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not be applied to the lead contained in copper mattes until after two thousand tons of such lead shall have been imported in any one year, to be allocated under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided further, That on all importations of lead-bearing ores and mattes of all kinds the duties shall be estimated at the port of entry and a bond given in double the amount of such estimated duties for the transportation of the ores or mattes by common carriers bonded for the transportation of appraised or unappraised merchandise to properly equipped sampling or smelting establishments, whether designated as bonded warehouses or otherwise. On the arrival of the ores or mattes at such establishments they shall be sampled according to commercial methods under the supervision of Government officers, who shall be stationed at such establishments, and who shall submit the samples thus obtained to a Government assayer, designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall make an assay of the sample by wet assay without deduction and report the result to the proper customs officers, and the import entries shall be liquidated thereon, except in cases of ores or mattes that shall be removed to a bonded warehouse to be refined for exportation as provided by law. And the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to make all necessary regulations to enforce the provisions of this paragraph.

PAR. 389. Lead bullion or base bullion, lead in pigs and bars, lead dross, reclaimed lead, scrap lead, antimonial lead, antimonial scrap lead, type metal, Babbitt metal, solder, all alloys or combinations of lead not specially provided for, 2 cents per pound on the lead contained therein; lead in sheets, pipe, shot, glazier's lead, and lead wire, lead in any article or material not specially provided for, 23 cents per pound.

PAR. 390. Zinc-bearing ore of all kinds, including calamine containing less than 10 per centum of zinc, shall be admitted free of duty; containing 10 per centum or more of zinc and less than 20 per centum, one-fourth of 1 cent per pound on the zinc contained therein; containing 20 per centum or more of zinc and less than 25 per centum, one-half of 1 cent per pound on the zinc contained therein; containing 25 per centum of zinc, or more, 1 cent per pound on the zinc contained therein: Provided, That on all importations of zinc-bearing ores the duties shall be estimated at the port of entry, and a bond given in double the amount of such estimated duties for the transportation of the ores by common carriers bonded for the transportation of appraised or unappraised merchandise to properly equipped sampling or smelting establishments, whether designated as bonded warehouses or otherwise. On the arrival of the ores at such establishments they shall be sampled according to commercial methods under the supervision of Government officers, who shall be stationed at such establishments, and who shall submit the samples thus obtained to a Government assayer, designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall make an assay of the sample by wet assay without deduction and report the result to the proper customs officers, and the import entries shall be liquidated thereon. And the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to make all necessary regulations to enforce the provisions of this paragraph: Provided, That for a period of two years beginning on the day following the enactment of this Act the rate of duty on zinc-bearing ores of all kinds, including calamine, con

taining 10 per centum or more of zinc, shall be as follows: If containing 10 per centum or more of zinc and less than 20 per centum, onehalf of 1 cent per pound on the zinc contained therein; containing 20 per centum or more of zinc and less than 25 per centum, 1 cent per pound on the zinc contained therein; containing 25 per centum of zinc or more, 13 cents per pound on the zinc contained therein.

PAR. 391. Zinc in blocks or pigs and zinc dust, 13 cents per pound; in sheets, 1 cents per pound; in sheets coated or plated with nickel or other metal, or solutions, 14 cents per pound; old and worn-out, fit only to be remanufactured, 1 cent per pound: Provided, That for a period of two years beginning on the day following the enactment of this Act the rates of duty shall be as follows: On zinc in blocks, pigs, or slabs, and old and worn-out zinc fit only to be remanufactured, 2 cents per pound; zinc in sheets, plates, strips, or coils, plated with nickel or other base metals, or in fabricated form, and zinc dust, 2 cents per pound.

PAR. 392. Print rollers and print blocks used in printing, stamping, or cutting designs for wall or crêpe paper, linoleum, oilcloth, or other material, not specially provided for, composed wholly or in chief value of iron, steel, copper, brass, or any other metal, 30 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 393. Articles or wares not specially provided for, if composed wholly or in chief value of platinum, gold, or silver, and articles or wares plated with platinum, gold, or silver, or colored with gold lacquer, whether partly or wholly manufactured, 45 per centum ad valorem; if composed wholly or in chief value of iron, steel, lead, copper, brass, nickel, pewter, zinc, aluminum, or other metal, but not plated with platinum, gold, or silver, or colored with gold lacquer, whether partly or wholly manufactured, 35 per centum ad valorem. PAR. 394. No allowance or reduction of duties for partial loss or damage in consequence of rust or of discoloration shall be made upon any description of iron or steel, or upon any article wholly or partly manufactured of iron or steel, or upon any manufacture of iron or steel.

SCHEDULE 4.-WOOD AND MANUFACTURES OF.

PAR. 401. Timber, hewn, sided or squared otherwise than by sawing (not less than eight inches square) and round timber used for spars or in building wharves, one-half of 1 cent per cubic foot.

PAR. 402. Logs of fir, spruce, cedar, or Western hemlock, $1 per thousand feet board measure: Provided, That any such class of logs cut from any particular class of lands shall be exempt from such duty if imported from any country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of government which has, at no time during the twelve months immediately preceding their importation into the United States, maintained any embargo, prohibition, or other restriction (whether by law, order, regulation, contractual relation or otherwise, directly or indirectly) upon the exportation of such class of logs from such country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of government, if cut from such class of lands.

PAR. 403. Brier root or brier wood, ivy, or laurel root, and similar wood unmanufactured, or not further advanced than cut into blocks

suitable for the articles into which they are intended to be converted, 10 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 404. Logs, sawed boards, planks, deals, and all other forms of cedar commercially known as Spanish cedar, lignum-vitæ, lancewood, ebony, box, granadilla, mahogany, rosewood, satinwood, Japanese white oak, and Japanese maple, not further manufactured than sawed, 15 per centum ad valorem; veneers of wood, and wood unmanufactured, not specially provided for, 20 per centum ad valorem. PAR. 405. Paving posts, railroad ties, and telephone, trolley, electric-light, and telegraph poles of cedar or other woods 10 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 406. Hubs for wheels, posts, heading bolts, stae bolts, last blocks, wagon blocks, car blocks, heading blocks, and all like blocks or sticks, roughhewn, sawed or bored, 10 per centum ad valorem. PAR. 407. Pickets, palings, hoops, and staves of wood of all kinds, 10 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 408. Shingles, 50 cents per thousand.

PAR. 409. Casks, barrels, and hogsheads (empty), sugar-box shooks, and packing boxes (empty), and packing-box shooks, of wood, not specially provided for, 15 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 410. Boxes, barrels, and other articles containing oranges, lemons, limes, grape fruit, shaddocks or pomelos, 20 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That the thin wood, so called, comprising the sides, tops, and bottoms of orange and lemon boxes of the growth and manufacture of the United States, exported as orange and lemon box shooks, may be reimported in completed form, filled with oranges and lemons, by the payment of duty at one-half the rate imposed on similar boxes of entirely foreign growth and manufacture; but proof of the identity of such shooks shall be made under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury.

PAR. 411. Reeds wrought or manufactured from rattans or reeds, whether round, flat, split, oval, or in whatever form, cane wrought or manufactured from rattan, cane webbing, and split or partially manufactured rattan, not specially provided for in this section, 20 per centum ad valorem. For the purpose of assessing duties, handmade reeds or cane shall be held to be comparable in value to machinecut reeds or cane of corresponding size. Furniture made with frames wholly or in part of wood, rattan, reed, bamboo, or malacca, and covered wholly or in part with rattan, reed, grass, or fiber of any kind, 50 per centum ad valorem; split bamboo, 2 cents per pound; osier or willow, including chip of and split willow, prepared for basket maker's use, 25 per centum ad valorem; all articles not specially provided for, wholly or partly manufactured of rattan, bamboo, osier, or willow, 40 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 412. Toothpicks of wood or other vegetable substance, 25 per centum ad valorem; butchers' and packers' skewers of wood, 25 cents per thousand.

PAR. 413. Porch and window blinds, baskets, curtains, shades, or screens of bamboo, wood, straw, or compositions of wood, not specially provided for, 25 per centum ad valorem; if stained, dyed, painted, printed, polished, grained, or creosoted, 30 per centum ad

valorem.

PAR. 414. House or cabinet furniture wholly or in chief value of wood, wholly or partly finished, and manufactures of wood or bark,

or of which wood or bark is the component material of chief value, not specially provided for in this section, 25 per centum ad valorem.

SCHEDULE 5.-SUGAR MOLASSES, AND MANUFACTURES OF.

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

PAR. 502. Any person manufacturing or refining in the United States sugar, testing by the polariscope over ninety-nine degeees, produced from beet or cane grown in the continental United States, shall for each pound so manufactured or refined during any month in any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, be permitted to import, at any time before the expiration of nine months after the last day of such month (for the sole purpose of being manufactured or refined by him in such State, Territory, or District), two pounds of sugar testing by the polariscope not above ninety-six degrees, at three-fourths of the rate of duty to which such sugar would otherwise be subject. The Secretary of the Treasury shall make all regulations necessary for the enforcement of this paragraph, including the taking of bonds to secure compliance with its provisions.

PAR. 503. Molasses and sirups testing not above 48 per centum total sugars, 1 cent per gallon; testing above 48 per centum total sugars, two hundred and seventy-five one-thousandths of 1 cent additional for each per centum of total sugars and fractions of a per centum in proportion.

PAR. 504. Maple sugar and maple sirup, 4 cents per pound; dextrose testing not above 99.7 per centum and dextrose sirup, 14 cents per pound. Sugar cane in its natural state, or unmanufactured, $1 per ton of two thousand pounds; sugar contained in dried sugar cane, or in sugar cane in any other than its natural state, 75 per centum of the rate of duty applicable to manufactured sugar of like polariscopic test.

PAR. 505. Adonite, arabinose, dulcite, galactose, inosite, inulin, levulose, mannite, d-talose, d-tagatose, ribose, melibiose, dextrose testing above 99.7 per centum, mannose, melitzitose, raffinose, rhamnose, salicin, sorbite, xylose, and other of the higher saccharides required for scientific purposes, 50 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 506. Sugar candy and all confectionery not specially provided for, and on sugar after being refined, when tinctured, colored, or in any way adulterated, 30 per centum ad valorem. The value of the immediate coverings other than the outer packing case or other covering shall be included in the dutiable value of the merchandise.

SCHEDULE 6.--TOBACCO AND MANUFACTURES OF.

PAR. 601. Wrapper tobacco, and filler tobacco when mixed or packed with more than 50 per centum of wrapper tobacco, and all leaf tobacco the product of two or more countries or dependencies

when mixed or packed together, if unstemmed, $2.10 per pound; if stemmed, $2.75 per pound; filler tobacco not specially provided for, if unstemmed, 45 cents per pound; if stemmed, 60 cents per pound: Provided, That all filler tobacco commonly used without removing the stem shall be subject to the same duty as stemmed.

PAR. 602. The term "wrapper tobacco" as used in this title means that quality of leaf tobacco which has the requisite color, texture, and burn, and is of sufficient size for cigar wrappers, and the term "filler tobacco" means all other leaf tobacco. Collectors of customs shall permit entry to be made, under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, of any leaf tobacco when the invoices of the same shall specify in detail the character of such tobacco, whether wrapper or filler, its origin and quality. In the examination for classification of any imported leaf tobacco, at least one bale, box, or package in every ten, and at least one in every invoice, shall be examined by the appraiser or person authorized by law to make such examination, and at least ten hands shall be examined in each examined bale, box, or package.

PAR. 603. All other tobacco, manufactured or unmanufactured, including scrap tobacco, not specially provided for, 55 cents per pound.

PAR. 604. Snuff and snuff flour, manufactured of tobacco, ground dry, or damp, and pickled, scented, or otherwise, of all descriptions, and tobacco stems, cut, ground, or pulverized, 55 cents per pound.

PAR. 605. Cigars, cigarettes, cheroots of all kinds, $4.50 per pound and 25 per centum ad valorem, and paper cigars and cigarettes, including wrappers, shall be subject to the same duties as are herein imposed upon cigars.

SCHEDULE 7.-AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS AND PROVISIONS.

PAR. 701. Cattle, less than two years old, 1 cent per pound; two years old or over, 1 cents per pound; fresh beef and veal, 2 cents per pound; tallow, one-half of 1 cent per pound; oleo oil and oleo stearin, 1 cent per pound.

PAR. 702. Sheep and goats, 1 cent per pound; fresh mutton, 11 cents per pound; fresh lamb, 2 cents per pound.

PAR. 703. Swine, one-half of 1 cent per pound; fresh pork, threefourths of 1 cent per pound; bacon, hams, and shoulders, of pork, prepared or preserved, 14 cents per pound; lard, 1 cent per pound; lard compounds and lard substitutes, 20 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 704. Reindeer meat, 20 per centum ad valorem; venison and other game not specially provided for, 14 cents per pound.

PAR. 705. Extract of meat, including fluid, 15 cents per pound. PAR. 706. Sausage casings, weasands, intestines, bladders, tendons and integuments, not specially provided for; meats, fresh, prepared, or preserved, not specially provided for, 15 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That no meats of any kind shall be imported into the United States unless the same is healthful, wholesome, and fit for human food and contains no dye, chemical, preservative, or ingredient which renders the same unhealthful, unwholesome, or unfit for human food, and unless the same also complies with the rules and regulations made by the Secretary of Agriculture, and that, after entry into the United States in compliance with said rules and regulations,

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