Manufactures. Proviso. Ceramics. Group 2. 4. Asbestos, and manufactures thereof, not otherwise provided for, fifteen per centum ad valorem. 5. Mica and lava, and manufactures thereof, gas-burner tips, and Welsbach and other similar mantles for lamps, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. 6. Earths, gross weight: (a) Fire clay, lime, and Roman, Portland and other hy- cents. 7. Manufactures of gypsum, gross weight, one hundred kilos., dollars. five Provided, That no article classified under this paragraph shall pay a less rate of duty than fifty per centum ad valorem. 8. Manufactures of chalk, including billiard chalk, red chalk, and French and tailors' chalk, including weight of immediate containers, one hundred kilos., four dollars. 9. Common clay and cement, in bricks, squares, tiles, and pipes, not otherwise provided for, ten per centum ad valorem. 10. Ceramic tiles, gross weight: (a) Varnished or glazed, whether vitrified or not, undecorated, one hundred kilos., forty-five cents. (b) Enameled, ornamented or decorated, one hundred kilos.. one dollar and twenty cents. 11. Porcelain, bisque, faience, earthenware, stoneware, and other ceramic wares not otherwise provided for: (a) In filters and articles bearing evident signs of being for sanitary construction, and parts therefor identifiable as such, ten per centum ad valorem. (b) In common bottles, jars, crucibles, cupels, kitchen utensils and flowerpots, neither gilt, painted, glazed, decorated, nor ornamented, fifteen per centum ad valorem. (c) In articles not otherwise provided for, neither gilt, painted, glazed, decorated, nor ornamented, twenty per centum ad valorem. (d) In dishes, tableware, or articles not otherwise provided for, glazed or plain-tinted, but neither gilt, painted, decorated, nor ornamented, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. (e) In dishes, tableware, or articles not otherwise provided for, painted, gilt, decorated, or ornamented, forty per centum ad valorem. (f) Fine decorated wares, in jardinieres, flower stands, vases, and articles for decorative purposes, statuettes, high and bas-reliefs, and Satsuma, Sevres, and similar fine porcelains, whether decorated or not, fifty per centum ad valorem. 12. Manufactures of earths and clays not otherwise provided for: (a) Plain, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. (b) Ornamented or decorated, forty per centum ad valorem. GROUP 2.-PRECIOUS STONES, PEARLS, AND IMITATIONS THEREOF. Precious stones, etc. 13. Precious and semiprecious stones, including jade, tiger-eye, chalcedony, opal, and similar stones not otherwise provided for, any of the foregoing cut or uncut, but unmounted and unset, and not further manufactured, pearls unmounted and unset, diamond dust and bort, fifteen per centum ad valorem. 14. Doublets and other imitations of precious and of semiprecious stones, and imitation pearls, unmounted and unset, thirty per centum ad valorem. GROUP 3.-GLASS AND MANUFACTURES THEREOF. Group 3. Glass and Articles ground or cut only for the purpose of truing them or fitting factures of stoppers shall not be held to be cut glass. 15. Common hollow glassware: (a) In demijohns, carboys, jars, bottles, flasks, and similar (b) Siphon bottles, thirty per centum ad valorem. 16. Glass, crystal, and glass imitating crystal: (a) In decanters, glasses, tumblers, cups, goblets, saucers, 17. Lamp chimneys: (a) Neither engraved nor ornamented (except as to such 18. Glass or crystal in plates, slabs, and similar forms: cents. (b) Common window glass, neither polished, beveled, en- (c) The same, set in lead, or frosted plain or in design; plate (d) Glass, of all kinds, engraved or enameled, fifty per cen- 19. Mirrors of all kinds, framed or mounted (with whatever mate- 20. Other manufactures of glass: (a) In spectacles, eyeglasses, and goggles, also lenses for (d) Powdered or crushed glass, twenty-five per centum ad (e) Manufactures not otherwise provided for, in which glass manu Class II. Coal, schists, bitumens, etc. Group 1. Coal and coke. Group 2. CLASS II.-COAL, SCHISTS, BITUMENS, AND DERIVATIVES THEREOF. GROUP 1.-COAL. 21. Coal and coke, gross weight, one thousand kilos., twenty-five cents. GROUP 2.--SCHISTS, BITUMENS, AND DERIVATIVES THEREOF. Schists, bitumens, 22. Tars, pitches, and tar oils, not otherwise provided for; mineral etc. Provisos. Paraffin. Post, p. 146. Class III. Metals and manu factures. Group 1. Precious metals. oils, crude or refined, including those for illumination, lubrication, fuel, or solvents; vaseline (except when compounded with other substances); axle grease of all kinds; asphaltums; carbolineum and similar compounds; gross weight, one hundred kilos., twenty-five cents. Provided, That no article classified under this paragraph shall pay a less rate of duty than ten per centum ad valorem. Provided further, That, though imported under a name referable to this paragraph, paraffin, or other similar products, shall be classified under paragraph eighty-three of this Act. CLASS III.-METALS AND MANUFACTURES THEREOF. GROUP 1.-GOLD, SILVER, AND PLATINUM; ALLOYS THEREOF; GOLD AND SILVER PLATED ARTICLES. Gold and platinum. 23. Gold, platinum, and alloys thereof: Proviso. Silver. Proviso. Plated wares. (a) In jewelry, plate and goldsmiths' wares not otherwise provided for, hectog., twelve dollars and fifty cents. (b) The same, set with pearls or with precious or semiprecious stones, hectog., twenty-five dollars. (c) The same, set with doublets or with imitations of pearls. or of precious or semiprecious stones, hectog., seventeen dollars and fifty cents. (d) Articles or manufactures of gold or platinum (except jewelry), composed in part of other materials, in which the component material of chief value is gold or platinum, not otherwise provided for, pellets for use in dentistry, solder and foil, hectog., three dollars. Provided, That no article classified under this paragraph shall pay a less rate of duty than twenty-five per centum ad valorem. 24. Silver and alloys thereof: (a) In jewelry, plate and silversmiths' wares not otherwise provided for, hectog., one dollar. (b) The same, set with pearls or with precious or semiprecious stones, hectog., five dollars. (c) The same, set with doublets or with imitations of pearls or of precious or semiprecious stones, hectog., five dollars. (d) Articles or manufactures of silver (except jewelry), composed in part of other materials, in which the component material of chief value is silver, not otherwise provided for, solder and foil, hectog., forty cents. Provided, That no article classified under this paragraph shall pay a less rate of duty than twenty-five per centum ad valorem. 25. Gold and silver plated wares: (a) In jewelry, kilo., two dollars and forty cents. (b) In lamps not otherwise provided for, picture frames, knives, forks, and spoons, carriage and coffin fittings, saddlery hardware, foil, kilo., sixty cents. . 8. CH. (c) Not otherwise provided for, kilo., two dollars. GROUP 2.-CAST IRON. Malleable cast iron and manufactures thereof shall be dutiable as wrought iron. 26. Articles of cast iron, painted or not, but not otherwise coated or (a) Bars, beams, plates, grates for furnaces, columns and (b) Other, one hundred kilos., seventy-five cents. 27. Other articles of cast iron (except those covered or coated with gold or silver), fifteen per centum ad valorem. GROUP 3.-WROUGHT IRON AND STEEL. 28. Wrought iron and steel, gross weight: (a) In rails, straight or bent, cross ties, portable tramways, Provisos. (b) In bars or beams (except of crucible steel), not cut to (c) The same, of crucible steel, one hundred kilos., two dollars Provided, That no article classified under clause (c) 29. Wrought iron or steel in sheets, gross weight: (a) Plain and unpolished, one hundred kilos., fifty cents. Provided, That any of the articles or materials classi- 30. Wrought iron or steel, in pieces, in the rough, gross weight: (b) Rough-turned or lathed, but neither polished nor ad- 31. Wrought iron or steel, in pieces, finished, gross weight: Minimum. Sheets. Proviso. Rough pieces. Finished pieces. Structural pieces. Pipes. Wire. Chains. Manufactures. Cutlery. (b) Wheels weighing each one hundred kilos. or less, axles and springs for vehicles, not otherwise provided for, one hundred kilos., one dollar and five cents. 32. Wrought iron or steel in large pieces, composed of bars, beams, or sheets, for structural purposes, perforated or cut to measure, fastened together or not, gross weight, one hundred kilos., one dollar and twenty-five cents. 33. Wrought iron or steel pipes, gross weight: (a) Plain, painted, tarred, or galvanized, one hundred kilos., one dollar and ten cents. (b) Other (except those coated or covered with gold or silver), one hundred kilos., one dollar and fifty cents. 34. Wrought iron or steel wire: (a) More than one millimeter in diameter, plain, galvanized, or coppered, wire cables and ropes, and barbed wire, ten per centum ad valorem. (b) One millimeter or less in diameter, plain, galvanized, or coppered, and wire netting, fifteen per centum ad valorem. (c) Other, including those covered with textiles, twentyfive per centum ad valorem. (d) Gauze, cloths, and screenings, in the piece, twenty per centum ad valorem. (e) In other manufactures (except those covered or coated with gold or silver), not otherwise provided for, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. 35. Wrought iron or steel chains, in the piece or otherwise (except in trinkets or jewelry): (a) Exceeding five millimeters in diameter, ten per centum ad valorem. (b) Other, plain, painted, or galvanized, fifteen per centum ad valorem. (c) The same, covered or coated with other metals (except gold or silver), twenty-five per centum ad valorem. 36. Anvils, ten per centum ad valorem. 37. Nuts, bolts, rivets, and washers, one hundred kilos., two dollars. 40. Saddlery hardware (except chains and buckles), plain, or covered 41. Buckles (except trinkets or ornaments, or covered or coated with (a) Butchers', shoemakers', saddlers', plumbers', painters', (c) Sword canes and similar articles and weapons with con- 43. Firearms of all kinds and detached parts therefor, forty per centum ad valorem. |