Effects, personal and wearing apparel, in

actual use, not merchandise,
professional books, implements,
instruments and tools of trade,
occupation, or employment of
persons arriving in the United
States. PROVIDED, that this
exemption shall not include
machinery or other articles to
be used in any manufacturing
establishment or for sale*

Effects, household, books, libraries, or
parts of libraries, in use of per-
sons or families from foreign
countries, if used abroad by
them not less than one year,
and not intended for any other
person or persons, nor for sale†

Effervescent preparations, granulated
Eggs

silkworm

"Duty must be demanded on all watches, but one, brought by a single passenger." "Household effects to be entitled to entry free of duty should be in use abroad for more than one year, and arrive with owner, or within a reasonable time before or after his arrival. Five or six months cannot be considered a reasonable time.”

"It has been the practice to classify under these sections (paragraphs 100 and 385) such goods as are commercially own as “embroideries," and not manufactures of any material, to which some embroidery may be added.”

*This includes coloured engravings; also "paper slipper patterns consisting of small sheets of paper with lines engraved "thereon, at equal distances, upon which are impressed in colours the heads of animals ;" also lithographs coloured in oil.

"Palm leaf fans, is a fan made from the leaf of the palm tree, the natural stem of the leaf being the handle, and the lea bound to prevent creaking and breaking. Those having artificial handles of wood, bone, &c., with cords and tassels and to the leaves by means of rivets, pay as other fans."

† Coloured fashion plates, inclosed in illustrated magazines, but separate from the magazines, are entitled to free entry this clause, the magazines being liable to 25 per centum ad valorem, as illustrated papers.