Imports and Duties, 1867-1883.

NOTE. The kinds of wool embraced in each of the classes of wool are prescribed by the tariff as follows:

Class 1, clothing wools: That is to say,merino, mestiza, metz, or metis wools, or other wools of merino blood, immediate or remote, Down clothing wools, and wools of
like character with any of the preceding, including such as have been heretofore usually imported into the United States from Buenos Aires, New Zealand, Australia, Cape
of Good Hope, Russia, Great Britain, Canada, and elsewhere, and also including all wools not hereinafter described or designated in classes 2 and 3.

Class 2, combing wools: That is to say, Leicester, Cotswold, Lincolnshire, Down combing wools, Canada long wools, or other like combing wools of English blood, and
usually known by the terms herein used, and also hair of the alpaca, goat, and other like animals.

Class 3, carpet wools and other similar wools: Such as Donskoi, native South American, Cordova, Valparaiso, native Smyrna, and including all such wools of like character as have been heretofore usually imported into the United States from Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Syria, and elsewhere.

a Prior to 1872 hair of the alpaca and goat was not included.