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Chloroform, fifty cents per pound. Collodion, and all compounds of pyroxyline, by whatever name known, fifty cents per pound; rolled or in sheets, but not made up into articles, sixty cents per pound, and when in finished or partly finished articles, sixty cents per pound and twenty-five per cen

tum ad valorem.

Ether, sulphuric, fifty cents per pound.
Hoffman's anodyne, thirty cents per pound.
Iodoform, two dollars per pound.

Acid, tannic and tannin, one dollar per pound.
Ether, nitrous, spirits of, thirty cents per pound.
Santonine, three dollars per pound.

Amylic alcohol, or fusel-oil, ten per centum ad valorem.

Oil of Cognac, or oenanthic ether, four dollars per

ounce.

Fruit ethers, oils, or essences, two dollars and fifty cents per pound.

Oil or essence of rum, fifty cents per ounce. Ethers of all kinds, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, one dollar per pound.

Coloring for brandy, fifty per centum ad valorem. Preparations: All medicinal preparations known as essences, ethers, extracts, mixtures, spirits, tinctures, and medicated wines, of which alcohol is a component part, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, fifty cents per pound.

Varnishes of all kinds, forty per centum ad valorem; and on spirit varnishes, one dollar and thirtytwo cents additional per gallon.

Opium, crude, containing nine per cent. and over of morphia, one dollar per pound. The importation of opium containing less than nine per cent. morphia is hereby prohibited.

Opium, prepared for smoking, and all other preparations of opium not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, ten dollars per pound; but opium prepared for smoking, and other preparations of opium deposited in bonded warehouses shall not be removed therefrom for exportation without payment of duties, and such duties shall not be refunded.

Opium, aqueous extract of, for medicinal uses, and tincture of, as laudanum, and all other liquid preparations of opium, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, forty per centum ad valorem. Morphia or morphine, and all salts thereof, one dollar per ounce.

SCHEDULE B.-EARTHENWARE AND GLASSWARE.

Brown earthenware, common stoneware, gas-retorts, and stoneware not ornamented, twenty-five per

centum ad valorem:

China, porcelain, parian, and bisque, earthen, stone, and crockery ware, including plaques, ornaments, charms, vases, and statuettes, painted, printed, or gilded, or otherwise decorated or ornamented in any manner, sixty per centum ad valorem.

China, porcelain, parian, and bisque ware, plain white, and not ornamented or decorated in any manner, fifty-five per centum ad valorem.

All other earthen, stone, and crockery ware, white, glazed, or edged, composed of earthy or mineral substances, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, fifty-five per centum ad valorem.

Stoneware, above the capacity of ten gallons, twenty per centum ad valorem."

Encaustic tiles, thirty-five per centum ad valorem. Brick, fire-brick, and roofing and paving tile, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, twenty per centum ad valorem.

Slates, slate-pencils, slate chimney-pieces, mantels, slabs for tables, and all other manufactures of slate, thirty per centum ad valorem.

Roofing-slates, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. Green and colored glass bottles, vials, 'demijohns, and carboys (covered or uncovered), pickle or preserve jars, and other plain, molded, or pressed green and colored bottle glass, not cut, engraved, or painted, and not specially enumerated or provided for in

this act, one cent per pound; if filled, and not otherwise in this act provided for, said articles shall pay thirty per centum ad valorem in addition to the duty on the contents.

Flint and lime glass bottles and vials, and other plain, molded, or pressed flint or lime glassware, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, forty per centum ad valorem; if filled, and not otherwise in this act provided for, said articles shall pay, exclusive of contents, forty per centum ad valorem in addition to the duty on the contents.

Articles of glass, cut, engraved, painted, colored, printed, stained, silvered, or gilded, not including plate-glass, or looking-glass plates, forty-five per centum ad valorem.

All glass bottles and decanters, and other like vessels of glass, shall, if filled, pay the same rates of duty, in addition to any duty chargeable on the contents, as if not filled, except as in this act otherwise specially provided for.

Cylinder and crown glass, polished, not exceeding ten by fifteen inches square, two and one half cents per square foot; above that, and not exceeding sixteen by twenty-four inches square, four cents per square foot; above that, and not exceeding twentyfour by thirty inches square, six cents per square foot; above that, and not exceeding twenty-four by sixty inches square, twenty cents per square foot; all above that, forty cents per square foot.

Unpolished cylinder, crown, and common window. glass, not exceeding ten by fifteen inches square, one and three eighths cents per pound; above that, and not exceeding sixteen by twenty-four inches square, one and seven eighths cents per pound; above that, and not exceeding twenty-four by thirty inches square, two and three eighths cents per pound; all above that, two and seven eighths cents per pound: Provided, That unpolished cylinder, crown, and common window-glass, imported in boxes containing fifty square feet, as nearly as sizes will permit, now known and commercially designated as fifty feet of glass, single thick and weighing not to exceed fiftyfive pounds of glass per box, shall be entered and computed as fifty pounds of glass only; and that said kinds of glass imported in boxes containing, as nearly as sizes will permit, fifty feet of glass, now known and commercially designated as fifty feet of glass, double thick and not exceeding ninety pounds in weight, shall be entered and computed as eighty pounds of glass only; but in all other cases the duty shall be computed according to the actual weight of glass.

Fluted, rolled, or rough plate-glass, not including crown, cylinder, or common window-glass, not exceeding ten by fifteen inches square, seventy-five cents per one hundred square feet; above that, and not exceeding sixteen by twenty-four inches square, one cent per square foot; above that, and not exceeding twenty-four by thirty inches square, one cent and a half per square foot; all above that, two cents per square foot. And all fluted, rolled, or rough plateglass, weighing over one hundred pounds per one hundred square feet, shall pay an additional duty on the excess at the same rates herein imposed.

Cast polished plate-glass, unsilvered, not exceeding ten by fifteen inches square, three cents per square foot; above that, and not exceeding sixteen by twenty-four inches square, five cents per square foot; above that, and not exceeding twenty-four by thirty inches square, eight cents per square foot; above that, and not exceeding twenty-four by sixty inches square, twenty-five cents per square foot; all above that, fifty cents per square foot.

Cast polished plate-glass, silvered, or looking-glass plates, not exceeding ten by fifteen inches square, four cents per square foot; above that, and not exceeding sixteen by twenty-four inches square, six cents per square foot; above that, and not exceeding twentyfour by thirty inches square, ten cents per square foot; above that, and not exceeding twenty-four by

sixty inches square, thirty-five cents per square foot; all above that, sixty cents per square foot.

But no looking-glass plates or plate-glass, silvered, when framed, shall pay a less rate of duty than that imposed upon similar glass of like description not framed, but shall be liable to pay, in addition thereto, thirty per centum ad valorem upon such frames. Porcelain and Bohemian glass, chemical glassware, painted glassware, stained glass, and all other manufactures of glass or of which glass shall be the component material of chief value, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, forty-five per centum ad valorem.

SCHEDULE 0.-METALS.

Iron-ores, including manganiferous iron-ore, also the dross or residuum from burnt pyrites, seventy-five cents per ton. Sulphur-ore, as pyrites, or sulphuret of iron in its natural state, containing not more than three and one half per centum of copper, seventy-five cents per ton: Provided, That ore containing more than two per centum of copper shall pay, in addition thereto, two and one half cents per pound for the copper contained therein.

Iron in pigs, iron kentledge, spiegeleisen, wrought and cast scrap-iron, and scrap-steel, three tenths of one cent per pound, but nothing shall be deemed scrap-iron or scrap-steel except waste or refuse iron or steel that has been in actual use and is fit only to be remanufactured.

Iron railway-bars, weighing more than twenty-five pounds to the yard, seven tenths of one cent per pound.

Steel railway-bars and railway-bars made in part of steel, weighing more than twenty-five pounds to the yard, seventeen dollars per ton.

Bar-iron, rolled or hammered, comprising flats not less than one inch wide, nor less than three eighths of one inch thick, eight tenths of one cent per pound; comprising round iron not less than three fourths of one inch in diameter, and square iron not less than three fourths of one inch square, one cent per pound; comprising flats less than one inch wide, or less than three eighths of one inch thick; round iron less than three fourths of one inch and not less than seven sixteenths of one inch in diameter, and square iron less than three fourths of one inch square, one and one tenth of one cent per pound: Provided, That all iron in slabs, blooms, loops, or other forms less finished than iron in bars, and more advanced than pig-iron, except castings, shall be rated as iron in bars, and pay a duty accordingly; and none of the above iron shall pay a less rate of duty than thirty-five per centum ad valorem: Provided further, That all iron bars, blooms, billets, or sizes or shapes of any kind, in the manufac ture of which charcoal is used as fuel, shall be subject to a duty of twenty-two dollars per ton.

Iron or steel tee rails, weighing not over twentyfive pounds to the yard, nine tenths of one cent per pound; iron or steel flat rails, punched, eight tenths of one cent per pound.

Round iron, in coils or rods, less than seven sixteenths of one inch in diameter, and bars or shapes of rolled iron not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, one and two tenths of one cent per pound. Boiler or other plate iron, sheared or unsheared, skelp-iron, sheared or rolled in grooves, one and one fourth cents per pound; sheet-iron, common or black, thinner than one inch and one half and not thinner than number twenty wire gauge, one and one tenth of one cent per pound; thinner than number twenty wire gauge and not thinner than number twentyfive wire gauge, one and two tenths of one cent per pound; thinner than number twenty-five wire gauge and not thinner than number twenty-nine wire gauge, one and five tenths of one cent per pound; thinner than number twenty-nine wire gauge, and all iron commercially known as common or black taggers iron, whether put up in boxes or bundles or not, thirty per centum ad valorem: And provided, That on all such fron and steel sheets or plates aforesaid, excepting on

what are known commercially as tin-plates, terneplates, and taggers tin, and hereafter provided for, when galvanized or coated with zinc or spelter, or other metals, or any alloy of those metals, three fourths of one cent per pound additional.

Polished, planished, or glanced sheet-iron, or sheetsteel, by whatever name designated, two and one half cents per pound: Provided, That plate or sheet or taggers iron, by whatever name designated, other than the polished, planished, or glanced herein provided for, which has been pickled or cleaned by acid, or by any other material or process, and which is coldrolled, shall pay one quarter cent per pound more duty than the corresponding gauges of common or black sheet or taggers iron.

Iron or steel sheets, or plates, or taggers iron, coated with tin or lead, or with a mixture of which these metals is a component part, by the dipping or any other process, and commercially known as tin-plates, terne-plates, and taggers tin, one cent per pound; corrugated or crimped sheet iron or steel, one and four tenths of one cent per pound.

Hoop, or band, or scroll, or other iron, eight inches or less in width and not thinner than number ten wire gauge, one cent per pound; thinner than number ten wire gauge and not thinner than number twenty wire gauge, one and two tenths of one cent per pound; thinner than number twenty wire gauge, one and four tenths of one cent per pound: Provided, That all articles not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, whether wholly or partly manufactured, made from sheet, plate, hoop, band, or scroll iron herein provided for, or of which such sheet, plate, hoop, band, or scroll iron shall be the material of chief value, shall pay one fourth of one cent per pound more duty than that imposed on the iron from which they are made, or which shall be such material of chief value.

Iron and steel cotton-ties, or hoops for baling purposes, not thinner than number twenty wire gauge, thirty-five per centum ad valorem.

Cast-iron pipe of every description, one cent per pound.

Cast-iron vessels, plates, stove-plates, andirons, sadirons, tailors' irons, hatters' irons, and castings of iron not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, one and one quarter of one cent per pound.

Cut nails and spikes, of iron or steel, one and one quarter of one cent per pound.

Cut tacks, brads, or sprigs, not exceeding sixteen ounces to the thousand, two and one half cents per thousand; exceeding sixteen ounces to the thousand, three cents per pound.

Iron or steel railway fish-plates, or splice-bars, one and one fourth of one cent per pound.

Malleable iron castings, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, two cents per pound. Wrought-iron or steel spikes, nuts, and washers, and horse, mule, or ox shoes, two cents per pound.

Anvils, anchors or parts thereof, mill-irons and mill-cranks of wrought-iron, and wrought-iron for ships, and forgings of iron and steel, for vessels, steam-engines, and locomotives, or parts thereof, weighing each twenty-five pounds or more, two cents per pound.

Iron or steel rivets, bolts, with or without threads or nuts, or bolt-blanks, and finished hinges or hingeblanks, two and one half of one cent per pound.

Iron or steel blacksmiths' hammers and sledges, track-tools, wedges, and crowbars, two and one half of one cent per pound.

Iron or steel axles, parts thereof, axle-bars, axleblanks, or forgings for axles, without reference to the stage or state of manufacture, two and one half of one cent per pound.

Forgings of iron and steel, or forged iron, of whatever shape, or in whatever stage of manufacture, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, two and one half cents per pound.

Horseshoe-nails, hob-nails, and wire nails, and all

other wrought-iron or steel nails, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, four cents per pound.

Boiler tubes, or flues, or stays of wrought-iron or steel, three cents per pound.

Other wrought-iron or steel tubes or pipes, two and one quarter cents per pound.

Chain or chains of all kinds, made of iron and steel, not less than three fourths of one inch in diameter, one and three quarter cents per pound; less than three fourths of one inch and not less than three eighths of one inch in diameter, two cents per pound; less than three eighths of one inch in diameter, two and one half cents per pound.

Cross-cut saws, eight cents per linear foot. Mill, pit, and drag saws, not over nine inches wide, ten cents per linear foot; over nine inches wide, fifteen cents per linear foot.

Circular saws, thirty per centum ad valorem. Hand, back, and all other saws, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, forty per centum ad valorem.

Files, file-blanks, rasps, and floats of all cuts and kinds, four inches in length and under, thirty-five cents per dozen; over four inches in length and under nine inches, seventy-five cents per dozen; nine inches in length and under fourteen inches, one dollar and fifty cents per dozen; fourteen inches in length and over, two dollars and fifty cents per dozen.

Steel ingots, cogged ingots, blooms, and slabs, by whatever process made; die blocks or blanks; billets and bars and tapered or beveled bars; bands, hoops, strips and sheets, of all gauges and widths; plates of all thicknesses and widths; steamer, crank, and other shafts; wrist or crank-pins; connecting-rods and piston-rods; pressed, sheared, or stamped shapes, or blanks of sheet or plate steel, or combination of steel and iron, punched or not punched; hammer-molds or swaged steel; gun-molds, not in bars; alloys used as substitutes for steel tools; all descriptions and shapes of dry sand, loam, or iron-molded steel castings; all of the above classes of steel not otherwise specially provided for in this act, valued at four cents a pound or less, forty-five per centum ad valorem; above four cents a pound and not above seven cents per pound, two cents per pound; valued above seven cents a pound and not above ten cents per pound, two and [one fourth] three fourths cents per pound; valued at above ten cents per pound, three and one fourth cents per pound: Provided, That on all iron or steel bars, rods, strips, or steel sheets of whatever shape, and on all iron or steel bars of irregular shape or section, cold-rolled, cold-hammered, or polished in any way in addition to the ordinary process of hot-rolling or hammering, there shall be paid one fourth cent per pound in addition to the rates provided in this act, and on steel circular saw-plates there shall be paid one cent per pound in addition to the rate provided for in this act.

Iron or steel beams, girders, joists, angles, channels, car-truck channels, TT, columns and posts, or parts or sections of columns and posts, deck and bulb beams, and building forms, together with all other structural shapes of iron or steel, one and one fourth of one cent per pound.

Steel wheels and steel-tired wheels for railway purposes, whether wholly or partly finished, and iron or steel locomotive, car, and other railway tires, or parts thereof, wholly or partly manufactured, two and one half of one cent per pound; iron or steel ingots, cogged ingots, blooms or blanks for the same, without regard to the degree of manufacture, two cents per pound.

Iron or steel rivet, screw, nail, and fence-wire rods, round, in coils and loops, not lighter than number five wire gauge, valued at three and one half cents or less per pound, six tenths of one cent per pound. Iron or steel, flat with longitudinal ribs for the manufacture of fencing, six tenths of a cent per pound. Screws, commonly called wood screws, two inches

or over in length, six cents per pound; one inch and less than two inches in length, eight cents per pound; over one half inch and less than one inch in length, ten cents per pound; one half inch and less in length, twelve cents per pound.

Iron or steel wire, smaller than number five and not smaller than number ten wire gauge, one and one half cents per pound; smaller than number ten and not smaller than number sixteen wire gauge, two cents per pound; smaller than number sixteen and not smaller than number twenty-six wire gauge, two and one half cents per pound; smaller than number twenty-six wire gauge, three cents per pound: Provided, That iron or steel wire, covered with cotton, silk, or other material, and wire commonly known as crinoline, corset, and hat wire, shall pay four cents per pound in addition to the foregoing rates: And provided further, That no article made from iron or steel wire, or of which iron or steel wire is a component part of chief value, shall pay a less rate of duty than the iron or steel wire from which it is made either wholly or in part: And provided further, That iron or steel wire cloths, and iron or steel wire nettings, made in meshes of any form, shall pay a duty equal in amount to that imposed on iron or steel wire of the same gauge, and two cents per pound in addition thereto. There shall be paid on galvanized iron or steel wire (except fence-wire), one half of one cent per pound in addition to the rate imposed on the wire of which it is made. On iron-wire rope and wire strand, one cent per pound in addition to the rates imposed on the wire of which it is made. On steelwire rope and wire strand, two cents per pound in addition to the rates imposed on the wire of which it is made.

Steel not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, forty-five per centum ad valorem: Provided, That all metal produced from iron or its ores, which is cast and malleable, of whatever description or form, without regard to the percentage of carbon contained therein, whether produced by cementation, or converted, cast, or made from iron or its ores, by the crucible, Bessemer, pneumatic, Thomas-Gilchrist, basic, Siemens-Martin, or open-hearth process, or by the equivalent of either, or by the combination of two or more of the processes, or their equivalents, or by any fusion or other process which produces from iron or its ores a metal either granular or fibrous in structure, which is cast and malleable, excepting what is known as malleable iron castings, shall be classed and denominated as steel.

No allowance or reduction of duties for partial loss or damage in consequence of rust or of discoloration shall be made upon any description of iron or steel, or upon any partly manufactured article of iron or steel, or upon any manufacture of iron and steel.

Argentine, albata, or German silver, unmanufactured, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

Copper, imported in the form of ores, two and one half cents on each pound of fine copper contained therein; regulus of and black and coarse copper, and copper cement, three and one half cents on each pound of fine copper contained therein; old copper, fit only for remanufacture, clippings from new copper, and all composition metal of which copper is a component material of chief value not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, three cents per pound; copper in plates, bars, ingots, Chili or other pigs, and in other forms, not manufactured, or enumerated in this act, four cents per pound; in rolled plates, called brazier's copper, sheets, rods, pipes, and copper bottoms, and all manufactures of copper, or of which copper shall be a component of chief value, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, thirty-five per centum ad valorein.

Brass, in bars or pig, old brass, and clippings from brass or Dutch metal, one and one half cent per pound.

Lead-ore and lead-dross, one and one half cent per

pound.

Lead, in pigs and bars, molten and old refuse lead run into blocks and bars, and old scrap-lead, fit only to be remanufactured, two cents per pound. Lead, in sheets, pipes, or shot, three cents per pound.

Nickel, in ore, matte, or other crude form not ready for consumption in the arts, fifteen cents per pound on the nickel contained therein.

Nickel, nickel-oxide, alloy of any kind in which nickel is the element of chief value, fifteen cents per pound.

Zinc, spelter, or tutenegue, in blocks or pigs, and old worn-out zinc, fit only to be remanufactured, one and one half cent per pound; zine, spelter, or tutenegae in sheets, two and one half cents per pound. Sheathing, or yellow-metal, not wholly of copper, nor wholly nor in part of iron, ungalvanized, in sheets, forty-eight inches long and fourteen inches wide, and weighing from fourteen to thirty-four ounces per square foot, thirty-five per centum ad valorem.

Antimony, as regulus or metal, ten per centum ad valorem.

Bronze powder, fifteen per centum ad valorem. Cutlery, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, thirty-five per centum ad valorem. Dutch or bronze metal, in leaf, ten per centum ad valorem.

Steel plates, engraved, stereotype plates, and new types, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

Gold-leaf, one dollar and fifty cents per package of five hundred leaves.

Hollow-ware, coated, glazed, or tinned, three cents per pound.

Muskets, rifles, and other fire-arms, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

All sporting breech-loading shot-guns, and pistols of all kinds, thirty-five per centum ad valorem."

Forged shot-gun barrels, rough-bored, ten per centum ad valorem.

Needles for knitting or sewing machines, thirtyfive per centum ad valorem.

Needles, sewing, darning, knitting, and all others not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

Pen-knives, pocket-knives, of all kinds, and razors, fifty per centum ad valorem; swords, sword-blades, and side-arms, thirty-five per centum ad valorem. Pens, metallic, twelve cents per gross; pen-holder tips and pen-holders, or parts thereof, [forty] thirty per centum ad valorem.

Pins, solid-head or other, thirty per centum ad

valorem.

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Type-metal, twenty per centur ad valorem. Chromate of iron, or chromic ore, fifteen per centum ad valorem.

Mineral substances in a crude state, and metals unwrought, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, twenty per centum ad valorem.

Manufactures, articles or wares, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, composed wholly r in part of iron, steel, copper, lead, nickel, pewter, tin, zinc, gold, silver, platinum, or any other metal, and whether partly or wholly manufactured, forty-five per centum ad valorem.

SCHEDULE D.-WOOD AND WOODEN-WARES.

Timber, hewn and sawed, and timber used for spars and in building wharves, twenty per centum ad va

loren.

Timber, squared or sided, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, one cent per cubic foot. Sawed boards, planks, deals, and other lumber of hemlock, white-wood, sycamore, and bass-wood, one dollar per one thousand feet, board measure; all

other articles of sawed lumber, two dollars per one thousand feet, board measure. But when lumber of any sort is planed or finished, in addition to the rates herein provided, there shall be levied and paid for each side so planed or finished, fifty cents per one thousand feet, board measure.

And if planed on one side and tongued and grooved, one dollar per one thousand feet, board measure. And if planed on two sides, and tongued and grooved, one dollar and fifty cents per one thousand feet, board measure.

Hubs for wheels, posts, last-blocks, wagon-blocks, ore-blocks, gun-blocks, heading-blocks, and all like blocks or sticks, rough-hewn or sawed only, twenty per centum ad valorem.

Staves of wood of all kinds, ten per centum ad valorem.

Pickets and palings, twenty per centum ad valorem. Laths, fifteen cents per one thousand pieces. Shingles, thirty-five cents per one thousand. Pine clapboards, two dollars per one thousand. Spruce clapboards, one dollar and fifty cents per one thousand.

House or cabinet furniture, in piece or rough, and not finished, thirty per centum ad valorem.

Cabinet-ware and house furniture, finished, thirtyfive per centum ad valorem.

Casks and barrels empty, sugar-box shooks, and packing-boxes, and packing-box shooks, of wood, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, thirty per centum ad valorem.

Manufactures of cedar-wood, granadilla, ebony, mahogany, rose-wood, and satin-wood, thirty-five per centum ad valorem.

Manufactures of wood, or of which wood is the chief component part, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, thirty-five per centum ad valorem.

Wood, unmanufactured, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, twenty per centum ad valorem.

SCHEDULE E.-SUGAR.

All sugars not above No. 13 Dutch standard in color shall pay duty on their polariscopic test as follows, viz.:

All sugars not above No. 13 Dutch standard in color, all tank bottoms, sirups of cane-juice or of beet-juice, melada, concentrated melada, concrete and concentrated molasses, testing by the polariscope not above seventy-five degrees, shall pay a duty of one and forty hundredths cent per pound, and for every additional degree or fraction of a degree shown by the polariscopic test, they shall pay four hundredths of a cent per pound additional.

All sugars above No. 13 Dutch standard in color shall be classified by the Dutch standard of color, and

pay duty as follows, namely:

All sugar above No. 13 and not above No. 16 Dutch standard, two and seventy-five hundredths cents per pound.

All sugar above No. 16 and not above No. 20 Dutch standard, three cents per pound.

All sugars above No. 20 Dutch standard, three and fifty hundredths cents per pound.

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.

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 tinethirty cents per pound or less, ten cents per pound. tured, colored, or in any way adulterated, valued at

Confectionery valued above thirty cents per pound, by the pound, fifty per centum ad valorem. or when sold by the box, package, or otherwise than

SCHEDULE F.-TOBACCO.

Cigars, cigarettes, and cheroots of all kinds, two dollars and fifty cents per pound and twenty-five per

centum ad valorem; but paper cigars and cigarettes, including wrappers, shall be subject to the same duties as are herein imposed upon cigars.

Leaf-tobacco, of which eighty-five per cent. is of the requisite size and of the necessary fineness of texture to be suitable for wrappers, and of which more than one hundred leaves are required to weigh a pound, if not stemmed, seventy-five cents per pound; if stemmed, one dollar per pound.

All other tobacco in leaf, unmanufactured, and not stemmed, thirty-five cents per pound.

Tobacco-stems, fifteen cents per pound. Tobacco, manufactured, of all descriptions, and stemmed tobacco, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, forty cents per pound.

Snuff and snuff-flour, manufactured of tobacco, ground, dry, or damp, and pickled, scented or other wise, of all descriptions, fifty cents per pound. Tobacco, unmanufactured, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, thirty per centum ad valorem.

SCHEDULE G.-PROVISIONS.

Animals, live, twenty per centum ad valorem.
Beef and pork, one cent per pound.
Hams and bacon, two cents per pound.

Meat, extract of, twenty per centum ad valorem.
Cheese, four cents per pound.

Butter, and substitutes therefor, four cents per pound.

Lard, two cents per pound.

Wheat, twenty cents per bushel.

Rye and barley, ten cents per bushel.

Barley, pearled, patent, or hulled, one half cent per pound.

Barley-malt, per bushel of thirty-four pounds, twenty cents.

Indian corn or maize, ten cents per bushel.
Oats, ten cents per bushel.
Corn-meal, ten cents per bushel of forty-eight
pounds.

Oatmeal, one half cent per pound.
Rye-flour, one half cent per pound.

Wheat-flour, twenty per centum ad valorem. Potato or corn starch, two cents per pound; ricestarch, two and a half cents per pound; other starch, two and a half cents per pound.

Rice, cleaned, two and one fourth cents per pound; uncleaned, one and one half cent per pound.

Paddy, one and one fourth cent per pound. Rice-Hour and rice-meal, twenty per centum ad valorem.

Hay, two dollars per ton.

Honey, twenty cents per gallon.

Hops, eight cents per pound.

and prepared meats of all kinds, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

Pickles and sauces, of all kinds, not otherwise specially enumerated or provided for in this act, thirtyfive per centum ad valorem.

Potatoes, fifteen cents per bushel of sixty pounds. Vegetables, in their natural state, or in salt or brine, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, ten per centum ad valorem.

Vegetables, prepared or preserved, of all kinds, not otherwise provided for, thirty per centum ad valorem. Chiccory-root, ground or unground, burnt or prepared, two cents per pound.

Vinegar, seven and one half cents per gallon. The standard for vinegar shall be taken to be that strength which requires thirty-five grains of bicarbonate of potash to neutralize one ounce troy of vinegar; and all import duties that may by law be imposed on vinegar imported from foreign countries shall be collected according to this standard.

Acorns and dandelion-root, raw or prepared, and all other articles used or intended to be used as coffee, or as substitutes therefor, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, two cents per pound. Chocolate, two cents per pound.

Cocoa, prepared or manufactured, two cents per pound.

Fruits:

Currants, Zante or other, one cent per pound.
Dates, plums, and prunes, one cent per pound.
Figs, two cents per pound.

and one half cubic feet, twenty-five cents per box; in Oranges, in boxes of capacity not exceeding two one half boxes, capacity not exceeding one and one fourth cubic feet, thirteen cents per half-box; in bulk, one dollar and sixty cents per thousand; in barrels, capacity not exceeding that of the one hundred and ninety-six pounds flour-barrel, fifty-five cents per barrel.

Lemons, in boxes of capacity not exceeding two and one half cubic feet, thirty cents per box; in one half boxes, capacity not exceeding one and one fourth cubic feet, sixteen cents per half-box; in bulk, two dollars per thousand.

Lemons and oranges, in packages, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, twenty per

centum ad valorem.

Limes and grapes, twenty per centum ad valorem. Raisins, two cents per pound.

Fruits, preserved in their own juices, and fruitjuice, twenty per centum ad valorem.

Comfits, sweetmeats, or fruits preserved in sugar, spirits, sirup, or molasses, not otherwise specified or

Milk, preserved or condensed, twenty per centum provided for in this act, and jellies of all kinds, thirty

ad valorem.

Fish:

Mackerel, one cent per pound.

Herrings, pickled or salted, one half of one cent per pound.

Salmon, pickled, one cent per pound; other fish, pickled, in barrels, one cent per pound.

Foreign-caught fish, imported otherwise than in barrels or half-barrels, whether fresh, smoked, dried, salted, or pickled, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, fifty cents per hundred pounds. Anchovies and sardines, packed in oil or otherwise, in tin boxes measuring not more than five inches long, four inches wide, and three and one half inches deep, ten cents per whole box; in half-boxes, measuring not more than five inches long, four inches wide, and one and five eighths deep, five cents each; in quarterboxes, measuring not more than four inches and three quarters long, three and one half inches wide, and one and a quarter deep, two and one half cents each; when imported in any other form, forty per centum ad valorem.

Fish preserved in oil, except anchovies and sardines, thirty per centum ad valorem.

Salmon, and all other fish, prepared or preserved,

five per centum ad valorem.

Nuts:

Almonds, five cents per pound; shelled, seven and all kinds, three cents per pound. one half cents per pound; filberts, and walnuts, of

shelled, one and one half cent per pound. Peanuts or ground beans, one cent per pound;

Nuts of all kinds, shelled or unshelled, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, two cents per pound.

Mustard, ground or preserved, in bottles or otherwise, ten cents per pound.

SCHEDULE H.-LIQUORS.

Champagne, and all other sparkling wines, in bottles containing each not more than one quart and more than one pint, seven dollars per dozen bottles; containing not more than one pint each and more than one half pint, three dollars and fifty cents per dozen bottles; containing one half pint each, or less, one dollar and seventy-five cents per dozen bottles; in bottles containing more than one quart each, in addition to seven dollars per dozen bottles, at the rate of two dollars an dtwenty-five cents per gallon on the quantity in excess of one quart bottle.

Still wines in casks, fifty cents per gallon; in bot

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