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42. Second: [On cigars of all kinds, valued at five dollars or under per thousand, twenty cents per pound; over five dollars and not over ten, forty cents per pound; and over ten dollars, sixty cents per pound, and in addition thereto, ten per centum ad valorem; on snuff ten cents per pound; on unmanufactured tobacco, in leaf, twenty-five per centum ad valorem ;] on all other [manufactured or] unmanufactured tobacco, thirty per centum ad valorem. (332, 472.)

SECTION 7. From and after the day and year aforesaid there shall be levied, collected, and paid, on the importation of the articles hereinafter mentioned, the following duties, that is to say:

43. First: [On bar-iron, rolled or hammered, comprising flats not less than one inch, or more than seven inches wide, nor less than one quarter of an inch or more than two inches thick; rounds, not less than one-half an inch or more than four inches in diameter; and squares not less than onehalf an inch or more than four inches square, fifteen dollars per ton: Provided, That all iron in slabs, blooms, loops or other forms, less finished than iron in bars and more advanced than pig-iron, except eastings, shall be rated as iron in bars, and pay a duty accordingly: And provided further, That none of the above iron shall pay a less rate of duty than twenty per centum ad valorem; on all iron imported in bars for railroads or inclined planes made to patterns and fitted to be laid down upon such roads or planes without further manufacture and not exceeding six inches high, twelve dollars per ton] (196); on boiler plate iron, twenty dollars per ton (197, 334); on iron wire drawn and finished, [not more than one fourth of one inch in diameter nor less than number sixteen wire gauge, seventy-five cents per one hundred pounds, and fifteen per centum ad valorem; over number sixteen and not over number twenty-five wire gauge, one dollar and fifty cents per one hundred pounds and in addition fifteen per centum ad valorem ; over or finer than number twentyfive wire gauge, two dollars per one hundred pounds and in addition fifteen per centum ad valorem (197, 334); [on all other descriptions of rolled or hammered iron not otherwise provided for, twenty dollars per ton.] (196.)

44. Second: [On iron in pigs, six dollars per ton; on vessels of cast-iron not otherwise provided for, and on sad-irons, tailors' and hatters' irons, stoves and stove plates, one cent per pound; on cast-iron steam, gas, and water pipe, fifty cents per one hundred pounds; on cast-iron butts and hinges, two cents per pound; on hollow-ware, glazed or tinned, two cents and a half per pound; on all other castings of iron not otherwise provided for, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.] (350.)

45. Third: [On old scrap iron, six dollars per ton: Provided, That nothing shall be deemed old iron that has not been in actual use and fit only to be remanufactured.] (352.)

46. Fourth: [On band and hoop iron, slit rods not otherwise provided for, twenty dollars per ton; on cut nails and spikes, one cent per pound; on iron cables or chains, or parts thereof, and anvils, one dollar and twenty-five cents per one hundred pounds; on anchors, or parts thereof, one dollar and fifty cents per one hundred pounds; on wrought board nails, spikes, rivets, and bolts, two cents per pound; on bed screws and wrought hinges, one cent and a half per pound; on chains, trace chains, halter chains, and fence chains made of wire or rods one-half of one inch in diameter or over, one cent and a half per pound; under one-half of one inch in diameter, and not under one-fourth of one inch in diameter, two cents per pound; under one-fourth of one inch in diameter, and not under number nine wire gauge, two cents and a half per pound; under number nine wire gauge, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; on blacksmiths' hammers and sledges, axles or parts thereof, and malleable iron in castings not otherwise provided for, two cents per pound; on horseshoe nails, three cents and a half per pound; on steam, gas, and water tubes and flues of wrought iron, two cents per pound; on wrought iron railroad chairs and on wrought iron nuts and washers, ready punched, twenty-five dollars per ton; on cut tacks, brads, and sprigs not exceeding sixteen ounces to the thousand, two cents per thousand; exceeding sixteen ounces to the thousand, two cents per pound.] (197 to 199.)

47. Fifth: [On smooth or polished sheet iron by whatever name designated, two cents per pound; on other sheet iron, common or black not thinner than number twenty wire gauge, twenty-dollars per ton; thinner than number twenty and not thinner than number twenty-five wire gauge, twenty-five dollars per ton; thinner than number twenty-five wire gauge, thirty dollars per ton; on tin plates galvanized, galvanized iron, or iron coated with zine, two cents per pound; on mill irons and mill cranks of wrought iron, and wrought iron for ships, locomotives, locomotive tire, or parts thereof, and steam engines. or parts thereof, weighing each twenty-five pounds or more, one cent and a half per pound; on screws commonly called wood screws, two inches or over in length, five cents per pound; less than two inches in length, eight cents per pound; on screws washed or plated, and all other screws of iron or any other metal, thirty per centum ad valorem; on all manufactures of iron not otherwise provided for, thirty per centum ad valorem.] (200.)

48. Sixth: [On all steel in ingots, bars, sheets, or wire not less than one-fourth of one inch in diameter, valued at seven cents per pound or less, one and a half cent per pound; valued at above seven cents per pound and not above eleven cents per pound, two cents per pound; steel in any form not otherwise provided for, shall pay a duty of twenty per centum ad valorem; on steel wire less than one-fourth of an inch in diameter, and not less than number sixteen wire gauge, two dollars per one hundred pounds, and in addition thereto fifteen per centum ad valorem; less or finer than number sixteen wire gauge, two dollars and fifty cents per one hundred pounds, and in addition thereto fifteen per centum ad valorem; on cross-cut saws, eight cents per lineal foot;] on mill, pit, and drag saws, [not over nine inches wide, twelve and a half cents per lineal foot ;] over nine inches wide, twenty cents per lineal foot (357); [on skates costing twenty cents, or less per pair,

six cents per pair; on those costing over twenty cents per pair, thirty per centum ad valorem ; on all manufactures of steel or of which steel shall be a component part, not otherwise provided for, thirty per centum ad valorem:] Provided, That all articles partially manufactured, not otherwise provided for, shall pay the same rate of duty as if wholly manufac tured. (202, 203.)

49. Seventh: [On bituminous coal, one dollar per ton of twenty-eight bushels, eighty pounds to the bushel; on all other coal, fifty cents per ton of twenty-eight bushels, eighty pounds to the bushel; on coke and culm of coal, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.] (203.)

SECTION 8. [From and after the day and year aforesaid there shall be levied, collected, and paid, on the importation of the articles hereinafter mentioned, the following duties, that is to say:]

50. First: [On lead in pigs and bars, one cent per pound; on old scrap lead fit only to be remanufactured, one cent per pound; on lead in sheets, pipes, or shot, one cent and a half per pouni; on pewter when old and fit only to be remanufactured, one cent per pound.] (204.)

51. Second: [On copper in pigs, bars, or ingots, two cents per pound; on copper when old and fit only to be remanufactured, one cent and a half per pound; on sheathing copper, in sheets fortyeight inches long and fourteen inches wide, and weighing from fourteen to thirty-four ounces the square foot, two cents per pound; on copper rods, bolts, nails, spikes, copper bottoms, copper in sheets or plates, called braziers' copper, and other sheets of copper not otherwise provided for, twenty-five per centum ad valorem (204, 579); on zinc, spelter, or teutenegue, manufactured, in blocks or pigs, one dollar per hundred pounds; on zinc, spelter, or teutenegue, in sheets, one cent and a half per pound.] (204.)

SECTION 9. From and after the day and year aforesaid there shall be levied, collected, and paid, on the importation of the articles hereinafter mentioned, the following duties, that is to say:

52. First: [On white lead and] Oxide of zinc, dry or ground in oil, red lead, and litharge,] one cent and a half per pound (235); on [sugar of lead or acetate of lead and] nitrate of lead, chromate [and bichromate] of potash, three cents per pound; on [hydriodate, and prussiate of potash and] chromic acid, and salts of iodine, [and resublimed iodine,] fifteen per centum ad valorem; [on whiting, twenty-five cents per one hundred pounds; on Paris white, pipe clay, and ochres or ochrey earths not otherwise provided for, when dry, thirty-five cents per one hundred pounds; when ground in oil, one dollar and thirty-five cents per one hundred pounds;] on umber, fifty cents per one hundred pounds; [on putty, one cent per pound; on linseed, flaxseed] (616), hempseed and rapeseed oil, twenty cents per gallon (233); [on kerosene oil, and all other coal oils, ten cents per gallon; on alum, alum substitute, sulphate of alumina and aluminous cake, fifty cents per one hundred pounds;] on copperas, green vitriol, or sulphate of iron, twenty-five cents per one hundred pounds (233); [on bleaching powders, fifteen cents per one hundred pounds; on refined camphor, six cents per pound; on refined borax, three cents per pound ;] on tallow, one cent per pound; [on tallow-candles, two cents per pound; on spermaceti or wax-candles and tapers, and on candles and tapers of spermaceti and wax combined, eight cents per pound; on stearine candles, and all other candles and tapers, four cents per pound; on spirits of turpentine, ten cents per gallon; on opium, one dollar per pound; on morphine and its salts, one dollar per ounce; on liquorice paste, or juice, three cents per pound.] (182, 239.)

SECTION 10. From and after the day and year aforesaid there shall be levied, collected, and paid, on the importation of the articles hereinafter mentioned. the following duties, that is to say:

53. First: [On salt, four cents per bushel of fifty-six pounds: Provided, That salt imported in bags, or not in bulk, shall pay a duty of six cents per bushel of fifty-six pounds; on bristles, four cents per pound; on honey, ten cents per gallon; on vinegar, six cents per gallon ;] (420) on mackerel, two dollars per barrel;* on herrings, pickled or salted, one dollar per barrel; on pickled salmon, three dollars per barrel; on all other fish pickled, in barrels, one dollar and fifty cents per barrel; on all other (481) foreign-caught fish imported otherwise than in barrels or half barrels, or whether fresh, smoked, or dried, salted or pickled, not otherwise provided for, fifty cents per one hundred pounds.

54. Second: On beef and pork, one cent per pound; on hams and bacon, two cents per pound; on cheese, four cents per pound; on wheat, twenty cents per bushel; on butter,† four cents per pound; on lard, two cents per pound; on

*Duty at the rate of one cent per pound on mackerel in kits was held to be properly assessed under this clause, a barrel being well understood according to commercial usage to weigh two hundred pounds. (Dec. 26, 1866, Norfolk, and March 29, 1867, P. & R. R) But no deduction to be allowed for deficiency of weight if barrels weigh less than 200 lbs. (Feb. 10, 1869, W. & R., and Nov. 1, 1871. Bost., Syn. Ser., 951.)

† See March 26, 1868, Portland.

rye and barley, fifteen cents per bushel; on Indian corn or maize, ten cents per bushel; on oats, ten cents per bushel; [on potatoes, ten cents per bushel (705); on cleaned rice, one cent per pound; on uncleaned rice or paddy, fifty cents per one hundred pounds; on sago and sago flour, fifty cents per one hundred pounds; on flaxseed or linseed, sixteen cents per bushel of fifty-two pounds; on hemp and rapeseed, ten cents per bushel of fifty-two pounds; on raw hides and skins of all kinds, whether dried, salted, or pickled, not otherwise provided for, five per centum ad valorem *

SECTION 11. [From and after the day and year aforesaid there shall be levied, collected, and paid, on the importation of the articles hereinafter mentioned, the following duties, that is to say:]

55. First: [On cassia, four cents per pound; on cassia buds, eight cents per pound; on cloves four cents per pound; on pepper, two cents per pound; on Cayenne pepper, three cents per pound; on ground Cayenne pepper, four cents per pound; on pimento, two cents per pound; on cinnamon, ten cents per pound; on mace and nutmegs, fifteen cents per pound; on prunes, two cents per pound; on plums, one center pound; on dates, one half of one cent per pound; on currants, two cents per pound; on figs, three cents per pound; on sultana, muscatel, and bloom raisins, either in boxes or jars, two cents per pound; on all other raisins, one cent per pound; on almonds, two cents per pound; on shelled almonds, four cents per pound; on all nuts not otherwise provided for, except those used for dyeing, one cent per pound.] (180, 181.)

SECTION 12. From and after the day and year aforesaid there shall be levied, collected, and paid, on the importation of the articles hereinafter mentioned, the following duties, that is to say:] 56. First: [On all wool unmanufactured, and all hair of the alpaca, goat, and other like animals, unmanufactured, the value whereof at the last port or place from whence exported to the United States, shall be less than eighteen cents per pound, five per centum ad valorem; exceeding eighteen cents per pound, and not exceeding twenty four cents per pound, there shall be levied, collected, and paid, a duty of three cents per pound; exceeding twenty four cents per pound, there shall be levied, collected, and paid, a duty of nine cents per pound: Provided, That any wool of the sheep, or hair of the alpaca, the goat, and other like animals which shall be imported in any other than the ordinary condition, as now and heretofore practiced, or which shall be changed in its character or condition for the purpose of evading the duty, or which shall be reduced in value by the admixture of dirt or any foreign substance to eighteen cents per pound or less, shall be subject to pay a duty of nine cents per pound, anything in this act to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, also, That when wool of different qualities is imported in the same bale, bag or package, and the aggregate value of the contents of the bale, bag or package shall be appraised by the appraisers at a rate exceeding twenty-four cents per pound, it shall be charged with a duty of nine cents per pound: Provided, further, That if bales of different qualities are embraced in the same invoice, at the same price, whereby the average price shall be lessened more than ten per centum, the value of the whole shall be appraised according to the value of the bale of the best quality, and no bale or bales shall be liable to a less rate of duty in consequence of being invoiced with wool of lower value: Provided, also, That sheep skins, raw or unmanufactured, imported with the wool on, washed or unwashed, shall be subject to a duty of fifteen per centum ad valorem.] (167, 363.)

SECTION 13. [From and after the day and year aforesaid, there shall be levied, collected, and paid, on the importation of the articles hereinafter mentioned, the following duties, that is to say:] 57. First: [On Wilton, Saxony and Aubusson, Axminster patent velvet, Tournay velvet, and tapestry velvet carpets and carpeting, Brussels carpets wrought by the Jacquard machine, and all medallion or whole carpets, valued at one dollar and twenty-five cents or under per square yard, forty cents per square yard; valued at over one dollar and twenty-five cents per square yard, fifty cents per square yard: Provided, That no carpet or rugs of the above description shall pay a duty less than twenty five per centum ad valorem; on Brussels and tapestry Brussels carpets and carpeting printed on the warp or otherwise, thirty cents per square yard; on all treble-ingrain and worsted-chain Venetian carpets and carpeting, twenty five cents per square yard; on hemp or jute carpeting, four cents per square yard; on druggets, bockings, and felt carpets and carpeting, printed, colored or otherwise, twenty cents per square yard; on all other kinds of carpets and carpeting, of wool, flax or cotton, or parts of either, or other material not otherwise specified, a duty of thirty per centum ad valorem ; Provided. That mats, rugs, screens, covers, hassocks, bedsides, and other portions of carpets or carpeting shall pay the rate of duty herein imposed on carpets or carpeting of similar character; on all other mate, screens, hassocks, and rugs, a duty of thirty per centum ad valorem.] (369.)

58. Second: [On woollen cloths, woollen shawls, and all manufactures of wool of every de seription, made wholly or in part of wool, not otherwise provided for, a duty of twelve cents per pound, and in addition thereto twenty-five per centum ad valorem; on endless belts for paper, and blanketing for printing machines, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; on all flannels valued at thirty cents or less per square yard. twenty-five per centum ad valorem; valued above thirty cents per square yard, and on all flannels colored, printed, or plaided, and flannels composed in part of cotton or silk, thirty per centum ad valorem; on hats of wool, twenty per centum ad valorem; on woollen and worsted yarn, valued at fifty cents and not over one dollar per pound, twelve cents per pound, and in addition thereto fifteen per centur ad valorem; on woollen and worsted yarn, valued at over one dollar per pound, twelve cents per pound, and in addition thereto, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; on woollen and worsted yarns, or yarns for carpets, valued under fifty cents per pound, and not exceeding in fineness number fourteen, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; exceeding number fourteen, thirty per centum ad valorem ; on clothing ready made, and wearing apparel of every description, composed wholly or in part of wool, made up or manufactured wholly or in part by the tailor, seamstress, or manufacturer, twelve cents per

*Grain bags, imported from Canada, filled with flaxseed, reported by appraisers as a not unusual covering, are not liable to duty as bags. (April 10, 1868, Bost.)

pound, and in addition thereto twenty-five per centum ad valorem; on blankets of all kinds, made wholly or in part of wool, valued at not exceeding twenty-eight cents per pound, there shall be charged a duty of six cents per pound, and in addition thereto ten per centum ad valorem ; on all valued above twenty-eight cents per pound, but not exceeding forty cents per pound, there shall be charged a duty of six cents per pound, and in addition thereto twenty five per centum ad valorem; on all valued above forty cents per pound there shall be charged a duty of twelve cents per pound, and in addition thereto twenty per centum ad valorem; on woollen shawls, or shawls of which wool shall be the chief compo nent material, a duty of sixteen cents per pound, and in addition thereto twenty per centum ad valorem.] (179, 369.)

59. Third: [On all delaines, Cashmere delaines, muslin delaines, barege delaines, composed wholly or in part of wool, gray or uncolored, and on all other gray or uncolored goods of similar description, twenty five per centum ad valorem; on bunting, and on all stained, colored, or printed, and on all other manufactures of wool, or of which wool shall be a component material, not otherwise provided fo, thirty per centum ad valorem.] (371.)

60. Fourth: [On oil-cloth, for floors, stamped, painted, or printed, valued at fifty cents or less per square yard, twenty per centum ad valorem; valued at over fifty cents per square yard, and on all other oil-cloth, thirty per centum ad valorem.] (372.)

SECTION 14. From and after the day and year aforesaid, there shall be levied, collected, and paid, on the importation of the articles hereinafter mentioned, the following duties, that is to say:

61. First: [On all manufactures of cotton not bleached, colored, stained, painted, or printed, and not exceeding one hundred threads to the square inch, counting the warp and filling, and exceeding in weight five ounces per square yard, one cent per square yard;] on finer or lighter goods of like description, and not exceeding one hundred and forty threads to the square inch, counting the warp and filling, two cents per square yard; [on goods of like description, exceeding one hundred and forty threads, and not exceeding two hundred threads to the square inch, counting the warp and filling, three cents per square yard; on like goods exceeding two hundred throads to the square inch, counting the warp and filling, four conts per square yard;] on all goods embraced in the foregoing schedules, if bleached, there shall be levied, collected, and paid an additional duty of one-half of one cent per square yard; and if printed, painted, colored, or stained, there shall be levied, collected, and paid a duty of ten per centum* in addition to the rates of duty provided in the foregoing schedules: [Provided, That upon all plain woven cotton goods not included in the foregoing schedules, and upon cotton goods of every description, the value of which shall exceed sixteen cents per square yard, there shall be levied, collected, and paid a duty, of twenty five per centum ad valorein: And provided, further, That no cotton goods having more thin two hundred threads to the square inch, counting the warp and filling, shall be admitted to a less rate of duty than is provided for goods which are of that number of threads.] (373.)

62. Second: [On spool and other thread of cotton, thirty per centum ad valorem ] (252, 470, 620.)

63. Third. [On shirts and drawers, wove or made on frames composed wholly of cotton and cotton velvet, twenty-five per centum ad valorem:] (374) and on all manufactures composed wholly of cotton, bleached, unbleached, printed. painted, or dyed, not otherwise provided for, thirty per centum ad valorem. (252, 374, 468, 469.)

64. Fourth: On all brown or bleached linens, ducks, canvas, paddings, cotbottoms, [burlaps, drills, coatings, brown Hollands, blay linens, damasks, [diapers, crash, huckabacks, handkerchiefs, lawns, or other manufactures] of flax, jute, or hemp, Lor of which flax, jute, or hemp] shall be the component material of chief value, being of the value of thirty cents and under per square yard, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; valued above thirty cents per square yard, thirty per centum ad valorem (254, 375); [on flax or linen threads, twine and pack-thread, and al. other manufactures of flax, or of which flax shall be the component material of chief value, and not otherwise provided for, thirty per centum ad valorem.] (375.)

SECTION 15. From and after the day and year aforesaid there shall be levied. collected, and paid, on the importation of the articles hereinafter mentioned, the following duties, that is to say:

65. First: On [unmanufactured hemp, thirty-five dollars per ton; on Manilla, and other hemps of India, fifteen dollars per ton; on jute, Sisal grass, sun hemp (181), coir,] and other vegetable substances not enumerated, used for cordage (596), ten dollars per ton (255); jon jute butts, five dollars per ton (255, 596); on codilla or tow of hemp, ten dollars per ton (596) ; on tarred cables or cordage, two cents and a half per pound; on untarred Manilla cordage, two cents per

*The words "ad valorem" inserted here by 26 act of August 5, 1861. (See 190.)

The drills and coatings provided for in the acts of 1861 and 1862 refer only to such as are brown or bleached Those not brown or bleached are dutiable under section 7, act June 30, 1864. (April 21, 1868. N. Y.)

pound; on all other untarred cordage, three cents per ponnd; on yarns, four cents per pound, on coir yarn, one cent per pound (376); on seines, six cents per pound; on cotton bagging, or any other manu. facture not otherwise provided for, suitable for the uses to which cotton bagging is applied (377), whether composed in whole or in part of hemp, jute, or flix, or any other material valued at less than ten cents per square yard, one cent and a half per pound; over ten cents per square yard, two cents per pound; on sail duck, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; on Russian and other sheetings, browu and white, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; and on all other manufactures of hemp, or of whic hemp shall be a component part, not otherwise provided for, twenty per centum ad valorem; on unmanufactured flax, fifteen dollars per ton (596); on tow of flax, five dollars per ton (596); on grass cloth, twenty five per centum ad valorem; on jute goods, fifteen per centum ad valorem, on all other manufactures of jute or Sisal grass, not otherwise provided for, twenty per centum ad valorem ]

SECTION 16. [From and after the day and year aforesaid, there shall be levied collected and paid, on the importation of the articles hereinafter mentioned, the following duties, that is to say.] 66. First: [On silk in the gum, not more advanced in manufacture than singles, tram, and thrown or organzino, fifteen per centum ad valorem; on all silks valued at not over one dollar per square yard, twenty per centum ad valorem; on all silks valued at over one dollar per square yard, thirty per centum ad valorem; on all silk velvets, or velvets of which silk is the component material of chief value, valued at three dollars per square yard, or under, twenty-five per centum ad valorem ; valued at over three dollars per square yard, thirty per centum ad valorem; on floss silks, twenty per centum ad valorem; on silk ribbons, galloons, braids, fringes, laces, tassels, buttons, button cloths, trimmings, and on silk twist, twist composed of mohair and silk, sewing silk in the gum or purified, and all other manufactures of silk, or of which silk shall be the component material of chief value, not otherwise provided for, thirty per centum ad valorem.]

SECTION 17. From and after the day and year aforesaid there shall be levied, collected, and paid, on the importation of the articles hereinafter mentioned, the following duties, that is to say:

67. First: [On rough plate, cylinder, or broad window glass, not exceeding ten by fifteen inches, one cent per square foot; above that, and not exceeding sixteen by twenty four inches, one cent and a half per square foot; above that, and not exceeding twenty-four by thirty inches, two cents per square foot; all above that, and not exceeding in weight one pound per square foot, three cents per square foot. Provided, That all glass imported in sheets or tables, without reference to size or form, shall pay the highest duty herein imposed: And provided, further, That all rough plate cylinder, [or] broad glass, weighing over one hundred pounds per one hundred square feet, shall pay an additional duty on the excess at the same rates as herein imposed; on crown, plate, or polished, and on all other window glass not exceeding ten by fifteen inches, one cent and a half per square foot; above that, and not exceeding sixteen by twenty-four inches, two cents and a half per square foot; above that, and not exceeding twenty-four by thirty inches, four cents per square foot; all above that, five cents per square foot (257); Provided, That all crown, plate, or polished, and all other window glass weighing over one hundred and fifty pounds per one hundred square feet shall pay an additional duty on such excess of four cents per pound; on all plain and mould and press glassware, not cut, engraved, or painted, twenty-five per centum ad valorem ; on all articles of glass, cut, engraved, painted, colored, printed, stained, sivered, or gilded, thirty per centum ad valorem; on porcelain and Bohemian glass, glass crystals for watches, paintings on glass or glasses, pebbles for spectacles, and all manufactures of glass, or of which glass shall be a component material, not otherwise provided for,] and all glass bottles or jars filled with [sweetmeats, preserves,] (393) or other articles, thirty per centum ad valorem (257).

68. Second: [On China and porcelain ware of all descriptions, thirty per centum ad valorem ; on all brown earthen and common stone ware, twenty per centum ad valorem; on all other earthen, stone, or crockery ware, printed, white, glazed, edged, painted, dipped, or cream-colored, composed of earthy or mineral substances, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.] (257.)

686. SECTION 18. [From and after the day and year aforesaid, there shall be levied, collected, and paid on the importation of the articles hereinafter mentioned, the following duties, that is to say: On all books, periodicals and pamphlets and all printed matter and illustrated books and papers, and on watches (424) and parts of watches, and watch materials, and unfinished parts of watches, fifteen per centum ad valorem.] (299, 613.)

SECTION 19. From and after the day and year aforesaid there shall be levied, collected, and paid a duty of ton per centum on the importation of the articles hereinafter mentioned and embraced in this section, that is to say:

69. Acids, nitric, yellow and white (621), oxalic, and all other acids of every description used for medicinal purposes or in the fine arts, not otherwise provided for (205, 220, 420); [aloes (211); amber] (220); ammonia, sal ammonia, muriate and carbonate of ammonia (220); [anise-seed (218); arrowroot] (401); assafoetida (223).

70. [Bamboos* (626); barks of all kinds not otherwise provided fort] (626); beeswax (224); * Unmanufactured bamboo, which may be manufactured into umbrella sticks or canes or used for whip handles, remains bamboo as designated in this section, until the process to convert it into these articles has commenced. September 12, 1865, N. Y. But bamboo-reeds trimmed at joints, and requiring but little labor to fit them for fishing-rods, were subjected to thirty per cent, duty under the act of 1846. (July 17, 1857. N. Y.) + Thirty cords of bark imported from Canada, and claimed to be entitled to free entry as articles in a crude state, used for dyeing and tanning, were held to be liable to duty of 10 per cent, under this clause. (June 16, 1566, J. T. S.)

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