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and machinery.

only; cases, stands, glasses, shades, and other accessories of the same, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

240. Tower clocks, complete; machinery and parts for the same, whether set up or not, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

241. Chronometers in cases or boxes for marine or professional use, and cases, movements, crystals, and other parts for the same, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

GROUP 2.-APPARATUS AND MACHINERY.

Apparatus 242. Machinery and apparatus for weighing of all kinds, not specially provided for, and detached parts therefor, twenty per centum ad valorem.

243. Marine engines, stationary engines, hydraulic, steam, petroleum, gasoline, and hot or compressed air motors, fifteen per centum ad valorem.

Agricultural 245. machinery, etc.

244. Steam boilers of all kinds, whether attached to engines or not, fifteen per centum ad valorem. Agricultural machinery and apparatus, machinery and apparatus for pile driving, dredging, hoisting, and making or repairing roads, for refrigerating and ice making, sawmill machinery, machinery and apparatus for extracting vegetable oils, and for converting the same into other products, for making sugar, for preparing rice, hemp, and other vegetable products of the islands for the markets, and detached parts therefor, also traction and portable engines and their boilers adapted to and imported for and with rice-threshing machines, and steam plows, five per centum ad valorem.

NOTE. The expression "Preparing vegetable products for the markets," shall be taken to mean putting said products in their first marketable condition.

Locomotives. 246. Locomotives, including tenders, and traction and portable engines complete, and detached parts therefor, fifteen per centum ad valorem.

paratus.

247. Turntables and power and hand cranes, fifteen per centum ad valorem.

Electrical ap-248. Apparatus and appliances for the generation, distribution, testing, measuring, and installation of electricity, dry and wet batteries, carbon brushes, arc lamps and their fittings, insulating materials, tapes and compounds used exclusively for electrical purposes; bells, annunciators, telephones, and apparatus pertaining to the same; galvanometers, amperemeters, voltmeters, and wattmeters; and all or any parts of apparatus specified, including insulators of glass or porcelain or other material, five per centum ad valorem.

249. Storage batteries, five per centum ad valorem.
250. Dynamos, generators, exciters, and all other ma-
chinery for the generation of electricity for
lighting or for power; transformers and elec-
tric motors and electric fans, five per centum ad
valorem :

(a) Incandescent lamps, mounted or not mounted,
fifteen per centum ad valorem.

Sewing ma

251. All sewing machines and detached parts therefor, chines. except needles, fifteen per centum ad valorem.

252. Bicycles and velocipedes and detached parts and ac- Bicycles, etc. cessories thereto, including lamps, twenty-five per

centum ad valorem.

253. Typewriters and detached parts therefor, including ribbons, fifteen per centum ad valorem.

254. Phonographs, cinematographs, biographs, and similar machines, including detached parts and records and films therefor, thirty per centum ad valorem. 255. Cash registers and adding machines, and detached parts therefor, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. 256. Automatic slot machines for weighing and other purposes, not prohibited, and detached parts therefor, thirty per centum ad valorem.

257. Other machinery and detached parts of machines not specially provided for:

(a) Of copper and its alloys, twenty per centum

ad valorem.

(b) Of other materials, ten per centum ad valo

rem.

GROUP 3.-CARRIAGES.

Group 3.

258. Coaches and berlins, new, used, or repaired, twenty Carriages. per centum ad valorem.

259. Omnibuses, diligences, Concord, and similar coaches, new, used, or repaired, twenty per centum ad valorem.

260. Other common four-wheeled carriages, with four or more seats, new or repaired, twenty per centum ad valorem.

261. All other carriages not specially provided for, new, used, or repaired, including automobiles for persons or merchandise, baby carriages, trimmed or untrimmed, and jinrikishas, twenty per centum ad valorem.

262. Railway carriages of all kinds for passengers, each, Passenger one hundred dollars;

(a) Finished wooden parts of the same, N. W., one
hundred kilos, one dollar and fifty cents;

(b) Railway box cars, each, fifty dollars;
(c) Railway flat cars, each, thirty dollars;
(d) Cars for industrial railways, fifteen per
centum ad valorem.

coaches.

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263. Tramway carriages of all kinds:

(a) Bodies, either set up or knocked down, each, thirty-five dollars;

(b) Trucks per set, for same, each, ten dollars. 264. Wagons, each, seven dollars and fifty cents. 265. Carts for transporting merchandise, each, five dollars;

(a) All others not specially provided for, twenty
per centum ad valorem.
266. Hand carts, each, three dollars;

(a) Wheelbarrows, of wood, each, fifty cents;
(b) Wheelbarrows, wholly of iron or steel, each,
one dollar and fifty cents:

Provided, That wooden parts for any of the vehicles classified under paragraphs two hundred and fifty-eight, two hundred and fifty-nine, two hundred and sixty, two hundred and sixty-one, two hundred and sixty-four, two hundred and sixty-five, and two hundred and sixty-six shall be dutiable at the rate of twenty per centum ad valorem.

GROUP 4.-SMALL BOATS AND OTHER WATER CRAFT.

Water craft. 267. Small boats, launches, lighters, and all other water craft imported into the Philippine Islands, either set up or knocked down, thirty per centum ad valorem.

Class XII.
Edibles.

Group 1.

NOTE. The expression "imported into the Philippine Islands" shall be held to mean "brought into the jurisdictional waters of the islands in or on another vessel, or towed therein by another vessel, as distinguished from coming into these islands under the craft's own steam, sail, or other motive power."

CLASS XII. ALIMENTARY SUBSTANCES.

GROUP 1.-MEATS AND FISH.

Meats and 268. Poultry and game, dressed or undressed, N. W.,

fish.

kilo, three cents.

269. Meat, salted or in brine, and jerked beef, G. W., one hundred kilos, seventy-five cents.

270. Hams, bacon, and other meats, smoked or cured, also sausages not preserved in cans, N. W., one hundred kilos, three dollars:

Provided, however, That the salt ordinarily used for the packing of any of the articles enumerated in this paragraph shall be classified under paragraph ninety-four (a).

271. Lard (however contained), G. W., one hundred kilos, two dollars.

272. Vegetable lard and all imitations of lard, G. W., one hundred kilos, one dollar and sixty cents.

273. Salted cod and stockfish, G. W., one hundred kilos, seventy-five cents.

274. Fish, other, except as included in paragraphs three
hundred and seventeen and three hundred and
eighteen :

(a) Fresh, with only the salt indispensible for its
preservation, G. W., one hundred kilos, fifty
cents;
(b) Salted, smoked, or pickled, but packed in bulk,
and not of the class of "canned or potted
fish" covered by paragraphs three hundred
and seventeen and three hundred and eight-
een, G. W., one hundred kilos, one dollar
and fifty cents.

275. Oysters, clams, and shellfish, not in glass or canned,
G. W., one hundred kilos, two dollars and fifty

cents.

GROUP 2.-GRAIN, DRIED FRUIT, AND VEGETABLES, AND

PREPARATIONS OF THE SAME.

276. Rice: Until May first, nineteen hundred and five:
(a) Unhusked, G. W., one hundred kilos, forty

cents;

(b) Husked, G. W., one hundred kilos, fifty cents;
(c) Flour, G. W., one hundred kilos, one dollar
and fifty cents.

On May first, nineteen hundred and five, and
until January first, nineteen hundred and seven:
(a) Unhusked, G. W., one hundred kilos, sixty

cents;

(b) Husked, G. W., one hundred kilos, seventy-
five cents;

(c) Flour, G. W., one hundred kilos, one dollar
and seventy-five cents.

On and after January first, nineteen hundred
and seven:

(a) Unhusked, G. W., one hundred kilos, eighty
cents;

Group 2. Rice, grain, dried fruit, vegetables, etc.

Rice.

Commission may continue

(b) Husked, G. W., one hundred kilos, one dollar;
(c) Flour, G. W., one hundred kilos, two dollars:
Provided, however, That the Philippine Com- Proviso.
mission may, in its discretion, continue in force the
rate of duty first above stated, until in its opinion present rate.
the conditions in the Philippine Islands may war-
rant the higher rates herein provided.

277. Wheat, rye, and barley:

(a) In grain, G. W., one hundred kilos, twenty.

five cents;

(b) In flour, G. W., one hundred kilos, forty cents.

Prepared cereals.

Group 3.

Tropical, etc., products.

Sugar.

278. Corn (maize), oats, and other cereals not mentioned elsewhere:

(a) In grain, G. W., one hundred kilos, ten cents; (b) In meal or flour, G. W., one hundred kilos, forty cents.

279. Millet:

(a) In grain, G. W., one hundred kilos, forty cents;

(b) In flour, G. W., one hundred kilos, fifty cents. 280. Malt, G. W., one hundred kilos, two dollars and fifty

cents.

281. Hops, G. W., one hundred kilos, three dollars.
282. Cereals prepared for table use, such as oatmeal,
cracked wheat, cornstarch, avena, and all other
preparations of cereals for table use not elsewhere
specially provided for, N. W., one hundred kilos,
two dollars.

283. Bread, biscuit, crackers, and wafers made of flour
from cereals or pulse:

(a) Unsweetened, N. W., one hundred kilos, three dollars;

(b) Sweetened, N.-W., one hundred kilos, five dol

lars.

284. Vermicelli, macaroni, and pastes for soups, N. W., one hundred kilos, three dollars.

285. Dried raisins, dates, figs, and citron, put up in small packages, N. W., one hundred kilos, two dollars and fifty cents.

286. The same fruits in bulk and all other dried and dessicated fruits, N. W., one hundred kilos, seventyfive cents.

287. Dried beans, peas, and pulse:

(a) In bulk, G. W., one hundred kilos, seventyfive cents;

(b) Put up in small packages, N. W., one hundred kilos, one dollar;

(c) Flour of, G. W., one hundred kilos, one dollar and fifty cents.

288. Dried or dessicated vegetables, not elsewhere specially provided for, G. W., one hundred kilos, one dollar.

GROUP 3.-TROPICAL AND SEMITROPICAL PRODUCTS.

289. Sugar:

(a) Raw and glucose, G. W., one hundred kilos,
one dollar and sixty-two cents;
(b) Refined, N. W., one hundred kilos, three dol-
lars.

290. Cocoa:

(a) Of all kinds in the bean, G. W., one hundred
kilos, five dollars and seventy-five cents;
(b) Ground, in paste, powder, and cocoa butter,
N. W., one hundred kilos, ten dollars.

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