165. Machinery, retorts, gasometers, and pipes imported for the construction of gas works in the colony. Pans, teaches, tanks, and other vessels imported for use exclusively in the manufacture of sugar or for the storage or supply of water.

Steam boilers of every description and steam-boiler plates and tubes, and steam plows, steam diggers, and steam dredgers.

166. Manures, including nitrate of soda, plaster of paris, and whitening.

167. Materials and church furniture specially imported for any place of worship of the Christian religion in the colony.

168. Packages in which goods are imported, including carboys, bottles, and other vessels, except trunks and canisters, and except hogsheads and puncheons not containing coals, lime, wines, or spirits. 169. Patterns and samples, subject to any regulations in that behalf made by the governor-in-council. 170. Photographs and engravings, unframed.

171. Printed books, not subject to duty under ordinance No. 14 of 1851, and manuscript.

172. Printing presses and types. printing paper, and printing ink, imported by or directly for the conductor of any newspaper or printing establishment for the exclusive purpose of being used by him in the course of his trade.

173. Provisions and stores of every description imported by Her Majesty's Government for the use of Her Majesty's naval or military forces.

174. Salt.1

175. Sewing machines.

176. Specimens illustrative of natural history, garden seeds, bulbs, and roots, trees, plants, vines, and seeds and grains of all kinds for propagation or cultivation.

177. Telegraph instruments and other inaterials imported by telegraph companies and necessary for the construction and use of their works, offices, and stations in the colony.

178. Uniforms, arms, ammunition, accouterments, and prizes imported by and for the use of Her Majes ty's naval or military forces or the colonial militia or any volunteer force or rifle association sanctioned by the governor.

179. Wines, spirituous liquors, and stores imported by and for the use of the governor.

180. All steam and other vessels, locomotives, carriages, rolling stock, rails, and such other material and appliances not herein already exempted as the governor-in-council considers necessary for the construction and maintenance of a railway between the Demerara River and Essequebo River in terms of the contract dated the 11th of December, 1893, made between the Sproston Dock and Foundry Company and the government of this colony.

181. All stores landed from an immigrant vessel for the purpose of feeding the immigrants conveyed thereby in terms of contract of conveyance and subsequently certified by the immigration agent general to have been so used. 182. All materials for use in railways or other special works which in the opinion of the governor-incouncil may be useful in the development of the resources of the interior of the colony.

CHILE.

Appreciating the great interest taken by our merchants in being informed about all changes in the tariff laws of the countries with which they have dealings, I have translated the new Chilean tariff which went into effect on January 1, 1898.

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Some of the changes are very radical and the duties on some articles are prohibitory. Under the former tariff the following articles were on the free list. They now pay the following duties:

Indian corn, 60 per cent, on a valuation of S centavos (2.92 cents) per kilogram (2.2046 pounds).

Oats, 60 per cent, on a valuation of 12 centavos (4.38 cents) per kilogram.

Barley (specific), 1.50 pesos (54.7 cents) per 100 kilograms (220.46 pounds).

Rye remains on the free list.

Wheat flour, formerly on the free list, now pays 2 pesos (73 cents) per 100 k.'ograms.

Corn meal, rye meal, and oatmeal continue to pay 25 per cent, on a valuation of 40 centavos (14.6 cents) per kilogram.

Leaf tobacco formerly paid a specific duty of 1.60 pesos per kilogram, as also cut tobacco.

Under the present tariff leaf tobacco pays 2.60 pesos (95 cents) and cut tobacco 4 pesos ($1.46) per kilogram.

Cigarettes continue to pay 9 pesos ($3.285) per kilogram.

IQUIQUE, March 25, 1898.

J. W. MERRIAM, Consul.

1Suppressed by order of April, 1898.

2 The tariff has been corrected to June, 1899.

Chilean tariff.

All merchandise imported from foreign countries shall pay 25 per cent of duties on their valuation, except those which pay 60 per cent, 35 per cent, 15 per cent, and 5 per cent, those which pay specific duties, and those on the free list.

Anise.

GOODS PAYING 60 PER CENT AD VALOREM.

Articles of every material printed, lithographed, or engraved, except books and periodicals.
Articles manufactured--

Books, blank, with or without impressions.

Boots, shoes, and slippers, except those of 15 centimeters or less in length and those of rubber.
Boxes, put together or knocked down.

Brooms and brushes, except toothbrushes and nailbrushes.

Canary seed.

Canes.

Cards, playing.

Carriages, carts, handcarts, wheelbarrows, set up or knocked down, except axles, springs, and the

metal covering of the axles.

Coffins and urns.

Confectionery.

Corn, indian.

Corsets.

Albums, in blank or with impressions, for portraits, music, collections, etc.
Almonds.

Articles manufactured, and textures containing silk or its imitations, with the exception of ready, made clothing, linen, gauze, felt for men's hats, epaulets, shoulder straps, chevrons, and

spun textures.

Articles manufactured

Of woven linen, wool and frieze (tricot).

Of leather or sole leather, except straps and belts for machinery.

Containing gold or silver, except jewelry, watches, spangles, epaulets, shoulder straps, chevrons, and spun textures.

Of metal, gilded or silvered.

Of twigs, straw, rushes, palm, willow, and every kind of rods, roots, or fibers of trees or plants, except hats and baskets.

Bath tubs.

Belts, waist.

Bayonets.

Blacking for shoes.

Books, printed, having covers of tortoise shell, mother-of-pearl, ivory, and its imitations.
Boxes for toilet powders.

Brushes, tooth and nail.

Buckets, wooden.

Buoys of iron or steel, with chains, etc.

If the merchandise paying 60 per cent and 35 per cent duties, because of the material entering into their composition (such as those made of tin plate, paper, pasteboards, leather, etc.), come mixed with another ingredient paying a lesser duty, then 60 per cent and 35 per cent shall still be paid, unless the inferior ingredient present be more than 75 per cent of the value of the article, in which case the latter shall pay a duty of 25 per cent.

In all cases in which this law imposes an exceptional duty, or exempts from duty certain merchandise, because of the use to which they are destined (such as felt for men's hats, utensils for telegraph, etc.), it shall be understood that they shall not be entitled to this exemption from duty, nor shall be subject to a duty, except in those cases in which, by their special structure or their nature, they be exclusively applicable to the use designated. Otherwise they shall pay the common duty of 25 per

cent.

In the application of the specific duty on wines and liquors it shall be understood that the tax refers to bottles of ordinary size, i. e., those having a capacity of 90 centiliters to 1 liter in the case of bitters, sweet liquors, gin, and absinthe, and 60 to 75 centiliters for bottles of wine and other liquors. When these articles come in bottles which exceed the maximum and do not exceed the minimum established, this circumstance shall be expressed in the policy, and duties shall be collected, increased or diminished, in proportion to the excess or lack of the established measure. Lanterns:

For light-houses.

For carriages.

Binnacle.

Lard, pure or mixed.

Linens:

Mats.

Mirrors. (See Looking-glasses.)

Money boxes, of metal.

Mouthpieces for pipes.

Mushrooms.

Music boxes.

Musical instruments and their accessories, except the wires, pegs, and pieces for pianos made by machinery, the keys and hammers wrought with felt.

Napkins, containing linen.

Nosebags.

Opera glasses.
Pails, wooden.

Paintings, oil.

Paper:

For tapestry, imitation leather.

For cigarettes.

Penknives.

Photographs.

Pictures, engraved, painted, lithographed, photographed, with or without frames.

Pillowcases.

Pipes for smoking.

Plants, artificial.

Plates, iron:

Enameled.

Corrugated.

Playthings.

Porcelain.

Portemonnaies of mother-of-pearl.

Pouches for tobacco,

Powder flasks.

Ramrods.

Revolver cases, leather.

Rockets and other fireworks.

Sardines.

Shades, window.

Shawls.

Sheets for beds.

Shoe blacking.
Shot.

Skins, dressed.

Sperm candles.

Statues and busts.

Stearin candles.
Stoves.

Suspenders.

Tablecloths.

Table covers.

Tapers, wax.

Tiles, Dutch.

Tin, in very thin sheets.

Tips for billiard cues.

Tobacco pouches.

Tortoise shell, manufactures of.

Trunks and valises.

Tubs, wooden.

Twine, cord, feather grass, manila hemp, Indian hemp, not exceeding 30 millimeters in circumference.

Valises and trunks.

Varnish for boots.

Venetian blinds.

Wax tapers.

Weapons (cold steel or firearms).

Windows and doors.

Zinc, manufactured.

Asphalt.

Axles for carriages.

GOODS PAYING 15 PER CENT AD VALOREM.

Bags, empty.

Beams, columns, and other similar pieces for buildings made of iron or steel.
Boat hooks.

Boats and launches of wood, set up or taken apart, steam or electrical.

Boilers, steam, not joined to machinery.

Bottles of glass or stone for liquors.

Bricks, fire.

Bridges of iron or steel.

Canvas of linen or cotton for sails, Nos. 1 to 7.

Cement. Portland or Roman.

Chains, iron or steel, link not exceeding 40 millimeters in circumference.

Galloons or trimmings of gold or silver, although containing silk or its imitations.

Gold, in leaves, for dentists.

Gold or silver or false metal, for gilding or plating.

Grease or vegetable tallow.

Handles, prepared for umbrellas or parasols.

Textures of

flax or jute for bags.

cotton, osnaburg, containing up to 16 threads of woof and warp.

Thread or twist of gold or silver, mixed or not with silk.

Ties of iron or steel for railroads.

Trimmings for hats.

Turpentine.

Utensils for domestic use of wrought or cast iron, and those tin-lined or galvanized, except those lined with porcelain or enameled; also except stoves.

Vanilla.

Watches.

Balances, for assays and for chemists' use.

Bellows, for blacksmiths and tinsmiths.

Belts and straps, for machinery.

Benzine, ordinary.

Boats and launches of iron or steel, set up or taken to pieces, moved by sail, steam, or electricity. Bolts, of copper, bronze, brass, or composition metal, or bars prepared for cutting bolts.

Cacao, and seeds of same.

Caoutchouc.