PRESENT LAW.

H. R. 9051.

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, an 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, containing nine per centum and over of morphia, for medicinal purposes. Free list.

PRESENT LAW.

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.

H. R. 9051.

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 than number twenty wire gauge; thinner than number twenty wire gauge and not thinner than number twenty five wire gauge one-halt 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