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610. On porcelain and Bohemian glass, glass crystals for watches, 13 Stat. p. 211. paintings on glass or glasses, pebbles for spectacles, and all manufactures of glass, or of which glass shall be a component material, not otherwise provided for, and all glass bottles or jars filled with sweetmeats or preserves, not otherwise provided for, forty per centum ad valorem.

SEC. 10. On and after the day and year aforesaid, IN LIEU of the duties heretofore imposed by law the articles hereinafter mentioned, 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:

611. First: On annatto seed, extract of annatto, nitrate of barytes, carmined indigo, crude tica, extract of safflower, finishing powder, gold size and patent size, cobalt, oxide of cobalt, smalt, zaffre, and terra alba, twenty per centum ad valorem; on nickel, fifteen per centum ad valorem.

612. Second: On albumen, asbestos, asphaltum, (706,) crocus colcottra, blue or Roman vitriol or sulphate of copper, bone or ivory drop black, murexide, ultramarine, Indian red, and Spanish brown, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

13 Stat. p. 211.

SEC. 11. On and after the day and year aforesaid, IN LIEU of 18 Stat. p. 211. the duties heretofore imposed by law on the articles hereinafter mentioned, there shall be levied and 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:

613. On acetic acid, acetous or concentrated vinegar, or pyroligneous 18 Stat. p. 212 acid, exceeding the specific gravity of 1.040, eighty cents per pound; not exceeding the specific gravity of 1.040, known as number eight, twentyfive cents per pound.

614. On acetate or pyrolignate of ammonia, seventy cents per pound; of baryta, forty cents per pound; of iron, (40,) strontia, and zinc, fifty cents per pound; of lead, twenty cents per pound; of magnesia and soda, fifty cents per pound; of lime, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

615. On analine dyes, one dollar per pound and thirty-five per centum ad valorem.

616. On blanc fixe, enamelled white, satin white, lime white, and all combinations of barytes with acids or water, three cents per pound,; on carmine lake, dry or liquid, thirty-five per centum ad valorem ; on French green, Paris green, mineral green, mineral blue, and Prussian blue, dry or moist, thirty per centum ad valorem.

617. On almonds, six cents per pound; shelled, ten cents per pound. 618. On 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, forty per centum ad valorem.

619. On antimony, crude, and regulus of antimony, ten per centum ad valorem.

620. On opium, two dollars and fifty cents per pound.

621. On opium prepared for smoking, and the extract of opium, one hundred per centum ad valorem.

622. On morphine and its salts, two dollars and fifty cents per ounce. 623. On arrowroot, thirty per centum ad valorem.

624. On brimstone, crude, six dollars per ton.

625. On brimstone in rolls, or refined, ten dollars per ton.

626. On castor beans or seeds per bushel of fifty pounds, sixty cents.

627. On chiccory root, four cents per pound; ground, burnt, or prepared, five cents per pound.

628. On cassia, twenty cents per pound.

629. On cassia buds, and ground cassia, twenty-five cents per pound.

13 Stat. p. 212.

18 Stat. p. 213.

630. On cinnamon, thirty cents per pound.
631. On chloroform, one dollar per pound.

632. On collodion and ethers of all kinds, not otherwise provided for, and ethereal preparations or extracts, fluid, one dollar per pound.

633. On cologne water and other perfumery, of which alcohol forms the principal ingredient, three dollars per gallon, and fifty per cent. ad valorem.

(711.)

634. On cloves, twenty cents per pound; on clove stems, ten cents per pound.

635. On fusel oil, or amylic alcohol, two dollars per gallon.

636. On Hoffman's anodyne and spirits of nitric ether, fifty cents per pound.

637. On bristles, fifteen cents per pound; on hogs' hair, one cent per pound; on istle, or Tampico fibre, one cent per pound.

638. On brushes of all kinds, forty per centum ad valorem.

639. On honey, twenty cents per gallon.

640. On lead, white or red, and litharge, dry or ground in oil, three cents per pound.

641. On percussion caps, forty per centum ad valorem.

642. On lemons, oranges, pine-apples, plantains, cocoa-nuts, and fruits preserved in their own juice, and fruit juice, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

643. On licorice root, two cents per pound; on licorice paste or licorice in rolls, ten cents per pound.

644. On nutmegs, fifty cents per pound.

645. On mace, forty cents per pound.

646. On oils, croton, one dollar per pound; olive, in flasks or bottles, and salad, one dollar per gallon; castor, one dollar per gallon; cloves, two dollars per pound; cognac or œnanthic ether, four dollars per ounce. (711.)

647. On peanuts or ground beans, one cent per pound; shelled, one and a half cents per pound.

648. On filberts and walnuts, of all kinds, three cents per pound.

649. On pimento, and black, white, and red or cayenne pepper, fifteen cents per pound; on ground pimento and pepper of all kinds, eighteen cents per pound.

650. On spirits of turpentine, thirty cents per gallon.

651. On sulphur, flour of, twenty dollars per ton, and fifteen per cent. ad valorem.

652. On tannin, and tannic acid, two dollars per pound; on gallic acid, one dollar and fifty cents per pound.

653. On santonine, five dollars per pound.

654. On salt in sacks, barrels, and other packages, twenty-four cents per one hundred pounds. On salt in bulk, eighteen cents per one hundred pounds.

per ounce.

655. On crude saltpeter, [salpetre,] two and one half cents per pound.
656. On strychnine and its salts, one dollar and one half
657. On taggers' iron, thirty per centum ad valorem.
658. On vinegar, ten cents per gallon.

659. On watches, gold or silver, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. 660. On wood pencils, filled with lead or other materials, fifty cents per gross, and, in addition thereto thirty per centum ad valorem. (419.) 661. On ostrich, vulture, cock, and other ornamental feathers, crude or not dressed, colored or manufactured, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; when dressed, colored, or manufactured, fifty per centum ad valorem.

662. On playing-cards, costing not over twenty-five cents per pack, twenty-five cents per pack; costing over twenty-five cents per pack, thirty-five cents per pack.

SEC. 12. On and after the day and year aforesaid there shall be 18 Stat. p. 218 levied, collected, and paid a duty of FIFTY PER CENTUM ad valorem

on the importation of the articles hereinafter mentioned and embraced in this section, that is to say:

663. Anchovies and sardines, preserved in oil or otherwise.

664. Artificial and ornamental feathers and flowers, or parts thereof, of whatever material composed, not otherwise provided for, beads and bead ornaments.

665. Billiard-chalk.

666. Ginger, preserved or pickled.

667. Ivory or bone dice, draughts, chess-men, chess-balls, and bagatelle-balls.

668. Jellies of all kinds.

669. On kid or other leather gloves of all descriptions, for men's, women's, or children's wear.

670. On wooden and other toys for children.

SEC. 13. On and after the day and year aforesaid, IN LIEU of the 13 Stat. p. 213. 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, the following duties and rates of duty, that is to say:

671. On. books, periodicals, pamphlets, blank-books, bound or unbound, and all printed matter, engravings, bound or unbound, illustrated books and papers, and maps and charts, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

672. On cork, bark or wood, unmanufactured, thirty per centum ad 18 Stat. p. 214. valorem.

673. On corks, and cork bark manufactured, fifty per centum ad valorem.

674. On hatters' furs, not on the skin, and dressed furs on the skin, twenty per centum ad valorem; furs on the skin, undressed, ten per centum ad valorem.

675. On fire-crackers, one dollar per box of forty packs, not exceeding eighty to each pack, and in the same proportion for any greater

number.

676. On gutta-percha, manufactured, forty per centum ad valorem.

677. On gunpowder and all explosive substances used for mining, blasting, artillery, or sporting purposes, when valued at twenty cents or less per pound, a duty of six cents per pound, and, in addition thereto, twenty per centum ad valorem; valued above twenty cents per pound, a duty of ten cents per pound, and, in addition thereto, twenty per centum ad valorem.

678. On marble, white statuary, brocatella, sienna, and verd-antique, in block, rough or squared, one dollar per cubic foot, and, in addition thereto, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; on veined marble and marble of all other descriptions, not otherwise provided for, in block, rough or squared, fifty cents per cubic foot, and, in addition thereto, twenty per centum ad valorem.

679. On mineral or medicinal waters, or waters from springs impregnated with minerals, for each bottle or jug containing not more than one quart, three cents, and, in addition thereto, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; containing more than one quart, three cents for each additional quart, or fractional part thereof, and, in addition thereto, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

680. On palm-leaf fans, one cent each.

681. On pipes, clay, common or white, thirty-five per centum ad valorem.

682. On meerschaum, wood, porcelain, lava, and all other tobaccosmoking pipes and pipe-bowls, not herein otherwise provided for, one

13 Stat. p. 214. dollar and fifty cents per gross, and, in addition thereto, seventy-five per centum ad valorem.

18 Stat. p. 215.

13 Stat. p. 216.

13 Stat. p. 216.

13 Stat. p. 216.

13 Stat. p. 216.

683. On pipe-cases, pipe-stems, tips, mouthpieces, and metallic mountings for pipes, and all parts of pipes or pipe fixtures, and all smokers' articles, seventy-five per centum ad valorem.

684. On pen-tips and penholders, or parts thereof, thirty-five per centum ad valorem.

685. On pens, metallic, ten cents per gross, and, in addition thereto, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

686. On soap, fancy, perfumed, honey, transparent, and all descriptions of toilet and shaving soap, ten cents per pound, and, in addition thereto, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

687. On all soap, not otherwise provided for, one cent per pound, and, in addition thereto, thirty per centum ad valorem.

688. On starch, made of potatoes or corn, one cent per pound, and twenty per centum ad valorem.

689. On starch, made of rice, or any other material, three cents per pound, and twenty per centum ad valorem.

690. On rice, cleaned, two and a half cents per pound; on uncleaned, two cents per pound.

691. On paddy, one cent and a half per pound.

692. SEC. 17. A discriminating duty of ten per centum ad valorem, IN ADDITION to the duties imposed by law, shall be levied, collected, and paid on all goods, wares, and merchandise which, on and after the day this act shall take effect, shall be imported in ships or vessels not of the United States: Provided, That this discriminating duty shall not apply to goods, wares, and merchandise which shall be imported on and after the day this act takes effect, in ships or vessels not of the United States, entitled, by treaty or any act or acts of Congress, to be entered in the ports of the United States on payment of the same duties as shall then be paid on goods, wares, and merchandise imported in ships or vessels of the United States.

693. [SEC. 18. On and after the day and year this act shall take effect there shall be levied, collected, and paid on all goods, wares, and merchandise of the growth or produce of countries east of the Cape of Good Hope, (except raw cotton,) when imported from places west of the Cape of Good Hope, a duty of ten per centum ad valorem, in addition to the duties imposed on any such articles when imported directly from the place or places of their growth or production: Provided, That section three of the act approved August five, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, entitled " An act to provide increased revenue from imports, to pay interest on the public debt, and for other purposes," and section fourteen of the act approved July fourteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled "An act increasing temporarily the rates of duties on imports, and for other purposes," be, and the same are hereby repealed.] (708.)

694. SEC. 19. All goods, wares, and merchandise which may be in the public stores or bonded warehouses on the day and year this act shall take effect shall be subjected to no other duty upon the entry thereof for consumption than if the same were imported respectively after that day, and so much of the act of August sixth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, or any other act, as requires the sale of fire-crackers, or prohibits their deposit in bonded warehouse, is hereby repealed.

695. SEC. 20. The joint resolution "to increase temporarily the duties on imports," approved April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixtyfour, shall not be deemed to have taken effect until after the thirtieth day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and shall be and remain in force until and including the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixtyfour, and any duties which shall have been exacted and received contrary to the provisions of this section, shall be refunded by the Secretary of the Treasury. (700, 701.)

696. SEC. 22. That all acts and parts of acts repugnant to the provisions of this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed.

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697. And provided further, That the duties upon all goods, wares, and merchandise imported from foreign countries not provided for in this act shall be and remain as they were, according to existing laws prior to the twenty-ninth of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. (2, 275.)

698. SEC. 25. So much of section twenty-three of the act entitled "An 13 Stat. p. act to provide for the payment of outstanding treasury notes, to authorize a loan, to regulate and fix the duties on imports, and for other purpo-es," approved March two, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, as exempts from duty all philosophical apparatus and instruments imported for the use of any society incorporated for philosophical, literary, or religious purposes, or for the encouragement of the fine arts, or for the use, or by the order of any college, academy, school, or seminary of learning in the United States, is hereby repealed. And the same shall be subject to a duty of fifteen per centum ad valorem.

699. SEC. 26. When any cask, barrel, carboy, or other vessel of American manufacture, exported or sent out of the country, filled with the products of the United States, shall be returned to the United States empty, the same shall be admitted free of duty, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. 713.)

RESOLUTION OF APRIL 29, 1864.

(226,

[No. 27.] Joint Resolution to increase temporarily the Duties on Imports. 700. Resolved, &c. That until the end of sixty days from the passage of this resolution, fifty per cent. of the rates of duties and imposts now imposed by law on all goods, wares, merchandise, and articles imported, shall be added to the present duties and imposts now charged on the importation of such articles: Provided, That printing paper unsized, used for books and newspapers exclusively, shall be exempt from the operation of this resolution. (501, 695, 701.)

RESOLUTION of June 27, 1864.

[No. 49.] Joint Resolution to continue in Force the Joint Resolution entitled, "Joint Resolution to increase temporarily the Duties on Imports," approved April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.

701. Be it resolved, &c. That the joint resolution increasing the duties on imports, approved April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, be, and is hereby, continued in force until the first day of July next. (700, 695.)

CHAP. LXXX.

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ACT OF MARCH 3, 1865.

-An Act amendatory of certain Acts imposing Duties upon Foreign
Importations.

Be it enacted, &c. That section six of an act entitled "An act to increase the duties on imports, and for other purposes, approved June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, be amended, so that paragraphs second, third, and fourth, of section six of said act, shall read as follows:

217.

13 Stat. p. 217.

Stat. at Large, Vol. XIII. p. 405.

Stat. at Large Vol. XIII. p. 411.

Stat. at Large Vol. XIII. p. 491.

702. Second: On all manufactures of cotton, (except jeans, denims, 13 Stat. p. 492. drillings, bed-tickings, ginghams, plaids, cottonades, pantaloon stuff, and goods of like description,) not bleached, colored, stained, painted, or printed, and not exceeding one hundred threads to the square inch, counting the warp and filling, and exceeding in weight five ounces per square yard, five cents per square yard; if bleached, five cents and a half per square yard; if colored, stained, painted, or printed, five cents and a half

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