parts of such acts not contained in such revision, having been repealed or superseded by subsequent acts, or not being general and permanent in their nature: Provided, That the incorporation into said revision of any general and permanent provision, taken from an act making appropriations, or from an act containing other provisions of a private, local, or temporary character, shall not repeal, or in any way affect any appropriation, or any provision of a private, local, or temporary character, contained in any of said acts, but the same shall remain in force and all acts of Congress passed prior to said last named day no part of which are embraced in said revision, shall not be affected or changed by its enactment.

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SEC. 5597. The repeal of the several acts embraced in said revision shall not affect any act done, or any right accruing or accrued, or any suit or proceeding had or commenced in any civil cause before the said repeal, but all rights and liabilities under said acts shall continue, and may be enforced in the same manner, as if said repeal had not been made; nor shall said repeal, in any manner affect the right to any office, or change the term or tenure thereof.

SEC. 5598. All offences committed, and all penalties or forfeiture incurred under any statute embraced in said revision prior to said repeal, may be prosecuted and punished in the same manner and with the same effect, as if the said repeal had not been made.

SEC. 5599. All acts of limitation, whether applicable to civil causes and proceedings, or to the prosecution of offences, or for the recovery of penalties or forfeitures, embraced in said revision and covered by said repeal, shall not be affected thereby, but all suits, proceedings or prosecutions, whether civil or criminal, for causes arising, or acts done or committed prior to said repeal, may be commenced and prosecuted within the said time as if said repeal had not been made.

SEC. 5600. The arrangement and classification of the several sections of the revision have been made for the purpose of a more convenient and orderly arrangement of the same, and therefore no inference or presumption of a legislative construction is to be drawn by reason of the title, under which any particular section is placed.

SEC. 5601. The enactment of the said revision is not to affect or repeal any act of Congress passed since the first day of December, 1873, and all acts passed since that date are to have full effect as if passed after the enactment of this revision, and so far as such acts vary from, or conflict with any provision contained in said revision, they are to have effect as subsequent statutes, and as repealing any portion of the revision inconsistent therewith.

TITLE XXXIII.

DUTIES UPON IMPORTS.

SEC. 2491. All persons are prohibited from importing into the United States, from any foreign country, any obscene book, pamphlet, paper, writing, advertisement, circular, print, picture, drawing, or other representation, figure, or image on or of paper or of other material, or any cast, instrument, or other article of an immoral nature, or any drug or medicine, or any article whatever, for the prevention of conception, or for causing unlawful abortion. No invoice or package whatever, or any part of one, in which any such articles are contained shall be admitted to entry; aud all invoices and packages whereof any such articles shall compose a part are liable to be proceeded against, seized, and forfeited in duc

course of law.

All such prohibited articles in the course of importation shall be detained by the officer of customs, and proceedings taken against the same as prescribed in the following section: Provided, That the drugs herein before mentioned, when imported in bulk and not put up for any of the purposes hereinbefore specified, are excepted from the operation of this section.

SEC. 2492. Any judge of any district or circuit court of the United States, within the proper district, before whom complaint in writing of any violation of the preceding section is made, to the satisfaction of such judge, and founded on knowledge or belief, and, if upon belief, setting forth the grounds of such belief, and supported by oath or affirmation of the complainant, may issue, conformably to the Constitution, a warrant directed to the marshal, or any deputy marshal, in the proper district, directing him to search for, seize, and take possession of any such article or thing herein before mentioned, and to make due and immediate return thereof, to the end that the same may be condemned and destroyed by proceedings, which shall be conducted in the same manner as other proceedings in case of municipal seizure, and with the same right of appeal or writ of error. SEC. 2493. The importation of neat cattle and the hides of neat cattle from any foreign country into the United States is prohibited: Provided, That the operation of this section shall be suspended as to any foreign country or countries, or any part of such country or countries, whenever the Secretary of the Treasury shall officially determine, and give public notice thereof, that such importation will not tend to the introduction or spread of contagious or infectious disease among the cattle of the United States; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and empowered, and it shall be his duty, to make all necessary orders and regulations to carry this law into effect, or to suspend the same as therein provided, and to send copies thereof to the proper officers in the United States, and to such officers or agents of the United States in foreign countries as he shall judge necessary.

SEC. 2494. The President of the United States, whenever in his judgment the importation of neat cattle and the hides of neat cattle may be made without danger of the introduction or spread of contagious or infectious disease among the cattle of the United States, may, by proclamation, declare the provisions of the preceding section to be inoperative, and the same shall be afterward inoperative and of no effect from and after thirty days from the date of such proclamation.

SEC. 2495. Any person convicted of a wilful violation of any of the provisions of the two preceding sections, shall be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not exceeding one year, or both, in the discretion of the court.

SEC. 2496. No watches, watch-cases, watch-movements, or parts of watchmovements, of foreign manufacture, which shall copy or simulate the name or trade-mark of any domestic manufacturer, shall be admitted to entry at the custom-houses of the United States, unless such domestic manufacturer is the importer of the same. And in order to aid the officers of the customs in enforcing this prohibition, any domestic manufacturer of watches who has adopted trademarks may require his name and residence and a description of his trade-marks to be recorded in books which shall be kept for that purpose in the Department of the Treasury, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe, and may furnish to the Department fac-similes of such trade-marks; and thereupon the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause one or more copies of the same to be transmitted to such collector or other proper officer of the customs. SEC. 2497. No goods, wares or merchandise, unless in cases provided for by treaty, shall be imported into the United States from any foreign port or place, except in vessels of the United States, or in such foreign vessels as truly and wholly belong to the citizens or subjects of that country of which the goods are

the growth, production, or manufacture; or from which such goods, wares or merchandise can only be, or most usually are, first shipped for transportation. All goods, wares, or merchandise imported contrary to this section, and the vessel wherein the same shall be imported, together with her cargo, tackle, apparel, and furniture, shall be forfeited to the United States; and such goods, wares or merchandise, ship or vessel, and cargo shall be liable to be seized, prosecuted and condemned, in like manner, and under the same regulations, restrictions, and provi sions, as have been heretofore established for the recovery, collection, distribution, and remission of forfeitures to the United States by the several revenue laws.

SEC. 2498. The preceding sections shall not apply to vessels, or goods, wares, or merchandise, imported in vessels of a foreign nation which does not maintain a similar regulation against vessels of the United States.

SEC. 2499. There shall be levied, collected, and paid, on each and every nonenumerated article which bears a similitude, either in material, quality, texture, or the use to which it may be applied, to any article enumerated in this title, as chargeable with duty, the same rate of duty which is levied and charged on the enumerated article which it most resembles in any of the particulars before mentioned; and if any non enumerated article equally resembles two or more enumerated articles, on which different rates of duty are chargeable, there shall be levied, collected and paid, on such non-enumerated article, the same rate of duty as is chargeable on the article which it resembles paying the highest duty; and on all articles manufactured from two or more materials, the duty shall be assessed at the highest rates at which any of its component parts may be chargeable. SEC. 2500. Upon the re-importation of articles once exported, of the growth, product, or manufacture of the United States, upon which no internal tax has been assessed or paid, or upon which such tax has been paid and refunded by allowance or drawback, there shall be levied, collected and paid a duty equal to the tax imposed by the internal-revenue laws upon such articles.

SEC. 2501. There shall be levied, collected, and paid on all goods, wares, and merchandise of the growth or produce of the countries east of the Cape of Good Hope, (except wool, raw cotton, and raw silk, as reeled from the cocoon, or not further advanced than tram, thrown, or organzine,) when imported from places west of the Cape of Good Hope, a duty of ten per centum ad valorem in addition to the duties imposed on any such article when imported directly from the place or places of their growth or production.

SEC. 2502. A discriminating duty of ten per centum ad valorem, in addition to the duties imposed by law, shall be levied, collected, and paid on all goods, wares and merchandise, which shall be imported on vessels not of the United States; but this discriminating duty shall not apply to goods, wares, and merchandise which shall be imported in vessels not of the United States entitled, by treaty or any act of Congress, to be entered in the ports of the United States on payment of the same duties as shall then be paid on goods, wares, and merchandise imported in vessels of the United States.

SEC. 2503. There shall be levied, collected, and paid upon all articles mentioned in the schedules contained in the next section, imported from foreign countries, the rates of duty which are by the schedules respectively prescribed: Provided,*That on the goods, wares, and merchandise in this section enumerated and provided for, imported from foreign countries, there shall be levied, collected, and paid only ninety per centum of the several duties and rates of duty imposed by the said schedules upon said articles severally, that is to say:

*On all manufactures of cotton of which cotton is the component part or chief value.

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*On all wools, hair of the alpaca, goat, and other animals, and all manufac tures wholly or in part of wool or hair of the alpaca and other like animals, except umbrellas, parasols, and sun-shades covered with silk or alpaca.

*On all iron and steel, and on all manufactures of iron and steel, of which such metals or either of them shall be the component part of chief value, excepting cotton-machinery.

*On other metals not herein otherwise provided for, and on all manufactures of metals of which either of them is the component part of chief value, excepting percussion caps, watches, jewellery, and other articles of ornament: Provided, That all wire rope and wire strand or chain made of iron wire, either bright, coppered, galvanized, or coated with other metals, shall pay the same rate of duty that is now levied on the iron wire of which said rope or strand or chain is made; and all wire rope, and wire strand or chain made of steel wire, either bright, coppered, galvanized, or coated with other metals, shall pay the same rate of duty that is now levied on the steel wire of which said rope or strand or chain is made. *On all paper, and manufactures of paper, excepting unsized printing-paper, books and other printed matter, and excepting sized or glued paper suitable only for printing-paper.

*On all manufactures of India rubber, gutta-percha, or straw, and on oil-cloths of all descriptions.

*On glass and glass ware, and on unwrought pipe-clay, fine clay, and fullers earth.

*On all leather not otherwise herein provided for, and on all manufactures of skins, bone, ivory, horn, and leather, except gloves and mittens, and of which either of said articles is the component part of chief value; and on liquorice-paste or liquorice juice.

SCHEDULE A.

COTTON AND COTTON GOODS.

22. Sec. 2504. On all manufactures of cotton (except jeans, drillings, bed tickings, ginghams, plaids, cottonades, pantaloon stuff, and goods of like description) not bleached, coloured, stained, painted, or printed, and not exceeding one hundred threads to the square inch, counting the warp and filling, and exceeding in weight five ounces per square yard, 5 cents per square yard; if bleached, 5 cents per square yard; if coloured, stained, painted, or printed, 5 cents per square yard, and in addition thereto, 10 per centum ad valorem.

23. On finer and lighter goods, of like description, not exceeding two hundred threads to the square inch, counting the warp and filling, unbleached, 5 cents per square yard; if bleached, 5 cents per square yard; if coloured, stained, painted, or printed, 5 cents per square yard, and in addition thereto, 20 per centum ad valorem.

24. On goods of like description, exceeding two hundred threads to the square inch, counting the warp and filling, unbleached, 5 cents per square yard, if bleached, 5 cents per square yard; if coloured, stained, painted, or printed, 5 cents per square yard, and, in addition thereto, 20 per cent ad valorem.

25. On cotton jeans, denims, drillings, bed tickings, ginghams, plaids, cottonades, pantaloon stuffs, and goods of like descriptions, or for similar use, if unbleached, and not exceeding one hundred threads to the square inch, counting the and filling, and exceeding five ounces to the square yard; 6 cents per

warp

* Repealed, see page 81, sec. 4.

square yard; if bleached, 63 cents per square yard; if coloured, stained, painted, or printed,6 cents per square yard; and, in addition thereto, 10 per centum ad valorem.

26. On finer or lighter goods of like description, not exceeding two hundred threads to the square inch, counting the warp and filling, if unbleached, 6 cents per square yard; if bleached, 6 cents per square yard; if coloured, stained, painted, or printed, 63 cents per square yard, and, in addition thereto, 15 per centum ad valorem.

27. On goods of lighter description, exceeding two hundred threads to the square inch, counting the warp and filling, if unbleached, 7 cents per square yard; if bleached, 71⁄2 cents per square yard; if coloured, stained, painted, or printed, 73 cents per square yard, and, in addition thereto, 15 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That upon all plain woven cotton goods, not included in the foregoing schedule, unbleached, valued at over sixteen cents per square yard; bleached, valued at over twenty cents per square yard; coloured, valued at over twentyfive cents per square yard, and cotton jeans, denims and drillings, unbleached, valued at over twenty cents per square yard, there shall be levied, collected, and paid a duty of 35 per centum ad valorem. And provided further, That no cotton goods having more than two hundred threads to the square inch, counting the warp and filling, shall be admitted to a less rate of duty than is provided for goods which are of that number of threads.

28. Cotton thread, yarn, warps, or warp-yarn, not wound upon spools, whether single or advanced beyond the condition of single by twisting two or more single yarns together, whether on beams or in bundles, skeins, or cops, or in any other form, valued at not exceeding forty cents per pound: 10 cents per pound; valued at over forty cents per pound and not exceeding sixty cents per pound 20 cents per pound; valued at over sixty cents per pound and not exceeding eighty cents per pound: 30 cents per pound; valued at over eighty cents per pound 40 cents per pound; and, in addition to such rates of duty, 20 per centum ad valorem.

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29. Spool-thread of cotton: 6 cents per dozen spools, containing on each spool not exceeding one hundred yards of thread, and, in addition thereto, 30 per centum ad valorem; exceeding one hundred yards, for every additional hundred yards of thread on each spool or fractional part thereof, in excess of one hundred yards: 6 cents per dozen, and 35 per centum ad valorem.

30. Cotton cords, gimps, and galloons and cotton laces coloured: 35 per centum ad valorem.

31. Cotton shirts and drawers, woven or made on frames, and on all cotton hosiery: 35 per centum ad valorem.

32. Cotton-velvet: 35 per centum ad valorem.

33. Cotton braids, insertings, lace, trimming, or bobbinet, and all other manufactures of cotton, not otherwise provided for: 35 per centum ad valorem.

SCHEDULE B.-EARTHS AND EARTHEN WARES.

34. Brown earthen ware and common stone ware, gas-retorts, stone ware not ornamented: 25 per centum ad valorem.

35. China, porcelain, and Parian ware, gilded, ornamented, or decorated in any manner: 50 per centum ad valorem.

36. China, porcelain, and Parian ware, plain white and not decorated in any manner: 45 per centum ad valorem; on all other earthen, stone, or crockery ware, white, glazed, edged, printed, painted, dipped, or cream-coloured, composed of earthy or mineral substances, and not otherwise provided for 40 per centum ad valorem.

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