per cent of the duties now imposed upon wire-rope, &c.;

From August 1, cepting percussion caps, watches, jewelry, and other articles of ornament: 1872, rates of du- Provided, That all wire-rope and wire strand or chain made of iron-wire, ty to be ninety either bright, coppered, galvanized, or coated with other metals, shall pay the same rate of duty that is now levied on the iron wire of which said rope or strand or chain is made; and all wire-rope and wire strand or chain made of steel wire, either bright, coppered, galvanized, or coated with other metals, shall pay the same rate of duty that is now levied on the steel wire of which said rope or strand or chain is made.

paper, &c., except, &c., books, &c.;

india-rubber,

&c., and oil

cloths;

glass and glass

ware;

leather, &c.;

liquorice paste, &c.

Ten per cent

ad valorem additional duty after October 1, 1872, on certain goods, the produce of countries east of

On all paper, and manufactures of paper, excepting unsized printing paper, books and other printed matter, not herein specifically provided

for.

On all manufactures of India rubber, gutta-percha, or straw, and on oilcloths of all descriptions.

On glass and glassware, and on unwrought pipe-clay, fine clay, and fuller's earth.

On all leather not otherwise herein provided for, and on all manufactures of skins, bone, ivory, horn, and leather, except gloves and mittens, and of which either of said articles is the component part of chief value; and on liquorice paste or liquorice juice.

SEC. 3. That on and after the first day of October next there shall be collected and paid on all goods, wares, and merchandise of the growth or produce of countries east of the Cape of Good Hope (except wool, raw cotton, and raw silk as reeled from the cocoon, or not further advanced than tram, thrown, or organzine), when imported from places west of the Cape of Good Hope, a duty of ten per centum ad valorem, in addition to Hope, when, &c. the duties imposed on any such article when imported directly from the place or places of their growth or production.

the Cape of Good

Duties in lieu

from August 1st, 1872, upon

SEC. 4. That on and after the first day of August, eighteen hundred of former duties and seventy-two, in lieu of the duties heretofore imposed by law on the articles mentioned in this section, there shall be levied, collected, and paid on the goods, wares, and merchandise in this section enumerated, imported from foreign countries, the following duties and rates of duty, that is to say:

manufactures of flax, &c.;

On all burlaps, and like manufactures of flax, jute, or hemp, or of which flax, jute, or hemp shall be the component material of chief value, excepting such as may be suitable for bagging for cotton, thirty per floor-cloth can- centum ad valorem; on all oil-cloth foundations or floor-cloth canvas, vas, cotton-bags, &c.; made of flax, jute, or hemp, or of which flax, jute, or hemp shall be the component material of chief value, forty per centum ad valorem; on all bags, cotton bags, and bagging, and all other like manufactures, not herein otherwise provided for, except bagging for cotton, composed wholly or in part of flax, hemp, jute, gunny-cloth, gunny-bags, or other material, forty per centum ad valorem.

insulators in telegraphy, except, &c.; bouillons, &c.;

emery;

corks, &c.;

acids;

acetates.

On insulators for use exclusively in telegraphy, except those made of glass, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

On bouillons or cannetille, and metal threads, filé or gespinst, twentyfive per centum ad valorem.

On emery ore, six dollars a ton; and on emery grains, two cents a pound.

On corks and cork bark, manufactured, thirty per centum ad valorem. On acids, namely, acetic, acetous, and pyroligneous of specific gravity of 1.047, or less, five cents per pound; acetic, acetous, and pyroligneous of specific gravity over 1.047, thirty cents per pound; carbolic, liquid, ten per centum ad valorem; gallic, one dollar per pound; sulphuric, fuming (Nordhausen), one cent per pound; tannic, one dollar per pound; tartaric, fifteen cents per pound.

On acetates of ammonia, twenty-five cents per pound; baryta, twentyfive cents per pound; copper, ten cents per pound; iron, twenty-five cents per pound; lead, brown, five cents per pound; white, ten cents per pound;

potassa, twenty-five cents per pound; soda, twenty-five cents per Customs duties pound; strontia, twenty-five cents per pound; zinc, twenty-five cents per on

On sulphate of quinine, twenty per centum ad valorem ;

On chlorate of potash, three cents per pound;

On Rochelle salts, five cents per pound;

On sal-soda, and soda-ash, one-fourth of one cent per pound;

On santonine, three dollars per pound;

On strychnia, one dollar per ounce ;

On bay-rum or bay-water, whether distilled or compounded, one dollar per gallon of first proof, and in proportion for any greater strength than first proof.

On rum essence or oil, and bay-rum essence or oil, fifty cents per ounce. On all sized or glued paper, suitable only for printing-paper, twentyfive per centum ad valorem ;

On vermuth, the same duty as on wines of the same cost;

On mustard, ground, in bulk, ten cents per pound; when enclosed in

glass or tin, fourteen cents per pound;

On Zante or other currants, one cent per pound;
On figs, two and one-half cents per pound;

blue vitriol;

camphor;

quinine;

potash; Rochelle salts; sal-soda, &c.; santonine; strychnia; bay-rum, &c.

rum essence; sized paper;

vermuth;

mustard;

currants, figs, raisins, dates, &c.;

On raisins, two and one-half cents per pound;

On dates and prunes one cent per pound;

On preserved or condensed milk, twenty per centum ad valorem ; On fire-crackers, one dollar per box of forty packs, not exceeding fire-crackers; eighty to each pack, and in the same proportion for any greater or less number.

condensed

milk;

On tin, in plates or sheets, terne, and taggers tin, fifteen per centum ad valorem.

tin;

On iron and tin-plates galvanized or coated with any metal by electric iron, &c., batteries, two cents per pound.

plates;

moisic iron;

On Moisic iron, made from sand ore by one process, fifteen dollars per ton. On umbrella and parasol ribs and stretchers, frames, tips, runners, handles, or other parts thereof, when made in whole or chief part of iron, umbrella, &c., steel, or any other metal, a duty of forty-five per centum ad valorem: ribs, &c. Provided, That the rate of duty upon umbrellas, parasols, and sunshades, when covered with silk or alpaca, shall be sixty per centum ad valorem; all other umbrellas shall be forty-five per centum ad valorem ; On saltpetre, crude, one cent per pound; refined and partially refined, two cents per pound.

SEC. 5. That on and after the first day of August next the importation of the articles enumerated and described in this section shall be exempt from duty, that is to say:

Acid, boracic and sulphuric;

Agates, unmanufactured;

Almond shells;

Aluminium, or aluminum;

Amber beads and amber gum;

American manufactures, the following, to wit, casks, barrels, or carboys, and other vessels, and grain-bags, the manufacture of the United States, if exported, containing American produce, and declaration be made of intent to return the same empty, under such regulations as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury;

Angelica root;

Animals brought into the United States temporarily and for a period not exceeding six months, for the purpose of exhibition or competition for prizes offered by any agricultural or racing association: Provided, that boud be first given, in accordance with the regulations to be pre

umbrellas;

saltpetre.

Articles exempt from duty on and after August 1, 1872.

Articles exempt scribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, with the condition that the full
from duty on and duty to which such animals would otherwise be liable shall be paid in
after August 1,
1872.
case of their sale in the United States, or if not re-exported within said
six months;

Annato, roncou, rocou, or orleans, and all extracts of ;
Annatto-seed;

Antimony, ore, and crude sulphuret of;

Aqua fortis;

Argal-dust;

Arseniate of aniline;

Balm of Gilead;

Balsams, viz.: Copavia, fir or Canada, Peru and Tolu;

Bamboo reeds, no further manufactured than cut into suitable lengths for walking-sticks or canes, or for sticks for umbrellas, parasols, or sunshades;

Bamboos, unmanufactured;

Bezoar stones;

Bed feathers and downs;

Birds, stuffed;

Black salts;

Black tares;

Bladders, crude, and all integuments of animals not otherwise provided

for;

Bologna sausages;

Bones, crude and not manufactured; bones, burned, calcined, ground, or steamed;

Borax, crude;

Borate of lime;

Books which shall have been printed and manufactured more than twenty years at the date of importation;

Books, maps, and charts imported by authority for the use of the United States or for the use of the library of Congress: Provided, That the duty shall not have been included in the contract or price paid;

Books, maps, and charts specially imported, not more than two copies in any one invoice, in good faith for the use of any society incorporated or established 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; Books, professional, of persons arriving in the United States;

Books, household effects, or libraries, or parts of libraries, in use of persons 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;

Brazil paste;

Brazil pebbles for spectacles, and pebbles for spectacles, rough;

Burgundy pitch;

Camphor, crude;

Cat-gut strings, or gut-cord, for musical instruments;

Chamomile flowers;

Charcoal;

China root;

Cinchona root;

Chloride of lime;

Coal-stores of American vessels: Provided, That none shall be un

loaded;

Cobalt, ore of;

Cocoa or cocao, crude, and fiber, leaves, and shells of;

Coir and coir yarn;

Colcothar, dry, or oxide of iron;

Coltsfoot (crude drug);

Contrayerva-root;

Articles exempt from duty on and after August 1,

Copper, old, taken from the bottom of American vessels compelled by 1872.

marine disaster to repair in foreign ports;

Cowage down;

Flowers, leaves, plants, roots, barks, and seeds, for medicinal purposes, in a crude state, not otherwise provided for ;

Fruit, plants tropical and semi-tropical for the purpose of propagation or cultivation;

Galanga, or galangal ;

Garancine;

Gentian-root;

Ginger-root;

Ginseng-root;

Goldbeaters' molds and goldbeaters' skins;

Gold-size;

Grease, for use as soap-stock only, not otherwise provided for;

Gunny-bags and gunny-cloth, old or refuse, fit only for remanufacture; Gut and worm-gut, manufactured or unmanufactured, for whip and other cord;

Guts, salted;

Hair, all horse, cattle, cleaned or uncleaned, drawn or undrawn, but unmanufactured;

Hair of hogs, curled, for beds and mattresses, and not fit for bristles;
Hellebore-root;

Hide cuttings, raw, with or without the hair on, for glue-stock;
Hide-rope;

Hides, namely, Angora goat-skins, raw, without the wool, unmanufactured; asses' skins, raw, unmanufactured;

Hides, raw or uncured, whether dry, salted, or pickled, and skins, except sheep-skins with the wool on;

Indio or Malacca joints, not further manufactured than cut into suitable lengths for the manufacture into which they are intended to be converted; Iridium ;

Logs, and round unmanufactured timber not otherwise provided for and ship timber;

Macaroni and vermicella;

Madder and munjeet, ground or prepared, and all extracts of;
Magnets;

Manganese, oxide and ore of;

Marrow, crude;
Marsh-mallows;

Matico leaf;

Meerschaum, crude or raw;

Mica and mica waste;

Mineral waters, all, not artificial;

Moss, sea-weed, and all other vegetable substances used for beds and mattresses;

Murexide (a dye);

Musk, crude;

Mustard-seed, brown and white;

Nuts, cocoa and Brazil or cream;

Nux vomica;

Oil, essential, fixed or expressed, viz.: Almonds; amber, crude and rectified; ambergris; anise, or anise-seed; anthos, or rosemary; bergamont; cajeput; caraway; cassia; cedrat; chamomile; cinnamon; citronella, or lemon-grass; civet; fennel; jasmine, or jessamine; juglandium; juniper; lavender; mace; ottar of roses; poppy; sesame, or sesamum-seed, or bene; thyme, red, or origanum; thyme, white; valerian;

Oil-cake;

Olives, green or prepared;
Orange buds and flowers;
Orpiment;

Osmium;

Oxidizing paste;

Palladium;

Paper-stock, crude, of every description, including all grasses, fibers, rags other than wool, 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;

Pellitory root;

Persis, or extract of archil, and cudbear;

Peruvian bark;

Pewter and britannia metal, old, and fit only to be remanufactured;