twenty cents or less per pound, five cents per pound; valued above twenty cents per pound, eight cents per pound. Old law: Six and ten cents. 441. Matches, friction or lucifer, of all descriptions, per gross of one hundred and forty-four boxes, containing not more than one hundred matches per box, ten cents per gross; when imported otherwise than in boxes containing not more than one hundred matches each, one cent per one thousand matches. Old law: Friction or lucifer matches of all descriptions, thirty-five per centum. 442. Percussion-caps, forty per centum ad valorem. 443. Feathers and downs of all kinds, crude or not dressed, colored, or manufactured, not specially provided for in this act, ten per centum ad valorem; when dressed, colored, or manufactured, including quilts of down and other manufactures of down, and also including dressed and finished birds suitable for millinery ornaments, and artificial and ornamental feathers and flowers, or parts thereof, of whatever material composed, not specially provided for in this act, fifty per centum ad valorem. Old law: Feathers of all kinds, crude, or not dressed, colored, or manufactured, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; when dressed, colored, or manufactured, including dressed and fin⚫ ished birds, for millinery ornaments, and artificial and ornamental feathers and flowers, or parts thereof, of whatever material composed, for millinery use, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, fifty per centum ad valorem. 444. Furs, dressed on the skin but not made up into articles, and furs not on the skin, prepared for hatters' use, twenty per centum ad valorem. NOTE.-New matter in italics. 445. Glass beads, loose, unthreaded or unstrung, ten per centum ad valorem. Old law: Beads and bead ornaments of all kinds, except amber, fifty per centum. 446. Gun-wads of all descriptions, thirty-five per centum ad valorem. 447. Hair, human, if clean or drawn but not manufactured, twenty per centum ad valorem. Old law: Thirty per centum. 448. Hair-cloth, known as "crinoline-cloth," eight cents per square yard. Old law: Thirty per centum. 449. Hair-cloth, known as "hair seating," thirty cents per square yard. 450. Hair, curled, suitable for beds or mattresses, fifteen per centum ad valorem. Old law: Curled hair, except of hogs, used for beds or mattresses, twenty-five per centum. 451. Hats, for men's, women's, and children's wear, composed of the fur of the rabbit, beaver, or other animals or of which such fur is the component material of chief value, wholly or partially manufactured, including fur hat bodies, fifty-five per centum ad valorem. Old law: Twenty per centum by Treasury ruling; bonnets, hats, and hoods of hair, not specially provided for, thirty per centum. JEWELRY AND PRECIOUS STONES. 452. Jewelry: All articles, not elsewhere specially provided for in this act composed of precious metals or imitations thereof, whether set with coral, jet, or pearls, or with diamonds, rubies, cameos, or other precious stones, or imitations thereof, or otherwise, and which shall be known commercially as "jewelry," and cameos in frames, fifty per centum ad valorem. Old law: Jewelry of all kinds, twenty-five per centum. 453. Pearls, ten per centum ad valorem. Old law Classified at ten per centum and fifty per centum ad valorem. 454. Precious stones of all kinds, cut but not set, ten per centum ad valorem; if set, and not specially provided for in this act, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. Imitations of precious stones composed of paste or glass not exceeding one inch in dimensions, not set, ten per centum ad valorem. Old law: Precious stones of all kinds, ten per centum; compositions of glass or paste when not set, ten per centum. LEATHER AND MANUFACTURES OF. 455. Bend or belting leather and sole leather, and leather not specially provided for in this act, ten per centum ad valorem. Old law Leather, bend or belting leather, and Spanish or other sole leather, and leather not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, fifteen per centum ad valorem. 456. Calf-skins, tanned, or tanned and dressed, dressed upper leather, including patent, enameled, and japanned leather, dressed or undressed, and finished; chamois or other skins not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, twenty per centum ad valorem; book-binders' calf-skins, kangaroo, sheep and goat skins, including lamb and kid skins, dressed and finished, twenty per centum ad valorem; skins for morocco, tanned but unfinished, ten per centum ad valorem; piano forte leather and piano forte action leather, thirty five per centum ad valorem; japanned calf-skins, thirty per centum ad valorem; boots and shoes, made of leather, twenty five per centum ad valorem. 457. But leather cut into shoe uppers or vamps, or other forms, suitable for conversion into manufactured articles, shall be classified as manufactures of leather, and pay duty accordingly. Calfskins, tanned, or tanned and dressed, and dressed upper leather All manufactures and articles of leather, or of which leather shall 458. Gloves of all descriptions, composed wholly or in part of kid or other leather, and whether wholly or partly manufactured, shall pay duty at the rates fixed in connection with the following specified kinds thereof, fourteen inches in extreme length when stretched to the full extent, being in each case hereby fixed as the standard, and one dozen pairs as the basis, namely: Ladies' and children's schmaschen of said length or under, one dollar and seventy-five cents per dozen; ladies' and children's lamb of said length or under, two dollars and twenty-five cents per dozen; ladies' and children's kid of said length or under, three dollars and twenty-five cents per dozen; ladies' and children's suedes of said length or under, fifty per centum ad valorem; all other ladies' and children's leather gloves, and all men's leather-gloves of said length or under, fifty per centum ad valorem; all leather gloves over fourteen inches in length, fifty per centum ad valorem; and in addition to the above rates there shall be paid on all men's gloves one dollar per dozen; on all lined gloves one dollar per dozen; on all pique or prick seam gloves, fifty cents per dozen; on all embroidered gloves, with more than three single strands or cords, fifty cents per dozen pairs. Provided, That all gloves represented to be of a kind or grade below their actual kind or grade shall pay an additional duty of five dollars per dozen pairs: Provided further, That none of the articles named in this paragraph shall pay a less rate of duty than fifty per centum ad valorem. Old law: Gloves, kid or leather, of all descriptions, wholly or partially manufactured, fifty per centum ad valorem. MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURES.459. Manufactures of alabaster, amber, asbestos, bladders, coral, cat-gut or whip-gut or worm-gut, jet, paste, spar, wax, or of which these substances or either of them is the component material of chief value, not specially provided for in this act, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; osier or willow prepared for basketmakers' use, thirty per centum ad valorem; manufactures of osier or willow, forty per centum ad valorem. Old law: Baskets and all other articles composed of osier, or willow, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, thirty per centum ad valorem. Alabaster and spar statuary and ornaments, ten per centum; manufactures of bladders, twenty-five per centum; bonnets, hats, and hoods for men, women, and children, composed of willow, thirty per centum; wax candles and tapers, twenty per centum; willow sheets or squares, twenty per centum; osier or willow prepared for basketmakers' use, twenty-five per centum gut and worm-gut, manufactures, free; asbestos, manufactures, twenty-five per centum; jet manufactures and imitations of, twenty-five per centum. 460. Manufactures of bone, chip, grass, horn, India-rubber, palmleaf, straw, weeds, or whale-bone, or of which these substances or either of them is the component material of chief value, not specially provided for in this act, thirty per centum ad valorem. Old law Manufactures of bone and horn, compositions of, thirty per centum; paste, ten per centum; coral, cut, manufactured, twenty-five per centum; baskets and all other articles composed of grass, palm-leaf, whalebone, or straw, thirty per centum. India-rubber fabrics, composed wholly or in part of India rubber, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, thirty per centum ad valorem. Articles composed of India rubber, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. India-rubber boots and shoes, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. Bonnets, hats, and hoods for men, women, and children, composed of chip, grass, palm-leaf, or straw, or any other vegetable substance, whalebone, or other material, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, thirty per centum ad valorem. 461. Manufactures of leather, fur, gutta-percha, vulcanized India rubber, known as hard rubber, human hair, papier-mache, and indurated fiber wares and other manufactures composed of wood or other pulp, or of which these substances or either of them is the component material of chief value, all of the above not specially provided for in this act, thirty-five per centum ad valorem. Old law: Fur, articles of, thirty per centum; human hair, when manufactured, thirty-five per centum; gutta-percha, manufactured, and all articles of, thirty-five per centum; papiermache manufactures, articles and wares, thirty per centum. Hair, human, bracelets, braids, chains, rings, curls, and ringlets, composed of hair, or of which hair is the component material of chief value, thirty-five per centum ad valorem. 462. Manufactures of ivory, vegetable ivory, mother-of-pearl, and shell, or of which these substances or either of them is the component material of chief value, not specially provided for in this act, forty per centum ad valorem. Old law: Manufactures of ivory and vegetable ivory, thirty per centum; shells, whole or parts of, manufactured, of every description not specially provided for, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. 463. Masks, composed of paper or pulp, thirty-five per centum ad valorem. New provision. 464. Matting made of cocoa-fiber or rattan, twelve cents per square yard; mats made of cocoa-fiber or rattan, eight cents per square foot. Old law: Floor matting and floor mats, exclusively of vegetable substances, twenty per centum. 465. Paintings, in oil or water colors, and statuary, not otherwise provided for in this act, fifteen per centum ad valorem; but. the term "statuary" as herein used shall be understood to include only such statuary as is cut, carved, or otherwise wrought by hand from a solid block or mass of marble, stone, or alabaster, or from metal, and as is the professional production of a statuary or sculptor only. Old law: Thirty per centum. 466 Pencils of wood filled with lead or other material, and pencils of lead, fifty cents per gross and thirty per centum ad valorem ; slate pencils, four cents per gross. Old law: Slate-pencils, thirty per centum. 467. Pencil-leads not in wood, ten per centum ad valorem. PIPES AND SMOKERS' ARTICLES. 468. Pipes, pipe-bowls, of all materials, and all smokers' articles whatsoever, not specially provided for in this act, including cigarette-books, cigarette book-covers, pouches for smoking or chewing tobacco, and cigarette-paper in all forms, seventy per centum ad valorem; all common tobacco pipes of clay, fifteen cents per gross. Pipes, pipe-bowls, and all smokers' articles whatsoever, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, seventy per centum ad valorem; all common pipes of clay, thirty-five per centum ad valorem. 469. Plush, black, known commercially as hatters' plush, composed of silk, or of silk and cotton, and used exclusively for making men's hats, ten per centum ad valorem. Old law: Twenty-five per centum. 470. Umbrellas, parasols, and sun-shades covered with silk, or alpaca, fifty-five per centum ad valorem; if covered with other material, forty-five per centum ad valorem. Old law: Fifty per centum and forty per centum. 471. Umbrellas, parasols, and sunshades, sticks for, if plain, finished or unfinished, thirty-five per centum ad valorem; if carved, fifty per centum ad valorem. Old law: Thirty per centum. 472. Waste, not specially provided for in this act, ten per centum ad valorem. Old law: Items specially provided for under the old law, which will be classified under the new law according to the component material of chief value: Card-cases, pocket-books, shell-boxes, and all similar articles, of Carriages, and parts of, not specially enumerated or provided for Coach and harness furniture of all kinds, saddlery, coach, and Combs, of all kinds, thirty per centum ad valorem. Fans of all kinds, except common palm-leaf fans, of whatever material composed, thirty-five per centum ad valorem. Finishing powder, twenty per centum ad valorem. Japanned ware of all kinds, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, forty per centum ad valorem. Musical instruments of all kinds, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. Philosophical apparatus and instruments, thirty-five per centum ad valorem. Polishing powders of every description, by whatever name known, including Frankfort black, and Berlin, Chinese, fig, and wash blue, twenty per centum ad valorem. Scagliola, and composition tops for tables or for other articles of furniture, thirty-five per centum ad valorem. Teeth, manufactured, twenty per centum ad valorem. FREE LIST. SEC. 2. On and after the sixth day of October, eighteen hundred and ninety, unless otherwise specially provided for in this act, the following articles when imported shall be exempt from duty: 473. Acids used for medicinal, chemical, or manufacturing purposes, not specially provided for in this act. 474. Aconite. 475. Acorns, raw, dried or undried, but unground 476. Agates, unmanufactured. 477. Albumen. 478. Alizarine, natural or artificial, and dyes commercially known as Alizarine yellow, Alizarine orange, Alizarine green, Alizarine blue, Alizarine brown, Alizarine black. NOTE-Italics represent new matter. |