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flour in any manner contrary to the provisions relating to the manufacture and sale of mixed flour of this Act, or who falsely marks or brands any package or packages containing mixed flour, or unlawfully removes such marks or brands, shall, for each such offense, be punished by a fine of not less than $250 and not more than $500, or by imprisonment not less than thirty days nor more than one year. SEC. 39. That in addition to the branding and marking of mixed flour as herein provided, there shall be affixed to the packages containing the same a label in the following words:"Notice.-The (manufacturer or packer, as the case may be) of the mixed flour herein contained has complied with all the requirements of law. Every person is cautioned not to use this package or label again or to remove the contents without destroying the revenue stamp thereon, under the penalty prescribed by law in such cases." Every person, firm, or corporation failing or neglecting to affix such label to any package containing mixed flour made or packed by him or them, or who removes from any such package any label so affixed, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not less than $50 for each label so removed.

SEC. 40. That barrels or other packages in which mixed flour may be packed shall contain not to exceed 196 pounds; that upon the manufacture and sale of mixed flour there shall be levied a tax of 4 cents per barrel or other package containing 196 pounds or more than 98 pounds; 2 cents on every halfbarrel or other package containing 98 pounds or more than 49 pounds; 1 cent on every quarter-barrel or other package containing 49 pounds or more than 24 pounds; and 1⁄2 cent on every one-eighth barrel or other package containing 241⁄2 pounds or less, to be paid by the person, firm, or corporation making or packing said flour. The tax levied by this section shall be represented by coupon stamps, and the provisions of existing laws governing the engraving, issue, sale, accountability, effacement, and destruction of stamps relating to tobacco and snuff shall, so far as applicable, be made to apply to stamps provided in this section: Provided, That when mixed flour, on the manufacture and sale of which the tax herein imposed has been paid, is sold and then repacked without the addition of any other material, such repacked flour shall not be liable to any additional tax; but the packages containing such repacked flour shall be branded or marked as required by the provisions of section 37 of this Act, and shall contain the card provided for in section 37 hereof, and in addition thereto the person, firm, or corporation repacking mixed flour shall place on the packages containing the same a label in the following words: "Notice.-The contents of this package have been taken from a regular statutory package, upon which the tax has been duly paid." Any person violating the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than $250 and not more than $500, or by imprisonment not to exceed one year.

SEC. 41. That whenever any person, firm, or corporation sells, consigns, or removes for sale, consignment, or consumption any mixed flour upon which the tax required by this Act has not been paid, it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, for a period of not more than one year after such sale, consignment, or removal, upon satisfactory proof, to estimate the amount of tax which should have been paid, and to make an assessment therefor and certify the same to the collector of the proper district. The tax so assessed shall be in addition to the penalties imposed by this Act for an unauthorized sale or removal.

SEC. 42. That all mixed flours, imported from foreign countries, shall, in addition to any import duties imposed thereon, pay an internal-revenue tax equal in amount to the tax imposed under section 40 of this Act, such tax to be represented by coupon stamps, and the packages containing such imported mixed flour shall be marked, branded, labeled, and stamped as in the case of mixed flour made or packed in the United States. Any person, firm, or corporation purchasing or receiving for sale or repacking any such mixed flour which has not been branded, labeled, or stamped as required by this Act, or which is contained in packages which have not been marked, branded, labeled, or stamped as required by this Act, shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than $50 nor more than $500. SEC. 43. That any person, firm, or corporation knowingly purchasing or receiving for sale or for repacking and resale any mixed flour from any maker, packer, or importer who has not paid the tax herein provided shall, for each offense, be fined not less than $50, and forfeit to the United States all the articles so purchased or received, or the full value thereof.

SEC. 44. That mixed flour may be removed from the place of manufacture or from the place where packed for export to a foreign country without payment of tax or affixing stamps or label thereto, under such regulation and the filing of such bond and other security as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, may prescribe. Every person, firm, or corporation who shall export mixed flour shall plainly mark on each package containing the same the words "mixed flour," and the names of the ingredients composing the same, the name of the maker or packer, and the place where made or packed, in accordance with the provisions of sections 36 to 45, inclusive, of this Act.

SEC. 45. That whenever any package containing mixed flour is emptied it shall be the duty of the person in whose possession it is to destroy the stamp thereon. Any person disposing of such package without first having destroyed the stamp or mark or marks thereon shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine not exceeding the sum of $25.

SEC. 46. That all fines, penalties, and forfeitures imposed by section 36 to section 45, both inclusive, of this Act may be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction.

SEC. 47. That the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall make all needful rules and regulations for carrying into effect the provisions relating to the manufacture and sale of mixed flour, being section 35 to section 49, both inclusive, of this Act, and the said Commissioner of Internal Revenue, by and with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, for the purpose of carrying said last-mentioned provisions of this Act into effect, is hereby authorized to employ such additional clerks and agents as may be necessary for that purpose, not to exceed twenty in number.

SEC. 48. That any person, firm, or corporation found guilty of a second or any subsequent violation of any of the provisions of section 36 to section 45, both inclusive, relating to the manufacture and sale of mixed flour as aforesaid, of this Act shall, in addition to the penalties herein imposed, be imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than ninety days.

SEC. 49. That the provisions of this Act relating to the manufacture and sale of mixed flour shall take effect and be in force sixty days from and after the date of the passage of this Act; and all packages of mixed flour found on the premises of any person, firm, or corporation on said day, who has made, packed, or repacked the same, on which the tax herein authorized has not been paid, shall be deemed taxable under the provisions of section 36 to section 45, both inclusive, of this Act, and shall be taxed and have affixed thereon such marks, brands, labels, and stamps as required by the provisions of said sections or by the rules and regulations prescribed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, under authority of this Act.

TEA.

SEC. 50. That there shall be levied, collected, and paid upon tea when imported from foreign countries a duty of 10 cents per pound.

SEC. 51. That this Act shall take effect on the day next succeeding the date of its passage except as otherwise specially provided for.

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AN ACT TO PROVIDE REVENUE FOR THE GOVERNMENT AND TO ENCOURAGE THE INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That on and after the passage of this Act, unless otherwise specially provided for in this Act, there shall be levied, collected, and paid upon all articles imported from foreign countries, and mentioned in the schedules herein contained, the rates of duty which are, by the schedules and paragraphs, respectively prescribed, namely:

SCHEDULE A.

CHEMICALS, OILS, AND PAINTS.

1. ACIDS: Acetic or pyroligneous acid, not exceeding the specific gravity of one and forty-seven one-thousandths, three-fourths of 1 cent per pound; exceeding the specific gravity of one and forty-seven one-thousandths, 2 cents per pound; boracic acid, 5 cents per pound; chromic acid and lactic acid, 3 cents per pound; citric acid, 7 cents per pound: salicylic acid, 10 cents per pound; sulphuric acid or oil of vitriol not specially provided for in this Act, one-fourth of 1 cent per pound; tannic acid or tannin, 50 cents per pound; gallic acid, 10 cents per pound; tartaric acid, 7 cents per pound; all other acids not specially provided for in this Act, 25 per centum ad valorem.

2. All alcoholic perfumery, including cologne water and other toilet waters and toilet preparations of all kinds, containing alcohol or in the preparation of which alcohol is used, and alcoholic compounds not specially provided for in this Act, 60 cents per pound and 45 per centum ad valorem.

3. Alkalies, alkaloids, distilled oils, essential oils, expressed oils, rendered oils, and all combinations of the foregoing, and all chemical compounds and salts not specially provided for in this Act, 25 per centum ad valorem.

4. Alumina, hydrate of, or refined bauxite, sixtenths of 1 cent per pound; alum, alum cake, patent alum, sulphate of alumina, and aluminous cake, and alum in crystals or ground, one-half of 1 cent per pound.

5. Ammonia, carbonate of, 11⁄2 cents per pound; muriate of, or sal ammoniae, three-fourths of 1 cent per pound; sulphate of, three-tenths of 1 cent per pound.

6. Argols or crude tartar or wine lees crude, containing not more than 40 per centum of bitartrate of potash, 1 cent per pound; containing more than 40 per centum of bitartrate of potash, 11⁄2 cents per pound; tartars and lees crystals, or partly refined argols, containing not more than 90 per centum of bitartrate of potash, and tartrate of soda or potassa, or Rochelle salts, 4 cents per pound; containing more than 90 per centum of bitartrate of potash, 5 cents per pound; cream of tartar and patent tartar, 6 cents per pound.

7. Blacking of all kinds, 25 per centum ad valo

rem.

8. Bleaching powder, or chloride of lime, onefifth of 1 cent per pound.

9. Blue vitriol or sulphate of copper, one-half of 1 cent per pound.

10. Bone char, suitable for use in decolorizing sugars, 20 per centum ad valorem.

11. Borax, 5 cents per pound; borates of lime or soda, or other borate material not otherwise provided for, containing more than 36 per centum of anhydrous boracic acid, 4 cents per pound; borates of lime or soda, or other borate material not otherwise provided for, containing not more than 36 per centum of anhydrous boracic acid, 3 cents per pound.

12. Camphor, refined, 6 cents per pound.

13. Chalk (not medicinal nor prepared for toilet purposes), when ground, precipitated naturally or artificially, or otherwise prepared, whether in the form of cubes, blocks, sticks, or disks, or otherwise, including tailors', billiard, red, or French chalk, 1 cent per pound. Manufactures of chalk not specially provided for in this Act, 25 per centum ad valorem.

14. Chloroform, 20 cents per pound.

15. Coal-tar dyes or colors, not specially provided for in this Act, 30 per centum ad valorem; all other products or preparations of coal tar, not colors or dyes and not medicinal, not specially provided for in this Act, 20 per centum ad valorem.

16. Cobalt, oxide of, 25 cents per pound.

17. Collodion and all compounds of pyroxylin, whether known as celluloid or by any other name, 50 cents per pound; rolled or in sheets, unpolished, and not made up into articles, 60 cents per pound: if in finished or partly finished articles, and articles of which collodion or any compound of pyroxylin is the component material of chief value, 65 cents per pound and 25 per centum ad valorem.

18. Coloring for brandy, wine, beer, or other liquors, 50 per centum ad valorem.

19. Copperas or sulphate of iron, one-fourth of 1 cent per pound.

20. Drugs, such as barks, beans, berries, balsams buds, bulbs, bulbous roots, excrescences, fruits flowers, dried fibers, dried insects, grains, gums and gum resin, herbs, leaves, lichens, mosses, nuts nutgalls, roots, stems, spices, vegetables, seeds (aromatic, not garden seeds), seeds of morbid growth, weeds, and woods used expressly for dyeing; any of the foregoing which are drugs and not edible, but which are advanced in value or condition by refining, grinding, or other process, and not specially provided for in this Act, onefourth of 1 cent per pound, and in addition thereto 10 per centum ad valorem.

21. Ethers: Sulphuric, 40 cents per pound: spirits of nitrous ether, 25 cents per pound; fruit ethers, oils, or essences, $2 per pound; ethers of

all kinds not specially provided for in this Act, $1 per pound. Provided, That no article of this paragraph shall pay a less rate of duty than 25 per centum ad valorem.

substance, by whatever name known, including bone-black and lamp-black, dry, or ground in oil or water, 25 per centum ad valorem.

48. Chrome yellow, chrome green, and all other chromium colors in the manufacture of which lead and bichromate of potash or soda are used, in pulp, dry, or ground in or mixed with oil or water, 4% cents per pound.

22. Extracts and decoctions of logwood and other dyewoods, and extracts of barks, such as are commonly used for dyeing or tanning, not specially provided for in this Act, seven-eighths of 1 cent per pound; extracts of quebracho and of hemlock bark, one-half of 1 cent per pound; extracts of sumac, and of woods other than dyewoods, not specially provided for in this Act, five-ed, eighths of 1 cent per pound.

23. Gelatine, glue, isinglass, or fish glue, and prepared fish bladders or fish sounds, valued at not above 10 cents per pound, 2 cents per pound; valued at above 10 cents per pound and not above 35 cents per pound, 25 per centum ad valorem; valued above 35 cents per pound, 15 cents per pound and 20 per centum ad valorem.

24. Glycerine, crude, not purified, 1 cent per pound: refined, 3 cents per pound.

25. Indigo, extracts or pastes of, three-fourths of 1 cent per pound; carmined, 10 cents per pound. 26. Ink and ink powders, 25 per centum ad valo

rem.

27. Iodine, resublimed, 20 cents per pound. 28. Iodoform, $1 per pound.

29. Licorice, extracts of, in paste, rolls, or other forms, 4% cents per pound.

30. Chicle, 10 cents per pound.

31. Magnesia, carbonate of, medicinal, 3 cents per pound; calcined, medicinal, 7 cents per pound; Sulphate of, or Epsom salts, one-fifth of 1 cent per pound.

32. OILS: Alizarin assistant, sulpho-ricinoleic acid, and ricinoleic acid, by whatever name known, whether liquid, solid, or in paste, in the manufacture of which 50 per centum or more of castor oil is used, 30 cents per gallon; in the manufacture of which less than 50 per centum of castor oil is used, 15 cents per gallon; all other alizarin assistant, not specially provided for in this Act, 30 per centum ad valorein.

33. Castor oil, 35 cents per gallon. 34. Cod-liver oil, 15 cents per gallon.

49. Ocher and ochery earths, sienna and sienna earths, and umber and umber earths, not specially provided for, when crude or not powdered, washor pulverized, one-eighth of 1 cent per pound; if powdered, washed, or pulverized, three-eighths of 1 cent per pound; if ground in oil or water, 1 cents per pound.

50. Orange mineral, 33% cents per pound. 51. Red lead, 2% cents per pound.

52. Ultramarine blue, whether dry, in pulp, or mixed with water, and wash blue containing ultramarine, 34 cents per pound.

53. Varnishes, including so-called gold size or japan, 35 per centum ad valorem; spirit varnishes, $1.32 per gallon and 35 per centum ad valorem. 54. Vermilion red, and other colors containing quicksilver, dry, or ground in oil or water, 10 cents per pound; when not containing quicksilver but made of lead or containing lead, 5 cents per pound. 55. White lead, white paint and piginent containing lead, dry or in pulp, or ground or mixed with oil, 2 cents per pound.

56. Whiting and Paris white, dry, one-fourth of 1 cent per pound; ground in oil or putty, 1 cent per pound.

57. Zinc, oxide of, and white paint or pigment containing zinc, but not containing lead, dry, 1 cent per pound; ground in oil, 14 cents per pound; suffid of zinc white, or white sulphide of zine, 14 cents per pound; chloride of zinc and sulphate of zinc, I cent per pound.

58. All paints, colors, pigments, lakes, crayons, smalts, and frostings, whether crude or dry or mixed, or ground with water or oil or with solutions other than oil, not otherwise specially provided for in this Act, 30 per centum ad valorem; all paints, colors, and pigments commonly known as artists' paints or colors, whether in

35. Cotton-seed oil, 4 cents per gallon of 7% tubes, pans, cakes, or other forms, 30 per centum pounds weight.

6. Croton oil, 20 cents per pound.

37. Flaxseed, linseed, and poppy-seed oil, raw, boiled, or oxidized, 20 cents per gallon of 7 pounds weight.

38. Fusel oil, or amylic alcohol, one-fourth of 1 cent per pound.

39. Hemp-seed oil and rape-seed oil, 10 cents per gallon.

40. Olive oil, not specially provided for in this Act, 40 cents per gallon; in bottles, jars, tins, or similar packages, 50 cents per gallon.

41. Peppermint oil, 50 cents per pound.

42. Seal, herring, whale, and other fish oil, not specially provided for in this Act, 8 cents per gallon.

43. Opium, crude or unmanufactured, and not adulterated, containing 9 per centum and over of morphia, $1 per pound; morphia or morphine, sulphate of, and all alkaloids or salts of opium, $1 per ounce; aqueous extract of opium, for medicinal uses, and tincture of, as laudanum, and other liquid preparations of opium, not specially provided for in this Act, 40 per centum ad valorem; opium containing less than 9 per centum of morphia, and opium prepared for smoking, $6 per pound: but opium prepared for smoking and other preparations of opium deposited in bonded warehouses shall not be removed therefrom without payment of duties, and such duties shall not be refunded.

44. PAINTS, COLORS, AND VARNISHES: Baryta, sulphate of, or barytes, including barytes earth, unmanufactured, 75 cents per ton; manufactured, $5.25 per ton.

45. Blues, such as Berlin, Prussian, Chinese, and all others, containing ferrocyanide of iron, in pulp, dry, or ground in or mixed with oil or water, 8 cents per pound.

46. Blanc-fixe, or artificial sulphate of barytes, and satin white, or artificial sulphate of lime, onehalf of 1 cent per pound.

47. Black, made from bone, ivory, or vegetable

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59. Paris green and London purple, 15 per centum ad valorem.

60. Lead: Acetate of, white, 34 cents per pound; brown, gray, or yellow, 24 cents per pound; nitrate of, 2 cents per pound; litharge, 24 cents per pound.

61. Phosphorus, 18 cents per pound.

62. POTASH: Bichromate and chromate of, 3 cents per pound.

63. Caustic or hydrate of, refined, in sticks or rolls, 1 cent per pound; chlorate of, 21⁄2 cents per pound.

64. Hydriodate, iodide, and iodate of, 25 cents per pound.

65. Nitrate of, or saltpeter, refined, one-half cent per pound.

66. Prussiate of, red, 8 cents per pound; yellow, 4 cents per pound; cyanide of potassium, 121⁄2 per centum ad valorem.

67. PREPARATIONS: Medicinal preparations contaming alcohol, or in the preparation of which alcohol is used, not specially provided for in this Act, 55 cents per pound; but in no case shal the same pay less than 25 per centum ad valorem.

68. Medicinal preparations not containing alcohol, or in the preparation of which alcohol is not used, not specially provided for in this Act, 25 per centum ad valorem; calomel and other mercurial medicinal preparations, 35 per centum ad valo

rem.

69. Plasters, healing or curative, of all kinds, and court-plaster, 35 per centum ad valorem.

70. Preparations used as applications to the hair, mouth, teeth, or skin, such as cosmetics, dentifrices, pastes, pomades, powders, and other toilet articles, and articles of perfumery, whether in sachets or otherwise, not containing alcohol, or in the manufacture of which alcohol is not used, and not specially provided for in this Act, 50 per centum ad valorem.

71. Santonin, and all salts thereof containing 80 per centum or over of santonin, $1 per pound.

72. SOAP: Castile soap, 14 cents per pound; fancy, perfumed, and all descriptions of toilet soap, including so-called medicinal or medicated soaps, 15 cents per pound; all other soaps not specially provided for in this Act, 20 per centum ad valorem.

73. SODA: Bicarbonate of soda, or supercarbonate of soda, or saleratus, and other alkalies containing 50 per centum or more of bicarbonate of soda, three-fourths of 1 cent per pound.

74. Bichromate and chromate of soda, 2 cents per pound.

75. Crystal carbonate of soda, or concentrated soda crystals, or monohydrate, or sesquicarbonate of soda, three-tenths of 1 cent per pound; chlorate of soda, 2 cents per pound.

76. Hydrate of, or caustic soda, three-fourths of 1 cent per pound; nitrite of soda, 2% cents per pound; hypo-sulphite and sulphide of soda, onehalf of 1 cent per pound.

77. Sal soda, or soda crystals, not concentrated, two-tenths of 1 cent per pound.

78. Soda ash, three-eighths of 1 cent per pound; arseniate of soda, 14 cents per pound.

79. Silicate of soda, or other alkaline silicate, one-half of 1 cent per pound.

80. Sulphate of soda, or salt cake, or niter cake, $1.25 per ton.

81. Sea moss, 10 per centum ad valorem.

82. Sponges, 20 per centum ad valorem; manufactures of sponges, or of which sponge is the component material of chief value, not specially provided for in this Act, 40 per centum ad valo

rem.

83. Strychnia, or strychnine, and all salts thereof, 30 cents per ounce.

84. Sulphur, refined or sublimed, or flowers of, $8 per ton.

85. Sumac, ground, three-tenths of 1 cent per pound.

86. Vanillin, 80 cents per ounce.

SCHEDULE B.

EARTHS, EARTHENWARE, AND GLASSWARE. 87. BRICK AND TILE: Fire-brick, weighing not more than 10 pounds each, not glazed, enameled, ornamented, or decorated in any manner, $1.25 per ton; glazed, enameled, ornamented, or decorated, 45 per centum ad valorem; brick, other than fire-brick, not glazed, enameled, painted, vitrified, ornamented, or decorated in any manner, 25 per centum ad valorem; if glazed, enameled, painted, vitrified, ornamented, or decorated in any manner, 45 per centum ad valorem.

88. Tiles, plain unglazed, one color, exceeding two square inches in size, 4 cents per square foot; glazed, encaustic, ceramic mosaic, vitrified, semivitrified, flint, spar, embossed, enameled, ornamental, hand-painted, gold-decorated, and all other earthenware tiles, valued at not exceeding 40 cents per square foot, 8 cents per square foot; exceeding 40 cents per square foot, 10 cents per square foot and 25 per centum ad valorem.

89. CEMENT, LIME, AND PLASTER: Roman, Portland, and other hydraulic cement, in barrels, sacks, or other packages, 8 cents per 100 pounds, including weight of barrel or package; in bulk, 7 cents per 100 pounds; other cement, 20 per centum ad valorem.

90. Lime, 5 cents per 100 pounds, including weight of barrel or package.

91. Plaster rock or gypsum, crude, 50 cents per ton; if ground or calcined, $2.25 per ton; pearl hardening for paper-makers' use, 20 per centum ad valorem.

92. Pumice stone, wholly or partially manufactured, $6 per ton; unmanufactured, 15 per centum ad valorem.

93. CLAYS OR EARTHS: Clays or earths, unwrought or unmanufactured, not specially provided for in this Act, $1 per ton; wrought or manufactured, not specially provided for in this Act, $2 per ton; china clay or kaolin, $2.50 per ton; limestone rock asphalt containing not more than 15 per centum of bitumen, 50 cents per ton; asphaltum and bitumen, not specially provided for in this Act, crude, if not dried,or otherwise advanced in any manner, $1.50 per ton; if dried or otherwise

advanced in any manner, $3 per ton; bauxite, or beauxite, crude, not refined or otherwise advanced in condition from its natural state, $1 per ton; fullers' earth, unwrought and unmanufactured, $1.50 per ton; wrought or manufactured, $3 per ton.

94. EARTHENWARE AND CHINA: Common yellow, brown, or gray earthenware, plain, embossed, or salt-glazed common stoneware, and crucibles, all the foregoing not decorated in any manner, 25 per centum ad valorem; Rockingham earthenware not decorated, 40 per centum ad valorem.

95. China, porcelain, parian, bisque, earthen, stone, and crockery ware, including clock cases with or without movements, plaques, ornaments, toys, toy tea sets, charms, vases, and statuettes, painted, tinted, stained, enameled, printed, gilded, or otherwise decorated or ornamented in any manner, 60 per centum ad valorem; if plain white and without superadded ornamentation of any kind, 55 per centum ad valorem.

96. All other china, porcelain, parian, bisque, earthen, stone, and crockery ware, and manufactures thereof, or of which the same is the component material of chief value, by whatever name known, not specially provided for in this Act, if painted, tinted, stained, enameled, printed, gilded, or otherwise decorated or ornamented in any manner, 60 per centum ad valorem; if not ornamented or decorated, 55 per centum ad valorem.

97. Articles and wares composed wholly or in chief value of earthy or mineral substances, or carbon, not specially provided for in this Act, if not decorated in any manner, 35 per centum ad valorem; if decorated, 45 per centum ad valorem.

98. Gas retorts, $3 each; lava tips for burners, 10 cents per gross and 15 per centum ad valorem; carbons for electric lighting, 90 cents per 100; filter tubes, 45 per centum ad valorem; porous carbon pots for electric batteries, without metallic connections, 20 per centum ad valorem.

99. GLASS AND GLASSWARE: Flain green or colored, molded or pressed, and flint, lime, or lead glass bottles, vials, jars, and covered or uncovered demijohns and carboys, any of the foregoing, filled or unfilled, not otherwise specially provided for, and whether their contents be dutiable or free (except such as contain merchandise subject to an ad valorem rate of duty, or to a rate of duty based in whole or in part upon the value thereof, which shall be dutiable at the rate applicable to their contents), shall pay duty as follows: If holding more than one pint, 1 cent per pound; if holding not more than one pint and not less than one-fourth of a pint, 1% cents per pound; if holding less than one-fourth of a pint, 50 cents per gross: Provided, That none of the above articles shall pay a less rate of duty than 40 per centum ad valorem.

100. Glass bottles, decanters, or other vessels or articles of glass, cut, engraved, painted, colored, stained, silvered, gilded, etched, frosted, printed in any manner, or otherwise ornamented, decorated, or ground (except such grinding as is necessary for fitting stoppers), and any articles of which such glass is the component material of chief value, and porcelain, opal, and other blown glassware; all the foregoing, filled or unfilled, and whether their contents be dutiable or free, 60 per centum ad valorem.

101. Unpolished cylinder, crown, and common window glass, not exceeding 10 by 15 inches square, 13 cents per pound; above that, and not exceeding 16 by 24 inches square, 1% cents per pound; above that, and not exceeding 24 by 30 inches square, 2 cents per pound; above that, and not exceeding 24 by 36 inches square, 2 cents per pound; above that, and not exceeding 30 by 40 inches square, 3 cents per pound; above that, and not exceeding 40 by 60 inches square, 3 cents per pound; above that, 43 cents per pound: Provided, That unpolished cylinder, crown, and common window glass, imported in boxes, shall contain 50 square feet, as nearly as sizes will permit, and the duty shall be computed thereon according to the actual weight of glass.

102. Cylinder and crown glass, polished, not exceeding 16 by 24 inches square, 4 cents per square foot; above that, and not exceeding 24 by 30 inches square, 6 cents per square foot; above

that, and not exceeding 24 by 60 inches square, 15 cents per square foot; above that, 20 cents per square foot.

103. Fluted, rolled, ribbed, or rough plate glass, or the same containing a wire netting within itself, not including crown, cylinder, or common window glass, not exceeding 16 by 24 inches square, three-fourths of 1 cent per square foot; above that, and not exceeding 24 by 30 inches square, 114 cents per square foot; all above that, 14 cents per square foot; and all fluted, rolled, ribbed, or rough plate glass, weighing over 100 pounds per 100 square feet, shall pay an additional duty on the excess at the same rates herein imposed: Provided, That all of the above plate glass, when ground, smoothed, or otherwise obscured, shall be subject to the same rate of duty as cast polished plate glass unsilvered.

104. Cast polished plate glass, finished or unfinished and unsilvered, not exceeding 16 by 24 inches square, 8 cents per square foot; above that, and not exceeding 24 by 30 inches square, 10 cents per square foot; above that, and not exceeding 24 by 60 inches square, 22% cents per square foot; all above that, 35 cents per square foot.

105. Cast polished plate glass, silvered, cylinder and crown glass, silvered, and looking-glass plates, exceeding in size 144 square inches and not exceeding 16 by 24 inches square, 11 cents per square foot; above that, and not exceeding 24 by 30 inches square, 13 cents per square foot; above that, and not exceeding 24 by 60 inches square, 25 cents per square foot; all above that, 38 cents per square foot.

106. But no looking-glass plates or plate glass, silvered, when framed, shall pay a less rate of duty than that imposed upon similar glass of like description not framed, but shall pay in addition thereto upon such frames the rate of duty applicable thereto when imported separate.

107. Cast polished plate glass, silvered or unsilvered, and cylinder, crown, or common window glass, silvered or unsilvered, when bent, ground, obscured, frosted, sanded, enameled, beveled, etched, embossed, engraved, flashed, stained, colored, painted, or otherwise ornamented or decorated, shall be subject to a duty of 5 per centum ad valorem in addition to the rates otherwise enargeable thereon.

108. Spectacles, eyeglasses, and goggles, and frames for the same, or parts thereof, finished or unfinished, valued at not over 40 cents per dozen, 20 cents per dozen and 15 per centum ad valorem; valued at over 40 cents per dozen and not over $1.50 per dozen, 45 cents per dozen and 20 per centum ad valorem; valued at over $1.50 per dozen, 50 per centum ad valorem.

109. Lenses of glass or pebble, ground and polished to a spherical, cylindrical, or prismatic form, and ground and polished plano or coquill glasses, wholly or partly manufactured, with the edges unground, 45 per centum ad valorem; if with their edges ground or beveled, 10 cents per dozen pairs and 45 per centum ad valorem.

110. Strips of glass not more than 3 inches wide, ground or polished on one or both sides to a cylindrical or prismatic form, and glass slides for magic lanterns, 45 per centum ad valorem.

111. Opera and field glasses, telescopes, microscopes, photographic and projecting lenses and optical instruments, and frames or mountings for the same; all the foregoing not specially provided for in this Act, 45 per centum ad valorem. 112. Stained or painted glass windows, or parts thereof, and all mirrors, not exceeding in size 144 square inches, with or without frames or cases, and all glass or manufactures of glass or paste, or of which glass or paste is the component material of chief value, not specially provided for in this Act, 45 per centum ad valorem.

113. Fusible enamel, 25 per centum ad valorem. 114. MARBLE AND STONE, AND MANUFACTURES OF: Marble in block, rough or squared only, 65 cents per cubic foot; onyx in block, rough or squared, $1.50 per cubic foot; marble or onyx, sawed or dressed, over 2 inches in thickness, $1.10 per cubic foot; slabs or paving tiles of marble or onyx, containing not less than 4 superficial inches, if not more than 1 inch in thickness, 12 cents per superficial foot; if more than 1 inch and not more

than 1% inches in thickness, 15 cents per superficial foot; if more than 11⁄2 inches and not more than 2 inches in thickness, 18 cents per superficial foot; if rubbed in whole or in part, 3 cents per superficial foot in addition; mosaic cubes of marble, onyx, or stone, not exceeding 2 cubic inches in size, if loose, 1 cent per pound and 20 per centum ad valorem; if attached to paper or other material, 20 cents per superficial foot and 35 per centum ad valorem.

115. Manufactures of agate, alabaster, chalcedony, chrysolite, coral, carnelian, garnet, jasper, jet, malachite, marble, onyx, rock crystal, or spar, including clock cases with or without movements, not specially provided for in this Act, 50 per centum ad valorem.

116. Stone: Burrstones, manufactured or bound up into millstones, 15 per centum ad valorem. 117. Freestone, granite, sandstone, limestone, and other building or monumental stone, except marble and onyx, unmanufactured or undressed, not specially provided for in this Act, 12 cents per cubic foot.

118. Freestone, granite, sandstone, limestone, and other building or monumental stone, except marble and onyx, not specially provided for in this Act, hewn, dressed, or polished, 50 per centum ad valorem.

119. Grindstones, finished or unfinished, $1.75 per ton. 120. Slate: Slates, slate chimney-pieces, mantels, slabs for tables, roofing slates, and all other manufactures of slate not specially provided for in this Act, 20 per centum ad valorem.

SCHEDULE C.

METALS, AND MANUFACTUres of.

121. Iron ore, including manganiferous iron ore, and the dross or residuum from burnt pyrites, 40 cents per ton: Provided, That in levying and collecting the duty on iron ore no deduction shall be made from the weight of the ore on account of moisture which may be chemically or physically combined therewith; basic slag, ground or unground, $1 per ton.

122. Iron in pigs, iron kentledge, spiegeleisen, ferro-manganese, ferro-silicon, wrought and cast scrapiron, and scrap steel, $4 per ton; but nothing shall be deemed scrap iron or scrap steel except waste or refuse iron or steel fit only to be remanufactured.

123. Bar iron, square iron, rolled or hammered, comprising flats not less than 1 inch wide nor less than three-eighths of 1 inch thick, round iron not less than seven-sixteenths of 1 inch in diameter, six-tenths of 1 cent per pound.

124. Round iron, in coils or rods, less than sevensixteenths of 1 inch in diameter, and bars or shapes of rolled or hammered iron, not specially provided for in this Act, eight-tenths of 1 cent per pound: Provided, That all iron in slabs, blooms, loops, or other forms less finished than iron in bars, and more advanced than pig iron, except castings, shall be subject to a duty of fivetenths of 1 cent per pound: 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 $12 per ton.

125. Beams, girders, joists, angles, channels, car-truck channels, TT columns and posts, or parts or sections of columns and posts, deck and bulb beams, and building forms, together with all other structural shapes of iron or steel, whether plain or punched, or fitted for use, fivetenths of 1 cent per pound.

126. Boiler or other plate iron or steel, except crucible plate steel and saw plates hereinafter provided for, not thinner than No. 10 wire gauge, sheared or unsheared, and skelp iron or steel sheared or rolled in grooves, valued at 1 cent per pound or less, five-tenths of 1 cent per pound; valued above 1 cent and not above 2 cents per pound, six-tenths of 1 cent per pound; valued above 2 cents and not above 4 cents per pound, 1 cent per pound; valued at over 4 cents per pound, 25 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That all sheets or plates of iron or steel thinner than No.

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