* "Articles imported as presents,' other than such as are exempted by law from duty, are liable to de

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waste rope and waste bagging,
fit only for the manufacture of
paper
other than wool, paper stock, crude,
of every description, including all
grasses, fibres, waste, shavings,
clippings, old paper, rope ends,
waste rope, waste bagging, gunny
bags and gunny cloth, old or
refuse, to be used in making and
fit only to be converted into
paper, and unfit for any other
manufacture, and cotton waste,
whether for paper stock or other
purposes

Free.

Free.

Forty per cent. of woollen rags, in bundles of rags for the manufacture of paper, is too large a proportion free of duty. The importer should, where no evidence of fraud appears, be made to separate the free from the . entry."

package weighing (say) 10 cwt. would therefore be liable to a duty of 281. in English currency.

Wrought iron fish plates, fish joints or splice bars should be classified by assimilation, by virtue of section 20, Act of 30, 1842, as wrought iron railroad chairs at 2 cents per lb.; all spikes and bolts for like use, at two and one-half cents

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