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12 Stat. p. 549.

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centum ad valorem ;

344. Paraffine, ten cents per pound;

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** when ground in oil, one dollar and fifty

cents per one hundred pounds;

346. Potash, bichromate, three cents per pound; hydriodate, iodate, iodide, and acetate, seventy-five cents per pound; prussiate, yellow, five cents per pound; prussiate, red, ten cents per pound; chlorate, six cents per pound;

347. Putty, one dollar and fifty cents per one hundred pounds;

348. Quinine, sulphate of, and other salts of quinine, forty-five per centum ad valorem ;

349. Rhubarb, fifty cents per pound;

350. Rose leaves, fifty cents per pound;

351. Rum essence or oil, and bay rum essence or oil, two dollars per ounce; (711.)

352. Saltpetre, or nitrate of potash, per pound;

refined, three cents

353. Seeds, anise, five cents per pound; star anise, ten cents per pound; canary, one dollar per bushel of sixty pounds; caraway, three cents per pound; cardamom, fifty cents per pound; cumin, five cents per pound; coriander, three cents per pound; fennel, two cents per pound; fe [n] ugreek, two cents per pound; hemp, one-half cent per pound; mustard, brown, three cents per pound; white, three cents per pound; rapé, one cent per pound;

354. Tartar emetic, fifteen cents per pound;

355. Varnish, valued at one dollar and fifty cents or less per gallon, fifty cents per gallon, and twenty per centum ad valorem; valued at above one dollar and fifty cents per gallon, fifty cents per gallon, and twenty-five per centum ad valorem; (711.)

356. Vanilla beans, three dollars per pound;

357. Verdigris, six cents per pound;

358. Benzoic and muriatic acids, cutch or catechu, orchil (215) and cud bear, safflower, and sumac, ten per centum ad valorem ;

359. Arsenic in all forms, ammonia, (19) and sulphate and carbonate of ammonia; bark, cinchona, Peruvian, Lima, Calisaya, quilla and all other medicinal barks, flowers, leaves, (90) plants, roots and seeds, not otherwise provided for; gums, amber, Arabic, jedda, senegal, tragacanth, myrrh, and all other gums and gum resins not otherwise provided for; (711,) quassia wood; sarsaparilla; tapioca; tonqua beans and sponges, twenty per centum ad valorem ;

360. Glycerine, thirty per centum ad valorem ;

361. On all pills, powders, tinctures, troches or lozenges, sirups, cordials, bitters, anodynes, tonics, plasters, liniments, salves, ointments, pastes, drops, waters, essences, spirits, oils, or other medicinal preparations or compositions, recommended to the public as proprietary medicines, or prepared according to some private formula or secret art as remedies or specifics for any disease or diseases or affections whatever affecting the human or animal body, fifty per centum ad valorem; (711.)

362. On all essences, extracts, toilet waters, cosmetics, hair oils, pomades, hair dressings, hair restoratives, hair dyes, tooth washes, dentrifices, tooth pastes, aromatic cachous, or other perfumeries or cosmetics, by whatsoever name or names known, used or applied as perfumes or applications to the hair, mouth, or skin, fifty per centum ad valorem; (711.)

SEC. 6. From and after the day and year aforesaid, IN ADDITION to the duties heretofore imposed by law on the articles hereinafter The United States C. Court for the southern district of New York, on the 29th January, 1866, in the case of Amsinck et al. vs. Draper, decided that "Orchilla," or "Orchilla Weed" is exempt from duty. (See Treasury Circular, May 31, 1866.)

mentioned, and on such as now may be exempt from duty, there 12 Stat. p. 549.
shall be levied, collected, and paid on the goods, wares, and mer-
chandise enumerated and provided for in this section, imported

from foreign countries, a duty of ten per cenTUM ad valorem, that

is to say:

363. Assafoetida; (19.)

364. Beeswax; (22.)

365. Blacking of all descriptions; (275.)

366. Building-stone of all descriptions, not otherwise provided for;

(26.)

367. Calomel; (69.)

368. Catsup; (133.)

369. Civet, oil of; (95.)

370. Cobalt ores; (213.)

371. Extract of indigo; (217.) extract of madder; (218.) extract and decoctions of logwood, and other dyewoods; (219, 711.)

372. Flints, and flint, ground; (221.)

373. Garancine; (218.)

374. Green turtle; (35, 7096.)

375. Grindstones, unwrought, or wrought or finished; (36, 224.) 376. Gutta percha, unmanufactured; (223.)

377. Isinglass or fish glue; (76.)

378. Japanned ware of all kinds, not otherwise provided for; (159.) 379. Mats of cocoa-nut; (87.)

380. Matting, China, and other floor matting, and mats made of flags, Jute, or grass; (88, 727.)

381. Milk of India-rubber; (230,) medicinal preparations not otherwise provided for; (171, 711.)

382. Music, printed with lines, bound or unbound; (48.)

383. Musical instruments of all kinds, and strings for musical instruments of whipgut or catgut, and all other strings of the same material; (93.)

384. Osier or willow, prepared for basket-makers' use; (96.)

385. Philosophical apparatus and instruments;* (163, 166, 170.) 386. Plaster of Paris, when ground; (54.)

387. Quills; (99.)

388. Staves for pipes, hogsheads, or other casks; (266.)

389. Teeth, manufactured; (39.)

390. Thread lace and insertings; (109.)

391. [Woollen listings;] (116, 720.)

SEC. 7. IN ADDITION to the duties heretofore imposed by law on the articles hereinafter mentioned and provided for in this section, there shall be levied, collected, and paid, on the goods, wares, and merchandise herein enumerated, imported from foreign countries, the following duties and rates of duty, that is to say:

392. On chocolate and cocoa prepared, one cent per pound; (279, 280.)

393. On copperas, green vitriol, or sulphate of iron, one fourth cent per pound; (10.)

394. On linseed, flaxseed, hempseed, and rapeseed oil, three cents per gallon; (9.)

395. On saleratus (2.) and bicarbonate of soda, one half cent per pound;

(291.)

396. On caustic soda, one half cent per pound; (293.)

397. On oxide of zinc, dry or ground in oil, twenty-five cents per one

hundred pounds; (6.)

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12 Stat. p. 550

* A duty of 30 per centum ad valorem was imposed upon "all manufactures of glass or of which glass shall be a component material, not otherwise provided for," by the 17th section of the act of March 2, 1861. (Stat. at Large, Vol. XII. p. 187.)

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12 Stat. p. 551.

12 Stat. p. 552.

SEC. 8. From and after the day and year aforesaid, IN LIEU of the duties heretofore imposed by law on the articles hereinafter mention [ed,] and on such as may now be exempt from duty, there shall be levied, collected, and paid on the goods, wares, and merchandise enumerated and provided for in this section, imported from foreign countries, the following duties and rates of duty, that is to say:

398. On barley, pearl or hulled, one cent per pound;

399. On bonnets, hats, and hoods, for men, women, and children, composed of straw, chip, grass, palm-leaf, willow, or any other vegetable substance, or of hair, whalebone, or other material, not otherwise provided for, forty per centum ad valorem ;

400. On braids, plaits, flats, laces, trimmings, sparterre, tissues, willow sheets and squares, used for making or ornamenting hats, bonnets, and hoods, composed of straw, chip, grass, palm-leaf, willow, or any other vegetable substance, or of hair, whalebone, or other material, not otherwise provided for, thirty per centum ad valorem ;

401. Provided, That all imported cotton and linen rags for the manu facture of paper shall be free of duty;

402. On candles and tapers, stearine and adamantine, five cents per pound; on spermaceti, paraffine, and wax candles and tapers, pure or mixed, eight cents per pound; on all other candles and tapers, two and one half cents per pound;

403. On acorn coffee and dandelion root, raw or prepared, and all other articles used or intended to be used as coffee, or a substitute for coffee, and not otherwise provided for, three cents per pound;

404. On coloring for brandy, fifty per centum ad valorem; (711.) 405. On feathers and downs for beds or bedding, of all descriptions, thirty per centum ad valorem;

406. On fruit, shade, lawn, and ornamental trees, shrubs, plants, and bulbous roots, and flower seeds, not otherwise provided for, thirty per centum ad valorem ;

407. On garden seeds, and all other seeds for agricultural and horticultural purposes, not otherwise provided for, thirty per centum ad valorem ;

408. On hides, raw, and skins of all kinds, whether dried, salted, or pickled, ten per centum ad valorem; (711, 719.)

409. On hops, five cents per pound;

410. On human hair, raw, uncleaned, and not drawn, twenty per centum ad valorem; when cleaned or drawn, but not manufactured, thirty per centum ad valorem; when manufactured, forty per centum ad valorem; (156.)

411. On all manufactures of marble, marble slabs, marble paving tiles, and marble sawed, dressed, or polished, fifty per centum ad valorem ; 412. On manufactures of bladders, thirty per centum ad valorem ; 413. On manufactures of India-rubber and silk, or of India-rubber and silk and other materials, fifty per centum ad valorem ;

414. On mustard, ground, in bulk, twelve cents per pound; when enclosed in glass or tin, sixteen cents per pound;

415. On plates engraved, of steel, copper, wood, or any other material, twenty-five per centum ad valorem ;

416. On plumbago or black lead, ten dollars per ton;

417. On potatoes, twenty-five cents per bushel;

418. On * * fulminates, fulminating powders, and all articles used for like purposes, not otherwise provided for, thirty per centum ad valo

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420. On sago and sago flour, one cent and a half per pound; 421. On sheathing metal or yellow metal not wholly of copper nor wholly or 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, three cents per pound;

422. On tin in pigs, bars, or blocks, fifteen per centum ad valorem ; 423. On tin in plates or sheets, terne, and tagger tin, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; on oxide, muriatic, and salts of tin and tin foil, thirty per centum ad valorem ;

SEC. 9. IN ADDITION to the duties heretofore imposed by law on the articles hereinafter mentioned and included in this section, there shall be levied, collected, and paid, on the goods, wares, and merchandise herein enumerated and provided for, imported from foreign countries, the following duties and rates of duty, that is to say:

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12 Stat. p. 552.

424. [On woollen and worsted yarn of all descriptions, five per cent ad valorem ;] 12 Stat. p. 553. (14, 579, 721.)

425. [On coir floor matting and carpeting, five per centum ad valorem ;] (88,

727.)

SEC. 10. From and after the day and year aforesaid, IN ADDITION to the duties heretofore imposed by law on the articles hereinafter mentioned and provided for in this section, there shall be levied, collected, and paid, on the goods, wares, and merchandise herein enumerated, imported from foreign countries, the following duties and rates of duty, that is to say;

426. Second. On [spool] and other thread of cotton, ten per centum ad valorem; (15,704.)

Fourth. On * * * all manufactures composed wholly of cotton, bleached, unbleached, printed, painted, or dyed, not otherwise provided for, five per centum ad valorem; (15,588.)

* cot-bottoms,

427. Fifth. On drills, coatings, brown hollands, blay linens, damasks, five per centum ad valorem. (15,589.

SEC. 11. From and after the day and year aforesaid, IN ADDITION to the duties heretofore imposed by law on the articles hereinafter mentioned and provided for in this section, there shall be levied, collected, and paid, on the goods, wares, and merchandise herein enumerated, imported from foreign countries, the following duties and rates of duty, that is to say:

428. On jute, Sisal grass, sun hemp, coir, and other vegetable substances not enumerated, (except flax, tow of flax, Russia and manilla hemp, (288, 289) and codilla or tow of hemp,) five dollars per ton; (16.) 429. On jute butts, one dollar per ton; (16.)

430. *

Provided, That all hemp, or preparations of hemp, used for naval purposes by the government of the United States, shall be of American growth or manufacture: Provided further, That the same can be obtained of as good quality and at as low a price.

SEC. 13. From and after the day and year aforesaid, IN ADDITION to the duties heretofore imposed by law on the articles hereinafter mentioned, there shall be levied, collected, and paid, on the goods, wares, and merchandise enumerated and provided for in this section, imported from foreign countries, a duty of FIVE PER CENTUM ad valorem, that is to say:

431. Argentine alabalta, or German silver,

tured; (120.)

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432. Articles embroidered with gold, silver, or other metal; (121, 720.) 12 Stat. p. 556. 433. Articles worn by men, women, or children, of whatever material composed, made up, or made wholly or in part by hand, not otherwise

provided for; (122, 579, 725.)

434. Britannia ware; (163.)

435. Baskets, and all other articles composed of grass, ozier, palm leaf, straw, whalebone, or willow, not otherwise provided for; (125.)

12 Rtat. p. 556,

12 Stat. p. 557.

436. Bracelets, braids, chains, curls, or ringlets composed of hair, or of which hair is a component material; (128.)

437. Braces, suspenders, webbing, or other fabrics composed wholly or in part of India-rubber, not otherwise provided for; (104, 129, 300, 720, 726.)

438. Brooms

of all kinds; (130.)

439. Canes and sticks for walking, finished or unfinished; (132.) 440. Capers, pickles, and sauces of all kinds, not otherwise provided for; (133, 711.)

441. Caps, hats, muffs, and tippets of fur, and all other manufactures of fur, or of which fur shall be a component material; (134, 720, 725.)

442. Caps, gloves, leggings, mits, socks, stockings, wove shirts and drawers, and all similar articles made on frames, of whatever material composed, worn by men, women, and children, and not otherwise provided for; (135, 720, 721, 725.)

443. Card cases, pocket-books, shell boxes, souvenirs, and all similar articles, of whatever material composed; (136.)

444. Carriages and parts of carriages; (137.)

445. Clocks and parts of clocks; (138.)

446. Clothing, ready made, and wearing apparel of whatever description, of whatever material composed, except wool, made up or manufactured wholly or in part by the tailor, seamstress, or manufacturer; (139, 721, 725.)

447. Coach and harness furniture of all kinds, saddlery, coach and harness hardware, silver plated, brass plated, or covered, common tinned, burnished, or japanned, not otherwise provided for; (140.)

448. Combs of all kinds; (141.)

449. Compositions of glass or paste, when set; (117.)

450. Composition tops for tables, or other articles of furniture; (142.) 451. Sweetmeats, or fruits preserved in sugar, brandy, or molasses, not otherwise provided for; (143, 711.)

452. Court plaster; (145.)

453. Cutlery of all kinds; (147, 559.)

454. Dolls

* of all kinds; (148.)

455. Encaustic tiles; (149.)

456. Epaulets, galloons, laces, knots, stars, tassels, tresses, and wings, of gold, silver, or other metal: (150.)

457. Fans and fire-screens of every description, of whatever material composed; (151.)

458. Frames and sticks for umbrellas, parasols, and sunshades, finished or unfinished; (152.)

459. Furniture, cabinet and household; (153.)

460. Hair pencils; (154.)

461. Hat bodies of cotton [or wool, or of which wool is the component material of chief value;] (81, 155, 720, 721.)

462. Hair-cloth, bair seatings, and all other manufactures of hair, not otherwise provided for; (117.)

463. Ink, printers' ink, and ink powder; (157.)

464. Japanned, patent or enamelled leather, or skins of all kinds; (158.)

465. Jet and manufactures of jet, and imitations thereof; (160.) 466. Leather, tanned, of all descriptions; (84, 85, 105, 298, 719.) 467. Maccaroni, vermicelli, gelatine, * and all similar preparations; (161.)

468. Manufactures of bone, shell, horn, ivory, or vegetable ivory; (162.)

Duties on manufactures of gold, silver, German silver, and platina are provided for by act of 1864. (See 618.)

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