586. Hones and whetstones.

587. Hoofs, unmanufactured.

588. Hop roots for cultivation.

589. Horns and parts of, including horn strips and tips, unmanufactured.

590. Ice.

591. India rubber, crude, and milk of, and scrap or refuse India rubber, fit only for remanufacture, and which has been worn out by use. 592. Indigo.

593. Iodine, crude.

594. Ipecac.

595. Iridium, osmium, palladium, rhodium, and ruthenium and native combinations thereof with one another or with platinum.

596. Ivory tusks in their natural state or cut vertically across the grain only, with the bark left intact, and vegetable ivory in its natural state.

597. Jalap.

598. Jet, unmanufactured.

599. Joss stick, or Joss light.

600. Junk, old.

601. Kelp.

602. Kieserite.

603. Kindling wood.

604. Kyanite, or cyanite, and kainite.

605. Lac dye, crude, seed, button, stick, and shell.

606. Lac spirits.

607. Lactarene, or casein.

608. Lava, unmanufactured.

609. Leeches.

610. Lemon juice, lime juice, and sour orange juice, all the foregoing containing not more than two per centum of alcohol.

611. Licorice root, unground.

612. Lifeboats and life-saving apparatus specially imported by societies incorporated or established to encourage the saving of

human life.

613. Lime, citrate of.

614. Lithographic stones, not engraved.

615. Litmus, prepared or not prepared.

616. Loadstones.

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

618. Magnesite, crude or calcined, not purified.

619. Manganese, oxide and ore of.

620. Manna.

621. Manuscripts.

622. Marrow, crude.

623. Marshmallow or althea root, leaves or flowers, natural or unmanufactured.

624. Medals of gold, silver, or copper, and other metallic articles actually bestowed as trophies or prizes, and received and accepted as honorary distinctions.

625. Meerschaum, crude or unmanufactured.

626. Minerals, crude, or not advanced in value or condition by refining or grinding, or by other process of manufacture, not specially provided for in this section.

627. Mineral salts obtained by evaporation from mineral waters, when accompanied by a duly authenticated certificate and satisfactory proof, showing that they are in no way artificially prepared, and are only the product of a designated mineral spring.

628. Miners' rescue appliances, designed for emergency use in mines where artificial breathing is necessary in the presence of poisonous gases, to aid in the saving of human life, and miners' safety lamps.

629. Models of inventions and of other improvements in the arts, to be used exclusively as models and incapable of any other use.

630. Moss, seaweeds, and vegetable substances, crude or unmanufactured, not otherwise specially provided for in this section. 631. Musk, crude, in natural pods.

632. Myrobolans.

633. Needles, hand sewing and darning.

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634. Newspapers and periodicals; but the term "periodicals herein used shall be understood to embrace only unbound or papercovered publications issued within six months of the time of entry, devoted to current literature of the day, or containing current literature as a predominant feature, and issued regularly at stated periods, as weekly, monthly, or quarterly, and bearing the date of issue.

635. Nuts: Brazil nuts, cream nuts, marrons crude, palm nuts and palm-nut kernels; cocoanuts in the shell and broken cocoanut meat or copra, not shredded, desiccated, or prepared in any manner. 636. Nux vomica.

637. Oakum.

638. Oil cake.

639. 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, cocoanut (not refined and deodorized), cotton-seed, croton, fennel, ichthyol, jasmine or jasimine, juglandium, juniper, lavender, lemon, limes, mace, neroli or orange flower, enfleurage grease, liquid and solid primal flower essences not compounded, nut oil or oil of nuts, soya-bean, olive oil rendered unfit for use as food or for any but mechanical or manufacturing purposes, by such means as shall be satisfactory to the Secretary of the Treasury and under regulations to be prescribed by him; attar of roses, palm, palm kernel, 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 fish and other products of such fisheries; petroleum, crude or refined, including kerosene, benzine, naphtha, gasoline, and similar oils produced from petroleum.

640. Oleo stearin.

641. Orange and lemon peel, not preserved, candied, or dried. 642. Orchil, or orchil liquid."

643. Ores of gold, silver, or nickel, and nickel matte; sweepings of gold and silver.

644. Paper stock, crude, of every description, including all grasses, fibers, rags (other than wool), waste, including jute waste, shavings, clippings, old paper, rope ends, waste rope, and waste bagging, and all other waste not specially provided for in this section, including old gunny cloth and old gunny bags, used chiefly for papermaking. 645. Paraffin.

646. Parchment and vellum.

647. Pearl, mother of, and shells, not sawed, cut, polished, or otherwise manufactured, or advanced in value from the natural state.

648. Personal effects, not merchandise, of citizens of the United States dying in foreign countries.

649. Pewter and britannia metal, old, and fit only to be remanufactured.

650. Philosophical and scientific apparatus, utensils, instruments, and preparations, including bottles and boxes containing the same, specially imported in good faith for the use and by order of any society or institution incorporated or established solely for religious, philosophical, educational, scientific, or literary purposes, or for the encouragement of the fine arts, or for the use and by order of any college, academy, school, or seminary of learning in the United States, or any state or public library, and not for sale, subject to such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe.

651. Phosphates, crude.

652. Plants, trees, shrubs, roots, seed cane, and seeds, imported by the Department of Agriculture or the United States Botanic Garden.

653. Platinum, unmanufactured or in ingots, bars, plates, sheets, wire, sponge, or scrap, and vases, retorts, and other apparatus, vessels, and parts thereof, composed of platinum, for chemical uses. 654. Plumbago.

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

656. Professional books, implements, instruments, and tools of trade, occupation, or employment, in the actual possession at the time of arrival, of persons emigrating to the United States; but this exemption shall not be construed to include machinery or other articles imported for use in any manufacturing establishment, or for any other person or persons, or for sale, nor shall it be construed to include theatrical scenery, properties, and apparel; but such articles brought by proprietors or managers of theatrical exhibitions arriving from abroad, for temporary use by them in such exhibitions, and not for any other person, and not for sale, and which have been used by them abroad, shall be admitted free of duty under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe; but bonds shall be given for the payment to the United States of such duties as may be imposed by law upon any and all such articles as shall not be exported within six months after such importation: Provided, That the Secretary of the Treasury may, in his discretion, extend such period for a further term of six months in case application shall be made therefor. 657. Pulu.

658. Quinia, sulphate of, and all alkaloids or salts of cinchona bark. 659. Radium.

660. Rags, not otherwise specially provided for in this section.

661. Statuary and casts of sculpture for use as models or for art educational purposes only; regalia and gems, where specially imported in good faith for the use and by order of any society incorporated or established solely for religious, philosophical, educational, scientific, or literary purposes, or for the encouragement of the fine

arts, or for the use and by order of any college, academy, school, seminary of learning, orphan asylum, or public hospital in the United States, or any State or public library, and not for sale, subject_to such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe; but the term "regalia" as herein used shall be held to embrace only such insignia of rank or office or emblems as may be worn upon the person or borne in the hand during public exercises of the society or institution, and shall not include articles of furniture or fixtures, or of regular wearing apparel, nor personal property of individuals. 662. Rennets, raw or prepared.

663. Saffron and safflower, and extract of, and saffron cake. 664. Sago, crude, and sago flour.

665. Salicin.

666. Salep, or salop.

667. Sausages, bologna.

668. Seeds: Anise, canary, caraway, cardamom, cauliflower, coriander, cotton, cummin, fennel, fenugreek, hemp, hoarhound, mangelwurzel, mustard, rape, Saint John's bread or bean, sugar beet, sorghum or sugar cane for seed; bulbs and bulbous roots, not edible and not otherwise provided for in this section; all flower and grass seeds; evergreen seedlings; all the foregoing not specially provided for in

this section.

669. Sheep dip.

670. Shotgun barrels, in single tubes, forged, rough bored.

671. Shrimps and other shellfish.

672. Silk, raw, in skeins reeled from the cocoon, or rereeled, but not wound, doubled, twisted, or advanced in manufacture in any way. 673. Silk cocoons and silk waste.

674. Silkworm eggs.

675. Skeletons and other preparations of anatomy.

676. Skins of all kinds, raw (except sheepskins with the wool on), and hides not specially provided for in this section.

677. Soda, nitrate of, or cubic nitrate.

678. Specimens of natural history, botany, and mineralogy, when imported for scientific public collections, and not for sale.

679. Spices: Cassia, cassia vera, and cassia buds; cinnamon and chips of; cloves and clove stems; mace; nutmegs; pepper, black or white, and pimento; all the foregoing when unground; ginger root, unground and not preserved or candied.

680. Spunk.

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

682. Stamps; foreign postage or revenue stamps, canceled or uncanceled, and foreign government stamped post cards bearing no other printing than the official imprint thereon.

683. Stone and sand: Burrstone in blocks, rough or unmanufactured; cliff stone, unmanufactured; rotten stone, tripoli, and sand, crude or manufactured, not otherwise provided for in this section. 684. Storax, or styrax.

685. Strontía, oxide of, and protoxide of strontian, and strontianite, or mineral carbonate of strontia.

686. 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 twenty-five per centum of sulphur, and sulphur not otherwise provided for in this section.

687. Sulphuric acid which at the temperature of sixty degrees Fahrenheit does not exceed the specific gravity of one and three hundred and eighty one-thousandths, for use in manufacturing superphosphate of lime or artificial manures of any kind, or for any agricultural purposes: Provided, That upon all sulphuric acid imported from any country, whether independent or a dependency, which imposes a duty upon sulphuric acid imported into such country from the United States, there shall be levied and collected a duty of one-fourth of one cent per pound.

688. Tamarinds.

689. Tapioca, tapioca flour, cassava or cassady. 690. Tar and pitch of wood.

691. Tea and tea plants: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to repeal or impair the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to prevent the importation of impure and unwholesome tea," approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninetyseven, and any Act amendatory thereof.

692. Teeth, natural, or unmanufactured.

693. Terra alba, not made from gypsum or plaster rock. 694. Terra japonica.

695. Tin ore, cassiterite or black oxide of tin, and tin in bars, blocks, pigs, or grain or granulated: Provided, That there shall be imposed and paid upon cassiterite, or black oxide of tin, and upon bar, block, pig tin and grain or granulated, a duty of four cents per pound when it is made to appear to the satisfaction of the President of the United States that the mines of the United States are producing one thousand five hundred tons of cassiterite and bar, block, and pig tin per year. The President shall make known this fact by proclamation, and thereafter said duties shall go into effect.

702. Types, old, and fit only to be remanufactured. 703. Uranium, oxide and salts of.

704. Vaccine virus.

705. Valonia.

706. Verdigris, or subacetate of copper. 707. Wax, vegetable or mineral.

708. Wafers, unleavened or not edible.

709. Wearing apparel, articles of personal adornment, toilet articles, and similar personal effects of persons arriving in the United States; but this exemption shall only include such articles as actually accompany and are in the use of, and as are necessary and appropriate for the wear and use of such persons, for the immediate purposes of the journey and present comfort and convenience, and shall not be held to apply to merchandise or articles intended for other persons or for sale: Provided, That in case of residents of the United States returning from abroad, all wearing apparel and other personal