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silk, 30% ad val.; spun silk in skeins or cops or on beams, 35% ad val. [30%.]

exclusive of selvedges, less than 7501 ContainVelvets, plushes, or other pile fabrics, containing, in weight of silk, 81.50 lb and 15% ad val.

ing, exclusive of selvedges, 75% or more in weight of silk, $350 tb and 15% ad val. [50%.] But in no case shall any of the foregoing articles pay a less rate of duty than 50% ad val.

Webbings, gorings, suspenders, braces, beltings, bindings, braids, galloons, fringes, cords, and tassels, any of foregoing which are elastic or nonelastic, buttons, and ornaments, made of silk, or of which silk is component material of chief value, 50% ad val.

Laces and embroideries, handkerchiefs, neck rufflings and ruchings, clothing ready made, and articles of wearing apparel of every des ript on, including knit goods, made up or manufactured wholly or in part by tailor, seamstress, or manufacturer, composed of silk, or of which silk is com ponent material of chief value, nsp, 60% ad val Provided, That all such clothing ready-made and articles of wearing apparel when composed in part of India-rubber (not including gloves or elastic articles specially provided for) shall be subject to a duty of 8c. oz., and in addition thereto 60% ad val. [50%.]

All manufactures of silk, or of which silk is com ponent material of chief value, n s.p, 50% ad val: Provided That all such manufactures of which wool, or hair of camel, goat, or other like animals is a component material, shall be classified as manufac tures of wool.

Schedule M.-Pulp, Papers, and
Books.

PULP AND PAPER:

Mechanically ground wood pulp, 82 50 ton, dry weight. [10%.] Chemical wood pulp unbleached, $6 ton, dry weight. [10%.] Bleached, $7 dry weight. [10%.]

Sheathing paper, 10% ad val.

ton,

Printing paper, unsized, suitable only for books and newspapers, 15% ad val.

Printing paper, sized or glued, suitable only for books and newspapers, 20% ad val.

Papers known commercially as copying paper, filtering paper, silver paper, and all tissue paper, white or colored, made up in copying-books, reams, or in any other form, 8c. 8b, and in addition thereto 15% aival. [25%.1 Albumenized or sensitized paper, 35% ad val. [25%.]

Papers known commercially as surface-coated papers, and manufactures thereof, card-boards, lithographic prints from either stone or zinc, bound or unbound (except illustrations when forming a part of a periodical, newspaper, or in printed books accompanying same), and all articles produced either in whole or in part by lith graphic process, and photograph, autograph, and scrap albums, wholly or partially manufactured, 35% ad val. [15% to 50%.]

MANUFACTURES OF PAPER:

Paper envelopes, 25c.

1,000.

Paper hangings and paper for screens or fireboards, writing-paper, drawing-paper, and all other paper n.s.p., 25% ad val,

Books, including blank-books of all kinds, pamphlets, and engravings, bound or unbound, photographs. etchings, mans, charts, and all printed matter n.s.p., 25% ad val.

Playing cards, 50c. pack. [100%.] Manufactures of paper, or of which paper is component material of chief value, n.s.p., 25% ad val. (15%)

Schedule N.-Sundries.

Bristles, 10c. b. [15c.]

Brushes and brooms of all kinds, including feather dusters and hair pencils in quills, 40% ad val. [25% to 30%.]

BUTTONS AND BUTTON FORMS:

Button forms: Lastings, mohair, cloth, silk, or other manufactures of cloth, woven or made in patterns of such size, shape or form, or cut in such manner as to be fit for buttons exclusively, 10% ad val.

Buttons commercially known as agate buttons, 25% ad val. Pearl and shell buttons, 2c. line button measure of 1-40 in. gross, and in addition thereto 25% ad val. [25%.]

Ivory, vegetable ivory, bone or horn buttons, 50% ad val. [25%.]

Shoe-buttons, made of paper, board, papier-mache, pulp, or other similar material, n.s p., valued at not exceeding 3c. gross, 1c. gross. [25%.]

Ooal, bituminous, and shale, 75c. ton of 28 bush., 80 fb to bush.; coal slack or culm, such as will pass through in. screen, 30c. ton of 28 bush., 80 lb to busk.

Coke, 20% ad val.

Cork bark, cut into squares or cubes, 10c. b. [25%.]

Dice, draughts, chess-men; chess-balls, and billiard, pool and bagatelle balls, of ivory, bone, cr other materials, 50% ad val.

Dolls, doll-heads, toy marbles of whatever material composed, and all other toys not composed of rubber, china, porcelain, parian, bisque, earthen, or stoneware, n.s p., 25% ad val.

Emery grains, and emery manufactured, ground, pulverized or refined, lc.

EXPLOSIVE SUBSTANCES:

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Firecrackers of all kinds, 8c. Tb. [100%.] But no allowance shall be made for tare or damage thereon.

Fulminates, fulminating articles, n.s.p., 30% ad val.

powders, and like

Gunpowder and all explosive substances used for mining, blasting, artillery, or sporting purposes when valued at 20c. or less b, c. b. [6c.] Valued above 20c., 8c., [10c.]

Matches, friction or lucifer, of all descriptions, perros of 144 boxes, containing not more than 100 matches, box, 10c. gross. [35%.]. When imported otherwise than in boxes containing not more than 100 matches each, 1c. 1,000 matches. [35%.]

Percussion-caps, 40% ad val,

Feathers and downs of all kinds, crude or not dressed, colonel, or manufactured, n s.p., 10% ad val. [25]. When dressed, colored, or manufactured, including quilts of down and other manufactures of down, and also including dressed and fin shed birds suitable for millinery ornaments, and artificial and ornamental feathers and flowers, or parts thereof, of whatever material composed, n.s.p., 50 ad val.

Furs, dressed on skin but not made up into articles, and furs not on skin, prepared for hatters' use, 20% ad val.

Glass beads, loose, unthreaded or unstrung, 10% ad val. [50%).

Gun-wads, of all descriptions, 35% ad val.

Hair, human, if clean or drawn but not manufactured, 20% ad val. [30.].

Hair-cloth, known as crinoline-cloth," 8c. sq. yd. [30%.]

Hair-clo.h, known as "hair-seating," 30c.

sq.

yd. Hair, curled, suitable for beds or mattresses, 15% ad val. [25%.]

Hats for men's, women's, and children's wear, composed of fur of rabbit, beaver, or other animals, or of which such fur is com ponent material of chier value, wholly or partially manufactured, including fur hat bodies, 55% ad val. [30%.] JEWELRY AND PRECIOUS STONES:

Jewelry: All articles n.s.p., composed of precious metals or imitations thereof, whether set with coral, jets, or pearls, or with diamonds, rubies, cameos, or other precious stones, or imitations thereof, or otherwise, and which shall be known commercially as "jewelry," and cameos in frames, 50% ad val. [25%

Pearls, 10% ad val.

Precious stones of all kinds, cut but not set, 10% ad val.; if set, and n.s.p., 25% ad val. Imitations of precious stones composed of paste or glass not exceeding 1 in. in dimensions, not set, 10% ad val.

LEATHER AND MANUFACTURES OF:

Band or belting leather and sole leather, and leather n.s.p., 10% ad val. [15%.]

Calf-skins, tauned, or tanned and dressed, dressed upper leather, including patent, enameled, and japanned leather, dressed or undressed, and finished; chamois or other skins n.s.p.. 20% ad val; book-binders' calf-skins, kangaroo, sheep, and goatskins, including lamb and kid skins, dressed and finished, 20% ad val,; skins for morocco, tanned but unfinished, 10% ad val.; piano-forte leather and piano-forte action leather, 35% ad val, [30%,] Japanned calf-skins, 30% ad val.; boots and shoes, made of leather, 25% ad val. [30%.]

But leather cut into shoe uppers or vamps, or other forms, suitable for conversion into manufactured articles, shall be classified as manufactures of leather, and pay duty accordingly.

Gloves of all descriptions, composed wholly or in part of kid or other leather, and whether wholly or partly manufactured, shall pay duty at rates fixed in connection with following specified kinds thereo, 14 in. in extreme 1. when stretched to full extent, being in each case hereby fixed as standard, and 1 doz. pairs as basis, viz.: Ladies' and children's schmaschen of said length or under, 81.75 Ladies' and children's lamb of said

doz. [50 2.25 doz. [50%.] Ladies' and

length or

THE NEW TARIFF children's kid of said length or under, $3.25 doz. [50%.] Ladies' and children's suedes of said length or under, 50% ad val.; all other ladies and children's leather goves, and all men's leather gloves of said length or under, 50% ad val.; all leather gloves over 14 in. 1., 50% ad val.; and in addition to above rates there shall be paid on all men's gloves $1 doz.; on all lined gloves $1 doz.; on all pique or prick seam gloves, 50c. doz.; on all embroidered gloves, with more than 3 single strands or cords, 50c, doz. pairs: Provided, That all gloves represented to be of a kind or grade below their actual kind or grade shall pay an additional duty of 85 doz. pairs: Provided further, That no articles named in this paragraph shall pay a less rate of duty than 50% ad val.

MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURES:

Manufactures of alabaster, amber, asbestos, bladders, coral, cat-gut, or whip-gut or worm-gut, jet. paste, spar, wax, or of which these substances or either of them is component material of chief value, n.s.p., 25% ad val. [10% to 25%.] Osier or willow prepared for basket-makers' use, 30% ad val. [25% Manufactures of osier or willow, 40% ad val. [30%.]

Manufactures of bone, chip, grass, horn, Indiarubber, palm-leaf, straw, weeds, or whalebone, or of which these substances or either of them is component material of chief value, n.s.p., 30% ad val.

Manufactures of leather, fur, gutta-percha, vulcanized India-rubber, known as hard rubber, human hair, papier-mache, in durated fiber wares, and other manufactures composed of wood or other pulp, or of which these substances or either of them is component material of chief value, all of the above n.s.p., 35% ad val. [30% to 45%.]

Manufactures of ivory, vegetable ivory, mother-ofpearl, and shell, or of which these substances or either of them is the component material of chief value, n.s.p., 40% ad val. [25% and 30%.]

Masks, composed of paper or pulp, 35% ad val. Matting made of cocoa-fiber or rattan, 12c. sq. yd. [20%1 Mats made of cocoa-fiber or rattan, 8c. sq. ft. [20%.]

Paintings, in oil or water colors, and statuary, ns.p.15% ad val. [30%. But the term "statuary" as herein used shall be understood to include only sich statuary as is cut, carved, or otherwise wrought by hand from a solid block or mass of marble, stone, or alabaster, or from metal, and as is the professional production of a statuary or sculptor only.

Pencils of wood filled with lead or other material, and pencils of lead, 50c. gross and 30% ad val, [50c. and 30%.1 Slate-pencils, 4c. gross.

(30%.1

Pencil-leads not in wood, 10% ad val. [50c. and 30%.]

PIPES AND SMOKERS' ARTICLES:

Pipes, pipe bowls, of all materials, and all smokers' articles whatsoever n s p, including cigarette-books, cigarette-book covers, pouches for smoking or chewing tobacco, and cigarette-paper in all forms, 70% ad val.; all common tobacco pipes of clay, 15c. gross. [35%.]

Plush, black, known commercially as hatters' plush, composed of silk, or of silk and cotton, and used exclusively for making men's hats, 10% ad val. [25%.]

Umi rellas, parasols, and sun-shades covere i with silk or alpaca, 55% ad val. [50%] If covered with other material 45% ad val. [40%.]

Umbrellas, parasols, and sun-shades, sticks for, if plain, finished or unfinished, 35% ad val. [30%.1 If carved, 50% ad val. [30%.j

Waste n.s. p., 10% ad val.

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authenticated by proper custodian of such book of record, together with affidavit of owner, agent, or importer that such animal is identical animal described in said certificate of record and pedigree. The Secretary of Treasury may prescribe such alditional regulations as may be required for strict enforcement of this provision.

Animals brought into U. S. temporarily for a period not exceeding six months, for purpose of exhibition or competition for prizes offered by any agricultural or racing association; but a bond shall be given in accordance with regulations prescribed by Secretary of Treasury; also, teams of animals, including harness and tackle and wagons or other vehicles actually owned by persons emigrating from foreign countries to U. S. with their families, and in actual use for purpose of such emigration under such regulations as Secretary of Treasury may prescribe; and wild animals intended for exhibition in zoological collections for scientific and educational purposes, and not for sale or profit.

of.

Annatto, roucou, rocoa, or orleans, and all extracts

Antimony ore, crude sulphite of.
Apatite.

Argal, or argol, or crude tartar.
Arrow-root, raw or unmanufactured.
Arsenic and sulphite of, or orpiment.
Arseniate of aniline.

Art educational stops, composed of glass and metal and valued at not more than 6c. gross. Articles in a crude state used in dyeing or tanning

n.s.p.

Articles the growth, produce, and manufacture of U. S., when returned after having been exported, without having been advanced in value or improved in condition by any process of manufacture or other means; casks, barrels, carboys, bags, and other vessels of American manufacture exported filled with American products, or exported empty and returned filled with foreign products, including shooks when returned as barrels or boxes; also quicksilver flasks or bottles, of either domestic or foreign manufacture, which shall have been actually exported from U. S.; but proof of identity of such articles shall be made, under general regulations to be prescribed by Secretary of Treasury; and if any such articles are subject to internal tax at time of exportation, such tax shall be proved to have been paid before exportation and not refunded: Provided, That this paragraph shall not apply to any article upon which an allowance of drawback has been made, the re-importation of which is hereby prohibited except upon payment of duties equal to drawbacks allowed; or to any article manufactured in bonded warehouse and exported under any provision of law: And provided further, That when manufactured tobaoco which has been exported without payment or internal revenue tax shall be re-imported it shall be retained in custody of collector of customs until internal revenue stamps in payment of legal duties shall be placed thereon.

Asbestos, unmanufactured.

Ashes, wood and lye of, and beet-root ashes.
Asphaltum and bitumen, crude.

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Bologna sausages.

Bolting-cloths, especially for milling purposes, but not suitable for manufacture of wearing apparel.

Bones, crude, or not burned, calcined, ground, steamed, or otherwise manufactured, and bone-dust or animal carbon, and bone-ash, fit only for fertilizing purposes.

Books, engravings, photographs, bound or unbound etchings, maps, and charts, which shall have been printed and bound or manufactured more than 20 yrs. at date of importation.

Books and pamphlets printed exclusively in languages other than English; also books and music, in raised print, used exclusively by the blind.

Books, engravings, photographs, etchings, bound or unbound, maps and charts imported by authority or for use of U. S. or for use of Library of Con

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Books, maps, lithographic prints, and charts, specially imported, not more than two copies in any one invoice, in good faith, for use of any society incorporated or established for educational philosophical, literary, or religous purposes, or for encouragement of fine arts, or for use or by order of any college, academy, school, or seminary of learning in U. S., subject to such regulations as Secre tary of Treasury shall prescribe.

Books, or libraries, or parts of libraries, and other household effects of persons or families from foreign countries, if actually used abroad by them not less than 1 yr., and not intended for any other person or persons, not for sale.

Brazil paste.

Braids, plaits, laces, and similar manufactures composed of straw, chip, grass, palm leaf, willow, osier, or rattan, suitable for making or ornamenting hats, bonnets and hoods.

Brazilian pebble, unwrought or unmanufactured.
Breccia, in block or slabs.
Bromine.

Bullion, gold or silver. Burgundy pitch.

Cabinets of old coins and medals, and other collections of antiquities, but the term "antiquities," as used in this act, shall include only such articles as are suitable for souvenirs or cabinet collections, and which shall have been produced at any period prior to the year 1700.

Cadmium.

Calamine.

Camphor, crude.

Castor, or castoreum.

Cat-gut, whip-gut, or worm-gut, unmanufactured, or not further manufact'd than in strings or cords. Cerium; chalk, unmanufactured; charcoal; chicory root, raw, dried, or undried, but unground; civet, crude; clay, common blue clay in casks suitable for the manufacture of crucibles; coal, anthracite; coal stores of American vessels, but none shall be unloaded; coal tar, crude, cobalt and cobalt ore; cocculus indicus; cochineal: cocoa, or cacao, crude, and fiber, leaves, and shells of; coffee; coins, gold, silver, and copper; coir, and coir yarn; copper, old, taken from bottom of American vessels compelled by marine disaster to repair in foreign ports; coral, marine, uncut, and unmanufactured; cork wood, or cork bark, unmanufactured; cotton, and cotton waste or flocks; cryolite, or kryolith; cudbear; curling stones, or quoits, and curling stone handles; curry and curry powder; cutch; cuttle-fish bone; dandelion roots, raw, dried, or undried, but unground; diamonds and other precious stones, rough or uncut, including glaziers' and engravers' diamonds not set, and diamond dust or bort, and jewels to be used in manufacture of watches; divi-divi; dragon's blood.

Drugs, such as barks, beans, berries, balsams, buds, bulbs, and bulbous roots, excrescences such as nut galls, fruits, flowers, dried fibers, and dried insects, grains, gums, and gum resin, herbs, leaves, lichens, mosses, nuts, roots, and stems, spices, vegetables, seeds aromatic, and seeds of morbid growth, weeds and woods used expressly for dyeing; any of foregoing which are not edible and are in a crude state, and not advanced in value or condition by refining or grinding, or by other process of manufacture, and n.s.p.

Eggs of birds, fish, and insects; emery ore; ergot; fans, common palm leaf and palm leaf unmanufactured; farina; fashion plates, engraved on steel or copper or on wood, colored or plain; feathers and downs for beds; feldspar.

Felt, adhesive, for sheathing vessels.
Fibrine, in all forms.

Fish, product of American fisheries, and fresh or frozen fish (except salmon) caught in fresh waters by American vessels, or with nets or other devices owned by citizens of U. S.

Fish for bait.

Fish skins.

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Currants, Zante or other; dates: fruits, green, ripe, or dried, n.s.p.: tamarinds; cocoanuts; Brazil nuts; cream nuts; palm nuts: palm nut kernels; furs, undressed; fur skins of all kinds not dressed in any manner; gambier; glass, broken, and old glass, which cannot be cut for use, and fit only to be re-manufactured.

Glass plates or disks, rough cut or unwrought, for use in manufacture of optical instruments, spectacles, and eyeglasses, and suitable only for such use: Provided, however, That such disks exceeding 8 in, in

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Gutta-percha, crude.

Hair of horse, cattle, and other animals, cleaned or uncleaned, drawn or undrawn, but unmanufactured, n.s.p.; and human hair, raw, uncleaned and not drawn.

Hides, raw or uncured, whether dry, salted, or pickled, Angora goat skins, raw without the wool, unmanufactured asses' skins, raw or unmanufactured, and skins, except sheep skins with wool on. Hide cuttings, raw, with or without hair, and all other glue stock.

Hide rope; hones and wheatstones; hoofs, unmanufactured; hop roots for cultivation; horns and parts of, unmanufactured, including horn strips and tips.

Ice.

India-rubber, crude, and milk of, and old scrap or refuse India-rubber which has been worn out by use and is fit only for re-manufacture.

Indigo; iodine, crude; ipecac; iridium.

Ivory and vegetable ivory, not sawed, cut, or otherwise manufactured.

Jalap: jet unmanufactured: joss-stick, or josslight; junk, old: kelp: kieserite; kyanite, or cyanite, and kainite; lac dye, crude, seed, button, stick, and shell; lac spirits; lactarine: lava, unmanufactured; leeches; lemon-juice, lime-juice, and sourorange juice: licorice-root, unground.

Life-boats and life-saving apparatus especially imported by societies incorporated or established to encourage saving human life.

Lime, citrate of; lime, chloride of, or bleaching powder: lithographic stones not engraved; litmus, prepared or not prepared; loadstones.

Madder and munjeet, or Indian madder, ground or prepared, and all extracts of.

Magnesite, or native mineral carbonate of magnesia; magnesium; magnets; manganese, oxide and ore of, manna; manuscripts; marrow, crude; marsh-mallows. Medals of gold, silver, or copper, such as trophies or prizes.

Meerschaum, crude or unmanufactured.
Mineral waters, all not artificial.

Minerals, crude, or not advanced in value or condition by refining or grinding, or by other process of manufacture n.s.p.

Models of inventions and of other improvements in the arts, including patterns for machinery, but no article shall be deemed a model or pattern which can be fitted for use otherwise.

Moss, sea-weeds, and vegetable substances, crude or unmanufactured, not otherwise specially provided for.

Musk, crude, in natural pods.
Myrobolan.

Needles, hand-sewing and darning.

Newspapers and periodicals; but the term " periodicals" as herein used shall be understood to embrace only unbound or paper-covered publications, containing current literature of the day and issued regularly at stated periods, as weekly, monthly, or quarterly.

Nux vomica; oakum; oil-cake. OILS.

Almond, amber, crude and rectified ambergris, anise or anise-seed, aniline, aspic or spike lavender, bergamot, cajeput, caraway, cassia, cinnamon, cedrat, chamomile, citronella or lemon-grass, civet, fennel, jasmine or jasimine, juglandium, juniper, lavender, lemon, limes, mace, neroli or orange flower, nut-oil or oil of nuts not otherwise specially provided for, orange-oil, olive-oil for manufacturing or mechanical purposes unfit for eating, and n s.p., ottar of roses, palm and cocoa-nut, rosemary or anthoss, sesame or sesamum-seed or bean, thyme, origanum red or white, valerian: and also spermaceti, whale, and other fish oils of American fisheries, and all other articles produce of such fisheries. Olives, green or prepared.

Opium, crude or unmanufactured, and not adulterated, containing 9% and over of morphia.

Orange and lemon peel, not preserved, candied, or otherwise prepared.

Orchil, or orchil liquid.

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Orchids, lily of the valley, azaleas, palms, and other plants used for forcing under glass for cut flowers or decorative purposes.

Ores of gold, silver, and nickel, and nickel matte: Provided, That ores of nickel and nickel matte containing more than 2% of copper shall pay a duty of c. on the copper contained therein. Osmium; palladium.

Paper stock, crude, of every description, including all grasses, fibers, rags (other than wool), waste, shavings, clippings, old paper, rope ends, waste rope, waste bagging, old or refuse gunny-bags or gunny-cloth, and poplar or other woods, fit only to be converted in to paper.

Paraffine; parchment and vellum.

Pearl, mother of, not sawed, cut, polished, or otherwise manufactured.

Peltries and other usual goods and effects of Indians passing or repassing the boundary-line of U. S., under such regulations as Secretary of Treasury may prescribe; Provided, That this exemption shall not apply to goods in bales or other packages unusual among Indians.

Personal and household effects not mer handise of citizens of U. S. dying in foreign countries.

Pewter and britannia metal, old, and fit only to be re-manufactured.

Philosophical and scientific apparatus, instruments and preparations; statuary, casts of marble, bronze, alabaster, or plaster of Paris; paintings, drawings, and etchings, specially imported in good faith for the use of any society or institution incorporated or established for religious, philosophical, educational, scientific, or literary purposes, or for encouragement of the fine arts, and not intended for sale,

Phosphates, crude or native.

Plants, trees, shrubs, roots, seed-cane, and seeds all of the foregoing imported by the Department of Agriculture or the United States Botanic Garden. Plaster of Paris and sulphate of lime, unground; platina, in ingots, bars, sheets, and wire.

Platinum, unmanufactured, and vases, retorts and other apparatus, vessels, and parts thereof composed or platinum, for chemical uses.

Plum ago; polishing-stones.

Potash, crude, carbonate of, or "black salts," caustic potash, or hydrate of, not including refined in sticks or rolls; nitrate of potash, or saltpeter, crude; sulphate of potash, crude or refined; chlorate of potash; muriate of potash.

Professional books, implements, instruments, and tols of trade, occupation, or employment, in the actual possession at the time of persons arriving in the U. S.; 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. Pulu; pumice.

Quills, prepared or unprepared, but not made up into complete articles.

Quinia, sulphate of, and all alkaloids or salts of cinchona bark.

Rags, not otherwise specially provided for.

Regalia and gems, statues, statuary, and specimens of sculpture where specially imported in good faith for the use of any society incorporated or established solely for educational, philosophical, lit erary, or religious purposes, or for encouragement of fine arts, or for use or by order of any college, academy, school, seminary of learning, or public library in U. S.; but the term "regalia" shall te held to embrace only such insignia of rank or office er 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.

Rennets, raw or prepared.

Saffron and safflower, and extract of, and saffron cake.

Sago, crude, and sago flour; salacine; sauer-krout; sausage skins.

SEEDS:

Anise; canary; caraway: cardamom; coriander; cotton; cummin; fennel; fenugreek; hemp; hoarhound; mustard: rape; Saint John's bread or bene; sugar-beet; mangel-wurzel; sorghum or sugar-cane for seed, and all flower and grass seeds; bulbs and bulbous roots, not edible; all the foregoing n.s.p.

Selep, or saloup, shells of all kinds, not cut, ground or otherwise manufactured; shotgun barrels, forged, rough bored: shrimps, and other shellfish; silk, raw, or as reeled from the cocoon, but not doubled, twisted, or advanced in manufacture in any way; silk cocoons and silk-waste; silk worms' eggs: skeletons and other preparations of anatomy; snails; soda, nitrate of, or cubic nitrate, and chlorate of sodium; sparterre, suitable for making or ornamenting hats; specimens of natural history,

botany, and mineralogy, when imported for cabinets or as objects of science, and not for sale. SPICES:

Cassia. cassia vera, and cassia buds, unground; cinnamon, and chips of, unground; cloves and clove stems, unground: ginger-root, unground and not preserved or candied: mace; nutmegs; pepper, black or white, unground; pimento, unground; spunk.

Spurs and stilts used in manufacture of earthen, porcelain, and stone ware.

STONE AND SAND:

Burr-stone in blocks, rough or manufactured, and not bound up into mill-stones; cliff-stone, unmanufactured; pumice-stone; rotten-stone, and sand, crude or manufactured.

Storax, or styrax.

Strontia, oxide of, and protoxide of strontian, and stront anite, or mineral carbonate of strontia.

Sugars, all not above No. 16 Dutch standard in color, all tank bottoms, all sugar drainings and sugar sweepings, syri ps or cane-juice, melada, concentrated melada, and concrete, and concentrated molasses, and molasses.

Sulphur, lac or precipitated, and sulphur or brimstone, crude, in bulk, sulphur ore, as pyrites, or sulphuret of iron in its natural state, containing in excess of 25% of sulphur (except on the copper contained therein) and sulphur n.s.p.

Sulphuric acid which at the temperature of 60 degrees Fahr. does not exceed sp. gr. of 1 380-1000, for use in manufacturing superphosphate of lime or artificial manures of any kind, or for any agricultural purposes.

Sweepings of silver and gold; tapioca, cassava, or cassady; tar and pitch of wood, and pitch of coaltar; tea and tea-plants; teeth, natural or unmanufactured; terra alba; terra japonica.

Tin ore, cassiterite or black oxide of tin, and tin in bars, blocks, pigs, or grain or granulated, until July 1, 1893, and thereafter as otherwise provided for.

Tinsel wire, lame, or lahn; tol acco stems; tonquin, tonqua, or tonka beans: tripoli; turmeric; turpentine, Venice; turpentine, spirits of; turtles; types, old and fit only to be re-manufactured; uranium, oxide and salts of; vaccine virus: valonia; verdigris, or subacetate of copper; wafers, unmedicated; wax, vegetable or mineral.

Wearing apparel and other personal effects (not merchandise) of persons arriving in the U. S.; but this exemption shall not be held to include articles not actually in use and necessary and appropriate for use of such persons for purposes of their journey and present comfort and convenience, or which are intended for any other person or persons, or for sale: Provided, however, That all such wearing apparel and other personal effects as may have beer once imported into U. S. and subjected to payment of duty, and which may have been actually used and taken or exported to foreign countries by persons returning therewith to the U. S., shall, if not advanced in value or improved in condition by any means since exportation from U. S, be entitled to exemption from duty, upon their identity being established, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by Secretary of Treasury. Whalebone, unmanufactured.

WOOD:

Logs and round unmanufactured timber n.s.p. or enumerated.

Firewood, handle bolts, heading bolts, stave bolts, and shingle bolts, hop, poles, fence posts, railroad ties, ship timber, and ship planking n s. p.

Woods, viz., cedar, lignum-vitæ, lancewood, ebony, box, granadilla, mahogany, rosewood, satinwood and all forms of cabinet woods, in the log, rough or hewn; bamboo and rattan unmanufactured; brierroot or brier wood, and similar wood unmanufactured, or not further manufactured than cut into blocks suitable for the articles into which they are intended to be converted; bamboo, reeds, and sticks. of partridge, hair-wood, pimento, orange, myrtle, and other woods n.s p. in the rough, or not further manufactured than cut into lengths suitable for sticks for umbrellas, parasols, sunshades, whips, or walking canes; and India malacca joints, not further manufactured than cut into suitable lengths for the manufactures into which they are intended to be converted.

Works of art, the production of American artists residing temporarily abroad, or other works of art, including pictorial paintings on glass, imported expressly for presentation to a national institution, or to any State or municipal corporation, or incorporated religious society, college or other public institution, except stained or painted window glass or stained or painted glass windows; but such exemptions shall be subject to such regulations as Secretary of Treasury may prescribe.

THE NEW TARIFF LAW-Continued.

Works of art, drawings, engravings, photographic pictures, philosophical and scientific apparatus brought by professional artists, lecturers, or scientists arriving from abroad for use temporarily for exhibition and in illustration, promotion and encouragement of art, science, or industry in U. S., and not for sale, and photographic pictures, paintings, and statuary, imported for exhibition by any association established in good faith and duly authorized under laws of U. S, or of any State, expressly and solely for promotion and encouragement of science, ait, or industry, and not intended for sale, shall be admitted free of duty, under such regulations as Secretary of Treasury shall prescribe; but bonds shall be given for payment to U. S. of such duties as may be imposed by law upon any and all of such articles as shall not be exported within six months after such importation: Provided. That Secretary of Treasury may, in his discretion, extend such period for a further term of six months in cases where applications therefor shall be made.

Works of art, collections in illustration of progress of arts, science, or manufactures, photographs, works in terra-cotta, parian, pottery, or porcelain, and artistic copies of antiquities in metal or other material hereafter imported in good faith for permanent exhibition at a fixed place by any society or institution established for encouragement of arts or of science, and all like articles imported in good faith by any society or association for purpose of erecting a public monument, and not intended for sale, nor for any other purpose than herein expressed; but bonds shall be given under such rules and regulations as Secretary of Treasury may prescribe, for payment of lawful duties which may accrue should any of articles aforesaid be sold, transferred, or used contrary to this provision, and such articles shall be subject, at any time, to examination and inspection by proper officers of the customs: Provided, That privileges of this and preceding section shall not be allowed to associations or corporations engaged in or connected with business of a private or commercial character. Yams: zaffer.

Reciprocity.

SEC. 3. That with a view to secure reciprocal trade with countries producing the following articles, and for this purpose, on and after January 1892, whenever and so often as the President shall be satisfied that the Government of any country producing and exporting sugars, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides, raw and uncured, or any of such articles, imposes duties or other exactions upon the agricul tural or other products of the U. S., which, in view of the free introduction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea and hides into U. S. he may deem to be reciprocally unequal and unreasonable, he shall have the power and it shall be his duty to suspend, by proclamation to that effect, the provisions of this act relating to the free introduction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides. the production of such country for such time as he shall deem just, and in such case and during such suspension, duty shall be levied, collected and paid upon sugar, molasses, coffee, and hides the product of or exported from such designated country, as follows, viz.:

All sugars not above No. 13 Dutch standard in color shall pay duty on their polariscopic tests as follows, viz.:

All sugars not above No. 13 Dutch standard in color, all tank bottoms, syrups of cane juice or of beet juice, melada, concentrated melada, concrete and concentrated molasses, testing by the polariscope not above 75 degrees, 7-10c. b; and for every additional degree or fraction of a degree shown by the polariscopic test, 2-100c.b additional.

All sugars above No. 13 Dutch standard in color shall be classified by Dutch standard of color, and pay duty as follows, viz.: All sgar above No. 13 and not above No. 16 Dutch standard in color, 13%c. D.

All sugars above No. 16 and not above No. 20 Dutch standard in color, 15gc..

All sugars above No. 20 Dutch standard in color, 2c, ib.

Molasses testing above 56 degrees, 4c. gall. Sugar drainings and sugar sweepings shall be subject to duty either as molasses or sugar, as the case may be according to polariscopic test.

On coffee, 3c. Ib.

On tea, 10c. Ib.

Hides, raw or uncured, whether dry, salted, or pickled, Angora goat-skins, raw, without the wool, unmanufactured, asses' skins, raw or unmanufactured, and skins, except sheep-skins with the wool on, 1c. ib.

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ured articles, not enumerated or provided for, a duty of 10% ad val.; and on all articles manufactured, in whole or in part, not provided for, a duty of 20% ad val.

SEC. 5. That each and every imported article not enumerated, which is similar, either in material, quality, texture, or the use to which it may be applied, to any article enumerated as chargeable with duty, shall pay the same rate of duty which is levied on the enumerated article which it most resembles in any of the particulars before mentioned; and if any non enumerated article equally resembles two or more enumerated articles on which different rates of duty are chargeable there shall be levied on such non-enumerated article the same rate of duty as is chargeab e on the article which it resembles paying the highest rate of duty; and on articles not enumerated, manufactured of two or more materials, the duty shall be assessed at the highest rate at which the same would be chargeable if composed wholly of the component material thereof of chief value; and the words "component material of chief value," wherever used. shall be held to mean that component material which shall exceed in value any other single component material of the article; and the value of each component material shall be determined by the ascertained value of such material in its condition as found in the article If two or more rates of duty shall be applicable to any imported article it shall pay duty at the highest of such rates,

SEC. 6. That on and after March 1, 1891, all articles of foreign manufacture, such as are usually or ordinarily marked, stamped, branded, or labeled, and all packages containing such or other imported articles, shall respectively be plainly marked, stamped, branded, or labeled in legible English words, so as to indicate the country of their origin; and unless so marked, stamped, branded, or labeled they shall not be admitted to entry.

SEC. 7. That on and after March 1, 1891, no article of imported merchandise which shall copy or simulate the name or trade-mark of any domestic manufacture or manufacturer shall be admitted to entry at any custom-house of U. S. And in order to aid the officers of the customs in enforcing this prohibition any domestic manufacturer who has adopted trade-marks may require his name and residence and a description of his trade-marks to te recorded in books which shall be kept for that purpose in the Department of the Treasury uncer such regulations as Secretary of Treasury shall prescribe, and may furnish to the department fac-similes of such trade-marks; and thereupon Secretary of Treasury shall cause one or more copies of same to be transmitted to each collector or other proper officer of customs.

SEC. 8. That all lumber, timber, hemp wire rope, and iron and steel rods, bars, spikes, nails, plates, tees, angles, beams, and bolts. and copper and composition metal which may be necessary for the construction and equipment of vessels built in U. S. for foreign account and ownership, or for the purpose of being employed in the foreign trade, including the trade between the Atlantic and Pacific ports of U. S., after the passage of this act, may be imported in bond, under such regulations as Secretary of Treasury may prescribe; and upon proof that such materials have been used for such purpose no duties shall be paid thereon. But vessels receiving the benefit of this section shall not be allowed to engage in the coastwise trade of the U. S. more than two months in any one year except upon the payment to the U. S. of the duties on which a rebate is herein allowed: Provided, That vessels built in the U. S. for foreign account and ownership shall not be allowed to engage in the coastwise trade of the U.S.

SEC. 9. That all articles of foreign production needed for the repair of American vessels engaged in foreign trade, including the trade between the Atlantic and Pacific ports of U. S., may be withdrawn from bonded warehouses free of duty, under such regulations as Secretary of Treasury may prescribe.

SEC. 10. That all medicines, preparations, compositions, perfumery, cosmetics, cordials, and other liquors manufactured wholly or in part of domestic spirits, intended for exportation, as provided by law, in order to be manuractured and sold or removed, without being charged with duty and without having a stamp affixed thereto, shall, under such regulations as the Secretary of Treasury may prescribe, be made and manufactured in warehouses similarly constructed to those known and designated in Treasury regulations as bonded warehouses, class 2: Provided, That such manufacturer shall first give satisfactory bonds to the collector of internal revenue for the faithful observance of all the provisions of law and the regulations as aforesaid, in amount not less than half of that required by the

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