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AN ACT to reduce the revenue and equalize duties on imports, and for other

purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That on and after the sixth day of October, eighteen hundred and ninety, unless otherwise specially provided for in this act, there shall be levied, collected, and paid upon all articles imported from foreign countries, and mentioned in the schedules herein contained, the rates of duty which are, by the schedules and paragraphs, respectively prescribed, namely:

[All changes from the old law are indicated by foot-notes or by italics.]

ACIDS.

SCHEDULE A.-CHEMICALS, OILS AND PAINTS.

1. Acetic or pyroligneous acid, not exceeding the specific gravity of one and forty-seven one-thousandths, one and one-half cents per pound; exceeding the specific gravity of one and forty-seven one thousandths, four cents per pound.

Old law: Two cents and four cents.

2. Boracic acid, five cents per pound.

Old law: Pure, five cents per pound; commercial, four cents.

3. Chromic acid, six cents per pound.

Old law: Fifteen per centum.

4. Citric acid, ten cents per pound.

5. Sulphuric acid or oil of vitriol, not otherwise specially provided for, one-fourth of one cent per pound.

Old law: Free under general provision for acids. 6. Tannic acid or tannin, seventy-five cents per pound. Old law: One dollar per pound.

7. Tartaric acid, ten cents per pound.

8. Alcoholic perfumery, including cologne-water and other toilet waters, two dollars per gallon and fifty per centum ad valorem; alcoholic compounds not specially provided for in this act, two dollars per gallon and twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

9. Alumina, alum, alum cake, patent alum, sulphate of alumina, and aluminous cake, and alum in crystals or ground, sixtenths of one cent per pound.

10. AMMONIA.-Carbonate of, one and three-fourths cents per pound; muriate of, or sal-ammoniac, three-fourths of one cent per pound; sulphate of, one-half of one cent per pound. Old law: Carbonate of, twenty per centum; muriate of, ten per centum; sulphate of, twenty per centum.

11. Blacking of all kinds, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. 12. Blue vitriol, or sulphate of copper, two cents per pound. Old law: Three cents per pound.

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13. Bone-char, suitable for use in decolorizing sugars, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

Old law: All bone-char twenty-five per centum.

14. Borax, crude, or borate of soda, or borate of lime, three cents per pound; refined borax, five cents per pound.

15. Camphor, refined, four cents per pound.

Old law: Five cents per pound.

16. Chalk, prepared, precipitated, French, and red, one cent per pound; all other chalk preparations not specially provided for in this act, twenty per centum ad valorem.

17. Chloroform, twenty-five cents per pound.

Old law: Fifty cents per pound.

COAL-TAR PREPARATIONS.

18. All coal-tar colors or dyes, by whatever name known, and not specially provided for in this act, thirty-five per centum ad valorem.

19. All preparations of coal-tar, not colors or dyes, not specially provided for in this act, twenty per centum ad valorem. 20. Cobalt, oxide of, thirty cents per pound.

Old law: Twenty per centum.

21. 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; if in finished or partly-finished articles, sixty cents per pound and twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

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

Text of old law: Coloring for brandy, 50 per centum. 23. Copperas or sulphate of iron, three-tenths of one cent per pound.

24. Drugs, such as barks, beans, berries, balsams, buds, bulbs, and bulbous roots, and excrescences, such as nut-galls, fruits, flowers, dried fibers grains, gums, and gum resins, herbs, leaves, lichens, mosses, nuts, roots and stems, spices, vegetables, seeds (aromatic, not garden seeds), and seeds of morbid growth, weeds, woods used expressly for dyeing, and dried insects, any of the foregoing which are not edible, but which have been advanced in value or condition by refining or grinding, or by other process of manufacture, and not specially provided for in this act, ten per centum ad valorem.

25. Ethers sulphuric, forty cents per pound; spirits of nitrous ether, twenty-five cents per pound; fruit ethers, oils, or essences, two dollars and fifty cents per pound; ethers of all kinds not specially provided for in this act, one dollar per pound.

Old law: Ethers sulphuric, fifty cents per pound; nitrous ether, thirty cents per pound; ethers all other, one dollar per pound; œnanthic, or oil of cognac, four dollars per ounce; fruit ethers, etc., two dollars and fifty cents per pound; oil or essence of rum, fifty cents per ounce.

26. Extracts and decoctions of logwood and other dye-woods, extract of sumac, and extracts of barks, such as are commonly used for dyeing or tanning, not specially provided for in this act, seveneighths of one cent per pound; extracts of hemlock bark one-half of one cent per pound.

Old law: Logwood and other dye-woods, extract, ten per centum; sumac extract, twenty per centum; extract of hemlock and other barks for tanning, twenty per centum.

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