced by either
lithographic or photogelatin process (except show cards), occupying
thirty-five square inches or less of surface per view, bound or unbound, or in any other form, 15 cents per pound and 25 per centum
ad valorem; thinner than eight one-thousandths of one inch, $2 per
eetingcasds, book- thousand; greeting cards, and all other social and gift cards, includets, etc.
ing those in the form of folders and booklets, wholly or partly manufactured, with text or greeting, 45 per centum ad valorem; without
text or greeting, 30 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 1311. Photograph, autograph, scrap, post-card and postageAlbnms.
stamp albums, and albums for phonograph records, wholly or partly
manufactured, 30 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 1312. Playing cards, 10 cents per pack and 20 per centum
Playingcards.
ad valorem.
PAR. 1313. Papers and paper board and pulpboard, including cardEmbossed, die cat,
Papero

3s.

board and leatherboard or compress leather, embossed, cut, die-cut,

papers, etc.

or stamped into designs or shapes, such as initials, monograms, lace,
borders, bands, strips, or other forms, or cut or shaped for boxes or
other articles, plain or printed, but not lithographed, and not specially
provided for; paper board and pulpboard, including cardboard and
leatherboard or compress leather, laminated, glazed, coated, lined,
printed, decorated, or ornamented in any manner- press boards and
etc.
rboards,
press paper, all the foregoing, 30 per centum ad valorem; test or container boards of a bursting strength above sixty pounds per square
inch by the Mullen or the Webb test, 20 per centum ad valorem;
stereotype-matrix mat or board, 35 per centum ad valorem; wall
pockets, composed wholly or in chief value of paper, papier-mache or
paper board, whether or not die-cut, embossed, or printed lithographically or otherwise; boxes, composed wholly or in chief value of
Boxe.
paper, papier-mach6 or paper board, and not specially provided
paprctuvded not for; manufactures of paper, or of which paper is the component
material of chief value, not specially provided for, all the foregoing,
35 per centum ad valorem.
SCHEDULE 14.

Sundries.

SCHEDULE

14.--SUND

Es.

PAR. 1401. Asbestos, manufactures of: Yarn and woven fabrics
composed wholly or in chief value of asbestos, 30 per centum ad
valorem; all other manufactures composed wholly or in chief value
of asbestos, 25 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 1402. Boxing gloves, baseballs, footballs, tennis balls, golf
Athietic sprtin aballs, and all other balls, of whatever material composed, finished or
unfinished, designed for use in physical exercise or in any indoor or
Asbesto

manutac-

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outdoor game or sport, and all clubs, rackets, bats, or other equipment, such as is ordinarily used in conjunction therewith in exercise
or play, all the foregoin, not specially provided for, 30 per centum
ad valorem; ice and roller skates, and parts thereof, 20 per centum
ad valorem.
PAR. 1403. Spangles and beads, including bugles, but not including

beads of ivory or imitation pearl beads and beads in imitation of
precious or semiprecious stones, 35 per centum ad valorem; beads of
ivory, 45 per centum ad valorem; fabrics and articles not ornamented

with beads, spangles, or bugles, nor embroidered, tamboured, appliqu6d, or scalloped, composed wholly or in chief value of beads or
spangles other than imitation pearl beads and beads in imitation of
precious or semiprecious stones, 60 per centum ad valorem; imitation pearl beads of all kinds and shapes, of whatever material corn-

8 Ho[,ls

14.

spangles, beads, etc

Fabrics

of.

Imitation pearl
e

be,

posed, strung or loose, mounted or unmounted, 60 per centum ad
valorom; all other beads in imitation of precious or semiprecious
stones, of all kinds and shapes, of whatever material composed,
strung or loose, mounted or unmounted, 45 per centum ad valorem:
Provided, That no article composed wholly or in chief value of any Proviso.
um
of the foregoing beads or spangles shall pay duty at a less rate than
is imposed in any paragraph of this Act upon such articles without
such beads or spangles.
PAR. 1404. Ramie hat braids, 30 per centum ad valorem; manu- Ram iehatbraids.
factures of ramie hat braids, 40 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 1405. Boots, shoes, or other footwear, the uppers of which e 00tpe"arwith dwos
are composed wholly or in chief value of wool, cotton, ramie, animal
hair, fiber, or silk, or substitutes for any of the foregoing, whether or
not the soles are composed of leather, wood, or other material, 35
per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 1406. Braids, plaits, laces, and willow sheets or squares, corn-

posed wholly or in chief value of straw, chip, grass, palm leaf, willow,
osier, rattan, real horsehair, cuba bark, or manila hemp, suitable for
making or ornamenting hats, bonnets, or hoods, not bleached, dyed,
colored, or stained, 15 per centum ad valorem; bleached, dyed, colored, or stained, 20 per centum ad valorem; hats, bonnets, and

hoods composed wholly or in chief value of any of the foregoing
materials, whether wholly or partly manufactured, but not blocked or
trimmed, 35 per centum ad valorem; blocked or trimmed, 50 per
centum ad valorem; straw hats known as harvest hats, valued at
less than $3 per dozen, 25 per centum ad valorem; all other hats,
composed wholly or in chief value of any of the foregoing materials,
whether wholly or partly manufactured, not blocked or blocked, not
trimmed or trimmed, if sewed, 60 per centum ad valorem.

Stw ci

etc.

H.a, bonets, and

Hvest

ats.

But the ,and"'stri.'", as

terms "grass" and "straw" shall be understood to mean these substances in their natural form and structure, and not the separated
fiber thereof.

PAR. 1407. Brooms, made of broom corn, straw, wooden fiber, or es,Bro."tolet brush

twigs, 15 per centum ad valorem; tooth brushes and other toilet
brushes, 45 per centum ad valorem; all other brushes not specially
provided for, including feather dusters, and hair pencils in quills or
otherwise, 45 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 1408. Bristles, sorted, bunched, or prepared, 7 cents per Bristes'
pound.
PAR. 1409. Button forms of lastings, mohair or silk cloth, and Buttonorms
manufactures of other material, in patterns of such size, shape, or
form as to be fit for buttons exclusively, and not exceeding three
inches in any one dimension, 10 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 1410. Buttons of vegetable ivory, finished or partly finished, iuttop,

1t cents per line per gross; vegetable ivory button blanks, not drilled,
dyed, or finishe, three-fourths of 1 cent per line per gross; buttons
42150"-23-58

aesell.

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

914
e

Meanngoflinemeas
ure.

Agatebuttons etc.

CH. 356.

1922.

of pearl or shell, finished or partly finished, 1i cents per line per
gross; pearl or shell button blanks, not turned, faced, or drilled, 1I

14.
Lsmd

Cork and m

SESS. II.

cents per line per gross; and, in addition thereto, on all the forethe term "line
going, 25 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That
as used in this paragraph shall mean the line button measure of
one-fortieth of one inch.
PAB. 1411. Buttons commonly known as agate buttons, 15 per

centum ad valorem; parts of buttons and button molds or blanks,
finished or unfinished, not specially provided for, and all collar and
cuff buttons and studs composed wholly of bone, mother-of-pearl,
ivory, vegetable ivory, or agate, and buttons not specially provided
for, 45 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 1412. Cork bark, cut into squares, cubes, or quarters, 8 cents
per pound; stoppers over three-fourths of one inch in diameter,
measured at the larger end, and disks, wafers, and washers over
three-sixteenths of one inch in thickness, made from natural cork
bark, 20 cents per pound; made from artificial or composition cork,
10 cents per pound; stoppers, three-fourths of one inch or less in

yatac'

diameter, measured at thelarger end, and disks, wafers, and washers,

three-sixteenths of one inch or less in thickness, made from natural
cork bark, 25 cents per pound; made from artificial or composition
cork, 12½cents per pound; cork, artificial, commonly known as
composition or compressed cork, manufactured from cork waste or
granulated cork, in the rough and not further advanced than in the
form of slabs, blocks, or planks, suitable for cutting into stoppers,.
s
or per pound;
6 cents
artiloundiners,
floats orr similar artles,
disks, lineroats,
sticks suitable for the manufacture of disks, wafers, or washers, 10
cents per pound; granulated or ground cork, 25 per centum ad
valorem; cork insulation, wholly or in chief value of cork waste,
granulated or ground cork, in slabs, boards, planks, or molded
forms; cork tile; cork paper, and manufactures, wholly or in chief
value of cork bark or artificial cork and not specially provided for,
30 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 1413. Dice, dominoes, draughts, chessmen, and billiard, pool,
Dice, dominos, et.
and bagatelle balls, and poker chips, of ivory, bone, or other material,
50 per centum ad valorem.
PAB. 1414. Dolls, and parts of dolls, doll heads toy marbles, of
Dos,tos, etc.

whatever materials composed, air rifles, toy balloons, toy books

without reading matter other than letters, numerals, or descriptive
words, bound or unbound, and parts thereof, garlands, festooning
and Christmas tree decorations made wholly or in chief value of
tinsel wire, lame or lahn, bullions or metal threads, and all other toys,
and parts of toys, not composed of china, porcelain, parian, bisque,
earthen or stone ware, and not specially provided for, 70 per centum
ad valorem.
PAR. 1415. Emery, corundum and artificial abrasive grains and
Ey and artic
emery, corundum and artificial abrasives, ground, pulverized, refined, or manufactured, 1 cent per pound; emery wheels, emery files,
and manufactures of which emery, corundum or artificial abrasive is
the component material of chief value, not specially provided for;
and all papers, cloths, and combinations of paper and cloth, wholly
or partly coated with artificial or natural abrasives, or with a combination of natural and artificial abrasives; all the foregoing, 20 per
centum ad valorem.
PaR. 1416. Firecrackers of all kinds, 8 cents per pound; bombs,
Fsorks.
rockets, Roman candles, and fireworks of all descriptions, not specially provided for, 12 cents per pound; the weight on all the foregoing to include all coverings, wrappings, and packing material.
PAB. 1417. Matches, friction or lucifer, of all descriptions, per
gross of one hundred and forty-four boxes, containing not more than

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

SESS. II.

CH. 356.

915

1922.

one hundred matches per box, 8 cents per gross; when imported otherwise than in boxes containing not more than one hundred matches

SUInW B14.

each, three-fourths of 1 cent per one thousand matches; wax matches,
wind matches, and all matches in books or folders or having a stained,
dyed, or colored stick or stem, tapers consisting of a wick coated
with an inflammable substance, night lights, fusees and time-burning
chemical signals, by whatever name known, 40 per centum ad valorem: P
Provided, That in accordance with section 10 of "An Act to provide Whi'e phoshorns
for a tax upon white phosphorus matches, and for other purposes," mvolhe ed3ded

approved April 9, 1912, white phosphorus matches manufactured
wholly or in part in any foreign country shall not be entitled to enter
at any of the ports of the United States, and the importation thereof

is hereby prohibited: Providedfurther,That nothing in this Act con-

tained shall be held to repeal or modify said Act to provide for a tax
upon white phosphorus matches, and for other purposes, approved

wnot modified.

April 9, 1912.
LPA. 1418. Percussion caps, cartridges, and cartridge shells empty, tnri"esus

' car-

30 per centum ad valorem; blasting caps, containing not more than
one gram charge of explosive, $2.25 per thousand; containing more

than one gram charge of explosive, 75 cents per thousand additional
for each additional one-half gram charge of explosive; mining, blasting, or safety fuses of all kinds, $1 per thousand feet.
PAB. 1419. Feathers and downs, on the skin or otherwise, crude or

not dressed, colored, or otherwise advanced or manufactured in any
manner, not specially provided for, 20 per centum ad valorem; dressed,
colored, or otherwise advanced or manufactured in any manner, in-

Feathers and downs.

cluding quilts of down and other manufactures of down; artificial or iuery oamets
ornamentalfeatherssuitable for useas millineryornaments, artificial or of feathers, fowers, etc.

ornamental fruits, vegetables, grains,leaves,flowers, and stems or parts
thereof, of whatever material composed, notspeciallyprovided for, 60
per centum ad valorem; natural leaves, plants,shrubs,herbs, trees, and
parts thereof, chemically treated, colored, dyed or painted, not specially
provided for, 60 per centum ad valorem; boas, boutonnieres, wreaths,

and all articles not specially provided for, composed wholly or in chief
value of any of the feathers, flowers, leaves, or other material herein
mentioned, 60 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That the importa-

Bs, wreahs, etc.
pPro
lu-

tion of birds of paradise, aigrettes, egret plumes or so-called osprey etc., of win birds

plumes, and the feathers, quills, heads, wings, tails, skins, or parts of hbited
skins, of wild birds, either raw or manufactured, and not for scientific
or educational purposes, is hereby prohibited- but this provision shall

not apply to the feathers or plumes of ostriches or to the feathers or
plumes of domestic fowls of any kind: Proidedfurther, That birds of
paradise, and the feathers, quills, heads, wings, tails, skins, or parts
thereof, and all aigrettes, egret plumes, or so-called osprey plumes
and the feathers, quills, heads, wings, tails skins, or parts of skins, of
wild birds, either raw or manufactured, of like kind to those the importation of which is prohibited by the foregoing provisions of this
paragraph, which maybe found in the United States, on and after the
passage of this Act, except as to such plumage or parts of birds in

actual use for personal adornment, and except such plumage, birds
or parts thereof imported therein for scientific or educational pur-

poses, shall be presumed for the purpose of seizure to have been imported unlawfully after October 3, 1913, and the collector of customs c,b

shall seize the same unless the possessor thereof shall establish, to the
satisfaction of the collector that the same were imported into the
United States prior to October 3, 1913, or as to such plumage or parts
of birds that they were plucked or derived in the United States from
birds lawfully therein; and in case of seizure by the collector, he shall

Exceptons.
le
ofnOrfpo

Exeptns.

o"'yde

ector

proceed as in case of forfeiture for violation of the customs laws, and torfre t o e

the same shall be forfeited, unless the claimant shall, in any legal

pro

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
14.

1C3E"Z

unds

SEss. II.

CH. 356.

1922.

proceeding to enforce such forfeiture, other than a criminal prosecution, overcome the presumption of illegal importation and establish

that the birds or articles seized, of like kind to those mentioned the
importation of which is prohibited as above, were imported into the
United States prior to October 3, 1913, or were plucked in the United
States from birds lawfully therein.

m, etc.

That whenever birds or plumage, the importation of which is prohibited by the foregoing provisions of this paragraph, are forfeited to

Destruction i not so

or educational purposes, but not for sale or personal use; and in the

pad,

Fdo

used.

otO

p-75

the Government, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized
to place the same with the departments or bureaus of the Federal or
State Governments or societies or museums for exhibition or scientific

event of such birds or plumage not being required or desired by either
Federal or State Government or for educational purposes, they shall
be destroyed.
That nothing in this Act shall be construed to repeal the provisions
, birds laws
. 84- vo of the Act of March4, 1913, chapter 145 (Thirty-seventh Statutes at
L rge, page 847), or the Act of July 3, 1918 (Fortieth Statutes at
Large, page 755), or any other law of the United States, now of force,
intend-edfor the protection or preservation of birds within the United

States. That if on investigation by the collector before seizure, or
sihn oaw before trial for forfeiture, or if at such trial if such seizure has been

ction inoti

iead

vol. 3, p.
o,P. 5.

847; VoL

made, it shall be made to appear to the collector, or the prosecuting
officer of the Government, as the case may be, that no illegal importation of such feathers has been made, but that the possession,
acquisition or purchase of such feathers is or has been made in
volation of the provisions of the Act of March 4, 1913, chapter 145
(Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 847), or the Act of July 3,

1918 (Fortieth Statutes at Large, page 755), or any other law of the

United States, now of force, intended for the protection or preservation of birds within the United States, it shall be the duty of the
collector, or such prosecuting officer, as the case may be, to report the
facts to the proper officials of the United States, or State or Territory
charged with the duty of enforcing such laws.
PAR. 1420. Furs dressed on the skin, excepting silver or black fox

Furs.

Weeringappare.

furs, not advanced further than dyeing, 25 per centum ad valorem;
plates and mats of dog and goat skins, 10 per centum ad valorem;
manufactures of furs, excepting silver or black fox, further advanced
than dressing and dyeing, prepared for use as material, joined or
sewed together, including plates, linings, and crosses, except plates
and mats of dog and goat skins, and articles manufacured from fur,
not specially provided for, 40 per centum ad valorem; silver or black
fox skins, dressed or undressed, and manufactures thereof, not
specially provided for, 50 per centum ad valorem; articles of wearing
apparel of every description partly or wholly manufactured, composed
wholly or in chief value of hides or skins of cattle of the bovine
species, or of dog or goat skins, and not specially provided for, 15 per
centum ad valorem; articles of wearing apparel of every description
wholly or in part manufactured, composed wholly or in chief value of

fur, not specially provided for, 50 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 1421. Hatters' furs, or furs not on the skin, prepared for

a ns

GUn Wd.

ir.

hatters' use, including fur skins carroted, 35 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 1422. Fans of all kinds, except common palm-leaf fans, 50 per
centum ad valorem.
PAR. 1423. Gun wads of all descriptions, not specially provided for,
20 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 1424. Human hair, raw, 10 per centum ad valorem; cleaned

or commercially known as drawn, but not manufactured, 20 per
centum ad valorem; manufactures of human hair, including nets and
nettings, or of which human hair is the component material of chief
value, not specially provided for, 35 per centum ad valorem.

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

SESS. II.

CH. 356.

1922.

PAR. 1425. Hair, curled, suitable for beds or mattresses, 10 per

centum ad valorem.
PAR. 1426. Haircloth,

917
s

1r".L
*

curled hair.

known

as "crinoline"

cloth, haircloth,

Hairoth, etc.

known as "hair seating," and hair press cloth, not specially provided
for, 35 per centum ad valorem; hair felt, made wholly or in chief value
of animal hair, not specially provided for, 25 per centum ad valorem;
manufactures of hair felt, including gun wads, 35 per centum ad

valorem; cloths and all other manufactures of every description,
wholly or in chief value of cattle hair or horsehair, not specially pro-

vided for, 40 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 1427. Hats, caps, bonnets, and hoods, for men's, women's,
boys', or children's wear, trimmed or untrimmed, including bodies,

at,,

cfapS bonnet

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 $4.50 per dozen, $1.50 per dozen; valued at
more than $4.50 and not more than $9 per dozen, $3 per dozen; valued
at more than $9 and not more than $15 per dozen, $5 per dozen;
valued at more than $15 and not more than $24 per dozen, $7 per
dozen; valued at more than $24 and not more than $36 per dozen, $10
per dozen; valued at more than $36 and not more than $48 per dozen,
$13 per dozen; valued at more than $48 per dozen, $16 per dozen;
and in addition thereto, on all the foregoing, 25 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 1428. Jewelry, commonly or commercially so known, finished Jewelry

or unfinished, of whatever material composed, valued above 20 cents
per dozen pieces, 80 per centum ad valorem; rope, curb, cable, and
fancy patterns of chain not exceeding one-half inch in diameter,
width, or thickness, valued above 30 cents per yard; and articles
valued above 20 cents per dozen pieces, designed to be worn on apparel
or carried on or about or attached to the person, such as and including
buckles, cardcases, chains, cigar cases, cigar cutters, cigar holders,
cigarette cases, cigarette holders, coin holders, collar, cuff, and dress
buttons, combs, match boxes, mesh bags and purses, millinery, military and hair ornaments, pins, powder cases, stamp cases, vanity
cases, and like articles; all the foregoing and parts thereof, finished
or partly finished, composed of metal, whether or not enameled,
washed, covered, or plated, including rolled gold plate, and whether
or not set with precious or semiprecious stones, pearls, cameos, coral
or amber, or with imitation precious stones or Imitation pearls, 80
per centum ad valorem; stampings, galleries, mesh, and other materials of metal, whether or not set with glass or paste, finished or
partly finished, separate or in strips or sheets, suitable for use in
the manufacture of any of the foregoing articles in this paragraph,
75 er centum ad valorem.
PAR. 1429. Diamonds and other precious stones, rough or uncut, pIrOUS sto

and not advanced in condition or value from their natural state by
cleaving, splitting, cutting, or other process, whether in their natural
form or broken, any of the foregoing not set, and diamond dust, 10
per centum ad valorem; pearls and parts thereof, drilled or undrilled,
but not set or strung, 20 per centum ad valorem; diamonds, coral,
rubies, cameos, and other precious stones and semiprecious stones,
cut but not set, and suitable for use in the manufacture of jewelry,
20 per centum ad valorem; imitation precious stones, cut or faceted,

imitation semiprecious stones, faceted, imitation half pearls and hollow or filled pearls of all shapes, without hole or with hole partly
through only, 20 per centum ad valorem; imitation precious stones,
not cut or faceted, imitation semiprecious stones, not faceted, imitation jet buttons, cut, polished or faceted, and imitation solid pearls
wholly or partly pierced, mounted or unmounted, 60 per centum ad
valorem.

imitatios.

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

918
1.
d ace ati-

SCBDULa

Ces.

xe.
mposition.

00D postlm.-

s.'

etc.

embroideries not specially provided for, and all fabrics and articlesa
embroidered in any manner by hand or machinery, whether with
plain or fancy initial, monogram, or otherwise, or tamboured, appliqud, scalloped, or ornamented with beads, bugles, or spangles, or
from which threads have been omitted, drawn, punched, or cut, and
with threads introduced after weaving to finish or ornament the
openwork, not including straight hemstitching; all the foregoing,
finished or unfinished, by whatever name known, and to whatever
use applied, and whether or not named, described, or provided for
elsewhere in this Act, when composed wholly or in chief value of
yarns, threads, filaments, tinsel wire, lame, bullions, metal threads,
PAR.

1431. Chamois skins, pianoforte, pianoforte-action, player-

piano-action leather, enameled upholstery leather, bag, strap, case,
football, and glove leather, finished, in the white or in the crust,
and seal, sheep, goat, and calf leather, dressed and finished, other

than shoe leather, 20 per centum ad valorem.
PAB. 1432. Bags, baskets, belts, satchels, cardcases, pocketbooks,

jewel boxes, portfolios, and other boxes and cases, not jewelry,
wholly or in chief value of leather or parchment, and moccasins,
and manufactures of leather, rawhide, or parchment or of which
leather, rawhide, or parchment is the component material of chief
any of
value, not specially provided for, 30 per centum ad valorem;
the foregoing permanently fitted and furnished with traveling,
bottle, drinking, dining or luncheon, sewing, manicure, or similar
sets, 45 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 1433. Gloves made wholly or in chief value of leather,

loves.

Lathr.

conulaodatie.

or provided for elsewhere in this Act, when composed wholly or in

graph 1213, 75 per centum ad valorem.

h
oththanksoee

imitation.

1006, 1404, 1406, and 1424 of this Act), by whatever name known,

and to whatever use applied, and whether or not named, described,

beads, bugles, spangles, or products of cellulose provided for in para-

An, p. 908.

PAR. 1430. Laces, lace window curtains, burnt-out laces and emand netbroideries capable of conversion into burnt-out laces, nets all-overs,
tings, embroidered or otherwise, veils, veilings, flouncings,

vided for in paragraph 1213 of this Act, 90 per centum

mbkoed,aetc.

Twving se

1922.

chief value of yarns, threads, filaments, tinsel wire, lame, bullions,
prometal threads, beads, bugles, spangles, or products of cellulose
ad valorem;

p. 908.

ec,,c'ur?5

CH. 356.

neck rufflings, flutings, quillings, ruchings, tuckings, insertings, galloons, edgings, trimmings, fringes, gimps, ornaments; braids, loom
woven and ornamented in the process of weaving, or made by hand,
or on any braid machine, knitting machine, or lace machine; and all
fabrics and articles composed in any part, however small, of any of
the foregoing fabrics or articles; all the foregoing, finished or unfinished (except materials and articles provided for in paragraphs 920,

A-te.pp.9oo,lX,913,
916.

Ant,

SESS. II.

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: Men's gloves
not over twelve inches in length, $5 per dozen pairs; and women's
and children's gloves not over twelve inches in length, $4 per dozen
pairs; for each inch in length in excess thereof, 50 cents per dozen
pairs: Provided, That, in addition thereto, on all of the foregoing

there shall be paid the following cumulative duties: When lined with
cotton, wool, or silk, $2.40 per dozen pairs; when lined with leather

or fur, $4 per dozen pairs; when embroidered or embellished, 40
cents per dozen pairs: Providedfurther, That all the foregoing shall
pay a duty of not less than 50 nor more than 70 per centum ad

valorem: Providedfurther, That glove tranks, with or without the
usual accompanying pieces, shall pay 75 per centum of the duty
provided for the gloves in the fabrication of which they are suitable.

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

SEas. II. CH. 356.

919

1922.

Gloves made wholly or in chief value of leather made from horsehides or pigskins, whether wholly or partly manufactured, 25 per

SCREDULE 14
Horsendeorpigsin.

centum ad valorem.

PAR. 1434. Catgut, whip gut, oriental gut, and manufactures Catgut etc.
thereof, and manufactures of worm gut, 40 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 1435. Gas, kerosene, or alcohol mantles, and mantles not Lhgmantes.

specially provided for, treated with chemicals or metallic oxides,
wholly or partly manufactured, 40 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 1436. Harness valued at more than $70 per set, single

Harss8

sad-

and

harness valued at more than $40, saddles valued at more than $40
each, saddlery, and parts (except metal parts) for any of the foregoing, 35 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 1437. Cabinet locks, not of pin tumbler or cylinder construction, not over one and one-half inches in width, 70 cents per

Cbiet

per dozen; padlocks, not of pin tumbler or cylinder construction,

Padlocks.

over two and one-half inches in width, $2 per dozen; all other locks

Allother.

dozen; over one and one-half and not over two and one-half inches
in width, $1 per dozen; over two and one-half inches in width, $1.50

not over one and one-half inches in width, 35 cents per dozen; over
one and one-half and not over two and one-half inches in width, 50
cents per dozen; over two and one-half inches in width, 75 cents per
dozen; padlocks of pin tumbler or cylinder construction, not over
one and one-half inches in width, $1 per dozen; over one and onehalf and not over two and one-half inches in width, $1.50 per dozen;
or latches of pin tumbler or cylinder construction, $2 per dozen; and
in addition thereto, on all the foregoing, 20 per centum ad valorem.

am-

PAR. 1438. Manufactures of amber, bladders, or wax, or of which ber, etc

these substances or any of them is the component material of chief
value, not specially provided for, 20 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 1439. Manufactures of bone, chip, grass, hom, quills, india Bone, grs,
rubber, gutta-percha, palm leaf, straw, weeds, or whalebone, or of mactures.

which these substances or any of them is the component material of
chief value, not specially provided for, 25 per centum ad valorem;
automobile, motor cycle, and bicycle tires composed wholly or in chief
value of rubber, 10 per centum ad valorem; molded insulators and
insulating materials, wholly or partly manufactured, composed wholly
or in chief value of india rubber or gutta-percha, 30 per centum ad
valorem; combs composed wholly of horn or of horn and metal, 50 per
centum ad valorem.

"gr s"

The terms "grass" and "straw" shall be under- anf

stood to mean these substances in their natural state and not the
separated fibers thereof.
PAR. 1440. Manufactures of ivory or vegetable ivory, or of which

Ivory mothero-

either of these substances is the component material of chief value,
not specially provided for; manufactures of mother-of-pearl, shell,
plaster of P a rs, and india rubber known as "hard rubber," or of
which these substances or any of them is the component material
of chief value, not specially provided for; and shells and pieces of
shells engraved, cut, ornamented, or otherwise manufactured, 35
per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 1441. Electrical insulators and other articles, wholly or

Mti

partly manufactured, composed wholly or in chief value of shellac,tc
copal, or synthetic phenolic resin, not specially provided for, 30 per
centum ad valorem.
PAR. 1442. Moss and sea grass, eelgrass, and seaweeds if manu- mnuSfSe
factured or dyed, 10 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 1443. Musical instruments and parts thereof, not specially

provided for, pianoforte or player actions and parts thereof, cases
for musical instruments, pitch pipes, tuning forks, tuning hammers,
and metronomes, strings for musical instruments composed wholly
or in part of steel or other metal, all the foregoing, 40 per centum

ndia

nsulatc s,

etc.

Musial tnstments

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ad valorem; tuning pins, $1 per thousand and 35 per centum ad

valorem; violins, violas, violoncellos, and double basses, of all sizes,
wholly or partly manufactured or assembled, $1 each and 35 per
centum ad valorem; unassembled parts of the foregoing, 40 per
centum ad valorem.
Phnrapbs, etc.
PR..1444. Phonographs, gramophones, graphophones, and similar
articles, and parts thereof, not specially provided for, 30 per centum
ad valorem; needles for phonographs, gramophones, graphophones,
and similar articles, 45 per centum ad valorem.
Candr rolls etc.
PAR. 1445. Rolls: Calender rolls or bowls made wholly or in chief
value of cotton, paper, husk, wool, or mixtures thereof, or stone of
any nature, compressed between and held together by iron or steel
heads or washers fastened to iron or steel mandrels or cores, suitable
for use in calendering, embossing, mangling, or pressing operations,
35 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 1446. Rosaries, chaplets, and similar articles of religious deBamte.etc
votion, of whatever material composed (except if made in whole or in
part of gold, silver, platinum, gold plate, silver plate, or precious or
imitation precious stones), valued at not more than $1.25 per dozen,
15 per centum ad valorem; valued at more than $1.25 per dozen, 30
per centum ad valorem; any of the foregoing if made in whole or in
part of gold, silver, platinum, gold plate, silver plate, or precious or
imitation precious stones, 50 per centum ad valorem.
PAR. 1447. Sponges, 15 per centum ad valorem; manufactures of
s8pngs
sponges, or of which sponge is the component material of chief value,
not specially provided for, 25 per centum ad valorem.
vioinrsim.
PAR. 1448. Violin rosin, 15 per centum ad valorem.
speally poit, fot PAR. 1449. Works of art, including paintings in oil or water colors,
pastels, pen and ink drawings, and copies, replicas, or reproductions
of any of the same; statuary, sculptures, or copies, replicas, or reproductions thereof; and etchings and engravings; all the foregoing, not
specially provided for, 20 per centum ad valorem.
Peatmoss.
PAR. 1450. Peat moss, 50 cents per ton.
encils, crayons, etc. PAR. 1451. Pencils of paper, wood, or other material not metal,
filled with lead or other material, pencils of lead, crayons, including
charcoal crayons or fusains, and mechanical pencils, not specially
provided for, 45 cents per gross and 25 per centum ad valorem;
pencil point protectors, and clips, whether separate or attached to
pencils, 25 cents per gross; pencils stamped with names other than
the manufacturers' oranufacturersnufacturers trade name or trade-mark,
50 cents per gross and 25 per centum ad valorem; slate pencils, not
in wood, 25 per centum ad valorem.
e t c
PAR. 1452. Pencil leads not in wood or other material, 6 cents per
gross; leads, commonly known as refills, black, colored, or indelible,
not exceeding six one-hundredths of one inch in diameter and not
exceeding two inches in length, 10 cents per gross, and longer leads
shall pay in proportion in addition thereto; colored or crayon leads,
copy or indelible leads, not specially provided for, 40 per centum
ad valorem.
camPAR. 1453. Photographic cameras and parts thereof, not specially
Phtoaphc
Moin-pictuefilms. provided for, 20 per centum ad valorem; photographic dry plates,
not specially provided for, 15 per centum ad valorem; photographic
and moving-picture films, sensitized but not exposed or developed,
four-tenths of 1 cent per linear foot of the standard width of one
and three-eighths inches, and all other widths shall pay duty in
ExposdnepatptOs.
equal proportion thereto; photographic-film negatives, imported in
any form, for use in any way m connection with moving-picture

exhibits, or for making or reproducing pictures for such exhibits,
PoaTeis.

exposed but not developed, 2 cents per linear foot; exposed and
developed, 3 cents per linear foot; photographic-film positives,

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imported in any form, for use in any way in connection with moving-

sCDE

14.

picture exhibits, including herein all moving, motion, motophotography, or cinematography film pictures, prints, positives, or duplicates

of every kind and nature, and of whatever substance made, 1 cent Provis.
American
movin
per linear foot: Provided, That upon the importation of photo- pictures exposes

graphic and motion-picture films or film negatives taken from the abroad.
United States and exposed in a foreign country by an American
producer of motion pictures operating temporarily in said foreign
country in the course of production of a picture 60 per centurn or
more of which is made in the United States the duty shall be 1 cent
per linear foot, and the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe
such rules and regulations as may be necessary for the entry of such
films or film negatives under this proviso: Provided further, That

such censorship as may be imposed by the Secretary of the Treasury.
PAR. 1454. Pipes and smokers' articles: Common tobacco pipes

Pies

all photographic films imported under this Act shall be subject to

p
and

smokers'

and pipe bowls made wholly of clay, valued at not more than 40 cents
per gross, 15 cents per gross; valued at more than 40 cents per gross,
45 per centum ad valorem; pipe bowls commercially known as stummels; pipes, cigar and cigarette holders, not specially provided for,
and mouthpieces for pipes, cigar and cigarette holders, all the foregoing of whatever material composed, and in whatever condition of
manufacture, whether wholly or partly finished, or whether bored or
unbored; pouches for chewing or smoking tobacco, cases suitable for
pipes, cigar and cigarette holders, finished or partly finished; cigarette books, cigarette-book covers, cigarette paper in all forms, except
cork paper; and all smokers' articles whatsoever, and parts thereof,
finished or unfinished, not specially provided for, of whatever material composed, except china, porcelain, parian, bisque, earthen or stone Exceptions,
ware, 60 per centum ad valorem; meerschaum, crude or unmanufac- Meerschaum.
tured, 20 per centum ad valorem.
m
PAR. 1455. All thermostatic bottles, carafes, jars, jugs, and other

etThe

thermostatic containers, or blanks and pistons of such articles, of
whatever material composed, constructed with a vacuous or partially
vacuous insulation space to maintain the temperature of the contents, whether imported, finished or unfinished, with or without a
jacket or casing of metal or other material, shall pay the following
rates of duty, namely: Having a capacity of one pint or less, 15 cents
each; having a capacity of more than one pint, 30 cents each; and in
addition thereto, on all of the foregoing, 45 per centum ad valorem;
parts of any of the foregoing not including those above mentioned,IP
55 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That all articles specified in M

this paragraph when imported shall have the name of the maker or
purchaser and beneath the same the name of the country of origin
legibly, indelibly, and conspicuously etched with acid on the glass

part, and die stamped on the jacket or casing of metal or other material, in a place that shall not be covered thereafter: Provided

ostaticbttles

.
greqired.

Ora

further, That each label, wrapper, box, or carton in which any of the
foregoing are wrapped or packed, when imported, shall have the
name of the maker or purchaser and beneath the same the name of
the country of origin legibly, indelibly, and conspicuously stamped
or printed thereon.
PAR. 1456. Umbrellas,

parasols,

and sunshades

covered with

material other than paper or lace, not embroidered or appliqued, 40
per centum ad valorem; handles and sticks for umbrellas, parasols,
sunshades, and walking canes, finished or unfinished, 40 per centum
ad valorem.

PALR 1457. Waste, not specially provided for, 10 per centum ad

valorem.

Umbrens,etc.

wsrt .

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1922.

PAR. 1458. White bleached beeswax, 25 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 1459. That there shall be levied, collected, and paid on the

importation of all raw or unmanufactured articles not enumerated
Raw,
a w etc.
tc
or provided for, a duty of 10 per centum ad valorem, and on all
,
a .
articles manufactured, in whole or in part, not specially provided
for, a duty of 20 per centum ad valorem.
to PAR. 1460. That each and every imported article, not enumerated
enmratedmi
in this Act, which is similar, either in material, quality, texture, or
the use to which it may be applied to any article enumerated in this
Act as chargeable with duty, shall pay the same rate of duty which
is levied on the enumerated article which it most resembles in any
Resembling
two or of the particulars before mentioned; and if any nonenumerated article
mo
re.
equally resembles two or more enumerated articles on which different
rates of duty are chargeable, there shall be levied on such nonenumerated article the same rate of duty as is chargeable on the
Of two or more ma- article which it resembles paying the highest rate of duty; and on
articles not enumerated, manufactured of two or more materials,
terials.
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,"
tmeann of"coi,
a"
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
maete.
shall be determined by the ascertained value of such material in
c^gaet rate appi- 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.
TITLE II.
TITLE n.
tieles.

nro LOr.

FREE LIST.

Articesexemptfrom

SECTION 201. That on and after the day following the passage of
this Act, except as otherwise specially provided for in this Act, the
articles mentioned in the following paragraphs, when imported into
the United States or into any of its possessions (except the Philippine
Islands, the Virgin Islands, and the islands of Guam and Tutuila),
shall be exempt from duty:

duty.

SCHEDULOIS.

SCHEDULE

15.

PAR. 1501. Acids and acid anhydrides: Chromic acid, hydrofluoric acid, hydrochloric or muriatic acid, nitric acid, sulphuric acid
or oil of vitriol, and mixtures of nitric and sulphuric acids, valerianic
acid, and all anhydrides of the foregoing not specially provided for.
crude medicinal
PAR. 1502. Aconite, aloes, asafetida, cocculus indicus, ipecac, jalap,
plants,etc.
manna; marshmallow or althea root, leaves and flowers; mate, and
pyrethrum or insect flowers, all the foregoing which are natural and
uncompounded and are in a crude state, not advanced in value or
condition by shredding, grinding, chipping, crushing, or any other
process or treatment whatever beyond that essential to proper
packing and the prevention of decay or deterioration pending manuPrroso.
facture: Provided, That no article containing alcohol shall be admitted
Alcohol prohibition. free of duty under this paragraph.
Agates.
PAR. 1503. Agates, unmanufactured.
AnPritural imple
PAR. 1504. Agricultural implements: Plows, tooth or disk harrows,
me.
headers, harvesters, reapers, agricultural drills and planters, mowers,
horserakes, cultivators, thrashing machines, cotton gins, machinery
for use in the manufacture of sugar, wagons and carts, cream separators valued at not more than $50 each, and all other agricultural
implements of any kind or description, not specially provided for,
Acidsandsdaanhy-

drides.

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whether in whole or in parts, including repair parts: Provided, That
no article specified by name in Title I all be free of duty under this

PrE

LIST

iable articles ex-

paragraph.

Albumen.
PAR. 1505. Albumen, not specially provided for.
PAR. 1506. Any animal imported by a citizen of the United States Animalsforbreedg.
specially for breeding purposes, shall be admitted free, whether
intended to be used by the importer himself or for sale for such pur- ,s.
poses, except black or silver foxes: Provided, That no such animal Registered breed
shall be admitted free unless pure bred of a recognized breed and duly only.
registered in a book of record recognized by the Secretary of Agriculture for that breed: Providedfurther, That the certificate of such required.
record and pedigree of such animal shall be produced and submitted
to the Department of Agriculture, duly authenticated by the proper
custodian of such book of record, together with an affidavit of the
owner, agent, or importer that the animal imported is the identical
animal described in said certificate of record and pedigree. The
Secretary of Agriculture may prescribe such regulations as may be
det
required for determining the purity of breeding and the identity of
detnc
such animal: And promded further, That the collectors of customs tiof
shall require a certificate from the Department of Agriculture stating
that such animal is pure bred of a recognized breed and duly registered in a book of record recognized by the Secretary of Agriculture

for that breed.

Enforcement regula

effect of this Act.

Animals temporarily

the foregoing not containing alcohol.

Therapeutic serums,

The Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe such additional tiens.
regulations as may be required for the strict enforcement of this
Domestic animals
provision.
Horses, mules, asses, cattle, sheep, and other domestic animals temporarily cross
straying across the boundary line into any foreign country, or driven rpo, p. i.
across such boundary line by the owner for temporary pasturage
purposes only, together with their offspring, shall be dutiable unless
brought back to the United States within eight months, in which
case they shall be free of duty, under regulations to be prescribed prom.
by the Secretary of the Treasury: And provided further, That the Aplication exprovisions of this Act shall apply to all such animals as have been
imported and are in quarantine or otherwise in the custody of customs or other officers of the United States at the date of the taking
o
PAR. 1507. Animals brought into the United States temporarily =b'Pti etbr'eedg,
for a period not exceeding six months, for the purpose of breeding,
exhibition, or competition for prizes offered by any agricultural,
polo, or racing association; but a bond shall be given in accordance Bondrequired.
with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury; also Teamsotimmigrant.
teams of animals, including their harness 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 Wild aimasnot for
Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe; and wild animals and birds e
intended for exhibition in zoological collections for scientific or
educational purposes, and not for sale or profit.
Antimony
PAR. 1508. Antimony ore.
PAR. 1509. Annatto and all extracts of, archil or archil liquid, A:mtto etc
cochineal, cudbear, gambier, litmus prepared or unprepared; all of

PAR. 1510. Antitoxins, vaccines, viruses, serums, and bacterins, etc.
Arrowroot
used for therapeutic purposes.
PAR. 1511. Arrowroot in its natural state and not manufactured. Sphideof arsenic.
Arseniousacid.
PAR. 1512. Sulphide of arsenic.
Domestic articles rePAR. 1513. Arsenious acid or white arsenic.
turnedbyexporter.
the
of
manufacture
or
produce,
growth,
the
Articles
PAR. 1514.
United States, when returned after having been exported, without

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having been advanced in value or improved in condition by any

aT.

process of manufacture or other means if imported by or for the
Contrsfedth account of the person who exported them from the United States;
oreignprodts.
steel boxes, casks, barrels, carboys, bags, and other containers or
coverings 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, iron or steel drums of either domestic or
foreign manufacture, used for the shipment of acids, or other chemicals, which shall have been actually exported from the United

Idtifcaticn, etc.

e.tp.he

States but proof of the identity of such articles shall be made, under
general reglations 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-revenue tax at the time of exporta. tion, such tax shall be proved to have been paid before exportation

and not refunded; photographic dry plates and films of American
manufacture (except movng-picture films), exposed abroad, whether
developed or not, and photographic films light struck or otherwise
damaged, or worn out, so as to be unsuitable for any other purpose
than the recovery of the constituent materials, provided the basic
films are of American manufacture, but proof of the identity of
Artcle repaire such articles shall be made under general regulations to be preabroad, dutiable.
scribed by the Secretary of the Treasury; articles exported from the
United States for repairs may be returned upon payment of a duty
upon the value of the repairs at the rate at which the article itself
would be subject if imported, under conditions and regulations to
Draoac, etc., ex- be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, That this
ceptions.
paragraph 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
Reimprted tobacco.

exported under any provision of law: Providedfurther, 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: And provided
Dutiable animafurther, That the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to
'Aexnte, .
animals made dutiable under the provisions of paragraph 1506.
Asbestos.
PAR. 1515. Asbestos, unmanufactured, asbestos crudes, fibers,
stucco, and sand and refuse containing not more than 15 per centum
of foreign matter.
Wastebagging.
PAB. 1516. Waste bagging, and waste sugar sack cloth.
Bananas.
Quinine barks.
Broken bells.

extracted.
PAR. 1519. Bells, broken, and bell metal, broken and fit only to be
remanufactured.
PAR. 1520. Bibles, comprising the books of the Old or New

Bibles.

Bindingtin.

rov.

Yest requirement

Fssouds.
Dried

PAR. 1517. Bananas, green or ripe.
PAR. 1518. Barks, cinchona or other, from which quinine may be

Testament, or both, bound or unbound.
PAR. 1521. All binding twine manufactured from New Zealand
hemp, henequen, manila, 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 seven hundred and fifty feet to the pound.
PAR. 1522. Bread: Provided, That no article shall be exempted

from duty as bread unless yeast was the leavening substance used

in its preparation.
PAR. 1523. Fish sounds, crude, dried or salted for preservation
only, and unmanufactured, not specially provided for.
PAR. 1524. Blood, dried, not specially provided for.

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PAR. 1525. Bolting cloths composed of silk, imported expressly
for milling purposes, and so permanently marked as not to be avail-

FREE

BotIngcoths.

able for any other use.

PAR. 1526. Bones: Crude, steamed, or ground; bone dust, bone

Fertilizingboneetc

meal, and bone ash; and animal carbon suitable only for fertilizing

purposes.
PAR. 1527. Books, engravings, photographs, etchings, bound or
unbound, maps and charts imported by authority or for the use of

nt,
e Books,

for

Go v

the United States or for the use of the Library of Congress.
PAR. 1528. Hydrographic charts and publications issued for fydrograhicrts
their subscribers or exchanges by scientific or literary associations ments,etc.

or academies, and publications of individuals for gratuitous private

circulation, not advertising matter, and public documents issued by
, tae 20pra
foreign Governments; books, maps, music, engravings, photographs more
etchings, lithographic prints, bound or unbound, and charts, which when imported

have been printed more than twenty years at the time of importation:

eather rebound.
Provided, That where any such books have been rebound wholly or
in part in leather within such period, the binding so placed upon Antep. 911
such books shall be dutiable as provided in paragraph 1310.
ot
PAR. 1529. Books and pamphlets printed wholly or chiefly in guages.
in
and
music,
pamphlets,
books,
languages other than English;
raised print, used exclusively by or for the blind; Braille tablets, Forthebind.

cubarithms, special apparatus and objects serving to teach the blind,

including printing apparatus, machines, presses, and types for the
use and benefit of the blind exclusively.
Books,etc., orpubic
PAR. 1530. Any society or institution incorporated or established societies, etc.

solely for religious, philosophical, educational, scientific, or literary
purposes, or for the encouragement of the fine arts, or any college,
academy, school, or seminary of learning in the United States, or
any State or public library, may import free of duty any book, map,
music, engraving, photograph, etching, lithographic print, or chart,
for its own use or for the encouragement of the fine arts, and not for
sale, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury

may prescribe.
PAR. 1531. Books, libraries, usual and reasonable furniture, and efect,

similar household effects of persons or families from foreign countries
if actually used abroad by them not less than one year, and not
intended for any other person or persons, nor for sale.

PAR. 1532. Borax, crude or unmanufactured, and borate of lime,

etc,

useld

abroad.

Borax.

borate of soda, and other borate material, crude and unmanufactured,
not specially provided for.

ra
PAR. 1533. Brass, old brass, clippings from brass or Dutch metal, B is,old.
all the foregoing, fit only for remanufacture.
b ans
B
razilis e
PAR. 1534. Brazilian or pichurim beans.
Brailian pe
PAR. 1535. Brazilian pebble, unwrought or unmanufactured.
PAR. 1536. Brick, not specially provided for: Provided, That if Prio.
any country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of governounteriing duty,
ment imposes a duty on such brick imported from the United States, Ameri canp.duc

an equal duty shall be imposed upon such brick coming into the
United States from such country, dependency, province, or other

subdivision of government.
PAR. 1537. Bristles, crudenot sorted, bunched, or prepared.
Broom or.
co
PAR. 1538. Broom corn.
PAR. 1539. Bullion, gold or silver.
Bullion.
Burgndypitch
PAR. 1540. Burgundy pitch.
PAR. 1541. Calcium: Acetate, chloride, crude; nitrate, and cyan- Calcium.
amid or lime nitrogen: Provided, That if any country, dependency, countervailig duty,
province, or other subdivision of government imposes a duty on cal- from country taing
cium acetate, when imported from the United States, an equal duty Amecanprt.
shall be imposed upon such article coming into the United States from

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such country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of govern-

UST.

ment.
tpsettmg,
mauies.

type'

Hydralic cement.
Contrvailing duty,

PAR. 1542. Linotype and all typesetting machines, typewriters,
shoe machinery, sand-blast machines, sludge machines, and tar and

oil spreading machines used in the construction and maintenance of
roads and in improving them by the use of road preservatives; all the
foregoing whether in whole or in parts, including repair parts.

PAR. 1543. Cement: Roman, Portland, and other hydraulic: Pro-

vide. That if any country, dependency, province, or other suba g division of government imposes a duty on such cement imported
n
uc
3 clpto
from the United States, an equal duty shall be imposed upon such
cement coming into the United States from such country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of government.
cerite.
FAR. 1544. Cerite or cerium ore.
Chal.
PAR. 1545. Chalk, crude, not ground, bolted, precipitated, or otherwise manufactured.

PAR. 1546. Chestnuts, including marrons, crude, dried, baked, prepared or preserved in any manner.
hromite.
PAR. 1547. Chromite or chrome ore.
Coaletc.
PAR. 1548. Coal, anthracite, bituminous, culm, slack, and shale;
coke; compositions used for fuel in which coal or coal dust is the
component material of chief value, whether in briquets or other form:
optervaiing duty Provided, That if any country, dependency, province, or other subfrom country taxing division of government imposes a duty on any article specified in this
Americanproduct.
paragraph, when imported from the United States, an equal duty
shall be imposed upon such article coming into the United States from
such country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of government.
Coal-tarprduts.
PAR. 1549. Coal-tar products: Acenaphthene, anthracene having a
purity of less than 30 per centum, benzene, carbazole having a purity
of less than 65 per centum, cumene, cymene, fluorene, methylanthracene, methylnaphthalene naphthalene which after the removal of all
the water present has a solidifying point less than seventy-nine degrees
centigrade, pyridine, toluene, xylene, dead or creosote oil anthracene
oil, pitch of coal tar, pitch of blast-furnace tar, pitch of oil-gas tar,
pitch of water-gas tar, crude coal tar, crude blast-furnace tar, crude
oil-gas tar, crude water-gas tar, all other distillates of any of these
tars which on being subjected to distillation yield in the portion distilling below one hundred and ninety degrees centigrade a quantity
of tar acids less than 5 per centum of the original distillate, all mixtures of any of these distillates and any of the foregoing pitches, and
all other materials or products that are found naturally in coal tar,
Not
spe7
tc.
whether produced or obtained from coal tar or other source, and not
vided faorS
AnU, pp. 81, 862 . specially provided for in paragraph 27 or 28 of Title I of this Act.
obalt.
PAR. 1550. Cobalt and cobalt ore.
CocB
PAR. 1551. Cocoa or cacao beans.
co ee
.
PAR. 1552. Coffee.
coins.
PAR. 1553. Coins of gold, silver, copper, or other metal.
car.
PAR. 1554. Coir, and coir yarn.
Campositionmetal.
PAn. 1555. Composition metal of which copper is the component
material of chief value, not specially provided for.
P
per.
PAR. 1556. Copper ore; regulus of, afd black or coarse copper, and
cement copper; old copper, fit only for remanufacture, copper scale,
clippings from new copper, and copper in plates, bars, ingots, or pigs,
not manufactured or specially provided for.
gie ta,
uiPAB. 1557. Copper sulphate or blue vitriol; copper acetate and
subacetate or verdigris.
coral
.
PAR. 1558. Coral, marine, uncut, and unmanufactured.
ork wood, etc.
PAB. 1559. Cork wood, or cork bark, unmanufactured, and cork
waste, shavings, and cork refuse of all kinds.
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Crao UST.
PAR. 1560. Cotton and cotton waste.
Cryolite.
PAR. 1561. Cryolite, or kryolith.
m
PAR. 1562. Metallic mineral substances in a crude state, and metals stunces.
unwrought, whether capable of being wrought or not, not specially
provided for.
Curry.
Cuttlh
PAR. 1563. Curry, and curry powder.
PAR. 1564. Cuttlefish bone.
PAR. 1565. Cyanide: Potassium cyanide, sodium cyanide, all Cyades.
cyanide salts and cyanide mixtures, combinations, and compounds
containing cyanide, not specially provided for.
et.,
PAR. 1566. Glaziers' and engravers' diamonds, unset; miners' mG,,ds
diamonds.

Crudevegetableoran-

drugs, not edible.
PAR. 1567. Drugs such as barks, beans, berries, buds, bulbs, bulbous unma
roots, excrescences, fruits, flowers, dried fibers, dried insects, grains,
herbs, leaves, lichens, mosses, logs, roots, stems, vegetables, seeds
(aromatic, not garden seeds), seeds of morbid growth, weeds, and all
other drus of vegetable or animal origin; all of the foregoing which
are natural and uncompounded drugs and not edible, and not specially
provided for, and are m a crude state, not advanced in value or condition by shredding, grinding, chipping, crushing, or any other process
or treatment whatever beyond that essential to the proper packing
of the drugs and the prevention of decay or deterioration pending Proso.
manufacture: Provided, That no article containing alcohol shall be Alcoholexclusion.
dyeing or
admitted free of duty under this paragraph.e
PAR. 1568. Dyeing or tanning materials: Fustic wood, hemlock tannmgmaterials.
bark, logwood, mangrove bark, oak bark, quebracho wood, wattle
bark, divi-divi, myrobalans fruit, sumac, valonia, nutgalls or gall
nuts, and all articles of vegetable origin used for dyeing, coloring,
staining, or tanning all the foregoing, whether crude or advanced in
value or condition by shredding, grinding, chipping, crushing, or any
c
similar process; all the foregoing not containing alcohol and not Alcohol e lusion.
specially provided for.
PAR. 1569. Eggs of birds, fish, and insects (except fish roe for food proviso.
purposes): Proided, That the importation of eggs of wild birds is Oitwildbirdsprohibprohibited, except eggs of game birds imported for propagating purposes under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture,
and specimens imported for scientific collections.
PAR. 1570. Emery ore and corundum ore, and crude artificial Emery,etc.
abrasives.
PAR. 1571. Enfleurage greases, floral essences and floral concretes: Floral gieset.
Provided, That no article mixed or compounded or containing alcohol Alcohaol elum.
shall be exempted from duty under this paragraph.
PAL. 1572. Fans, common palm-leaf, plain and not ornamented or P"Le
decorated in any manner, and palm leaf in its natural state not colored, dyed, or otherwise advanced or manufactured.
oppeu
PAR 1573. Ferrous sulphate or copperas.
bin
PAR. 1574. Fibrin, in all forms.
PAR. 1575. Fish imported to be used for purposes other than human Nonedible fsh.
Fi
s.
consumption.
Rit
PAR. 1576. Fishskins, raw or salted.
Flit.
PAR. 1577. Flint, flints, and flint stones, unground.
PAR. 1578. Fossils.
PAR. 1579. Furs and fur skins, not specially provided for, undressed. LFur uondrsed.
PAR. 1580. Gloves made wholly or in chief value of leather made Lathge
Gddbeate' molds,
from hides of cattle of the bovine species.
etc.
PAR. 1581. Goldbeaters' molds and goldbeaters' skins.
PAR. 1582. Grasses and fibers: Istle or Tampico fiber, jute, jute = Lses.'u
butts, manila, sisal, henequen, sunn, and all other textile grasses or
fibrous vegetable substances, not dressed or manufactured in any
manner, and not specially provided for.

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PAR. 1583. Guano, basic slag, ground or unground, manures, and

Fertilizs,

all other substances used chiefly for fertilizer, not specially provided

Proie

for: Provided, That no article specified by name in Title I shall be

Eploives.

free of duty under this paragraph.
PAR. 1584. Gums and resins: Damar, kauri, copal, dragon's blood,
kadaya, sandarac, tragacanth, tragasol, and other gums, gum resins,
and resins, not specially provided for.
PAR.1585. Gunpowder, sporting powder, and all other explosive

Promso.

substances not specially provided or: Provided, That if any country,

Gums andrens.

rCounti dtyg dependency, province, or other subdivision of government imposes a

Americanprdut.

Unmanufactured

GlIestock.

duty on any article specified in this paragraph, when imported from

the United States, an equal duty shall be imposed upon such article
coming into the United States from such country, dependency,
province, or other subdivision of government.
PAR. 1586. Hair of horse, cattle, and other animals, cleaned or uncleaned, drawn or undrawn, but unmanufactured, not specially provided for.

PAR. 1587. Hide cuttings, raw, with or without hair, ossein, and all

other glue stock.
1Rawiderope
Cattlehidea

PaP . 1588. Rope made of rawhide.
PAB. 1589. Hides of cattle, raw or uncured, or dried, salted, or

pickled.

Hone.

PAB. 1590. Hones and whetstones.
PAR. 1591. Hoofs, unmanufactured.
PAR. 1592. Horns and parts of, including horn strips and tips,
unmanufactured.
ice.
PAR. 1593. Ice.
India rbber, gattaPAR. 1594. India rubber and gutta-percha, crude, including
prcha,etc.
jelutong or pontianak, guayule, gutta balata, and gutta siak, and
scrap or refuse india rubber and gutta-percha fit only for remanufacture.
Iodine, cude.
PAR. 1595. Iodine, crude.
idium, etc.
PAR. 1596. Iridium, osmium, paladium, rhodium, and ruthenium
and native combinations thereof with one another or with platinum.
PAR. 1597. Iron ore, including manganiferous iron ore, and the
Iron ore.
dross or residuum from burnt pyrites.
Ivory tss
PAR. 1598. Ivory tusks in their natural state or cut vertically
across the grain only, with the bark left intact.
Jet.
PAR. 1599. Jet, unmanufactured.
Jossstck.
PAR. 1600. Joss stick or joss light.
junk.
PAR. 1601. Junk, old.
Kelp.
PAR. 1602. Kelp.
Hoots.
Hors.

Kirlete.
Lo.-

Boosandshoes.
Leedaie.
Asphetuaetc.
Lemi uiceet.

Tboaset

PAR. 1603. Kieserite.

PAR. 1604. Lac, crude, seed, button, stick, or shell.
PAR. 1605. Lava, unmanufactured.
PAR. 1606. Leather: All leather not specially provided for; harness,
saddles, and saddlery, in sets or parts, except metal parts, finished or
unfinished, and not specially provided for; leather cut into shoe
uppers, vamps, soles, or other forms suitable for conversion into
manufactured articles; and leather shoe laces, finished or unfinished.
PAR. 1607. Boots and shoes made wholly or in chief value of
leather.
PAR. 1608. Leeches.
PAR. 1609. Limestone-rock asphalt; asphaltum and bitumen.
PAR. 1610. Lemon juice, lime juice, and sour orange juice, all the
foregoing containing not more than 2 per centum of alcohol.
PAR. 1611. Lifeboats and life-saving apparatus specially imported
by societies and institutions incorporated or established to encourage

the saving of human life.
Lthorc ta

PAR. 1612. Lithographic stones, not engraved.

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PAR. 1613. Loadstones.

PAR. 1614. Manuscripts, not specially provided for.
PAR. 1615. Marrow, crude.
PAR. 1616. Mechanically ground wood pulp, chemical wood pulp,
unbleached or bleached.
PAR. 1617. Medals of gold, silver, or copper, and other metallic
articles actually bestowed by foreign countries or citizens of foreign
countries as trophies or prizes, and received and accepted as honorary
distinctions.
PAR. 1618. 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 artifically prepared and are only the product of a designated mineral spring.
PAR. 1619. Minerals, crude, or not advanced in value or condition
by refining or grinding, or by other process of manufacture, not
specially provided for.
PAR. 1620. Models of inventions and of other improvements in
the arts, to be used exclusively as models and incapable of any other
use.
PAR. 1621. Monazite sand and other thorium ores.

Loadstones.

Manuscripts.
Marrow.

WoodpulpMedals,etc.

Mineralsalts.

Crdemm erals.
Modelsofinventions
Thoriumores.

PAR. 1622. Moss, seaweeds, and vegetable substances, crude or Moss,etc., crude.
unmanufactured, not specially provided for.
Sewing needles, etc.
PAR. 1623. Needles, hand sewing or darning.
PAR. 1624. Nets or sections of nets for use in otter trawl fishing, if Otter fishing nets
Newsppersandpe
composed wholly or in chief value of manila or vegetable fiber.
PAR. 1625. Newspapers and periodicals; but the term "periodi- odicals.
cals " as herein used shall be understood to embrace only unbound or conditions.
paper-covered publications issued within six months of the time of
entry, devoted to current literature of the day, or containing current
literature as a predominant feature, and issued regularly at stated
periods, as weekly, monthly, or quarterly, and bearing the date of
issue.

PAR. 1626. Oil-bearing seeds and nuts: Copra, hempseed, palm Oi-bearig seedsand
nuts, palm-nut kernels, tungnuts, rapeseed, perilla and sesame seed; pot, p. 1816.
seeds and nuts, not specially provided for, when the oils derived
therefrom are free of duty.
Nxvo
PAR. 1627. Nux vomica.
oa l
um.
PAR. 1628. Oakum.
Oilcake.
PAR. 1629. Oil cake and oil-cake meal.
PAR. 1630. Oils, animal: Spermaceti, whale, and other fish oils of ?is'h, of American
American fisheries, and all fish and other products of such fisheries; faheres'etc.
and all cod and cod-liver oil.
PAR. 1631. Oils, distilled or essential: Anise, bergamot, bitter Disledoressntial.
almond, camphor, caraway, cassia, cinnamon, citroneUa, geranium,
lavender, lemon-grass, lime, lignaloe or bois de rose, neroli or orange
flower, origanum, palnarosa, pettgrain, rose or otto of roses, rosemary, spike lavender, thyme, and ylang-ylang or cananga: Provided, PIoiexcusion.
That no article mixed or compounded or containing alcohol shall be
exempted from duty under this paragraph.
e essed ot
PAR. 1632. Oils, expressed or extracted: Croton, palm, palmmkernel, perilla, sesame, and sweet almond; olive oil rendered unfit
for use as food or for any but mechanical or manufacturing purposes,
by such means as shall be satisfactory to the Secretary of the Treasury
and under regulations to be prescribed by him; Chinese and Japanese
tung oils; and nut oils not specially provided for.
PAR. 1633. Oils, mineral: Petroleum, crude, fuel, or refined, and Mi'nwl
all distillates obtained from petroleum, including kerosene, benzine,
naphtha, gasoline, paraffin, and paraffin oil, not specially provided
for.
PAR. 1634. Ores of gold, silver, or nickel; nickel matte; ores of Oigldslv.etc
the platinum metals; sweepings of gold and silver
42150°-23-59

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
decaico

Dupe

mapaPet

Hosepads.

Mother

ofper

etc.

Personal effects of
abrd
ed
Phosphates.

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CH. 356.

1922.

PAR. 1635. Duplex decalcomania paper not printed.
PAR. 1636. Parchment and vellum.
PAR. 1637. Pads for horses.
PAR. 1638. Pearl, mother of, and shells, not sawed, cut, flaked,
polished, or otherwise manufactured, or advanced in value from the
natural state.
PAR. 1639. Personal effects, not merchandise, of citizens of the
United States dying in foreign countries.

PAR. 1640. Phosphates, crude, and apatite.

PAR. 1641. Pigeons, fancy or racing.
1642. Plants, trees, shrubs, roots, seed cane, seeds, and
PAR.
PA.n142.teds,
ane
other material for planting, imported by the Department of Agriculture or the United States Botanic Garden.
ypsum, crude.
PAR. 1643. Plaster rock or gypsum, crude.
Platinnm.
PAR. 1644. Platinum, unmanufactured or in ingots, bars, sheets,
or plates not less than one-eighth of one inch in thickness, sponge,
or scrap.
Potashats.
PAR. 1645. Potassium chloride or muriate of potash, potassium
sulphate, kainite, wood ashes and beet-root ashes, and all crude
potash salts not specially provided for.
sl.ttpt.
PAR. 1646. Potassium nitrate or saltpeter, crude.
f
PAR. 1647. Professional books, implements, instruments, and tools
P
Ptos eional
ganc.
of trade, occupation, or employment in the actual possession of
persons emigrating to the United States owned and used by them
Rstrictims.
abroad; 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, or for sale, nor
shall it be construed to include theatrical scenery, properties, and
Temroadis apparel; but such articles brought by proprietors or managers of
erties,etc.
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
Ban d
.
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 not be exported within six months after
such importation: Provided, That the Secretary of the Treasury
doftva.
may, in his discretion, extend such period for a further term of six
months in case application shall be made therefor.
P ul a
.
PAR. 1648. Pulu.
Quinine.
PAR. 1649. Quinine sulphate and all alkaloids and salts of alkaloids
derived from cinchona bark.
Radim, etc.
PAR. 1650. Radium, and salts of, and radioactive substitutes.
COrde paper stoc.
PAR. 1651. Rag pulp; paper stock, crude, of every description,
including all grasses, fibers, rags, waste, including jute, hemp and
flax waste, shavings, clippings, old paper, rope ends, waste rope, and
waste bagging, and all other waste not specially provided for, includFancy, etc, piges

Plnts,e et., for the
Governmet.'

ing old gunny cloth, and old gunny bags, used chiefly for paper
RBmie
Paton a rk
8

sao
asasgecasings,etc.

Fraeh ansi.
Se d s

se-enaium

shpdp.

making, and no longer suitable for bags.
PAR. 1652. Rennet, raw or prepared.
PAR. 1653. Patna rice cleaned for use in the manufacture of canned
foods.
PAR. 1654. Sago, crude, and sago flour.
PAR. 1655. Sausage casings, weasands, intestines, bladders, tendons, and integuments, not specially provided for.
PAR. 1656. Fresh sea herring and smelts and tuna fish, fresh,
frozen, or packed in ice.
PAR. 1657. Seeds: Chickpeas or garbanzos, cowpeas, and sugar
beets.
PAR. 1658. Selenium, and salts of.
PAR. 1659. Sheep dip.

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PAR. 1660. Shingles.
Shingles
.
PAR. 1661. Shotgun barrels, in single tubes, forged, rough bored. Shotgun barrels.
PAR. 1662. Shrimps, lobsters, and other shellfish, fresh, frozen, shlfis
packed in ice, or prepared or preserved in any manner, and not specially provided for.
PAR. 1663. Silk cocoons and silk waste.
Slk cocoons.
PAR. 1664. Silk, raw, in skeins reeled from the cocoon, or rereeled, Raw 8lk.
but not wound, doubled, twisted, or advanced in manufacture in
any way.
PAR. 1665. Skeletons and other preparations of anatomy.
keletons.
d h des
PAR. 1666. Skins of all kinds, raw, and hides not specially provided for.
PAR. 1667. Sodium: Nitrate, sulphate, crude, or salt cake, and Sod u niter cake.
8
PAR. 1668. Specimens of natural history, botany, and mineralogy, inehns.t
hirspe
when imported for scientific public collections, and not for sale.
PAR. 1669. Spunk.
Spunk
PAR. 1670. Spurs and stilts used in the manufacture of earthen, Spuand sttsporcelain, or stone ware.
PAR. 1671. Stamps: Foreign postage or revenue stamps, canceled F"insta s
or uncanceled, and foreign government stamped post cards bearing
no other printing than the official imprint thereon.
PAR. 1672. Standard newsprint paper.
Newsprintpaper.
PAR. 1673. Statuary and casts of sculpture for use as models or for notatary,re'gaie,
art educational purposes only; regalia and gems, where specially
imported in good faith for the use and by order of any society incor- Conditions.
porated 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,
seminary of learning, orphan asylum, or public hospital 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;
but the term "regalia" as herein used shall be held to embrace only Meaningoefregalian
.
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.
PAR. 1674. Altars, pulpits, communion tables, baptismal fonts,
Ato-o'usatysetc
shrines, or parts of any of the foregoing, and statuary, imported in
good faith for presentation (without charge) to, and for the use of,
any corporation or association organized and operated exclusively
for religious purposes.
PAR. 1675. Stone and sand: Burrstone in blocks, rough or un- Stone and sand,
manufactured; quartzite; traprock; rottenstone, tripoli, and sand,
crude or manufactured; cliff stone, freestone, granite, and sandstone, unmanufactured, and not suitable for use as monumental or
building stone; all of the foregoing not specially provided for.
PAR. 1676. Strontianite or mineral strontium carbonate and celes- stmne.n
tite or mineral strontium sulphate.
PAR. 1677. Sulphur in any form, and sulphur ore, such as pyrites sulphur
or sulphuret of iron in its natural state, and spent oxide of iron, containing more than 25 per centum of sulphur.
PAR. 1678. Tagua nuts.
Tagnanuts.
PAR. 1679. Tamarinds.

Tamarinds.

PAR. 1680. Tapioca, tapioca flour, and cassava.
Tapioca.
Tarand pitch.
PAR. 1681. Tar and pitch of wood.
PAR. 1682. Tea not specially provided for, and tea plants: Pro- T
vided, That all cans, boxes, and other immediate containers, including Tax oncontaine.
paper, and other wrappings of tea in packages of less than five
pounds each, and all intermediate containers of such tea, shall be

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1922.

dutiable at the rate chargeable thereon if imported empty: Provided

ieE ts.

SESS. II.

further, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to repeal

,p.72

or impair the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to prevent the

importation of impure and unwholesome tea," approved March 2,
1897, and any Act amendatory thereof.

16Teetheeth, natural, or unmanufactured.
PAR. 1684. Tin ore or cassiterite, and black oxide of tin: Provided,
ubject todutywhen That there shall be imposed and paid upon cassiterite, or black oxide
ne prducts, 1,50 of tin, a duty of 4 cents per pound, and upon bar, block, pig tin and
tPA.

reetc.

grain or granulated, a duty of 6 cents per pound when it is made to
appear to the satisfaction of the President of the United States that
the mines of the United States are producing one thousand five
hundred tons of cassiterite and bar, block, and pig tin per year.
The President shall make known this fact by proclamation, and
thereafter said duties shall go into effect.
PAR. 1685. Tin in bars, blocks or pigs, and grain or granulated and
scrap tin, including scrap tin plate.
PAR. 1686. Tobacco stems not cut, ground, or pulverized.
PAR. 1687. Turmeric.
PAR. 1688. Turpentine, gum and spirits of, and rosin.
PAR. 1689. Turtles.
PAR. 1690. Uranium, oxide and salts of.

Tin in bars, etc.
Tobacco stems.

Turmeric.
Turpentine.

Turtles.
Uranium.

PAR. 1691. Vegetable tallow.
PAR. 1692. Wafers, not edible.
PAR. 1693. Wax: Animal, vegetable, or mineral, not specially

Vegetabletalow.
Wafers.

wax.
Wax records for

port "

ex-

Wearing apparel,
etc., of persons from
abroad.
Conditions.

ProviM.

provided for.

PAR. 1694. Disks of soft wax, commonly known as master records,
or metal matrices obtained therefrom, for use in the manufacture of
sound records for export purposes.
PAR. 1695. Wearing apparel, articles of personal adornment,
toilet articles, and similar personal effects of persons arriving in the
United States; but this exemption shall include only such articles as
were actually owned by them and in their possession abroad at the
time of or prior to their departure from a foreign country, and as are
necessary and appropriate for the wear and use of such persons and
are intended for such wear and use, and shall not be held to apply
to merchandise or articles intended for other persons or for sale:
Provided, That all jewelry and similar articles of personal adornment

on having a value of $300 or more, brought in by a nonresident of the
United States, shall, if sold within three years after the date of the
arrival of such person in the United States, be liable to duty at the rate
or rates in force at the time of such sale, to be paid by such person:
Effects of returning Providedfurther, That in case of residents of the United States returning from abroad all wearing apparel, personal and household
residents.
effects taken by them out of the United States to foreign countries
shall be admitted free of duty, without regard to their value, upon
their identity being established under appropriate rules and regulaAmount allowed for tions to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided
rPal Purchases further, That up to but not exceeding $100 in value of articles acquired abroad by such residents of the United States for personal or
household use or as souvenirs or curios, but not bought on commission or intended for sale, shall be admitted free of duty.
Whalebone.
PAR. 1696. Whalebone, unmanufactured.
Barbed wire.
PAR. 1697. All barbed wire, whether plain or galvanized.
Witheite.
PAR. 1698. Witherite.
Wood charcoal.
PAR. 1699. Wood charcoal.
PAR. 1700. Wood: Logs; timber, round, unmanufactured, hewn,
Logs, round timber
etc.
sided or squared otherwise than by sawing; pulp woods; round
timber used for spars or in building wharves; firewood, handle bolts,
shingle bolts; and gun blocks for gunstocks, rough hewn or sawed
Boards.
or planed on one side; sawed boards, planks, deals, and other lumber.
anwretrtc,'st
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not further manufactured than sawed, planed, and tongued and

grooved; clapboards, laths, ship timber; all of the foregoing not

specially provided
for: Provided, That if there is imported into the
.
United States any of the foregoing lumber, planed on one or more

LST

P"tiNegotiations

arauthor-

ized with country im-

sides and tongued and grooved, manufactured in or exported from epsdtoon"niber
re
any country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of government which imposes a duty upon such lumber exported from the

tts,

secure

United States, the President may enter into negotiations with such
country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of government
to secure the removal of such duty, and if such duty is not removed gProciSflti
he may by proclamation declare such failure of negotiations, and in goos

ne-

such proclamation shall state the facts upon which his action is
taken together with the rates imposed, and make declaration that
like and equal rates shall be forthwith imposed as hereinafter provided; whereupon, and until such duty is removed, there shall be
cgutryjtothat
levied, collected, and paid upon such lumber, when imported directly imposed.
or indirectly from such country, dependency, province, or other
subdivision of government, a duty equal to the duty imposed by
such country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of government upon such lumber imported from the United States.
PAR. 1701. Paving posts, railroad ties, and telephone, trolley, posts, telegraph
electric-light, and telegraph poles of cedar or other woods.
PAR. 1702. Pickets, palings, hoops, and staves of wood of all kinds. Pickets, staves, etc.
PAR. 1703. Woods: Sticks of partridge, hair wood, pimento, etc.
for umelas

orange, myrtle, bamboo, rattan, india malacca joints, and other
woods not specially provided for, in the rough, or not further advanced than cut into lengths suitable for sticks for umbrellas, parasols, sunshades, whips, fishing rods, or walking canes.
PAR. 1704. Original paintings in oil, mineral, water, or other skOtignaclpt',
colors, pastels, original drawings and sketches in pen, ink, pencil, et*
,
or water colors, artists' proof etchings unbound, and engravings and
woodcuts unbound, original sculptures or statuary, including not
more than two replicas or reproductions of the same; but the terms Costctuno'terms
"sculpture" and "statuary" as used in this paragraph shall be
understood to include professional productions of sculptors only,
whether in round or in relief, in bronze, marble, stone, terra cotta,
ivory, wood, or metal, or whether cut, carved, or otherwise wrought
by hand from the solid block or mass of marble, stone, or alabaster,
or from metal, or cast in bronze or other metal or substance, or
from wax or plaster, made as the professional productions of sculpl
tors only; and the words "painting" and "sculpture" and "statu- Exl usions
ary" as used in this paragraph shall not be understood to include
any articles of utility, nor such as are made wholly or in part by
stenciling or any other mechanical process; and the words "etch- mirtnSd etc., adings," "engravings," and "woodcuts" as used in this paragraph
shall be understood to include only such as are printed by hand
from plates or blocks etched or engraved with hand tools and not
such as are printed from plates or blocks etched or engraved by
photochemical or other mechanical processes.
PAR. 1705. Works of art, drawings, engravings, photographic Wrflet
aarSatu, et.
pictures, and philosophical and scientific apparatus brought by pro- fessiornalehiTts,
fessional artists, lecturers, or scientists arriving from abroad for use etc.
by them temporarily for 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 Bond required.
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 not be exported within six months after such importation: Provided, That
ion of time.
the Secretary of the Treasury may, in his discretion, extend such

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period for a further term of six months in cases where application
therefor shall be made.

PAR. 1706. Works of art, collections in illustration of the progress
For perSanent Cts,e ' of the arts, sciences, agriculture, or manufactures, photographs,
a.it

For

public mono

etc,.

Bond requied.

icions.

works in terra cotta, parian, pottery, or porcelain, antiquities and
artistic copies thereof m 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,
agriculture, or education, or for a muncipal 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 bond 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 inspec-

tion by the proper officers of the customs: Provided, That the privi-

leges of this and the preceding paragraph shall not be allowed to associations or corporations engaged m or connected with business of

a private or commercial character.
PR. 1707. Works of art, productions of American artists residing
0. itut to inm- temporarily abroad, or other works of art, including pictorial paint-

artss abrod, etf

ings 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, including stained
or painted window glass or stained or painted glass windows which
are works of art when imported to be used in houses of worship and

Exusis

ov0 er100
yWormd

orm gut.

Zaffer.

TITLTITLE
III.
SPSCIaL

ROVsIONS.

Philippine Llands.

Aclssom, subject

to regular duties

when ordered after the passage of this Act, valued at $15 or more
per square foot, and excluding any article, in whole or in part,

molded, cast, or mechanically wrought from metal within twenty
years prior to importation; but such exemption shall be subject to

such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe.
PAR. 1708. Works of art (except rugs and carpets), collections in
illustration of the progress of the arts, works in bronze, marble, terra

cotta, parian, pottery, or porcelain, artistic antiquities, and objects
of art of ornamental character or educational value which shall have,
been produced more than one hundred years prior to the date of
importation, but the free importation of such objects shall be subject
to such regulations as to proof of antiquity as the Secretary of the
Treasury mayprescribe.
P.
1709. Worm gut, unmanufactured.
PAR. 1710. Zaffer.

TITLE

SPECIAL PROVISIONS.

SEC. 301. That there shall be levied, collected, and paid upon all
articles coming into the United States from the Philippine Islands

the rates of duty which are required to be levied, collected, and
paid upon like articles imported from foreign countries: Provided,
productsexpted That all articles, the growth or product of or manufactured in the
Philippine Islands from materials the growth or product of the
Philippine Islands or of the United States, or of both, or which
do not contain foreign materials to the value of more than 20 per
centum of their total value, upon which no drawback of customs
duties has been allowed therein, coming into the United States from

Ntve and Ameri-

ticis
ui t
adnited instoth

ippins.

the Philippine Islands shall hereafter be admitted free of duty:
Provided, owever, That in consideration of the exemptions aforesaid,
all articles, the growth, product, or manufacture of the United

States, upon which no drawback of customs duties has been allowed

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therein, shall be admitted to the Philippine Islands from the United
- - -,sStates free of duty: And provided further, That the free admission, quird.
herein provided, of such articles, the growth, product, or manufacture of the United States, into the Philippine Islands, or of the
growth, product, or manufacture, as hereinbefore defined, of the
Philippine Islands into the United States, shall be conditioned upon
the direct shipment thereof, under a through bill of lading, from
the country of origin to the country of destination: Provided, That Through
direct shipments shall include shipments in bond through foreign eluded.

territory contiguous to the United States: Provided, however, That rg

contigous

.g ae., ofby

if such articles become unpacked while en route by accident, wreck, casualty.

or other casualty, or so damaged as to necessitate their repacking,
the same shall be admitted free of duty upon satisfactory proof
that the unpacking occurred through accident or necessity and that
the merchandise involved is the identical merchandise originally
shipped from the United States or the Philippine Islands, as the
case may be, and that its condition has not been changed except

for such damage as may have been sustained: And provided, That Articles from
there shall be levied, collected, and paid, in the United States, upon united'atesntoerp
articles, goods, wares, or merchandise coming into the United States reenuetaxes.

the

from the Philippine Islands a tax equal to the internal-revenue
tax imposed in the United States upon the like articles, goods,
wares, or merchandise of domestic manufacture; such tax to be
paid by internal-revenue stamp or stamps, to be provided by the

Commissioner of Internal Revenue, and to be affixed in such manner
and under such regulations as he, with the approval of the Secretary
of the Treasury, shall prescribe; and such articles, goods, wares, Exempt fromPhiltp
or merchandise shipped from said islands to the United States pineta.
shall be exempt from the payment of any tax imposed by the internal
United
That States
rtilesto pay
rminternal
revenue laws of the Philippine Islands: And prvided further,
e hh.
there shall be levied, collected, and paid in the Philippine Islands, revenuetaxf Pp
upon articles, goods, wares, or merchandise going into the Philippine pines
Islands from the United States, a tax equal to the internal-revenue
tax imposed in the Philippine Islands upon the like articles, goods,
wares, or merchandise of Philippine Islands manufacture; such tax
to be paid by internal-revenue stamps or otherwise, as provided
by the laws in the Philippine Islands; and such articles, goods, ExemptfromnUnited
wares, or merchandise going into the Philippine Islands from the
United States shall be exempt from the payment of any tax imposed
goo
by the internal revenue laws of the United States: And provided Payment
further, That in addition to the customs taxes imposed in the Philip- than untedsttes.
pine Islands, there shall be levied, collected, and paid therein upon
articles, goods, wares, or merchandise imported into the Philippine
Islands from countries other than the United States the internalrevenue tax imposed by the Philippine Government on like articles
manufactured and consumed in the Philippine Islands or shipped
thereto for consumption therein from the United States: And pro- pRevenue co.:cti.).
vided further, That from and after the passage of this Act all internal trea-sry.t
revenues collected in or for account of the Philippine Islands shall
accrue intact to the general government thereof and be paid into
the insular treasury.
SEC. 302. That articles, goods, wares, or merchandise going into PortoR
ea
Goods to, exempt
Porto Rico from the United States shall be exempted from the pay- from United tates iment of any tax imposed by the internal-revenuelaws of the United teral revenue tax
States.
SEC. 303. That whenever any country, dependency, colony, prov- CouintpSersigdu
ince, or other political subdivision of government, person, partnership, bounty for manuao
association, cartel, or corporation shall pay or bestow, directly or indi- t u re tc.thereo
rectly, any bounty or grant upon the manufacture or production or
export of any article or merchandise manufactured or produced in
such country, dependency, colony, province, or other political sub-

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SPEcALPROViONSs.

To equal
etc.

SEss. II.

CH. 356.

1922.

division of government, 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
bounty, 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

Ascertainment

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. 304. (a) That every article imported into the United States,
beCkydonartes
o bonnty,etc.

which is capable of being marked, stamped, branded, or labeled, with-

imported.

out injury, at the time of its manufacture or production, shall be
marked, stamped, branded, or labeled, in legible English words, in a
conspicuous place that shall not be covered or obscured by any subsequent attachments or arrangements, so as to indicate the country
of origin. Said marking, stamping, branding, or labeling shall be as
nearly indelible and permanent as the nature of the article will perReqied before re mit.
Icearom

Any such article held in customs custody shall not be delivered

cus- until so marked, stamped, branded, or labeled, and until every such
article of the importation which shall have been released from customs custody not so marked, stamped, branded, or labeled, shall be
marked, stamped, branded, or labeled, in accordance with such rules

and regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe.
not markedunless ex- Unless the article is exported under customs supervision, there shall
ported.
be levied, collected, and paid upon every such article which at the

time of importation is not so marked, stamped, branded, or labeled,
in addition to the regular duty imposed by law on such article, a duty
of 10 per centum of the appraised value thereof, or if such article is
free of duty there shall be Ievied, collected, and paid upon such article
a duty of 10 per centum of the appraised value thereof.
Every package containing any imported article, or articles, shall be

packgesT'
Required before de-

livery, etc.

marked, stamped, branded, or labeled, in legible English words, so as
to indicate clearly the country of origin. Any such package held in
customs custody shall not be delivered unless so marked, stamped,

branded, or labeled, and until every package of the importation which
shall have been released from customs custody not so marked,
stamped, branded, or labeled shall be marked, stamped, branded, or
labeled, in accordance with such rules and regulations as the Secretary
Regultions to be of the Treasury may prescribe.
prescribed.
The Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe the necessary rules
and regulations to carry out the foregoing provisions.
Punishment hr
(b) if any person shall fraudulently violate any of the provisions of
fraudulently mUg
obliteratingmarcsetc

Imports

oteS~

tures, etc.

boto,

this Act relating to the marking, stamping, branding, or labeling of

any imported articles or packages or shall fraudulently deface, destroy,
remove, alter, or obliterate any such marks, stamps, brands, or labels
with intent to conceal the information given by or contained in such
marks, stamps, brands, or labels, he shall upon conviction be fined in
any sum not exceeding $5,000, or be imprisoned for any time not
exceeding one year, or both.
t.
picSzc. 305. (a) 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

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

SESS. II.

CH. 356.

1922.

937

°abortiovos.
nature, or any drug or medicine, or any article whatever for the pre- sr
t
vention of conception or for causing unlawful abortion, or any lottery e c.
ticket, or any printed paper that may be used as a lottery ticket, or Lottery tickets etc.
any advertisement of anylottery. No such articles, whether imported Entryordden
separately or contained in packages with other goods entitled to
ure,etc.
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 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 that the obscene articles contained in the package
were inclosed therein without the knowledge or consent of the Pro.
importer, owner, agent, or consignee: Provided,That the drugs here- Drugs in bulk cxinbefore mentioned, when imported in bulk and not put up for any ce
of the purposes hereinbefore specified, are excepted from the operation
of this subsection.
(b) That any officer, agent, or employee of the Government of the Punishmont for offiUnited States who shall knowingly aid or abet any person engaged cersds.
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 $5,000, or by imprisonment at hard labor for not
more than ten years, or both.
ur e
proceeding,
(c) That any district judge of the United States, within the proper Sei
subof
violation
any
of
writing
in
complaint
whom
before
district,
division (a) or (b) of this section is made, founded upon probable
cause and supported by oath or affirmation of the complainant, may
issue, conformably to the Constitution, a warrant directed to the
United States marshal or deputy marshal in the proper district or
to a duly accredited customs officer, directing him to search for, seize,
and take possession of any article or thing mentioned in such subdivisions, 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. 306. (a) That the importation of neat cattle and the hides Netcattleand ide
pribd.
of neat cattle from any foreign country into the United States is
prohibited under such rules of inspection as the Secretary of Agriculture may determine.
(b) If the Secretary of Agriculture shall determine that such spenonif cumimportation will not tend to the introduction or spread of contagious disease.
or infectious diseases among the cattle of the United States, he shall
officially notify the Secretary of the Treasury and give public notice

that the operation of subdivision (a) of this section shall be suspended

as to any foreign country or countries, or any parts of such country
or countries.
(c) That any person convicted of a willful violation of any of the latPnishm for vie
provisions of the preceding subsection shall be fined not exceeding
$500, or imprisoned not exceeding one year, or both, in the discretion of the court.
SEC. 307. That all goods, wares, articles, and merchandise manu- fnict lprlabi manfactured wholly or in part in any foreign country by convict labor try.
t
shall not be entitled to entry at any of the ports of the United States, Eno
and 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.

938

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RsCTAL
^dPo

SESS. II.

CH. 356.

1922.

SEC. 308. That the following articles, when not imported for sale
or for sale on approval, may be admitted into the United States under
such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may

t do

ree,

under bond to
exportinsixmonths.

prescribe, without the payment of duty under bond for their exportation within six months from the date of importation:
Machinery, etc., for
(1) Machinery or other articles to be altered or repaired;
"8oSien's apparel
(2) Models of women's wearing apparel imported by manufacturers
models,
for use solely as models in their own establishments, and not for sale;
Molders atterns.
(3) Molder's patterns for use in the manufacture of castings;
amles

Arties

(4) Samples solely for use in taking orders for merchandise;
(5) Articles intended solely for experimental purposes, and upon

for orders.
for exper-

satisfactory proof to the Secretary that any such article has been
destroyed because of its use for experimental purposes such bond may
h

be canceled without the payment of duty;
(6) Automobiles, motor cycles, bicycles, airplanes, airships,
balloons, motor boats, racing shells and similar vehicles and craft,

l
rvges
eftourig

radngetc.

teams and saddle horses, all of which are brought temporarily into
the United States by nonresidents for touring purposes, or for the

rl
eqpmtr^o emer-

nyrepairs.

Cntainers for

Foreign war
vessels
p
splies

purposes of taking part in races or other specific contests;
(7) Locomotives, cars and coaches, and repair equipment belonging
to railroads brought temporarily into the United States for the

purpose of clearing obstructions, fighting fires, or making emergency
repairs on lines the property of railroads within the United States;
and

(8) Containers for compressed gases which comply with the laws
and regulations for the transportation of such containers in the

United States.
SEC. 309. That the privilege of purchasing supplies from public

fro warehousesfpof warehouses, free of duty, and from bonded manufacturing wareax
t .
houses, free of duty or of internal-revenue tax, as the case may be,

shall be extended, under such regulations as the Secretary of the
Treasury shall prescribe, to the vessels of war of any nation in ports
Reciprocityrequired. of the United States which may reciprocate such privileges toward the
vessels of war of the United States m its ports.
Abandoned goods
SEC. 310. That whenever any vessel laden with merchandise in
from veshas sunk
in
Ameian waters ad- whole or in part subject to duty, has been sunk in any river, harbor
yted

ree at

two 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 therefrom into 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.

BOnded maoufactr1roductss
offor ex-

port, fee (nm tax.

designated in Treasury Regulations as bonded warehouses, class six:
Provided, That the manufacturer of such articles shall first give satis-

Bndrequire.
cDistiled spiar

SEC. 311. That all articles manufactured in whole or in part of

imported materials, or of materials subject to internal-revenue tax,
and intended for exportation without being charged with duty, and
without having an 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

factory bonds for the faithful observance of all the provisions of law
and of such regulations as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the

x- Treasury: Provided further, That the manufacture of distilled spirits
from grain, starch, molasses, or sugar, including all dilutions or mix-

tures of them or either of them, shall not be permitted in such manufacturing warehouses.
m=pnM whezn 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

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U
and immediate exportation under the supervision of the proper officer SBEC L

O NS
.

PRoVIS

who shall be duly designated for that purpose, such goods shall be
exempt from duty and from the requirements relating to revenue
stamps.

Transfers of materi-

Any materials used in the manufacture of such goods, and any ala, etc., to manufapackages, coverings, vessels, brands, and labels used in putting up ofgwarehouse, free

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 ware-

trutis
house; but this privilege shall not be held to apply to implements, erConds

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

Articles or materials received into such bonded manufacturing drwSitt

warehouse or articles manufactured therefrom may be withdrawn or
removed therefrom for direct shipment and exportation or for transportation and immediate exportation in bond to foreign countries or
to the Philippine Islands 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:
Provided, That the by-products incident to the processes of manu-

of with

Prorae.*

facture, including waste derived from cleaning rice in bonded ware- withdrawn or domes
houses under the Act of March 24, 1874, in said bonded warehouses ticvconsm1npt'24.
may be withdrawn for domestic consumption on the payment of
duty equal to the duty which would be assessed and collected by

law if such waste or by-products were imported from a foreign
country: Provided, That all waste material may be destroyed under

, 0of
Destruction

Government supervision. All labor performed and services rendered penses.
under these provisions shall be under the supervision of a duly designated officer of the customs and at the expense of the manufacturer. Accounts and returns
A careful account shall be kept by the collector of all merchandise required.
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 ptemet ro pro
warehouse shall file with the Secretary of the Treasury a list of all meIbusiness.

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.
Articles manufactured under these provisions may be withdrawn

Wthdraw"ls for e-

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:

Provided, That cigars manufactured in whole of tobacco imported cdios

from any one country, made and manufactured in such bonded rwa ls for cs
manufacturing warehouses, may be withdrawn for home consump- whs olly too
tion upon the payment of the duties on such tobacco in its condition tromonecoutry.
as imported under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury
may prescribe, and the payment of the internal-revenue tax accruing
on such cigars in their condition as withdrawn, and the boxes or
packages containing such cigars shall be stamped to indicate their
character, origin of tobacco from which made, and place of manufacture.

940

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

SESS. II.

Cu. 356.

1922.

The provisions of section 3433 of the Revised Statutes shall, so
PBovIMIONs.
SrEC
s app far as may be practicable, apply to any bonded manufacturing warecable
house established under this Act and to the merchandiseconveyed
vol.i''.p.6 .l4
therein.
SE. 312. That the works of manufacturers engaged in smelting
uthig
Bwded sme
or refining, or both, of ores and crude metals, may upon the giving
of satisfactory bonds, be designated as bonded smelting warehouses.
Ores or crude metals may be removed from the vessel or other vehicle
etc. admitted
toreh,
~towithout
paying
in which imported, or from a bonded warehouse, into a bonded
d
uty.
smelting warehouse without the payment of duties thereon, and there
smelted or refined, or both, together with ores or crude metals of
home or foreign production: Provided, That the bonds shall be
Proa.
Amomtofbond.
charged with a sum equal in amount to the regular duties which
would have been payable on such ores and crude metals if entered
for consumption at the time of their importation, and the several
Charesagainst, ca-

charges against such bonds shall be canceled upon the exportation

or delivery to a bonded manufacturing warehouse established under
the preceding section of this title of a quantity of the same kind of
metal equal to the quantity of metal producible from the smelting
or refining, or both, of the dutiable metal contained in such ores or
crude metals, due allowance being made of the smelter wastage as
ascertained from time to time by the Secretary of the Treasury:
On paying ty on Providedfurther, That the said metals so producible, or any portion
dmes ti tconshstor thereof, may be withdrawn for domestic consumption or transferred
. to a bonded customs warehouse and withdrawn therefrom and the
several charges against the bonds canceled upon thepayment of the
duties chargeable against an equivalent amount of ores or crude
metals from which said metal would be producible in their condition
ssaying, etc., on as imported: Providedfurther, That on the arrival of the ores and
a rn v a
crude metals at such establishments they shall be sampled and assayed
5
L
according to commercial methods under the supervision of GovernSupervision of ex- ment officers: Providedfurther, That all labor performed and services
mdasmeltedpE. to

pe es.

rendered pursuant to this section shall be under the supervision of

an officer of the customs, to be appointed by the Secretary of the
Treasury and at the expense of the manufacturer: Providedfurther,
scribed.
That all regulations for the carrying out of this section shall be
Cancellation of prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury: And provided further,
cges on exrt, eyt., That the several charges against the bonds of any smelting warehouse
dutiable mea ta-er established under the provisions of this section may be canceled
smeltingwarhse. upon the exportation or transfer to a bonded manufacturing warehouse from any other bonded smelting warehouse established under
this section of a quantity of the same kind of metal, in excess of that
covered by open bonds, equal to the amount of metal producible
from the smelting or refining, or both, of the dutiable metal contained in the imported ores and crude metals, due allowance being
made of the smelter wastage as ascertained from time to time by
the Secretary of the Treasury.
SEC. 313. That upon the exportation of articles manufactured or
Drawback of duties.
Allowed on export of produced in the United States with the use of imported merchandise
the full amount of the duties paid upon the merchandise so used shall
ported'mateSriaIs"'
be refunded as drawback, less 1 per centum of such duties, except
re t
that such duties shall not be so refunded upon the exportation of
ior
Wheat
tions.
flour or by-products produced from imported wheat unless an amount
of wheat grown in the United States equal to not less than 30 per
centum of the amount of such imported wheat has been mixed with
Distribution it such imported wheat. Where two or more products result from the
severa products result. manipulation of imported merchandise, the drawback shall be distributed to the several products in accordance with their relative
Reglations to be

partifradomestic

values at the time of separation.

When the articles exported are

manufactured or produced in part from domestic materials, the imported merchandise shall so appear in the completed articles that the

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quantity or measure thereof may be ascertained. The drawback on
any article allowed under existing law shall be continued at the rate Under existinglaw.
herein provided. The imported merchandise used in the manufac- terntificaton of ma
ture or production of articles entitled to drawback of customs duties
when exported shall, in all cases where drawback of duties paid on
such merchandise is claimed, be identified, the quantity of such
merchandise 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
en t
of drawdetermined, and the drawback due thereon shall be paid to the manu- bPrn
person
to
the
or
either,
facturer, producer, or exporter, the agent of
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.
On the exportation of flavoring extracts, medicinal or toilet prepa- Domeso'fmCha
rations (including perfumery) hereafter manufactured or produced revenue tax on, orused
in the United States in part from domestic alcohol on which an etr, etc.
internal-revenue tax has been paid, there shall be allowed a drawback equal in amount to the tax found to have been paid on the
alcohol so used. Such drawback shall be determined and paid JRles, etc., for deterunder such rules and regulations, and upon the filing of such notices,
bonds, bills of lading, and other evidence of payment of tax and
exportation, as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe.mportedlt
Provided, That imported salt in bond may be used in curing fish Dutyremittedon, in
taken by vessels licensed to engage in the fisheries and in curing fish bond, used in cin^m
on the shores of the navigable waters of the United States, under sels.
such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe;
and upon proof that the salt has been used for either of the purposes
stated in this proviso, the duties on the same shall be remitted:
etiremendsed
Provided further, That upon the exportation of meats, whether
packed or smoked, which have been cured in the United States with herewith.
imported salt, there shall be refunded from the Treasury, upon
satisfactory proof, under such regulations as the Secretary of the
Treasury shall prescribe, that such meats have been cured with
imported salt, the duties paid on the salt so used in curing such Limitation.
exported meats, in amounts not less than $100.
The provisions of this section shall apply to materials imported toDmporbtedappae
and used in the construction and equipment of vessels built for for essels built for
foreign account and ownership, or for the Government of any for- foeign
eign country, notwithstanding that such vessels may not within the
strict meaning of the term be articles exported.
te
SEC. 314. That upon the reimportation of articles once exported, rpaymet of internal
of the growth, product, or manufacture of the United States, upon re" Btax on domeswhich no internal tax has been assessed or paid, or upon which such
tax has been paid and refunded by allowance or drawback, there
shall be levied, collected, and paid a duty equal to the tax imposed
Originaldtyiffrom
by the internal revenue laws upon such articles, except articles imported
materials in
warehouse.
bonded
to
law,
pursuant
exported
and
warehouses
bonded
in
manufactured
which shall be subject to the same rate of duty as if originally imported, but proof of the identity of such articles shall be made under

general regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury.

SEC. 315. (a) That in order to regulate the foreign commerce of the Chas in ctlo aUnited States and to put into force and effect the policy of the Con- aie differenes in osts.
artles mth frgress by this Act intended, whenever the President, upon investi- pan
gation of the differences in costs of production of articles wholly or egn, to beprmeaind
in part the growth or product of the United States and of like or
similar articles wholly or in part the growth or product of competing
foreign countries, shall find it thereby shown that the duties fixed in
this Act do not equalize the said differences in costs of production

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SPECIAL PEOVEONS.

Effective

in30 days.

ariatin limited.

ifndins to be made

of i
dartidesl
Srropo
encfssn
u til

SE68. II.

CH. 356.

1922.

in the United States and the principal competing country he shall,
by such investigation, ascertain said differences and determine and
proclaim the changes in classifications or increases or decreases in
any rate of duty provided in this Act shown by said ascertained
differences in such costs of production necessary to equalize the same.
Thirty days after the date of such proclamation or proclamations
such changes in classification shall take effect, and such increased or
decreased duties shall be levied, collected, and paid on such articles
when imported from any foreign country into the United States or
into any of its possessions (except the Philipine Islands, the Virgin
Islands, and the islands of Guam and Tutila): Provided, That the
total increase or decrease of such rates of duty shall not exceed 50
per centum of the rates specified in Title I of this Act, or in any
amendatory Act.
(b) That in order to regulate the foreign commerce of the United
States and to put into force and effect the policy of the Congress by
this Act intended, whenever the President, upon investigation of
the differences in costs of production of articles provided for in
Title I of this Act, wholly or in part the growth or product of the
United States and of like or similar articles wholly or in part the
growth or product of competing foreign countries, shall find it thereby
shown that the duties prescribed in this Act do not equalize said
differences, and shall further find it thereby shown that the said
differences in costs of production in the United States and the
principal competing country can not be equalized by proceeding
under the provisions of subdivision (a) of this section, he shall make

phicls to which a"- such findings public, together with a description of the articles to

which they apply, in such detail as may be necessary for the guidance

meican sellin of appraising officers. In such cases and upon the proclamation by
Par domestic article to the President becoming effective the ad valorem duty or duty based
ofvpane.d

Determination

in whole or in part upon the value of the imported article in the
country of exportation shall thereafter be based upon the American

selling price, as defined in subdivision (f) of section 402 of this Act,
of any similar competitive article manufactured or produced in the
United States embraced within the class or kind of imported articles
upon which the President has made a proclamation under subdivision (b) of this section.
The ad valorem rate or rates of duty based upon such American

selling price shall be the rate found, upon said investigation by the
President, to be shown by the said differences in costs of production
necessary to equalize such differences, but no such rate shall be decreased more than 50 per centum of the rate specified in Title I of

rates.

Eectivenda

this Act upon such articles, nor shall any such rate be increased.

if y
valuat
aciotimpeU

If there is any imported article within the class or kind of articles,
upon which the President has made public a finding, for which there

Ecven
5 s. Such rate or rates of duty shall become effective fifteen days after
the date of the said proclamation of the President, whereupon the
duties so estimated and provided shall be levied, collected, and paid
on such articles when imported from any foreign country into the
United States or into any of its possessions (except the Philippine
Islands, the Virgin Islands, and the islands of Guam and Tutuila).

ther
imanr

is no similar competitive article manufactured or produced in the
pout, p. 9.

United States, the value of such imported article shall be determined

under the provisions of paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of subdivision (a)
of section 402 of this Act.
n (c) That in ascertaining the differences in costs of production, under
terminSiffernces
termine difterences in
costs of production.

the provisions of subdivisions (a) and (b) of this section, the President,

in so far as he finds it practicable, shall take into consideration (1) the
differences in conditions in production, including wages, costs of material, and other items in costs of production of such or similar articles
in the United States and in competing foreign countries; (2) the differ-

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CH. 356.

943

1922.

ences in the wholesale selling prices of domestic and foreign articles in
the principal markets of the United States; (3) advantages granted to
a foreign producer by a foreign government, or by a person, partnership, corporation, or association in a foreign country; and (4) any

OLONS.

N
other advantages or disadvantages in competition.
Investigations to assist the President in ascertaining differences in issue unt

costs of production under this section shall be made by the United
States Tariff Commission, and no proclamation shall be issued under

this section until such investigation shall have been made. The
commission shall give reasonable public notice of its hearings and
shall give reasonable opportunity to parties interested to be present,
to produce evidence, and to be heard. The commission is authorized
to adopt such reasonable procedure, rules, and regulations as it may

b y

investiga-

Tariff cms-

Hearings, etc.

deem necessary.
Authority to modify,
The President, proceeding as hereinbefore provided for in proclaim- etc., new rates.

ing rates of duty, shall, when he determines that it is shown that the
differences in costs of production have changed or no longer exist
which led to such proclamation, accordingly as so shown, modify or
terminate the same.

Nothing in this section shall be construed to

Transfers restricted.

authorize a transfer of an article from the dutiable list to the free list
or from the free list to the dutiable list, nor a change in form of duty.
Whenever it is provided in any paragraph of Title I of this Act, that Spefiedad valore
the duty or duties shall not exceed a specified ad valorem rate upon ceeded.
the articles provided for in such paragraph, no rate determined under
the provision of this section upon such articles shall exceed the maximum ad valorem rate so specified.

(d) For the purposes of this section any coal-tar product provided sldered
Cso-ere
prodaetSo-imilar
or cmnfor in paragraphs 27 or 28 of Title I of this Act shall be considered petitive.
similar to or competitive with any imported coal-tar product which Atep61.

accomplishes results substantially equal to those accomplished by the
domestic product when used in substantially the same manner.

(e) The President is authorized to make all needful rules and regu- uRSgultions for eelations for carrying out the provisions of this section.
(f) The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to make such rules Reguationsforentry,

and regulations as he may deem necessary for the entry and declara- seingprice valuation.
tion of imported articles of the class or kind of articles upon which the
President has made a proclamation under the provisions of subdivi- A,

p.42.

sion (b) of this section and for the form of invoice required at time of
entry.

SEc. 316. (a) That unfair methods of competition and unfair acts or
Oanm^inf4o
in the importation of articles into the United States, or in their sale declared unawl.
by the owner, importer, consignee, or agent of either, the effect or Actsdesigted.

tendency of which is to destroy or substantially injure an industry,
efficiently and economically operated, in the United States, or to prevent the establishment of such an industry, or to restrain or monopolize trade and commerce in the United States, are hereby declared
unlawful, and when found by the President to exist shall be dealt
with, in addition to any other provisions of law, as hereinafter
provided.
(b) That to assist the President in making any decisions under this TaiefCOmn. vto
section the United States Tariff Commission is hereby authorized tolatons

investigate any alleged violation hereof on complaint under oath or
upon its initiative.
(c) That the commission shall make such investigation under and
in accordance with such rles as it may promulgate and give such

notice and afford such hearing and when deemed proper by the
commission such rehearing with opportunity to offer evidence, oral
or written, as it may deem sufficient for a full presentation of the
facts involved in such investigation; that the testimony in every

Po
d

conferre,d to
hr,
.

944

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

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CH. 356.

1922.

such investigation shall be reduced to writing, and a transcript

SPECIALBOVISON.
f

Copy to importer.

thereof with the findings and recommendation of the commission
shall be the official record of the proceedings and findings in the case,
and in any case where the findings in such investigation show a viola-

Effect of fndings.

or delivered to the importer or consignee of such articles; that such

Transpt oe ind-

ociareord.

tion of this section, a copy of the findings shall be promptly mailed

findings, if supported by evidence, shall be conclusive, except that a
rehearing may be granted by the commission, and except that,
within such time after said findings are made and in such manner
as appeals may be taken from decisions of the United States Board of
General Appraisers, an appeal may be taken from said findings
onquestionsolaw.upon a question or questions of law only to the United States Court
Apeals to Court of
CustosAppeals oly

of Customs Appeals by the importer or consignee of such articles;
that if it shall be shown to the satisfaction of said court that further
evidence should be taken, and that there were reasonable grounds
for the failure to adduce such evidence in the proceedings before the
commission, said court may order such additional evidence to be taken
before the commission in such manner and upon such terms and
conditions as to the court may seem proper; that the commission may
by modify its findings as to the facts or make new findings by reason of

Additional evidence.

Modtion et
commission. '

additional evidence, which, if supported by the evidence, shall be

conclusive as to the facts except that within such time and in such
manner an appeal may be taken as aforesaid upon a question or
rt

Judgment of

questions of law only; that the judgment of said court shall be final,

States
Supreme Court upon certiorari applied for within three months

inal, subject to review except that the same shall be subject to review by the United
by Supreme court.
Preidentt

to th

President to impose
duty to of-

ddiona

eAd vaorem rate.
Po, p. 949.

emeytchd ent ry

Decision conclusive.

vilantonShereofdeniedi
entry pending investiga t
i

proso.
pitdunder

boud

.Continuationof duty,

ddi dues to
beArodaimedton
ies
contriesm

specified

after such judgment of the United States Court of Customs Appeals.
(d) That the final findings of the commission shall be transmitted
with
the record to the President.
,..
(e) That whenever the existence of any such unfair method or act
shall be established to the satisfaction of the President he shall
determine the rate of additional duty, not exceeding 50 nor less than
10 per centum of the value of such articles as defined in section 402
of Title IV of this Act, which will offset such method or act, and which
is hereby imposed upon articles imported in violation of this Act,
or, in what he shall be satisfied and find are extreme cases of unfair
methods or acts as aforesaid,he shall direct that such articles as he shall
deem the interests of the United States shall require, imported by any
person violating the provisions of this Act, shall be excluded from
entry into the United States, and upon information of such action
by the President, the Secretary of the Treasury shall, through the
proper officers, assess such additional duties or refuse such entry;
and that the decision of the President shall be conclusive.
(f) That whenever the President has reason to believe that any
article is offered or sought to be offered for entry into the United
States in violation of this section but has not information sufficient to
satisfy him thereof, the Secretary of the Treasury shall, upon his
request in writing, forbid entry thereof until such investigation as the
President may deem necessary shall be completed: Provided, That
the Secretary of the Treasury may permit entry under bond upon
such conditions and penalties as he may deem adequate.
(g) That any additional duty or any refusal of entry under this
section shall continue in effect until the President shall find and
instruct the Secretary of the Treasury that the conditions which led
to the assessment of such additional duty or refusal of entry no
longer exist.
SEC. 317. (a) That the President when he finds that the public
interest will be served thereby shall by proclamation specify and
declare new or additional duties as hereinafter provided upon articles
wholly or in part the growth or product of any foreign country whenever he shall find as a fact that such country-

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

SEss. II.

CH. 356.

1922.

945

ovsONS
Imposes, directly or indirectly, upon the disposition in or trans-Ipf sPErCL
Iosing unreasonportation in transit through or reexportation from such country of able charges on Ameriany article wholly or in part the growth or product of the United ptherProdutts nt on
States any unreasonable charge, exaction, regulation, or limitation
which is not equally enforced upon the like articles of every foreign
Discriminating
country;
Discriminates in fact against the commerce of the United States, against

American com-

directly or indirectly, by law or administrative regulation or practice, that of thercnths
by or in respect to any customs, tonnage, or port duty, fee, charge,
exaction, classification, regulation, condition, restriction, or prohibition, in such manner as to place the commerce of the United States at
a disadvantage compared with the commerce of any foreign country.
(b) If at any time the President shall find it to be a fact that any authorzed if discrim
continue, etc.,
foreign country has not only discriminated against the commerce of inations
a f t e r proclamation
the United States, as aforesaid, but has, after the issuance of a procla- issued. prcl
mation as authorized in subdivision (a) of this section, maintained or
increased its said discriminations against the commerce of the United
States, the President is hereby authorized, if he deems it consistent
with the interests of the United States, to issue a further proclamation
directing that such articles of said country as he shall deem the public
interests may require shall be excluded from importation into the
United States.
extent of
(c) That any proclamation issued by the President under theprEflast
authority of this section shall, if he deems it consistent with the
interests of the United States, extend to the whole of any foreign
country or may be confined to any subdivision or subdivisions thereof;
and the President shall, whenever he deems the public interests
require, suspend, revoke, supplement, or amend any such proclamation.
(d) Whenever the President shall find as a fact that any foreign
elarationofby
e de
country places any burdens upon the commerce of the United States to offset burdens on
by any of the unequal impositions or discriminations aforesaid, he
shall, when he finds that the public interest will be served thereby,
by proclamation specify and declare such new or additional rate or
rates of duty as he shall determine will offset such burdens, not to
exceed 50 per centum ad valorem or its equivalent, and on and after
thirty days after the date of such proclamation there shall be levied,
collected, and paid upon the articles enumerated in such proclamation when imported into the United States from such foreign country such new or additional rate or rates of duty; or, in case of arti- ExclusiS.cles declared subject to exclusion from importation into the United
States under the provisions of subdivision (b) of this section, such
articles shall be excluded from importation.
(e) Whenever the President shall find as a fact that any foreign duCnte rvaising
country imposes any unequal imposition or discrimination as afore- President authorized
said upon the commerce of the United States, or that any benefits tdiscimination'by tor
accrue or are likely to accrue to any industry in any foreign country icncountieAmcrby reason of any such imposition or discrimination imposed by any
foreign country other than the foreign country in which such industry
is located, and whenever the President shall determine that any new
or additional rate or rates of duty or any prohibition hereinbefore
provided for do not effectively remove such imposition or discrimination and that any benefits from any such imposition or discrimination accrue or are likely to accrue to any industry in any foreign
country, he shall, when he finds that the public interest will be served
thereby, by proclamation specify and declare such new or additional heAditna to rates
rate or rates of duty upon the articles wholly or in part the growth
or product of any such industry as he shal determine will offset Limitation.
such benefits, not to exceed 50 per centum ad valorem or its equivalent, upon importation from any foreign country into the United
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1922.

States of such articles and on and after thirty days after the date

sPCIA
PRovIsIONs.

Effective30

SESS. II.

of any such proclamation such new or additional, rate or rates of
duty so specified and declared in such proclamation shall be levied,
collected, and paid upon such articles.
(f) All articles imported contrary to the provisions of this section

days.

forfe
riture, ,

legalip

i. shall be forfeited to the United States and shall be liable to be seized,
prosecuted, and condemned in like manner and under the same
regulations, restrictions, and provisions as may from time to time
be established for the recovery, collection, distribution, and remission
of forfeitures to the United States by the several revenue laws.

Indirectimportatios Whenever the provisions of this Act shall be applicable to importations into the United States of articles wholly or in part the growth
inudd.
Tariff Commission to
ascertain extent of d-.
riminations.

or product of any foreign country, they shall be applicable thereto
whether such articles are imported directly or indirectly.

les, etc., to be

Tariff Commission to
States
(g) It shall be the duty of the United
.
.
any of the diswhether
informed
be
to
times
ascertain and at all

criminations against the commerce of the United States enumerated
in subdivisions (a), (b), and (e) of this section are practiced by any
country; and if and when such discriminatory acts are disclosed, it
shall be the duty of the commission to bring the matter to the attention of the President, together with recommendations.

prclamations.

fTerritoy intuded

(h) The Secretary of the Treasury with the approval of the President shall make such rules and regulations as are necessary for the

execution of such proclamations as the President may issue in
n

orign
cor.

accordance with the provisions of this section.
(i) That when used in this section the term "foreign country"
shall mean any empire, country, dominion, colony, or protectorate,

or any subdivision or subdivisions thereof (other than the United
States and its possessions), within which separate tariff rates or separate regulations of commerce are enforced.
SEC. 318. (a) That in order that the President and the Congress

TarifCommission.

may secure information and assistance, it shall be the duty of the
Ascertain conversion
duction in U i t e d
states.

in prncipa produc-

ing, etc., centers of for-

eigncountries.

relect,

describe, etc.,

e'and

similar Amercan articles.

Other facts of market
etc., of

dferenc

(2) Ascertain conversion costs and costs of production in the

principal growing, producing, or manufacturing centers of foreign
countries of articles imported into the United States, whenever in
the opinion of the commission such conversion costs or costs of
production are necessary for comparison with conversion costs or
costs of production in the United States and can be reasonably
ascertained;

(3) Select and describe articles which are representative of the

classes or kinds of articles imported into the United States and

which are similar to or comparable with articles of the United States;

select and describe articles of the United States similar to or comparable with such imported articles; and obtain and file samples of
articles so selected, whenever the commission deems it advisable;
(4) Ascertain import costs of such representative articles so

Theirimport cots.

the initeSates.'

United States Tariff Commission, in addition to the duties now
imposed upon it by law, to(1) Ascertain conversion costs and costs of production in the
principal growing, producing, or manufacturing centers of the United
States of articles of the United States, whenever in the opinion of
the commission it is practicable;

foreign arnai'e and

selected;
(5) Ascertain the grower's, producer's, or manufacturer's selling

prices in the principal growing, producing, or manufacturing centers
of the United States of the articles of the United States so selected;

and
(6) Ascertain all other facts which will show the differences in or
which affect competition between articles of the United States and

imported articles in the principal markets of the United States.

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SPECrC PROVISIONS.
(b) When used in this sectionThe term "article" includes any commodity, whether grown, TA5ersstrued
1
produced, fabricated, manipulated, or manufactured;
"mortt."
mpoost
The term "import cost' means the price at which an article is
freely offered for sale in the ordinary course of trade in the usual
wholesale quantities for exportation to the United States plus, when
not included in such price, all necessary expenses, exclusive of customs
duties, of bringing such imported article to the United States.
e.,
(c) In carrying out the provisions of this section the commission Pwersetc
shall possess all the powers and privileges conferred upon it by the Vol 39, .n795s
im
s
provisions of Title VII of the Revenue Act of 1916, and in addition selwrng priSes,
it is authorized, in order to ascertain any facts required by this poe.rsproducs, etc.,
section, to require any importer and any American grower, producer,
manufacturer, or seller to file with the commission a statement,
under oath, giving his selling prices in the United States of any
article imported, grown, produced, fabricated, manipulated, or manufactured by him.
(d) The commission is authorized to establish and maintain an OicenNw
office at the port of New York for the purpose of directing or carrying
on any investigation, receiving and compiling statistics, selecting,
describing, and filing samples of articles, and performing any of the
duties or exercising any of the powers imposed upon it by law.
(e) The United States Tariff Commission is authorized to adopt an salauthorized.
official seal, which shall be judicially noticed.
(f) The second paragraph of section 706 of the Revenue Act of edo.3,p.797,amendAttendance
1916 is amended to read as follows:
it
"Such attendance of witnesses and the production of such docu- ness, etc.
mentary evidence may be required from any place in the United
States at any designated place of hearing. And in case of disobedi- anfirced b distri
ence to a subpoena the commission may invoke the aid of any district and District of Coumor territorial court of the United States or the Supreme Court of the bia supreme court.
District of Columbia in requiring the attendance and testimony of
witnesses and the production of documentary evidence, and such
court within the jurisdiction of which such inquiry is carried on may,
in case of contumacy or refusal to obey a subpoena issued to any tePuntionrefusal to
corporation or other person, issue an order requiring such corporation appear, etc.
or other person to appear before the commission, or to produce
documentary evidence if so ordered or to give evidence touching
the matter in question; and any failure to obey such order of the
court may be punished by such court as a contempt thereof."
ediateefteit of
SEC. 319. That on and after the day when this Act shall go into
effect all goods, wares, and merchandise previously imported, for
which no entry 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
o.
upon the entry or the withdrawal thereof: Provided, That when Pro
Weight at time of
duties are based upon the weight of merchandise deposited in any entry.
public or private bonded warehouse, said duties shall be levied and
collected upon the weight of such merchandise at the time of its
entry.
SEC. 320. That nothing in this Act shall be construed to abrogate Cuban reciprocity
or in any manner impair or affect the provisions of the treaty of Vol. 33,p.2136.
commercial reciprocity concluded between the United States and the
Republic of Cuba on December 11, 1902, or the provisions of the Act V'.33P3
of December 17, 1903, chapter 1.
SEC. 321. That, except as hereinafter provided, Sections I and IV Tarifofe913.

of the Act of October 3, 1913, chapter 16, as amended; the Act of

Vo.

38, pp.

ll4-~6,

July 26, 1911, chapter 3; so much of section 4132 of the Revised Vol.37,p. 4-12.
Statutes as amended by the Act of August 24, 1912, chapter 390, as ai, etc.

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

948

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CH. 356.

1922.

R. ., sec. 4132, p.

relates to the free admission of materials for the construction or reair of vessels and the'building or repair of their machinery and articles

vl.37, p.562.

for their outfit and equipment; and so much of the Sundry Civil Ap-

WALOsruIoss

va28s.p.3.
Proio.
not afeted.

Las

Vessels.

t8isd-al

propriation Act of March 2, 1895, chapter 189, as relates to the sampling and assaying of lead ores, are hereby repealed: Provided,
That nothing in this Act shall be construed to repeal or in any manner
affect the following provisions of the aforesaid Act approved October
viz: Subsections 1, 2, and 3, paragraph J, Section IV, as
1
3 3, 1913,

dt38, pa.'1

modified by the Act of March 4, 1915, chapter 171; and subsection 2,

paragraph N, Section IV; nor of subsection 80 of section 28 of the
Act of August 5, 1909.
Atomobries Or- SEc. 322. That all automobiles, automobile bodies, automobile
for American orces chassis, and parts thereof, including tires, exported prior to FebDuty on, sold to for- ruary 11, 1919, from the United States of America for the use of the
w 2ovemensetc, American Expeditionary Forces or the Governments associated with
the Government of the United States of America in the war with
mported.
Germany and Austria, and which have been sold or delivered to any
foreig Government, individual, partnership, corporation, or association by the United States Liquidation Commission, or by any other
agent or official of the United States of America, when imported into
the United States of America shall pay a duty of 90 per centum ad
valorem, the value of such articles to be fixed on a basis equivalent
to the original value of such articles in the United States, under rules
and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Vol. 3, p. I.

TITLE IV.
CUroMS

OAD)mniA-

TITLE IV.
CUSTOMS ADMINISTRATION.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS.

PART 1.-DEFINITIONS.
eaning of words.

essel."
Vehicle."

"Merchandise."

person"
r."
"Day."
"Night."
oeetor."

"Appraiser."

SECTION 401. When used in this title(a) VESSEL.-The word "vessel" includes every description of
water craft or other contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a
means of transportation in water or in water and in air.
(b) VEICLE.-The word "vehicle" includes every description of
carriage or other contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a
means of transportation on land, or through the air.
(C) MERCILHNDISE.-The word "merchandise" means goods, wares,
and chattels of every description and includes merchandise the importation of which is prohibited.
(d) PERSON.-The word "person" includes partnerships, associations, and corporations.
(e) MASTER.-The word "master" means the person having the
command of the vessel.
(f) DAY.-The word "day" means the time from eight o'clock
antemeridian to five o'clock postmeridian.
(g) NIGHT.-The word "night" means the time from five o'clock
postmeridian to eight o'clock antemeridian.
(h) COLLECTOR.-The word "collector" means the collector of
customs, and includes a deputy collector of customs and any person
authorized by law or by regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury
to perform the duties of collector of customs.
(1) APPRAISER.-The word "appraiser" means the person authorized by law, or by the Secretary of the Treasury, to appraise
imported merchandise and to make a return of the value thereof.

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(j) The term "United States" includes all Territories and posses- curOMS ADmniSasions of the United States, except the Philippine Islands, the Virgin "United States."
Islands, and the islands of Guam and Tutuila.
alue.
SEC. 402. VALUE.-(a) For the purposes of this Act the value of Asusedfor iports.
imported merchandise shall be(1) The foreign value or the export value, whichever is higher;
Foreign or export
(2) If neither the foreign value nor the export value can be ascer- United States.
tained to the satisfaction of the appraising officers, then the United
States value;
(3) If neither the foreign value, the export value, nor the United Costof production.
States value can be ascertained to the satisfaction of the appraising
officers, then the cost of production;
(4) If there be any similar competitive article manufactured or Arnerican seling
produced in the United States of a class or kind upon which the Pr
President has made public a finding as provided in subdivision (b) Ae, p.942.
of section 315 of Title III of this Act, then the American selling price
of such article.
(b) The foreign value of imported merchandise shall be the market Forign
to de.
value or the price at the time of exportation of such merchandise to termine.
the United States, at which such or similar merchandise is freely
offered for sale to all purchasers in the principal markets of the country
from which exported, in the usual wholesale quantities and in the
ordinary course of trade, including the cost of all containers and
coverings of whatever nature, and all other costs, charges, and expenses incident to placing the merchandise in condition, packed
ready for shipment to the United States.
(c) The export value of imported merchandise shall be the market conslitode.
value or the price, at the time of exportation of such merchandise termine.
to the United States, at which such or similar merchandise is freely
offered for sale to all purchasers in the principal markets of the
country from which exported, in the usual wholesale quantities and
in the ordinary course of trade, for exportation to the United States,
plus, when not included in such price, the cost of all containers and
coverings of whatever nature, and all other costs, charges, and
expenses incident to placing the merchandise in condition, packed
ready for shipment to the United States. If in the ordinary course
of trade imported merchandise is shipped to the United States to an
agent of the seller, or to the seller's branch house, pursuant to an
order or an agreement to purchase (whether placed or entered into
in the United States or in the foreign country), for delivery to the

purchaser in the United States, and if the title to such merchandise
remains in the seller until such delivery, then such merchandise shall
not be deemed to be freely offered for sale in the principal markets of
the country from which exported for exportation to the United States,
within the meaning of this subdivision.

(d) The United States value of imported merchandise shall be the 'uted staonsT

price at which such or similar imported merchandise is freely offered temine.

for sale, packed ready for delivery, in the principal market of the
United States to all purchasers, at the time of exportation of the
imported merchandise, in the usual wholesale quantities and in the

ordinary course of trade, with allowance made for duty, cost of transportation and insurance, and other necessary expenses from the place
of shipment to the place of delivery, a commission not exceeding 6
per centum, if any has been paid or contracted to be paid on goods
secured otherwise than by purchase, or profits not to exceed 8 per
centum and a reasonable allowance for general expenses, not to
exceed 8 per centum on purchased goods.
(e) For the purpose of this title the cost of production of imported

ItetsoinP'ded n.

merchandise shall be the sum of(1) The cost of materials of, and of fabrication, manipulation, or atCseOsfateria
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merchandise, at a time preceding the date of exportation of the particular merchandise under consideration which would ordinarily permit the manufacture or production of the particular merchandise
under consideration in the usual course of business;
usual general ex- (2) The usual general expenses (not less than 10 per centum of
penses
such cost) in the case of such or similar merchandise;
(3) The cost of all containers and coverings of whatever nature,
of containers.
cost
and all other costs, charges, and expenses incident to placing the
pakin g etc.
particular merchandise under consideration in condition, packed
ready for shipment to the United States; and
(4) An addition for profit (not less than 8 per centum of the sum of
Pss
au
godsby
the amounts found under paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subdivision)
acus.
equal to the profit which ordinarily is added, in the case of merchandise of the same general character as the particular merchandise under
consideration, by manufacturers or producers in the country of manufacture or production who are engaged in the production or manufacture of merchandise of the same class or kind.
f) The American selling price of any article manufactured or
selling
American
co8sieratiostode- produced in the United States shall be the price, including the cost
to
of all containers and coverings of whatever nature and all other
rmine.
costs, charges, and expenses incident to placing the merchandise in
condition packed ready for delivery, at which such article is freely
offered for sale to all purchasers in the principal market of the United
States, in the ordinary course of trade and in the usual wholesale
quantities in such market, or the price that the manufacturer, producer, or owner would have received or was willing to receive for
such merchandise when sold in the ordinary course of trade and in the
usual wholesale quantities, at the time of exportation of the imported
article.

cTrOMs

AoMINISO-

UReoint

and Vebles.
Manifests.

Vesses

PART 2.-REPORT, ENTRY,

AND UNLADING OF VESSELS AND

VEHICLES.

SEC. 431. FORM OF MANIFEST.-The master of every vessel arriving
in the United States and required to make entry shall have on board
his vessel a manifest in a form to be prescribed by the Secretary of the
Treasury and signed by such master under oath as to the truth of the
statements therein contained. Such manifest shall contain:
ontents
First. The names of the ports at which the merchandise was taken
sment
ndos oeStinf
on board and the ports of entry of the United States for which the
is destined, particularly describing the merchandise destined to
prosame
port: Provided, That the master of any vessel laden exsuch
each
for
Bulk carges
clusively with coal, sugar, salt, nitrates, hides, dyewoods, wool, or
orders.
other merchandise in bulk consigned to one owner and arriving at a
port for orders, may destine such cargo "for orders," and within
fifteen days thereafter, but before the unlading of any part of the
cargo such manifest may be amended by the master by designating
the port or ports of discharge of such cargo, and in the event of failure
to amend the manifest within the time permitted such cargo must be
discharged at the port at which the vessel arrived and entered.
eptuon
, of Second. The name, description, and build of the vessel, the true
V.
measure or tonnage thereof, the port to which such vessel belongs,
and the name of the master of such vessel.
retailed account of Third. A detailed account of all merchandise on board such vessel,
with the marks and numbers of each package, and the number and
description of the packages according to their usual name or denomination, such as barrel, keg, hogshead, case, or bag.
Fourth. The names of the persons to whom such packages are reNaimfoosnees.
spectively consigned in accordance with the bills of lading issued therefor, except that when such merchandise is consigned to order the
manifest shall so state.

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Fifth. The names of the several passengers aboard the vessel, "oMS

stating whether cabin or steerage passengers, with their baggage,

nA-

List of passengers,

specifying the number and description of the pieces of baggage baggage, etc.
belonging to each, and a list of all baggage not accompanied by
Sea stores, etc., on
passengers.
Sixth. An account of the sea stores and ship's stores on board of the bSad.
vessel.
VesselSea and ship's stores
SEC. 432. SEA AND SHIP'S STORES.-The manifest of any vessel retained tobespecified
arriving from a foreign port or place shall separately specify the on manifest.
f
articles to be retained on board of such vessel as sea stores, ship'se
stores, or bunker coal or bunker oil, and if any other or greater quan- sions,etc.
tity of sea stores, ship's stores, bunker coal, or bunker oil is found on
board of any such vessel than is specified in the manifest, or if any
such articles, whether shown on the manifest or not, are landed without a permit therefor issued by the collector, all such articles omitted
from the manifest or landed without a permit shall be subject to
forfeiture, and the master shall be liable to a penalty equal to the
value of the articles.
SEC. 433. REPORT OF ARRIVAL.-Within twenty-four hours after ported toomhouse
the arrival of any vessel from a foreign port or place, or of a foreign within 24 hours.
vessel from a domestic port, or bf a vessel of the United States carrying bonded merchandise, or foreign merchandise for which entry
has not been made, at any port or within any harbor or bay at which
such vessel shall come to, the master shall, unless otherwise provided
by law, report the arrival of the vessel at the customhouse, under
American vessels.
such regulations as the Secretary of Commerce may prescribe.
SEC. 434. ENTRY OF AMERICAN VESSELS.-Except as otherwise Formalentryandde
t
provided by law, and under such regulations as the Secretary of 4PsBhours.
Commerce may prescribe, the master of a vessel of the United States
arriving in the United States from a foreignoreign por or place shall,
within forty-eight hours after its arrival within the limits of any
customs collection district, make formal entry of the vessel at the
customhouse by producing and depositing with the collector the
vessel's crew list, its register, or document m lieu thereof, the clearance and bills of health issued to the vessel at the foreign port or
ports from which it arrived, together with the original and one copy
of the manifest, and shall make oath that the ownership of the
vessel is as indicated in the register and that the manifest was made
Foreign vesses.
out in accordance with section 431 of this Act.
SEC. 435. ENTRY OF FOREIGN VESSELS.-The master of any Formal entry as for
foreign vessel arriving within the limits of any customs collection Amecanvessels.
district shall, within forty-eight hours thereafter, make entry at the
customhouse in the same manner as is required for the entry of a
vessel of the United States, except that a list of the crew need not be conrsulor natieon with
delivered, and that instead of depositing the register or document in
lieu thereof such master may produce a certificate by the consul of
the nation to which such vessel belongs that said documents have
been deposited with him: Provided, That such exception shall not o on.
apply to the vessels of foreign nations in whose ports American consular officers are not permitted to have the custody and possession of
the register and other papers of vessels entering the ports of such
nations.
SEC. 436. FAILURE TO REPORT OR ENTER VESSEL.-Every master Penalty for not rewho fails to make the report or entry provided for in section 433, 434,
or 435 of this Act shall, for each offense, be liable to a fine of not more
Register etc re
than $1,000.
SEC. 437. DOCUMENTS RETURNED AT CLEARANCE.-The register, or tured to

document in lieu thereof, deposited in accordance with section 434 clearance.
or 435 of this Act shall be returned to the master or owner of the
vessel upon its clearance.

master

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clrWance,

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SEC. 438. UNLAWFUL RETURN OF SHIP'S PAPERS.-It shall not be
lawful for any foreign consul to deliver to the master of any foreign

vessel the register, or document in lieu thereof, deposited with him

in accordance with the provisions of section 435 of this Act until
such master shall produce to him a clearance in due form from the
peoatyitoiion. collector of the port where such vessel has been entered. Any
consul offending against the provisions of this section shall be liable
to a fine of not more than $5,000.
SEC. 439. FALUE TO DELIVER MANIFEST.-Immediately upon
be
Zeiveeeen
try
arrival and before entering his vessel, the master of a vessel from a
foreign port required to make entry shall mail to the Comptroller
General of the United States at Washington, District of Columbia,
or shall mail or deliver to the comptroller of customs, if any be
Afidavit thereof, on located in such district, a copy of the manifest, and shall on entering
entering.
his vessel make affidavit that a true and correct copy was so mailed
or delivered, and he shall also mail to said Comptroller General, or
mail or deliver to said comptroller of customs a true and correct
copy of any correction of such manifest filed on entry of his vessel.
Peatforflnre.
Any master who fails so to mail or deliver such copy of the manifest
or correction thereof shall be liable to a penalty of not more than
$500.
ctrcon by post SEC. 440. POST ENTRY.-If there is any merchandise or baggage on
board such vessel which is not included in or which does not agree
with the manifest, the master of the vessel'shall make a post entry
thereof, and mail a copy to the Comptroller General of the United
States or mail or deliver a copy to the comptroller of customs, if any,
Pelty
forfaUre.
and for failure so to do shall be liable to a penalty of $500.
Entries notrqired.

SEC. 441. VESSELS NOT REQUIRED TO ENTER.--The following ves-

sels shall not be required to make entry at the customhouse:
^ar and public ves(1) Vessels of war and public vessels employed for the conveyance
of letters and dispatches and not permitted by the laws of the nations
to which they belong to be employed in the transportation of passengers or merchandise in trade;
Pasnger vessels
(2) Passenger vessels making three trips or oftener a week between
mallrngtriweedlytrips,
etc.
a port of the United States and a foreign port, or vessels used exclusively as ferryboats, carrying passengers, baggage, or merchandise:
proiso.
Baggage, tc., to be Provided, That the master of any such vessel shall be required to
reported.
report such baggage and merchandise to the collector within twentyfour hours after arrival;
sma yac.
(3) Yachts of fifteen gross tons or under not permitted by law to
carry merchandise or passengers for hire;
ifel, edttSc." k
(4) Vessels arriving in distress or for the purpose of taking on
bunker coal, bunker oil, or necessary sea stores and which shall
depart within twenty-four hours after arrival without having landed
or taken on board any merchandise other than bunker coal, bunker
Repotequired.
oil, or necessary sea stores: Provided, That the master, owner, or
agent of such vessel shall report under oath to the collector the
hour and date of arrival and departure and the quantity of bunker
t
coal, bunker oil, or necessary sea stores taken on board; and
frontig
son s
s
(5) Tugs enrolled and licensed to engage in the foreign and coasting trade in the northern, northeastern, and northwestern frontiers
Vesselswithgoodsor when towing vessels which are required by law to enter and clear.
SEC. 442. RESIDUE CARGO.-Any vessel having on board merayr
e
tsignt
ing.
chandise shown by the manifest to be destined to a foreign port
or place may, after the report and entry of such vessel under the
provisions of this Act, proceed to such foreign port of destination
with the cargo so destined therefor, without unlading the same
other
American and without the payment of duty thereon.
Any vessel arriving from
a foreign port or place having on board merchandise shown by the
manifest to be destined to a port or ports in the United States other
than the port of entry at which such vessel first arrived and made

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entry may proceed with such merchandise from port to port or cusKSTo.SSL-

from district to district for the unlading thereof: Provided, That the

Secretary of the Treasury may, by general regulations or otherwise,
require the master or owner of any vessel so proceeding to a foreign
port or to a port or district other than that at which the vessel first
arrived to give a bond in an amount equal to the estimated duties
conditioned that no merchandise shall be landed in the United States
from such vessel without entry therefor having been made and a permit secured from the customs officer and for the production of such
landing certificates or other evidence of compliance with such bond
as the Secretary of the Treasury may by general regulations require.
SEC. 443. CARGO FOR DIFFERENT PORTS.-Merchandise arriving in
any vessel for delivery in different districts or ports of entry shall
be described in the manifest in the order of the districts or ports at
or in which the same is to be unladen. Before any vessel arriving
in the United States with any such merchandise shall depart from
the port of first arrival, the master shall obtain from the collector a
permit therefor with a certified copy of the vessel's manifest showing
the quantities and particulars of the merchandise entered at such
port of entry and of that remaining on board.
SEC. 444. ENTRY AT ANOTHER PORT.-Within twenty-four hours
after the arrival of such vessel at another port of entry, the master
shall make entry with the collector at such port and shall produce
the permit issued by the collector at the port of first arrival, together
with the certified copy of his manifest.

Pro.
Bondnottolandcargpoert entry and

Manifsttoshowear-

fo diferetprts.
Permitstoproed.

rivlatanotherport.

SEC. 445. FAILURE TO OBTAIN OR TO PRODUCE PERMIT.-If the Ing, whout pmt,

master of any such vessel shall proceed to another port or district etc.
without having obtained a permit therefor and a certified copy of
his manifest, or if he shall fail to produce such permit and certified
copy of his manifest to the collector at the port of destination, or if
he shall proceed to any port not specified in the permit, he shall be
liable to a penalty, for each offense, of not more than $500.
SEC. 446. STORES RETAINED ON BOARD.--Vessels arriving in the

Stores which may be

United States from foreign ports may retain on board, without the ingduty.
payment of duty, all coal and other fuel supplies, ships' stores, sea Dutiableif laded.
stores, and the legitimate equipment of such vessels. Any such supplies, ships' stores, sea stores, or equipment landed and delivered from
such vessel shall be considered and treated as imported merchandise: Provio.
Proided,That bunker coal, bunker oil, ships' stores, sea stores, or the u Tdelayed
in port.
legitimate equipment of vessels belonging to regular lines plying
between foreign ports and the United States, which are delayed in
port for any cause, may be transferred under a permit by the collector
and under customs supervision from the vesse so delayed to another
vessel of the same line, and owner, and engaged in the foreign trade
without the payment of duty thereon.
SEC. 447. UNLADING-PLACE.-It shall be unlawful to make Un
iangprt
entry of any vessel or to unlade the cargo or any part thereof of any entry, unlaw-.
vessel elsewhere than at a port of entry: Provided, That upon good Psweo
cause therefor being shown, the Secretary of Commerce may permit
entry of any vessel to be made at a place other than a port of entry
designated by him, under such conditions as he shall prescribe: And
providedfurther, That any vessel laden with merchandise in bulk may Bukcargos.
proceed after entry of such vessel to any place designated by the
Secretary of the Treasury for the purpose of unlading such cargo,
under the supervision of customs officers if the collector shall consider the same necessary, and in such case the compensation and expenses of such offieers shall be reimbursed to the Government by the
party in interest.
SEC. 448. SAME-PRELIMINARY ENTRY- PERMIT.-Except as pro- pest to nend
vided in section 441 of this Act, no merchandise, passengers, or qi"rd.

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baggage shall be unladen from any vessel or vehicle arriving from a
foreign port or place until entry of such vessel or report of the arrival
of such vehicle has been made and a permit for the unlading of the
inary entry to same issued by the collector: Provided, That the master may make
P
a preliminary entry of a vessel by making oath or affirmation to the
bardingr
truth of the statements contained in the vessel's manifest and
delivering the manifest to the customs officer who boards such vessel,
but the making of such preliminary entry shall not excuse the master
from making formal entry of his vessel at the customhouse, as provided by this Act. After the entry, preliminary or otherwise, of
atnne
re
place until entry an any vessel or report of the arrival of any vehicle, the collector may
issue a permit to the master of the vessel, or to the person in charge
pm
of the vehicle, to unlade merchandise or baggage, but merchandise
or baggage so unladen shall be retained at the place of unlading until
ability fremoval entry therefor is made and a permit for its delivery granted, and the
owners of the vessel or vehicle from which any imported merchandise
is unladen prior to entry of such merchandise shall be liable for the
payment of the duties accruing on any part thereof that may be
removed from the place of unlading without a permit therefor
BemV to pnlc having been issued. Any merchandise or baggage so unladen from
any vessel or vehicle for which entry is not made within forty-eight
hours exclusive of Sunday and holidays from the time of the entry
of the vessel or report of the vehicle, unless a longer time is granted
by the collector, as provided in section 484, shall be sent to the
public stores and held as unclaimed at the risk and expense of the
consignee in the case of merchandise and of the owner in the case of
baggage, until entry thereof is made.
SEC. 449. SAME-EMERGENCY.-Except as provided in sections 442
a
be
Udesport
and 447 of this Act, merchandise and baggage imported in any vessel
by sea shall be unladen at the port of entry to which such vessel is
crn- destined, unless (1) such vessel is compelled by any cause to put into
oit
on permt
another port of entry, and the collector of such port issues a permit
port
for the unlading of such merchandise or baggage, or (2) the Secretary
Of the Treasury, because of an emergency existing at the port of desOn emergency.
tination, authorizes such vessel to proceed to another port of entry.
Ent,.
Merchandise and baggage so unladen may be entered in the same
E etc.
manner as other imported merchandise or baggage and may be
treated as unclaimed merchandise or baggage and stored at the
expense and risk of the owner thereof, or may be reladen without
entry upon the vessel from which it was unladen for transportation
to its destinaton.

CUOoMS

SEC. 450. SAME--SUNDAYS AND HOLIDAYS.--NO merchandise, bagSPAundsadho0U:
or at night. gage, or passengers arriving in the United States from any foreign

lading

port or place, and no bonded merchandise or baggage being transported from one port to another, shall be unladen from the carrying
vessel or vehicle on Sunday, a holiday, or at night, except under
special license granted by the collector under such regulations as the
Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe.
SEC. 451. SAME-BOND.-Before any such special license to unlade

etc., required

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shall be granted, the master, owner, or agent, of such vessel or vehicle
shall be required to give a bond in a penal sum to be fixed by the
collector conditioned to indemnify the United States for any loss or
liability which might occur or be occasioned by reason of the granting
of such special license and to pay the compensation and expenses of
the customs officers and employees whose services are required in
connection with such unlading at night or on Sunday or a holiday in
accordance with the provisions of section 5 of the Act entitled An
Act to provide for the lading or unlading of vessels at night, the preliminary entry of vessels, and for other purposes," approved February 13, 1911, as amended. In lieu of such bond the owner, or

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agent, of any vessel or vehicle or line of vessels or vehicles may exe- CUSTOMS AINITcute a bond in a penal sum to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treas- Yearly nd from
f
ury to cover and include the issuance of special licenses for the regLrineS
unlading of vessels or vehicles belonging to such line for a period of
one year from the date thereof.
atnige fo,
SEC. 452. LADING.-NO merchandise or baggage entered for trans- sLa
portation under bond or for exportation with the benefit of drawback, Sundays and holidays.
or other merchandise or baggage required to be laden under customs
supervision, shall be laden on any vessel or vehicle at night or on
Sunday or a holiday, except under special license therefor to be
issued by the collector under the same conditions and limitations as
pertain to the unlading of imported merchandise or merchandise
being transported in bond.
ngorornuPenaltylading
SEC. 453. PENALTY FOR VIOLATION.-If any merchandise or bag- thorized
ungage is laden on, or unladen from, any vessel or vehicle without a ladingofgoodsandbagspecial license or permit therefor issued by the collector, the master age.
of such vessel or the person in charge of such vehicle and every other
person who knowingly is concerned, or who aids therein, or in removmg or otherwise securing such merchandise or baggage, shall each be
liable to a penalty equal to the value of the merchandise or baggage
so laden or unladen, and such merchandise or baggage shall be subject to forfeiture, and if the value thereof is $500 or more, the vessel eofe'ureot'vesselor
or vehicle on or from which the same shall be laden or unladen shall
be subject to forfeiture.
SEC. 454. BOARDING AND DISCHARGING INSPECTORS.-The collector

Bardging and dis-

for the district in which any vessel or vehicle arrives from a foreign may be placed on ves
port or place may put on board of such vessel or vehicle while within
such district, and if necessary while going from one district to another,
one or more inspectors or other customs officers to examine the cargo Duties etc
and contents of such vessel or vehicle and superintend the unlading
thereof, and to perform such other duties as may be required by law
or the customs regulations for the protection of the revenue. Such
inspector or other customs officer may, if he shall deem the same
necessary for the protection of the revenue, secure the hatches or
other communications or outlets of such vessel or vehicle with customs
seals or other proper fastenings while such vessel is not in the act of
unlading and such fastenings shall not be removed without permission of the inspector or other customs officer. Such inspector or
other customs officer may require any vessel or vehicle to discontinue
or suspend unlading during the continuance of unfavorable weather
or any conditions rendering the discharge of cargo dangerous or
detrimental to the revenue. Any officer, owner, agent of the owner, Penalty forobstructor member of the crew of any such vessel who obstructs or hinders
any such inspector or other customs officer in the performance of
ment of
R
his duties, shall be liable to a penalty of not more than $500.
SEC. 455. COMPENSATION,

AND

SO FORTH,

INSPECTORS.-The pay, etc.,of inspectors

compensation of any inspector or other customs officer, stationed goingfromoneportto

on any vessel or vehicle while proceeding from one port to another
and returning therefrom, shall be reimbursed to the Government by
the master or owner of such vessel, together with the actual expense
of such inspector or customs officer for subsistence, or in lieu of such
expenses such vessel or vehicle may furnish such inspector or customs
Cargoesreaio
officer the accommodations usually supplied to passengers.
SEC. 456. CARGO NOT UNLADEN.-Whenever any merchandise re- board for 25days.
mains on board any vessel or vehicle from a foreign port more than Disposalbycollectr.
twenty-five days after the date on which report of said vessel or
vehicle was made, the collector may take possession of such merchandise and cause the same to be unladen at the expense and risk
of the owners thereof, or may place one or more inspectors or other
customs officers on board of said vessel or vehicle to protect the

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The compensation and expenses of any such inspector or
for customs officer for subsistence while on board of such vessel or
vehicle shall be reimbursed to the Government by the owner or
revenue.

master of such vessel or vehicle.
be held
Goodsey
undergeneorder one
dayfterentry.

Biergon

unlading.
Expenses

SEC. 457. GENERAL ORDER.-At the request of the consignee of
any merchandise, or of the owner or master of the vessel or the

person in charge of the vehicle in which the same is imported, any
merchandise may be taken possession of by the collector after the
expiration of one day after the entry of the vessel or report of the
vehicle and may be unladen and held at the risk and expense of the
consignee until entry thereof is made.
for
SEC. 458. BULK CAGO.-The limitation of time for unlading shall
not extend to vessels laden exclusively with merchandise in bulk consigned to one consignee and arriving at a port for orders, but if the
master of such vessel requests a longer time to discharge its cargo,
the compensation of the inspectors or other customs officers whose

services are required in connection with the unlading shall, for every
day consumed in unlading in excess of twenty-five days from the

date of the vessel's entry,be reimbursed by the master or owner of
vessel.
SEC. 459. IMP'ORT FROM CONTIGUOUS COUNTRIES--REPORT.--The
hieto report t
est customhouse on master of any vessel of less than five net tons carrying merchandise
crosingboundary, etc. and the person in charge of any vehicle arriving in the nited States
from a contiguous country, shall immediately report his arrival to
the customs officer at the port of entry or customhouse which shall
be nearest to the place at which such vessel or vehicle shall cross the
boundary line or shall enter the territorial waters of the United States,
and if such vessel or vehicle have on board any merchandise, shall
Permit to proceed or produce to such customs officer a manifest as required by law, and
no such vessel or vehicle shall proceed farther inland nor shall disdischarge.
charge or land any merchandise, passengers, or baggage without
The master
Penalty for not re- receiving a permit therefor from such customs officer.
of any such vessel, or the person in charge of any such vehicle who
porting, etc.
fails to report arrival in the United States as required by the provisions of this section shall be subject to a fine of $100 for each offense,
* and if any merchandise or baggage is unladen or discharged from any
such vessel or vehicle without a permit therefor, the same, together
with the vessel or vehicle in which imported, shall be subject to
forfeiture.
ForfeitureofimportsS SEC. 460. SAME--FAILURE TO REPORT.-If any merchandise is
failureto report,etc. imported or brought into the United States in any vessel or vehicle
from a contiguous country without being so reported to the collector,
or in case of the neglect or failure of the master of the vessel or the
person in charge of the vehicle to file a manifest therefor, such merchandise and the vessel or vehicle shall be subject to forfeiture and
the master of such vessel or the person in charge of such vehicle shall
Persualpenalty.
be liable to a penalty equal to the value of the merchandise imported
in such vessel or vehicle which was not reported to the collector or
included in the manifest.
Inspecion at first
SEC. 461. SAME-INSPECTION.-All merchandise and baggage imported or brought in from any contiguous country, except as otherport on arrival
wise provided by law or by regulations of the Secretary of the Treasng of bggage, ury, shall be unladen in the presence of and be inspected by a customs
etc
bgge officer at the first port of entry at which the same shall arrive; and
such officer may require the owner, or his agent, or other person having charge or possession of any trunk, traveling bag, sack, valise, or
other container, or of any closed vehicle, to open the same for inspection, or to furnish a key or other means for opening the same.
SEC. 462. SAME-FORFEITURE.-If such owner, agent, or other
Omtc.onretopentir
person shall fail to comply with his demand, the officer shall retain
Contiguous countries such vessel.

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s
such trunk, traveling bag, sack, valise, or other container or closed cUsMTOMADMTAvehicle, and open the same, and, as soon thereafter as may be practicable, examine the contents, and if any article subject to duty or Forfeitureofdutiable
any article the importation of which is prohibited is found therein, orprohibitedgoods.
the whole contents and the container or vehicle shall be subject to
forfeiture.
Official sealing of yesc
forfeitue
SEC. 463. SAME-SEALED CARS.-To avoid unnecessary inspection se oir veice at place
of merchandise imported from a contiguous country at the first port ofshipment.
of arrival, the master of the vessel or the person in charge of the
vehicle in which such merchandise is imported may apply to the
customs or consular officer of the United States stationed in the
place from which such merchandise is shipped, and such officer may
seal such vessel or vehicle. Any vessel or vehicle so sealed may
proceed with such merchandise to the port of destination under such
regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe.e
for n
SEC. 464. SAME-DEIVERY.--If the master of such vessel or the reasonabledelaysinde
person in charge of any such vehicle fails to proceed with reasonable livry etc.
promptness to the port of destination and to deliver such vessel or
vehicle to the proper officers of the customs, or fails to proceed in
accordance with such regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury,
or unlades such merchandise or any part thereof at other than such
port of destination, or disposes of any such merchandise by sale or
otherwise, he shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction thereof
shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than
five years, or both; and any such vessel or vehicle, with its contents,
shall be subject to forfeiture.
List of suiesnpruer~-

SEC. 465. SAE--SUPPLIES, AND SO FORTH.-The master of any

chased,etc.,forAmeri-

vessel of the United States documented to engage in the foreign and caunvteelinontigeus
coasting trade on the northern, northeastern, and northwestern withmanifest.
frontiers shall, upon arrival from a foreign contiguous territory,
file with the manifest of such vessel a detailed list of all supplies or
other merchandise purchased in such foreign country for use or sale
on such vessel, and also a statement of the cost of all repairs to and For
ars, by
all equipment taken on board such vessel. The conductor or person conductor.
in charge of any railway car arriving from a contiguous country shall
file with the manifest of such car a detailed list of all supplies or
other merchandise purchased in such foreign country for use in the
United States. If any such supplies, merchandise, repairs, or equip- reournent for not
ment shall not be reported, the master, conductor, or other person
having charge of such vessel or vehicle shall be liable to a fine of not
less than $100 and not more than $500, or to imprisonment for not
more than two years, or both.
American vessls.
SEC. 466. That sections 3114 and 3115 of the Revised Statutes are
amended to read as follows:
E
,
Equipments, repairs
"SEC. 3114. The equipments, or any part thereof, including boats, of, etc,inforeigncounpurchased for, or the repair parts or materials to be used, or the tR.,secut'blep.
expenses of repairs made in a foreign country upon a vessel docu- amendedmented under the laws of the United States to engage in the foreign
or coasting trade, or a vessel intended to be employed in such trade,
shall, on the first arrival of such vessel in any port of the United States,
be liable to entry and the payment of an ad valorem duty of 50 per Foete if not r
centum on the cost thereof in such foreign country; and if the owner ported, etc.
or master of such vessel shall willfully and knowingly neglect or fail
to report, make entry, and pay duties as herein required, such vessel,
with her tackle, apparel, and furniture, shall be seized and forfeited."tted
i
"SEC. 3115. If the owner or master of such vessel, however, fur- asionemded casualty
nishes good and sufficient evidence that such vessel, while in the etc.g S. s 311 p
regular course of her voyage, was compelled, by stress of weather or ss, amended.
other casualty, to put into such foreign port and purchase such
equipments, or make such repairs, to secure the safety of the vessel
to enable her to reach her port of destination, then the Secretary of

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CUsroMS ADlwAsr- the Treasury is authorized to remit or refund such duties, and such
Sworn statement vessel shall not be liable to forfeiture, and no license or enrollment
from owner.
and license, or renewal of either, shall hereafter be issued to any such
vessel until the collector to whom application is made for the same
shall be satisfied, from the oath of the owner or master, that all such
equipments and repairs made within the year immediately preceding
such application have been duly accounted for under the provisions
of this and the preceding sections, and the duties accruing thereon
Forfeiture forref-sal, duly paid; and if such owner or master shall refuse to take such oath,
or take it falsely, the vessel shall be seized and forfeited."
Astertainment, Col- P
leionandl Recovery PART 3.-AsCE TAINMENT
of Duties.

CLETO

,
COLL

Drs. S.
RcV
ION, AND RECOVEY OF Du

SEC. 481. CONTENTs OF INVOICE.-(a) That all invoices of merchandise to be imported into the United States shall set forth(1) The port of entry to which the merchandise is destined;
POrtdti.
Nameofshipperpur- (2) The time when, the place where, and the person by whom and
',
the person to whom the merchandise is sold or agreed to be sold, or
if to be imported otherwise than in pursuance of a purchase, the place
from which shipped, the time when and the person to whom and the
by whom it is shipped;
D
escrperson
(3) A detailed description of the merchandise, including the name
ste
ion of goods,
by which each item is known, the grade or quality, and the marks,
numbers, or symbols under which sold by the seller or manufacturer
to the trade in the country of exportation, together with the marks
and numbers of the packages in which the merchandise is packed;
(4) The quantities in the weights and measures of the country or
eights and mesplace from which the merchandise is shipped, or in the weights and
measures of the United States;
puricsen currency of (5) The purchase price of each item in the currency of the purchase,
if the merchandise is shipped in pursuance of a purchase or an agreement to purchase(6) If the merchandise is shipped otherwise than in pursuance of a
igoods
ing pr
othbypurase. purchase or an agreement to purchase, the value for each item, in the
currency in which the transactions are usually made, or, in the absence
of such value, the price in such currency that the manufacturer,
seller, shipper or owner would have received, or was willing to receive,
for such merchandise if sold in the ordinary course of trade and in the
usual wholesale quantities in the country of exportation;
Currency used.
(7) The kind of currency, whether gold, silver, or paper;
temiedcharges.
(8) All charges upon the merchandise, itemized by name and
amount when known to the seller or shipper; or all charges by name
(including commissions, insurance, freight, cases, containers, coverings, and cost of packing) included in the invoice prices when the
amounts for such charges are unknown to the seller or shipper;
Export allowance
(9) All rebates, drawbacks, and bounties, separately itemized,
upon the exportation of the merchandise; and
allowed
Other factsnecessary
for appraisement, etc.
(10) Any other facts deemed necessary to a proper appraisement,
examination, and classification of the merchandise that the Secretary
Shipments by other of the Treasury may require.
thanmanufacturer,
(b) If the merchandise is shipped to a person in the United States
otherthanypurchase. by a person other than the manufacturer, otherwise than by purchase,
such person shall state on the invoice the time when, the place where,
the person from whom such merchandise was purchased, and the price
paid therefor in the currency of the purchase, stating whether gold,
Contenread

Purchasesindifferent silver, or paper.

consular distsct em- (c) When the merchandise has been purchased in different conbrdm
ooe. sular districts for shipment to the UnitedStates and is assembled for
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section 482 of this Act, the invoice shall have attached thereto the CVSTOs OEGULA
original bills or invoices received by the shipper, or extracts therefrom,
showing the actual prices paid or to be paid for such merchandise.
The consular officer to whom the invoice is so produced for certifi- Cosuiarcertift
on.
cation may require that any such original bill or invoice be certified by
the consular officer for the district in which the merchandise was
purchased.
SEC. 482. DECLARATIONS ACCOMPANYING CERTIIED INVOICES.-- (a)

Coertifed

vticeton

Every invoice covering merchandise exceeding $100 in value shall, beforeshbpmeat.
at or before the time of the shipment of the merchandise, or as soon
thereafter as the conditions will permit, be produced for certification
to the consular officer of the United States(1) For the consular district in which the merchandise was manu- chseLd,
tt.he
purfactured, or purchased, or from which it was to be delivered pursuant
to contract;
tr
(2) For the consular district in which the merchandise is assem- Ahiipmenat.g
bled and repacked for shipment to the United States, if it has been
purchased in different consular districts.
(b) Such invoices shall have indorsed thereon, when so produced, tovbeenorsddel"arti
a verified declaration, in a form prescribed by the Secretary of the
Treasury, stating whether the merchandise is sold or agreed to be
sold, or whether it is shipped otherwise than in pursuance of a
purchase or an agreement to purchase, that there is no other invoice
differing from the invoice so produced, and that all the statements
contained in such invoice and in such declaration are true and
correct.
(c) Every certified invoice shall be made out in triplicate or in pn^s
'estsqdru
quadruplicate, if desired by the shipper, for merchandise intended
for immediate transportation, under the provisions of section 552 of
this Act, and shall be signed by the seller or shipper, or the agent
of either. Where any such invoice is signed by an agent, he shall
state thereon the name of his principal.
(d) Such invoices shall be certified in accordance with the provisions Mode ofcertifying.
of existing law.
(e) The original of the invoice shall be filed in the office of the con- Dispsitin ot
sular officer by whom it was certified, to be there kept until the
Secretary of State authorizes its destruction. The duplicate and, if
made, the quadruplicate shall be delivered to the exporter, to be
forwarded to the consignee for use in making entry of the merchandise
and the triplicate shall be promptly transmitted by the consular
officer to the collector of customs at the port of entry named in the
invoice.
(f) When merchandise is to be shipped from a place so remote frocoate remote
from an American consulate as to render impracticable certification
of the invoice by an American consular officer, such invoice may be
certified by a consular officer of a nation at the time in amity with
the United States, or if there be no such consular officer available
such invoice shall be executed before a notary public or other officer
having authority to administer oaths and having an official seal:
Provided, That invoices for merchandise shipped to the United States inlrposessons.
from the Philippine Islands or any of its other possessions may be
certified by the collector of customs or the person acting as such, or
by his deputy.
SEC. 483. OWNERSHIP FOR ENTRY.-All merchandise imported into owner ofti m eors e
the United States shall, for the purposes of this title, be held to be
the property of the person to whom the same is consigned; and the Holder of bill of ladholder of a bill of lading duly indorsed by the consignee therein Ing'
named, or, if consigned to order, by the consignor, shall be deemed
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and the salvors of merchandise saved from a wreck at sea or on or
along a coast of the United States may, for such purposes, be regarded
as the consignees.
SEC. 484. ENTBY.-(a) Except as provided in sections 490, 498,
552, and 553 and in subsection (d) of section 315 of this Act, the
consignee of imported merchandise shall make entry therefor either
in person or by an agent authorized by him in writing under such
regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe. Such
entry shall be made at the customhouse within forty-eight hours,
exclusive of Sundays and holidays, after the entry of the importing
vessel or report of the vehicle, or after the arrival at the port of
destination m the case of merchandise transported in bond, unless
the collector authorizes in writing a longer time.
(b) No merchandise shall be admitted to entry under the provisions of this section without the production of a certified invoice

Eetuns.

therefor, except that entry may be permitted if-

B'n of

(1) The collector is satisfied that the failure to produce such
Unavoidabl inabilinvoice is due to causes beyond the control of the person making
it.
entry:
(2 Such person makes a verified declaration in writing that he is
statent in fom o
unable to produce such invoice and (A) files therewith a seller's or
shipper's invoice, or (B) if he is not in possession of a seller's or
shipper's invoice files therewith a statement of the value, or the price
paid, in the form of an invoice; and
(3) Such person gives a bond in a penal sum to be fixed by the
Bond for prodnction
e
Secretary of the Treasury for the production of such certified invoice
lat .
within six months, and the payment of the penal sum so fixed as
liquidated damages in the event such invoice is not so produced.
lading to be

produced.

(1) If the collector is satisfied that no bill of lading has been issued,
the shipping receipt or other evidence satisfactory to the collector
may be accepted in lieu thereof; and
(2) The collector is authorized to permit entry and to release merperittedongvinginchandise from customs custody without the production of the bill of
b.
mty
lading if the person making such entry gives a bond satisfactory to
the collector, m a sum equal to not less than one and one-half times
the invoice value of the merchandise, to produce such bill of lading,
to relieve the collector of all liability, to indemnify the collector
against loss, to defend every action brought upon a claim for loss or
damage, by reason of such release from customs custody or a failure
to produce such bill of lading and to entitle any person injured by
Suitonbond.
reason of such release from customs custody to sue on such bond in
his own name, without making the collector a party thereto. Any
person so injured by such release may sue on such bond to recover
any damages so sustained by him.
(d) Such entry shall be signed by the consignee, or his agent, and
statemtatenCtoashall set forth such facts in regard to the importation as the Secretary
of the Treasury may require for the purpose of assessing duties and to
secure a proper examination, inspection, appraisement, and liquidation, and shall be accompanied by such invoices, bills of lading, certificates and documents as are required by law and regulations proSu)piTreceiptetc,

EnUetion.,

atletim

calptrp

mulgated thereunder.

(e) The Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of Commerce
be
statisti- are authorized and directed to establish from time to time for statisd to

Jseinentries.

tical purposes an enumeration of articles in such detail as in their
judgment may be necessary, comprehending all merchandise
imported into the United States, and as a part of the entry there
shall be attached thereto o0 included therein an accurate statement
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quantities of all merchandise imported and the value of the total
quantity of each kind of article.

(f) If any of the certificates or documents necessary to make entry

of any part of merchandise arriving on one vessel or vehicle and con-

T
m
cuO
0
REGU-

Partialentrypending

arrivalof missing documents,etc.

signed to one consignee have not arrived, such part may be entered
subsequently, and notation of the packages or cases to be omitted
from the original entry shall be made thereon. One or more packages

per~sn

for other

arriving on one vessel or vehicle addressed for delivery to one person
and imported in another package containing packages addressed for
delivery to other persons may be separately entered, under such rules Onee
and regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe. All one consignee.

other merchandise arriving on one vessel or vehicle and consigned to
one consignee shall be included in one entry.
Verified
tatements
(g) Under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may of costs ofproduction.

prescribe, the collector or the appraiser may require a verified statement from the manufacturer or producer showing the cost of production of the imported merchandise, when necessary to the appraisement of such merchandise.
SEC. 485. DECLARATION.--(a) Every consignee making an entry

under the provisions of section 484 of this Act shall make and file

therewith, in a form to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury,
a declaration under oath, stating(1) Whether the merchandise is imported in pursuance of a purchase or an agreement to purchase, or whether it is imported other-

befedclarationt

Contents.
Whether
goods pur

wise than in pursuance of a purchase or agreement to purchase;
(2) That the prices set forth in the invoice are true, in the case iTruth of price,
of merchandise purchased or agreed to be purchased; or in the case

of merchandise secured otherwise than by purchase or agreement to
purchase, that the statements in such invoice as to foreign value are
true to the best of his knowledge and belief;
(3) That all other statements in the invoice or other documents

etc.,

Other statements,

filed with the entry, or in the entry itself, are true and correct; and etc.,true
(4) That he will produce at once to the collector any invoice, Informationofincor-

paper, letter, document, or information received showing that any
such prices or statements are not true or correct.
Regulations for free
(b) The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to prescribe regu- entry
of books, etc., in
lations for one declaration in the case of books, magazines, news- parts.
papers, and periodicals published and imported in successive parts,
numbers, or volumes, and entitled to free entry.
(c) In the event that an entry is made by an agent under the pro- Bond rom agent to
visions of section 484 of this Act and such agent is not in possession consignee.lr in by
of such declaration of the consignee, such agent shall give a bond,
in a form and of a penal sum prescribed by the Secretary of the
Treasury, to produce such declaration.
a ddi
(d) A consignee shall not be liable for any additional or increased tioIab.
for
duties if (1) he declares at the time of entry that he is not the actual Conditions releasing
owner of the merchandise, (2) he furnishes the name and address of consigneefrom such owner, and (3) within ninety days from the date of entry he
produces a declaration of such owner conditioned that he will pay
all additional and increased duties, under such regulations as the
Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe. Such owner shall possess
all the rights of a consignee.
(e) The Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe separate fo
Forims for decldrafor the declaration in the case of merchandise which is imported in
pursuance of a purchase or agreement to purchase and merchandise
which is imported otherwise than in pursuance of a purchase or
agreement to purchase.
(f) Whenever such merchandise is consigned to a deceased person, ceased
eCoignments
to deor insolvent peror to an insolvent person who has assigned the same for the benefit sons.
of his creditors, the executor or administrator, or the assignee of
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BToa-

To parnesips.

Bond frooonsienttee
stores for inpui
spection, etc.
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1922.

such person or receiver or trustee in bankruptcy, shall be considered
as the consignee; when consigned to a partnership the declaration

of one of the partners only shall be required, and when consigned to
a corporation such declaration may be made by any officer of such
corporation, or by any other person specifically authorized by the
board of directors of such corporation to make the same.
SEC. 486. BOND.-Upon entry of any merchandise, none of which
or a part only of which is sent to the public stores for inspection,
examination, or appraisal, the consignee shall give a bond, conditioned that he will produce all invoices, declarations, and other

documents or papers required by law or regulations made in pursuance thereof upon the entry of imported merchandise; and that he
will comply with all the requirements of the laws or regulations
made in pursuance thereof relating to the importation and admission
of such merchandise and will return to the collector, when demanded
by such collector, not later than ten days after the appraiser's
report, such of the merchandise as was not sent to the public stores,
and also will return to the collector, on demand by him, any and all
merchandise found not to comply with the law and regulations
governing its admission into the commerce of the United States.
Such bond shall be given in a form and in a penalty to be prescribed

by the Secretary of the Treasury, the penalty thereof to be paid as
liquidated damages: Provided, That instead of a bond upon each

Yearlvbondtooer
allconsgments.

Additions allowed

prior to appraisement

Appraisal in district
ofentry.
Additional duty if

appraedexceeds en-

entry the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe a bond to be
taken from any consignee to cover all importations entered by him
within a period of one year from the date thereof.
SEC. 487. The consignee, or his agent, may, at the time entry is
made or at any time before the invoice or the merchandise has come
under the observation of the appraiser for the purpose of appraisement, make such additions in the entry to or such deductions from
the cost or value given in the invoice as in his opinion may raise or
lower the same to the value of such merchandise.

SEC. 488. The collector within whose district any merchandise is
entered shall cause such merchandise to be appraised.
SEC. 489. ADDITIONAL DUTIES.-If the final appraised value of any

article of imported merchandise which is subject to an ad valorem

rate of duty or to a duty based upon or regulated in any manner bv
the value thereof shall exceed the entered value, there shall be levied,
collected, and paid, in addition to the duties imposed by law on such
merchandise, an additional duty of 1 per centum of the total final
appraised value thereof for each 1 per centum that such final appraised
value exceeds the value declared in the entry. Such additional duty
only
Appl cable
shall apply only to the particular article or articles in each invoice
vanced.
that are so advanced in value upon final appraisement and shall not
be imposed upon any article upon which the amount of duty imposed
by law on account of the final appraised value does not exceed the
amount of duty that would be imposed if the final appraised value did
not exceed the entered value, and shall be limited to 75 per centum of
Limit.
Remission restriotions.

Presumption

fraud, etc.

the final appraised value of such article or articles.

Such additional

duties shall not be construed to be penal and shall not be remitted nor
payment thereof in any way avoided, except in the case of a manifest
clerical error, upon the order of the Secretary of the Treasury, or in
any case upon the finding of the Board of General Appraisers, upon a
petition filed and supported by satisfactory evidence under such rules
as the board may prescribe, that the entry of the merchandise at a
less value than that returned upon final appraisement was without
any intention to defraud the revenue of the United States or to conceal or misrepresent the facts of the case or to deceive the appraiser as
of to the value of the merchandise. If the appraised value of any merchandise exceeds the value declared in the entry by more than 100

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per centum, such entry shall be presumptively fraudulent, and the CU STOMS BEGVLAcollector shall seize the whole case or package containing such merchandise and proceed as in case of forfeiture for violation of the customs laws; and in any legal proceeding other than a criminal prosecution that may result from such seizure, the undervaluation as shown
by the appraisal shall be presumptive evidence of fraud, and the
burden of proof shall be on the clamant to rebut the same, and forfeiture shall be adjudged unless he rebuts such presumption of fraud
by sufficient evidence.
Upon the making of such order or finding, the additional duties missionorrefundshall be remitted or refunded, wholly or in part, and the entry shall
be liquidated or reliquidated accordingly. Such additional duties Restriction.
shall not be refunded in case of exportation of the merchandise, nor Application of addishall they be subject to the benefit of drawback. All additional tiona duties.
duties, penalties, or forfeitures applicable to merchandise entered in
connection with a certified invoice shall be alike applicable to merchandise entered in connection with a seller's or shipper's invoice or Restriction on assessstatement in the form of an invoice.

Duties shall not, however, be

ingatlessthanentered

assessed upon an amount less than the entered value, except in a case
where the importer certifies at the time of entry that the entered
value is higher than the value as defined in this Act, and that the
goods are so entered in order to meet advances by the appraiser in
similar cases then pending on appeal for reappraisement or re-reappraisement, and the importer's contention in said pending cases shall
subsequently be sustained, wholly or in part, by a final decision on
reappraisement or re-reappraisement, and it shall appear that the
action of the importer on entry was so taken in good faith, after due Liquidation on final
diligence and inquiry on his part, and the collector shall liquidate the appraisement.
entry in accordance with the final appraisement.
Goods to
to be sent
set to
t
,
"Goods
SEC. 490. INCOMPLETE ENTY.-Whenever entry of any imported bonded warehouse if

merchandise is not made within the time provided by law or the
regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, or whenever
entry of such merchandise is incomplete because of failure to pay the
estimated duties, or whenever, in the opinion of the collector, entry
of such merchandise can not be made for want of proper documents
or other cause, or whenever the collector believes that any merchandise is not correctly and legally invoiced, he shall take the merchandise into his custody and send it to a bonded warehouse or public
store, to be held at the risk and expense of the consignee until entry
is made or completed and the proper documents are produced, or a

entryincomplete,etc.

at ownes is

eatowr'

bond given for their production.
Auction sale o goods
SEC. 491. UNCLAIMED GOODS.-If any merchandise of which pos- one year in bonded
session has been taken by the collector shall remain in bonded ware- try,eo"
etc wlthout

house or public store for one year without entry thereof having been
made and the duties and charges thereon paid, such merchandise
shall be appraised by the appraiser of merchandise and sold by the
collector at public auction as abandoned to the Government, under
such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe.
All gunpowder and other explosive substances and merchandise liable
to depreciation in value by damage, leakage, or other cause to such
extent that the proceeds of sale thereof may be insufficient to pay
the duties, storage, and other charges, if permitted to remain in public
store or bonded warehouse for a period of one year, may be sold
forthwith, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury
may prescribe.
SEC. 492. MERCHANDISE ABANDONED OR FORFEITED.-Except as
provided in section 3369 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, any
merchandise abandoned or forfeited to the Government under the

preceding or any other provision of the customs laws, which is subJect to internal revenue tax and which the collector shall be satisfied

Explo

persh

ables, etc., to be sold
or w lth
f th
-

Destru

o aban-

doned, etc., goods subjet tointernalrevenue

Tobaccoexception.
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will not sell for a sufficient amount to pay such taxes, shall be forthcVuTOM ssGULON
S
.
with destroyed under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary
of the Treasury, instead of being sold at auction.
SEC. 493. PROCEEDS OF SALE.-The surplus of the proceeds of sales
Depoited in restryif not caimed miunder section 491 of this Act, after the payment of storage charges,
expenses, duties, and the satisfaction of any lien for freight, charges,
or contribution in general average, shall be deposited by the collector
in the Treasury of the United States, if claim therefor shall not be
filed with the collector within ten days from the date of sale, and
Masterofvesselexon- the sale of such merchandise shall exonerate the master of any vessel
in which the merchandise was imported from all claims of the owner
erated, etc.
thereof, who shall, nevertheless, on due proof of his interest, be
entitled to receive from the Treasury the amount of any surplus of
the proceeds of sale.
Payment for weigh-

SEC. 494. EXPENSE OF WEIGHING, AND SO FORTH.-In all cases in

which the invoice or entry does not state the weight, quantity, or
measure of the merchandise, the expense of ascertaining the same
shall be collected from the consignee before its release from customs
custody.
SEC. 495. PARTNERSHIP BoND.-When any bond is required by law
Partnership bonds.
er tobind heothers. to be executed by any partnership for any purpose connected with the
transaction of business at any customhouse, the execution of such
bond by any member of such partnership shall bind the other partners
in like manner and to the same extent as if such other partners had
personally joined in the execution, and an action or suit may be
instituted on such bond against all partners as if all had executed
the same.
SEC. 496. EXMINATION OF BAGGAGE.-The collector may cause an
BSa=tion of, autnd- examination to be made of the baggage of any person arriving in the
thoind clanorita
United States in order to ascertain what articles are contained therein
and whether subject to duty, free of duty, or prohibited notwithstanding a declaration and entry therefor has been made.
SEC. 497. FORFEITURE.-Any article not included in the declaraForfeiture, etc., of
articles not declared,
tion and entry as made, and, before examination of the baggage was
etc.
begun, not mentioned in writing by such person, if written declaration
and entry was required, or orally if written declaration and entry
was not required, shall be subject to forfeiture and such person shall
be liable to a penalty equal to the value of such article.

ing, etc.

Articles allowed en-

SEC. 498. ENTRY UNDER REGULATIONS.-(a) The Secretary of the

tryunder reulatons. Treasury is authorized to prescribe rules and regulations for the
declaration and entry of(1) Merchandise not exceeding $100 in value, including such
Value not over 100.
merchandise imported through the mails;
(2) Merchandise damaged by fire or marine casualty on the voyage
tyogned ycu ca alof importation;
(3) Merchandise recovered from a wrecked or stranded vessel;
wrcovered from
(4) Household effects used abroad and personal effects, not
Personaleffects, etc.
imported in pursuance of a purchase or agreement for purchase and
not intended for sale;
(5) Articles sent by persons in foreign countries as gifts to persons
Giftsfromsbroad.
in the United States;
Carried on the per- (6) Articles carried on the person or contained in the baggage of a
person arriving in the United States;
so etc
Tools of trde.
(7) Tools of trade of a person arriving in the United States;
(8) Personal effects of citizens of the United States who have died
dying abroad. citiens
in a foreign country;
stores,
petc.

With no declared

l
va u

(9) Merchandise within the provisions of sections 465 and 466 of
this Act at the first port of arrival;

(10) Merchandise when in the opinion of the Secretary of the
Treasury the value thereof can not be declared; and

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(11) Merchandise within the provisions of the Act entitled "An CUs TOmSREGO AAct to expedite the delivery of imported parcels and packages, not Forexpressdeivery.
exceeding $500 in value," approved June 8, 1896.
eV atio. atho
thor
(b) The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to include in such iedor.
rules and regulations any of the provisions of section 484 or 485 of At e , p. 960.

this Act.
SEC. 499. EXAMINATION OF MERCHANDISE.-Imported merchan- poNdelivery untilredise, required by law or regulations made in pursuance thereof to be correctlyinvoiced, etc.

inspected, examined, or appraised, shall not be delivered from
customs custody, except as otherwise provided in this Act, until it
has been inspected, examined, or appraised and is reported by the
appraiser to have been truly and correctly invoiced and found to

comply with the requirements of the laws of the United States. The ages
Daesgnai
of pack
to be opened for
collector shall designate the packages or quantities covered by any appraisement,etc.

invoice or entry which are to be opened and examined for the purpose of appraisement or otherwise and shall order such packages or
quantities to be sent to the public stores or other places for such
purpose. Not less than one package of every invoice and not less
than one package of every ten packages of merchandise, shall be so
designated unless the Secretary of the Treasury, from the character
and description of the merchandise, is of the opinion that the examination of a less proportion of packages will amply protect the revenue
and by special regulation permit a less number of packages to be
examined. The collector or the appraiser may require such addi-

Number of packages

tional packages or quantities as either of them may deem necessary.
If any package is found by the appraiser to contain any article not invoin ifondinpaclt

specified in the invoice and he reports to the collector that in his age.
opinion such article was omitted from the invoice with fraudulent
intent on the part of the seller, shipper, owner, or agent, the contents
of the entire package in which such article is found shall be liable
to seizure, but if the appraiser reports that no such fraudulent intent
is apparent then the value of said article shall be added to the entry
and the duties thereon paid accordingly.

If a deficiency is found

eport

of deficency

in quantity, weight, or measure in the examination of any package,
report thereof shall be made to the collector, who shall make allowance
therefor in the liquidation of duties.
SEC. 500. DUTIES OF THE APPRAISER, ASSISTANT APPRAISER, AND
EXAMINER.-(a) It shall be the duty of the appraiser under such

Appraisement.

rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe(1) To appraise the merchandise in the unit of quantity in which

Dutiesoftappra

the merchandise is usually bought and sold by ascertaining or estimating the value thereof by all reasonable ways and means in his
power, any statement of cost or cost of production in any invoice,
affidavit, declaration, or other document to the contrary notwithstanding;
(2) To ascertain the number of yards, parcels, or quantities of the
merchandise ordered or designated for examination;
(3) To ascertain whether the merchandise has been truly and correctly invoiced;
(4) To describe the merchandise in order that the collector may
determine the dutiable classification thereof; and
(5) To report his decisions to the collector.
(b) At ports where there are assistant appraisers provided for by ofResstant,
law the appraiser shall have power to review and to revise and correct

repopra^

the reports of such assistant appraisers.
(c) It shall be the duty of an assistant appraiser(1) To examine and inspect such merchandise as the appraiser

may direct, and to report to him the value thereof;
(2) To revise and correct the reports and to supervise and direct
the work of such examiners and other employees as the appraiser
may designate; and

Duties of assistant

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(3) To assist the appraiser, under such regulations as the Secretary

.BEoGLA

of the Treasury or the appraiser may prescribe.
(d) It shall be the duty of an examiner to examine and inspect
Dutiesofexaumners.
the merchandise and report the value and such other facts as the
appraiser may require in his appraisement or report, and to perform
such other duties as may be prescribed by rules and regulations of
the Secretary of the Treasury or the appraiser.
(e) The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to designate an
tingappraisers.
officer of the customs as acting appraiser at a port where there is no
appraiser. Such acting appraiser shall take the oath, perform all the
duties, and possess all the powers of an appraiser.
SEC. 501. REAPPRAISEMENT.-The decision of the appraiser shall
Decision of appraiser

final.
prais

allowed to be final and conclusive upon all parties unless a written appeal for a
lppea

o Genea A- reappraisement is filed with or mailed to the Board of General Ap-

praisers by the collector within sixty days after the date of the
appraiser's report, or filed by the consignee, or his agent, with the

collector within ten days after the date of personal delivery, or if
mailed the date of mailing of written notice of appraisement to the
consignee his agent, or his attorney. No such appeal filed by the
conditions
consignee, or his agent, shall be deemed valid, unless he has complied with all the provisions of this Act relating to the entry and
Every such appeal shall be
Assignmentto a gen- appraisement of such merchandise.
papers by the
accompanying
the
and
entry
the
with
transmitted
aai appraiser.
be assigned
shall
and
Appraisers
General
of
Board
the
collector to
to one of the general appraisers, who shall ascertain and return the
value of the merchandise and shall give reasonable notice to the
Hearings.
importer and to the person designated to represent the Government
in such proceedings of the time and place of the hearing, at which
the parties and their attorneys shall have an opportunity to introduce
evidence and to hear and cross-examine the witnesses of the other
party and to inspect all samples and all papers admitted or offered
In finding such value affidavits of persons whose
Evidence admitted. as evidence.

attendance can not reasonably be had, price lists, catalogues, reports
or depositions of consuls, special agents, collectors, appraisers,
assistant appraisers, examiners, and other officers of the Government may be considered. Copies of official documents, when certified by an official duly authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury,
may be admitted in evidence with the same force and effect as
original documents.

Decision final, unless

action for revi

The decision of the general appraiser, after argument on the part

of the interested parties if requested by them or by either of them,
shall be final and conclusive upon all parties unless within ten days
from the date of the filing of the decision with the collector an application for its review shalll e filed with or mailed to said board by the
collector or other person authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury,
and a copy of such application mailed to the consignee, or his agent
or attorney, or filed by the consignee, or his agent or attorney, with
the collector, by whom the same shall be forthwith forwarded to the

Procedureandaction Board of General Appraisers. Every such application shall be
appiLr!s!tre gtn- assigned by the Board of General Appraisers to a board of three gen-

eral appraisers, who shall consider the case upon the samples of the
merchandise, if there be any, and the record made before the general
appraiser, and, after argument on the part of the parties if requested
by them or either of them, shall affirm, reverse, or modify the decision
of the general appraiser or remand the case to the general appraiser
for further proceedings, and shall state its action m a written de-

Customs Appea

nquestionsoflaw.

cision, to be forwarded to the collector, setting forth the facts upon
onlywhich the finding is based and the reasons therefor. The decision

of the Board of General Appraisers shall be final and conclusive upon

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A
all parties unless an appeal shall be taken by either party to the CUSTO~MSEGVL Court of Customs Appeals upon a question or questions of law only
within the time and in the manner provided by section 198 of an Vol.36,p.1148.
Act entitled "An Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating
Appraisement, clasto the judiciary," approved March 3, 1911.
SEC. 502. REGULATIONS FOR APPRAISEMENT AND CLASSIFICATION.-

sification, etc.

s ft '
(a) The Secretary of the Treasury shall establish and promulgate estabR °.n o
such rules and regulations not inconsistent with the law, and may
disseminate such information as may be necessary to secure a just,
impartial, and uniform appraisement of imported merchandise and
the classification and assessment of duties thereon at the various
ports of entry, and may direct any appraiser, deputy appraiser,
assistant appraiser, or examiner of merchandise to go from one port
of entry to another for the purpose of appraising or assisting in ap-

Reversing decision of
praising merchandise imported at such port.
(b) No ruling or decision once made by the Secretary of the secretary, construing
Treasury, giving construction to any law imposing customs duties, tcteOi laws,

shall be reversed or modified adversely to the United States, by the
same or a succeeding Secretary, except in concurrence with an
opinion of the Attorney General recommending the same, or a final
decision of the Board of General Appraisers.
(c) It shall be the duty of all officers of the customs to execute and

Instructions of Secre.
tary to be exuted by

carry into effect all instructions of the Secretary of the Treasury

relative to the execution of the revenue laws; and in case any difficulty arises as to the true construction or meaning of any part of
the revenue laws, the decision of the Secretary shall be binding upon
all officers of the customs.

Ad valorem duties

on value reSEC. 503. DuTIABLE VALUE.-Whenever imported merchandise is assessed
turned by appraiser,
etc.
or
upon
based
duty
a
to
or
duty
subject to an ad valorem rate of
regulated in any manner by the value thereof, the duty shall be
assessed upon the value returned by the appraiser, general appraiser,
or Board of General Appraisers, as the case may be. If there shall
be used for covering or holding imported merchandise, whether dutiable or free of duty, any unusual material, article, or form designed
for use otherwise than in the bona fide transportation of such merchandise to the United States, additional duties shall be levied upon
such material, article, or form at the rate or rates to which the same
Consignee to deposit
would be subjected if separately imported.
SEC. 504. PAYMENT OF DL-TIES.-The consignee shall deposit with estimated duty.
the collector, at the time of making entry, unless the merchandise is

entered for warehouse or transportation, or under bond, the amount Liquidationonreport
of duty estimated to be payable thereon. Upon receipt of the oappraiser,etc.

appraiser's report and of the various reports of landing, weight, gauge,
or measurement, the collector shall ascertain, fix, and liquidate the
rate and amount of duties to be paid on such merchandise as pro-

vided by law and shall give notice of such liquidation in the form and Colletionofincrease,
manner prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and collect any or refund ofexcess.

increased or additional duties due or refund any excess of duties
Abandonment and
deposited as determined on such liquidation.
SEC. 505. ABANDONMENT AND DAMAGE.-Allowance shall be made damages allowances.
in the estimation and liquidation of duties under regulations preOn delivery of goods
scribed by the Secretary of the Treasury in the following cases:
(1) Where the importer abandons, within ten days after entry, to to collector.
the United States all or any portion amounting to 10 per centum or
more of the total value or quantity of merchandise in any invoice,
and delivers the portion so abandoned to such place as the collector
directs unless the collector is satisfied that it is so far destroyed as
or injured
Decay
to be nondeliverable;
(2) Where, at the time of importation, 5 per centum or more of the perishabs.
total value or quantity of fruit or other perishable merchandise in

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any invoice is decayed or injured so that its commercial value has
been destroyed;

(3) Where fruit or other perishable merchandise has been condemned at the port of entry, within ten days after landing, by the
health officers or other legally constituted authorities, and the consignee, within five days after such condemnation, files with the collector written notice thereof, an invoiced description and the location
thereof, and the name of the vessel or vehicle in which imported.
SEC. 506. TARE AND DRAFT.-The Secretary of the Treasury is
Tareanddraftallowa n es
hereby authorized to prescribe and issue regulations for the ascerc
.
tainment of tare upon imported merchandise, including the establishment of reasonable and just schedule tares therefor, but in no case
shall there be any allowance for draft or for impurities, other than
excessive moisture and impurities not usually found in or upon such
or similar merchandise.

Condemned by
health authorities.

Asses~smentonnixed
goodutiableatdierentrates.

segregation allowed.

SEC. 507. COMMINGLING OF GOODS.-Whenever dutiable merchan-

dise and merchandise which is free of duty or merchandise subject to
different rates of duty are so packed together or mingled that the
quantity or value of each class of such merchandise can not be readily
ascertained by the customs officers, the whole of such merchandise
shall be subject to the highest rate of duty applicable to any part
thereof, unless the importer or consignee shall segregate such merchandise at his own risk and expense under customs supervision
within ten days after entry thereof, in order that the quantity and
value of each part or class thereof may be ascertained.

SEC. 508. EXAMINATION OF IMPORTER AND OTHERS.-Collectors,
appraisers, general appraisers, and boards of general appraisers may
imports.
cite to appear before them or any of them and to examine upon oath,
which said officers or any of them are hereby authorized to administer, any owner, importer, consignee, agent, or other person upon any
matter or thing which they, or any of them, may deem material
respecting any imported merchandise then under consideration or
previously imported within one year, in ascertaining the classification
Preservation of tes- or the value thereof or the rate or amount of duty; and they, or any
lmony.
of them, may require the production of any letters, accounts, contracts, invoices, or other documents relating to said merchandise, and
may require such testimony to be reduced to writing, and when so
taken it shall be filed and preserved, under such rules as the Board
of General Appraisers may prescribe, and such evidence may be given
Subsequent use.
consideration in all subsequent proceedings relating to such merchandise.
for not
SEC. 509. PENALTIES.-If any person so cited to appear shall negPenalty
lect or refuse to attend, or shall decline to answer, or shall refuse to
answe, etc.
answer in writing any interrogatories, and subscribe his name to his
deposition, or to produce such papers when so required by a general
appraiser, or a board of general appraisers, or a local appraiser, or a
of not less than $20 nor more
be liable to a Tpenalty
he shall
Effect on appraise-.' collector,
,
_ _'
i
^*
than $500; and if such person be the owner, importer, or consignee,
ment.
the appraisement last made of such merchandise, whether made by
an appraiser, a general appraiser, or a board of general appraisers,
Fas
deaemed perjury.imng shall be final and conclusive against such person; and any person
who shall willfully and corruptly swear falsely on an examination
before any general appraiser, or board of general appraisers, or local
Forfeiture o: goods, appraiser or collector, shall be deemed guilty of perjury; and if he is
et
the owner, importer, or consignee, the merchandise shall be forfeited,
c
or the value thereof may be recovered from him.
Customs officials
authorized toadmin-

ister oaths, etc., as to

SEC. 510. INSPECTION OF EXPORTER'S BOOKS.-If any person manue, by offiEInspetion
cialsasto marketvalue facturing, producing, selling, shipping, or consigning merchandise

e goods exported.

exported to the United States fails, at the request of the Secretary of

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1922.

the Treasury, or an appraiser, or person acting as appraiser, or a col- CuSTOis.BEnjLlector, or a general appraiser, or the Board of General Appraisers, as
the case may be, to permit a duly accredited officer of the United
States to inspect his books, papers, records, accounts, documents, or
correspondence, pertaining to the market value or classification of
such merchandise, then while such failure continues the Secretary of

fr.
prohibited onsfalureto

the Treasury, under regulations prescribed by him, (1) shall prohibit anowthe importation into the United States of merchandise manufactured,
produced, sold, shipped or consigned by such person, and (2) may Deliveriestowith
instruct the collectors to withhold delivery of merchandise manufac- lntured, produced, sold, shipped or consigned by such person.

c n

If such tdue'oriafe yr

failure continues for a period of one year from the date of such
instructions the collector shall cause the merchandise, unless previously exported, to be sold at public auction as in the case of forfeited merchandise.
SEC. 511. INSPECTION OF IMPORTER'S BOOKS.-If any person im-

porting merchandise into the United States or dealing in imported

Inspection of, as to

vlue, etc- of

merchandise fails, at the request of the Secretary of the Treasury) or
an appraiser, or person acting as appraiser, or a collector, or a general
appraiser, or the Board of General Appraisers, as the case may be, to
permit a duly accredited officer of the United States to inspect his
books, papers, records, accounts, documents, or correspondence, pertaining to the value or classification of such merchandise, then while
such failure continues the Secretary of the Treasury, under regulations

prescribed by him, (1) shall prohibit the importation of merchandise imibited

goods

on oaS'eto

into the United States by or for the account of such person, and (2) alowshall instruct the collectors to withhold delivery of merchandise
imported by or for the account of such person. If such failure con- oBeif fae
tinues for a period of one year from the date of such instructions the

con-

collector shall cause the merchandise, unless previously exported, to
be sold at public auction as in the case of forfeited merchandise.
SEC. 512. DEPOSIT OF DUTIEs.-All moneys paid to any collector
for unascertained duties or for duties paid under protest against the

unaertaine etc
duties to be deposited
i theTreaury.

rate or amount of duties charged shall be deposited to the credit of
the Treasurer of the United States and shall not be held by the collectors to await any ascertainment of duties or the result of any
litigation in relation to the rate or amount of duties legally chargeable
and collectible in any case where money is so paid.
SEC. 513. COLLECTOR'S IMMUNITY.-NO collector or other customs persotnay iables ot
officer shall be in any way liable to any owner, importer, consignee, matters appealable.

or agent or any other person for or on account of any rulings or
decisions as to the appraisement or the classification of any imported
merchandise or the duties charged thereon, or the collection of any
dues, charges, or duties on or on account of said merchandise, or any
other matter or thing as to which said owner, importer, consignee, or
agent might under this Act be entitled to protest or appeal from the
decision of such collector or other officer.
SEC. 514. PROTEST.-Ali decisions of the collector, including the astodutiesnetc.,Ona

legality of all orders and findings entering into the same, as to the
rate and amount of duties chargeable, and as to all exactions of whatever character (within the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Treasury), and his decisions excluding any merchandise from entry or
delivery, under any provision of the customs revenue laws, and his
liquidation of any entry, or refusal to pay any claim for drawback, or
his refusal to reliquidate any entry for a clerical error discovered
within one year after the date of entry, or within sixty days after
liquidation when liquidation is made more than ten months after
the date of entry, shall be final and conclusive upon all persons,

c
unless the importer, consignee, or agent of the person payig such liqP teateonted

charge or exaction, or filing such claim for drawback, or seeking such
entry or delivery, shall, within sixty days after, but not before such

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liquidation or decision, as well in cases of merchandise entered in
bond as for consumption, file a protest in writing with the collector

EGULA-

TION .

Amendment of protest.

setting forth distinctly and specifically, and in respect to each entry,
payment, claim, or decision, the reasons for the objection thereto, and
if the merchandise is entered for consumption shall pay the full
amount of duties, charges, and exactions ascertained to be due
thereon. Under such rules as the Board of General Appraisers may
prescribe, and in its discretion, a protest may be amended at any

Review of decision
by collector.

time prior to the first docket call thereof.
SEC. 515. SAME.-Upon the filing of such protest and payment of
duties and other charges the collector shall within sixty days thereafter review his decision, and may modify the same in whole or in
part and thereafter refund any duties, charge, or exaction found to
have been collected in excess, or pay any drawback found due, of
which notice shall be given as in the case of the original liquidation,
and against which protest may be filed within the same time and in
the same manner and under the same conditions as against the

ToanittaltoBoad original liquidation or decision. If the collector shall, upon such
er i oriinal peAn review, affirm his original decision, or, upon the filing of a protest

against his modification of any decision, the collector shall forthwith
transmit the entry and the accompanying papers, and all the exhibits
connected therewith, to the Board of General Appraisers for due

aflmed.

Such determination shall be final and conclusive upon all persons, and the papers

of assignment and determination, as provided by law.

Determination

al to court of customs Appeals.

American producers.

transmitted shall be returned, with the decision and judgment order
thereon, to the collector, who shall take action accordingly, except in
cases in which an appeal shall be filed in the United States Court of
Customs Appeals within the time and in the manner provided by
law.
SEC. 516. APPEAL

OR PROTEST

BY AMERICAN

PRODUCERS.-(a)

inports Whenever an American manufacturer, producer, or wholesaler
appraised value of any imported merchandise of a
believes that the
similartotheirproduct
tmported
are assessed too low.
pin ohtt

class or kind manufactured, produced, or sold at wholesale by him is
too low, he may file with the Secretary of the Treasury a complaint
setting forth the value at which he believes the merchandise should
be appraised and the facts upon which he bases his belief. The
Copy to appraiser.
Secretary shall thereupon transmit a copy of such complaint to the
appraiser at each port of entry where the merchandise is usually
Until otherwise directed by the Secretary, the appraiser
Subsequent impor- imported.
tations to be reported. shall report each subsequent importation of the merchandise giving
the entry number, the name of the importer, the appraised value,
Reappraisalif Secre- and his reasons for the appraisement. If the Secretary does not

tary .disagrees
apraiser.
Ante, p. 966.

with
ith

agree with the action of the appraiser, he shall instruct the collector
to file an appeal for a reappraisement as provided in section 501 of
this Act, and such manufacturer, producer, or wholesaler shall have
the right to appear and to be heard as a party in interest under such
Notification to corn- rules as the Board of General Appraisers may prescribe. The Secretary shall notify such manufacturer, producer, or wholesaler of the
pli.ant.
action taken by such appraiser giving the port of entry, the entry
number, and the appraised value of such merchandise and the action
Appeal by consignee he has taken thereon. If the appraiser advances the entered value
advances
appraiser
if
raier advances of merchandise upon the information furnished by the American
manufacturer, producer, or wholesaler, and an appeal is taken by

the consignee, such manufacturer, producer, or wholesaler shall
have the right to appear and to be heard as a party in interest, under

By producer for
t..onuatisfactory.

re-

such rules as the Board of General Appraisers may prescribe. If
the American manufacturer, producer, or wholesaler is not satisfied

with the action of the Secretary, or the action of the appraiser
thereon, he may file, within ten days after the date of the mailing of
the Secretary's notice, an appeal for a reappraisement in the same

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manner and with the same effect as an appeal by a consignee under

CUSTOMS

the provisions of section 501 of this Act.

Ante, p. 9

(b) The Secretary of the Treasury shall, upon written request by

Classification, etc., of
to
dgd*timports

an American manufacturer, producer, or wholesaler, furnish the be rnished to proclassification of and the rate of duty, if any, imposed upon desig- onrerquoest.ig oods
nated imported merchandise of a class or kind manufactured, produced, or sold at wholesale by him. If such manufacturer, producer, etcCom p lint of rating,
or wholesaler believes that the proper rate of duty is not being
assessed, he may file a complaint with the Secretary of the Treasury
setting forth a description of the mechandise, the classification, and
the rate or rates of duty he believes proper, and the reasons for his
belief. If the Secretary believes that the classification of or rate of Action of Secretary
duty assessed upon the merchandise is not correct, he shall notify sidered' correct.
the collectors as to the proper classification and rate of duty and shall
so inform such manufacturer, producer, or wholesaler, and such rate
of duty shall be assessed upon all merchandise imported or withdrawn from warehouse after thirty days after the date of such
notice to the collectors. If the Secretary believes that the classifi- Ifconsidered correct.
cation and rate of duty are correct, he shall so inform such manualloed proPdutest
facturer, producer, or wholesaler. If dissatisfied with the action of ducer,
etc., if dissatisthe Secretary, such manufacturer, producer, or wholesaler may file fied.
with him a notice that he desires to protest the classification or the
rate of duty imposed upon the merchandise, and upon receipt of
such notice the Secretary shall furnish him with such information as
to the entry, the consignee, and the port of entry as will enable him
to protest the classification of or the rate of duty imposed upon the
merchandise when liquidated at any port of entry. Upon written
request therefor by such manufacturer, producer, or wholesaler,
the collector of such port of entry shall notify him immediately of
the date of liquidation. Such manufacturer, producer, or whole-.liquniation.
saler may file, within sixty days after the date of liquidation, with
the collector of such port a protest in writing setting forth a description of the merchandise and the classification and the rate of duty
he believes proper, with the same effect as a protest of a consignee Ante, pp. 969, 970.
filed under the provisions of sections 514 and 515 of this Act.
(c) A copy of every appeal and every protest filed by an American Notice to consignee.
manufacturer, producer, or wholesaler under the provisions of this
section shall be mailed by the collector to the consignee or his agent
within five days after the filing thereof, and such consignee or his
agent shall have the right to appear and to be heard as a party in

interest before the Board of General Appraisers. The collector shall
transmit the entry and all papers and exhibits accompanying or
connected therewith to the oar of General Appraisers or due
assignment and determination of the proper value or of the proper
classification and rate of duty. The decision of the Board of General
Appraisers upon any such appeal or protest shall be final and conclusive upon all parties unless an appeal is taken by either party
to the Court of Customs Appeals, as provided in sections 501 and
515 of this Act.
(d) In proceedings instituted under the provisions of this section
an American manufacturer, producer, or wholesaler shall not have
the right to inspect any documents or papers of the consignee or
importer disclosing any information which the general appraiser or
the Board of General Appraisers shall deem unnecessary or improper

Acton

to be disclosed to him.
SEC. 517. FRIVOLOUS PROTEST OR APPEAL.-Upon motion of the
counsel for the Government, it shall be the duty of the Board of

General Appraisers to decide whether any appeal for reappraisement
or protest filed under the provisions of section 501, 514, 515, or 516
of this Act is frivolous, and if said board shall so decide, a penalty

Bord

Deappion ana uleoss
Appeals.
Ante, pp. 966,970.
Inspecting papers of
ns gn
ee restricted.

Penalty for frivolous
protests or appes.

pp. 966, 969.

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CH. 356.

1922.

of not less than $5 nor more than $250 shall be assessed against the
person filing such appeal for reappraisement or protest: Provided,
Consolidation of sin- That all appeals for reappraisement or protests filed by the same
Liar appeals, etc.
person and raising the same issue shall, if held frivolous by said
board, be consolidated and deemed one proceeding for the purpose
byRCoureof Ptnt of imposing the penalty provided in this section: Provided further,
Appeals.
That the person against whom such penalty is assessed may have a
review by the Court of Customs Appeals of the decision of said
board by filing an appeal in said court within the time and in the
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manner provided by section 198 of an Act entitled " An Act to codify,

revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary," approved
March 3, 1911.
SEC. 518. BOARD OF GENERAL APPRAISERS.-The Board of General
Board of oeneral
Composition, ap- Appraisers shall consist of nine members as now constituted, and all
pointment, etc.
vacancies in said board shall be filled by appointment by the PresiVol. 36,p. 9S,amend-

dent, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, not more

than five of whom shall be appointed from the same political party
and each of whom shall receive a salary of $9,000 a year. They
shall not engage in any other business, vocation, or employment, and
shall hold their office during good behavior, but may, after due
hearing, be removed by the President for the following causes and
offie at Ne York. no other: Neglect of duty, malfeasance in office, or inefficiency. The
ferdi"i powers co- office of said board shall be at the port of New York, and the board
and each member thereof shall have and possess all the powers of a
district court of the United States for preserving order, compelling
the attendance of witnesses, the production of evidence, and in
Rules for procedure, punishing for contempt. Said board shall have power to establish
rom time to time such rules of evidence, practice, and procedure,
etc
not inconsistent with law, as may be deemed necessary for the
conduct of its proceedings, in securing uniformity in its decisions and
in the proceedings and decisions of the members thereof, and for the
President of Board. production, care, and custody of samples and of the records of said
board. One of the members of said board designated for that purpose
by the President of the United States shall act as president of the
Board of General Appraisers, and in his absence the member of the
Tenure, etc.

Administrative

board then present who is senior as to the date of his commission

shall act as president. The president of the board, or the acting
president in his absence, shall have control of the fiscal affairs and of
the clerical force of the board, making all recommendations for
appointment, promotions, or otherwise affecting such clerical force;
of the said board,
at any time before trial, under the rules
Designation ofone or he may
three appraisers for
m.
.ti.
.b r
outside earings
assign or reassign any case for hearing or determination, or both,
and shall designate a general appraiser or board of three general
appraisers and such clerical assistants as may be necessary to proceed
to any port within the jurisdiction of the United States for the purpose
of hearing or of hearing and determining cases assigned for hearing at
such port, and shall cause to be prepared and promulgated dockets
Nexenres awayfrom therefor. General appraisers, stenographic clerks, and Government
counsel shall each be allowed and paid his necessary expenses of
travel and his reasonable expenses, not to exceed $10 per day, in the
case of general appraisers and Government counsel, and $8 per day
in the case of stenographic clerks, actually incurred for maintenance
boDivsion into three while absent from New York on official business.
Said general
appraisers shall be divided into three boards of three members each
for the purpose of hearing and deciding appeals for the review of
reappraisements of merchandise, and of hearing and deciding protests
Analves by order of against decisions of collectors. A board of three general appraisers
or a general appraiser shall have power to order an analysis of im, e
ported merchandise and reports thereon by laboratories or bureaus
etc., o of the United States. The president of the board shall assign three
boards.
of the general appraisers to each of the said boards and shall designate
powers.

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which member shall be chairman thereof. The president of the CUSTOMs EGULAboard shall be competent to sit as a member of any board or to assign
one or two other members to any of such boards in the absence or
disability of any one or two members of such board. A majority
of any board shall have full power to hear and decide all cases and
questions arising therein or assigned thereto. The board of three iRehearings of decigeneral appraisers deciding a case or a general appraiser deciding an
appeal for a reappraisement may, upon the motion of either party
made within thirty days next after such decision, grant a rehearing
or retrial of said case when, in the opinion of said board or said general
appraiser the ends of justice so require.
The members of the Board of General Appraisers are hereby Pay restrictions not
exempted from so much of section 1790 of the Revised Statutes as PR .s.,see.179,p.317.
relates to their salaries.
When any of the general appraisers of merchandise resigns his Retirement.
office, having held his commission as such at least ten years, and
having attained the age of seventy years, he shall during the residue
of his natural life receive the same salary which was by law payable
to him at the time of his resignation.
SEC. 519. RECORD OF DECISIONS.-All decisions of the general dei's.

officers and the public.
SEC. 520. REFUND OF EXCESSIVE DUTIES.-(a) The Secretary of

etc

ions'

appraisers shall be preserved and filed and shall be open to inspection,
and it shall be the duty of the said Board of General Appraisers to Vol.36,p.
forward a copy of each decision to the collector of customs for the
district in which the merchandise affected thereby was imported and
to forward an additional copy to the Secretary of the Treasury, who
shall cause such decisions as he or the Board of General Appraisers
shall deem sufficiently important to be published in full, or, if they PublcaU
shall not deem a full publication thereof necessary, then the board
shall cause abstracts of such decisions to be made for publication,
and such decisions and abstracts thereof shall be published from time
to time and at least once each week for the information of customs

01,amend-

duties etc.

the Treasury is hereby authorized to refund duties and correct errors Autiorzations.
in liquidation of entries in the following cases:
(1) Whenever it is ascertained on final liquidation or reliquidation Excess payments.
of an entry that more money has been deposited or paid than was
required by law to be so deposited or paid;
Erroneous colle
(2) Whenever it is determined in the manner required by law that tions.
any fees, charges, or exactions, other than duties, have been erroneously collected;
(3) Whenever a manifest clerical error is discovered in any entry Fr le c
rs
or liquidation within one year after the date of entry, or within sixty
days after liquidation when liquidation is made more than ten months
after the date of entry; and
(4) Whenever duties have been paid on household or personal sonl effectiab el
effects which by law were not subject to duty, notwithstanding a
protest was not filed within the time and in the manner prescribed
by law.

(1) The necessary moneys to make such refunds are hereby appropriated, and this appropriation shall be deemed a permanent and

appropriation made.

indefinite appropriation.
SEC. 521. RELIQUIDATION OF DUTIES.-Whenever any merchan- siveSater oneyearfro
dise has been entered and passed free of duty, and whenever duties enot a t ayment
end if

upon any imported merchandise have been liquidated and paid, and
the merchandise has been delivered to the consignee, or his agent,
such entry and passage free of duty and such settlement of duties
shall, after the expiration of one year from the date of entry, or after
the expiration of sixty days after the date of liquidation when liqui-

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dation is made more than ten months after the date of entry, in the

absence of fraud and in the absence of protest by the consignee, or
his agent, or by an American manufacturer, producer, or wholesaler,
If the collector finds probReliquidation in two be final and conclusive upon all parties.
years
in case of
to
able cause to believe there is fraud in the case, he may reliquidate
probaeiSraud.Se
within two years after the date of entry, or after the date of liquidation when liquidation is made more than ten months after the
date of entry.
SEC. 522. CONVERSION OF CURRENCY.-(a) That section 25 of the
Conversion of
Act of August 27, 1894, entitled " An Act to reduce taxation, to provrenc p. 552.
as
ed.tep. 17,amnd- vide revenue for the Government, and for other purposes,
amended, is reenacted without change as follows:
" SEC. 25. That the value of foreign coin as expressed in the money
in nited
Foae
of account of the United States shall be that of the pure metal of
states money.
such coin of standard value; and the values of the standard coins in
circulation of the various nations of the world shall be estimated
circular estimating, quarterly by the Director of the Mint and be proclaimed by the
proclaied ar- Secretary of the Treasury quarterly on the 1st day of January,
to
April, July, and October in each year."
(b) For the purpose of the assessment and collection of duties
Dvties assessed on
in circular for
I ON

values

quarter
ma
de.

when export

Exception.

New York buying
rate if value not nproclaimed or varyi g
percent ofit.

upon merchandise imported into the United States on or after the

day of the enactment of this Act, wherever it is necessary to convert foreign currency into currency of the United States, such
conversion, except as provided in subdivision (c), shall be made at
the values proclaimed by the Secretary of the Treasury under the
provisions of section 25 of such Act of August 27, 1894, as amended,
for the quarter in which the merchandise was exported.
(C) If no such value has been proclaimed, or if the value so pro·
claimed varies by 5 per centum or more from a value measured by
the buying rate in the New York market at noon on the day of ex-

Method for deter- portation, conversion shall be made at a value measured by such
buying rate. For the purposes of this subdivision such buying
rate shall be the buying rate for cable transfers payable in the foreign currency so to be converted; and shall be determined by the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York and certified daily to the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall make it public at such times and to
in such extent as he deems necessary. In ascertaining such buying
Considerations
rate such Federal Reserve bank may in its discretion (L) take into
ascertaining.
consideration the last ascertainable transactions and quotations,
whether direct or through the exchange of other currencies, and (2)
if there is no market buying rate for such cable transfers, calculate
such rate from actual transactions and quotations in demand or
time bills of exchange.
SEC. 523. COMPTROLLERS OF CUSTOMS.-Naval officers of cusComptrollers of customs.
Substituted for naval toms now in office and their successors shall hereafter be known as
officers.
Comptrollers of Customs.
ining.

Examination, etc.,

of collector's accounts.

Otherassignments.

Verifiation of assess

the collector's accounts

of Customs shall examine
Comptrollers
omp
of receipts and disbursements of money and receipts and disposition of merchandise and certify the same to the Secretary of the
Treasury for transmission to the General Accounting Office. They
shall perform such other duties as the Secretary of the Treasury
may from time to time prescribe, and their administrative examination shall extend to all customs districts assigned to them by the
Secretary of the Treasury.
Comptrollers of Customs shall verify all assessments of duties and
allowances of drawbacks made by collectors in connection with the
liquidation thereof. In cases of disagreement between a collector
and a comptroller of customs, the latter shall report the facts to the
Secretary of the Treasury for instructions.

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This section shall not be construed to affect the manner of appoint- CUSTO BosEGULAment, the terms of office, or the compensation of any such officer as Present appointees
now provided by law, nor to affect the provisions of the Budget and not afected, etc.
Accounting Act, 1921, approved June 10, 1921.
SEC. 524. Receipts from reimbursable charges for labor, services, bleehargestobcredand other expenses, connected with the customs, shall be deposited as a iteidtofundfromwhich

refund to the appropriation from which paid, instead of being covered
into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts as provided by the Act
entitled "An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses
of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1908, and for
other purposes," approved March 4, 1907.
SEC. 525. In connection with the enforcement of this Act, the force for service i
Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to use in the District of DistrictofColumbia.

Columbia not to exceed eight persons detailed from the field force of
the Customs Service and paid from the appropriation for the expense
of collecting the revenue from customs.
SEC. 526. (a) That it shall be unlawful to import into the United

Trademarks.

articles

importing

States any merchandise of foreign manufacture if such merchandise, lbwfg regiout' con
or the label, sign, print, package, wrapper, or receptacle, bears a sent o owner.
trade-mark owned by a citizen of, or by a corporation or association
created or organized within, the United States, and registered in the
Patent Office by a person domiciled in the United States, under the

. 33p. 724.

provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the registration of
trade-marks used in commerce with foreign nations or among the several States or with Indian tribes, and to protect the same," approved
February 20, 1905, as amended, if a copy of the certificate of registration of such trade-mark is filed with the Secretary of the Treasury, in

the manner provided in section 27 of such Act, and unless written con-

VOL

beed.

, p. 730.

sent of the owner of such trade-mark is produced at the time of making entry.

Forfeiture

(b) Any such merchandise imported into the United States in lations.
violation of the provisions of this section shall be subject to seizure

or vio

against
and forfeiture for violation of the customs laws.rohibition
(c) Any person dealing in any such merchandise may be enjoined dealing in, etc., such

from dealing therein within the United States or may be required to goods.
export or destroy such merchandise or to remove or obliterate such
trade-mark and shall be liable for the same damages and profits provided for wrongful use of a trade-mark, under the provisions of such
Act of February 20, 1905, as amended.
Transportation

bond and warehous
PART 4.-TRANSPORTATION IN BOND AND WAREHOUSING OF MER- ing
of merchandise.
CHANDISE.
mmediate transport

tation.
Common carriers to

SEC. 551. CARIER.-Any common carrier of merchandise owning fie bond for.
or operating railroad, steamship, or other transportation lines or Vol.21p. 73-

routes for the transportation of merchandise in the United States,
upon application and the filing of a bond in a form and penalty and
with such sureties as may be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, may be designated as a carrier of bonded merchandise for the
final release of which from customs custody a permit has not been
issued.

Enterin

at port of

SEC. 552. IMMEDIATE TRANSPORTATION.-Any merchandise, other entry and forwarding

than explosives and merchandise the importation of which is pro- tppraiseiten, auth°r
hibited, arriving at a port of entry in the United States may be ized
entered, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the
Treasury may prescribe, for transportation in bond without appraisement to any other port of entry designated by the consignee, or his
agent, and by such bonded carrier as he designates, there to be
entered in accordance with the provisions of this Act.

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SEC. 553. TRANSIT GOODS.-Any merchandise, other than exin plosives and merchandise the importation of which is prohibited,
shown by the manifest, bill of lading, shipping receipt, or other
document to be destined to a foreign country, may be entered for

BGOULT-

Pissive goods

trasitto freig

transportation in bond through the United States by a bonded
carrier without appraisement or the payment of duties and exported
under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe,
jBaageandpersonal and any baggage or personal effects not containing merchandise the
importation of which is prohibited arriving in the United States destined to a foreign country may, upon the request of the owner or
carrier having the same in possession for transportation, be entered
for transportation in bond through the United States by a bonded
carrier without appraisement or the payment of duty, under such
regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe.
porttoanotherrouh
contiguous countries

SEC. 554. TRANSPORTATION

THROUGH CONTIGUOUS COUNTRIES.-

With the consent of the proper authorities, imported merchandise,
in bond or duty-paid, and products and manufactures of the United
States may be transported from one port to another in the United

tiCose

R. S., sec.

restro- States through contiguous countries, under such regulations as the

p. Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe, unless such transportation
is in violation of section 4347 of the Revised Statutes, as amended,
section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920, or section 588 of this Act.
Bodedswarehouses
SEC. 555. BONDED WAREHOUSES.-Buildings or parts of buildings
budings, etc.
and other inclosures may be designated by the Secretary of the Treas437,
ol. 41, p. g99.
Pao, p. 981.

ury as bonded warehouses for the storage of imported merchandise
entered for warehousing, or taken possession of by the collector, or
under seizure, or for the manufacture of merchandise in bond, or for
rvate, for owners. the repacking, sorting, or cleaning of imported merchandise. Such
warehouses may be bonded for the storing of such merchandise only
ubc r

eneras

f r gen

use.'

shall belong or be consigned to the owners or proprietors thereof

and be known as private bonded warehouses, or for the storage of
imported merchandise generally and be known as public bonded

Bonds from owner

warehouses. Before any imported merchandise not finally released
from customs custody shall be stored in any such premises, the owner
or lessee thereof shall give a bond in such sum and with such sureties
as may be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury to secure the
Government against any loss or expense connected with or arising
from the deposit, storage, or manipulation of merchandise in such

csty, ec

Paymentoexpenses.

warehouse. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, bonded warehouses shall be used solely for the storage of imported merchandise
and shall be placed in charge of a proper officer of the customs, who,
together with the proprietor thereof, shall have joint custody of all
merchandise stored in the warehouse; and all labor on the merchandise so stored shall be performed by the owner or proprietor of the
warehouse, under supervision of the officer of the customs in charge
f the same, at the expense of the owner or proprietor. The compensation of such officer of the customs and other customs employees
appointed to supervise the receipt of merchandise into any such
warehouse and deliveries therefrom shall be reimbursed to the Government by theproprietor of such warehouse.

to be
Ra tionc.,

ro.
Landing certificates.

SEC. 556. BONDED WAREHOUSES AND EXPORTATIONS THEREFROM.--

The Secretary of the Treasury shall from time to time establish such
rules and regulations as may be necessary for the establishment of
bonded warehouses and to protect the interests of the Government
in the conduct, management, and operation of such warehouses and
in the withdrawal of and accounting for merchandise deposited
therein: Provided. That no landing certificate shall be required for

merchandise exported from the United States, except where the
Secretary of the Treasury shall have good reason to believe that such
certificate is necessary for the protection of the revenue, and shall
specifically order the production of such certificate.

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CH. 356.

1922.

SEC. 557. STORABLE GOODS--WAREHOUSE PERIOD--DRAWBACK.-

Any merchandise subject to duty, with the exception of perishable

977
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BEGUA-

Articlesdepositedin,

articles and explosive substances other than firecrackers, may be etc.,at risk of owners.
entered for warehousing and be deposited in a bonded warehouse at
the expense and risk of the owner, importer, or consignee. Such Withdrawals within
merchandise may be withdrawn, at any tune within three years from three ear
the date of importation, for consumption upon payment of the duties
and charges accruing thereon at the rate of duty imposed by law upon
such merchandise at the date of withdrawal; or may be withdrawn
for exportation or for transportation and exportation without the payment of duties thereon, or for transportation and rewarehousing at
another port: Provided, That the total period of time for which such T.init
merchandise may remain in bonded warehouse shall not exceed three
years. Merchandise upon which the duties have been paid and which Refund of duty on
withdrawn for
shall have remained continuously in bonded warehouse or otherwise goeds
export.
in the custody and under the control of customs officers, may be
entered or withdrawn at any time within three years after the date of
importation for exportation, or for transportation and exportation,
under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe, and upon such entry or withdrawal, 99 per centum of the
duties thereon shall be refunded.
Merchandise entered under bond, under any provision of law, may extpuctioni'"
eu" 0
be destroyed, at the request and at the expense of the consignee,
within the bonded period under customs supervision, in lieu of exportation, and the consignee relieved of the payment of duties thereon.
SEC. 558. REFUND AFTER DELrVERY OF GOODS.--No refund or Drawback restricted
on articles made from
drawback of duty shall be allowed on the exportation of any mer- duty
paid exports enti
chandise after its release from the custody or control of the Govern- l d t ret o.
ment except in case of the exportation of articles manufactured or
produced m whole or in part from imported materials on which a
drawback of duties is expressly provided for by law.
SEC. 559. ABANDONMENT OF WAREHOUSE GOODS.-Merchandise Goods three years in
warehouse
remaining in bonded warehouse beyond three years from the date of bonded
deemed abandoned.
importation shall be regarded as abandoned to the Government and sale, etc.
be sold under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall
prescribe, and the proceeds of sale paid into the Treasury, as in the
case of unclaimed merchandise covered by section 493 of this Act, Antc,p.964.
subject to the payment to the owner or consignee of such amount, if
any, as shall remain after deduction of duties, charges, and expenses.
SEC. 560. LEASING OF WAREHOUSES.-The Secretary of the Leasing of premises
for storing imports,

Treasury may cause to be set aside any available space in a building
used as a customhouse for the storage of bonded merchandise or
may lease premises for the storage of unclaimed merchandise or other
imported merchandise required to be stored by the Government, and

lo-ed.

al.

set aside a portion of such leased premises for the storage of bonded proviso.
merchandise: Provided, That no part of any premises owned or bderiiprt as to
leased by the Government may be used for the storage of bonded
merchandise at any port at which a public bonded warehouse has
been established and is in operation. All the premises so leased Chargesetc
shall be leased on public account and the storage and other charges
shall be deposited and accounted for as customs receipts, and the
rates therefor shall not be less than the charges for storage and
similar services made at such port of entry by commercial concerns
for the storage and handling of merchandise. No collector or other offitel inproShibto
officer of the customs shall own, in whole or in part, any bonded warehouse or enter into any contract or agreement for the lease or use of
any building to be thereafter erected as a public store or warehouse.
No lease of any building to be so used shall be taken for a longer Timelimit.
period than three years, nor shall rent for any such premises be paid,

in whole or in part, in advance.
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SEC. 561. PUBLIC STORES.-Any premises owned or leased by the
APremisestobeonn Government and used for the storage of merchandise for the final
cuSTOMs

RBo

release of which from customs custody a permit has not been issued
shall be known as a "public store."
Withdrawalstobein SEC. 562. MANIPULATION IN WAREHOUSE.-Unless by special

as a "public stor.

orignal

etc'

pges

Pro
cni,

repacking

cof

Woo; scouring, etc.

No allowance for inJwarehote. in bonded
proAis.

authority of the Secretary of the Treasury, no merchandise shall be

withdrawn from bonded warehouse in less quantity than an entire
bale, cask, box, or other package; or, if in bulk, in the entire quantity imported or in a quantity not less than one ton weight. All
merchandise so withdrawn shall be withdrawn in the original pack-

ages in which imported unless, upon the application of the importer,
it appears to the collector that it is necessary to the safety or preservation of the merchandise to repack or transfer the same: Proded, That upon permission therefor being granted by the Secretary
the Treasury, and under customs supervision, at the expense of the
proprietor, merchandise may be cleaned, sorted, repacked, or other-

wise changed in condition, but not manufactured, in bonded warehouses established for that purpose and be withdrawn therefrom for
exportation, without payment of the duties, or for consumption,
upon payment of the duties accruing thereon, in its condition at the
time of withdrawal from warehouse. The scouring or carbonizing of
wool shall not be considered a process of manufacture within the
provisions of this section.
SEC. 563. ALLOWANCE FOR LOSS-ABANDONMENT.-In no case
shall there be any abatement or allowance made in the duties for any

injury, deterioration, loss, or damage sustained by any merchandise
while remaining in a bonded warehouse: Provided, That upon the

nAbateont or refun production of satisfactory proof to the Board of General Appraisers
of actual injury or destruction, in whole or in part, of any merchanGeral AP- dise, by accidental fire or other casualty, while in bonded warehouse,
praiser
casualty, if directedby

or in the appraiser's stores undergoing appraisal, or while in transportation under bond from one port to another, or while in the custody of the officers of the customs, although not in bond, or while
within the limits of any port of entry, and before the same has been
landed from the importing vessel or vehicle, such board is hereby
authorized to order an abatement or refund, as the case may be, and
the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to pay, out of any moneys
in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amount of duties

Determation
oard

paid. Notice in writing shall be filed with the collector of the district
m which such actual injury or destruction was sustained or occurred,

and the collector shall transmit such notice together with all papers
and documents to the board for due assignment and determination,
and such determination shall be final and conclusive upon all persons

Appeal to ourt of interested therein except in cases where an appeal may be filed by

either party in the United States Court of Customs Appeals within
ttbadmed

tricion.

the time and in the manner provided by law: And providedfurther,
t pr- That the consignee may, with the consent of the Secretary of the

Treasury, at any time prior to three years from the date of original
importation abandon to the Government any merchandise in bonded

warehouse and be relieved of the payment of duties thereon: Provided, That the portion so abandoned shall not be less than an entire

package and shall be abandoned in the original package without
having been repacked while in bonded warehouse.

SEC. 564. LIENS.-That whenever a collector of customs shall be
on i- notified in writing of the existence of a lien for freight, charges, or
bfdelivery contribution in general average upon any imported merchandise

Liens.

chsarges
ports,

etc.,

sent to the appraiser's store for examination, entered for warehousing
or taken possession of by him, he shall refuse to permit delivery
Ge t
not preudby.ced

thereof from public store or bonded warehouse until proof shall be
produced that the said lien has been satisfied or discharged. The

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rights of the United States shall not be prejudiced or affected by the caTos
filing of such lien, nor shall the United States or its officers be liable

sEGoA-

TONS'

for losses or damages consequent upon such refusal to permit delivery.
If merchandise, regarding which such notice of lien has been filed,

Dispal of forfeited,

shall be forfeited or abandoned and sold, the freight, charges, or cgoods.
contribution in general average due thereon shall be paid from the
proceeds of such sale in the same manner as other lawful charges and
expenses are paid therefrom.
SEC. 565. CARTAGE.-The

cartage

of merchandise

entered for waoods
tobe
warehouse
by takento
bonded

warehouse shall be done by cartmen to be appointed and licensed cartmen.
by the collector of customs and who shall give a bond, in a penal
sum to be fixed by such collector, for the protection of the Government against any loss of, or damage to, such merchandise while
being so carted. The'cartage of merchandise designated for exami- apFpaisex
nation at the appraiser's stores and of merchandise taken into
custody by the collector as unclaimed shall be performed by such
persons as may be designated, under contract or otherwise, by the
Secretary of the Treasury, and under such regulations for the protection of the owners thereof and of the revenue as the Secretary
of the Treasury shall prescribe.
PART 5.-ENFORCEMENT PROVISIONS.

Enforcement

visions.

SEC. 581. BOARDLNG VESSELS.-Officers of the customs or of the mn'ay"
Coast Guard, and agents or other persons authorized by the Secretary WitEn

of the Treasury, or appointed for that purpose in writing by a collector may at any time go on board of any vessel or vehicle at any
place in the United States or within four leagues of the coast of the
United States, without as well as within their respective districts, to
examine the manifest and to inspect, search, and examine the vessel
or vehicle, and every part thereof, and any person, trunk, or package
on board, and to this end to hail and stop such vessel or vehicle, if
under way, and use all necessary force to compel compliance, and if

Prooffiils

four leagues of

Powrsandduties.

it shall appear that any breach or violation of the laws of the United

izuare, etOc.,
for vio-

States has been committed, whereby or in consequence of which
such vessel or vehicle, or the merchandise, or any part thereof, on
board of or imported by such vessel or vehicle is liable to forfeiture,
it shall be the duty of such officer to make seizure of the same, and
to arrest, or, in case of escape or attempted escape, to pursue and
arrest any person engaged in such breach or violation.
Officers of the Department of Commerce and other persons authorized by such department may go on board of any vessel at any place

in the United States or within four leagues of the coast of the United
States and hail, stop, and board such vessels in the enforcement
of the navigation laws and arrest or, in case of escape or attempted
escape, pursue and arrest any person engaged in the breach or
violation of the navigation laws.
SEC. 582. EXAMINATION

BAGGAGE.-The

Secretary

mDeertmefn of Comy
boad vessels to enforce
avation laws.

thet

examina-

Treasury may prescribe regulations for the search of persons and
baggage and he is authorized to employ female inspectors for the

Femaleinspectors.

examination and search of persons of their own sex; and all persons
coming into the United States from foreign countries shall be liable
to detention and search by authorized officers or agents of the Government under such regulations.
SEC. 583. CERTIFICATION OF MANIFEST.-The master of every ves-

inspect

sel and the person in charge of every vehicle bound to a port or place manifests.
in the United States shall deliver to the officer of the customs or
Coast Guard who shall first demand it of him, the original and one
copy of the manifest of such vessel or vehicle, and such officer shall

ondcertify

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certify on the back of the original manifest to the inspection thereof
and return the same to the master or other person in charge.

For not producing
s t
fe .

m an i

SEC.

584. FALSITY

OR LACK OF MANIFEST.-Any

master of any

vessel and any person in charge of any vehicle bound to the United

States who does not produce the manifest to the officer demanding
f ati

manifestare foad,etc.

fet noti oa

manL

the same shall be liable to a penalty of $500, and if any merchandise,
including sea stores, is found on board of or after unlading from such

vessel or vehicle which is not included or described in said manifest
or does not agree therewith, the master of such vessel or the person
in charge of such vehicle shall be liable to a penalty equal to the
value of the merchandise so found or unladen, and any such merchandise belonging or consigned to the master or other officer or to any
of the crew ofsuch vessel, or to the owner or person in charge of such
vehicle, shall be subject to forfeiture, and if any merchandise de-

scribed in such manifest is not found on board the vessel or vehicle
the master or other person in charge shall be subject to a penalty
of $500: Provided, That if the collector shall be satisfied that the
manifest was lost or mislaid without intentional fraud, or was defaced
by accident, or is incorrect by reason of clerical error or other mistake
and that no part of the merchandise not found on board was unshipped or discharged except as specified in the report of the mas-

ceptians

ter, said penalties shall not be incurred.

Saug

tc.,

i fod

antrs,

clearance withheld,
Forfeiture.

Penaltfor leaving
y
distict without report-

in charge of such vehicle shall be liable to a penalty of $25 for each
ounce thereof so found. Such penalty shall constitute a lien upon
such vessel which may be enforced by a libel in rem. Clearance of
any such vessel may be withheld until such penalty is paid or until
a bond, satisfactory to the collector, is given for
payment thereof.
the
The provisions of this paragraph shall not prevent the forfeiture of
ansuch vessel or vehicle under any other provision of law.

SEC. 585. DEPARTURE BEFORE REPORT OR ENTRY.-If any

vessel

or vehicle from a foreign port or place arrives within the limits of any
collection district and departs or attempts to depart, except from
stress of weather or other necessity, without making a report or entry
under the provisions of this Act, or if any merchandise is unladen
therefrom before such report or entry, the master of such vessel shall
be liable to a penalty of $5,000, and the person in charge of such
oi vessel or vehicle shall be liable to a penalty of $500, and any such vessel or
vehicle shall be subject to forfeiture, and any customs or Coast Guard
officer may cause such vessel or vehicle to be arrested and brought

ing entry, etc.

,aest

If any of such merchandise so found consists of smoking opium or

opium prepared for smoking, the master of such vessel or the person

back to the most convenient port of the United States.

enalnty bfore pwingSEC. 586. UNLAWFUL UNLADING-EXCEPTION.-The master of any

mitrecdved.

vessel from a foreign port or place who allows any merchandise

(including sea stores) to be unladen from such vessel at any time
after its arrival within four leagues of the coast of the United States
and before such vessel has come to the proper place for the discharge
of such merchandise, and before he has received a permit to unlade, shall be liable to a penalty equal to twice the value of the
p
iois,.
Exceptionin ae

merchandise but not less than $1,000, and such vessel and the merof

chandise shall be subject to seizure and forfeiture: Provided, That

astport oiarrval, eat. whenever any part of the cargo or stores of a vessel has been unladen
or transshipped because of accident, stress of weather, or other necessity, the master of such vessel shall, as soon as possible thereafter,
notify the collector of the district within which such unlading or
transshipment has occurred, or the collector within the district at
which such vessel shall first arrive, thereafter, and shall furnish proof
that such unlading or transshipment was made necessary by accident,
stress of weather, or other unavoidable cause, and if the collector is
satisfied that the unlading or transshipment was in fact due to acci-

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dent, stress of weather, or other necessity the penalties above described cUSTOs VGU1for reiving
shall not be incurred.en
SEC. 587. UNLAWFUL TRANSSHIPMENT.-If any merchandise (in- goodsunlawfully tran
eluding sea stores) unladen in violation of the provisions of section shipped.
586 of this Act is transshipped to or placed in or received on any other
vessel, the master of the vessel on which such merchandise is placed,
and any person aiding or assisting therein, shall be liable to a penalty equal to twice the value of the merchandise, but not less than
$1,000, and such vessel and such merchandise shall be liable to
shpped on
any merchan- foregnvesseltoforeign
another
dise is laden at any port or place in the United States upon any ves- thuere
sel belonging wholly or in part to a subject of a foreign country, and American port, to be

seizure and forfeiture.oods

SEC. 588. TRANSPORTATION

BETWEEN

PORTS.-If

is taken thence to a foreign port or place to be reladen and reshipped sd etc.
to any other port in the United States, either by the same or by
another vessel, foreign or American, with intent to evade the provisions relating to the transportation of merchandise from one port or
place of the United States to another port or place of the United
tates in a vessel belonging wholly or in part to a subject of any foreign power, the merchandise shall, on its arrival at such last-named Tonnage dues to he
port or place, be seized and forfeited to the United States, and the ssessdPenalty for relanding
vessel shall pay a tonnage duty of 50 cents per net ton.
SEC. 589. UNLAWFUL RELANDING.-If any merchandise entered or without entry, goods
withdrawn for exportation without payment of the duties thereon,

withdrawn for export

penalties as are prescribed by section 593 of this Act.
SEC. 590. FALSE DRAWBACK CLAIM.-If any person shall knowingly
and willfully file any false or fraudulent entry or claim for the pay-

punhmentorfUin
claims for drawfalse
back, etc.

not more than $5,000, or by imprisonment for not more than two

Forfeiture of good

or with intent to obtain a drawback of the duties paid, or of any other
allowances given by law on the exportation thereof, is relanded at
any place in the United States without entry therefor having been
made, the same shall be considered and treated as having been
imported into the United States contrary to law, and all persons concerned therein and such merchandise shall be liable to the same

ment of drawback, allowance, or refund of duties upon the exportation
of merchandise, or shall knowingly and willfully make or file any false
affidavit, abstract, record, certificate, or other document, with a
view to securing the payment to himself or others of any drawback,
allowance, or refund of duties, on the exportation of merchandise,
greater than that legally due thereon, such person shall be guilty of
a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of

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years, or both, and the merchandise or the value thereof to which etc.
such false entry or claim, affidavit, abstract, record, certificate, or
other document relates shall be subject to forfeiture.unshment
SEC. 591. FRAUD-PENALTY-PERSONAL.-If any consignor, seller, mPang

owner, importer, consignee, agent, or other person or persons enters

etc.

for

entries,

fahse

or introduces, or attempts to enter or introduce, into the commerce

of the United States any imported merchandise by means of any
fraudulent or false invoice, declaration, affidavit, letter, paper, or by
means of any false statement, written or verbal, or by means of any
false or fraudulent practice or appliance whatsoever, or makes any
false statement in any declaration under the provisions of section 485

of this Act without reasonable cause to believe the truth of such
statement, or aids or procures the making of any such false statement as to any matter material thereto without reasonable cause to
believe the truth of such statement, or is guilty of any willful act or
omission by means whereof the United States shall or may be deprived
of the lawful duties, or any portion thereof, accruing upon the
merchandise, or any portion thereof, embraced or referred to in such
invoice, declaration, affidavit, letter, paper, or statement, or affected

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by such act or omission, such person or persons shall upon conviction
be fined for each offense a sum not exceeding $5,000, or be imprisoned
for a time not exceeding two years, or both, in the discretion of the

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notreleased court: Provided, That nothing in this section shall be construed to

relieve imported merchandise from forfeiture by reason of such false
statement or for any cause elsewhere provided by law.
SEC. 592. SAME-PENALTY AGAINST GOODS.-If any consignor,
Forfeiture of goods
owner, importer, consignee, agent, or other person or persons
d,
seller,
fradutly
Illegalacts speciied. enters or introduces, or attempts to enter or introduce, into the
commerce of the United States any imported merchandise by means
of any fraudulent or false invoice, declaration, affidavit, letter, paper,
or by means of any false statement, written or verbal, or by means
of any false or fraudulent practice or appliance whatsoever, or makes
false statement in any declaration under the provisions of section

An*eany

485 of this Act without reasonable cause to believe the truth of such
statement, or aids or procures the making of any such false statement
as to any matter material thereto without reasonable cause to believe
the truth of such statement, or is guilty of any willful act or omission
by means whereof the United States is or may be deprived of the
lawful duties or any portion thereof accruing upon the merchandise
or any portion thereof, embraced or referred to in such invoice,
declaration, affidavit, letter, paper, or statement, or affected by such
act or omission, such merchandise, or the value thereof, to be recovered from such person or persons, shall be subject to forfeiture,

ioable onl

consignments

Punishent for illfully smuggling, etc.,
dutiable go.

Ieceiving, etc., lle-

galimports.

fae evidence of vioa

on.

oatungs

the value thereof in the case or package containing the particular
article or articles of merchandise to which such fraud or false paper

with or statement relates. The arrival within the territorial limits of the
United States of any merchandise consigned for sale and remaining

false invoice not actualyentered,liable.

Sdure e,

which forfeiture shall only apply to the whole of the merchandise or

o, f

the property of the shipper or consignor, and the acceptance of a
false or fraudulent invoice thereof by the consignee or the agent of
the consignor, or the existence of any other facts constituting an
attempted fraud, shall be deemed, for the purposes of this paragraph
to be an attempt to enter such merchandise notwithstanding no actual

entry has been made or offered.
SEC. 593. SMUGGLING AND CLANDESTINE IMPORTATIONS.-(a) If
any person knowingly and willfully, with intent to defraud the
revenue of the United States, smuggles, or clandestinely introduces,
into the United States any merchandise which should have been
invoiced, or makes out or passes, or attempts to pass, through the
customhouse any false, forged, or fraudulent invoice, every such
person, his, her, or their aiders and abettors, shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in any
sum not exceeding $5,000, or imprisoned for any term of time not
exceeding two years, or both, at the discretion of the court.
(b) If any person fraudulently or knowingly imports or brings into
the United States, or assists in so doing, any merchandise, contrary
to law, or receives, conceals, buys, sells, or in any manner facilitates
the transportation, concealment, or sale of such merchandise after
importation, knowing the same to have been imported or brought
into the United States contrary to law, such merchandise shall be
forfeited and the offender shall be fined in any sum not exceeding
$5,000 nor less than $50, or be imprisoned for any time not exceeding two years, or both. Whenever, on trial for a violation of this
section, the defendant is shown to have or to have had possession of
such goods, such possession shall be deemed evidence sufficient to
authorize conviction, unless the defendant shall explain the possession to the satisfaction of the jury.
SEC. 594. SEIZURE OF VESSELS AND VEHICLES.-Whenever a vessel

laws. or vehicle, or the owner or master, conductor, driver, or other person

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in charge thereof, has become subject to a penalty for violation of

E
GU
s

the customs-revenue laws of the United States, such vessel or vehicle
shall be held for the payment of such penalty and may be seized and
proceeded against summarily by libel to recover the same: Provided, Restriction

That no vessel or vehicle used by any person as a common carrier common cariers.

in the transaction of business as such common carrier shall be so
held or subject to seizure or forfeiture under the customs laws,
unless it shall appear that the owner or master of such vessel or the
conductor, driver, or other person in charge of such vehicle was at
the time of the alleged illegal act a consenting party or privy thereto.

wa
SEC. 595. WARRANT.-Jf any collector of customs or other officer Application for, and
or person authorized to make searches and seizures shall have cause ieg ofonsuspiion ony

to suspect the presence in any dwelling house, store, or other building house, etc.
or place of any merchandise upon which the duties have not been
paid, or which has been otherwise brought into the United States
contrary to law, he may make application, under oath, to any justice
of the peace, to any municipal, county, State, or Federal judge, or
to any United States commissioner, and shall thereupon be entitled to
a warrant to enter such dwelling house in the daytime only, or such
store or other place at night or by day, and to search for and seize por
such merchandise: Provided, That if any such house, store, or other Buildings

bound-

building, or place in which such merchandise shall be found, is upon

arye

may forthwith be taken down or removed.
SEC. 596. BUILDINGS ON BOUNDARY.-Any person who receives or

ceiving,etc., imports

or if any marks or numbers placed upon packages deposited in such a

Illegal acts specified.

or within ten feet of the boundary line between the United States and
a foreign country, such portion thereof as is within the United States

etc.

Punishment for re-

deposits in such building upon the boundary line between the United i ngs on boundary
States and any foreign country, or carries any merchandise through
the same, or aids therein, in violation of law, shall be punishable by
a fine of not more than $5,000, or by imprisonment for not more than
Punishmentor
two years, or both.
SEC. 597. CONCEALMENT.-If any merchandise is fraudulently frudulent removals,
concealed in, removed from, or repacked in any bonded warehouse, tc.,rom bondedwarewarehouse be fraudulently altered, defaced, or obliterated, such merchandise and packages shall be subject to forfeiture, and all persons
convicted of the fraudulent concealment, repacking, or removal of
such merchandise, or of altering, defacing, or obliterating such marks
and numbers thereon, and all persons aiding and abetting therein shall
be liable to the same penalties as are imposed by section 593 of this
Act.

SEC. 598. FALSE SEALS.-If any unauthorized person affixes

Ae,

p. 982.

Punishment for affixor ig false customs seals,

attaches or in any way willfully assists or encourages the affixing or etc.
attaching of a customs seal or other fastening to any vessel or vehicle,
or of any seal, fastening, or mark purporting to be a customs seal,
fastening, or mark; or it any unauthorized person willfully or mali- Removg seals, etc.
ciously removes, breaks, injures, or defaces any customs seal or other
fastening placed upon any vessel, vehicle, warehouse, or package
(on taining merchandise or baggage in bond or in customs custody, or

willfully aids, abets, or encourages any other person to remove, break, Ulawfuy
injtre, or deface such seal, fastening, or mark; or if any person ing goods or

baggage

maliciously enters any bonded warehouse or any vessel or vehicle rowarehouse, essel

laden with or containing bonded merchandise with intent unlawfully
to remove or cause to be removed therefrom any merchandise or
baggage therein, or unlawfully removes or causes to be removed any
merchandise or baggage in such vessel, vehicle, or bonded warehouse

or otherwise in customs custody or control, or aids or assists therein; Receiving, etc.,
or if any person receives or transports any merchandise or baggage lawfulremovals.

unlawfully removed from any such vessel, vehicle, or warehouse,
knowing the same to have been unlawfully removed, he shall be guilty

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by us-

omsoffiiat.in vesse
C
y,

enalty.
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of a felony and liable to the same penalties as are imposed by section

593 of this Act.

SEC. 599. INTERESTED OFFICERS.-NO person employed under the

authority of the United States, in the collection of duties on imports or
tonnage, shall own, either in whole or in part, any vessel, or act as
agent, attorney, or consignee for the owner or owners of any vessel,
or of any cargo or lading on board the same; nor shall any such
person import, or be concerned directly or indirectly in the importation, of any merchandise for sale into the United States. Every
person who violates this section shall be liable to a penalty of $500.
SEC. 600. GRATurr.-Any officer or employee of the United States
re-

who, except in payment of the duties or exactions fixed by law,

orseriies, bitl

solicits, demands, exacts, or receives from any person, directly or
indirectly, any gratuity, money, or thing of value, for any service
performed under the customs laws, or in consideration of any official
act to be performed by him, or of the omission of performance of
any such act, in connection with or pertaining to the importation,
entry, inspection or examination, or appraisement of merchandise
or baggage shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction
thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $5,000, or by impris-

evidence.

onment for not more than two years, or both, and evidence, satis-

Punishmentforbrib-

SEC. 601. BRBERY.-Any person who gives, or offers to give, or
promises to give, any money or thing of value, directly or indirectly,

Prfae

etc.,

toms

factory to the court in which the trial is had, of such soliciting,
demanding, exacting, or receiving shall be prima facie evidence
that the same was contrary to law.

to any officer or employee of the United States in consideration of
or for any act or omission contrary to law in connection with or
pertaining to the importation, appraisement, entry, examination,
or inspection of merchandise or baggage, or of the liquidation of the
entry thereof, or by threats or demands or promises of any character
attempts to improperly influence or control any such officer or

employee of the United States as to the performance of his official

duties, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof
shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $5,000 or by imprisonment
Primafacieevidence.

Officialsmakin

seiz-

ver tocoector vessel,
vehicle, goods, etc.

eport by

ollector

tocitor of the Treasuryand district attorney.

Accompanyingstate-

Ine .

Dutyofdistrietattor-

ney.

for a term not exceeding two years, or both, and evidence of such

giving, offering or promising to give, or attempting to influence or
control, satisfactory to the court in which such trial is had, shall be
prima facie evidence that the same was contrary to law.
SEC. 602. SEIZURE PROCEDURE-REPORT.-It shall be the duty of
any officer, agent, or other person authorized by law to make seizures

of merchandise or baggage subject to seizure for violation of the
customs laws, to report every such seizure immediately to the collector for the district in which such violation occurred, and to turn
over and deliver to such collector any vessel, vehicle, merchandise,
or baggage seized by him, and to report immediately to such collector
every violation of the customs laws.

SEC. 603. SAME-FACTS TO REPORT.-It shall be the duty of the

collector whenever a seizure of merchandise has been. made for a
violation of the customs laws to report the same to the Solicitor of
the Treasury, and promptly also to report any such seizure or violation of the customs laws to the United States attorney for the district in which such violation has occurred, or in which such seizure
was made, including in such report a statement of all the facts and
circumstances of the case within his knowledge, with the names of
the witnesses, and citation of the statute or statutes believed to have
been violated, and on which reliance may be had for forfeiture or
conviction.
SEC. 604. SAME-PROSECUTION.-It shall be the duty of every

United States district attorney immediately to inquire into the facts

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of cases reported to him by collectors and the laws applicable thereto,

CUSTOMS

5 EGUL&-

and, if it appears probable that any fine, penalty, or forfeiture has
been incurred by reason of such violation, for the recovery of which
the institution of proceedings in the United States district court is
necessary, forthwith to cause the proper proceedings to be commenced and prosecuted, without delay, for the recovery of such

togst
fine, penalty, or forfeiture in such case provided, unless, upon inquiry fRepoertn
and examination, such district attorney decides that such proceed- ommended.

ings can not probably be sustained or that the ends of public justice
do not require that they should be instituted or prosecuted, in which
case he shall report the facts to the Secretary of the Treasury for his
direction in the premises.

SEC. 605. SAME-CUSTODY.-All vessels, vehicles, merchandise,
and baggage seized under the provisions of the customs laws, or laws

Collecteor to

etain

relating to the navigation, registering, enrolling or licensing, or entry
or clearance, of vessels, unless otherwise provided by law, shall be
placed and remain in the custody of the collector for the district in
which the seizure was made to await disposition according to law.

SEC. 606. SAME-APPRAISEMENT.-The collector shall require the Appraisement.

appraiser to determine the domestic value, at the time and place of
appraisement, of any vessel, vehicle, merchandise, or baggage seized

under the customs laws.
SEC. 607. SAME-VALUE $1,000 OB LESS.-If such value of such
vessel, vehicle, merchandise, or baggage returned by the appraiser,

Publication of seiL
valued over 1,0o.

does not exceed $1,000, the collector shall cause a notice of the seizure
of such articles and the intention to forfeit and sell the same to be
published for at least three successive weeks in such manner as the
Secretary of the Treasury may direct.
SEC. 608. SA.ME-CLAs.-Any person claiming such vessel, ve- mayffe
hicle, merchandise, or baggage may at any time within twenty days

proert

from the date of the first publication of the notice of seizure file with
the collector a claim stating his interest therein.

Upon the filing of Condemntion

such claim, and the giving of a bond to the United States in the c

penal sum of $250, with sureties to be approved by the collector,
conditioned that in case of condemnation of the articles so claimed
the obligor shall pay all the costs and expenses of the proceedings to
obtain such condemnation, the collector shall transmit such claim
and bond, with a duplicate list and description of the articles seized,
to the United States attorney for the district in which seizure was
made, who shall proceed to a condemnation of the merchandise or
other property in the manner prescribed by law.

pro-

onfilngnd.

SEC. 609. SAME-SALE.-If no such claim is filed or bond given
within the twenty days hereinbefore specified, the collector shall

Forfeiturened sale

dise abandoned to the United States is sold, and shall deposit the

Proceeds.

declare the vessel, vehicle, merchandise, or baggage forfeited, and
shall sell the same at public auction in the same manner as merchan-

proceeds of sale, after deducting the actual expenses of seizure,
publication and sale, in the Treasury of the United States.
SEC. 610. SAME-VALUE MORE THAN $1,000.-

the value re- attoryivaluedoer

turned by the appraiser of any vessel, vehicle, merchandise, or baggage si,ooo.
so seized is greater than $1,000, the collector shall transmit a report
of the case, with the names of available witnesses, to the United
States attorney for the district in which the seizure was made for
the institution of the proper proceedings for the condemnation of
such
property.
.SAE-COND
the sale
IONAL SALES.-If
611.
SEuc
SEa.

SME SALEtrict
ND
611. ONAL

in another disif laws of place

vehicle, merchandise, or baggage forfeited under the customs laws where seized, etc., pro-

in the district in which seizure thereof was made be prohibited by the hibit.
laws of the State in which such district is located, or if a sale may be
made more advantageously in any other district, the Secretary of the

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cusroSOSN o.lA- Treasury may order such vessel, vehicle, merchandise, or baggage to
.
be transferred for sale in any customs district in which the sale thereof
may be permitted. And if the Secretary of the Treasury is satisfied
Destruction, etc.
that the proceeds of sale will not be sufficient to pay the costs thereof,
into ar he may order a destruction by the customs officers: Provided,That any

anufacture
tiles not prohibited, merchandise forfeited under the customs laws, the sale or use of which
or i

suth

ed.

is prohibited under any law of the United States or of any State,

may be remanufactured, in the discretion of the Secretary of the
Treasury, into an article that is not prohibited, the resulting article
to be disposed of to the profit of the United States only.
SEC. 612. SUMMARY SALE.-Whenever it appears to the collector
SUmma etSe of
uednotover i,0&. that any vessel, vehicle, merchandise, or baggage seized under the
customs laws is liable to perish or to waste or to be greatly reduced
in value by keeping, or that the expense of keeping the same is disproportionate to the value thereof, and the value of such vessel,
vehicle, merchandise, or baggage as determined by the appraiser
under section 606 of this Act,does not exceed $1,000, and such vessel,
vehicle, merchandise, or baggage has not been delivered under bond,
the collector shall, within twenty-four hours after the receipt by him
of the appraiser's return proceed forthwith to advertise and sell the
same at auction under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary
If such value of such vessel, vehicle, merchandise,
Petition for order of of the Treasury.
eortofgreatervae. or baggage exceeds $1,000 the collector shall forthwith transmit the
appraiserrs return and his report of the seizure to the United States
district attorney, who shall petition the court to order an immediate
sale of such vessel, vehicle, merchandise, or baggage, and if the ends
of justice require it the court shall order such immediate sale, the
proceeds thereof to be deposited with the court to await the final
Whether such sale
Proceeds subject to determination of the condemnation proceedings.
claims.

Applications allowed
rreand restorationeof
proceeds.

be made by the collector or by order of the court, the proceeds

thereof shall be held subject to claims of parties in interest to the
same extent as the vessel, vehicle, merchandise, or baggage so sold
would have been subject to such claim.

SEC. 613. DISPosImoN OF PROCEEDS.-Any person claiming any
vessel, vehicle, merchandise, or baggage, or any interest therein,

which has been forfeited and sold under the provisions of this Act,

may at any time within three months after the date of sale apply to
the Secretary of the Treasury if the forefeiture and sale was under the

customs laws, or to the Secretary of Commerce if the forfeiture and
sale was under the navigation laws, for a remission of the forfeiture
and restoration of the proceeds of such sale, or such part thereof as
Upon the production of satisfactory proof
that the applicant did not know of the seizure prior to the declaration

Order for, if no in- may be claimed by him.

tent to defraud, etc.,
defraud, etc.,
po

or condemnation of forfeiture, and was in such circumstances as
prevented him from knowing of the same, and that such forfeiture
was incurred without any willful negligence or intention to defraud

on the part of the applicant, the Secretary of the Treasury or the
Secretary of Commerce may order the proceeds of the sale, or any part
thereof, restored to the applicant, after deducting the cost of seizure

and of sale, the duties, if any, accruing on the merchandise or baggage,
and any sum due on a lien for freight, charges, or contribution in
caspoa deino tappl-general

average that may have been filed.

If no application for such

remission or restoration is made within three months after such sale,
or if the application be denied by the Secretary of the Treasury or the
Secretary of Commerce, the proceeds of sale shall be disposed of as
follows:
(1) For the payment of all proper expenses of the proceedings of
roceng"s
ofPa
forfeiture and sale, including expenses of seizure, maintaining the
custody of the property, advertising and sale, and if condemned by a
decree of a district court and a bond for such costs was not given, the
costs as taxed by the court;

months.

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CH. 356.

987

1922.

(2) For the satisfaction of liens for freight, charges, and contribu- CUSTOMS BGULAtions in general average, notice of which has been filed with the Satisfaction orliens.
collector according to law;
(3) For the payment of the duties accruing on such merchandise Paymnt of duties.
or baggage, if the same is subject to duty; and
(4) The residue shall be deposited with the Treasurer of the United Reidue as a fine.
States as a customs or navigation fine.
ofrseizuresto
Relase
SEC. 614. RELEASE.-If any person claiming an interest in any party
clarinisg interest
value
paying
thn
provisions
the
under
seized
vessel, vehicle, merchandise, or baggage
merchandise,
vehicle,
vessel,
such
of
value
the
pay
to
offers
Act
of this
98
A
7tl p. 5.
or baggage, as determined under section 606 of this Act, and it appears
that such person has in fact a substantial interest therein, the colector
may, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury if under
the customs laws, or the Secretary of Commerce it under the navigation laws, accept such offer and release the vessel, vehicle, merchandise, or baggage seized upon the payment of such value thereof, Distrbution
which shallbe distributed m the order provided in section 613 of this

Act.

Proof of ownership of

SEC. 615. BURDEN OF PROOF.-In all suits or actions brought for ropertyseized.
the forfeiture of any vessel, vehicle, merchandise, or baggage seized
under the provisions of any law relating to the collection of duties
on imports or tonnage, where the property is claimed by any person, In suts to re
the burden of proof shall lie upon such claimant; and in all suits or value.
actions brought for the recovery of the value of any vessel, vehicle,
merchandise, or baggage seized for violation of any such law, the
burden of proof shall be upon the defendent: Provided,That probable Proiie cause to be
cause shall be first shown for the institution of such suit or action, shown.
Compromising

to be judged of by the court.

SEC. 616. COMPROMISE OF CLAIMS.-It shall not be lawful for any

claims by officials

forfeiture shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction thereof

Punishment or.

un-

officer of the United States to compromise or abate any claim of the ""wf
United States arising under the customs laws for any fine, penalty,
or forfeiture, and any such officer who compromises or abates any
such claim or attempts to make such compromise or abatement, or
in any manner relieves or attempts to relieve any person, vessel,
vehicle, merchandise, or baggage from any such fine, penalty, or
shall be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000 or by imprisonment for a term of not exceeding two years: Provided, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall have power to remit or mitigate any such
fine, penalty, or forfeiture, or to compromise the same in the manner
provided by law.port
SEC. 617. SAME.-Upon a report by a collector, district attorney,
or any special attorney or agent, having charge of any claim arising
under the customs laws, showing the facts upon which such claim is

Authority

of sec-

retary.

of offi

chargeastocraim.

re
based, the probabilities of a recovery and the terms upon which the
same may be compromised, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby mnnded by Solicitor.
authorized to compromise such claim, if such action shall be recom-

mended by the Solicitor of the Treasury.

618. REMISSION OR MITIGATION OF PENALTIES.-Whenever
any person interested in any vessel, vehicle, merchandise, or baggage
SEC.

Applications for remission or mitigation
ffne,

etc.,beforesae.

:;eized under the provisions of this Act, or who has incurred, or is
alleged to have incurred, any fine or penalty thereunder, files with
the Secretary of the Treasury if under the customs laws, and with
the Secretary of Commerce if under the navigation laws, before the
sale of such vessel, vehicle, merchandise, or baggage a petition for
the remission or mitigation of such fine, penalty, or forfeiture, the

Secretary of the Treasury, or the Secretary
that such fine, penalty, or forfeiture was
negligence or without any intention on the
defraud the revenue or to violate the law,

of Commerce, if he finds
incurred without willful
part of the petitioner to
or finds the existence of

Authority to grant

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988
CUrSTOS

1922.

tion of such fine, penalty, or forfeiture, may remit or mitigate the
same upon such terms and conditions as he deems reasonable and

be ust, or order discontinuance of any prosecution relating thereto.

In order to enable him to ascertain the facts, the Secretary of the
Treasury may issue a commission to any special agent, collector,
member of the Board of United States General Appraisers, or United
States commissioner, to take testimony upon such petition: Provided,

t a

proris

CH. 356.

such mitigating circumstances as to justify the remission or mitiga-

KRQUA-

Testimony to

SESS. II.

comp.

That nothing in this section shall be construed to deprive any person

saton rotected.

of an award of compensation made before the filing of such petition.

SEC. 619. AWARD OF COMPENSATION.-Any person not an officer
compensation allowmation o fraudt, of the United States who detects and seizes any vessel, vehicle,

merchandise, or baggage subject to seizure and forfeiture under the
customs laws and who reports the same to an officer of the customs,
or who furnishes to a district attorney, to the Secretary of the
Treasury or to any customs officer original information concerning
usms
on of thee customs
revenue,or a
uviolation
any fraud upon
laws perpetrated or contemplated, which detection and seizure or
information leads to a recovery of any duties withheld, or of any
fine, penalty or forfeiture incurred, may be awarded and paid by
the Secretary of the Treasury a compensation of 25 per centum of

bypersonnotanofficial.

aximum allow-

the net amount recovered, but not to exceed $50,000 in any case,

which shall be paid out of moneys appropriated for that purpose.
For the purposes of this section, an amount recovered under a bail

bond shall be deemed a recovery of a fine incurred.
SEC. 620. SAME-UNITED STATES OFFICERS.-Any officer of the
portionofcomc
pensaflon by Fderal United States who directly or indirectly receives, accepts, or con-

tracts for any portion of the money which may accrue to any per-

forAmonaeyrecefier

son making such detection and seizure, or furnishing such information,
shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be
punished by a fine of not more than $10,000, or by imprisonment
for not more than two years, or both, and shall be thereafter ineligible to any office of honor, trust, or emolument. Any such

Timeolimt

paid or the thing of value so given.
SEC. 621. LIMITATION OF ACTIONS.-No suit or action to recover

person who pays to any such officer, or to any person for the use of
such officer, any portion of such money, or anything of value for or
because of such money, shall have a right of action against such
officer, or his legal representatives, or against such person, or his
legal representatives, and shall be entitled to recover the money so

for re

Absence from the
country not included.

extenEmsrgency
the
of time by
sion
President, in case of
ar

iodautioried

any pecuniary penalty or forfeiture of property accruing under the
customs laws shall be instituted unless such suit or action is commenced within five years after the time when such penalty or forfeiture accrued: Provided, That the time of the absence from the
United States of the person subject to such penalty or forfeiture, or
of any concealment or absence of the property, shall not be reckoned
within this period of limitation.

SEC. 622. EMERGENCY OF WAR.-Whenever the President shall
by proclamation declare an emergency to exist by reason of a state

of war, or otherwise, he may authorize the Secretary of the Treasury
to extend during the continuance of such emergency the time herein

prescribed for the performance of any act.
SEC. 623. GENERAL REGULATIONS.-In addition to the specific

powers conferred by this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary to
carry out the provisions of this Act.

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

SESs. II.

CH. 356.

1922.

989
B
TA
Y ACT OF 1 22.

PART 6.-REPEATING PROVISIONS.

Repealing provisions.

SEC. 641. RIGHTS AND LIABILITIEs.-The repeal of existing laws
or modifications thereof embraced in this Act shall not affect any etc.,endotagpeted
act done, nor any right accruing or accrued, nor any suit or proceeding had or commenced in any civil or criminal case prior to said repeal
or modifications, but all liabilities under said laws shall continue and tiesRights
and liabilito be enforced.
may be enforced in the same manner as if said repeal or modifications had not been made. All offenses committed and all penalties, Prosecution of prior
forfeitures, or liabilities incurred prior to the taking effect hereof, ffenses.
under any statute embraced in, or changed, modified, or repealed by
this Act, may be prosecuted and punished in the same manner and
with the same effect as if this Act had not been passed.

No acts of

afiitations

not

limitation now in force, whether applicable to civil causes and proceedings, or to the prosecution of offenses or for the recovery of
penalties or forfeitures embraced in, modified, changed, or repealed
by this Act shall be affected thereby so far as they affect any suits,
proceedings, or prosecutions, whether civil or criminal, for causes
arising or acts done or committed prior to the taking effect of this
Act, which may be commenced and prosecuted within the same time
and with the same effect as if this Act had not been passed.
SEC. 642. REVISED STATUTES.-The following sections of the Re-

vised
2524,
2637,
2778,
2789,
2802,
2814,
2825,
2837,
2859,
2876,
2889,
2906,
2926,
2949,
2962,
2973,
2984,
3004,
3020,
3032,
3043,
3055,
3069,
3083,
3100,
3121,

Statutes, as
2537, 2540,
2638, 2652,
2779, 2780,
2790, 2791,
2803, 2805,
2815, 2816,
2826, 2827,
2840, 2842,
2864, 2865,
2877, 2878,
2890, 2891,
2910, 2911,
2928, 2933,
2950, 2953,
2963, 2964,
2974, 2975,
2985, 2986,
3005, 3006,
3021, 3022,
3033, 3034,
3044, 3045,
3056, 3057,
3070, 3074,
3084, 3085,
3101, 3102,
3123, 3128,

amended, are hereby repealed: 909, 2520,
2554, 2561, 2581, 2588, 2589, 2590, 2609,
2770, 2771, 2772, 2773, 2774, 2775, 2776,
2781, 2782, 2783, 2784, 2785, 2786, 2787,
2794, 2795, 2796, 2797, 2798, 2799, 2800,
2806, 2807, 2808, 2809, 2810, 2811, 2812,
2817, 2818, 2819, 2820, 2821, 2822, 2823,
2828, 2829, 2830, 2831, 2832, 2833, 2834,
2844, 2846, 2847, 2848, 2849, 2850, 2852,
2867, 2868, 2869, 2870, 2872, 2873, 2874,
2879, 2880, 2881, 2882, 2883, 2884, 2887,
2892, 2893, 2894, 2895, 2896, 2898, 2899,
2912, 2913, 2914, 2915, 2916, 2920, 2921,
2935, 2936, 2937, 2939, 2945, 2946, 2947,
2954, 2955, 2956, 2957, 2958, 2959, 2960,
2965, 2966, 2967, 2968, 2969, 2970, 2971,
2976, 2977, 2978, 2979, 2980, 2981, 2982,
2987, 2988, 2989, 2998, 3000, 3001, 3002,
3007, 3008, 3010, 3015, 3016, 3017, 3018,
3023, 3024, 3025, 3026, 3028, 3029, 3030,
3035, 3036, 3037, 3038, 3039, 3040, 3041,
3046, 3047, 3049, 3050, 3051, 3052, 3053,
3058, 3059, 3060, 3063, 3064, 3065, 3066,
3075, 3076, 3077, 3078, 3079, 3080, 3081,
3086, 3088, 3090, 3095, 3096, 3097, 3098,
3103, 3104, 3105, 3106, 3107, 3108, 3110,
3129, 4209, 4210, 4211, 5292, and 5293.

2521,
2610,
2777,
2788,
2801,
2813,
2824,
2836,
2857,
2875,
2888,
2901,
2925,
2948,
2961,
2972,
2983,
3003,
3019,
3031,
3042,
3054,
3067,
3082,
3099,
3120,

SEC. 643. STATUTES AT LARGE.-The following Acts and parts of

ReSedStatuteos
of,repeaed.

Actsrepe ed.

Vol i8, pp. 24, 186,

Acts are hereby repealed: The Act of March 24, 1874, chapter 65; 469.
Act of June 22, 1874, chapter 391, sections 3, 4, 6, 7, 15, 17, 18, 19,
20, 21, 22 24, and 25; Act of March 3, 1875, chapter 136; Act of May Vol 19,pp.49,60.
1, 1876, chapter 89; Act of June 20, 1876, chapter 136, as amended;
Act of June 10, 1880, chapter 190, as amended; Act of February 8,
1881, chapter 34; Act of February 23, 1887, chapter 218; Act of June

Vol 24, p. 4143.
vol 2, p. i3.

10, 1890, chapter 407, as amended, except sections 12 and 22; Act
of March 2, 1895, chapter 177, section 9; Act of February 2, 1899,

Vol. 2:, p.

990

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

TABW ACT 012.
38 p1

:Vol.

SEES.

II.

CHS. 356-358.

1922.

chapter 84; Act of February 13, 1911, chapter 46, sections 1, 2, 3,
and 4; Act of October 3, 1913, chapter 16, section III; and Titles I,

Ante, pp. 9,15, 18

I and V of the Act entitled "An Act Imposing temporary duties

upon certain agricultural products to meet present emergencies, and
to provide revenue; to regulate commerce with foreign countries; to
prevent dumping of foreign merchandise on the markets of the
United States; to regulate the value of foreign money; and for other
purposes," approve May 27, 1921, as amended.
SEC. 644. GENERAL REPEAL.-All laws and parts of laws inconnconsistent laws resistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.
pealed.
SEC. 645. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, or part of this title
invalidity of any
shall for any reason be adjudged by any court of competent juriso Act.
rP in
diction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder of said Act, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, or part thereof directly
involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been
rendered.
SEC. 646. Unless otherwise herein specially provided, this Act shall
Effective date.
take effect on the day following its passage.
SEC. 647. This Act may be cited as the "Tariff Act of 1922."
Title of Act.
Approved, Sept. 21, 1922, 11.10 a. m.
September 21,1922
H. R. 70
[ubli, No. 319.]

CHAP. 357.-An Act To allow credit for husbands' military service in case of
homestead entries by widows, and for other purposes

Homestead entries.
Widows of persons

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That in the case of the death

etc., re

benefits enumerated in said Act subject to the provisions and require-

to soldiers'
priies for Mexcan of any person who would be entitled to a homestead under the proborder or World War visions of the Act of Congress approved February 25, 1919 (Fortieth
Statutes at Large, page 1161), entitled "An Act to extend the promake,etc.
visions of the homestead laws touching credit for period of enlistment
Vol. 40, p. 1161.
to the soldiers, nurses, and officers of the Army and the seamen, marines, nurses, and officers of the Navy and the Marine Corps of the
United States, who have served or will have served with the Mexican
border operations or during the war between the United States and
Germany and her allies," his widow, if unmarried and otherwise
qualified, may make entry of public lands under the provisions'of the
homestead laws of the United States and shall be entitled to all the
entitled

q!,ildenc,

ments as to settlement, residence, and improvement therein conratnttonminorcild tained: Provided, That in the event of the death of such homestead
to entrywoman prior to perfection of title, leaving only a minor child
ofe
inae tdeathprior
or children, patent shall issue to the said minor child or children upon
proof of death, and of the minority of the child or children, without
further showing or compliance with law.
Approved, September 21, 1922.
September 21 1922.
[H. R. 24.)

[Public, No. 320.1

LpkAndes,
erlevelof,authorized.

pppriaton au-

pot, p. 1il.

CHAP. 358-An Act Providing for the construction of a spillway and drainage
ditch to lower and maintain the level of Lake Andes, South Dakota.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioner of
s.k
States
Indian Affairs is hereby authorized and directed to construct a spillway and drainage ditch that will lower and maintain the level of
Lake Andes, South Dakota, to four feet above the present Government meander line, as found at the southwest corner of section four,
in township ninety-six north of range sixty-five west of the fifth
principal meridian, in the State of South Dakota; and there is hereby
authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not
otherwise appropriated, the sum of $50,000, or so much thereof as
may be necessary, for the construction of said spillway and drainage

Full text of Tariff of 1922 (Fordney-McCumber Tariff)

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