596. Steel of number twenty-four and seventeen gauge, in sheets sixtythree inches long, and from eighteen inches to thirty-two inches wide, when imported by the manufacturers of tubular bow sockets for use in the manufacture of such articles in their own factories. 597. Steel for the manufacture of bicycle chain, when imported by the manufacturers of bicycle chain for use in the manufacture thereof in their own factories.

598. Steel for the manufacture of files, augers, auger bits, hammers, axes, hatchets, scythes, reaping hooks, hoes, hand-rakes, hay or straw knives, wind mills and agricultural or harvesting forks when imported by the manufacturers of such or any of such articles for use exclusively in the manufacture thereof in their own factories. 599. Steel springs for the manufacture of surgical trusses, when imported by the manufacturers for use exclusively in the manufacture thereof in their own factories.

600. Flat spring steel, steel billets and steel axle bars, when imported by manufacturers of carriage springs and carriage axles for use exclusively in the manufacture of springs and axles for carriages or vehicles other than railway or tramway, in their own factories. 601. Spiral spring steel for spiral springs for railways, when imported by the manufacturers of railway springs for use exclusively in the manufacture of railway spiral springs in their own factories. 602. Steel strip and flat steel wire when imported into Canada by manufacturers of buckthorn and plain strip fencing, for use in the manufacture of such articles in their own factories; and barbed fencing wire of iron or steel after January 1st, 1898.

603. Galvanized iron or steel wire number nine, twelve and thirteen gauge, after January 1st, 1898.

604. Stereotypes, electrotypes and celluloids of newspaper columns in any language other than French and English, and of books, and bases and matrices and copper shells for the same, whether composed wholly or in part of metal or celluloid.

605. Surgical and dental instruments (not being furniture) and surgical needles, after January 1st, 1898.

606. Tagging metal, plain, japanned or coated, in coils, not over one and a half inch in width, when imported by manufacturers of shoe and corset laces for use in their factories.

607. Tails, undressed.

608. Tea and green coffee imported direct from the country of growth and production, and tea and green coffee purchased in bond in the United Kingdom, provided there is satisfactory proof that the tea or coffee so purchased in bond is such as might be entered for home consumption in the United Kingdom.

609. Teasels.

610. Tin, in blocks, pigs, bars and sheets, tin plates, tin crystals, tin strip waste, and tin foil, tea lead.

611. Timber or lumber or wood, viz.: lumber and timber planks and boards of amaranth, cocoboral, boxwood, cherry, chestnut, walnut, gumwood, mahogany, pitch pine, rosewood, sandal-wood, sycamore, Spanish cedar, oak, hickory, whitewood, African teak, blackheart ebony, lignum vitæ, red cedar, redwood, satin-wood and white ash, when not otherwise manufactured than rough-sawn

or split or creosoted, vulcanized or treated by any other preserving process; sawed or split boards, planks, deals and other lumber when not further manufactured than dressed on one side only or creosoted, vulcanized or treated by any preserving process; pine and spruce clapboards; timber or lumber hewn or sawed, squared or sided or creosoted; laths, pickets and palings; staves not listed or jointed of wood of all kinds; firewood, handle, heading, stave, and shingle bolts, hop poles, fence posts, railroad ties; hubs for wheels, posts, last blocks, wagon, oar, gun, heading and all like blocks or sticks rough hewn, or sawed only; felloes of hickory wood, rough sawn to shape only, or rough sawn and bent to shape, not planed, smoothed or otherwise manufactured ; hickory billets and hickory lumber, sawn to shape for spokes of wheels, but not further manufactured; hickory spokes, rough turned, not tenoned, mitred, throated, faced, sized, cut to length, round tenoned or polished; shingles of wood; the wood of the persimmon and dogwood trees; and logs and round unmanufactured timber, ship timber or ship planking, not specially enumerated or provided for in this Act.

612. D shovel handles, wholly of wood, and Mexican saddle trees and stirrups of wood.

613. Corkwood, or cork bark, unmanufactured.

614. Saw-dust of the following woods: Amaranth, cocoboral, boxwood,

cherry, chestnut, walnut, gumwood, mahogany, pitch pine, rosewood, sandal-wood, sycamore, Spanish cedar, oak, hickory, whitewood, African teak, black-heart ebony, lignum vitæ, red cedar, redwood, satin-wood, white ash, persimmon and dogwood.

615. Treenails.

616. Tobacco, unmanufactured, for excise purposes, under conditions of the Inland Revenue Act, until July 1st, 1897.

617. Tubes, rolled iron not welded or joined, under one and one-half inch in diameter, angle iron, nine and ten gauge not over one and one-half inch wide, iron tubing lacquered or brass covered, not over one and one-half inch in diameter, all of which are to be cut to lengths for the manufacture of bedsteads, and to be used for no other purpose, and brass trimmings for bedsteads, when imported by or for manufacturers of iron or brass bedsteads to be used for such purposes only in their own factories, until such time as any of the said articles are manufactured in Canada.

618. Turpentine, raw or crude.

619. Turtles.

620. After 1st January, 1898, binders' twine, or twine for harvest. binders, of hemp, jute, manilla or sisal, and of manilla and sisal mixed, and all articles upon which duties are levied which enter into the cost of the manufacture of such twine, under regulations to be made by the Controller of Customs.

621. Ultramarine blue, dry or in pulp.

622. Varnish, black and bright, for ships' purposes.

623. Whalebone, unmanufactured.

624. Whiting or whitening, Paris white and gilders' whiting, blanc fixe

and satin white.

625. Wire, crucible cast steel.

626. Wire rigging for ships and vessels. 627. Wire, of brass, zinc, iron or steel, screwed or twisted, or flattened or corrugated, for use in connection with nailing machines for the manufacture of boots and shoes, when imported by manufacturers of boots and shoes, to be used for such purposes only in their own factories. 628. Steel wire, Bessemer soft drawn spring, of numbers ten, twelve and thirteen gauge, respectively, and homo steel spring wire of numbers eleven and twelve gauge, respectively, when imported by manufacturers of wire mattresses, to be used in their own factories in the manufacture of such articles.

629. Wool and the hair of the camel, alpaca, goat, and other like animals, not further prepared than washed, n.e.s.; noils, being the short wool which falls from the combs in worsted factories; and worsted tops,

n.e.s

630. Wool or worsted yarns, when genapped, dyed or finished and imported by manufacturers of braids, cords, tassels and fringes to be used in the manufacture of such articles only in their own factories. 631. Yarn spun from the hair of the alpaca or of the angora goat, when imported by manufacturers of braids for use exclusively in their factories in the manufacture of such braids only, under such regulations as are adopted by the Controller of Customs.

632. Yellow metal, in bolts, bars and for sheathing.

633. Zinc spelter and zinc in blocks, pigs, sheets and plates; and seamless drawn tubing.

634. Molasses, second process, or molasses derived from the manufacture of "molasses sugar," testing by polariscope less than 35 degrees, when imported by manufacturers of blacking, for use in their own factories, in the manufacture of blacking,-conditional that the importers shall, in addition to making oath at the time of entry that such molasses is imported for such use and will not be used for any other purpose, cause such molasses to be at once mixed in a proper tank made for the purpose with at least one-fifth of the quantity thereof of cod or other oil, whereby such molasses may be rendered unfit for any other use, such mixing to be done in the presence of a Customs officer at the expense of the importer, and under such further regulations as are from time to time considered necessary in the interest and for the protection of the revenue, and that until such mixing is done and duly certified on the face of the entry thereof by such Customs officer the entry shall be held to be incomplete and the molasses subject to the usual rate of duty as when imported for any other purpose.

635. Bags, barrels, boxes, casks and other vesssels exported filled with Canadian products, or exported empty and returned filled with foreign products; and articles the growth, produce and manufacture of Canada, when returned after having been exported; provided that proof of the identity of such articles and goods shall be made under regulations to be prescribed by the Controller of Customs, and that such articles and goods are returned within three years from time of exportation, without having been advanced in value or improved in condition by any process of VOL. I-91 manufacture

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manufacture or other means; provided further that this item shall not apply to any article or goods upon which an allowance of drawback has been made, the re-importation of which is here. by prohibited except upon payment of duties equal to the drawback allowed; nor shall this item apply to any article or goods manufactured in customs or excise bonded warehouse and exported under any provision of law.

SCHEDULE C.

PROHIBITED GOODS.

636. Books, printed paper, drawings, paintings, prints, photographs or representations of any kind of a treasonable or seditious, or of an immoral or indecent character.

637. Reprints of Canadian copyright works, and reprints of British copyright works which have been copyrighted in Canada also.

638. Coin, base or counterfeit.

639. Oleomargarine, butterine or other similar substitute for butter. 640. Tea adulterated with spurious leaf or with exhausted leaves, or containing so great an admixture of chemical or other deleterious substances as to make it unfit for use.

641. Goods manufactured or produced wholly or in part by prison labour, or which have been made within or in connection with any prison, jail or penitentiary; also goods similar in character to those produced in such institutions, when sold or offered for sale by any person, firm or corporation having a contract for the manufacture of such articles in such institutions or by any agent of such person, firm or corporation, or when such goods were originally purchased from or transferred by any such contractor.

SCHEDULE D.

RECIPROCAL TARIFF.

On all the products of countries entitled to the benefits of this Reciprocal Tariff, under the provisions of section seventeen, the duties mentioned in schedule A shall be reduced as follows:

On and after the twenty-third of April, 1897, until the thirtieth day of June, 1898, inclusive, the reduction shall in every case be one-eighth of the duty mentioned in schedule A, and the duty to be levied, collected and paid shall be seven-eighths of the duty mentioned in schedule A.

On and after the first day of July, 1898, the reduction shall in every case be one-fourth of the duty mentioned in schedule A, and the duty to be levied, collected and paid shall be three-fourths of the duty mentioned in schedule A.

Provided, however, that these reductions shall not apply to any of the following articles, and that such articles shall in all cases be subject to the duties mentioned in schedule A, viz. :-wines, malt liquors, spirits, spirituous liquors, liquid medicines and articles containing alcohol; sugar, molasses and syrups of all kinds, the product of the sugar cane or beet root; tobacco, cigars and cigarettes.

OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the Queen's
most Excellent Majesty.

CHAP. 17.

An Act respecting Export Duties.

[Assented to 29th June, 1897.]

ER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

1. If any country now or hereafter imposes a duty upon the Export duty articles enumerated in item 611 in schedule B to The Customs on logs and pulp-wood. Tariff, 1897, or upon any of such articles when imported into such country from Canada, the Governor in Council may, by proclamation published in the Canada Gazette, declare the following export duties, or any of them, chargeable upon logs and pulp-wood exported from Canada to such country, that is to say-On pine, Douglas fir, spruce, fir balsam, cedar and hemlock logs, and pulp-wood, an export duty not exceeding three dollars per thousand feet, board measure; and in case of the export of any of the above-mentioned logs or pulpwood in shorter lengths than nine feet, then a rate per cord may be levied in the same way, not greater than the equivalent of the above-mentioned rate per thousand feet, board measure; and such export duty shall be chargeable accordingly after the publication of such proclamation: Provided that the Governor in Council may, by proclamation published in like manner, from time to time remove and re-impose such export duty.

on ores and

2. The Governor in Council may, by proclamation publish- Export duty ed in the Canada Gazette, impose export duties as under upon metals. the following ores and metals, and each such duty shall be chargeable accordingly after the publication of such proclamation; and the Governor in Council may, by proclamation published in like manner, from time to time remove and re-impose such export duties:

(a.) On nickel contained in matte, or in the ore, or in any crude or partially manufactured state, and upon copper contained in any matte or ore which also contains nickel-when