shall prescribe, that such meats have been cured with imported salt, have refunded to them from the Treasury the duties paid on the salt so used in curing such exported meats, in amounts not less than one hundred dollars: And provided further, That imported salt in bond may be used in curing fish taken by vessels licensed to engage in the fisheries, aud in curing fish on the shores of the navigable waters of the United States, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe; and upon proof that the salt has been used for either of the purposes stated in this proviso, the duties on the same shall be remitted. Scagliola, and composition tops for tables or for other articles of furniture, thirty-five per centum ad valorem.

Sealing-wax, twenty per centum ad valorem.

Shells, whole or parts of, manufactured, of every description, not specially enumerated or provided for in this aet, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

Stones, unmanufactured or undressed, freestone, granite, sandstone, and all building or monumental stone, except marble, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, one dollar per ton; and upon stones as above, hewn, dressed, or polished, twenty per centum ad valorem.

Strings: All strings of catgut, or any other like material, other than strings for musical instruments, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. Tallow, one cent per pound.

Teeth, manufactured, twenty per centum ad valorem.

Umbrella and parasol ribs, and stretcher frames, tips runners, handles, or other parts thereof, when made in whole or chief part of iron, steel, or any other metal, forty per centum ad valorem; umbrellas, parasols, and shades, when covered with silk or alpaca, fifty per centum ad valorem; all other umbrellas, forty per centum ad valorem.

Umbrellas, parasols, and sunshades, frames and sticks for, finished or unfinished, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, thirty per centum ad valorem

Waste, all not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, ten per centum ad valorem.

Watches, watch-cases, watch-movements, parts of watches, and watch materials, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, twentyfive per centum ad valorem.

Webbing, composed of cotton, flax, or any other materials, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, thirty-five per centum ad valorem.

THE FREE LIST

SEC. 2503. The following articles when imported shall be exempt from duty:

Albumen, in any form or condition; lactarine.

Aconite.

Ambergris

Annato, roncou, rocou, or orleans, and all extracts of

Balm of Gilead.

Blood, dried.

Bones, crude, not manufactured, burned, calcined, ground, or steamed.
Bone-dust and bone-ash for manufacture of phosphate and fertilizers.
Carbon, animal, fit for fertilizing only.

Guano, manures, and all substances expressly used for manure
Musk, crude, in natural pod.

Civit, crude.
Cochineal.

Dyeing or tanning: Articles in a crude state used in dyeing or tan ning, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act.

Fish-skins.

Hide-cuttings, raw, with or without hair, and all glue-stock.
Hoofs.

Horns, and parts of horns, unmanufactured, and horn strips and tips.
Ipecac.

Fish-sounds or fish-bladders.

Leather, old scraps

Leeches.

Rennets, raw or prepared.

Argal, or Argol, or crude Tartar.

Assafoetida.

Barks, Cinchona, or other barks, used in the manufacture of quinia. Brazil paste.

Camphor, crude.

Cassia, Cassia buds, Cassia Vera, unground.

Mace.

Madder, and munjeet or Indian madder, ground or prepared, and ex

tracts of.

Manna.

Myrobolan.

Orchil, or orchil liquid

Nutmegs.

Nux vomica.

Ottar of roses

Salacine

Oils:

Almond

Amber, crude and rectified

Ambergris.

Anise, or anise seed.

Saffron and safflower, and extract of, and saffron cake.

Selep, or saloup.

Storax, or styrax.

Turmeric.

Turpentine, Venice.
Valonia.

Vegetable and mineral wax.

Wood ashes, and lye of, and beet-root ashes.

Acids used for medicinal, chemical, or manufacturing purposes, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act.

Alizarine, natural or artificial.

Agates, unmanufactured.

Magnesite, or native mineral carbonate of magnesia.
Manganese, oxide and ore of.

Mineral waters, all not artificial,

Osmium.

Palladium.

Paraffine.

Phosphates, crude or native, for fertilizing purposes.

Potash, muriate of.

Plaster of Paris or sulphate of lime, unground.

Quinia, sulphate of, salts of, and cinchonidia.

Soda, nitrate of, or cubic nitrate.

Strontia, oxide of, and proto-oxide of strontian, and strontianite, or mineral carbonate of strontia.

Sulphur, or brimstone, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act.

Uranium, oxide of, verdigris or subacetate of copper.

Drugs, barks, beans, berries, balsams, buds, bulbs, and bulbous roots and excresenses, such as nut-galls, fruits, flowers, dried fibers; grains, gums and gum-resin; herbs, leaves, lichens, mosses, nuts, roots, and stems; spices, vegetables, seeds aromatic, and seeds of morbid growth; weeds, woods used expressly for dyeing, and dried insects-any of the foregoing, of which are not edible and are in a crude state, and not ad vanced in value or condition by refining or grinding, or by other process of manufacture, and not specially enumerated or provided for in this act.

Vaccine virus.

Crude minerals, not advanced in value or condition by refining or grinding, or by other process of manufacture, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act.

Aluminium.

Amber beads and gum.

SUNDRIES.

Animals, brought into the United States temporarily, and for a period not exceeding six months, for the purpose of exhibition or competition for prizes offered by any agricultural or racing association; but a bond shall be first given in accordance with the regulations.

Animals, specially imported for breeding purposes, shall be admitted free upon proof thereof satisfactory to the Secretary of the Treasury, and under such regulations as he may prescribe; and teams of animals, including their harness and tackle and the vehicles or wagons actually owned by persons emigrating from foreign countries to the United States with their families, and in actual use for the purpose of such emigration, shall also be admitted free of duty, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe.

Asphaltum and bitumen, crude.

Arrowroot.

Articles imported for the use of the United States, provided that the price of the same did not include the duty.

Bamboo reeds, no further manufactured than cut into suitable lengths for walking sticks or canes, or for sticks for umbrellas, parasols, or sunshades.

Bamboo, unmanufactured.

Barrels of American manufacture, exported filled with domestic petroleum, and returned empty, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, and without requiring the filling of a declaration at time of export of intent to return the same empty.

Articles the growth, produce, and manufacture of the United States, when returned in the same condition as exported. Casks, barrels, carboys, bags, and other vessels of American manufacture, exported filled with American products, or exported empty and returned filled with foreign products, including shooks when returned as barrels or boxes; but proof of the identity of such articles shall be made under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury; and if any of such articles are subject to internal tax at the time of exportation, such tax shall be proved to have been paid before exportation and not refunded.

Bed-feathers and downs.

Bells, broken, and bell metal broken and fit only to be remanufactured. Birds, stuffed.

Birds, and land and water fowls.

Bismuth.

Bladders, crude, and all integuments of animals not specially enumerated or provided for in this act.

Bologna sausages.

Bolting cloths.

Books, engravings, bound or unbound, etchings, maps, and charts, which shall have been printed and manufactured more than twenty years at the date of importation.

Books, maps, and charts imported by authority or for use of the United States or for the use of the Library of Congress; but the duty shall not have been included in the contract of price paid.

Books, maps, and charts specially imported, not more than two copies in any one invoice, in good faith, for the use of any society incorporated or established for philosophical, literary, or religious purposes, or for the encouragement of the fine arts, or for the use or by order of any college, academy, school, or seminary of learning in the United States.

Books, professional, of persons arriving in the United States.

Books, household effects, or libraries, or parts of libraries, in use, of persons or families from foreign countries, if used abroad by them not less than one year, and not intended for any other person or persons, nor for sale.

Brazil pebbles for spectacles, and pebbles for spectacles rough.
Bullion, gold and silver.

Burgundy pitch.

Burr-stone, in blocks, rough or unmanufactured, and not bound up in mill-stones

Cabinets of coins, medals, and all other collections of antiquities. Castor or castoreum.