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281. Chocolate and cocoa, prepared or manufactured, not specially

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provided for in this Act, valued at not over fifteen cents per pound, two and one-half cents per pound; valued above fifteen and not above twenty-four cents per pound, two and one-half cents per pound and ten per centum ad valorem; valued above twenty-four and not above thirty-five cents per pound, five cents per pound and ten per centum ad valorem; valued above thirty-five cents per pound, fifty per centum ad valorem. The weight and value of all coverings, other than plain wooden, shall be included in the dutiable weight and value of the foregoing merchandise; powdered cocoa, unsweetened, five cents per pound.

282. Cocoa-butter or cocoa-butterine, three and one-half cents per

pound.

283. Dandelion-root and acorns prepared, and articles used as coffee,
or as substitutes for coffee not specially provided for in this
Act, two and one-half cents per pound.

284. Salt in bags, sacks, barrels, or other packages, twelve cents per
one hundred pounds; in bulk, eight cents per one hundred
pounds: Provided, That imported salt in bond may be used in
curing fish taken by vessels licensed to engage in the fisheries,
and 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: Provided further, That export-
ers of meats, whether packed or smoked, which have been
cured in the United States with imported salt, shall, upon sat-
isfactory proof, under such regulations as the Secretary of the
Treasury 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.
285. Starch, including all preparations, from whatever substance pro-
duced, fit for use as starch, one and one-half cents per pound.
286. Dextrine, burnt starch, gum substitute, or British gum, two cents
per pound.

287. Spices: Mustard, ground or prepared, in bottles or otherwise,
ten cents per pound; capsicum or red pepper, or cayenne pep-
per, two and one-half cents per pound; sage, one cent per
pound; spices not specially provided for in this Act, three
cents per pound.

e ate 288. Vinegar, seven and one-half cents per proof gallon. The standard proof for vinegar shall be taken to be that strength which requires thirty-five grains of bicarbonate of potash to neutralize one ounce troy of vinegar.

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SCHEDULE H.-SPIRITS, WINES, AND OTHER BEVERAGES.

SPIRITS.

30 289. Brandy and other spirits manufactured or distilled from grain het other materials, and not specially provided for in this Act, two dol cers and twenty-five cents per proof gallon.

Pa 290. Each and every gauge or wine gallon of measurement shall be unted as at least one proof gallon; and the standard for determining

the proof of brandy and other spirits or liquors of any kind imported shall be the same as that which is defined in the laws relating to internal revenue: Provided, That it shall be lawful for the Secretary of the Treasury, in his discretion, to authorize the ascertainment of the proof of wines, cordials, or other liquors, by distillation or otherwise, in cases where it is impracticable to ascertain such proof by the means prescribed by existing law or regulations: And provided further, That any brandy or other spirituous or distilled liquors imported in any sized cask, bottle, jug, or other package, of or from any country, dependency, or province under whose laws similar sized casks, bottles, jugs, or other packages of distilled spirits, wine, or other beverage put up or filled in the United States are denied entrance into such country, dependency, or province, shall be forfeited to the United States; and any brandy or other spirituous or distilled liquor imported in a cask of less capacity than ten gallons from any country shall be forfeited to the United States.

291. On all compounds or preparations of which distilled spirits are a component part of chief value, there shall be levied a duty not less than that imposed upon distilled spirits.

292. Cordials, liqueurs, arrack, absinthe, kirschwasser, ratafia, and other spirituous beverages or bitters of all kinds, containing spirits, and not specially provided for in this Act, two dollars and twenty-five cents per proof gallon.

293. No lower rate or amount of duty shall be levied, collected, and paid on brandy, spirits, and other spirituous beverages than that fixed by law for the description of first proof; but it shall be increased in proportion for any greater strength than the strength of first proof, and all imitations of brandy or spirits or wines imported by any names whatever shall be subject to the highest rate of duty provided for the genuine articles respectively intended to be represented, and in no case less than one dollar and fifty cents per gallon.

294. Bay rum or bay water, whether distilled or compounded, of first proof, and in proportion for any greater strength than first proof, one dollar and fifty cents per gallon.

WINES.

295. Champagne and all other sparkling wines, in bottles containing each not more than one quart and more than one pint, eight dollars per dozen; containing not more than one pint each and more than one-half pint, four dollars per dozen; containing one-half pint each or less, two dollars per dozen; in bottles or other vessels containing more than one quart each, in addition to eight dollars per dozen bottles, on the quan tity in excess of one quart, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cent per gallon; but no separate or additional duty shall be levied on th bottles.

296. Still wines, including ginger wine or ginger cordial and ver muth, in casks or packages other than bottles or jugs, if containing fourteen per centum or less of absolute alcohol, forty cents per gallon; containing more than fourteen per centum of absolute alcohol, fifty cent per gallon. In bottles or jugs, per case of one dozen bottles or jugs, con taining each not more than one quart and more than one pint, or twenty four bottles or jugs containing each not more than one pint, on dollar and sixty cents per case; and any excess beyond these quant ties found in such bottles or jugs shall be subject to a duty of fiv cents per pint or fractional part thereof, but no separate or additiona

ted shall be assessed on the bottles or jugs: Provided, That any wines, ter- ger cordial, or vermuth imported containing more than twenty-four the centum of alcohol shall be classed as spirits and pay duty accordroof ly: And provided further, That there shall be no constructive or ses er allowance for breakage, leakage, or damage on wines, liquors, pre- lials, or distilled spirits. Wines, cordials, brandy, and other spirany us liquors, including bitters of all kinds, and bay rum or bay zed er, imported in bottles or jugs, shall be packed in packages concy, ing not less than one dozen bottles or jugs in each package, or duty her be paid as if such package contained at least one dozen bottles din ags, and in addition thereto, duty shall be collected on the bottles cy, ugs at the rates which would be chargeable thereon if imported. y or ty. The percentage of alcohol in wines and fruit juices shall be city ermined in such manner as the Secretary of the Treasury shall by ited alation prescribe.

7. Ale, porter, and beer, in bottles or jugs, forty cents per gallon, are no separate or additional duty shall be assessed on the bottles or less; otherwise than in bottles or jugs, twenty cents per gallon.

8. Malt extract, fluid, in casks, twenty cents per gallon; in bottles and gs, forty cents per gallon; solid or condensed, forty per centum ad and frem.

ents 9. Cherry juice and prune juice, or prune wine, and other fruit juices specially provided for in this Act, containing no alcohol or not and e than eighteen per centum of alcohol, sixty cents per gallon; if ixed taining more than eighteen per centum of alcohol, sixty cents per d in on, and in addition thereto two dollars and seven cents per proof and on on the alcohol contained therein.

mes 0. Ginger ale, ginger beer, lemonade, soda water, and other similar -the erages containing no alcohol in plain green or colored, molded or casessed, glass bottles, containing each not more than three-fourths of

nt, eighteen cents per dozen; containing more than three-fourths of first int each and not more than one and one-half pints, twenty-eight onets per dozen; but no separate or additional duty shall be assessed the bottles; if imported otherwise than in plain green or colored, ded or pressed, glass bottles, or in such bottles containing more n one and one half pints each, fifty cents per gallon and in addition reto, duty shall be collected on the bottles, or other coverings, at the ninges which would be chargeable thereon if imported empty.

s per 1. All mineral waters and all imitations of natural mineral waters, hal all artificial mineral waters not specially provided for in this Act, tworeen or colored glass bottles, containing not more than one pint, onenty cents per dozen bottles. If containing more than one pint and uan more than one quart, thirty cents per dozen bottles. But no sepaente duty shall be assessed upon the bottles. If imported otherwise than in plain green or colored glass bottles, or if imported in such bot

s containing more than one quart, twenty-four cents per gallon, and veraddition thereto duty shall be collected upon the bottles or other ningering at the same rates that would be charged thereon if imported n; ipty or separately.

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SCHEDULE I.-COTTON MANUFACTURES.

on 02. Cotton thread and carded yarn, warps or warp yarn, in singles, ant ether on beams or in bundles, skeins or cops, or in any other form, fivcept spool thread of cotton hereinafter provided for, not colored, ionached, dyed, or advanced beyond the condition of singles by group

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ing or twisting two or more single yarns together, three cents per pound on all numbers up to and including number fifteen, one-fifth of a cent per number per pound on all numbers exceeding number fifteen and up to and including number thirty, and one-fourth of a cent per number per pound on all numbers exceeding number thirty; colored, bleached, dyed, combed or advanced beyond the condition of singles by grouping or twisting two or more single yarns together, whether on beams, or in bundles, skeins or cops, or in any other form, except spool thread of cotton hereinafter provided for, six cents per pound on all numbers up to and including number twenty, and on all numbers exceeding number twenty and up to number eighty, one-fourth of one cent per number per pound; on number eighty and above, three-tenths of one cent per number per pound; cotton card laps, roping, sliver or roving, forty-five per centum ad valorem.

303. Spool thread of cotton, including crochet, darning, and embroidery cottons on spools or reels, containing on each spool or reel not exceeding one hundred yards of thread, six cents per dozen; exceeding one hundred yards on each spool or reel, for every additional hundred yards or fractional part thereof in excess of one hundred, six cents per dozen spools or reels; if otherwise than on spools or reels, one-half of one cent for each one hundred yards or fractional part thereof: Provided, That in no case shall the duty be assessed upon a less number of yards than is marked on the spools or reels.

304. Cotton cloth not bleached, dyed, colored, stained, painted, or printed, and not exceeding fifty threads to the square inch, counting the warp and filling, one cent per square yard; if bleached, one and one-fourth cents per square yard; if dyed, colored, stained, painted, or printed, two cents per square yard.

305. Cotton cloth, not bleached, dyed, colored, stained, painted, or printed, exceeding fifty and not exceeding one hundred threads to the square inch, counting the warp and filling, and not exceeding six square yards to the pound, one and one-fourth cents per square yard; exceed ing six and not exceeding nine square yards to the pound, one and onehalf cents per square yard; exceeding nine square yards to the pound, one and three-fourths cents per square yard; if bleached, and not exceeding six square yards to the pound, one and one half cents per square yard; exceeding six and not exceeding nine square yards to the pound, one and three-fourths cents per square yard; exceeding nine square yards to the pound, two and one-fourth cents per square yard; if dyed, colored, stained, painted, or printed, and not exceeding six square yards to the pound, two and three-fourths cents per square yard; exceeding six and not exceeding nine square yards to the pound, three and one-fourth cents per square yard; exceeding nine square yards to the pound, three and one-half cents per square yard: Provided, That on all cotton cloth not exceeding one hundred threads to the square inch, counting the warp and filling, not bleached, dyed, colored, stained, painted, or printed, valued at over seven cents per square yard, twentyfive per centum ad valorem; bleached, valued at over nine cents per square yard, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; and dyed, colored, stained, painted, or printed, valued at over twelve cents per square yard, there shall be levied, collected, and paid a duty of thirty per centum ad valorem.

306. Cotton cloth, not bleached, dyed, colored, stained, painted, or printed, exceeding one hundred and not exceeding one hundred and fifty threads to the square inch, counting the warp and filling, and not exceeding four square yards to the pound, one and one-half cents per

e square yard; exceeding four and not exceeding six square yards to the pound, two cents per square yard; exceeding six and not exceeding eight square yards to the pound, two and one-half cents per square yard; exceeding eight square yards to the pound, two and three-fourths cents per square yard; if bleached, and not exceeding four square yards to the pound, two and one-half cents per square yard; exceeding four and not exceeding six square yards to the pound, three cents per square yard; exceeding six and not exceeding eight square yards to the pound, three and one-half cents per square yard; exceeding eight square yards to the pound, three and three-fourths cents per square yard; if dyed, colored, stained, painted, or printed, and not exceeding four square yards to the pound, three and one-half cents per square yard; exceeding four and not exceeding six square yards to the pound, three and three-fourths cents per square yard; exceeding six and not exceeding 1 eight square yards to the pound, four and one-fourth cents per square yard; exceeding eight square yards to the pound, four and one-half cents per square yard: Provided, That on all cotton cloth exceeding one hundred and not exceeding one hundred and fifty threads to the square inch, counting the warp and filling, not bleached, dyed, colored, stained, painted, or printed, valued at over nine cents per square yard, thirty per centum ad valorem; bleached, valued at over eleven cents per square yard, thirty-five per centum ad valorem; dyed, colored, stained, painted, or printed, valued at over twelve and one-half cents per square yard, there shall be levied, collected, and paid a duty of 2 thirty-five per centum ad valorem.

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307. Cotton cloth not bleached, dyed, colored, stained, painted, or printed, exceeding one hundred and fifty and not exceeding two hun dred threads to the square inch, counting the warp and filling, and not exceeding three and one-half square yards to the pound, two cents per square yard; exceeding three and one-half and not exceeding four and one-half square yards to the pound, two and three-fourths cents per square yard; exceeding four and one half and not exceeding six square yards to the pound, three cents per square yard; exceeding six. square yards to the pound, three and one-half cents per square yard; if bleached, and not exceeding three and one-half square yards to the pound, two and three-fourths cents per square yard; exceeding three and one-half and not exceeding four and one-half square yards to the pound, three and one-half cents per square yard; exceeding four and one-half and not exceeding six square yards to the pound, four cents per square yard; exceeding six square yards to the pound, four and one-fourth cents per square yard; if dyed, colored, stained, painted, or printed, and not exceeding three and one hali square yards to the pound, four and one-fourth cents per square yaid; exceeding three and one-half and not exceeding four and one-half square yards to the pound, four and one-half cents per square yard; exceeding four and one-half and not exceeding six square yards to the pound, four and three-fourths cents per square yard; exceeding six square yards to the pound, five cents per square yard: Provided, That on all cotton cloth exceeding one hundred and fifty and not exceeding two hundred threads to the square inch, counting the warp and filling, not bleached, dyed, colored, stained, painted, or printed, valued at over ten cents per square yard, thirty-five per centum ad valorem; bleached, valued at over twelve cents per square yard, thirty five per centum ad volorem; dyed, colored, stained, painted, or printed, valued at over twelve and one-half cents per square yard, there shall be levied, collected, and paid a duty of forty per centum ad valorem.

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