made wholly or in part by stenciling or other me- RATE Free 585 WORKS of art, philosophical and scientific apparatus, utensils, instruments and preparations, including bottles and boxes containing the same; statuary, casts of marble, bronze, alabaster, or plaster of Paris; paintings, drawings, and etchings, specially imported in good faith for the use of any society or institution incorporated or established for religious, philosophical, educational, scientific, or literary purposes, or for encouragement of the fine arts, and not intended for sale, Free the production of American artists residing temporarily abroad, or other works of art, including pictorial paintings on glass, imported expressly for presentation to a national institution, or to any State or municipal corporation, or incorporated religious society, college, or other public institution, including stained or painted window glass or stained or painted glass windows, but such exemption shall be subject to such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe,..... 686 (Decisions of Board of U. S. General Appraisers). casting, bronze or other metal, cheap, lectern, missal stand and ostensorium 1440 Free 1694, 1704, 1742 1282, 958 1762 pulpits and statues, carved wood not,...... 1068 Free marble altars for churches as,......... 688 WORKS of art in terra cotta,. 431 catgut or whipgut, unmanufactured, or not further manufac- 618 WORMS, silk, eggs of,... 281 WORSTED Cloth, as woolen cloth, valued at not exceeding 400 per cloth, etc., valued at more than 40% per pound, WORSTEDS. (See Woolens),. 184 WRAPPER tobacco. (See Tobacco), unstemmed, per pound,,. SEC. 20. WRECKED or sunken vessels, in waters of the United States, stemmed, per pound,.. merchandise recovered from, WRECKS, goods, recovered from (S. 9598, 7554, 7326, 11162, 7064 2041), 310. WRITING paper, n. o. f. p. 25% Free Free 35% 40% $1 50 $2 25 Free 20% 30% 15 XYLONITE, as collodion (S. 6744), compounds of by whatever name known, per pound, 40¢ rolled in sheets, but not made up into articles, per 50¢ in finished or partly finished articles,................. 45% 556 XYLOTILE, crude mineral,... Free Y YACHTS, foreign, arriving on board sailing vessels dutiable, (S. 274 YARNS, or threads composed of flax or hemp, or of a mixture of either, made of hair of camel, goat, alpaca, or other animals, valued valued at not over 400 per pound... woolen or worsted, valued at not over 400 per pound, SEC. 3 YEAST cakes,. 83 YELLOW and brown earthenware, common,. cadmium, as a pigment (G. A. 2049),. crystals (S. 9766), as coal tar colors,. metal (See Sheating), of which copper is chief value, and metal, fit only for remanufacture (S. 7151),.. chrome, dry, per pound,........ ........ chrome, in pulp, on the dry material, per pound,... Free Free Free **** ********* ** ** SEC. 3 YOLKS of eggs of birds, fish and insects,. but the importation of eggs of game birds is pro- RATE 25% 10% 690 ZAFFER,. Free 217 ZANTE currants, per pound,.... 120 280 ZEPHYR worsteds, valued at not over 400 per pound,. 30% manufactures of, n. o. p. f., 174 ZINC, blocks or pigs of, per pound,. old, and worn out, fit only to be remanufactured, per oxide of,... 35% 40 20% sheets of, not polished nor further advanced than rolled, white paint or pigment, containing zinc, dry or ground in Customs Administrative Act. IN EFFECT AUGUST 1, 1890. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all merchandise imported into the United States shall, for the purpose of this act, be deemed and held to be the property of the person to whom the merchandise may be consigned; but the holder of any bill of lading consigned to order and indorsed by the consignor shall be deemed the consignee thereof; and in case of the abandonment of any merchandise to the underwriters the latter may be recognized as the consignee. SEC. 2. That all invoices of imported merchandise shall be made out in the currency of the place or country from whence the importations shall be made or if purchased in the currency actually paid therefor, shall contain a correct description of such merchandise, and shall be made in triplicate or in quadruplicate in case of merchandise intended for immediate transportation without appraisement, and signed by the person owning or shipping the same, if the merchandise has been actually purchased, or by the manufacturer or owner thereof, if the same has been procured otherwise than by purchase, or by the duly authorized agent of such purchaser, manufacturer, or owner. SEC. 3. That all such invoices shall, at or before the shipment of the merchandise, be produced to the consul, vice consul, or commercial agent of the United States of the consular district in which the merchandise was manufactured or purchased as the case may be, for export to the United States, and shall have indorsed thereon, (NOTE.-Accuracy and precision in customs proceedings are so essential to the interests of importers that the services of a competent broker are usually worth vastly more than the small cost of such services.) when so produced, a declaration signed by the purchaser, manufacturer, owner, or agent, setting forth that the invoice is in all respects correct and true, and was made at the place from which the merchandise is to be exported to the United States; that it contains, if the merchandise was obtained by purchase, a true and full statement of the time when, and place where, the person from whom the same was purchased, and the actual cost thereof and of all charges thereon, as provided by this act; and that no discounts, bounties, or drawbacks are contained in the invoice but such as have been actually allowed thereon; and when obtained in any other manner than by purchase, the actual market value or wholesale price thereof at the time of exportation to the United States in the principal markets of the country from whence exported; that such actual market value is the price at which the merchandise described in the invoice is freely offered for sale to all purchasers in said markets, and that it is the price which the manufacturer or owner making the declaration would have received, and was willing to receive, for such merchandise sold in the ordinary course of trade, in the usual wholesale quantities, and that it includes all charges thereon as provided by this act; and the actual quantity thereof; and that no different invoice of the merchandise mentioned in the invoice so produced has been or will be furnished to any one. If the merchandise was actually purchased, the declaration shall also contain a statement that the currency in which such invoice is made out is that which was actually paid for the merchandise by the purchaser. SEC. 4. That, except in case of personal effects accompanying the passenger, no importation of any merchandise exceeding one hundred dollars in dutiable value shall be admitted to entry without the production of a duly-certified invoice thereof as required by law, or of an affidavit made by the owner, importer, or consignee, before the collector or his deputy, showing why it is impracticable to produce such invoice; and no entry shall be made in the absence of a certified invoice, upon affidavit as aforesaid, unless such affidavit be accompanied by a statement in the form of an invoice, or otherwise, showing the actual cost of such merchan (NOTE.-Accuracy and precision in customs proceedings are so essential to the interests of importers that the services of a competent broker are usually worth vastly more than the small cost of such services.) |