Plaster of paris or sulphate of lime, unground Soda, nitrate of, or cubic nitrate. Strontia, oxide of, and proto-oxide of strontian, and strontianite, or mineral carbonate of strontia. Sulphur, or brimstone, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act. Sulphur lac or precipitated. Tripoli. Uranium, oxide of, verdigris or subacetate of copper. Drugs, barks, beans, berries, balsams, buds, bulbs, and bulbous roots and excrescences, such as nut-galls, fruits, flowers, dried fibers; grains, gums and gum resin, herbs, leaves, lichens, mosses, nuts, roots, and stems; spices, vegetables, seeds aromatic, and seeds of morbid growth; weeds, woods used expressly for dyeing, and dried insects-any of the foregoing, of which are not edible and are in a crude state, and not advanced in value or condition by refining or grinding, or by other process of manufacture, and not specially enumerated or provided for in this act. Vaccine virus. Crude minerals, not advanced in value or condition by refining or grinding, or by other process of manufacture, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act. Aluminium. Amber beads and gum. SUNDRIES. 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; but a bond shall be first given in accordance with the regulations. Animals, specially imported for breeding purposes, shall be admitted free upon proof thereof satisfactory to the Secretary of the Treasury, and under such regulations as he may prescribe; and teams of animals, including their harness and tackle and the vehicles or wagons actually owned by persons emigrating from foreign countries to the United States with their families, and in actual use for the purpose of such emigration, shall also be admitted free of duty, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe. Asphaltum and bitumen, crude. Arrowroot. Articles imported for the use of the United States, provided that the price of the same did not include the duty. Bamboo reeds, no further manufactured than cut into suitable lengths for walking sticks or canes, or for sticks for umbrellas, parasols, or sunshades. Bamboo, unmanufactured. Barrels of American manufacture, exported filled with domestic petroleum, and returned empty, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, and without requiring the filing of a declaration at time of export of intent to return the same empty. Articles the growth, produce, and manufacture of the United States, 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. SEC. 2503. [Substituted for sec. 2503, R. 8.] By striking out the clause in this section commencing with the words "articles the growth, produce, and manufacture of the United States," and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "Articles the growth, produce, and manufacture of the United States, when returned after having been exported, without having been advanced in value by any process of manufacture or by labor thereon; 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 general 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: Provided, That this clause shall not include any article upon which an allowance of drawback has been made, the reimportation of which is hereby prohibited except upon payment of duties equal to the drawbacks allowed." Bed-feathers and downs. Bells, broken, and bell metal broken and fit only to be remanufactured. Birds, stuffed. Birds, and land and water fowls. Bismuth. Bladders, crude, and all integuments of animals not specially enumerated 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. Burgundy pitch. Burr-stone, in blocks, rough or unmanufactured, and not bound up in mill-stones. Cabinets of coins, medals, and all other collections of antiquities. Castor or castoreum. Catgut strings, or gut-cord, for musical instruments. Coal, anthracite. Coal-stores of American vessels, but none shall be unloaded. 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-stone, or quoits. Cuttle-fish bone. Diamonds, rough or uncut, including glaziers' diamonds. Dyeing or tanning articles, in a crude state, used in dyeing or tanning, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act. Eggs. Egg-yelks. Esparto, or Spanish grass, and other grasses, and pulp of, for the manufacture of paper. Fashion-plates, engraved on steel or on wood, colored or plain. Fibrin, in all forms. Fire-wood. Fruit-plants, 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. Furs, undressed. Fur-skins of all kinds, not dressed in any manner. 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. Soap-stocks, fit only for use as such. Gunny bags, and gunny cloth, old or refuse, fit only for remanufact. uring. 1 Gut, and worm gut, inanufactured or unmanufactured. 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. 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. Jet, unmanufactured. Joss-stick, or joss-light. Junk, old. Lava, 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. Legs, and round, unmanufactured timber, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, and ship timber and ship planking. Maccaroni 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 improvement 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. 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. 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. Handle-bolts. Shrimps, or other shell-fish. Silk, raw, or as reeled from the cocoon, but not doubled, twisted, or advanced in manufacture in any way. Silk cocoons and silk waste. Silk-worms' eggs. Skeletons, and other preparations of anatomy. Skins, dried, salted or pickled. Snails. |