ornamented or decorated in any manner, sixty per centum ad valorem; if not ornamented or decorated, fifty-five per centum ad valorem. Old law: Fifty-five per centum. 102. Gas-retorts, three dollars each. Old law: Twenty-five per centum. GLASS AND GLASSWARE 103. Green, and colored, molded or pressed, and flint, and lime glass bottles, holding more than one pint, and demijohns, and carboys (covered or uncovered), and other molded or pressed green and colored and flint or lime bottle glassware, not specially provided for in this act, one cent per pound. Green, and colored, molded or pressed, and flint, and lime glass bottles, and vials holding not more than one pint and not less than one-quarter of a pint, one and one-half cents per pound; if holding less than one-fourth of a pint, fifty cents per gross. Old law: Green and colored, one cent per pound; flint and lime, forty per centum. 104. All articles enumerated in the preceding paragraph, if filled, and not otherwise provided for in this act, and the contents are subject to an ad valorem rate of duty, or to a rate of duty based upon the value, the value of such bottles, vials, or other vessels shall be added to the value of the contents for the ascertainment of the dutiable value of the latter; but if filled, and not otherwise provided for in this act, and the contents are not subject to an ad valorem rate of duty, or to rate of duty based on the value, or are free of duty, such bottles, vials, or other vessels shall pay, in addition to the duty, if any, on their contents, the rates of duty prescribed in the preceding paragraph: Provided, That no article manufactured from glass described in the preceding paragraph shall pay a less rate of duty than forty per centum ad valorem. Old law: Green and colored thirty per centum; flint and lime forty per centum, in addition to duty on contents. 105. Flint and lime, pressed glassware, not cut, engraved, painted, etched, decorated, colored, printed, stained, silvered, or gilded, sixty per centum ad valorem. Old law: Forty per centum. 106. All articles of glass, cut, engraved, painted, colored, printed, stained, decorated, silvered, or gilded, not including plate glass silvered, or looking-glass plates, sixty per centum ad valorem. Old law: forty-five per centum. 107. Chemical glassware for use in laboratory, and not otherwise specially provided for in this act, forty-five per centum ad valorem. NOTE.-New matter in italics. 108. Thin-blown glass, blown with or without a mold, including glass chimneys and all other manufactures of glass, or of which glass shall be the component material of chief value, not specially provided for in this act, sixty per centum ad valorem. Old law: Mostly forty and forty-five per centum. 109. Heavy-blown glass, blown with or without a mold, not cut or decorated, finished or unfinished, sixty per centum ad valorem. Old law: Forty per centum. 110. Porcelain or opal glassware, sixty per centum ad valorem. Old law: Forty per centum. 111. All cut, engraved, painted, or otherwise ornamented or decorated glass bottles, decanters, or other vessels of glass shall, if filled, pay duty in addition to any duty chargeable on the contents, as if not filled, unless otherwise specially provided for in this act. 112. Unpolished cylinder, crown, and common window-glass, not exceeding ten by fifteen inches square, one and three-eighths cents per pound; above that, and not exceeding sixteen by twenty-four inches square, one and seven-eighths cents per pound; above that, and not exceeding twenty-four by thirty inches square, two and three-eighths cents per pound; above that, and not exceeding twenty-four by thirty-six inches square, two and seven-eighths cents per pound; all above that, three and one-eighth cents per pound: Provided, That unpolished cylinder, crown and common window glass, imported in boxes, shall contain fifty square feet, as nearly as sizes will permit, and the duty shall be computed thereon according to the actual weight of glass. Old law: To ten by fifteen, one and three-eighths cents per pound; above that to sixteen, by twenty-four, one and seven-eighths; above that to twenty-four by thirty, two and three-eighths; all above, two and seven-eighths, with an allowance for box weight on single thick of five pounds, and on double thick of ten pounds. 113. Cylinder and crown-glass, polished, not exceeding sixteen by twenty-four inches square, four cents per square foot; above that, and not exceeding twenty-four by thirty inches square, six cents per square foot; above that, and not exceeding twenty-four by sixty inches square, twenty cents per square foot; above that, forty cents per square foot. Old law: To ten by fifteen, two and one-half cents square foot; above that to sixteen by twenty-four, four cents; above that to twenty-four by thirty, six cents; above that to twenty-four by sixty, twenty cents; all above that, forty cents. 114. Fluted, rolled, or rough plate-glass, not including crown, cylinder, or common window-glass, not exceeding ten by fifteen inches square, three-fourths of one cent per square foot; above that, and not exceeding sixteen by twenty-four inches square, one cent per square foot; above that, and not exceeding twenty-four by thirty inches square, one and one-half cents per square foot; all above that, two cents per square foot; and all fluted, rolled, or rough plate-glass, weighing over one hundred pounds per one hundred square feet, shall pay an additional duty on the excess at the same rates herein imposed: Provided, That all of the above plate-glass when ground, smoothed or otherwise obscured shall be subject to the same rate of duty as cast polished plate-glass unsilvered. Old law: Was the same, omitting the proviso. New matter in italics. 115. Cast polished plate-glass, finished or unfinished and unsilvered, not exceeding sixteen by twenty-four inches square, five cents per square foot; above that, and not exceeding twenty-four by thirty inches square, eight cents per square foot; above that, and not exceeding twenty-four by sixty inches square, twenty-five cents per square foot; all above that, fifty cents per square foot. Old law: In addition to above had a bracket not exceeding ten by fifteen at three cents per square foot, but did not contain the words "finished or unfinished." 116. Cast polished plate-glass, silvered, and looking-glass plates, not exceeding sixteen by twenty-four inches square, six cents per square foot; above that, and not exceeding twentyfour by thirty inches square, ten cents per square foot; above that, and not exceeding twenty-four by sixty inches square, thirty-five cents per square foot; all above that, sixty cents per square foot. Old law has a bracket up to ten by fifteen at four cents per square foot. 117. But no looking-glass plates, or plate-glass silvered, when framed, shall pay a less rate of duty than that imposed upon similar glass of like description not framed, but shall pay in addition thereto upon such frames the rate of duty applicable thereto when imported separate. Old law: Additional duty of thirty per centum on the frames. 118. Cast polished plate-glass, silvered or unsilvered, and cylinder, crown, or common window-glass, when ground, obscured, frosted, sanded, enameled, beveled, etched, embossed, engraved, stained, colored, or otherwise ornamented or decorated, shall be subject to a duty of ten per centum ad valorem in addition to the rates otherwise chargeable thereon. Not in old law. 119. Spectacles and eyeglasses, or spectacles and eyeglass-frames, sixty per centum ad valorem. Old law: Forty-five per centum or twenty-five per centum or according to component of chief value. 120. On lenses costing one dollar and fifty cents per gross pairs, or less, sixty per centum ad valorem. Old law: Forty-five per centum. 121. Spectacle and eyeglass lenses with their edges ground or beveled to fit frames, sixty per centum ad valorem. Old law: Forty-five per centum or free. 122. All stained or painted window-glass and stained or painted glass windows, and hand, pocket, or table mirrors not exceeding in size one hundred and forty-four square inches, with or without frames or cases, of whatever material composed, lenses of glass or pebble, wholly or partly manufactured, and not specially provided for in this act, and fusible enamel, forty-five per centum ad valorem. Old law: Forty-five per centum, thirty per centum, ten per centum. MARBLE AND STONE, AND MANUFACTURES OF 123. Marble of all kinds in block, rough or squared, sixty-five cents per cubic foot. 124. Veined marble, sawed, dressed, or otherwise, including marble slabs and marble paving-tiles, one dollar and ten cents per cubic foot (but in measurement no slab shall be computed at less than one inch in thickness). Old law does not contain the words in parenthesis. 125. Manufactures of marble not specially provided for in this act, fifty per centum ad valorem. STONE 126. Burr-stones manufactured or bound up into mill-stones, fifteen per centum ad valorem. Old law: Twenty per centum. 127. Freestone, granite, sandstone, limestone, and other building or monumental stone, except marble, unmanufactured or undressed, not specially provided for in this act, eleven cents per cubic foot. Old law: One dollar per ton. 128. Freestone, granite, sandstone, limestone, and other building or monumental stone, except marble, not specially provided for in this act, hewn, dressed, or polished, forty per centum ad valorem. Old law: Twenty per centum. 129. Grindstones, finished or unfinished, one dollar and seventyfive cents per ton. SLATE 130. Slates, slate chimney-pieces, mantels, slabs for tables, and all other manufactures of slate, not specially provided for in this act, thirty per centum ad valorem. 131. Roofing slates, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. SCHEDULE C.-METALS AND MANUFACTURES OF. IRON AND STEEL. 132. Chromate of iron, or chromic ore, fifteen per centum ad valorem. 133. Iron ore, including manganiferous iron ore, also the dross or residuum from burnt pyrites, seventy-five cents per ton. Sulphur ore, as pyrites, or sulphuret of iron in its natural state, containing not more than three and one-half per centum copper, seventy-five cents per ton: Provided, That ore containing more than two per centum of copper shall pay, in addition thereto, one-half of one cent per pound for the copper contained therein: Provided, also, That sulphur ore as pyrites or sulphuret of iron in its natural state, containing in excess of twenty-five per centum of sulphur, shall be free of duty, except on the copper contained therein, as above provided: And provided further, That in levying and collecting the duty on iron ore no deduction shall be made from the weight of the ore on account of moisture which may be chemically or physically combined therewith. Old law: The copper was dutiable at two and one-half cents per pound. The last two provisos are new matter. 134. Iron in pigs, iron kentledge, spiegeleisen, ferro-manganese, ferro-silicon, wrought and cast scrap iron, and scrap steel, three tenths of one cent per pound; but nothing shall be deemed scrap iron or scrap steel except waste or refuse iron or steel fit only to be remanufactured. The Old law: Did not contain ferro manganese or ferro silicon. scrap iron was confined to that which had been in actual use. 135. Bar-iron, rolled or hammered, comprising flats not less than one inch wide, nor less than three-eighths of one inch thick, eighttenths of one cent per pound; round iron not less than three-fourths of one inch in diameter, and square iron not less than three-fourths of one inch square, nine-tenths of one cent per pound; flats less than one inch wide, or less than three-eighths of one inch thick; round iron less than three-fourths of one inch and not less than sevensixteenths of one inch in diameter; and square iron less than threefourths of one inch square, one cent per pound. Old law: The respective rates were eight-tenths cent per pound, one cent per pound, one and one-tenth cents per pound. 136. Round iron, in coils or rods, less than seven-sixteenths of one inch in diameter, and bars or shapes of rolled iron, not specially provided for in this act, one and one-tenth cents per pound: Provided, That all iron in slabs, blooms, loops, or other forms less finished than iron in bars, and more advanced than pig-iron, except castings, shall be rated as iron in bars, and be subject to a duty of eight-tenths of one cent per pound; and none of the iron above enumerated in this paragraph shall pay a less rate of duty than thirtyfive per centum ad valorem: Provided further, That all iron bars, blooms, billets, or sizes or shapes of any kind, in the manufacture of which charcoal is used as fuel, shall be subject to a duty of not less than twenty-two dollars per ton. Old law: One and two-tenths cent per pound. 137, Beams, girders, joists, angles, channels, car-truck channels, TT, columns and posts or parts or sections of columns and posts, deck and bulb beams, and building forms, together with all other structural shapes of iron or steel, whether plain or punched, or fitted for use, nine-tenths of one cent per pound. Old law: One and one-fourth cents per pound. 138. Boiler or other plate iron or steel, except saw-plates hereinafter provided for, not thinner than number ten wire gauge, sheared or unsheared, and skelp iron or steel sheared or rolled in grooves, valued at one cent per pound or less, five-tenths of one cent per pound; valued above one cent and not above one and four-tenths cents per pound, sixty-five hundredths of one cent per pound; valued above one and four tenths cents and not above two cents per pound, eight tenths of one cent per pound; valued above two cents and not above three cents per pound, one and one-tenth cents per pound; valued above three cents and not above four cents per pound, one and five-tenths cents per pound; valued above four cents and not above seven cents per pound, two cents per pound; valued above seven cents and not above ten cents per pound, two and eight-tenths cents per pound; valued above ten cents and not above thirteen cents per pound, three and one-half cents per pound; valued above thirteen cents per pound, forty-five per centum ad valorem: Provided, That all plate iron or steel thinner than number ten wire gauge shall pay duty as iron or steel sheets. Old law: Boiler or other plate iron, one and one-fourth cents per pound if iron; forty-five per centum if steel. |