353. Stockings, hose, and half-hose, selvedged, fashioned, narrowed, or shaped wholly or in part by knitting-machines or frames, or knit by hand, including such as are commercially known as seamless stockings, hose or half-hose, all of the above composed of cotton or other vegetable fiber, finished or unfinished, valued at not more than sixty cents per dozen pairs, twenty cents per dozen pairs, and in addition thereto twenty per centum ad valorem; valued at more than sixty cents per dozen pairs and not more than two dollars per dozen pairs, fifty cents per dozen pairs, and in addition thereto thirty per centum ad valorem; valued at more than two dollars per dozen pairs, and not more than four dollars per dozen pairs, seventy-five cents per dozen pairs, and in addition thereto, forty per centum ad valorem; valued at more than four dollars per dozen pairs, one dollar per dozen pairs, and in addition thereto, forty per centum ad valorem; and all shirts and drawers composed of cotton or other vegetable fiber, valued at more than one dollar and fifty cents. per dozen and not more than three dollars per dozen, one dollar per dozen, and in addition thereto, thirty-five per centum ad valorem; valued at more than three dollars per dozen, and not more than five dollars per dozen, one dollar and twenty-five cents per dozen, and in addition thereto, forty per centum ad valorem; valued at more than five dollars per dozen, and not more than seven dollars per dozen, one dollar and fifty cents per dozen, and in addition thereto, forty per centum ad valorem; valued at more than seven dollars por dozen, two dollars per dozen, and in addition thereto, forty per contum ad valorem. Old law: On stockings, hose, half-hose, shirts, and drawers, fashioned, narrowed, or shaped wholly or in part by knitting machines or frames, or knit by hand, and composed wholly of cotton, forty per centum ad valorem. 354. Cotton cords, braids, boot, shoe, and corset lacings, thirtyfive cents per pound; cotton gimps, galloons, webbing, goring, suspendors, and braces, any of the foregoing which are elastic or nonelastic, forty per centum ad valorem: Provided, That none of the articles included in this paragraph shall pay a less rate of duty than forty per centum ad valorem. Old law: Cotton cords, braids, gimps, galloons, webbing, goring, suspenders, braces, thirty-five per centum ad valorem; webbing, not otherwise provided for, thirty-five per centum. 355. Cotton damask, in the piece or otherwise, and all manufactures of cotton not specially provided for in this act, forty per centum ad valorem. Old law: Cotton damask, forty per centum; all manufactures not specially provided for, thirty-five per centum. Old law: Sail duck or canvas for sails, thirty per centum. SCHEDULE J.—FLAX, HEMP, AND JUTE, and Manufactures of. 356, Flax straw, five dollars per ton. 357. Flax, not hackled or dressed, one cent per pound. Old law: Twenty dollars per ton. 358. Flax, hackled, known as "dressed line," three cents per pound. Old law: Forty dollars per ton. 359 Tow, of flax or hemp, one half of one cent per pound. Old law: Ten dollars per ton. ли 366. Bagging for women giny doth and all similar material suitable for covering oron omgeed in widle or in part of hemp, flax, jute, or jute butts, valved at six cents or less per square yani, one and six-tenths cents per sypaze pari; valued at more than six cents per square yard, one and eight-tenths cents per square yard. Old law: Gunny dot is aging, valued at ten cents or less per square yard three cents per pound; valued at over ten cents per square yard, four cents per pound. Bagging for cotton, or other manufactures, not specially enumer ated or provided for in this act, suitable to the uses for which cotton fagging is applied, composed in whole or in part of hemp, jute, jute butts, flax, gunny bags, gunny cloth, or other material, and valued at seven cents or less per square yard, one and one-half cents per pound; valued at over seven cents per square yard, two cents per pound. 367. Flax gill-netting, nets, webs, and seines, when the thread or twine of which they are composed is made of yarn of a number not higher than twenty, fifteen cents per pound, and thirty-five por centum ad valorem; when made of threads or twines, the yarn of which is finer than number twenty, twenty cents per pound and in addition thereto forty-five per centum ad valorem. Text of old law: Seines, and seine and gilling twine, twenty five per centum. 368. Linen hydraulic hose, made in whole or in part of flax, hemp or jute, twenty cents per pound. New provision. 369. Oil-cloth for floors, stamped, painted, or printed, including linoleum, corticene, cork-carpets, figured or plain, and all other oilcloth (except silk oil-cloth), and water-proof cloth, not specially provided for in this act, valued at twenty-five cents or less per square yard, forty per centum ad valorem; valued above twenty-five cents per square yard, fifteen cents per square yard and thirty per centum ad valorem. Old law: Forty per centum. 370. Yarns or threads composed of flax or hemp, or of a mixture of either of these substances, valued at thirteen cents or less per pound, six cents per pound; valued at more than thirteen cents per pound, forty-five per centum ad valorem. Old law: Yarns, thirty-five per centum; flax or linen thread, twine or pack-thread, forty per centum. 371. All manufactures of flax or hemp, or of which these substances, or either of them, is the component material of chief value, not specially provided for in this act, fifty per centum ad valorem: Provided, That until January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, such manufactures of flax containing more than one hundred threads to the square inch, counting both warp and filling, shall be subject to a duty of thirty-five per centum ad valorem in lieu of the duty herein provided. Old law: Brown and bleached linens, ducks, canvas, paddings, cot-bottoms, diapers, crash, huckabacks, handkerchiefs, lawns, or other manufactures of flax, jute, or hemp, or of which flax, jute, or hemp shall be the component material of chief value not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, thirtyfive per centum ad valorem; manufactures of flax of which flax shall be the component material of chief value, not specially provided for, forty per centum. Russia and other sheetings of flax or hemp, brown or white, thirty-five per centum. Webbings composed of cotton, flax, or any other material, not otherwise provided for, thirty-five per centum. 372. Collars and cuffs, composed entirely of cotton, fifteen cents per dozen pieces and thirty-five per centum ad valorem; composed in whole or in part of linen, thirty cents per dozen pieces and fortyper centum ad valorem; shirts, and all articles of wearing apparel of every description, not specially provided for in this act, composed wholly or in part of linen, fifty-five per centum ad valorem. New provision. Old law: Rulings of Treasury Department, thirtyfive per centum on cotton goods, thirty and forty per centum on linen. 373. Laces, edgings, embroideries, insertings, neck rufflings, ruchings, trimmings, tuckings, lace window-curtains, and other similar tamboured articles, and articles embroidered by hand or machinery, embroidered and hem-stitched handkerchiefs, and articles made wholly or in part of lace, rufflings, tuckings, or ruchings, all of the above-named articles, composed of flax, jute, cotton, or other vegetable fiber, or of which these substances or either of them, or a mixture of any of them is the component material of chief value, not specially provided for in this act, sixty per centum ad valorem: Provided, That articles of wearing apparel, and textile fabrics, when embroidered by hand or machinery, and whether specially or other wise provided for in this art, shall not pay & Jess moto of them tham Old law: Cotton laces, en beidenes, invertings, trimmings, lace Flax or linen isces and miveins, enniraderies, of zuzufactures of linen, if em tradered ce zambored a the loom or otherwise, by machinery ce with the newde or achhe process, and not specialy embented or provided for in this act, thirty per centum að rairem 374. All manufactures of jute, or other regetable £ber, except flax, hemp or cotton, or of which jute, or other vegetable fiber, except flax, hemp or cotton, is the component material of chief value, not specially provided for in this act. Vained at five cents per pound or less, two cents per pound; valued above five cents per pound, forty per centum ad valorem. Old law: All other manufactures of hemp, or manilla, or of which hemp or manilla shall be a component material of chief value. not especially enumerated or provided for in this act, thirtyfive per centum ad valorem. Grass-cloth and other manufactures of jute, ramie, China, and sisal grass, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, thirty-five per centum ad valorem. SCHEDULE K.-WOOL AND MANUFACTURES OF WOOL. 375. All wools, hair of the camel, goat, alpaca, and other like animals shall be divided for the purpose of fixing the duties to be charged thereon into the three following classes: NOTE.-New matter in italics. 376. Class one, that is to say, Merino, mestiza, metz, or metis wools, or other wools of Merino blood, immediate or remote, Down clothing wools, and wools of like character with any of the preceding, including such as have been heretofore usually imported into the United States from Buenos Ayres, New Zealand, Australia, Cape of Good Hope, Russia, Great Britain, Canada, and elsewhere, and also including all wools not hereinafter described or designated in classes two and three. 377. Class two, that is to say, Leicester, Cotswold, Lincolnshire, Down combing wools, Canada long wools, or other like combing wools of English blood, and usually known by the terms herein used, and also hair of the camel, goat, alpaca, and other like animals. 378. Class three, that is to say, Donskoi, native South American, Cordova, Valparaiso, native Smyrna, Russian camels hair, and including all such wools of like character as have been heretofore usually imported into the United States from Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Syria, and elsewhere, excepting improved wools hereinafter provided for. Old law: Class three, carpet wools and other similar wools.-Such as Donskoi, native South American, Cordova, Valparaiso, native Smyrna, and including all such wools of like character as have been heretofore usually imported into the United States from Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Syria, and elsewhere. 379. The standard samples of all wools which are now or may be hereafter deposited in the principal custom-houses of the United States, under the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury, s be the standards for the classification of wools under this act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall have the authority to re these standards and to make such additions to them from tim time as may be required, and he shall cause to be deposited standards in other custom-houses of the United States when they n be needed. New provision. 380. Whenever wools of class three shall have been improved the admixture of Merino or English blood from their present cha acter as represented by the standard samples now or hereafter to deposited in the principal custom-houses of the United States, su improved wools shall be classified for duty either as class one or a class two, as the case may be. New provision. 381. The duty on wools of the first class which shall be imported washed shall be twice the amount of the duty to which they would be subjected if imported unwashed; and the duty on wools of the first and second classes which shall be imported scoured shall be three times the duty to which they would be subjected if imported unwashed. Old law: The duty on wools of the first class which shall be imported washed shall be twice the amount of the duty to which they would be subjected if imported unwashed; and the duty on wools of all classes which shall be imported scoured shall be three times the duty to which they would be subjected if imported unwashed. 382. Unwashed wools shall be considered such as shall have been shorn from the sheep without any cleansing; that is, in their natural condition. Washed wools shall be considered such as have been washed with water on the sheep's back. Wool washed in any other manner than on the sheep's back shall be considered as scoured wool. New provision, 383. The duty upon wool of the sheep or hair of the camel, goat, alpaca, and other like animals which shall be imported in any other than ordinary condition, or which shall be changed in its character or condition for the purpose of evading the duty, or which shall be reduced in value by the admixture of dirt, or any other foreign substance, or which has been sorted or increased in value by the rejection of any part of the original fleece, shall be twice the duty to which it would be otherwise subject: Provided, That skirted wools as now imported are hereby excepted. Wools on which a duty is assessed amounting to three times or more than that which would be assessed if said wool was imported unwashed, such duty shall not be doubled on account of its being sorted. If any bale or package of wool or hair specified in this act imported as of any specified class, or claimed by the importer to be dutiable as of any specified class, shall contain any wool or hair subject to a higher rate of duty than the class so specified, the whole bale or package shall be subject to the highest rate of duty chargeable on wool of the class subject to such higher rate of duty, and if any bale or package be claimed by the importer to be shoddy, mungo, flocks, wool, hair, or other material of any class specified in this act, and such bale contain any admixture of any one or more of said materials, or of any other |