ACIDS :

Paints.

Oils and

Acetic or pyroligneous acid, not exceeding sp. gr. b. [2c.] Exceeding sp. gr. of [10c.]

of 1 47-1000, 1c. 1 47-1000, 4c. b.

b. [4c and 5c.] b. [15%.]

Boracic acid, 5c. Chromic acid, 6c. Citric acid, 10c. b.

Sulphuric acid or oil of vitriol, not specially provided for, c. b.

Tannic acid or tannin, 75c. b. [81.]
Tartaric acid, 10c.

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Alcoholic perfumery, including cologne-water and other toilet waters, $2 gall. and 50% ad val.; alcoholic compounds n.s.p., 82 gall. and 25% ad val.

Alumina, alum, alum-cake, patent alum, sulphate of alumina, and aluminous cake, and alum in crystals or ground, 6-10c. Ib.

Ammonia: Carbonate of, 1340 te of, Muriate of, 4c. b. [10%.] Sulphate of, c.

[20%.]

Blacking, all kinds, 25% ad val. Blue vitriol, 2e.b. [3c.]

Bone-char, suitable for use in decolorizing

sugars, 25% ad val.

Borax, crude, or borate of lime, 3c.b; refined borax, 5c. b.

Camphor, refined, 4c. b. [5c.]

Chalk, prepared, precipitated, French and red. 1c. b; all other chalk preparations n.s.p., 20% ad val.

Chloroform, 25c. b. [50c.]

COAL TAR PREPARATIONS:

All coal-tar colors or dies n.s.p., 35% ad val. All preparations of coal-tar, not colors or dyes, n.s. p., 20% ad val.

Dr gs, such as barks, beans, berries, balsams, buds, bulbs, and bulbous roots, and excrescences, such as nut-galls, fruits, flowers, dried fibres, grains, gums and gum resins, herbs, leaves, lichens, mosses, nuts, roots and stems, spices, vegetables, seeds, (aromatic, not garden seeds), and seeds of morbid growth, weeds, woods used expressly for dyeing. and dried insects, any of which are not edible, but which have been advanced in value or condition by process of manufacture, n.s.p., 10% ad val.

Ethers, sulphuric, 40c.b. 15c.] Spirits of nitrous ether, 250. b. [30c] Fruit ethers, oils, or essences, $2.50 b. Ethers of all kinds, n.s.p., $1 tb.

Extracts and decoctions of logwood and dyewoods, extract of sumac, and extracts of barks, used for dyeing or tanning, not provided for, c. b. [10%.1 Extracts of hemlock bark, c.. [20%.] Gelatine, glue, and isinglass or fish-glue, valued at not above 7cb., 1%. [25 to 30%.] Valued at above 7c. 1b, and not above 30c., 25% ad val. [20 to 30%] Valued at above 30c.b, 30% ad val. [20 to 30%.]

Glycerine, crude, not purified, 134c. b. [2c.] Refined, 4c. b. [5c.]

Indigo, extracts or pastes of, 4c. b, [10%.] Carmined, 10c. b. [10%.]

Ink and ink powders, printers' ink, and all other ink n.s. p., 30% ad val.

Iodine, re-sublimed, 30c.
Iodoform, $1.50 b. [$2.]

b. [40c.]

Licorice, extracts of, in paste, rolls, or other forms, 5. b. [3 to 7c.]

Magnesia, carbonate of, medicinal, 4c. b. [5c.] Calcined, 8c. b. [10c.j Epsom salts, 3-10c. b. [1c.]

Morphia, or morphine, and all salts thereof, 50c. oz. [81.] OILS:

Alizarine assistant, or soluble oil, or oleate of soda, or Turkey red oil, containing 50% or more of castor oil, 80c.gall.; containing less than 50% of castor oil, 40c. gall. [25%.] All other, 30% ad val. [25%.]

Opium, aqueous extract of, for medicinal uses, and tincture of, as laudanum, and all other liquid preparations of opium n.s. p., 40% ad val.

Opium containing less than 90% of morphia, and opium prepared for smoking, 812 b. But opium prepared for smoking, and other preparations deposited in bonded warehouses, shall not be removed therefrom without payment of duties, and such duties shall not be refunded.

PAINTS, COLORS AND VARNISHES:

Baryta, sulphate of, or barytes, including barytes earth, unmanufactured, $1.12 ton. [10%.] Manufactured, $6.72 ton. [4cb.1

Blues, such as Berlin, Prussian, Chinese, and all others containing ferrocyanide of iron, dry or ground in or mixed with oil, 6c. b. [20%.] In pulp or mixed with water, 6c. bon material contained therein when dry. [20 to 25%.]

Blanc-fixe, or satin white, or artificial sulphate of barvtes, 4c. b. [25%.1

Black, made from bone, ivory, or vegetable, under whatever name known, including bone-black and lamp-black, dry or ground in oil or water, 25% ad [20 to 25%.]

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Chrome yellow, chrome green, and all other chromium colors in which lead and bichromate of potash or soda are component parts, dry or ground in or mixed with oil, 44c. b. [25%. In pulp or mixed with water, 4%c. b on material contained therein when dry. [25%]

Ocher and ochery earths, sienna and sienna earths, umber and umber earths n.s. D., dry, c. b. [c.j Ground in oil, 1c.

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Ultramarine blue, 4c. b. [5c.]

Varnishes, including gold size or japan, 35% ad val. [40% 1 And on spirit varnishes, for alcohol contained therein, $1.32 gall additional.

Vermilion red, and colors containing quicksilver, dry or ground in oil or water, 12c. b. [25%1 Wash blue, containing ultramarine, 3c. [20%.]

b.

Whiting and Paris white, dry, c. b; ground in oil or putty, 1c. b.

Zinc, oxide of, and white paint containing zinc, but not containing lead, dry, 14c. b; ground in oil, 134c.

All other paints and colors, whether dry or mixed, or ground in water or oil, including lakes, crayons, smalts, and frostings n.s.p., and artists' colors of all kinds, in tubes or otherwise, 25% ad val. All paints and colors, mixed or ground with water or solutions other than oil, and commercially known as artists' water color paints, 30% ad val. [25%.] LEAD PRODUCTS:

Acetate of lead, white, 5c. b. [6c.] Brown, 3c. b. [4c.]

Hydriodate, iodide, and iodate of, 50c. Ib. Nitrate of, or saltpetre, refined, 1c. Prussiate of, red, 10c. b. Yellow, 5c. PREPARATIONS:

All medicinal preparations, including medicinal proprietary preparations, of which alcohol is a component part, or in the preparation of which alcohol is used, n.s.D., 50c. b.

All medicinal preparations, including proprietary preparations, of which alcohol is not a component part, and n.s.p, 25% ad val. Calomel and other mercurial preparations, 35% ad val. [25%.]

Products or preparations known as alkalies, alkaloids, distilled oils, essential oils, expressed oils, rendered oils, and all combinations of the foregoing, and all chemical compounds and salts n.s.p., 25% ad val.

Preparations used as applications to the hair, mouth, teeth, or skin, such as cosmetics, dentifrices, pastes, pomades, powders, and tonics, including all known as toilet preparations, n.s.p., 50 % ad val.

Fire brick, not glazed, enameled, ornamented, or decorated in any manner, $1.25 ton. [20%] Glazed, enameled, ornamented or decorated, 45% ad val. [20%.].

Tiles and brick, other than fire brick, not glazed, ornamented, painted, enameled, vitrified, or decorated, 25% ad val. [20%] Ornamented, glazed, painted, enameled, vitrified, or decorated, and all encaustic, 45% ad val. [60%.]

CEMENT, LIME AND PLASTER:

Roman, Portland, and other hydraulic cement, in barrels, sacks or other packages, Sc. 100 tb, including weight of barrel or package. [20%] In bulk, 7 c. 100 b. [20%.1 Other cement, 20% ad val.

Lime, 6c. 100 b, including weight of barrel or package. [10%.]

Plaster of Paris, or gypsum, ground, $1 [20%.] Calcined, $1.75

CLAYS OR EARTHS:

ton. [20.%]

ton.

Clays or earths, unwrought or unmanufactured, n.s. p., $1.50 ton; wrought or manufactured, n.s.p., $3 ton; china clay, or kaolin, $3 ton, [$3.]

EARTHENWARE AND CHINA:

Common brown earthenware, common stoneware, and crucibles, not ornamented or decorated, 25% ad val.

China, porcelain, parian, bisque, earthen, stone, and crockery ware, including plaques, ornaments, toys, charms, vases, and statuettes, painted, tinted, stained, enameled, printed, gilded, or otherwise decorated or ornamented, 60% ad val.; if plain white, and not ornamented or decorated in any manner, 55% ad val.

All other china, porcelain, parian, bisque, earthen, stone, and crockery ware, and manufactures of the same, by whatsoever designation or name known in the trade, including lava tips for burners, n.s.D., if ornamented or decorated, 60% ad val.; if not ornamented or decorated, 55% ad val.

Gas-retorts, $3 each. [25%.]

GLASS AND GLASSWARE:

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Green and colored, molded or pressed, and flint and lime, glass bottles, holding more than one pint, and demijohns and carboys (covered and covered), and other molded or pressed green and colored, and flint or lime bottle glassware, n s.p., 1c. b. Green and colored, molded or pressed, and flint and lime glass bottles and vials, holding not more than 1 pint and not less than 4 pint, 1c. b. [1c.] If holding less than 4 pint, 50c. gross. [1c. b.]

All articles enumerated in the preceding paragraph, if filled, and n.s.p., and the contents are subject to an ad val. rate of duty, or to a rate of duty based upon the value, the value of such bottles, vials or other vessels shall be added to the value of the contents for the ascertainment of the dutiable value of the latter; but if filled, and n.s.p., and the contents are not subject to an ad val. rate of duty, or to rate of duty based on the value, or are free of duty, such bottles, vials, or other vessels shall pay, in addition to the duty, if any, on their contents, the rates of duty prescribed in the preceding paragraph. Provided, That no article manufactured from glass shall pay a less rate of duty than 40% ad val. 1300

Flint and lime, pressed glassware, not cut, engraved, painted, etched, decorated, colored, printed, stained, silvered or gilded, 60% ad val. [40% ]

All articles of glass, cut, engraved, painted, colored, printed, stained, decorated, silvered or gilded, not including plate-glass silvered, or lookingglass plates, 60% ad val. [45%;]

Chemical glassware for use in laboratory, and n.s.p., 45% ad val.

Thin blown glass, blown with or without a mold, including glass chimneys and all other manufactures of glass, or of which glass shall be the component material of chief value, n.s.p.. 60% ad val. [45%.]

Heavy blown glass, blown with or without a mold, not cut or decorated, finished or unfinished, 60% ad val. [45%.]

Porcelain or opal glassware, 60% ad val. [45%] All cut, engraved, painted, or otherwise ornamented or decorated glass bottles, decanters, or other vessels of glass shall, if filled, pay duty in addition to any duty chargeable on the contents, as if not filled, unless otherwise specially provided for.

Unpolished cylinder, crown, and common windowglass, not exceeding 10x15 in. sq., 13%c. b; above, and not exceeding 16x24 in. sq., 1c.; above. and not exceeding 24x30 in. sq., 23%c. b; above, and not exceeding 24x36 in. sq., 2c. b; all above, 3c.: Provided, That unpolished cylinder, crown, and common window-glass, imported in boxes, shall contain 50 sq. ft, as nearly as sizes will permit, and duty shall be computed thereon according to actual weight of glass.

Cylinder and crown glass, polished, not exceeding 16x24 in. sq., 4c. sq. ft.: above, and not exceeding 24x30 in sq., 6c. sq. ft.; above, and not exceeding 24x60 in. sq., 20c. ☎ sq. ft.; above, 40c. sq, ft. [20c.]

Fluted, rolled, or rough plate-glass, not including crown, cylinder, or common window-glass, not exceeding 10x15 in. sq., 34c. sq. ft.; above, and not exceeding 16x24 in. sq., 1c. sq. ft.; above, and not exceeding 24x30 in. sq., 1c. sq. ft.; all above, 2c. sq. ft.; and all fluted, rolled, or rough plate-glass, weighing over 100 100 sq. ft., shall pay an additional duty on the excess at the same rates: Provided, That all of the above plateglass when ground, smoothed, or otherwise obscured shall be subject to the same rate of duty as cast polished plate-glass, unsilvered.

Cast polished plate-glass, finished or unfinished and unsilvered, not exceeding 16x24 in. sq.., 5c. sq. ft. above, and not exceeding 24x30 in. sq., 8c. sq. ft.; above, and not exceeding 24x60 in. sq., 25c. sq. ft.; all above, 50c. sq. ft.

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Cast polished plate-glass, silvered, and lookingglass plates, not exceeding 16x24 in. sq., 6c. ft.; above, and not exceeding 24x30 in. sq., 10c. sq. ft.; above, and not exceeding 24x60 in. sq., 35c. sq. ft.; all above, 60c. sq. ft.

But no looking-glass plates, or plate-glass silvered, wheu framed, shall pay a less rate of duty than that imposed upon similar glass of like description not framed. Lut shall pay in addition thereto upon such frames the rate of duty applicable thereto when imported separate.

Cast polished plate-glass, silvered or unsilvered, and cylinder, crown, or common window-glass, when ground, obscured, frosted, sanded, enameled, beveled, etched, embossed, engraved, stained, colored, or otherwise ornamented or decorated, shall be subject to a duty of 10% ad val. in addition to the rates otherwise chargeable.

Spectacles and eyeglasses, or spectacles and eyespectacles glass frames, 60% ad val. [45%. On lenses costing $1.50gross pairs, or less, 60% ad val. [45%]

Spectacle and eyeglass lenses with their edges ground or beveled to fit frames, 60% ad val. [45%

All stained or painted window glass, and stained or painted glass windows. and hand, pocket or table mirrors, not exceeding in size 144 sq. in., with or without frames or cases, of whatever material composed, lenses of glass or pebble, wholly or partly manufactured, and n.s.p., and fusible enamel, 45% ad val.

MARBLE AND STONE, AND MANUFACTURES OF:

Marble of all kinds in block, rough, or squared, 65c. cub. ft.

Veined marble, sawed, dressed or otherwise, including marble slabs and marble paving tiles, $1.10 cub. ft. (but in measurement no slab shall be computed at less than one inch in thickness.) Manufactures of marble n.s.p., 50% ad val.

STONE:

Burr stones manufactured or bound up into millstones, 15% ad val. [20%.1

Freestone, granite, sandstone, limestone, and other building or monumental stone, except marble, unmanufacture or undressed, n.s.p., 11c. cub. ft. [$1 ton.]

Freestone, granite, sandstone, limestone,and other building or monumental stone, except marble, n.s.p., hewn, dressed, or polished, 40% ad val [20%.]

Grindstones, finished or unfinished, $1.75 ton.

SLATE:

Slates, slate chimney-pieces, mantels, slabs for tables, and all other manufactures of slate n.s.p., 30% ad val.

Roofing slates, 25% ad val.

Schedule C.-Metals and Manufac. tures of.

IRON AND STEEL.

Chromate of iron, or chromic ore, 15% ad val. Iron ore, including manganiferous ore, also dross or residuum from burnt pyrites, 75c. ton. Sulphur ore, as pyrites or sulphuret of iron in natural state, containing not more than 3% copper, 75c. ton: Provided, That ore containing more than 2% of copper shall pay, in addition thereto, c. lb for the copper contained therein; Provided, also, That sulphur ore as pyrites or sulphuret of iron in its natural state, containing in excess of 25% of sulphur, shall be free of duty, except on the copper contained therein, as above provided: And provided further That in levying and collecting the duty on iron ore no deduction shall be made from the weight of the ore on account of moisture which may be chemically or physically combined therewith.

Iron in pigs, iron kentledge, spiegeleisen, ferromanganese, ferro-silicon, wrought and cast scrap iron and scrap steel, 3-10c. b; but nothing shall be deemed scrap iron or scrap steel except waste or refuse iron or steel fit only to be re-manufactured.

Bar iron, rolled or hammered, comprising flats not less than 1 in. w., nor less than 3 in. thick, 8-10c.b; round iron not less than 34 in. in diam. eter, and square iron not less than 34 in. sq., 9-10c.

b. [1c.] Flats less than 1 in. w.. or less than 3% in. thick; round iron less than 4 in. and not less than 7-16 in diam.; and square iron less than 4 in. sq., 1c. b. [1 1-10c.]

Round iron in coils or rods, less than 7-16 in. in diam., and bars or shapes of rolled iron, n.s.p., 11-10c.tb. [12-10.] Provided That all iron in slabs, blooms, loops, or other forms less finished than iron in bars, and more advanced than pig iron, except castings, shall be rated as iron in bars, and be subject to a duty of 8-10c. b; and none of the iron above enumerated in this paragraph shall pay a less rate of duty than 35% ad val.: Provided further. That all iron bars, blooms, billets, or sizes or shapes of any kind in the manufacture of which charcoal is used as fuel, shall be subject to a duty of not less than $22 ton.

Beams, girders, joists, angles, channels, car-truck channels, T T, columns and posts, or parts or sections of columns and posts, deck and bulb beams, and building forms, together with all other structural shapes of iron or steel, whether plain or punched, or fitted for use, 9-10c. b. [14c.]

Boiler or other plate iron or steel, except saw plates hereinafter provided for, not thinner than No. 10 wire-gauge, sheared or unsheared, and skelp iron or steel, sheared or rolled in grooves, valued at 1c.b or less, 5-10c. b. [14c.] Valued above 1c. and not above 1 4-10c., 65-100c. b. [14c.] Valued above 1 4-10c. and not above 2c., 8-10c. b. [14c.] Valued above 2c. and not above 3c., 1 1-10c. b. [14c.] Valued above 3c. and not above 3c., 11-10c. b. [14c.] Valued above 3c. and not above 7c., 2c. b. [14c.] Valued above 7c. and not above 10c., 2 8-10cb. [14c.] Valued above 10c. and not above 13c., 3c. b. [14c.] Valued above 13c., 45% ad val. Provided. That all plate iron or steel thinner than No. 10 wire-gauge shall pay duty as iron or steel sheets.

Forgings of iron or steel, or forged iron and steel combined, of whatever shape or stage of manufacture, n s.p, 23-10c. b. [2c.] Provided That no forgings of iron and steel or forgings of iron and steel combined, by whatever process made, shall pay a less rate of duty than 45% ad val.

Hoop or band or scroll or other iron or steel, valued at 3c. tb or less, 8 in. or less in w., and less than in. thick, and not thinner than No. 10 wiregauge, lc. b; thinner than No. 10 wire-gauge, and not thinner than No. 20 wire gauge, 1 1-10c.

b. [1 2-10c.] Thinner than No. 20 wiregauge, 13-10c. b. [1 4-10c.] Provided, That hoop or band iron, or hoop or band steel, cut to length or wholly or partially manufactured into hoops or ties for baling purposes, barrel hoops of iron or steel, and hoop or band iron or hoop or band steel flared, splayed or punched, with or without buckles or fastenings, shall pay 2-10c. b more duty than that imposed on hoop or band iron or steel from which they are made.

Railway-bars made of iron or steel, and railwaybars made in part of steel, T-rails, and punched iron or steel flat rails, 6-10c. b. [7-10c.]

Sheets of iron or steel, common or black, including all iron or steel commercially known as common or black taggers iron or steel, and skelp iron or steel, valued at 3c. b. or less: Thinner than No. 10 and not thinner than No. 20 wire-gauge, 1c. b. [11-10c.] Thinner than No. 20 wire-gauge and not thinner than No. 25 wire-gauge, 1 1-10c. . b, [1 2-10c.] Thinner than No. 25 wire-gauge, 1 4-10c. b. [1] Corrugated or crimped, 1 4-10c. b. [14-108.] Provided, That all common or black sheet iron or sheet steel not thinner than No. 10 wire gauge shall pay duty as plate iron or plate steel.

All iron or steel sheets or plates, and all hoop, band, or scroll iron or steel, excepting what are known commercially as tin plates, terne plates, and taggers tin, and hereinafter provided for, when galvanized or coated with zinc or spelter, or other metals, or any alloy of those metals, shall pay 34c. Ib more duty than the rates imposed by the preceding paragraph upon the corresponding gauges or forms of common or black sheet or taggers iron or steel; and on and after July 1, 1891, all iron or steel sheets or plates or taggers iron 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, terne plates, and taggers tin, shall pay 22-10c. b. [1c.] Provided, That on and after July 1, 1891, manufactures of which tin, tin plates, terne plates, taggers tin, or either of them, are com ponent materials of chief value, and all articles, vessels, or wares manufactured, stamped, or drawn from sheet iron or sheet steel, such materials being the component of chief value, and coated wholly or in part with tin or lead, or a mixture of which these metals or either of them is a component part, shall pay a duty of 55% ad val: Provided further, That on and after October 1, 1897, tin plates and terne plates lighter in weight than 636100 sq. ft. shall be admitted free of duty, unless it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the President (who shall thereupon by proclamation make known the fact) that the aggregate quantity of such plates lighter than 63 b 100 sq. ft produced in the U. S. during either of the six years next preceding June 30, 1897, has equaled one-third the amount of such plates imported and entered for consumption during any fiscal year after the passage of this act, and prior to said October 1, 1897: Provided, That the amount of such plates manufactured into articles exported, and upon which a drawback shall be paid, shall not be included in ascertaining the amount of such importations: And provided further. That the amount or weight of sheet iron or sheet steel manufactured in the U. S. and applied or wrought in the manufacture of articles or wares tinned or terne-plated in the U. S., with weight allowance as sold to manufacturers or others, shall be considered as tin and terne plates produced in the U. S, within the meaning of this act.

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Sheet iron or sheet steel, polished, planished. or glanced, by whatever name designated, 2% Provided. That plate or sheet or taggers iron or steel, by whatever name designated, other than the polished, planished, or glanced herein provided for, which has been pickled or cleaned by acid, or by any other material or process, or which is coldrolled, smoothed only, not polished, shall pay 4c. Ib more duty than corresponding gauges of common or black sheet or taggers iron or steel.

Sheets or plates of iron or steel, or taggers iron or steel, coated with tin or lead, or with a mixture of which these metals or either of them is a component part, by the dipping or any other process, and commercially known as tin plates, terne plates, and taggers tin, lc. b until July 1, 1891.

Steel ingots, cogged ingots, blooms and slabs, by whatever process made; die blocks or blanks; billets and bars and tapered or beveled bars; steamer, crank, and other shafts; shafting; wrist or crank pins; connecting-rods and piston-rods; pressed, sheered, or stamped shapes; saw-plates, wholly or partially manufactured: hammer-molds or swaged steel: gun-barrel molds not in bars; alloys used as substitutes for steel tools; all descriptions and shapes of dry sand, loam, or iron molded steel castings; sheets and plates n.s.p., and steel in all forms and shapes n.s. p.-all of the above valued at 1c. Ib or less 4-10c. b. [45%] Valued above 1c. and not above 1 4-10c., c. th. [45%.] Valued above 14-10c. and not above 18-10c., 8-10cb. [45%.] Valued above 1 8-10c. and not above 22-10c.. 9-10c. b. [45%.] Valued above 2 2-10c., and not above 3c., 12-10c. b. [45%.] Valued above 3c. and not above 4c., 1 6-10c. b. [45%.1 Valued above 4c. and not above 7c., 2cfb. Valued above 7c. and not above 10c., 2 8-10c, lb. [234c.] Valued above 10c. and not above 13c., 3c. b. [34c.] Valued above 13c. and not above 16c., 42-10c. b. [34c.] Valued above 16c., 7c. b. [834.]

WIRE:

Wire rods: Rivet, screw, fence, and other iron or steel wire rods and nail rods, whether round, oval, flat, square, or in any other shape, in coils or otherwise, not smaller than No. 6 wire-gauge, valued at 3c. or less, 6-10c. b; and iron or steel, flat, with longitudinal ribs for the manu acture of fencing, valued at 3c. or less, 6-10c. b: Provided. That iron or steel rods, whether rolled or drawn through dies, smaller than No. 6 wire-gauge, shall be classed and dutiable as wire.

Wire: Wire made of iron or steel, not smaller than No. 10 wire-gauge, 14c. b. [1c.] Smaller than No. 10 and not smaller than No. 16 wire-gauge, 14c.b. [2c.] Smaller than No. 16, and not smaller than No. 26 wire-gauge, 24c. b. [24c.] Smaller than No. 26 wire-gauge, 3c. b. Provided That iron or steel wire covered with cotton, silk, or other material, and wires or strip steel, commonly known as crinoline wire, corset wire, and hat wire, shall pay a duty of 5c. b: And provided further, That flat steel wire, or sheet steel in strips, whether drawn through dies or rolls, untempered or tempered, of whatsoever width, 25-1000 in. thick or thinner, (ready for use or otherwise,) shall pay a duty of 50% ad. val.: And provided further, That no article made from iron or steel wire, or of which iron or stee! wire is a component part of chief value, shall pay a less rate of duty than the iron or steel wire from which it is made either wholly or in part: And provided further, That iron or steel wire cloths, and iron or steel wire nettings made in meshes of any form, shall pay a duty equal in amount to that imposed on iron or steel wire used in the manufacture of iron or steel wire cloth, or iron or steel wire nettings, and 2c. b in addition thereto,

There shall be paid on iron or steel wire coated with zinc or tin or any other metal (except fence wire and iron or steel, flat, with longitudinal ribs, for the manufacture of fencing) c. b in addition to the rate imposed on the wire of which it is made; on iron wire rope and wire strand, 1c. b in addition to the rate imposed on the wire of which is made; on steel wire rope and wire strand, 2c. b in addition to the rate imposed on the wire of which they or either of them are made: Provided further, That all iron or steel wire valued at more than 4c.

b shall pay a duty of not less than 45% ad val., except that card wire for the manufacture of cari clothing shall pay a duty of 35% ad val.

GENERAL PROVISIONS.

No allowance or reduction of duties for partial loss or damage in consequence of rust or of discolorat.on 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 and steel.

All metal produced from iron or its ores, which is cast and malleable, of whatever description or form, without regard to the percentage of car on contained therein, whether produced by cement ttion, or converted, cast, or made from iron or its ores, by the crucible, Bessemer, Clapp-Griffiths, pneumatic, Thomas-Gilchrist, basic, Siemens-Martin, or open-hearth process, or by the equivalent of either, or by a combination of two or more of the processes or their equivalents, or by any fusion or other process which produces from iron or its ores a metal either granular or fibrous in structure, which is cast and malleable, excepting what is known as malleable-iron castings, shall be classed and denominated as steel.

No article n.s.p., wholly or partly manufactured from tin plate, terne plate, or the sheet, plate, hoop, band or scroll iron or steel herein provided for, or of which such tin plate, terne pla'e,, sheet, plate, hoop, band or scroll iron or steel shall be the material or chief value, shall pay a lower rate of duty than that imposed on the tin plate, terne plate, or sheet, plate, hop, band or s roll iron or steel irom which it is made, or of which it shall be the component thereof of chief value.

On all iron or steel bars or rods of whatever shape or section, which are cold rolled, cold hammered, or polished in any way in addition to the ordinary process of hot rollng or hammering, there shall be paid 4c. b in addition to the rates provided in this act; and on all strips, plates, or sheets of ion or steel, of whatever shape, other than the polished, planished, or glanced sheet-iron or sheet-steel hereinbefore provided for, which are cold rolled, cold hammered, blued, brightened, tempered, or polish ed by any process to such perfected surface finish, or polish better than the grade of cold rolled, smooth only, hereinbefore provided for, there shall be paid 14c. in addition to the rates provided in this act upon plates, strips, or sheets of iron or steel of common or black finish; and on steel circular saw-plates there shall be paid 1c. b in addition to the rate provided in this act for steel sawplates.

MANUFACTURES OF IRON AND STEEL.

Anchors, or parts thereof, of iron or steel, mill irons, and mill-cranks of wrought-iron, and wrought-iron for snips, and forgings of iron or steel, or of combined iron and steel, for vessels, steam-engines, and locomotives, or parts thereof, weighing each 25 tb or more, 18-10c. b. [2c.]

Axles, or parts thereof, axle-bars, axle-blanks, or forgings for axles, whether of iron or steel, without reference to the stage or state of manufacture, 2c. b. [2c.] 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.

Anvils of iron or steel, or of iron and steel combined, by whatever process made, or in whatever stage of manufacture, 2c. b. [2c.]

Blacksmiths' hammers and sledges, track tools, wedges, and crow-bars, whether of iron or steel, 24c. b. [2c.]

Boiler or other tubes, pipes, flues, or stays of wrought-iron or steel, 2c. b. [3c.]

Bolts, with or without threads or nuts, or boltblanks, and finished hinges or hinge-blanks, whether of iron or steel, 2c. b. [2c.]

Card clothing, manufactured from tempered steel wire, 50c. sq. ft.; all other, 25c. sq. ft. [45c.] Cast-iron pipe of every description, 9-10c. ib. [1c.]

Cast-iron vessels, plates, stove-plates, andirons. sad-irons, tailors' irons, hatters' irons, and castings of iron n.s.p., 12-10c. b. [1c.] Castings of malleable iron n.s.p., 14c. H. [2] Cast hollow-ware, coated, glazed, or tinned, 3c.

ib.

Chain or chains of all kinds, made of iron or steel, not less than 34 in. in diam., 1 6-10c. b. [134c.] Less than 34 in. and not less than 3 in. in diam., 18-10c. b. [2c.] Less than 3 in. in diam., 2c.

b; but no chain or chains of any description shall pay a lower rate of duty than 45% ad val CUTLERY:

Penknives or pocket-knives of all kinds, or parts thereof, and erasers, or parts thereof, wholly or partly manufactured, valued at not more than 50c.

doz., 12c doz 150% ad val.] Valued at more than 50c, doz. and not exceeding $1.50 doz., 50c. doz. [50% ad val] Valued at more than $1.50 doz. and not exceeding $3 doz., $1 doz. [50% ad val.] Valued at more than $3 doz., $2 doz. (50%. And in addition thereto on all the above, 50% ad val. Razors and razor-blades, finished or unfinished, valued at less than $4 doz., $1 doz. [50% ad val.] Valued at $4 or more doz., $1.75 doz. [50% ad val.] And in addition thereto on all the acove razors and razor-blades, 30% ad val.

Swords, sword-blades, and side-arms, 35% ad val. Table-knives, forks, steels, and all butchers, hunting, kitchen, bread, butter, vegetables, fruit, cheese, plumbers', painters', palette, and artists' knives of all sizes, finished or unfinished, valued at not more than $1 doz. pieces, 10c. doz. [35%] Valued at more than $1 and not more than $2, 35c. doz. [35%] Valued at more than $2 and not more than $3, 40c. doz. [35%.] Valued at more than $3 and not more than $8, $1 doz. [35%] Valued at more than $8, $2 doz. [35%. And in addition upon all the above named articles, 30% ad val. Ali carving and cooks' knives and forks of all sizes, finished or unfinished, valued at not more than $4

doz pieces, 81 doz. [35%.] Valued at more than $4 and not more than $8, 82 doz. pieces. [35%. Valued at more than $8 and not more than $12, $3 doz, pieces. [35] Valued at more than $12, $5 doz. pieces. [35%.] And in addition upon all the above named articles, 30% ad val.

Files, file-blanks, rasps, and floats, of all cuts and kinds, 4 in. 1, and under, 35c. doz. ; over 4 in. 1, and under 9 in,, 75c. doz; 9 in. 1, and under 14 in., $1.30 doz. [$1.50.] Fourteen in. 1, and over, $2 doz. [$2.50,] FIRE-ARMS:

Muskets and sporting rifles, 25% ad val.

All double-barreled, sporting, breech-loading shotguns valued at not more than $6 each, $1.50 each. [35%.] Valued at more than $6 and not more than $12 each, $4 each. [35%.] Valued at more than $12 each, $6 each. [35%. And in addition thereto on all the above, 35% ad val. Single-barrel breech-loading shotguns, $1 each and 35% ad val. [35%.] Revolving pistols valued at not more than $1.50 each, 40c. each. [35%. Valued at more than $1.50, $1 each. [35%. And in addition thereto on all the above pistols, 35% ad

val.

Iron or steel sheets, plates, wares, or articles, enameled or glazed, with vitreous glasses, 45% ad

val.

Iron or steel sheets, plates, wares, or articles, enameled or glazed, as above, with more than one color, or ornamented, 50% ad val. [45%.] NAILS, SPIKES, TACKS, AND NEEDLES:

Out nails and cut spikes of iron or steel, 1c. b. [14c.]

Horseshoe nails, hob nails, and all other wrought iron or steel nails n.s.p.. 4c. ib.

Wire nails made of wrought iron or steel, 2 in. 1, and longer, not lighter than No. 12 wire-gauge, 2c.

b. [4c. From 1 in. to 2 in. 1, and lighter than No. 12 and not lighter than No. 16 wire-gauge, 2c. b. [4c.] Shorter than 1 in. and lighter than No. 16 wire-gauge, 4c. ib.

Spikes, nuts, and washers, and horse, mule, or ox shoes, of wrought iron or steel, 1 8-10c. b. [2c.] Cut tacks, brads, or sprigs, not exceeding 16 oz. to the 1,000, 24c. 1,000. [2c.] Exceeding 16 oz. to the 1,000, 23⁄4c. b. [3c.]

Needles for knitting or sewing-machines, crochetneedles aad tape-needles and bodkins of metal, 35% ad val. (25% to 35%)

Needles, knitting, and all other n.s.p., 25% ad val.

PLATES:

Steel plates engraved, stereotype plates, electrotype plates, and plates of other materials, engraved or lithographed, for printing, 25% ad val.

Railway fish-plates or splice-bars, made of iron or steel, 1cb. [14c.],

Rivets of iron or steel, 2c. ib. SAWS:

Cross-cut saws, 8c. lin. ft,; mill, pit, and dragsaws, not over 9 in. w., 10c. lin. ft. over 9 in. w., 15c. lin. ft.; circular saws, 30% ad val.; hand, back, and all other saws n.s.p., 40% ad val. Screws, commonly called wood-screws, more than 2 in. in 1,5c. b. [6c.] Over 1 in. and not more than 2 in. in 1, 7c. b. [8c.] Over in. and not more than 1 in. in 1,10c. b; in. and less in 1, 14c. b. [12c.]

Wheels, or parts thereof, made of iron or steel, and steel-tired wheels for railway purposes, whether wholly or partly finished, and iron or steel locomotive, car, or other railway tires or parts thereof, wholly or partly manufactured, 2c. b; and ingots, cogged ingots, blooms, or blanks for the same, without regard to the degree of manufacture, 14c. b. [2c.] Trovided. That when wheels or parts thereof, of iron or steel, are imported with iron or steel axles fitted in them, wheels and axles together shall be dutiable at the same rate as is provided for wheels when imported separately. MISCELLANEOUS METALS AND MANUFACTURES OF. Aluminium or aluminum, in crude form, alloys of any kind in which aluminium is the component material of chief value, 15c. b. [Formerly free.]

Antimony, as regulus or metal, 4c. b. [10%.] Argentine, albata, or German silver, unmanufactured, 25% ad val.

Brass, in bars or pigs, old brass, clippings from brass or Dutch metal, and old sheathing or yellow metal, fit only for re-manufacture, 1c. b. Bronze powder, 12c. b. [15%.] Bronze or Dutch metal, or aluminium, in leaf, 8c. of 100 leaves. [10%.]

COPPER:

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Copper imported in the form of ores, c. b on each pound of fine copper contained therein. [2c.] Old copper, fit only for re-manufacture, clippings from new copper, and all composition metal of which copper is the component material of chief value n.s.p., 1c. b. [3c.]

Regulus of copper and black or coarse copper, and copper cement, 1c. b on each pound of fine copper contained therein. [3c.]

Copper in plates, bars, ingots, Chili or other pigs, and in other forms, not manufactured, n.s. p., 14c. b. [4c.]

Copper in rolled plates, called braziers' copper, sheets, rods, pipes and copper bottoms, also sheathing or yellow metal of which copper is the compo nent material of chief value, and not composed wholly or in part of iron ungalvanized, 35% ad val. GOLD AND SILVER:

Bullions and metal thread of gold, silver, or other leaves. [$1.50.] Silver leaf, 75c. package of 500 leaves.

metals n.s p. 30% ad val. 125 leaves.

Gold leaf, 82 package of

Pen holder tips, pen holders or parts thereof, and gold pens, 30% ad val.

Pins, metallic, solid head or other, including hair pins, safety pins, and hat, bonnet, shawl, and belt pins, 30% ad val.

Quicksilver, 10c.

b. The flasks, bottles, or other vessels in which quicksilver is imported shall be subject to the same rate of duty as if imported empty.

Type metal, 1c. b for the lead contained therein. [20.1 New types, 25% ad val.

Tin: On and after July 1, 1893, there shall be imposed and paid upon cassiterite or black oxide of tin, and upon bar, block, and pig tin, a duty of 4c.

b. [Formerly free.] Provided. That unless it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the Presi dent of the U. S. (who shall make known the fact by proclamation) that the product of the mines of the U. S. shall have exceeded 5,000 tons of cassiterite, and bar, block, and pig tin in any one year prior to July 1, 1895, then all imported cassiterite, bar, block, and pig tin shall, after July 1, 1895, be admitted free of duty.

Timber, hewn and sawed, and timber used for spars and in building wharves, 10% ad val. [20% Timber, squared or sided, n sp, c. cub. ft. [1c. Sawed boards, plank, deals, and other lumber of hemlock, white wood, sycamore, white pine, and basswood, $11,000 ft. board measure; sawed lumber n s p, $21,000 ft. board measure; but when lumber of any sort is planed or finished, in addition to the rates herein provided there shall be paid for each side so planed or finished 50c. 1,000 ft. board measure; and if planed on one side and tongued and grooved, $11,000 ft. board measure; and if planed on two sides and tongued and grooved, $1.50 1,000 ft. board measure; and in estimating board measure under this schedule no deduction shail be made on account of planing, tonguing and grooving: Provide 1. That in case any foreign country shall impose an export duty upen pine, spruce, elm, or other logs, or upon stave bolts, shingle wood, or heading blocks exported to the U. S. from such country, then the duty upon the sawed lumber herein provided for, when imported from such country, shall remain the same as fixed by the law in force prior to the passage of this act.

Cedar: That on and after March 1, 1891, paving posts, railroad ties, and telephone and telegraph poles of cedar shall be dutiable at 20% ad val. [Formerly free.]

Sawed boards, plank, deals, and all forms of sawed cedar, lignumvitæ, lancewood, ebony, box, granadilla, mahogany, rosewood, satinwood, and all other cabinet-woods not further manufactured than sawed, 15% ad val. [$21,000.] Veneers of wood, and wood, unmanufactured, n.s.p.. 20% ad val. [35%]

Pine clapboards, $11,000.
Spruce clapboards. $1.50

1,000.

Hubs for wheels, posts, last-blocks, wagon-blocks, oar-blocks, gun-blocks, heading-blocks, and all like blocks or sticks, rough-hewn or sawed only, 20% ad

val.

Laths, 15c 1,000 pieces.

Pickets and palings, 10% ad val. [20%.1 White pine shingles, 20c.

30c. 1.000. [35c.]

1,000; all others,

Staves of wood of all kinds, 10% ad val.