centum of copper, shall pay a duty of one-half of one cent per pound on the copper contained therein. Old av All forms of nickel fifteen cents per pound. 668. Osmium. 669. Palladium. 670. Paper stock, crude, of every description, including all grasses, fibers, rags (other than wool), waste, shavings, clippings, old paper, rope ends, waste rope, waste bagging, old or refuse gunny bags or gunny cloth, and poplar or other woods, fit only to be converted into paper. Old law: Leather, old scraps, enumerated. Sea-weed not specially 671. Paraffine. provided for. Paper-stock,crude, of every description, including all grasses, fibers, rags of all kinds, other than wool, waste, shavings, clippings, old paper, rope-ends, waste rope, waste bagging, gunny-bags, gunny-cloth, old or refuse, to be used in making, and fit only to be converted into paper, and unfit for any other manufacture, and cotton waste, whether for paper-stock or other purposes. Rags of whatever material composed, and not specially provided for in this act, ten per centum. (See fibers and grasses.) 672. Parchment and vellum. 673. Pearl, mother of, not sawed, cut, polished, or otherwise manufactured. NOTE.-New matter in italics. 674. Peltries and other usual goods and effects of Indians passing or repassing the boundary line of the United States, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe: Provided, That this exemption shall not apply to goods in bales or other packages unusual among Indians. 675. Personal and household effects not merchandise of citizens of the United States dying in foreign countries. 676. Pewter and britannia metal, old, and fit only to be re-manufactured. 677. Philosophical and scientific apparatus, instruments and preparations; statuary, casts of marble, bronze, alabaster, or plaster of Paris; paintings, drawings, and etchings, specially imported in good faith for the use of any society or institution incorporated or established for religious, philosophical, educational, scientific, or literary purposes, or for encouragement of the fine arts, and not intended for sale. 678. Phosphates, crude or native. Old law contains words: "For fertilizing purposes." 679. Plants, trees, shrubs, roots, seed-cane, and seeds, all of the foregoing imported by the Department of Agriculture or the United States Botanic Garden. 680. Plaster of Paris and sulphate of lime, unground. 681. Platina, in ingots, bars, sheets, and wire. Old law: Platina unmanufactured. 682. Platinum, unmanufactured, and vases, retorts, and other apparatus, vessels, and parts thereof composed of platinum for chemical uses. NOTE.-New matter in italics, 683. Plumbago. 684. Polishing-stones. 685. Potash, crude, carbonate of, or "black salts." Caustic potash, or hydrate of, not including refined in sticks or rolls. Nitrate of potash, or saltpeter, crude. Sulphate of potash, crude or refined. Chlorate of potash. Muriate of potash. Old law: Caustic, and so forth, twenty per centum; chlorate, three cents per pound; sulphate, twenty per centum; nitrate of, or saltpeter crude, one cent per pound. 686. Professional books, implements, instruments, and tools of trade, occupation, or employment, in the actual possession at the time of persons arriving in the United States; but this exemption shall not be construed to include machinery or other articles imported for use in any manufacturing establishment, or for any other person or persons, or for sale. Old law: Professional books only. 687. Pulu. 688. Pumice. 689 Quills, prepared or unprepared, but not made up into complete articles. NOTE.-New matter in italics. 690. Quinia, sulphate of, and all alkaloids or salts of cinchonabark. Old law: Quinia, sulphate of, salts of, and cinchonidia. 691. Rags not otherwise specially provided for in this act. Old law: Rags of all kinds other than wool. 692. Regalia and gems, statues, statuary and specimens of sculpture where specially imported in good faith for the use of any society incorporated or established solely for educational, philosophical, literary, or religious purposes, or for the encouragement of fine arts, or for the use or by order of any college, academy, school, seminary of learning, or public library in the United States; but the term "regalia" as herein used shall be held to embrace only such insignia of rank or office or emblems, as may be worn upon the person or borne in the hand during public exercises of the society or institution, and shall not include articles of furniture or fixtures, or of regular wearing-apparel, not personal property of individuals. NOTE.-New matter in italics. 693. Rennets, raw or prepared. 694. Saffron and safflower, and extract of, and saffron cake. 695. Sago, crude, and sago flour. 696. Salacine. 697. Sauer-krout. 698. Sausage skins. 699. Seeds; anise, canary, caraway, cardamon, coriander, cotton, cummin, fennel, fenugreek, hemp, hoarhound, mustard, rape, Saint John's bread or bene, sugar-beet, mangel wurzel, sorghum or sugar cane for seed, and all flower and grass seeds; bulbs and bulbous roots, not edible; all the foregoing not specially provided for in this act. Old law: Bulbs and bulbous roots, not medicinal, not otherwise provided for, twenty per centum. 700. Selep, or saloup. 701. Shells of all kinds, not cut, ground, or otherwise manufactured. Old law: Shells of every description, not manufactured; tortoise and other shells, unmanufactured, free. 702. Shotgun barrels, forged, rough bored. Old law: Ten per centum. 703. Shrimps, and other shell fish. 704. Silk, raw, or as reeled from the cocoon, but not doubled, twisted, or advanced in manufacture in any way. 705. Silk cocoons and silk-waste. 706. Silk worm's eggs. 707. Skeletons and other preparations of anatomy. 708. Snails. 709. Soda, nitrate of, or cubic nitrate, and chlorate of. 710. Sodium. 711. Sparterre, suitable for making or ornamenting hats. Note: New matter in italics. 712. Specimens of natural history, botany, and mineralogy, when imported for cabinets or as objects of science, and not for sale. Old law extended to objects of taste. SPICES 713. Cassia, cassia vera, and cassia buds, unground. 714. Cinnamon, and chips of, unground. 715. Cloves and clove stems, unground. 716. Ginger-root, unground and not preserved or candied. 721. Spunk. 722. Spurs and stilts used in the manufacture of earthen, porcelain, and stone ware. Old law was crockery instead of porcelain. 723. Stone and sand: Burr-stone in blocks, rough or manufactured, and not bound up into mill-stones; cliff-stone, unmanufactured, pumice-stone, rotten-stone, and sand, crude or manufactured. 724. Storax, or styrax. 725. Strontia, oxide of, and protoxide of strontian, and strontianite, or mineral carbonite of strontia. 726. Sugars, all not above number sixteen Dutch standard in color, Vall tank bottoms, all sugar drainings and sugar sweepings, sirups of cane juice, melada, concentrated melada, and concrete and concentrated molasses, and molasses. Old law: All sugars not above No. 13 Dutch standard in color shall All sugars not above No. 13 Dutch standard in color, all tank bot- * * * and ages shall be considered sugar and dutiable as such. And provided further, That of the drawback on refined sugars exported allowed by section three thousand and nineteen of the Revised Statutes of the United States, only one per centum of the amount so allowed shall be retained by the United States. Act of March 3, 1875, sec. 3.] Sugar, thirteen to sixteen Dutch standard, two and seventy-five one hundredths cents per pound. Old law: Molasses testing not above fifty-six degrees by the polariscope, shall pay a duty of four cents per gallon; molasses testing above fifty-six degrees, shall pay a duty of eight cents per gallon. 727. Sulphur, lac or precipitated, and sulphur or brimstone, crude, in bulk, sulphur ore, as pyrites, or sulphuret of iron in its natural state, containing in excess of twenty-five per centum of sulphur (except on the copper contained therein) and sulphur not otherwise provided for. Old law: Sulphur, or brimstone, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act; sulphur, lac or precipitated, free; pyrites, seventy-five cents per ton. 728. Sulphuric acid which at the temperature of sixty degrees Fahrenheit does not exceed the specific gravity of one and three hundred and eighty thousandths, for use in manufacturing superphosphate of lime or artificial manures of any kind, or for any agricultural purposes. Old law: Free under general provision for acid. 729. Sweepings of silver and gold. 730. Tapioca, cassava or cassady. 731. Tar and pitch of wood, and pitch of coal-tar. Old law: Wood tar, ten per centum; coal tar, crude, ten per centum ad valorem. 732. Tea and tea-plants. 733. Teeth, natural, or unmanufactured. New matter in italics. 734. Terra alba. Word aluminous omitted. 735. Terra japonica. 736. Tin ore, cassiterite or black oxide of tin, and tin in bars, blocks, pigs, or grain or granulated, until July the first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and thereafter as otherwise provided for in this act. 745. Types, old, and fit only to be remanufactured. 746. Uranium, oxide and salts of. 747. Vaccine virus. 748. Valonia. 749. Verdigris, or subacetate of copper 12021- -7 750. Wafers, unmedicated. 751. Wax, vegetable or mineral. 752. Wearing apparel and other personal effects (not merchandise) of persons arriving in the United States, but this exemption shall not be held to include articles not actually in use and necessary and appropriate for the use of such persons for the purposes of their journey and present comfort and convenience, or which are intended for any other person or persons, or for sale: Provided, however, That all such wearing apparel and other personal effects as may have been once imported into the United States and subjected to the payment of duty, and which may have been actually used and taken or exported to foreign countries by the persons returning therewith to the United States, shall, if not advanced in value or improved in condition by any means since their exportation from the United States, be entitled to exemption from duty, upon their identity being established, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. Old law: Wearing apparel, in actual use, and other personal effects (not merchandise), professional books, implements, instruments, and tools of trade, occupation, or employment of persons arriving in the United States. But this exemption shall not be construed to include machinery or other articles imported for use in any manufacturing establishment, or for sale. 753. Whalebone, unmanufactured. 754. WOOD.-Logs, and round unmanufactured timber not specially enumerated or provided for in this act. 755. Fire wood, handle-bolts, heading-bolts, stave-bolts, shinglebolts, hop-poles, fence-posts, railroad ties, ship timber, and shipplanking, not specially provided for in this act. 756. Woods, namely, cedar, lignum-vitæ, lancewood, ebony, box, granadilla, mahogany, rosewood, satinwood, and all forms of cabinetwoods, in the log, rough or hewn; bamboo and rattan unmanufactured; briar-root or briar-wood, and similar wood unmanufactured, or not further manufactured than cut into blocks suitable for the articles into which they are intended to be converted; bamboo, reeds, and sticks of partridge, hair-wood, pimento, orange, myrtle, and other woods not otherwise specially provided for in this act, in the rough, or not further manufactured than cut into lengths suitable for sticks for umbrellas, parasols, sun-shades, whips, or walkingcanes; and India malacca joints, not further manufactured than cut into suitable lengths for the manufactures into which they are intended to be converted. New matter in italics. 757. Works of art, the production of American artists residing temporarily abroad, or other works of art, including pictorial paintings on glass, imported expressly for presentation to a national institution, or to any State or municipal corporation, or incorporated religious society, college, or other public institution, except stained or painted window-glass or stained or painted glass windows; but such exemption shall be subject to such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe. Old law: Works of art, painting, statuary, fountains, and other works of art, the production of American artists. But the fact of such production must be verified by the certificate of a consul or minister of the United States indorsed upon the written declaration of the artist; paintings, statuary, fountains, and other works of art, imported expressly for presentation to national institutions, or to any State, or to any municipal corporation, or religious corporation or society. |