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CHEMICALS.

CHEMICALS.

All preparations of coal-tar, not colors or dyes, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, twenty per centum ad valorem.

All coal-tar colors or dyes, by whatever name known and not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, thirtyfive per centum ad valorem.

All barks, beans, berries, balsams, buds, bulbs, and bulbous roots, and excrescences, such as nutgalls, fruits, flowers, dried fibers, grains, gums, and gum resins, herbs, leaves, lichens, mosses, nuts, roots and stems, spices, vegetables, seeds (aromatic, not garden seeds), and seeds of morbid growth, weeds, woods used expressly for dyeing, and dried insects, any of the foregoing of which are not edible, but which have been advanced in value or condition by refining or grinding, or by other process of manufacture, and not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, ten per centum ad valorem.

Opium, crude, containing nine per cent. and over of morphia, one dollar per pound. The importation of opium, containing less than nine per cent. morphia is hereby prohibited.

All preparations of coal-tar not colors or dyes, and not acids of colors and dyes. Free list.

Aniline oil and its homologues. Free.

All barks, beans, berries, balsams, buds, bulbs, bulbous roots, and excrescences, such as nutgalls, fruits, flowers, dried fibers, grains, gums, and gum resins, herbs, leaves, lichens, mosses, nuts, roots. and stems, vegetables, seeds, and seeds of morbid growth, weeds, woods used expressly for dyeing, and dried insects, any of the foregoing which are not edible and not specially enumerated or provided for. Free list.

Opium, crude, and not adulterated, con→ taining nine per centum and over of morphia, for medicinal purposes. Free list.

EARTHENWARE AND GLASSWARE.

Brown earthenware, common stoneware, gas-retorts, and stoneware not ornamented, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

China, porcelain, parian, and bisque, earthen, stone, and crockery ware including plaques, ornaments, charms, vases, and statuettes, painted, printed, or gilded, or otherwise decorated or ornamented in any manner, sixty per centum ad valorem.

China, porcelain, parian, and bisque ware, plain white, and not ornamented or decorated in any manner, fifty-five per centum ad valorem.

All other earthen, stone, and crockery ware, white, glazed, or edged, composed of earthy or mineral substances, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, fifty-five per centum ad valorem.

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Brown earthenware, common stoneware, gas-retorts, and roofing tiles not specially enumerated or provided for, and not decorated in any manner, twenty per centum ad valorem.

China, porcelain, parian, and bisque, earthen, stone, or crockery ware composed of earthy or mineral substance, including plaques, ornaments, charms, vases, and statuettes, painted, printed, enameled or gilded, or otherwise decorated in any manner, fifty per centum ad valorem.

China, porcelain, parian, and bisque ware not decorated in any manner, forty per centum ad valorem.

White granite, common ware, plain white or cream-colored, lustered or printed under glaze in a single color; sponged, dipped, or edged ware, thirtyfive per centum ad valorem.

All other earthen, stone, and crockery ware, white, colored, or bisque, composed of earthy or mineral substances, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, and not decorated in any manner, thirty-five per centum ad valorem.

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Encaustic tiles, thirty-five per centum ad valorem.

Brick, fire-brick, and roofing and paving tile, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, twenty per centum ad valorem.

Green and colored glass bottles, vials, demijohns, and carboys (covered or uncovered), pickle or preserve jars, and other plain, molded, or pressed green and colored bottle glass, not cut, engraved, or painted, and not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, one cent per pound; if filled, and not otherwise in this act provided for, said articles shall pay thirty per centum ad valorem in addition to the duty on the contents.

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Encaustic tiles, not glazed or enameled, thirty per centum ad valorem.

All glazed or enameled tiles, forty-five per centum ad valorem.

Brick other than fire-brick. Free list. Paving tiles, not encaustic, twenty per centum ad valorem.

Green and colored glass bottles, vials, demijohns, and carboys (covered or uncovered), pickle or preserve jars, and other plain, molded, or pressed green and colored bottle glass, not cut, engraved, or painted, and not specially enumerated or provided for, one cent per pound; if filled, and not otherwise provided for, and the contents are subject to an ad valorem duty, or to a rate of duty based on their value, the value of such bottles, vials, or other vessels shall be added to the value of the contents for the ascertainment of the dutiable value of the latter; but if filled, and not otherwise provided for, and the contents are not subject to an ad valorem duty or to a rate of duty based on their value, they shall pay a duty of one cent per pound in addition to the duty, if any, on their contents.

METALS.

Provided further, That all iron bars, blooms, billets, or sizes or shapes of any kind, in the manufacture of which charcoal is used as fuel, shall be subject to a duty of twenty-two dollars per ton.

Sheet iron, common or black, thinner than one inch and one-half and not thinner than number twenty wire gauge, one and one-tenth of one cent per pound.

Provided, That on all such iron and steel sheets or plates aforesaid, excepting on what are known commercially as tinplates, terne-plates, and taggers tin, and hereafter provided for, when galvanized or coated with zinc or spelter, or other metals, or any alloy of those metals, threefourths of one cent per pound additional.

Iron or steel sheets, or plates, or taggers iron coated with tin or lead, or with a mixture of which these metals is a component part, by the dipping or any other

METALS.

Provided further, That all iron bars, blooms, billets, or sizes or shapes of any kind, in the manufacture of which charcoal is used as fuel, shall be subject to a duty of not less than twenty dollars per

ton.

Sheet iron, common or black, thinner than one inch and not thinner than number twenty wire gauge, one cent per pound.

Provided, That on all such iron and steel sheets or plates aforesaid, excepting on what are known commercially as tinplates, terne-plates, and taggers tin, when galvanized or coated with zinc or spelter or other metals, or any alloy of those metals, one-fourth of one cent per pound additional when not thinner thau number twenty wire gauge; thinner than number twenty wire gauge and not thinner than number twenty five wire gauge one-half cent per pound additional, and when thinner than twenty-five wire gauge, threefourths of one cent per pound additional.

Iron or steel sheets, or plates, or taggers iron, coated with tin or lead, or with a mixture of which these metals is a component part, by the dipping or any other

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process, and commercially known as tinplates, terne-plates, and taggers tin, one cent per pound; corrugated or crimped sheet iron or steel, one and four-tenths of one cent per pound.

Iron and steel cotton-ties, or hoops for baling purposes, not thinner than number twenty wire gauge, thirty-five per centum ad valorem.

Boiler-tubes, or flues, or stays, of wrought iron or steel, three cents per pound.

Other wrought iron or steel tubes or pipes two and one-quarter cents per pound.

Provided, That iron or steel wire covered with cotton, silk, or other material, and wire commonly known as crinoline, corset, and hat wire, shall pay four cents per pound in addition to the foregoing rates: And provided further, That no article made from iron or steel wire, or of which iron or steel wire is a component part of chief value, shall pay a less rate of duty than the iron or steel wire from which it is made either wholly or in part: And provided further, That iron or steel wire-cloths, and iron or steel wire-nettings, made in meshes of any form, shall pay a duty equal in amount to that imposed on iron or steel wire of the same gange, and two cents per pound in addition thereto. There shall be paid on galvanized iron or steel wire (except fence wire), one-half of one cent per pound in addition to the rate imposed on the wire of which it is made. On iron wire rope and wire strand, one cent per pound in addition to the rates imposed on the wire of which it is made. On steel wire rope and wire strand, two cents per pound in addition to the rates imposed on the wire of which it is made.

All non-dutiable crude minerals, but which have been advanced in value or condition by refining or grinding, or by other process of manufacture, not specially enumerated or provided for.

Clippings from new copper and all composition metal of which copper is a component material of chief value not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, three cents per pound; copper in plates, bars, ingots, Chili or other pigs, and in other forms, not manufactured, or enumerated in this act, four cents per pound; in rolled plates, called braziers' copper, sheets, rods, pipes, and copper bottoms, and all manufactures of copper, or of which copper shall be a component of chief value, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, thirty-five per centum ad valorem.

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process, and commercially known as tinplates, terne - plates, and taggers tin. Free list.

Iron and steel cotton-ties or hoops for baling or other purposes, not thinner than number twenty wire gauge. Free list.

Boiler tubes, or other tubes, or flues, or stays, of wrought iron or steel, one and one-half cents per pound.

Iron and steel wire and iron and steel wire galvanized, and all manufactures of iron and steel wire and of iron and steel wire galvanized shall pay the duties now provided by law: Provided, That no such duty shall be in excess of sixty per centum ad valorem.

Clippings from new copper fit only for remanufacture, one cent per pound.

Copper, in plates, bars, ingots, Chili or other pigs, and in other forms, not manufactured, two cents per pound; in rolled plates, called braziers' copper, sheets, rods, pipes, and copper bottoms, thirty per centum ad valorem.

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Nickel, in ore, matte, or other crude form not ready for consumption in the arts, fifteen cents per pound on the nickel contained therein.

Nickel, nickel oxide, alloy of any kind in which nickel is the eleinent of chief value, fifteen cents per pound.

Sheathing, or yellow metal, not wholly of copper, nor wholly nor in part of iron, ungalvanized, in sheets, forty-eight inches long and fourteen inches wide, and weighing from fourteen to thirty-four ounces per square foot, thirty-five per centum ad valorem.

Manufactures, articles, or wares, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, composed wholly or in part of iron, steel, copper, lead, nickel, pewter, tin, zinc, gold, silver, platinum, or any other metal, and whether partly or wholly manufactured, forty-five per centum ad valorem.

Nickel in ore or matte, ten cents per pound on the nickel contained therein.

Sheathing, or yellow metal, thirty per centum ad valorem.

Manufactures, articles, or wares, not specially enumerated or provided for, composed wholly or in part of copper, thirty-five per centum ad valorem; manufactures, articles, or wares not specially enumerated or provided for, composed of iron, steel, lead, nickel, pewter, tin, zinc, gold, silver, platinum, or any other metal, or of which any of the foregoing metals may be the component material of chief value, and whether partly or wholly manufactured, forty per centum ad valorem.

Machinery designed for the conversion of jute or jute butts into cotton bagging, to wit, cards, roving frames, winding frames, and softeners. Free list.

WOOD.

Timber, squared or sided, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, one cent per cubic foot.

Sawed boards, plank, deals, and other lumber of hemlock, white-wood, sycamore, and bass-wood, one dollar per one thousand reet, board measure; all other articles of sawed lumber, two dollars per one thousand feet, board measure. But when Jumber of any sort is planed or finished, in addition to the rates herein provided, there shall be levied and paid for each side so planed or finished, fifty cents per one thousand feet, board measure. And if planed on one side and tongued and grooved, one dollar per one thousand feet, board measure. And if planed on two sides, and tongued and grooved, one dollar and fifty cents per one thousand feet, board measure.

WOOD.

Timber, squared or sided. Free list.

Sawed boards, planks, deals, and all other articles of sawed lumber. Free list.

SUGAR.

All other confectionery, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, made wholly or in part of sugar, and on sugars after being refined, when tinctured, colored, or in any way adulterated, valued at thirty cents per pound or less ten cents per pound.

SUGAR.

All other confectionery, forty per centum ad valorem.