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and at least ten hands shall be examined in each | meal, and rice broken which will pass through a examined bale, box or package.

215. All other tobacco, manufactured or unmanufactured, not specially provided for in this Act, fifty-five cents per pound.

sieve known commercially as number twelve wire sieve, one-fourth of one cent per pound; paddy, or rice having the outer hull on, threefourths of one cent per pound.

216. Snuff and snuff flour, manufactured of tobacco, ground dry, or damp, and pickled, scent-half of one cent per pound. ed, or otherwise, of all descriptions, fifty-five cents per pound.

233. Rye, ten cents per bushel; rye flour, one

217. Cigars, cigarettes, cheroots of all kinds, four dollars and fifty cents per pound and twenty-five 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 G.

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS AND PRO-
VISIONS.

ANIMALS, LIVE:

218. Cattle, if less than one year old, two dollars per head; all other cattle, if valued at not more than fourteen dollars per head, three dollars and seventy-five cents per head; if valued at more than fourteen dollars per head, twentyseven and one-half per centum ad valorem.

219. Swine, one dollar and fifty cents per head. 220. Horses and mules, valued at one hundred and fifty dollars or less per head, thirty dollars per head; if valued at over one hundred and fifty dollars, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. 221. Sheep, one year old or over, one dollar and fifty cents per head; less than one year old, seventy-five cents per head.

222. All other live animals, not specially provided for in this Act, twenty per centum ad valorem.

BREADSTUFFS AND FARINACEOUS SUB-
STANCES:

223. Barley, thirty cents per bushel of fortyeight pounds.

224 Barley-malt, forty-five cents per bushel of thirty-four pounds.

225. Barley, pearled, patent, or hulled, two cents per pound.

226. Buckwheat, fifteen cents per bushel of forty-eight pounds.

234. Wheat, twenty-five cents per bushel. 235. Wheat flour, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. DAIRY PRODUCTS:

236. Butter, and substitutes therefor, six cents per pound.

237. Cheese, and substitutes therefor, six cents per pound.

238. Milk, fresh, two cents per gallon.

239. Milk, preserved or condensed, or sterilized by heating or other processes, including weight of immediate coverings, two cents per pound; sugar of milk, five cents per pound.

FARM AND FIELD PRODUCTS:

240. Beans, forty-five cents per bushel of sixty pounds.

241. Beans, pease, an mushrooms, prepared or preserved, in tins, jars, bottles, or similar packages, two and one-half cents per pound, including the weight of all tins, jars and other immediate coverings; all vegetables, prepared or preserved, including pickles and sauces of all kinds, not specially provided for in this Act, and fish paste or sauce, forty per centum ad valorem.

242. Cabbages, three cents each.
243. Cider, five cents per gallon.

244. Eggs, not specially provided for in this Act, five cents per dozen.

245. Eggs, yolk of, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; albumen, egg or blood, three cents per pound; dried blood, when soluble, one and one-half cents per pound.

246. Hay, four dollars per ton.

247. Honey, twenty cents per gallon.

248. Hops, twelve cents per pound; hop extract and lupulin, fifty per centum ad valorem. 249. Onions, forty cents per bushel; garlic, one cent per pound.

250. Pease, green, in bulk or in barrels, sacks, or similar packages, and seed pease, forty cents

227. Corn or maize, fifteen cents per bushel of per bushel of sixty pounds; pease, dried, not fifty-six pounds.

specially provided for, thirty cents per bushel;

228. Corn meal, twenty cents per bushel of split pease, forty cents per bushel of sixty forty-eight pounds.

229. Macaroni, vermicelli, and all similar preparations, one and one-half cents per pound. 230. Oats, fifteen cents per bushel. 231. Oatmeal and rolled oats, one cent per pound; oat hulls, ten cents per hundred pounds. 232. Rice, cleaned, two cents per pound; uncleaned rice, or rice free of the outer hull and still having the inner cuticle on, one and onefourth cents per pound; rice flour, and rice

pounds; pease in cartons, papers, or other small packages, one cent per pound.

251. Orchids, palms, dracaenas, crotons and azaleas, tulips, hyacinths, narcissi, jonquils, lilies, lilies of the valley, and all other bulbs, bulbous roots, or corms, which are cultivated for their flowers, and natural flowers of all kinds, preserved or fresh, suitable for decora tive purposes, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

of one cent per pound.

261. Fish, fresh, smoked, dried, salted, pickled, frozen, packed in ice or otherwise prepared for preservation, not specially provided for in this Act, three-fourths of one cent per pound; fish, skinned or boned, one and one-fourth cents per pound; mackerel, halibut or salmon, fresh, pickled or salted, one cent per pound.

252. Stocks, cuttings or seedlings of Myrobolan | one cent per pound; herrings, fresh, one-fourth plum, Mahaleb or Mazzard cherry, three years old or less, fifty cents per thousand plants and fifteen per centum ad valorem; stocks, cuttings or seedlings of pear, apple, quince and the St. Julien plum, three years old or less, and evergreen seedlings, one dollar per thousand plants and fifteen per centum ad valorem; rose plants, budded, grafted, or grown on their own roots, two and one-half cents each; stocks, cuttings and seedlings of all fruit and ornamental trees, deciduous and evergreen, shrubs and vines, manetti, multiflora, and brier rose, and

all trees, shrubs, plants and vines, commonly known as nursery or greenhouse stock, not specially provided for in this Act, twenty-five

per centum ad valorem.

253. Potatoes, twenty-five cents per bushel of sixty pounds.

254. Seeds: Castor beans or seeds, twenty-five cents per bushel of fifty pounds; flaxseed or linseed and other oil seeds not specially provided for in this Act, twenty-five cents per bushel of fifty-six pounds; poppy seed, fifteen cents per bushel; but no drawback shall be allowed upon oil cake made from imported seed, nor shall any allowance be made for dirt or other impurities in any seed; seeds of all kinds not specially provided for in this Act, thirty per centum ad

valorem.

255. Straw, one dollar and fifty cents per ton. 256. Teazles, thirty per centum ad valorem. 257. Vegetables in their natural state, not specially provided for in this Act, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

FISH:

258. Fish known or labeled as anchovies, sardines, sprats, brislings, sardels, or sardellen, packed in oil or otherwise, in bottles, jars, tin boxes or cans, shall be dutiable as follows: When in packages containing seven and onehalf cubic inches or less, one and one-half cents per bottle, jar, box or can; containing more than seven and one-half and not more than twenty-one cubic inches, two and one-half cents per bottle, jar, box or can; containing more than twenty-one and not more than thirty-three cubic inches, five cents per bottle, jar, box or can; containing more than thirty-three and not more than seventy cubic inches, ten cents per bottle, jar, box or can; if in other packages, forty per centum ad valorem. All other fish (except shellfish), in tin packages, thirty per centum ad valorem ; fish in packages containing less than one-half barrel, and not specially provided for in this Act, thirty per centum ad valorem.

259. Fresh water fish not specially provided for in this Act, one-fourth of one cent per pound

260, Herrings, pickled or salted, one-half of

FRUITS AND NUTS:

cherries,

262. Apples, peaches, quinces, plums, and pears, green or ripe, twenty-five cents per bushel; apples, peaches, pears, and other edible fruits, including berries, when dried, desiccated, evaporated or prepared in any manner, not specially provided for in this Act, two cents per pound; berries, edible, in their natural condition, one cent per quart; cranberries, twen

ty-five per centum ad valorem.

263. Comfits, sweetmeats, and fruits preserved in sugar, molasses, spirits, or in their own juices, not specially provided for in this Act, one cent per pound and thirty-five per centum ad valorem; if containing over ten per centum of alcohol and not specially provided for in this Act, thirty-five per centum ad valorem and in addition two dollars and fifty cents per proof gallon on the alcohol contained therein in excess of ten per centum; jellies of all kinds, thirty-five per centum ad valorem; pineapples preserved in their own juice, twentyfive per centum ad valorem.

264. Figs, plums, prunes, and prunelles, two cents per pound; raisins and other dried grapes, two and one-half cents per pound; dates, one-half of one cent per pound; currants, Zante or other, two cents per pound; olives, green, or prepared, in bottles, jars, or similar packages, twenty-five cents per gallon; in casks or otherwise than in bottles, jars, or similar packages, fifteen cents per gallon.

265. Grapes in barrels or other packages, twenty cents per cubic foot of capacity of barrels or packages,

266. Oranges, lemons, limes, grape fruit, shaddocks, or pomelos, one cent per pound.

267. Orange peel or lemon peel, preserved, candied, or dried, and cocoanut meat or copra desiccated, shredded, cut, or similarly prepared, two cents per pound; citron or citron peel, preserved, candied, or dried, four cents per pound. 268. Pineapples, in barrels and other packages, barrels or packages; in bulk, seven dollars per seven cents per cubic foot of the capacity of

thousand.

NUTS

269. Almonds, not shelled, four cents per pound; clear almonds, shelled, six cents per pound.

270. Filberts and walnuts of all kinds, not

shelled, three cents per pound; shelled, five vided, That imported salt in bond may be used cents per pound.

271 Peanuts or ground beans, unshelled, onehalf of one cent per pound; shelled, one cent per pound.

272. Nuts of all kinds, shelled or unshelled, not specially provided for in this Act, one cent per pound.

MEAT PRODUCTS:

in curing fish taken by vessels licensed to engage in the fisheries, and in curing fish on the shores of the navigable waters of the United States, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe; and upon proof that the salt has been used for either of the purposes stated in this proviso, the duties on the same shall be remitted: Provided further, That exporters of meats, whether packed or smoked, which have been cured in the United States with imported salt, shall, upon satisfactory proof, under such regulations as the Secretwenty-tary of the Treasury shall prescribe, that such meats have been cured with imported salt, have refunded to them from the Treasury the duties paid on the salt so used in curing such exported meats, in amounts not less than one hundred dollars.

273. Bacon and hams, five cents per pound. 274. Fresh beef, veal, mutton, and pork, two cents per pound.

275. Meats of all kinds, prepared or preserved, not specially provided for in this Act, five per centum ad valorem.

276. Extract of meat, not specially provided for in this Act, thirty-five cents per pound; fluid extract of, meat, fifteen cents per pound, but the dutiable weight of the extract of meat and of the fluid extract of meat shall not include the weight of the package in which the same is imported.

285. Starch, including all preparations, from whatever substance produced, fit for use as starch, one and one-half cents per pound.

277. Lard, two cents per pound.
278. Poultry, live, three cents per pound; British gum, two cents per pound.
dressed, five cents per pound.

286. Dextrine, burnt starch, gum substitute, or

279. Tallow, three-fourths of one cent per pound; wool grease, including that known commercially as degras or brown wool grease, onehalf of one cent per pound.

MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCTS:

280. Chicory-root, raw, dried, or undried, but unground, one cent per pound; chicory-root, burnt or roasted, ground or granulated, or in rolls, or otherwise prepared, and not specially provided for in this Act, two and one-half cents per pound.

287. Spices: Mustard, ground or prepared, in bottles or otherwise, ten cents per pound; capsicum or red pepper, or cayenne pepper, two and one-half cents per pound; sage, one cent per pound; spices not specially provided for in this Act, three cents per pound.

288. Vinegar, seven and one-half cents per proof gallon. The standard proof for vinegar shall be taken to be that strength which requires thirty-five grains of bicarbonate of potash to neutralize one ounce troy of vinegar.

SCHEDULE H.

SPIRITS.

281. Chocolate and cocoa, prepared or manufactured, not specially provided for in this Act, SPIRITS, WINES, AND OTHER BEVERAGES. valued at not over fifteen cents per pound, two and one-half cents per pound; valued above fifteen and not above twenty-four cents per pound, two and one-half cents per pound and ten per centum ad valorem; valued above twenty-four and not above thirty-five cents per pound, five cents per pound and ten per centum ad valorem; valued above thirty-five cents per pound, fifty per centum ad valorem. The weight and value of all coverings, other than plain wooden, shall be included in the dutiable weight and value of the foregoing merchandise; powdered cocoa, unsweetened, five cents per pound.

289. Brandy and other spirits manufactured or distilled from grain or other materials, and not specially provided for in this Act, two dollars and twenty-five cents per proof gallon. 290. Each and every gauge or wine gallon of measurement shall be counted as at least one proof gallon; and the standard for determining the proof of brandy and other spirits or liquors of any kind imported shall be the same as that which is defined in the laws relating to internal revenue: Provided, That it shall be lawful for the Secretary of the Treasury, in his discretion,

282. Cocoa butter or cocoa butterine, three and to authorize the ascertainment of the proof of one-half cents per pound.

283. Dandelion-root and acorns prepared, and articles used as coffee, or as substitutes for coffee not specially provided for in this Act, two and one-half cents per pound.

284. Salt in bags, sacks, barrels, or other packages, twelve cents per one hundred pounds; in bulk, eight cents per one hundred pounds: Pro

wines, cordials, or other liquors, by distillation or otherwise, in cases where it is impracticable to ascertain such proof by the means prescribed by existing law or regulations: And Provided further, That any brandy or other spirituous or distilled liquors imported in any sized cask, bottle, jug, or other package, of or from any country, dependency, or province under whose

291. On all compounds or preparations of which distilled spirits are a component part of chief value, there shall be levied a duty not less than that imposed upon distilled spirits.

laws similar sized casks, bottles, jugs, or other | ties found in such bottles or jugs shall be subpackages of distilled spirits, wine, or other ject to a duty of five cents per pint or fractional beverage put up or filled in the United States part thereof, but no separate or additional duty are denied entrance into such country, depend- shall be assessed on the bottles or jugs: Proency, or province. shall be forfeited to the vided, That any wines, ginger cordial, or verUnited States; and any brandy or other spirit- muth imported containing more than twentyuous or distilled liquor imported in a cask of four per centum of alcohol shall be classed as less capacity than ten gallons from any country spirits and pay duty accordingly: And Proshall be forfeited to the United States. vided further, That there shall be no constructive or other allowance for breakage, leakage, or damage on wines, liquors, cordials, or distilled spirits. Wines, cordials, brandy, and other spirituous liquors, including bitters of all kinds, and bay rum or bay water, imported in bottles or jugs, shall be packed in packages containing not less than one dozen bottles or jugs in each package, or duty shall be paid as if such package contained at least one dozen bottles or jugs, and in addition therto, duty shall be collected on the bottles or jugs at the rates which would be chargeable thereon if imported empty. The percentage of alcohol in wines and fruit juices shall be determined in such manner as the Secretary of the Treasury shall by regulation prescribe.

292. Cordials, liqueurs, arrack, absinthe, kirschwasser, ratafia, and other spirituous beverages or bitters of all kinds, containing spirits, and not specially provided for in this Act, two dollars and twenty-five cents per proof gallon.

293. No lower rate or amount of duty shall be levied, collected, and paid on brandy, spirits, and other spirituous beverages than that fixed by law for the description of first proof; but it shall be increased in proportion for any greater strength than the strength of first proof, and all imitations of brandy or spirits or wines imported by any names whatever shall be subject to the highest rate of duty provided for the genuine articles respectively intended to be represented, and in no case less than one dollar and fifty cents per gallon.

294. Bay rum or bay water, whether distilled or compounded, of first proof, and in proportion for any greater strength than first proof, one dollar and fifty cents per gallon.

WINES.

295. Champagne and all other sparkling wines in bottles containing each not more than one quart and more than one pint, eight dollars per dozen; 'containing not more than one pint each and more than one-half pint, four dollars per dozen; containing one-half pint each or less, two dollars per dozen; in bottles or other vessels containing more than one quart each, in addition to eight dollars per dozen bottles, on the quantity in excess of one quart, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per gallon; but no separate or additional duty shall be levied on the bottles.

297. Ale, porter, and beer, in bottles or jugs, forty cents per gallon, but no separate or additional duty shall be assessed on the bottles or jugs; otherwise than in bottles or jugs, twenty cents per gallon.

298. Malt extract, fluid, in casks, twenty cents per gallon; in bottles or jugs, forty cents per gallon; solid or condensed, forty per centum ad valorem.

299. Cherry juice and prune juice, or prune wine, and other fruit juices not specially provided for in this Act, containing no alcohol or not more than eighteen per centum of alcohol, sixty cents per gallon; if containing more than eighteen per centum of alcohol, sixty cents per gallon, and in addition thereto two dollars and seven cents per proof gallon on the alcohol contained therein.

300. Ginger ale, ginger beer, lemonade, soda water, and other similar beverages containing no alcohol in plain green or colored, molded or pressed, glass bottles, containing each not more than three-fourths of a pint, eighteen cents per dozen; containing more than three-fourths of a pint each and not more than one and one-half pints, twenty-eight cents per dozen; but no separate or additional duty shall be assessed on the bottles; if imported otherwise than in plain green or colored, molded or pressed, glass bottles, or in such bottles containing more than one and one-half pints each, fifty cents per gallon and in addition thereto duty shall be collected on the bottles, or other coverings, at the rates which would be chargeable thereon if im ported empty.

296. Still wines, including ginger wine or ginger cordial and vermuth, in casks or pack ages other than bottles or jugs, if containing fourteen per centum or less of absolute alcohol, forty cents per gallon; if containing more than fourteen per centum of absolute alcohol, fifty cents per gallon. In bottles or jugs, per case of one dozen bottles or jugs, containing each not more than one quart and more than one pint, or twenty-four bottles or jugs containing each not more than one pint, one dollar and sixty cents 301. All mineral waters and all imitations of per case; and any excess beyond these quanti-natural mineral waters, and all artificial mineral

waters not specially provided for in this Act, | yard; if dyed, colored, stained, painted, or in green or colored glass bottles, containing printed, two cents per square yard.

not more than one pint, twenty cents per dozen 305. Cotte cloth, not bleached, dyed, colored, bottles. If containing more than one pint and stained, painted, or printed, exceeding fifty and not more than one quart, thirty cents per dozen not exceeding one hundred threads to the square bottles. But no separate duty shall be assessed inch, counting the warp and filling, and not exupon the bottles. If imported otherwise than ceeding six square yards to the pound, one and in plain green or colored glass bottles, or if im-one-fourth cents per square yard; exceeding ported in such bottles containing more than one six and not exceeding nine square yards to the quart, twenty-four cents per gallon, and in ad-pound, one and one-half cents per square yard; dition thereto duty shall be collected upon the bottles or other covering at the same rates that would be charged thereon if imported empty or separately.

SCHEDULE 1.

COTTON MANUFACTURES.

exceeding nine square yards to the pound, one and three-fourths cents per square yard; if bleached, and not exceeding six square yards to the pound, one and one-half cents per square yard; exceeding six and not exceeding nine square yards to the pound, one and threefourths cents per square yard; exceeding nine 302. Cotton thread and carded yarn, warps or square yards to the pound, two and one-fourth warp yarn, in singles, whether on beams or in cents per square yard; if dyed, colored, stained, bundles, skeins or cops, or in any other form, painted, or printed, and not exceeding six except spool thread of cotton hereinafter pro- square yards to the pound, two and threevided for, not colored, bleached, dyed, or ad- fourths cents per square yard; exceeding six vanced beyond the condition of singles by and not exceeding nine square yards to the grouping or twisting two or more single yarns pound, three and one-fourth cents per square together, three cents per pound on all numbers yard; exceeding nine square yards to the pound, up to and including number fifteen, one-fifth of three and one-half cents per square yard: Proa cent per number per pound on all numbers ex-vided, That on all cotton cloth not exceeding ceeding number fifteen and up to and including one hundred threads to the square inch, countnumber thirty, and one-fourth of a cent per ing the warp and filling, not bleached, dyed, number per pound on all numbers exceeding | colored, stained, painted, or printed, valued at number thirty; colored, bleached, dyed, combed or advanced beyond the condition of singles by grouping or twisting two or more single yarns together, whether on beams, or in bundles, skeins or cops, or in any other form, except spool thread of cotton hereinafter provided for, six cents per pound on all numbers up to and including number twenty, and on all numbers exceeding number twenty and up to number eighty, one-fourth of one cent per number per pound; on number eighty and above, three-dred and not exceeding one hundred and fifty tenths of one cent per number per pound; cotton card laps, roping, sliver or roping, forty-five per centum ad valorem.

303. Spool thread of cotton, including crochet, darning, and embroidery cottons on spools or reels, containing on each spool or reel not exceeding one hundred yards of thread, six cents per dozen; exceeding one hundred yards on each spool or reel, for every additional hundred yards or fractional part thereof in excess of one hundred, six cents per dozen spools or reels; if otherwise than on spools or reels one-half of one cent for each one hundred yards or fractional part thereof: Provided, That in no case shall the duty be assessed upon a less number of yards than is marked on the spools or reels.

304. Cotton cloth not bleached, dyed, colored, stained, painted, or printed, and not exceeding fifty threads to the square inch, counting the warp and filling, one cent per square yard; if bleached, one and one-fourth cents per square

over seven cents per square yard, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; bleached, valued at over nine cents per square yard, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; and dyed, colored, stained, painted, or printed, valued at over twelve cents per square yard, there shall be levied, collected, and paid a duty of thirty per centum ad valorem.

306. Cotton cloth, not bleached, dyed, colored, stained, painted, or printed, exceeding one hun

threads to the square inch, counting the warp and filling, and not exceeding four square yards to the pound, one and one-half cents per square yard; exceeding four and not exceeding six square yards to the pound, two cents per square yard; exceeding six and not exceeding eight square yards to the pound, two and one-half cents per square yard; exceeding eight square yards to the pound, two and three-fourths cents per square yard; if bleached, and not exceeding four square yards to the pound, two and onehalf cents per square yard; exceeding four and not exceeding six square yards to the pound, three cents per square yard; exceeding six and not exceeding eight square yards to the pound, three and one half cents per square yard; exceeding eight square yards to the pound, three and three-fourths cents per square yard; if dyed, colored, stained, painted, or printed, and not exceeding four square yards to the pound, three and one-half cents per square

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