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compounds coming from Porto Rico; for the organization of the Miscellaneous. militia in the District of Columbia; to amend an act entitled "An Act to establish the Foundation for the Promotion of Industrial Peace; providing for the purchase of a site and the erection of a new immigration station thereon at the city of Boston, Mass.; relating to injured employes | on the Isthmian Canal; relating to the use, control and ownership of lands in the Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama; to create a joint committee to consider the revision and codification of the laws of the United States; to rearrange and reconstruct the Hall of the House of Representatives; to accept the gift of Constitution Island, in the Hudson River, New York; to provide for an enlarged homestead; to codify, revise and amend the penal laws of the United States; to amend section 86 of an act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii; to provide additional judges and for other judicial purposes; to provide for the appointment of one additional district judge for the Western District of Washington and one additional district judge for the District of Oregon; providing an additional district judge for the Southern District of New York; providing an additional district judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania; to amend the laws of the United States relating to the registration of trade-marks; to promote the administration of justice in the Navy; to declare and enforce the forfeiture provided by section four of the Act of Congress, approved March 3, 1875, entitled "An Act granting to railroads the right of way through the public lands of the United States; to amend Section one of the Passenger act of 1882 relating to the carriage of steerage passengers to and from foreign countries; amending and consolidating the acts respecting copyright.

THE SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS.

ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE FIRST SESSION, MARCH 15 TO AUGUST 5, 1909.

The Senate on July 5 passed unanimously, and the House of Representatives on July 12, by 317 votes to 14, a joint resolution submitting to the legislatures of the states a proposed new article to the Constitution, as folIncome Tax lows: Amendment. "Article XVI.-The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration."

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An act, approved August 5, revised the tariff laws of the United States. provided that on and after August 6, 1909, except as otherwise specially provided Tariff Revision of 1909.

for, there shall be levied upon all articles when imported from any foreign country into the United States or into any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila) the rates of duty which are by the schedules and paragraphs of the dutiable list of this section prescribed, namely:

1. Acids:

DUTIABLE LIST.

SCHEDULE A.

Acetic or pyroligneous acid, not exceeding the specific gravity of one and forty-seven one-thousandths, three-fourths of one cent per pound; exceeding the specific gravity of one and forty-seven one-thousandths, Chemicals, Oils, two cents per pound; acetic anhydrid, two and one-half cents and Paints. per pound, boracic acid, three cents per pound; chromic acid, two cents per pound; citric acid, seven cents per pound; lactic acid, containing not over forty per centum by weight of actual lactic acid, two cents per pound; containing over forty per centum by weight of actual lactic acid, three cents per pound; oxalic acid, two cents per pound; salicylic acid, five cents per pound; sulphuric acid or oil of vitriol not specially provided for in this section, onefourth of one cent per pound; tannic acid or tannin, thirty-five cents per pound; gallic acid, eight cents per pound; tartaric acid, five cents per pound; all other acids not specially provided for in this section, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

2. Alcoholic compounds, including all articles consisting of vegetable, animal or mineral objects immersed or placed in, or saturated with alcohol, not specially provided for in this section, sixty cents per pound and twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

3. Alkalies, alkaloids, distilled oils, essential oils, expressed oils, rendered oils, and all combinations of the foregoing, and all chemical compounds, mixtures and salts, and all greases not specially provided for in this section, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; chemical compounds, mixtures and salts containing alcohol or in the preparation of which alcohol is used, and not specially provided for in this section, fifty-five cents per pound, but in no case shall any of the foregoing pay less than twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

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4. Alumina, hydrate of, or refined bauxite, containing not more than si per centum of alumina, four-tenths of one cent per pound; containing mo sixty-four per centum of alumina, six-tenths of one cent per pound. Alum cake, patent alum, sulphate of alumina, and aluminous cake, containing nd than fifteen per centum of alumina and more than three-fifths of one per of iron oxide, one-fourth of one cent per pound; alum, alum cake, patent alu phate of alumina, and aluminous cake, containing more than fifteen per cen alumina, or not more than three-tenths of one per centum of iron oxide. eighths of one cent per pound.

5. Ammonia, carbonate of, one and one-half cents per pound; muriate sal ammoniac, three-fourths of one cent per pound; liquid anhydrous, five per pound.

6. Argols or crude tartar or wine lees crude, five per centum ad va tartars and lees crystals, or partly refined argols, containing not more than per centum of bitartrate of potash, and tartrate of soda or pota: Argols. Rochelle salts, three cents per pound; containing more than nine centum of bitartrate of potash, four cents per pound; cream of and patent tartar, five cents per pound.

7. Blacking of all kinds, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; all crean preparations for cleaning or polishing boots and shoes, twenty-five per c ad valorem.

8. Bleaching powder, or chloride of lime, one-fifth of one cent per poun 9. Blue vitriol or sulphate of copper, one-fourth of one cent per poun 10. Charcoal in any form, not specially provided for in this act, bone suitable for use in decolorizing sugars, and blood char, twenty per centu valorem,

11. Borax, two cents per pound; borates of lime, soda, or other borate: rial not otherwise provided for in this section, two cents per pound.

12. Camphor, refined, and synthetic camphor, six cents per pound. 13. Chalk, when ground, bolted, precipitated naturally or artificiall otherwise prepared, whether in the form of cubes, blocks, sticks or disk otherwise, including tailors', billiard, red or French chalk, one cent per p manufactures of chalk not specially provided for in this section, twenty-fiv centum ad valorem.

14. Chloroform, ten cents per pound.

15. Coal-tar dyes or colors, not specially provided for in this section, t per centum ad valorem; all other products or preparations of coal tar, not c or dyes and not medicinal, not specially provided for in this section, twenty centum ad valorem.

16. Cobalt, oxide of, twenty-five cents per pound.

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17. Collodion and all compounds of pyroxylin or of other cellulose whether known as celluloid or by any other name, forty cents per pound; blocks, sheets, rods, tubes, or other forms, not polished, wholly or partly, not made up into finished or partly finished articles, forty-five cents per po if polished, wholly or partly, or if in finished or partly finished articles, ex moving picture films, on which collodion or any compound of pyroxylin o other cellulose esters, by whatever name known, is the component materia chief value. sixty-five cents per pound and thirty per centum ad valorem.

18. Coloring for brandy, wine, beer, or other liquors, fifty per centum valorem.

19. Copperas or sulphate of iron. fifteen hundredths of one cent per po 20. Drugs, such as barks, beans, berries, balsams, buds, bulbs, bulbous r excrescences, fruits, flowers, dried fibers, dried insects, grains, gums and resin, herbs, leaves, lichens, mosses, nuts, nutgalls, roots, st Non-Alcoholic spices, vegetables, seeds (aromatic, not garden seeds), seed Drugs. morbid growth, weeds, and woods used expressly for dyein tanning; any of the foregoing which are natural and und pounded drugs and not edible, and not specially provided for in this section, which are advanced in value or condition by any process or treatment what beyond that essential to the proper packing of the drugs and the preventio decay or deterioration pending manufacture, one-fourth of one cent per po and in addition thereto ten per centum ad valorem: Provided. That no ar containing alcohol, or in the preparation of which alcohol is used, shall be class for duty under this paragraph.

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Ethers: Sulphuric, eight cents per pound; spirits of nitrous ether, tw cents per pound; fruit ethers, oils or essences, one dollar per pound; ethers of kinds not specially provided for in this section, fifty cents per pound; ethyl c ride, thirty per centum ad valorem: Provided, That no article of this paragr shall pay a less rate of duty than twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

22. Extracts and decoctions of logwood and other dyewoods, and extracts bark, such as are commonly used for dyeing or tanning, not specially provided in this section, seven-eighths of one cent per pound; extract of nutgalls, aque one-fourth of one cent per pound and ten per centum ad valorem; extract of Per berries, twenty per centum ad valorem; chlorophyll, twenty per centum ad valor extracts of quebracho, not exceeding in density twenty-eight degrees Baume, oneof one cent per pound; exceeding in density twenty-eight degrees Baume, three-fou of one cent per pound; extracts of hemlock bark, one-half of one cent per po extracts of sumac, and of woods other than dyewoods, not specially provided for this section, five-eighths of one cent per pound; all extracts of vegetable origin s

able for dyeing, coloring, staining or tanning, not containing alcohol and not medicinal, and not specially provided for in this section, fifteen per centum ad valorem.

23. Gelatin, glue, isinglass or fish glue, including agar-agar or Japanese isinglass, and all fish bladders and fish sounds other than crude or dried or salted for preservation only, valued at not above ten cents per pound, Gelatins and Glues. two and one-half cents per pound; valued at above ten cents per pound and not above thirty-five cents per pound, twentyfive per centum ad valorem; valued above thirty-five cents per pound, fifteen cents per pound and twenty per centum ad valorem; gelatin in sheets, emulsions, and all manufactures of gelatin, or of which gelatin is the component material of chief value, not specially provided for in this section, thirty-five per centum ad valorem; glue size, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

24. Glycerin, crude, not purified, one cent per pound; refined, three cents per pound.

25. Indigo extracts or pastes, three-fourths of one cent per pound; indigo, carmined, ten cents per pound.

26. Ink and ink powders, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

27. Iodine, resublimed, twenty cents per pound.

28. Iodoform, seventy-five cents per pound.

29. Licorice, extracts of, in paste rolls or other forms, two and one-half cents per pound.

30. Chicle, ten cents per pound.

31. Magnesia and carbonate of, medicinal, three cents per pound; calcined, medicinal, seven cents per pound; sulphate of, or Epsom salts, one-fifth of one cent per pound.

32. Alizarin assistant, sulpho-ricinoleic acid, and ricinoleic acid, and soaps containing castor oil, any of the foregoing in whatever form, in the manufacture of which fifty per centum or more of castor oil is used, thirty cents per gallon; in the manufacture of which less than fifty per centum of castor oil is used, fifteen cents per gallon; all other alizarin assistants and all soluble greases used in processes of softening, dyeing or finishing, not specially provided for in this section, thirty per centum ad valorem.

33. Castor oil, thirty-five cents per gallon.

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Cod-liver oil, fifteen cents per gallon.

Flaxseed, linseed, and poppy-seed oil, raw, boiled, or oxidized, fifteen cents

per gallon of seven and one-half pounds weight.

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Fusel oil, or amylic alcohol, one-fourth of one cent per pound. Hemp-seed oil, ten cents per gallon; rape-seed oil, ten cents per gallon. Olive oil, not specially provided for in this section, forty cents per gallon; n bottles, jars, kegs, tins, or other packages, containing less than five gallons each, ifty cents per gallon.

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39. Peppermint oil, twenty-five cents per pound.

40. Seal, herring, whale, and other fish oil, including sod oil, not specially proided in this section. eight cents per gallon.

41. Opium, crude or unmanufactured, and not adulterated, containing nine per entum and over of morphia, one dollar and fifty cents per pound; opium of the same composition, dried, powdered, or otherwise advanced beyond the plums. condition of crude or unmanufactured, two dollars per pound; morphia or morphine, sulphate of, and all alkaloids of opium, and salts and sters thereof, one dollar and fifty cents per ounce; cocaine, ecgonine and all salts and erivatives of the same, one dollar and fifty cents per ounce, and coca leaves five cents er pound; aqueous extract of opium, for medicinal uses, and tincture of, as laudanum, nd other liquid perparations of opium, not specially provided for in this section, forty er centum ad valorem; opium containing less than nine per centum of morphia, six ollars per pound; but preparations of opium deposited in bonded warehouses shall not e removed therefrom without payment of duties, and such duties shall not be refunded: rovided, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to repeal or in any anner impair or affect the provisions of an act entitled "An act to prohibit the imortation and use of opium for other than medicinal purposes," approved February irth, nineteen hundred and nine.

42. Baryta, sulphate of, or barytes, including barytes earth, unmanufactured, one ollar and fifty cents per ton; manufactured, five dollars and twenty-five cents per ton. 43. Blues, such as Berlin, Prussian, Chinese, and all others, containing ferrocyanide f iron, in pulp, dry or ground in or mixed with oil or water, eight cents per pound. 44. Blanc-fixe, or artificial sulphate of barytes, and satin white, or artificial sulhate of lime, one-half of one cent per pound.

45. Black, made from bone, ivory, or vegetable substance, by whatever name nown, including boneblack and lampblack, dry or ground in oil or water, twenty-five er centum ad valorem.

46. Chrome yellow, chrome green, and all other chromium colors in the manufactre of which lead and bichromate of potash or soda are used, in pulp, dry, or ground in mixed with oil or water, four and three-eighths cents per pound.

47. Ochre and ochery earths, sienna and sienna earths, and umber and umber arths, not specially provided for in this section, when crude or not powdered, washed pulverized, one-eighth of one cent per pound; if powdered, washed or pulverized, ree-eighths of one cent per pound; if ground in oil or water, one cent per pound. 48. Orange mineral, three and one-fourth cents per pound. 49. Red lead, two and five-eighths cents per pound.

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50. Ultramarine blue, whether dry, in pulp, or mixed with water, and wa containing ultramarine, three cents per pound.

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Varnishes, including so-called gold size or japan, twenty-five per ad valorem; enamel paints made with varnish, thirty-five per centum lorem; spirit varnish containing five per centum or more Varnishes. alcohol, thirty-five cents per gallon and thirty-five per cen valorem; spirit varnish containing less than five per centum of alcohol, one dollar and thirty-two cents per gallon and thirty-five per cen valorem.

52. Vermilion reds, containing quicksilver, dry or ground in oil or water, t per pound; when not containing quicksilver but made of lead or containing le and seven-eighths cents per pound.

53. White lead, and white pigment, containing lead, dry or in pulp, or gr mixed with oil, two and one-half cents per pound.

54. Whiting and Paris white, dry, one-fourth of one cent per pound; groun or putty, one-half of one cent per pound.

55. Zinc, oxide of, and white pigment containing zinc, but not containing le one cent per pound; ground in oil, one and three-fourths cents per pound; sulfid white, or white sulphide of zinc, one and one-fourth cents per pound; chloride and sulphate of zinc, one cent per pound.

56. All paints, colors, pigments, stains, lakes, crayons, including charcoal or fusains, smalts and frostings, whether crude or dry or mixed, or grou water or oil or with solutions other than oil, not otherwise specially provided this section, thirty per centum ad valorem; all glazes, fluxes, enamels, and cold only in the manufacture of ceramic, enamelled and glass articles, thirty per cen valorem; all paints, colors and pigments, commonly known as artists' paints or whether in tubes, pans, cakes or other forms, thirty per centum ad valorem. 57. Paris green and London purple, fifteen per centum ad valorem.

58. Lead: Acetate of, white, three cents per pound; brown, gray or yello cents per pound; nitrate of, two and one-fourth cents per pound; litharge, t one-half cents per pound.

59. Phosphorus, eighteen cents per pound.

60. Bichromate and chromate of potash, two and one-fourth cents per pound 61. Caustic potash or hydrate of, refined, in sticks or rolls, one cent per chlorate of, two cents per pound.

62. Hydriodate, iodide, and iodate of potash, twenty-five cents per pound. 63. Nitrate of potash, or saltpetre, refined, one-half of one cent per pound. 64. Prussiate of potash, red, eight cents per pound; yellow, four cents per cyanide of potassium, twelve and one-half per centum ad valorem.

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65. Medicinal preparations containing alcohol or in the preparation alcohol is used, not specially provided for in this section, fifty-five cents per pour in no case shall the same pay less than twenty-five per centum ad valorem; c corrosive sublimate and other mercurial medicinal preparations, thirty-five per ad valorem; all other medicinal preparations not specially provided for in this s twenty-five per centum ad valorem: Provided, That chemicals, drugs, medicin similar substances, whether dutiable or free, imported in capsules, pills, t lozenges, troches or similar forms, and intended for medicinal purposes, shall be d at not less than the rate imposed by this section on medicinal preparations. 66. Plasters, healing or curative, of all kinds, and court plaster, twenty-fi centum ad valorem. 67. perfumery, including cologne and other toilet waters, articles of fumery, whether in sachets or otherwise, and all preparations used as applic to the hair, mouth, teeth, or skin, such as cosmetics, dentifrice Perfumery. cluding tooth soaps, pastes, including theatrical grease paint

pastes, pomades, powders, and other toilet articles, all the fore if containing alcohol, or in the manufacture or preparation of which alcohol is sixty cents per pound and fifty per centum ad valorem; if not containing alcohol, the manufacture or preparation of which alcohol is not used. sixty per centu valorem; floral or flower waters containing no alcohol, not specially provided this section, twenty per centum ad valorem.

68. Santonin, and all salts thereof containing eighty per centum or over of san fifty cents per pound. 69. Castile soap, one and one-fourth cents per pound; medicinal or med soaps, twenty cents per pound; fancy or perfumed toilet soaps, fifty per centu valorem; all other soaps not specially provided for in this section, twenty per ce ad valorem.

70. Bicarbonate of soda, or supercarbonate of soda, or saleratus, and other all containing fifty per centum or more of bicarbonate of soda, five-eighths of one per pound.

71. Bichromate and chromate of soda, one and three-fourths cents per pound. 72. Crystal carbonate of soda, or concentrated soda crystals, or monohyd or sesquicarbonate of soda, one-fourth of one cent per pound; chlorate of one and one-half cents per pound.

73. Hydrate of, or caustic soda, one-half of one cent per pound; nitrit soda, and yellow prussiate of soda, two cents per pound; sulphide of soda taining not more than thirty-five per centum of sulphite of soda, and hyposull of soda, three-eighths of one cent per pound; sulphide of soda, concentrated containing more than thirty-five per centum of sulphide of soda, three-fou of one cent per pound.

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Sal soda, or soda crystals, not concentrated, one-sixth of one cent per

Soda ash, one-fourth of one cent per pound; arseniate of soda, one cent per pound. 76. Silicate of soda, or other alkaline silicate, three-eights of one cent per pound. 77. Sulphate of soda, or salt cake, or nitre cake, one dollar per ton.

78. Moss and sea grass, eel grass and seaweeds, if manufactured or dyed, ten per centum ad valorem.

79. Sponges, twenty per centum ad valorem; manufactures of sponges, or of which sponge is the component material of chief value, not specially provided for in this section, thirty per centum ad valorem.

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Strychnia, or strychnine, and all salts thereof, fifteen cents per ounce.
Sulphur, refined or sublimed, or flowers of, four dollars per ton.
Sumac, ground, three-tenths of one cent per pound.
Vanillin, twenty cents per ounce.

SCHEDULE B.

84. Firebrick, weighing not more than ten pounds each, not glazed, enameled, ornamented, or decorated in any manner, one dollar and twenty-five cents per ton; glazed, enameled, ornamented, or decorated, thirty-five Earths, Earthenware per centum ad valorem; weighing more than ten pounds and Glassware. each and not specially provided for in this section, not glazed, enameled, ornamented, or decorated in any manner, thirty per centum ad valorem; glazed, enameled, ornamented, or decorated, thirty-five per centum ad valorem; magnesite brick, chrome brick, and brick other than fire-brick, not glazed, enameled, painted, vitrified, ornamented, or decorated in any manner, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; if glazed, enameled, painted, vitrified, ornamented, or decorated in any manner, thirty-five per centum ad valorem.

85. Tiles, plain unglazed, one color, exceeding two square inches in size, four cents per square foot; glazed, encaustic, ceramic mosaic, vitrified, semivitrified, flint, spar, embossed, enameled, ornamented, hand painted, gold decorated, and all other earthenware tiles and tiling, by whatever name known, except pill tiles and so-called quarries or quarry tiles, valued at not exceeding forty cents per square foot, eight cents per square foot; exceeding forty cents per square foot, ten cents per square foot and twenty-five per centum ad valorem; so-called quarries or quarry tiles, forty-five per centum ad valorem; mantels, friezes, and articles of every description, composed wholly or in chief value of tiles or tiling, sixty per centum ad valorem.

86. Roman, Portland, and other hydraulic cement, in barrels, sacks, or other packages, eight cents per one hundred pounds, including weight of barrel or package; in bulk, seven cents per one hundred pounds; other cement, not otherwise specially provided for in this section, twenty per centum ad valorem.

87. Lime, five cents per one hundred pounds, including weight of barrel or package.

88. Plaster rock or gypsum, crude, thirty cents per ton; if ground or calcined, one dollar and seventy-five cents per ton; pearl hardening for paper makers' use, twenty per centum ad valorem; Keene's cement, or other cement of which gypsum is the component material of chief value, if valued at ten dollars per ton or less, three lollars and fifty cents per ton; if valued above ten dollars, and not above fifteen lollars per ton, five dollars per ton; if valued above fifteen dollars and not above thirty lollars per ton, ten dollars per ton; if valued above thirty dollars per ton, fourteen dollars per ton.

89. Pumice stone, wholly or partially manufactured, three-eighths of one cent per pound; unmanufactured, valued at fifteen dollars or less per ton, thirty per entum ad valorem; valued at more than fifteen dollars per ton, one-fourth of one cent per pound; manufactures of pumice stone, or of which pumice stone is the component material of chief value, not specially provided for in this section, thirtyive per centum ad valorem.

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Clays or earths, unwrought or unmanufactured, not specially provided for n this section, one dollar per ton; wrought or manufactured, not specially provided for in this section, two dollars per ton; china clay or kaolin, two dollars and fifty ents per ton; limestone rock asphalt, fifty cents per ton; asphaltum and bitumen, not specially provided for in this section, crude, if not dried, or otherwise advanced n any manner, one dollar and fifty cents per ton; if dried or otherwise advanced in any manner, three dollars per ton; bauxite, or beauxite, crude, not refined or othervise advanced in condition from its natural state, one dollar per ton; fuller's earth, inwrought and unmanufactured, one dollar and fifty cents per ton; wrought or manuactured, three dollars per ton; fluor spar, three dollars per ton.

91. Mica, unmanufactured, or rough trimmed only, five cents per pound and wenty per centum ad valorem; mica, cut, or trimmed, mica plates or built-up mica, and all manufactures of mica, or of which mica is the component part of chief value, en cents per pound and twenty per centum ad valorem.

92. Common yellow, brown, or gray earthenware, plain, embossed, or salt glazed common stoneware, and earthenware or stoneware crucibles, all the foregoing not decorated in any manner, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; yellow earthenware, lain or embossed, coated with white or transparent vitreous glaze but not othervise ornamented or decorated, and Rockingham earthenware, forty per centum ad alorem.

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