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sand feet board measure; and if planed on two sides, and tongued and grooved, one dollar and fifty cents per thousand feet board measure; and in estimating board measure under this schedule no deduction shall be made on board measure on account of planing, tongueing and grooving: Provided, That in case any foreign country shall impose an export duty upon pine, spruce, elm, or other logs, or upon stave bolts, shingle wood, or heading blocks exported to the United States from such country, then the duty upon the sawed lumber herein provided for, when imported from such country, shall remain the same as fixed by the law in force prior to the passage of this act.

Old law: White pine two dollars per thousand feet; words in italic new matter.

219. Cedar: That on and after March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, paving posts, railroad ties, and telephone and telegraph poles of cedar, shall be dutiable at twenty per centum ad valorem.

Old law: Free.

220. Sawed boards, plank, deals, and all forms of sawed cedar, lignum-vitiae, lancewood, ebony, box, granadilla, mahogany, rosewood, satinwood, and all other cabinet-woods not further manufactured than sawed, fifteen per centum ad valorem; veneers of wood, and wood, unmanufactured, not specially provided for in this act, twenty per centum ad valorem.

Old law: Two dollars per thousand feet; veneers thirty-five per centum; canes and sticks for walking, if unfinished, twenty per centum.

221. Pine clapboards, one dollar per one thousand.

Old law: Two dollars per one thousand.

222. Spruce clapboards, one dollar and fifty cents per one thousand. 223. Hubs for wheels, posts, last-blocks, wagon-blocks, oar-blocks, gun-blocks, heading-blocks, and all like blocks or sticks, roughhewn or sawed only, twenty per centum ad valorem.

224. Laths, fifteen cents per one thousand pieces.

225. Pickets and palings, ten per centum ad valorem.

Old law: Twenty per centum.

226. White pine shingles, twenty cents per one thousand; all other, thirty cents per one thousand.

Old law: Thirty-five cents per one thousand.

227. Staves of wood of all kinds, ten per centum ad valorem. 228. Casks and barrels (empty), sugar-box shooks, and packingboxes and packing-box shooks, of wood, not specially provided for in this act, thirty per centum ad valorem.

229. Chair cane, or reeds wrought or manufactured from rattans or reeds, and whether round, square, or in any other shape, ten per centum ad valorem.

Old law: Rattans and reeds, manufactured, but not made up into completed articles, ten per centum ad valorem.

230. House or cabinet furniture, of wood, wholly or partly finished, manufactures of wood, or of which wood is the component material of chief value, not specially provided for in this act, thirtyfe per centum ad valorem.

Old law: House or cabinet furniture, in piece[s] or rough, and not finished, thirty per centum ad valorem.

Cabinet ware[s] and house furniture, finished, thirty-five per centum ad valorem.

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236. That any person who shall knowingly refine or aid in the refining of sugar imported into the United States or upon which the bounty herein provided for has already been paid or applied for, at the place described in the license issued by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, and any person not entitled to the bounty herein provided. for, who shall apply for or receive the same, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall pay a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or be imprisoned for a period not exceeding five years, or both, in the discretion of the court.

NOTE. All the foregoing of this schedule is new legislation.

237. All sugars above number sixteen Dutch standard in color shall pay a duty of five-tenths of one cent per pound: Provided, That all such sugars above number sixteen Dutch standard in color shall pay one-tenth of one cent per pound in addition to the rate herein provided for, when exported from, or the product of any country when and so long as such country pays, or shall hereafter pay, directly or indirectly, a bounty on the exportation of any sugar that may be included in this grade which is greater than is paid on raw sugars of a lower saccharine strength; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe suitable rules and regulations to carry this provision into effect: And provided further, That all machinery purchased abroad and erected in a beet-sugar factory and used in the production of raw sugar in the United States from beets produced therein shall be admitted duty free until the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-two: Provided, That any duty collected on any of the above-described machinery purchased abroad and imported into the United States for the uses above indicated since Jamary first, eighteen hundred and ninety, shall be refunded.

Old law: Sixteen to twenty Dutch standard, three cents per pound; above twenty, three and fifty one hundredths cents per pound. Beet sugar machinery dutiable at forty-five per centum.

238. Sugar candy and all confectionery, including chocolate confectionery, made wholly or in part of sugar, valued at twelve cents or less per pound, and on sugars after being refined, when tinctured, colored, or in any way adulterated, five cents per pound.

239. All other confectionery, including chocolate confectionery, not specially provided for in this act, fifty per centum ad valorem.

Old law for paragraphs 238 and 239: Sugar candy, not colored, five
cents per pound.

All other confectionery, not specially enumerated or provided for
in this act, made wholly or in part of sugar, and on sugars after
being refined, when tinctured, colored, or in any way adulter-
ated, valued at thirty cents per pound or less, ten cents per
pound.
Confectionery valued abovy thirty cents per pound, or when sold
by the box, package, or otherwise than by the pound, fifty per
centum ad valorem.

240. Glucose or grape sugar, three-fourths of one cent per pound.

Old law: Glucose, twenty

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States for such sums as shall be necessary, which sums shall be certified to him by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, by whom the bounties shall be disbursed, and no bounty shall be allowed or paid to any person licensed as aforesaid in any one year upon any quantity of sugar less than five hundred pounds.

236. That any person who shall knowingly refine or aid in the refining of sugar imported into the United States or upon which the bounty herein provided for has already been paid or applied for, at the place described in the license issued by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, and any person not entitled to the bounty herein provided for, who shall apply for or receive the same, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall pay a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or be imprisoned for a period not exceeding five years, or both, in the discretion of the court.

NOTE.—All the foregoing of this schedule is new legislation.

237. All sugars above number sixteen Dutch standard in color shall pay a duty of five-tenths of one cent per pound: Provided, That all such sugars above number sixteen Dutch standard in color shall pay one-tenth of one cent per pound in addition to the rate herein provided for, when exported from, or the product of any country when and so long as such country pays, or shall hereafter pay, directly or indirectly, a bounty on the exportation of any sugar that may be included in this grade which is greater than is paid on raw sugars of a lower saccharine strength; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe suitable rules and regulations to carry this provision into effect: And provided further, That all machinery purchased abroad and erected in a beet-sugar factory and used in the production of raw sugar in the United States from beets produced therein shall be admitted duty free until the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-two: Provided, That any duty collected on any of the above-described machinery purchased abroad and imported into the United States for the uses above indicated since Jamary first, eighteen hundred and ninety, shall be refunded.

Old law: Sixteen to twenty Dutch standard, three cents per pound; above twenty, three and fifty one hundredths cents per pound. Beet sugar machinery dutiable at forty-five per centum.

238. Sugar candy and all confectionery, including chocolate confectionery, made wholly or in part of sugar, valued at twelve cents or less per pound, and on sugars after being refined, when tinctured, colored, or in any way adulterated, five cents per pound.

239. All other confectionery, including chocolate confectionery, not specially provided for in this act, fifty per centum ad valorem.

Old law for paragraphs 238 and 239: Sugar candy, not colored, five
cents per pound.

All other confectionery, not specially enumerated or provided for
in this act, made wholly or in part of sugar, and on sugars after
being refined, when tinctured, colored, or in any way adulter-
ated, valued at thirty cents per pound or less, ten cents per
pound.
Confectionery valued abovy thirty cents per pound, or when sold
by the box, package, or otherwise than by the pound, fifty per
centum ad valorem.

240. Glucose or grape sugar, three-fourths of one cent per pound.

Old law: Glucose, twent

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