which is cast and malleable, of whatever description or form, without regard to the percentage of carbon contained therein, whether produced by cementation, or converted, cast, or made from iron or its ores, by the crucible, Bessemer, Clapp-Griffith, pneumatic, Thomas-Gilchrist, basic, Siemens-Martin, or open hearth process, or by the equivalent of either, or by a combination of two or more of the processes, or their equivalents, or by any fusion or other process which produces from iron or its ores a metal either granular or fibrous in structure, which is cast and malleable, excepting what is known as malleable iron castings, shall be classed and denominated as steel. 140. No article not specially provided for in this Act, which is wholly or partly manufactured from tin plate, terne plate, or the sheet, plate, hoop, band, or scroll iron or steel herein provided for, or of which such tin plate, terne plate, sheet, plate, hoop, band, or scroll iron or steel shall be the material of chief value, shall pay a lower rate of duty than that imposed on the tin plate, terne plate, or sheet, plate, hoop, band, or scroll iron or steel from which it is made, or of which it shall be the component thereof of chief value. ported fitted in wheels, or parts of wheels, of iron or steel, they shall be dutiable at the same rate as the wheels in which they are fitted. 144. Blacksmiths' hammers and sledges, track tools, wedges, and crowbars, whether of iron or steel, one and one-half cents per pound. 145. Bolts, with cr without threads or nuts, or bolt blanks, and finished hinges or hinge blanks, whether of iron or steel, one and one-half cents per pound. 146. Card clothing, manufactured from tempered steel wire, forty-five cents per square foot; all other, twenty cents per square foot. 147. Cast-iron pipe of every description, fourtenths of one cent per pound. 148. Cast-iron vessels, plates, stove plates, andirons, sad-irons, tailors' irons, hatters' irons, and castings of iron, not specially provided for in this Act, eight-tenths of one cent per pound. 149. Castings of malleable iron not specially provided for in this Act, nine-tenths of one cent per pound. 150. Cast hollow-ware, coated, glazed, or tinned, two cents per pound. 151. Chain or chains of all kinds, made of iron or steel, not less than three-fourths of one inch in diameter, one and one-eighth cents per not less than three-eighths of one inch in diameter, one and three eighths cents per pound; less than three-eighths of one inch in diameter and not less than five-sixteenths of one inch in diameter, one and seven-eighths cents per pound; less than five-sixteenths of one inch in diameter, three cents per pound; but no chain or chains of any description shall pay a lower rate of duty than forty five per centum ad valorem. 141. On all iron or steel bars or rods of what-pound; less than three fourths of one inch and ever shape or section which are cold rolled, cold drawn, cold hammered, or polished in any way in addition to the ordinary process of hot rolling or hammering, there shall be paid onefourth of one cent per pound in addition to the rates provided in this Act on bars or rods of whatever section or shape which are hot rolled; and on all strips, plates, or sheets of iron or steel of whatever shape, other than the polished, planished, or glanced sheet-iron or sheet-steel hereinbefore provided for, which are cold rolled, cold hammered, blued, brightened, tempered, or polished by any process to such perfected surface finish or polish better than the grade of cold rolled, smoothed only, hereinbefore provided for, there shall be paid one cent per pound in addition to the rates provided in this Act upon plates, strips, or sheets of iron or steel of common or black finish; and on steel circular saw plates there shall be paid one-half of one cent per pound in addition to the rate provided in this Act for steel saw plates. MANUFACTURES OF IRON AND STEEL. 142. Anvils of iron or steel, or of iron and steel combined, by whatever process made, or in whatever stage of manufacture, one and seveneighths cents per pound. 152. Lap welded, butt welded, seamed, or jointed iron or steel boiler tubes, pipes, flues, or stays, not thinner than number sixteen wire gauge, two cents per pound; welded cylindrical furnaces, made from plate metal, two and onehalf cents per pound; all other iron or steel tubes, finished, not specially provided for in this act, thirty-five per centum ad valorem. CUTLERY: 153. Penknives or pocketknives, clasp knives, pruning knives, and budding knives of all kinds, or parts thereof, and erasers or manicure knives, or parts thereof, wholly or partly manufactured, valued at not more than forty cents per dozen, forty per centum ad valorem ; valued at more than forty cents per dozen and not exceeding fifty cents per dozen, one cent per piece and forty per centum ad valorem; valued 143. Axles, or parts thereof, axle bars, axle at more than fifty cents per dozen and not exblanks, or forgings for axles, whether of iron or ceeding one dollar and twenty-five cents per steel, without reference to the stage or state of dozen, five cents per piece and forty per centum manufacture, valued at not more than six ad valorem; valued at more than one dollar and cents per pound, one cent per pound: Pro- twenty-five cents per dozen and not exceeding vided, That when iron or steel axles are im-three dollars per dozen, ten cents per piece and forty per centum ad valorem; valued at more I shot guns, combination shotguns and rifles, val than three dollars per dozen, twenty cents per piece and forty per centum ad valorem: Provided, That blades, handles, or other parts of either or any of the foregoing articles, imported in any other manner than assembled in finished knives or erasers, shall be subject to no less rate of duty than herein provided for penknives, pocketknives, clasp knives, pruning - knives, manicure knives, and erasers valued at more than fifty and not more than one dollar and fifty cents per dozen. Razors and razor blades, fin ished, or unfinished, valued at less than one dollar and fifty cents per dozen, fifty cents per dozen and fifteen per centum ad valorem; valued at one dollar and fifty cents per dozen and less than three dollars per dozen, one dollar per dozen and fifteen per centum ad valorem; valued at three dollars per dozen or more, one dollar and seventy-five cents per dozen and twenty per centum ad valorem. Scissors and shears, and blades for the same, finished or unfinished, valued at not more than fifty cents per dozen, fifteen cents per dozen and fifteen per centum ad valorem; valued at more than fifty cents and not more than one dollar and seventy-five cents per dozen, fifty cents per dozen and fifteen per centum ad valorem; valued at more than one dollar and seventy-five cents per dozen, seventy-valorem. Revolving pistols or parts thereof, five cents per dozen and twenty-five per centum ad valorem. ued at not more than five dollars, one dollar and fifty cents each and in addition thereto fifteen per centum ad valorem; valued at more than five dollars and not more than ten dollars, four dollars each, and in addition thereto fifteen per centum ad valorem each; valued at more than ten dollars, six dollars each; double barrels for sporting breech loading shot guns and rifles further advanced in manufacture than rough bored only, three dollars each; stocks for double barreled sporting breech loading shot guns and rifles wholly or partially manufactured, three dollars each; and in addition thereto on all such guns and rifles, valued at more than ten dollars each, and on such stocks and barrels, thirty-five per centum ad valorem; on all other parts of such guns or rifles, and fittings for such stocks or barrels, finished or unfinished, fifty per centum ad valorem: Provided, That all double barrel, sporting, breech loading shot guns and rifles imported without a lock or locks or other fittings shall be subject to a duty of six dollars each and thirty-five per centum ad valorem; single barreled breech loading shot guns, or parts thereof, except as otherwise specially provided for in this Act, one dollar each and thirty-five per centum ad 154. Swords, sword blades, and side arms, thirty-five per centum ad valorem. 155. Table, butchers', carving, cooks', hunting, kitchen, bread, butter, vegetable, fruit, cheese, plumbers', painters', palette, artists', and shoe knives, forks and steels, finished or unfinished, with handles of mother-of-pearl, shell or ivory, sixteen cents each; with handles of deer horn, twelve cents each; with handles of hard rubber, solid bone, celluloid or any pyroxyline material, five cents each; with handles of any other material than those above mentioned, one and one-half cents each, and in addition, on all the above articles, fifteen per centum ad valorem: Provided, That none of the above named articles shall pay a less rate of duty than forty-five per centum ad valorem. 156. Files, file blanks, rasps, and floats, of all cuts and kinds, two and one-half inches in length and under, thirty cents per dozen; over two and one-half inches in length and not over four and one-half inches, fifty cents per dozen; over four and one-half inches in length and under seven inches, seventy-five cents per dozen; seven inches in length and over, one dollar per dozen. FIREARMS: 157. Muskets, muzzle loading shot guns, rifles, and parts thereof, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. seventy-five cents each and twenty-five per centum ad valorem. 159. Sheets, plates, wares, or articles of iron, steel or other metal enameled or glazed with vitreous glasses, forty per centum ad valorem. NAILS, SPIKES TACKS, AND NEEDLES: 160. Cut nails and cut spikes of iron or steel, six-tenths of cne cent per pound 161. Horseshoe nails, hob nails, and all other wrought iron or steel nails not specially provided for in this Act, two and one-fourth cents per pound. 162. Wire nails made of wrought iron or steel, not less than one inch in length and not lighter than number sixteen wire gauge, one-half of one cent per pound; less than one inch in length and lighter than number sixteen wire gauge, one cent per pound. 163. Spikes, nuts, and washers, and horse, mule, or ox shoes, of wrought iron or steel, one cent per pound. 164. Cut tacks, brads, or sprigs, not exceeding sixteen ounces to the thousand, one and onefourth cents per thousand; exceeding sixteen ounces to the thousand, one and one-half cents per pound 165. Needles for knitting or sewing machines, including latch needles, cne dollar per thousand and twenty-five per centum ad valorem ; crochet needles and tape needles, knitting and 158. Double barreled, sporting, breech loading all other needles, not specially provided for in this Act, and bodkins of metal, twenty-five per- bronze or Dutch metal or aluminum, in leaf, centum ad valorem. PLATES: 166. Steel plates engraved, stereotype plates. electrotype plates, and plates of other materials, engraved or lithographed, for printing, twenty five per centum ad valorem. six cents per package of one hundred leaves. 167. Rivets of iron or steel, two cents per cents per pound. pound. SAWS: 168. Crosscut saws, six cents per linear foot; mill saws, ten cents per linear foot; pit, and drag saws, eight cents per linear foot; circular saws, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; steel band saws, finished or further advanced than tempered and polished, ten cents per pound and twenty per centum ad valorem ; hand, back, and all other saws, not specially provided for in this Act, thirty per centum ad valorem. 169 Screws, commonly called wood screws, made of iron or steel, more than two inches in length, four cents per pound; over one inch and not more than two inches in length, six cents per pound; over one-half inch and not more than one inch in length, eight and one-half cents per pound; one half inch and less in length, twelve cents per pound. 170. Umbrella and parasol ribs and stretchers, composed in chief value of iron, steel, or other metal, in frames or otherwise, fifty per centum ad valorem. 171. Wheels for railway purposes, or parts thereof, made of iron or steel, and steel-tired wheels for railway purposes, whether wholly or partly finished, and iron or steel locomotive, car, or other railway tires or parts thereof, wholly or partly manufactured, one and onehalf cents per pound; and ingots, cogged in gots, blooms, or blanks for the same, without regard to the degree of manufacture, one and one-fourth cents per pound: Provided, That when wheels for railway purposes, or parts thereof, of iron or steel, are imported with iron or steel axles fitted in them, the wheels and axles together shall be dutiable at the same rate as is provided for the wheels when imported separately. GOLD AND SILVER: 177. Gold leaf, one dollar and seventy-five cents per package of five hundred leaves. 178. Silver leaf, seventy-five cents per package of five hundred leaves. 179. Tinsel wire, lame or lahn, made wholly or in chief value of gold, silver, or other metal, five cents per pound; bullions and metal threads, made wholly or in chief value of tinsel wire, lame or lahn, five cents per pound and thirty-five per centum ad valorem; laces, embroideries, braids, galloons, trimmings, or other articles, made wholly or in chief value of tinsel wire, lame or lahn, bullions, or metal threads, sixty per centum ad valorem. 180. Hooks and eyes, metallic, whether loose, carded or otherwise, including weight of cards, cartons, and immediate wrappings and labels, five and one-half cents per pound and fifteen per centum ad valorem. LEAD: 181. Lead-bearing ore of all kinds, one and onehalf cents per pound on the lead contained therein: Provided, That on all importations of lead-bearing ores the duties shall be estimated at the port of entry, and a bond given in double the amount of such estimated duties for the transportation of the ores by common carriers bonded for the transportation of appraised or unappraised merchandise to properly equipped sampling or smelting establishments, whether designated as bonded warehouses or otherwise. On the arrival of the ores at such establishments they shall be sampled according to commercial methods under the supervision of Government officers, who shall be stationed at such establishments, and who shall submit the samples thus obtained to a Government assayer, designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall make a proper assay of the sample, and report the result to the proper customs officers, and the import entries shall be liquidated thereon, except in case of ores that shall be removed to a bonded warehouse to be refined for exportation as provided by law. And the Secretary of the 173. Antimony, as regulus or metal, three- Treasury is authorized to make all necessary fourths of one cent per pound. MISCELLANEOUS METALS AND MANU FACTURES OF. 172. Aluminum, and alloys of any kind in which aluminum is the component material of chief value, in crude form, eight cents per pound; in plates, sheets, bars, and rods, thirteen cents per pound. 174. Argentine, albata, or German silver, unmanufactured, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. regulations to enforce the provisions of this paragraph. 182. Lead dross, lead bullion or base bullion, lead in pigs and bars, lead in any form not 175. Bronze powder, twelve cents per pound; specially provided for in this Act, old refuse lead run into blocks and bars, and old scrap lead fit only to be remanufactured; all the foregoing, two and one-eighth cents per pound; lead in sheets, pipe, shot, glaziers' lead, and lead wire, two and one-half cents per pound. 183. Metallie mineral substances in a crude state, and metals unwrought, not specially provided for in this Act, twenty per centum ad valorem ; monazite sand and thorite, six cents per pound. 184. Mica, unmanufactured, or rough trimmed only, six cents per pound and twenty per centum ad valorem; mica, cut or trimmed, twelve cents per pound and twenty per centum ad valorem. 185. Nickel, nickel oxide, alloy of any kind in which nickel is a component material of chief value, in pigs, ingots, bars, or sheets, six cents per pound. 193. Articles or wares not specially provided for in this Act, composed wholly or in part of iron, steel, lead, copper, nickel, pewter, zinc, gold, silver, platinum, aluminum, or other metal, and whether partly or wholly manufactured, forty-five per centum ad valorem. SCHEDULE D. WOOD AND MANUFACTURES OF. 194. Timber hewn, sided, or squared (not less than eight inches square), and round timber used for spars or in building wharves, one cent per cubic foot. 195. Sawed boards, planks, deals, and other lumber of whitewood, sycamore, and basswood, one dollar per thousand feet board measure ; sawed lumber, not specially provided for in this Act, two dollars per thousand feet board meas 186. Pens, metallic, except gold pens, twelve ure; but when lumber of any sort is planed or cents per gross. 187. Penholder tips, penholders or parts thereof, and gold pens, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. 188. Pins with solid heads, without ornamentation, including hair, safety, hat, bonnet, and shawl pins; any of the foregoing composed wholly of brass, copper, iron, steel, or other base metal, not plated, and not commonly known as jewelry, thirty-five per centum ad valorem. 189. Quicksilver, seven cents per pound. The flasks, bottles, or other vessels in which quicksilver is imported shall be subject to the same rate of duty as they would be subjected to if imported empty. 190. Type metal, one and one-half cents per pound for the lead contained therein; new types, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. 191. Watch movements, whether imported in cases or not, if having not more than seven jewels, thirty-five cents each; if having more than seven jewels and not more than eleven jewels, fifty cents each; if having more than eleven jewels and not more than fifteen jewels, seventy-five cents each; if having more than fifteen jewels and not more than seventeen jewels, one dollar and twenty-five cents each; if having more than seventeen jewels, three dollars each, and in addition thereto, on all the foregoing, twenty-five per centum ad valorem ; watch cases and parts of watches, including watch dials, chronometers, box or ship, and parts thereof, clocks and parts thereof, not otherwise provided for in this Act, whether separately packed or otherwise, not composed wholly or in part of china, porcelain, parian, bisque or earthenware, forty per centum ad valorem; all jewels for use in the manufacture of watches or clocks, ten per centum ad valorem. 192. Zinc in blocks or pigs, one and one-half cents per pound; in sheets, two cents per pound; old and worn-out, fit only to be remanufactured, one cent per pound. finished, in addition to the rates herein provided, there shall be levied and paid for each side so planed or finished fifty cents per thousand feet board measure; and if planed on one side and tongued and grooved, one dollar per thousand feet board measure; and if planed on two sides and tongued and grooved, one dollar and fifty cents per thousand feet board measure; and in estimating board measure under this schedule no deduction shall be made on board measure on account of planing, tonguing and grooving: Provided, That if any country or dependency shall impose an export duty upon saw logs, round unmanufactured timber, stave bolts, shingle bolts, or heading bolts, exported to the United States, or a discriminating charge upon boom sticks, or chains used by American citizens in towing logs, the amount of such export duty, tax, or other charge, as the case may be, shall be added as an additional duty to the duties imposed upon the articles mentioned in this paragraph when imported from such country or dependency. 196. Paving posts, railroad ties, and telephone, trolley, electric-light and telegraph poles of cedar or other woods, twenty per centum ad valorem. 197. Kindling wood in bundles not exceeding one-quarter of a cubic foot each, three-tenths of one cent per bundle; if in larger bundles, threetenths of one cent for each additional quarter of a cubic foot or fractional part thereof. 198. Sawed boards, planks, deals, and all forms of sawed cedar, lignum-vitæ, lancewood, ebonybox, granadilla, mahogany, rosewood, satin, wood, and all other cabinet woods not further manufactured than sawed, fifteen per centum ad valorem; veneers of wood, and wood, unmanufactured, not specially provided for in this Act, twenty per centum ad valorem. 199. Clapboards, one dollar and fifty cents per thousand. 200. Hubs for wheels, posts, heading-bolte, stave-bolts, last-blocks, wagon-blocks, oaring above forty degrees ard not above fifty blocks, heading-blocks, and all like blocks or sticks, rough-hewn, sawed or bored, twenty per centum ad valorem ; fence posts, ten per centum ad valorem. 201. Laths, twenty-five cents per one thousand pieces. 202. Pickets, palings and staves of wood, of all kinds, ten per centum ad valorem. 203. Shingles, thirty cents per thousand. 204. Casks, barrels, and hogsheads (empty), sugar-box shooks, and packing-boxes (empty), and packing-box shooks, of wood, not specially provided for in this Act, thirty per centum ad valorem. 205. Boxes, barrels, or other articles containing oranges, lemons, limes, grape fruit, shaddocks or pomelos, thirty per centum ad valorem : Provided, That the thin wood, so called, comprising the sides, tops and bottoms of orange and lemon boxes of the growth and manufacture of the United States, exported as orange and lemon box shooks, may be reimported in completed form, filled with oranges and lemons, by the payment of duty at one-half the rate imposed on similar boxes of entirely foreign growth and manufacture. 206. Chair cane or reeds, wrought or manufactured from rattans or reeds, ten per centum ad valorem; osier or willow prepared for basket makers' use, twenty per centum ad valorem; manufactures of osier or willow, forty per centum ad valorem. 207. Toothpicks of wood or other vegetable substance, two cents per one thousand and fifteen per centum ad valorem; butchers' and packers' skewers of wood, forty cents per thousand. 208. House or cabinet furniture, of wood, wholly or partly finished, and manufactures of wood, or of which wood is the component material of chief value, not specially provided for in this Act, thirty-five per centum ad valorem. SCHEDULE E. SUGAR, MOLASSES, AND MANUFAC- six degrees, three cents per gallon; testing fiftysix degrees and above, six cents per gallon; sugar drainings and sugar sweepings shall be subject to duty as molasses or sugar, as the case may be, according to polariscopic test: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to abrogate or in any manner impair or affect the provisions of the treaty of commercial reciprocity concluded between the United States and the King of the Hawaiian Islands on the thirtieth day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, or the provisions of any Act of Congress heretofore passed for the execution of the same. 210. Maple sugar and maple sirup, four cents per pound; glucose or grape sugar, one and onehalf cents per pound; sugar cane in its natural state, or unmanufactured, twenty per centum ad valorem. 211. Saccharine, one dollar and fifty cents per pound and ten per centum ad valorem. 212. Sugar candy and all confectionery not specially provided for in this Act, valued at fifteen cents per pound or less, and on sugars after being refined, when tinctured, colored or in any way adulterated, four cents per pound and fifteen per centum ad valorem; valued at more than fifteen cents per pound, fifty per centum ad valorem. The weight and the value of the immediate coverings, other than the outer packing case or other covering, shall be included in the dutiable weight and the value of the merchandise. SCHEDULE F. TOBACCO AND MANUFACTURES OF. 213. Wrapper tobacco, and filler tobacco when mixed or packed with more than fifteen per centum of wrapper tobacco, and all leaf tobacco the product of two or more countries or dependencies when mixed or packed together, if unstemmed, one dollar and eighty-five cents per pound; if stemmed, two dollars and fifty cents per pound; filler tobacco not specially provided for in this Act, if unstemmed, thirty-five cents per pound; if stemmed, fifty cents per pound. 214. The term wrapper tobacco as used in this 209. Sugars not above number sixteen Dutch Act means that quality of leaf tobacco which is standard in color, tank bottoms, sirups of cane suitable for cigar wrappers, and the term filler juice, melada, concentrated melada, concrete tobacco means all other leaf tobacco. Collectors and concentrated molasses, testing by the polar- of customs shall not permit entry to be made, iscope not above seventy-five degrees, ninety- except under regulations to be prescribed by the five one hundredths of one cent per pound, and Secretary of the Treasury, of any leaf tobacco, for every additional degree shown by the polari- unless the invoices of the same shall specify in scopic test, thirty-five one-thousandths of one detail the character of such tobacco, whether cent per pound additional, and fractions of a wrapper or filler, its origin and quality. In the degree in proportion; and on sugar above num- examination for classification of any imported ber sixteen Dutch standard in color, and on all leaf tobacco, at least one bale, box, or package sugar which has gone through a process of in every ten, and at least one in every invoice, refining, one cent and ninety-five one-hun- shall be examined by the appraiser or person dredths of one cent per pound; molasses test-authorized by law to make such examination, |