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AN ACT to reduce the revenue and equalize duties on imports, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That on and after the sixth day of October, eighteen hundred and ninety, unless otherwise specially provided for in this act, there shall be levied, collected, and paid upon all articles imported from foreign countries, and mentioned in the schedules herein contained, the rates of duty which are, by the schedules and paragraphs, respectively prescribed, namely:

[All changes from the old law are indicated by foot-notes or by italics.]

ACIDS.

SCHEDULE A.-CHEMICALS, OILS AND PAINTS.

1. Acetic or pyroligneous acid, not exceeding the specific gravity of one and forty-seven one-thousandths, one and one-half cents per pound; exceeding the specific gravity of one and forty-seven one thousandths, four cents per pound.

Old law: Two cents and ten cents.

2. Boracic acid, five cents per pound.

Old law: Pure, five cents per pound; commercial, four cents.

3. Chromic acid, six cents per pound.

Old law: Fifteen per centum.

4. Citric acid, ten cents per pound.

5. Sulphuric acid or oil of vitriol, not otherwise specially provided for, one-fourth of one cent per pound.

Old law: Free under general provision for acids.

6. Tannic acid or tannin, seventy-five cents per pound.

Old law: One dollar per pound.

7. Tartaric acid, ten cents per pound.

8. Alcoholic perfumery, including cologne-water and other toilet waters, two dollars per gallon and fifty per centum ad valorem; alcoholic compounds not specially provided for in this act, two dollars per gallon and twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

9. Alumina, alum, alum cake, patent alum, sulphate of alumina, and aluminous cake, and alum in crystals or ground, sixtenths of one cent per pound.

10. AMMONIA.-Carbonate of, one and three-fourths cents per pound; muriate of, or sal-ammoniac, three-fourths of one cent per pound; sulphate of, one-half of one cent per pound.

Old law: Carbonate of, twenty per centum; muriate of, ten per centum; sulphate of, twenty per centum.

11. Blacking of all kinds, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. 12. Blue vitriol, or sulphate of copper, two cents per pound. Old law: Three cents per pound.

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13. Bone-char, suitable for use in decolorizing sugars, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

Old law: All bone-char twenty-five per centum.

14. Borax, crude, or borate of soda, or borate of lime, three cents per pound; refined borax, five cents per pound.

15. Camphor, refined, four cents per pound.

Old law: Five cents per pound.

16. Chalk, prepared, precipitated, French, and red, one cent per pound; all other chalk preparations not specially provided for in this act, twenty per centum ad valorem.

17. Chloroform, twenty-five cents per pound.

Old law: Fifty cents per pound.

COAL-TAR PREPARATIONS.

18. All coal-tar colors or dyes, by whatever name known, and not specially provided for in this act, thirty-five per centum ad valorem.

19. All preparations of coal-tar, not colors or dyes, not specially provided for in this act, twenty per centum ad valorem. 20. Cobalt, oxide of, thirty cents per pound.

Old law: Twenty per centum.

21. Collodion and all compounds of pyroxyline, by whatever name known, fifty cents per pound; rolled or in sheets, but not made up into articles, sixty cents per pound; if in finished or partly-finished articles, sixty cents per pound and twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

22. Coloring for brandy, wine, beer, or other liquors, fifty per centum ad valorem.

Text of old law: Coloring for brandy, 50 per centum. 23. Copperas or sulphate of iron, three-tenths of one cent per pound.

24. Drugs, such as barks, beans, berries, balsams, buds, bulbs, and bulbous roots, and excrescences, such as nut-galls, fruits, flowers, dried fibers grains, gums, and gum resins, herbs, leaves, lichens, mosses, nuts, roots and stems, spices, vegetables, seeds (aromatic, not garden seeds), and seeds of morbid growth, weeds, woods used expressly for dyeing, and dried insects, any of the foregoing which are not edible, but which have been advanced in value or condition by refining or grinding, or by other process of manufacture, and not specially provided for in this act, ten per centum ad valorem.

25. Ethers sulphuric, forty cents per pound; spirits of nitrous ether, twenty-five cents per pound; fruit ethers, oils, or essences, two dollars and fifty cents per pound; ethers of all kinds not specially provided for in this act, one dollar per pound.

Old law: Ethers sulphuric, fifty cents per pound; nitrous ether, thirty cents per pound; ethers all other, one dollar per pound; cenanthic, or oil of cognac, four dollars per ounce; fruit ethers, etc., two dollars and fifty cents per pound; oil or essence of rum, fifty cents per ounce.

26. Extracts and decoctions of logwood and other dye-woods, extract of sumac, and extracts of barks, such as are commonly used for dyeing or tanning, not specially provided for in this act, seveneighths of one cent per pound; extracts of hemlock bark one-half of one cent per pound.

Old law: Logwood and other dye-woods, extract, ten per centum; sumac extract, twenty per centum; extract of hemlock and other barks for tanning, twenty per centum,

27. Gelatine, glue, and isinglass or fish-glue, valued at not above seven cents per pound, one and one-half cents per pound; valued at above seven cents per pound and not above thirty cents per pound, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; valued at above thirty cents per pound, thirty per centum ad valorem.

Old law: Glue, twenty per centum; gelatine, thirty per centum; fish-glue, or isinglass, twenty-five per centum.

28. Glycerine, crude, not purified, one and three-fourths cents per pound. Refined, four and one-half cents per pound.

Old law: Crude, two cents per pound; refined, five cents pound. 29. Indigo, extracts, or pastes of, three-fourths of one cent per pound; carmined, ten cents per pound.

Old law: All ten per centum.

30. Ink and ink-powders, printers' ink, and all other ink, not specially provided for in this act, thirty per centum ad valorem. Old law: Ink of all kinds and ink powders, thirty per centum.

31. Iodine, resublimed, thirty cents per pound.
32. Iodoform, one dollar and fifty cents per pound.

Old law: Two dollars per pound.

33. Licorice, extracts of, in paste, rolls, or other forms, five and one-half cents per pound.

Old law: Paste or roll, seven and one-half cents per pound; juice, three cents pound.

34. Magnesia, carbonate of, medicinal, four cents per pound; calcined, eight cents per pound; sulphate of, or Epsom salts, threetenths of one cent per pound.

Old law: Carbonate of, five cents per pound; calcined, ten cents per pound; sulphate, one-half cent per pound.

35. Morphia, or morphine, and all salts thereof, fifty cents per

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36. Alizarine assistant, or soluble oil, or oleate of soda, or Turkey red oil, containing fifty per centum or more of castor oil, eighty cents per gallon; containing less than fifty per centum of castor oil, forty cents per gallon; all other, thirty per centum ad valorem.

Old law: By ruling of Treasury Department as castor oil at eighty cents per gallon.

37. Castor oil, eighty cents per gallon.

38. Cod-liver oil, fifteen cents per gallon.

Old law: Twenty-five per centum.

39. Cotton-seed oil, ten cents per gallon of seven and one-half pounds weight.

Old law: Twenty-five cents per gallon.

40. Croton oil, thirty cents per pound.

Old law: Fifty cents per pound.

41. Flaxseed or linseed and poppy-seed oil, raw, boiled, or oxidized, thirty-two cents per gallon of seven and one-half pounds weight.

Old law: Twenty-five cents per gallon; poppy oil free.

42. Fusel oil, or amylic alcohol, ten per centum ad valorem. 43. Hemp-seed oil and rape-seed oil, ten cents per gallon,

44. Olive oil, fit for salad purposes, thirty-five cents per gallon. Old law: Twenty-five per centum.

45. Peppermint oil, eighty cents per pound.

Old law: Twenty-five per centum.

46. Seal, herring, whale, and other fish oil not specially provided for in this act, eight cents per gallon.

Old law: Twenty-five per centum.

47. Opium, aqueous extract of, for medicinal uses, and tincture of, as laudanum, and all other liquid preparations of opium, not specially provided for in this act, forty per centum ad valorem.

48. Opium containing less than nine per centum of morphia, and opium prepared for smoking, twelve dollars per pound; but opium prepared for smoking and other preparations of opium deposited in bonded-warehouse shall not be removed therefrom without payment of duties, and such duties shall not be refunded.

Old law: Ten dollars per pound on opium for smoking; containing less than nine per centum of opium prohibited; opium, crude, containing nine per centum or more one dollar per pound.

PAINTS, COLORS, AND VARNISHES.

49. Baryta, sulphate of, or barytes, including barytes earth, unmanufactured, one dollar and twelve cents per ton; manufactured, six dollars and seventy-two cents per ton.

Old law: Unmanufactured ten per centum; manufactured, onequarter cent per pound.

50. Blues, such as Berlin, Prussian, Chinese, and all others, containing ferrocyanide of iron, dry or ground in or mixed with oil, six cents per pound; in pulp, or mixed with water six cents per pound on the material contained therein when dry. Old law: Twenty per centum.

51. Blanc-fixe, or satin white, or artificial sulphate of barytes, three-fourths of one cent per pound.

Old law: Twenty-five per centum.

52. Black, made from bone, ivory, or vegetable, under whatever name known, including bone-black and lamp-black, dry or ground in oil or water, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

Old law: Change in text, but same rate.

53. Chrome yellow, chrome green, and all other chromium colors in which lead and bichromate of potash or soda are component parts, dry, or ground in or mixed with oil, four and onehalf cents per pound; in pulp or mixed with water, four and one-half cents per pound on the material contained therein when dry.

Old law: Twenty-five per centum.

54. Ocher and ochery earths, sienna and sienna earths, umber and umber earths not specially provided for in this act, dry, one-fourth of one cent per pound; ground in oil, one and one-half cents per pound.

Old law: Dry, one-half cent per pound; in oil, one cent per pound. 55. Ultramarine blue, four and one-half cents per pound.

Old law: Five cents per pound.

56. Varnishes, including so-called gold size or japan, thirty-five per centum ad valorem ; and on spirit varnishes for the alcohol contained therein, one dollar and thirty-two cents per gallon additional.

Old law: Forty per centum ad valorem on varnish; gold size, free;
Japan, forty per centum by Treasury ruling.

57. Vermilion red, and colors containing quicksilver, dry or ground in oil or water, twelve cents per pound.

Old law: Twenty-five per centum.

58. Wash blue, containing ultramarine, three cents per pound. Old law: Twenty per centum.

59. Whiting and Paris white, dry, one-half of one cent per pound; ground in oil, or putty, one cent per pound.

60. Zinc, oxide of, and white paint containing zinc, but not containing lead; dry, one and one-fourth cents per pound; ground in oil, one and three-fourth cents per pound.

NOTE.-New matter in italics.

61. All other paints and colors, whether dry or mixed, or ground in water or oil, including lakes, crayons, smalts, and frostings, not specially provided for in this act, and artists' colors of all kinds, in tubes or otherwise, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; all paints and colors, mixed or ground with water or solutions other than oil, and commercially known as artists' water color paints, thirty per centum ad valorem. Old law: Twenty-five per centum on all. Crayons of all kinds, twenty per centum. Entire change of text.

LEAD PRODUCTS.

62. Acetate of lead, white, five and one-half cents per pound; brown, three and one-half cents per pound.

Old law: White, six cents; brown, four cents.

63. Litharge, three cents per pound.

64. Nitrate of lead, three cents per pound.

65. Orange mineral, three and one-half cents per pound.

Old law: Three cents per pound.

66. Red lead, three cents per pound.

67. White lead, and white paint containing lead, dry or in pulp, or ground or mixed with oil, three cents per pound.

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69. Bichromate and chromate of, three cents per pound.

70. Caustic or hydrate of, refined in sticks or rolls, one cent per pound.

Old law: Twenty per centum.

71. Hydriodate, iodide, and iodate of, fifty cents per pound. 72. Nitrate of, or saltpeter, refined, one cent per pound.

Old law: One and one-half cents per pound.

73. Prussiate of, red, ten cents per pound; yellow, five cents per pound.

PREPARATIONS.

74. All medicinal preparations, including medicinal proprietary preparations, of which alcohol is a component part, or in the preparation of which alcohol is used, not specially provided for in this act, fifty cents per pound.

Old law: Change of text. Hoffman's anodyne, thirty cents per pound.

75. All medicinal preparations, including medicinal proprietary preparations, of which alcohol is not a component part, and 12021-3

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