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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.

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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.
NOTE.-New matter in italics.

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 centúm 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
whatever material composed, and by whatever name known,
not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, thirty-
five per centum ad valorem.

Carriages, and parts of, not specially enumerated or provided for
in this act, thirty-five per centum ad valorem.
Clocks and parts of clocks thirty per centum.

Coach and harness furniture of all kinds, saddlery, coach, and
harness hardware, silver-plated, brass, brass-plated, or covered,
common, tinned, burnished, or japanned, not specially enu-
merated or provided for in this act, thirty-five per centum ad
valorem.

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.

NOTA-Italics represent new matter.

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479. Amber, unmanufactured, or crude gum. Old law: Amber beads and gum.

480. Ambergris.

481. Aniline salts,

Old law: Aniline salts, or black salts or black tares.

482. Any animal imported specially for breeding purposes shall be admitted free: Provided, That no such animal shall be admitted free unless pure bred of a recognized breed, and duly registered in the book of record established for that breed: And provided further, That certificate of such record and of the pedigree of such animal shall be produced and submitted to the customs officer, duly authenticated by the proper custodian of such book of record, together with the affidavit of the owner, agent, or importer that such animal is the identical animal described in said certificate of record and pedigree. The Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe such additional regulations as may be required for the strict enforcement of this provision.

Old law: Animals specially imported for breeding purposes, shall be admitted free upon proof thereof satisfactory to the Secretary of the Treasury, and under such regulations as he may prescribe; and teams of animals, including their harness and tackle and the vehicles or wagons actually owned by persons emigrating from foreign countries to the United States with their families, and in actual use for the purpose of such emigration, shall also be admitted free of duty, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe.

483. Animals brought into the United States temporarily for a period not exceeding six months, for the purpose of exhibition or competition for prizes offered by any agricultural or racing association; but a bond shall be given in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury; also, teams of animals, including their harness and tackle and the wagons or other vehicles actually owned by persons emigrating from foreign countries to the United States with their families, and in actual use for the purpose of such emigration under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe; and wild animals intended for exhibition in zoological collections for scientific and educational purposes, and not for sale or profit.

NOTE.-New matter in italics.

484. Annatto, roucou, rocoa, or orleans, and all extracts of. 485. Antimony ore, crude sulphite of.

486. Apatite.

487. Argal, or argol, or crude tartar.

488. Arrow root, raw or unmanufactured.

NOTE.-Words in italics represent new matter.

489. Arsenic and sulphide of, or orpiment. 490. Arseniate of aniline.

491. Art educational stops, composed of glass and metal and valued at not more than six cents per gross.

New provision.

492. Articles in a crude state used in dyeing or tanning not specially provided for in this act.

493. Articles the growth, produce, and manufacture of the United States, when returned after having been exported, without having been advanced in value or improved in condition by any process of

manufacture or other means; casks, barrels, carboys, bags, and other vessels of American manufacture exported filled with American products, or exported empty and returned filled with foreign prod ucts, including shooks when returned as barrels or boxes; also quicksilver flasks or bottles, of either domestic or foreign manufacture, which shall have been actually exported from the United States; but proof of the identity of such articles shall be made, under general regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury; and if any such articles are subject to internal tax at the time of exportation such tax shall be proved to have been paid before exportation and not refunded: Provided, That this paragraph shall not apply to any article upon which an allowance of drawback has been made, the re-importation of which is hereby prohibited except upon payment of duties equal to the drawbacks allowed; or to any article manufactured in bonded-warehouse and exported under any provision of law: And provided further, That when manufactured tobacco which has been exported without payment of internal-revenue tax shall be re-imported it shall be retained in the custody of the collector of customs until internal-revenue stamps in payment of the legal duties shall be placed thereon.

Old law: Barrels of American manufacture, exported filled with domestic petroleum, and returned empty, under such regulalations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, and without requiring the filing of a declaration at time of export of intent to return the same empty.

Articles the growth, produce, and manufacture of the United States, when returned in the same condition as exported. Casks, barrels, barboys, bags, and other vessels of American manufacture, exported filled with American products, or exported empty and returned filled with foreign products, including shooks when returned as barrels or boxes; but proof of the identity of such articles shall be made under the regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury; and if any such articles are subject to internal tax at the time of exportation, such tax shall be proved to have been paid before exportation and not refunded. [a. And provided further, That bags, other than of American manufacture, in which grain shall have been actually exported from the United States, may be returned empty to the United States, free of duty, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. Sec. 7, act of February 8, 1875.]

494. Asbestos, unmanufactured.

Old law: Articles imported for the use of the United States, provided that the price of the same did not include the duty.

495. Ashes, wood and lye of, and beet-root ashes.

496. Asphaltum and bitumen, crude.

497. Asafetida.

498. Balm of Gilead.

499. Barks, cinchona or other from which quinine may be extracted,

Old law: Barks, cinchona or other barks used in the manufacture of quinine.

500, Baryta, carbonate of, or witherite.

501. Bauxite, or beauxite.

502. Beeswax.

Old law: Twenty per centum.

503. Bells, broken, and bell metal broken and fit only to be remanufactured.

504. Birds, stuffed, not suitable for millinery ornaments, and bird skins, prepared for preservation, but not further advanced in manufacture.

NOTE.-Italics represent new matter.

505. Birds and land and water fowls.

506. Bismuth.

507. Bladders, including fish-bladders or fish-sounds, crude, and all integuments of animals not specially provided for in this act. 508. Blood, dried.

509. Bologna sausages.

✓510. Bolting-cloths, especially for milling purposes, but not suitable for the manufacture of wearing apparel.

NOTE.-Italics represents new matter.

511. Bones, crude, or not burned, calcined, ground, steamed, or otherwise manufactured, and bone-dust or animal carbon, and bone ash, fit only for fertilizing purposes.

Old law: Bones, crude, not manufactured, burned, calcined, ground, or steamed.

Bone-dust and bone-ash for manufacture of phosphate and fer

tilizers.

512. Books, engravings, photographs, bound or unbound etchings, maps, and charts, which shall have been printed and bound or manufactured more than twenty years at the date of importation.

NOTE.-Italics represent new matter.

513. Books and pamphlets printed exclusively in languages other than English; also books and music, in raised print, used exclusively by the blind.

514. Books, engravings, photographs, etchings, bound or unbound, maps and charts imported by authority or for the use of the United States or for the use of the Library of Congress.

NOTE.-Italics indicate new matter.

The following words are omitted from new law: "But the duty shall not have been included in the contract of price paid."

515. Books, maps, lithographic prints, and charts, specially imported, not more than two copies in any one invoice, in good faith, for the use of any society incorporated or established for educational, philosophical, literary, or religious purposes, or for the encouragement of the fine arts, or for the use or by order of any college, academy, school, or seminary of learning in the United States, subject to such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe.

NOTE.-Italics represent new matter.

516. Books, or libraries, or parts of libraries, and other household effects of persons or families from foreign countries, if actually used abroad by them not less than one year, and not intended for any other person or persons, nor for sale.

517. Brazil paste.

518. Braids, plaits, laces, and similar manufactures, composed of straw, chip, grass, palm-leaf, willow, osier, or rattan, suitable for making or ornamenting hats, bonnets, and hoods.

Old law: Twenty per centum.

519. Brazilian pebble, unwrought or unmanufactured.

Old law: Brazilian pebbles for spectacles and pebbles for spectacles rough.

520. Breccia, in block or slabs.

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