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shall be made, under general regulations to be prescribed by the FREE LIST-Cont'd. Secretary of the Treasury, but the exemption of bags from duty shall apply only to such domestic bags as may be imported by the exporter thereof, and if any such articles are subject to internalrevenue tax at the time of exportation, such tax shall be proved to have been paid before exportation and not refunded; photographic Photographic films. dry plates or films of American manufacture (except moving-picture films), exposed abroad, whether developed or not, and films from moving-picture machines, light struck or otherwise damaged, or worn out, so as to be unsuitable for any other purpose than the recovery of the constituent materials, provided the basic films are of American manufacture, but proof of the identity of such articles shall be made under general regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, That this paragraph shall not apply to any article upon which an allowance of drawback has been made, the reimportation of which is hereby prohibited except upon payment of duties equal to the drawbacks allowed; or to any article manufactured in bonded warehouse and exported under any provision of law: And provided further, That when manufactured to- Tobacco, to be taxed. bacco which has been exported without payment of internal-revenue tax shall be reimported it shall be retained in the custody of the collector of customs until internal-revenue stamps in payment of the legal duties shall be placed thereon.

501. Asbestos, unmanufactured.

502. Ashes, wood and lye of, and beet-root ashes.

503. Asafetida.

504. Balm of Gilead.

505. Barks, cinchona or other from which quinine may be extracted.

506. Beeswax.

Provisos.
Exceptions.

Proviso.
Exception.

507. Binding twine: All binding twine manufactured from New Binding twine. Zealand hemp, manila, istle or Tampico fiber, sisal grass, or sunn, or a mixture of any two or more of them, of single ply and measuring not exceeding six hundred feet to the pound: Provided, That articles mentioned in this paragraph, if imported from a country which lays an import duty on like articles imported from the United States, shall be subject to a duty of one-half of one cent per pound. 508. Bells, broken, and bell metal broken and fit only to be remanufactured.

509. Birds, stuffed, not suitable for millinery ornaments. 510. Birds and land and water fowls.

511. Bismuth.

512. Bladders, and all integuments, tendons and intestines of animals and fish sounds, crude, dried or salted for preservation only, and unmanufactured, not specially provided for in this section.

513. Blood, dried, not specially provided for in this section. 514. Bolting cloths composed of silk, imported expressly for milling purposes, and so permanently marked as not to be available for any other use.

515. Bones, crude, or not burned, calcined, ground, steamed, or otherwise manufactured, and bone dust or animal carbon, and bone ash, fit only for fertilizing purposes.

516. Books, engravings, photographs, etchings, bound or unbound, maps and charts imported by authority or for the use of the United States or for the use of the Library of Congress.

517. Books, maps, music, engravings, photographs, etchings, bound or unbound, and charts, which shall have been printed more than twenty years at the date of importation, and all hydrographic charts, and publications issued for their subscribers or exchanges by scientific and literary associations or academies, or publications of

Books, etc.

FREE LIST-Cont'd. individuals for gratuitous private circulation, and public documents issued by foreign governments.

Household effects,

etc.

Coal.

Coal-tar products.

Coffee.

Copper.

518. Books and pamphlets printed chiefly in languages other than English; also books and music, in raised print, used exclusively by the blind.

519. Books, maps, music, photographs, etchings, lithographic prints, and charts, specially imported, not more than two copies in any one invoice, in good faith, for the use and by order of any society or institution incorporated or established solely for religious, philosophical, educational, scientific, or literary purposes, or for the encouragement of the fine arts, or for the use and by order of any college, academy, school, or seminary of learning in the United States, or any state or public library, and not for sale, subject to such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe.

520. Books, libraries, usual and reasonable furniture, and similar household effects of persons or families from foreign countries, all the foregoing if actually used abroad by them not less than one year, and not intended for any other person or persons, nor for sale.

521. Brass, old brass, clippings from brass or Dutch metal, all the foregoing, fit only for remanufacture.

522. Brazilian pebble, unwrought or unmanufactured.

523. Bristles, crude, not sorted, bunched, or prepared.

524. Bullion, gold or silver.

525. Burgundy pitch.

526. Cadmium.

527. Camphor, crude, natural.

528. Castor or castoreum.

529. Catgut, whip gut, or worm gut, unmanufactured.

530. Cerium, ceríte, or cerium ore.

531. Chalk, crude, not ground, bolted, precipitated, or otherwise manufactured.

532. Chromate of iron or chromic ore.

533. Civet, crude.

534. Clay: Common blue clay and Gross-Almerode glass-pot clay, in cases or casks suitable for the manufacture of crucibles and glass melting pots or tank blocks.

535. Coal, anthracite, and coal stores of American vessels, but none shall be unloaded.

536. Coal tar, crude, pitch of coal tar, and products of coal tar known as dead or creosote oil, benzol, toluol, naphthalin, xylol, phenol, cresol, toluidine, xylidin, cumidin, binitrotoluol, binitrobenzol, benzidin, tolidin, dianisidin, naphtol, naphtylamin, diphenylamin, benzaldehyde, benzyl chloride, resorcin, nitro-benzol, and nitrotoluol, naphtylaminsulfoacids and their sodium or potassium salts, naphtolsulfoacids and their sodium or potassium salts, amidonaphtolsulfoacids and their sodium or potassium salts, amidosalicylic acid, binitrochlorbenzol, diamidostilbendisulfoacid, metanilic acid, paranitranilin, dimethylanilin; all the foregoing not medicinal and not colors or dyes.

537. Cobalt and cobalt ore.

538. Cocculus indicus.

539. Cochineal.

540. Cocoa, or cacao, crude, and fiber, leaves, and shells of.
541. Coffee.

542. Coins of gold, silver, copper, or other metal.

543. Coir, and coir yarn.

544. Copper ore; regulus of, and black or coarse copper, and copper cement; old copper, fit only for remanufacture, clippings from new copper, and copper in plates, bars, ingots, or pigs, not manufactured or specially provided for in this section.

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545. Composition metal of which copper is the component material FREE LIST-Cont'd. of chief value, not specially provided for in this section.

546. Coral, marine, uncut, and unmanufactured.

547. Cork wood, or cork bark, unmanufactured.

548. Cotton, and cotton waste or flocks.

549. Cryolite, or kryolith.

550. Cudbear.

551. Curling stones, or quoits, and curling-stone handles.

552. Curry, and curry powder.

553. Cuttlefish bone.

554. Dandelion roots, raw, dried, or undried, but unground.

555. Diamonds and other precious stones, rough or uncut, and not advanced in condition or value from their natural state by cleaving, splitting, cutting, or other process, including glaziers' and engravers' diamonds not set.

556. Miners' diamonds, whether in their natural form or broken, and bort; any of the foregoing not set, and diamond dust. 557. Divi-divi.

558. Dragon's blood.

Precious stones.

Crude drugs.

559. Drugs, such as barks, beans, berries, balsams, buds, bulbs, bulbous roots, excrescences, fruits, flowers, dried fibers, dried insects, grains, gums, 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 or tanning; any of the foregoing which are natural and uncompounded drugs and not edible and not specially provided for in this section, and are in a crude state, not advanced in value or condition by any process or treatment whatever beyond that essential to the proper packing of the drugs and the prevention of decay or deterioration pending manufacture: Provided, That no article containing Proviso, alcohol, or in the preparation of which alcohol is used, shall be admitted free of duty under this paragraph.

Alcohol excluded.

Eggs.
Provisos,
Prohibition.

560. Eggs of birds, fish, and insects (except fish roe preserved for food purposes): Provided, however, That the importation of eggs of game birds or eggs of birds not used for food, except specimens for scientific collections, is prohibited: Provided further, That the impor- Exception. tation of eggs of game birds for purposes of propagation is hereby authorized, under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury.

561. Emery ore and corundum.

562. Ergot.

563. Fans, common palm-leaf, plain and not ornamented or decorated in any manner, and palm leaf in its natural state, not colored, dyed, or otherwise advanced or manufactured.

564. Felt, adhesive, for sheathing vessels.

565. Fence posts of wood.

566. Fibrin, in all forms.

567. Fish, fresh, frozen, or packed in ice, caught in the Great Lakes or other fresh waters by citizens of the United States, and all other fish, the products of American fisheries.

568. Fish skins.

Fish of American

fisheries.

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571. Fruits or berries, green, ripe, or dried, and fruits in brine, not specially provided for in this section.

Fruits.

572. Fruit plants, tropical and semitropical, for the purpose of propagation or cultivation.

Furs.

573. Furs, undressed.

574. Fur skin of all kinds not dressed in any manner and not specially provided for in this section.

575. Gambier.

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576. Glass enamel, white, for watch and clock dials.

577. Glass plates or disks, rough-cut or unwrought, for use in the manufacture of optical instruments, spectacles, and eyeglasses, and suitable only for such use: Provided, however, That such disks exceeding eight inches in diameter may be polished sufficiently to enable the character of the glass to be determined.

578. Grasses and fibers: Istle or Tampico fiber, jute, jute butts, manila, sisal grass, sunn, and all other textile grasses or fibrous vegetable substances, not dressed or manufactured in any manner, and not specially provided for in this section.

579. Gold beaters' molds and gold beaters' skins.

580. Grease, fats, vegetable tallow, and oils (excepting fish oils), such as are commonly used in soap making or in wire drawing, or for stuffing or dressing leather, and which are fit only for such uses, and not specially provided for in this section.

581. Guano, manures, and all substances used only for manure, including basic slag, ground or unground, and calcium cyanamid or lime nitrogen.

582. Gutta-percha, crude.

583. Hair of horse, cattle, and other animals, cleaned or uncleaned, drawn or undrawn, but unmanufactured, not specially provided for in this section; and human hair, raw, uncleaned, and not drawn.

584. Hide cuttings, raw, with or without hair, and all other glue stock.

585. Hide rope.

586. Hones and whetstones.

587. Hoofs, unmanufactured.

588. Hop roots for cultivation.

589. Horns and parts of, including horn strips and tips, unmanufactured.

590. Ice.

591. India rubber, crude, and milk of, and scrap or refuse India rubber, fit only for remanufacture, and which has been worn out by use. 592. Indigo.

593. Iodine, crude.

594. Ipecac.

595. Iridium, osmium, palladium, rhodium, and ruthenium and native combinations thereof with one another or with platinum.

596. Ivory tusks in their natural state or cut vertically across the grain only, with the bark left intact, and vegetable ivory in its natural

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610. Lemon juice, lime juice, and sour orange juice, all the foregoing containing not more than two per centum of alcohol.

611. Licorice root, unground.

612. Lifeboats and life-saving apparatus specially imported by societies incorporated or established to encourage the saving of

human life.

613. Lime, citrate of.

614. Lithographic stones, not engraved.

615. Litmus, prepared or not prepared. 616. Loadstones.

617. Madder and munjeet, or Indian madder, ground or prepared, and all extracts of.

618. Magnesite, crude or calcined, not purified.

619. Manganese, oxide and ore of.

620. Manna.

621. Manuscripts.

622. Marrow, crude.

623. Marshmallow or althea root, leaves or flowers, natural or unmanufactured.

624. Medals of gold, silver, or copper, and other metallic articles actually bestowed as trophies or prizes, and received and accepted as honorary distinctions.

625. Meerschaum, crude or unmanufactured.

FREE LIST-Cont'd.

626. Minerals, crude, or not advanced in value or condition by Crude minerals. refining or grinding, or by other process of manufacture, not specially provided for in this section.

627. Mineral salts obtained by evaporation from mineral waters, when accompanied by a duly authenticated certificate and satisfactory proof, showing that they are in no way artificially prepared, and are only the product of a designated mineral spring.

628. Miners' rescue appliances, designed for emergency use in mines where artificial breathing is necessary in the presence of poisonous gases, to aid in the saving of human life, and miners' safety lamps.

629. Models of inventions and of other improvements in the arts, to be used exclusively as models and incapable of any other use. 630. Moss, seaweeds, and vegetable substances, crude or unmanufactured, not otherwise specially provided for in this section. 631. Musk, crude, in natural pods.

632. Myrobolans.

633. Needles, hand sewing and darning.

634. Newspapers and periodicals; but the term "periodicals" as herein used shall be understood to embrace only unbound or papercovered publications issued within six months of the time of entry, devoted to current literature of the day, or containing current literature as a predominant feature, and issued regularly at stated periods, as weekly, monthly, or quarterly, and bearing the date of issue.

635. Nuts: Brazil nuts, cream nuts, marrons crude, palm nuts and palm-nut kernels; cocoanuts in the shell and broken cocoanut meat or copra, not shredded, desiccated, or prepared in any manner. 636. Nux vomica.

637. Oakum.

638. Oil cake.

639. Oils: Almond, amber, crude and rectified ambergris, anise or anise seed, aniline, aspic or spike lavender, bergamot, cajeput, caraway, cassia, cinnamon, cedrat, chamomile, citronella or lemon grass, civet, cocoanut (not refined and deodorized), cotton-seed, croton, fennel, ichthyol, jasmine or jasimine, juglandium, juniper, lavender, lemon, limes, mace, neroli or orange flower, enfleurage grease, liquid and solid primal flower essences not compounded, nut oil or oil of nuts, soya-bean, olive oil rendered unfit for use as food or for any but mechanical or manufacturing purposes, by such means as shall be satisfactory to the Secretary of the Treasury and under regulations to be prescribed by him; attar of roses, palm, palm kernel, rosemary or anthoss, sesame or sesamum seed or bean, thyme, origanum red or white, valerian; and also spermaceti, whale, and other fish oils of American fisheries, and all fish and other products of such fisheries;

Miners' rescue appliances.

Needles.
Periodicals.

Nuts.

Oils.

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