when returned in the same condition as exported. Casks, barrels, carboys, bags, and other vessels of American manufacture, exported filled with American products, or exported empty and returned filled with foreign products, including shooks when returned as barrels or boxes; but proof of the identity of such articles shall be made under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury; and if any of such articles are subject to internal tax at the time of exportation, such tax shall be proved to have been paid before exportation and not refunded.

Bed-feathers and downs.

Bells, broken, and bell metal broken and fit only to be remanufact ured.

Birds, stuffed.

Birds, and land and water fowls.

Bismuth.

Bladders, crude, and all integuments of animals not specially enumer ated or provided for in this act.

Bologna sausages.

Bolting cloths.

Books, engravings, bound or unbound, etchings, maps, and charts, which shall have been printed and manufactured more than twenty years at the date of importation.

Books, maps, and charts imported by authority or for use of the United States or for the use of the Library of Congress; but the duty shall not have been included in the contract of 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 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.

Breccia, in blocks or slabs.

Brime.

Brazil pebbles for spectacles, and pebbles for spectacles rough.
Bullion, gold and silver.

Burgundy pitch.

Burr-stones, rough and finished.

Cabinets of coins, medals, and all other collections of antiquities. Castor or castoreum.

Catgut strings, or gut-cord for musical instruments.

Catgut or whip-gut, unmanufactured.

Coal, anthracite.

Coal-stores of American vessels, but none shall be unloaded
Cobalt, ore of.

Cocoa, or cacao, crude, and fiber, leaves, and shells of.

Coffee.

Coins, gold, silver, and copper.

Coir and coir yarn.

Copper, old, taken from the bottom of American vessels compelled

by marine disaster to repair in foreign ports.

Copper, when imported for the United States Mint.

Coral, marine, unmanufactured.

Cork-wood, or cork-bark, unmanufactured.

Cotton.

Curling-stones, or quoits.

Cuttlefish bone.

Dyeing or tanning articles in a crude state, used in dyeing or tanning, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act.

Esparto or Spanish grass, and other grasses, and pulp of, for the manufacture of paper.

Emery ore.

Fans, common palm-leaf.

Farina.

Fashion-plates, engraved on steel or on wood, colored or plain.
Felt, adhesive, for sheathing vessels.
Fibrin, in all forms.

Fire-wood.

Fish, fresh, for immediate consumption.
Fish, for bait.

Flint, flints, and ground flint-stones.
Fossils.

Fruit-plauts, tropical and semi-tropical, for the purpose of propagation or cultivation.

Fruits, green, ripe, or dried, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act.

Bananas.

Furs.

Glass, broken pieces, and old glass which can not be cut for use, and fit only to be remanufactured.

Glass-plate or disks, unwrought, for use in the manufacture of optical instruments.

Goat-skins, raw.

Gold-beaters' molds, and gold-beaters' skins.

Gold-size.

Grease, for use as soap-stock only, not specially enumerated or provided for.

Gunny bags, and gunny cloth, old or refuse, fit only for remanufacturing.

Gut, and worm gut, manufactured or unmanufactured.
Guts, salted.

Gutta percha, crude.

Hair, horse or cattle, and hair of all kinds, cleaned or uncleaned, drawn or undrawn, but unmanufactured, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act; of hogs, curled for beds and mattresses, and not fit for bristles.

Hide-rope.

Hides, raw or uncured, whether dry, salted, or pickled, and skins, except sheep-skins with the wool on, Angora goat skins, raw, without the wool, unmanufactured, asses' skins, raw or unmanufactured.

Hones and whetstones.

Hop-roots, for cultivation.
Hop-poles.

Ice.

India-rubber, crude, and milk of.

India-malacca joints, not further manufactured than cut into suitable lengths for the manufactures into which they are intended to be converted.

Ivory, and vegetable ivory, unmanufactured.

Life-boats and life-saving apparatus, specially imported by societies incorporated or established to encourage the saving of human life. Lithographic stones, not engraved.

Loadstones.

Logs, and round, unmanufactured timber, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, and ship timber, and ship planking. Macaroni and vermicelli.

Magnets.
Manuscripts.

Marrow, crude.

Marsh-mallows.

Medals of gold, silver, or copper.
Meerschaum, crude or raw.

Mica and mica waste.

Models of inventions and other improvements in the arts; but no article or articles shall be deemed a model or improvements which can be fitted for use.

Moss, sea-weeds, and all other vegetable substances used for beds and mattresses.

Newspapers and periodicals.

Nuts, cocoa, and Brazil or cream.

Oakum.

Oil cake.

Oil, spermaceti, whale, and other fish oils of American fisheries, and all other articles the produce of such fisheries.

Olives, green or prepared.

Orange and lemon peel, not preserved, candied, or otherwise prepared.

Ores, of gold and silver.

Palm nuts and palm-nut kernels.

Paper-stock, crude, of every description, including all grasses, fibers, rags of all kinds, other than wool, waste, shavings, clippings, old paper, rope ends, waste rope, waste bagging, gunny bags, 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.

Parchment.

Pearl, mother of.

Personal and household effects, not merchandise, of citizens of the United States dying abroad.

Pewter and britannia metal, old and fit only to be remanufactured. Philosophical and scientific apparatus, instruments, and preparations, statuary, casts of marble, bronze, alabaster, or plaster of Paris, paintings, drawings, and etchings, specially imported in good faith for the use of any society or institution incorporated or established for relig ious, philosophical, educational, scientific, or literary purposes, or encouragement of the fine arts, and not intended for sale.

Plants, trees, shrubs, and vines of all kinds not otherwise provided for, and seeds of all kinds, except medicinal seeds not specially enumerated or provided for in this act.

Plants, trees, shrubs, roots, seed cane, and seeds imported by the Department of Agriculture or the United States Botanical Garden.

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Platina, unmanufactured.

Platinum, unmanufactured, and vases, retorts, and other apparatus, vessels, and parts thereof, for chemical uses.

Plumbago.

Polishing-stones.

Pulu.

Pumice and pumice stone.

Quills, prepared or unprepared.
Railroad-ties, of wood.

Rattans and reeds, unmanufactured.

Regalia and gems, statues, statuary, and specimens of sculpture, where specially imported 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 order of any college, academy, school, seminary of learning, or public library in the United States.

Root-flour.

Rotten stone.

Sago, sago crude, and sago flour.

Saur-kraut.

Sausage-skins.

Sea-weed, not otherwise provided for.

Seed of the sugar beet.

Shark skins.

Shells of every description, not manufactured.

Shingle-bolts and stave bolts, provided that heading bolts shall be held and construed to be included under the term stave bolts.

Sparterre, for making or ornamenting hats.

Specimens of natural history, botany, and mineralogy, when imported for cabinets, or as objects of taste or science, and not for sale. Spunk.

Spurs and stilts, used in the manufacture of earthen, stone, or crockery ware.

Straw, unmanufactured.

Sugar of milk.

Sweepings of silver and gold.

Tamarinds.

Tapioca, cassava, or cassada.

Tea.

Tea plants.

Teasels.

Teeth, unmanufactured.

Terra alba, aluminous.

Terra japonica.

Tin ore, bars, blocks, or pigs, grain or granulated.
Tonquin, Tonqua or Tonka beans.

Tortoise and other shells, unmanufactured.

Turtles.

Types, old, and fit only to be remanufactured.

Umbrella sticks, crude, to wit, all partridge, hair wood, pimento, orange, myrtle, and all other sticks and canes in the rough, or no further manufactured than cut into lengths suitable for umbrella, parasol, or sunshade sticks or walking canes.

Vellum.

Wafers, unmedicated.

Wearing apparel, in actual use, and other personal effects (not merchandise), professional books, implements, instruments, and tools of trade, occupation, or employment of persons arriving in the United States. But this exemption shall not be construed to include machinery or other articles imported for use in any manufacturing establishment, or for sale.

Whalebone, unmanufactured.

Woods, poplar, or other woods, for the manufacture of paper.

Woods, namely, cedar, lignum-vitæ, lancewood, ebony, box, granadilla, mahogany, rosewood, satinwood, and all cabinet woods, unmanufactured.

Works of art, painting, statuary, fountains, and other works of art, the production of American artists. But the fact of such production must be verified by the certificate of a consul or minister of the United States indorsed upon the written declaration of the artist; paintings, statuary, fountains, and other works of art, imported expressly for the presentation to national institutions, or to any State, or to any municipal corporation, or religious corporation or society.

Yams.

Zaffer.

Argentine, albata, or German silver, unmanufactured.
Antimony as regulus, or metal.

Alabaster and spar statuary and ornaments.

Acid, acetic, acetous, or pyroligneous acid.

Boracic acid.

Chromic acid.

Citric acid.

Tannic acid and Tannin.

Tartaric acid.

Alumina, alum, patent alum.

Alum substitutes.

Sulphate of Aluminia.

Aluminious cake.

Alum in crystals or ground.

Ammonia, muriate of, or sal ammoniac.

Ammonia, carbonate of.

Ammonia, sulphate of.

Ammonia, anhydrous, liquefied by pressure.
Azo-benzole.

Acetate of lead.

Asbestos, manufactured.

Amylic alcohol or fusel oil.

Agates, manufactures of.

Amber, manufactures of.
Ants eggs.

Bladders, manufactures of.
Beeswax.