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129. Screws of any other metal than iron, and all other screws of iron except wood screws: 35 per centum ad valorem.

130. Vessels of cast-iron, not otherwise provided for, and on andirons, sadirons, tailors' and hatters' irons, stoves and stove-plates, of cast iron: 1 cents per pound.

131. Cast-iron steam, gas, and water pipes: 1 cents per pound

132. Cast-iron butts and hinges: 2 cents per pound.

133. Hollow-ware, glazed or tinned: 34 cents per pound.

134. Cast scrap-iron of every description: $6 per ton.

135: Wrought scrap-iron of every description: $8 per ton. But nothing shall be deemed scrap-iron except waste or refuse iron that has been in actual use, and is fit only to be remanufactured.

136. All other castings of iron, not otherwise provided for: 30 per centum ad valorem.

137. Taggers' iron: 30 per centum ad valorem.

138. Steel, in ingots, bars, coils, sheets, and steel wire, not less than onefourth of an inch in diameter, valued at seven cents per pound or less: 24 cents per pound; valued at above seven cents and not above eleven cents a pound: 3 cents per pound; valued at above eleven cents a pound: 3 cents per pound, and 10 per centum ad valorem.

139. Steel wire less than one-fourth of an inch in diameter and not less than number sixteen, wire gauge: 2 cents per pound, and in addition thereto 20 per centum ad valorem ; less or finer than number sixteen, wire-gauge: 3 cents per pound, and in addition thereto 20 per centum ad valorem.

140. Steel, commercially known as crinoline, corset, and hat steel wire: 9 cents per pound and 10 per cent ad valorem.

141. Steel, in any form, not otherwise provided for: 30 per centum ad valorem. Provided, That no allowance or reduction of duties for partial loss or damage shall be hereafter made in consequence of rust of iron or steel or upon the manufacture of iron or steel, except on polished Russia sheet iron.

142. Cross-cut saws 10 cents per lineal foot.

143. On mill, pit, and drag saws, not over nine inches wide: 12 cents per lineal foot; over nine inches wide: 20 cents per lineal foot.

144. Lead in sheets, pipes, or shot: 23 cents per pound.

145. Lead ore 14 cents per pound.

146. Lead in pigs and bars: 2 cents per pound.

147. Old scrap-lead, fit only to be remanufactured: 14 cents per pound.

148. Zinc, spelter or tutenegue, manufactured in blocks or pigs : 1 cents per pound.

149. Zinc, spelter, tutenegue in sheets: 24 cents per pound.

150. Iron and tin plates galvanized or coated with any metal by electric batteries : 2 cents per pound.

151. Iron and tin plates galvanized or coated with any metal otherwise than by electric batteries: 2 cents per pound.

152. Copper imported in the form of ores: 3 cents on each pound of fine copper contained therein.

153. Regulus of copper, and on all black or coarse copper : 4 cents on each pound of fine copper contained therein.

154. Old copper, fit only for remanufacture: 4 cents per pound.

155. Copper in plates, bars, ingots, pigs, and in other forms not manufactured or here enumerated: 5 cents per pound.

156. Copper in rolled plates called braziers' copper, sheets, rods, pipes, and copper bottoms, and all manufactures of copper, or of which copper shall be a component of chief value. not otherwise provided for: 45 per centum ad valorem.

157. Sheathing or yellow metal not wholly of copper, nor wholly nor in part of tin, ungalvanized, in sheets forty-eight inches long and fourteen inches. wide, and weighing from fourteen to thirty-four ounces per square foot: 3 cents per pound.

158. Nickel 30 cents per pound.

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169. Nickel oxide and alloy of nickel with copper: 20 cents per pound.

160. Gold leaf: $1.50 per package of five hundred leaves. Silver leaf: 75 cents per package of five hundred leaves.

161. Argentine, alabatta or German silver, unmanufactured: 35 per centum ad valorem.

162. Brass in bars or pigs, and old brass, fit only to be remanufactured: 15 per centum ad valorem.

163. Dutch and bronze metal in leaf: 10 per centum ad valorem.

164. Articles, not otherwise provided for, made of gold, silver, German silver or platina, or of which either of these metals shall be a component part: 40 per centum ad valorem.

165. Silver plated metal, in sheets or other form: 35 per centum ad valorem. 166. Manufactures, articles, vessels and wares, not otherwise provided for, of brass, iron, lead, pewter and tin, or other metal (except gold, silver, platina, copper and steel), or of which either of these metals shall be the component material of chief value: 35 per centum ad valorem.

167. Metals, unmanufactured, not otherwise provided for: 20 per centum ad valorem.

SCHEDULE F.-PROVISIONS.

169. Beef and pork: 1 cent per pound; Hams and bacon: 2 cents per pound; Cheese: 4 cents per pound; Wheat: 20 cents per bushel; Butter: 4 cents per pound; Lard: 2 cents per pound; Rye and Barley: 15 cents per bushel; Indian corn c maize: 10 cents per bushel; Oats: 10 cents per bushel.

170. Fish-mackerel : $2.00 a barrel; herrings, pickled or salted: $1.00 per barrel; pickled salmon: $3.00 per barrel; all other fish pickled in barrels : $1.50 per barrel; all other foreign caught fish imported otherwise than in barrels or half-barrels, or whether fresh, smoked or dried, salted or pickled, not otherwise provided for: 50 cents per hundred pounds.

171. Salmon, preserved: 30 per centum ad valorem.

173. Fish preserved in oil, except anchovies and sardines: 30 per centum ad valorem.

174. Cornmeal: 10 per centum ad valorem.

175. Oatmeal cent per pound.

176. Rye flour: 10 per centum ad valorem.

177. Rice cleaned, 2 cents per pound; on uncleaned, 2 cents per pound. 178. On paddy: 13 cents per pound.

179. Capers, pickles and sauces of all kinds, not otherwise provided for: 35

per centum ad valorem.

180. Catsup: 40 per centum ad valorem.

181. Preserved or condensed milk: 20 per centum ad valorem.

182. Potatoes: 15 cents per bushel.

183. Vegetables, not otherwise provided for: 10 per centum ad valorem. 184. Prepared vegetables, meats, fish, poultry, and game, sealed or unsealed, in cans or otherwise: 35 per centum ad valorem.

185. Vinegar 10 cents per gallon.

[NOTE. The omission, in the original Tariff Act, of so important an article of commerce as wheat flour from the schedule of provisions, has been frequently

remarked upon, and it seems strange that this omission has never since been supplied in the schedule. But the case is covered by section 2,516 of the Revised Statutes (given at the end of this chapter), which enacts that all articles unenumerated, manufactured in whole or in part, shall pay 20 per cent.]

SCHEDULE G.-SUGARS.

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186. Sugar not above number seven, Dutch standard in colour, 12 cents
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187. Sugar above number seven, and not above number ten, Dutch
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188. Sugar above number ten, and not above number thirteen, Dutch
standard in colour, 2 cents per pound, and 25 per cent. of that
added
189. Sugar above number thirteen, and not above number sixteen,
Dutch standard in colour, 2 cents per pound, and 25 per cent.
of that added
190. Sugar above number sixteen, and not above number twenty,
standard in colour, 3 cents per pound, and 25 per cent. of that
added
191. Sugar above number twenty, Dutch standard in colour, and on all
refined loaf, lump, crushed, powdered, and granulated sugar, 4
cents per pound, and 25 per cent. of that added. But syrup of
sugar, syrup of sugar-cane juice, melado, concentrated melado,
or concentrated molasses, entered under the name of molasses,
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192. Sugar-candy, not coloured, 10 cents per pound.
193. All other confectionery, not otherwise provided for, made wholly
or in part of sugar, and on sugars after being refined, when tinc
tured, coloured, or in any way adulterated, valued at thirty cents
per pound or less, 15 cents per pound.

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

195. Molasses, 5 cents per gallon, and 25 per centum of that added

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SCHEDULE H.-SILK AND SILK GOODS.

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201. Silk twist, twist composed of mohair and silk: 40 per centum ad valorem.

202. Dress and piece silks, ribbons, and silk velvets, or velvets of which silk is the component material of chief value: 60 per centum ad valorem.

203. Silk vestings, pongees, shawls, scarfs, mantillas, pelerines, handkerchiefs, veils, laces, shirts, drawers, bonnets, hats, caps, turbans, chemisettes, hose, mitts, aprons, stockings, gloves, suspenders, watch-chains, webbing, braids, fringes, galloons, tassels, cords, and trimmings, and ready-made clothing of silk, or or which silk is a component material of chief value: 60 per centum ad valorem.

204. Buttons and ornaments for dresses and outside garments made of silk,

or of which silk is the component material of chief value, and containing no wool, worsted, or goat's hair: 50 per centum ad valorem.

205. Manufactures of silks, or of which silk is the component material of chief value, not otherwise provided for: 50 per centum ad valorem.

SCHEDULE I.-SPICES.

206. Pimento, and black, white and red or cayenne pepper: 5 cents per pound. 207. Ground pimento, and ground pepper of all kinds : 10 cents per pound. 208. Cinnamon : 20 cents per pound. Mace: 25 cents per pound. Nutmegs: 20 cents per pound. Cloves: 5 cents per pound. Clove-stems: 3 cents per pound. Cassia and cassia-vera: 10 cents per pound. Cassia buds and cassia (ground): 20 cents per pound.

209. All other spices: 20 cents per pound; ground or prepared: 30 cents per pound.

210. Ginger ground, 3 cents per pound.

211. Ginger, preserved or pickled: 35 per centum ad valorem.

212. Essence of ginger: 35 per centum ad valorem.

SCHEDULE J.-TOBACCO.

213. Cigars, cigarettes, and cheroots of all kinds: $2.50 cts. per pound, and in addition thereto 25 per centum ad valorem. But paper cigars and cigarettes, including wrappers, shall be subject to the same duties as are herein imposed upon cigars.

214. Tobacco in leaf, unmanufactured and not stemmed: 35 cents per pound.

215. Tobacco stems: 15 cents per pound.

216. Tobacco manufactured of all descriptions, and stemmed tobacco not otherwise provided for: 50 cents per pound.

217. Snuff and snuff flour, manufactured of tobacco, ground, dry, or damp, and pickled, scented, or otherwise, of all descriptions: 50 cents per pound.

218. Unmanufactured tobacco, not otherwise provided for: 30 per centum ad valorem.

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SCHEDULE K.-WOOD.

219. Timber, hewn or sawed; timber used in building wharves, and spars: per centum ad valorem.

220. Timber, squared or sided, not otherwise provided for: 1 cent per cubic foot.

221. Sawed boards, plank, deals and other lumber of hemlock, white-wood, sycamore, and bass-wood: $1 per thousand feet, board-measure.

222. All other varieties of sawed lumber, $2 per thousand feet, boardmeasure. 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, 50 cents per thousand feet; and if planed on one side and tongued and grooved, $1 per thousand feet; and i planed on two sides and tongued and grooved, $1.50 cents per thousand feet.

223. Hubs for wheels, last-blocks, waggon-blocks, oar-blocks, gun-blocks, heading-blocks, and all like blocks or sticks, rough-hewn or sawed only: 20 per centum ad valorem.

224. Staves for pipes, hogsheads, and other casks; ten per centum ad valorem

225. Staves not otherwise provided for: twenty per centum ad valorem 226. Pickets and palings: twenty per centum ad valorem.

227. Laths: 15 cents per thousand pieces.

228. Shingles: thirty-five cents per thousand.

229. Pine clapboards; $2 per thousand.

230. Spruce clapboards: $1.50 cents per thousand.

231. House or cabinet furniture, in pieces or rough, and not finished: 30 per centum ad valorem.

232. Cabinet wares and house furniture, finished: 35 per centum ad valorem. 233. Casks and barrels, empty, sugar-box shooks and packing-boxes of wood, not otherwise provided for: 30 per centum ad valorem.

234. Manufactures of cedar-wood, granadilla, ebony, mahogany, rose-wood, and satin-wood: 35 per centum ad valorem; manufactures of wood, or of which wood is the chief component part, not otherwise provided for: 35 per centum ad valorem.

235. Wood unmanufactured, not otherwise provided for: 20 per centum ad valorem.

SCHEDULE L.-WOOL AND WOOLLEN GOODS.

236. All wools, hair of the alpaca, goat, and other like animals, shall be divided, for the purpose of fixing the duties to be charged thereon, into the three following classes:

CLASS 1.-CLOTHING-WOOL.

237. That is to say, merino, mestiza, metz or metis wools, or other wools of merino blood, immediate or remote; down clothing-wools, and wools of like character with any of the preceding, including such as have been heretofore usually imported into the United States from Buenos Ayres, New Zealand, Australia, Cape of Good Hope, Russia, Great Britain, Canada, and elsewhere, and also including all wools, not hereinafter described or designated in classes two and three.

CLASS 2.-COMBING WOOLS.

238. That is to say, Leicester, Cotswold, Lincolnshire, down combing-wools Canada long wools, or other like combing-wools of English blood, and usually known by the terms herein used; and also all hair of the alpaca, goat, and other like animals.

CLASS 3.-CARPET WOOLS AND OTHER SIMILAR WOOLS.

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239, Such as Donskoi, native South American, Cordova, Valparaiso, native Smyrna, and including all such wools of like character as have been heretofore usually imported into the United States from Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Syria, and elsewhere. The duty upon wool of the first class which shall be imported washed, shall be twice the amount of the duty to which it should be subjected, if imported unwashed.

240. And the duty upon wool of all classes which shall be imported scoured, shall be three times the duty to which it would be subjected if it be imported unwashed. And the duty upon wool of the sheep, or hair of the alpaca, goat and other like animals, which shall be imported in any other than the ordinary condition as now and heretofore practised, or which shall be changed in its character or condition, for the purpose of evading the duty, or which shall be

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