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r

15,000

400,000

the pedestals the safes;

grappling-irons 100 r, fishing-hooks 1600 r saddle-bows 800 r each, rings for keys 3000 r, for any other uses, with or without shanks or screw 350 r, trays, painted or varnished, with or without gilding or ornaments of mother-of-pearl 800 r, curbs 1000 r, cradles, plain 2500 r each, ornamented 5000 r each, gas-burners 1200 r, jewellery of steel 4000 r. (NOTE.-In this category are included ornaments, ear-rings, bracelets, watch-chains, &c., with or without imitation stones.) Jews' harps 650 r, bits for bridles 250 r each, buttons, perforated 500 r, not otherwise mentioned 1300 r, scale-beams 500 r, snaffle-bridles, plain 500 r each, with ornaments of white or yellow metal 1000 r each, safes up to 50 centimetres high 32,000 r each, more than go, and up to 75 centimetres high 64,000 reach, more than 75 and up to 100 128,000 r each, more than 100, and up to 125 192,000 r each, more than 125, and up to 150 260,000 r each, more than 150, and up to 175 320,000 r each. (NOTE. The duties include those on r each, more than 175 or stands of common wood which accompany pedestals of iron or fine wood pay duty separately.) Muzzles (for animals) 350 r each, padlocks, plain or common 480 r, pump, secret, letter, and any other description 1600 r each, chairs and stools, plain 2000 reach, worked or with ornaments 3000 reach, rocking and those not otherwise mentioned 9600 r each, beds, plain, single 4000 r, each double 7500 r each. cots (for children) 2500 r each, worked, single 8,000 r each, children) double 5000 r each each. (NOTE.-Beds cots ceed 1 m. (for 10 in width are considered as single.) which do not exribs for corsets, &c., plain, or covered with cloth or fine skins 1600 r, Plates and engraved, or with inscriptions for letters, and other commercial papers or documents, &c. 12,800 r, ditto, ditto, for the manufacture of printing presses 3200 r, galvanized, for roofs 40 r, not otherwise mentioned 1200 r, keys not otherwise mentioned 500 r, collars for animals 1000 r, plates for scales, with or without chains 500 r, chains for scales, with rings, for animals, &c., in pieces or in works of any kind, plain, tinned, or varnished 200 r, not otherwise mentioned 650 r, nails for shoeing animals 240 r, thimbles 650 r, hinges, hinge-pins, and similar articles for doors and windows, and for other uses 160 r, tenter-hooks with plates or fancy-work, 650 r, plain, or any description not otherwise distinguished 240 r, spurs, large, known as "Chilian," &c. 6000 r per dozen pair, not otherwise mentioned 4000 r per dozen pair, stirrups, filed, tinned, or varnished 2000 r ditto, polished with spring 10,000 r, ditto, without spring 6000 r per dozen pair ditto, for side-saddles 3000 r per dozen, known as cacambas 10,000 r per dozen pair, locks with a single turn, with or without gudgeon 320 r, with two turns, pump, secret, latch, and those not otherwise mentioned 1000 r, bolts (fechos pedrezes) of half-wire and any other quality 200 r, wire of any quality, thick and plain 50 r, covered with paper, silk, or cotton 600 r, galvanized, including nails for walls 8o r, manufactured pins, plain or with head of glass or porcelain, varnished or galvanized 800 r, hooks and button-shanks, varnished or galvanized 500 r, cordage (for ships) 100 r, cages 1000 r, cramp-irons, varnished or galvanized, plain or with head of glass or faïence 400 r, grills, rat-traps, and other similar articles 350 r, springs for chairs or mattresses 500 r, metallic cloth or tissue of thread, in lengths 600 r, ditto made up in articles of any description 1000 r, not otherwise mentioned 500 r, buckles of iron, plain, tinned, or varnished 500 r, of iron or steel, polished, for shoes, sashes, wearing apparel, &c., covered or not with any other material 1500 r, fire-grates, plain, ovens and stoves, portable furnaces, shelves, and other similar articles used in cookery co r, tinned sheet-iron in sheets, plain 80 r, ditto painted 120 r, manufactured, not otherwise mentioned plain 500 r, painted or varnished, wholly or in part, with or withont ornaments of brass, copper, zinc, or other common metals 10co r. (NOTE.-Tinman's and lamp-maker's wares not otherwise mentioned are included in this category, and in their weight are included those of the handles, covers, trimmings, and other accessories of wood. or horn, or any other material, which form part of the wares. filed or tin-plated, with or without curbs 500 r each, polished. with Bits of every kind, or without curbs 1000 r. (NOTE.-Bits, in parts, incomplete, or unfinished, will pay the same duties as the above.) Bits which have ornaments or trimmings of metal, galvanized, will pay a surtax of

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20%. Fire-bricks 650 r, springs for doors, lattices &c 350 r, screws up to ten millimetres in diameter 320 r, more than 10 millimetres in diameter 160 r, with head of brass 400 r, perfuming pans and braziers 500 r, nails, tin-tacks, hooks, pins and rivets, plain 100 r, with head of brass or bone 350 r, with head of ivory 3500, handles and latches for doors and drawers, with knobs of brass, falence, glass, or crystal 1000 r, wheels, tackle, pulleys, and other similar articles 350 r, heating apparatus for railroads free, for shops and similar purposes 15 r, pipes for boilers, water, gas &c 40 r. (NOTE. -Pieces joined will pay the same duties as the tubes, pipes galvanized or enamelled will pay a surtax of 25%.) Articles not elsewhere classified: cast, plain 90 r, painted, varnished, tinned, or galvanised with zinc or any other common metal 160r, enamelled 330 r, gilded or silvered 500 r, wrought, plain 180 r, painted, varnished, tinned, or galvanized with zinc or any other common metal 350 r, enamelled 600 r, gilded or silvered 800 r, in parts, for the construction of houses and shops, small ships, bridges, walls, and other similar works, fitted or not, 15% a v. (NOTE.-Articles in this class, gilded or silvered, entirely or in part, will pay a surtax of 50%, those galvanized with zinc or any other common metal 20%. No difference will be made in collecting duties between articles simply painted or varnished, not mentioned above, and those plain.) Halberds for archers and similar arms, with or without handles 2400 r each, blunderbusses, trabucos, arquebuses, and similar arms, with or without bayonet. with barrel of iron 4800 r each, with barrel of bronze 8000 r each, scab bards for swords, foils, daggers and bayonets, of leather, &c., with chape of white or yellow metal 4000 r per doz,ditto without chape 3000 r, ditto of iron or of white or yellow metal 5000 r per dozen, balls of iron 30 r, of lead and ammunition lead 130 r, bayonets, sword-bayonets, and similar arms for guns, &c. 600 r each, barrels for guns, blunderbusses, carbines, &c. 1200 r, for pistols of any description 600 r, stocks for pistols 400 r, for other arms 600 r. (NOTE.-Stocks wh ch have locks will pay, besides the above duties, those payable on firelocks. Swords, with hilt and scabbard gilded, for officers of inferior grade 9600 r each, with hilt gilded, and scabbard partly gilded. for superior officers, naval officers, &c. 4800r each, with hilt and scabbard of white or yellow metal, or of steel of any kind 2900 r each, with hilt of white or yellow metal, or of steel, and scabbard of leather of any description 2400r cach, with hilt and scabbard of iron or leather of any kind 1300reach, sabres of iron or steel, for cavalry soldiers 2000 reach, of iron or steel, as toys, with ornaments 240ɔr each, plain 1000 reach, of wood, as toys 1000 rs each, guns and carbines, military, with or without bayonets or sword-bayonets, and with or without scabbard 2900 reach, hunting of every kind, single-barrelled 1700 reach, doublebarrelled 4600 r each, quick matches, plain 1600 r, in cartridges, blank, of cardboard 1000 r, blank, of copper 2000 r, charged with shot or ball 400 r, firelocks for pieces of artillery, 2400 r each, for muskets,carbines, pistols, &c. 6ooreach, foils and short swords for naval officers, &c., fancy or sharp, with scabbard of leather or shagreen skin 3000 reach, for naval officers, &c., with scabbard of white metal, plain or gilded 5800 r each, blades for swords, foils, for ornament or sharp, and for short swords 1300 r each, for sabres, fencing foils, and arms not otherwise mentioned 500 r each, lances or pikes, with or without handles 2000 r each, ramrods and wormscrews for guns 1000 r, nipples for fire-arms 1600 r, pistols of every kind, with one barrel 2400 r per pair, with two barrels 4800 r per pair, revolvers of any kind 500 r each chamber, powder of any kind 650 r, hilts for swords and daggers, gilded or ornamental 1200 r each, plain 600 r each, arms and other gunsmith's wares, ammunition, and war material, not otherwise mentioned 48% a v, knives (pen, fruit, &c.), with or with out spring or other accessories, such as nail trimmers, corkscrews, or punches, with handle of bone, wood, horn, or common metal 1200 r per dozen, with handle of ivory, mother-of-pearl, or tortoise-shell 5800 rs per dozen, for cutting or pruning trees, &c. 3000 r per dozen, with accessories or veterinary instruments or travelling necessaries, with handle of bone, wood, horn, or common metal 4000 r per dozen, with handle of ivory, mother-of-pearl, or tortoise-shell 10,000 r per doz (NOTE.-Knives with handles 4 centimetres long, or less, will pay duties as pen-knives, with a reduction of 50.) Knives (larger), with handle of bone, wood, horn, or iron, &c, table and dessert 700 r per dozen, carving 320 s each, with handle of ivory, mother

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common

of-pearl, tortoise-shell, or white metal, silvered or not, &c., table and dessert 2800 r per dozen, carving 1400 r each, without handle, table or dessert 600 r per dozen, carving 180 r each, shoemakers', saddlers', cooking, and similar knives, with or without handles, common 450 r pointed for killing and cutting up animals, hunting, travelling, and similar knives, with handle of bone, wood, horn, or iron, &c. 450 r, with handle of ivory, mother-of-pearl, tortoise-shell, or description, with handle of bone, wood, horn, or white metal, &c. 2400 r razors of every metal 2000 r per dozen, with handle of ivory, mother-of-pearl, or tortoise-shell 10,000 r per dozen. (NOTE.-Razors which have more than one blade will pay for each blade in excess a surtax of 50%). Erasers for use in offices, with handle of bone, wood, horn, or common metal 1200 r per dozen, with handle of ivory, mother-of-pearl, or tortoise-shell 7800 r per dozen, butcher's knives, with or without guard 450 r. (NOTE.-Forks will pay a surtax of 50% whether imported with the knives or separately. Knives with case of leather, cardboard, or common metal, and those with handle or case of galva nized metal, will pay in the first case a surtax of 20%, and in the second case a surtax of 30%. Cases must be imported in the same package as the corresponding knives, and in equal number; if this number does not agree, the knives should be imported in their respective cases.) Scissors for tailors, &c., up to 16 centimetres long 1500 r per dozen, more than 16 centimetres long 3800 r per dozen, snuffers 1300 r per dozen, shears, small, for cutting flowers or for pruning 5800 r per dozen, large, with handles of wood, &c., for lopping 9600 r per dozen, with spring for clipping 2000 r per dozen, for cutting metal 5800 r per dozen, not otherwise mentionrd 48% a v. (NOTE.-Scissors with handles of common metal, plain or galvanized, or furnished with leather, will pay a surtax of 20%. Knives, razors, scissors, and other articles of this class ornamented with gold or silver will pay double the respective duties, and those which have the handles of those metals will pay duty as if they were entirely of gold or silver.) Magnetic bars for compasses 160 r each, compasses, small, plain, or with meridian lines, watch shape or with pivot 800 r each, geological, with metal case and prismatic compasses (Kater, Bournier, &c.) 2000 r each, for land-surveying, large, with metal or wooden cases, plain 3200 r each, with glass and level 4800 r each with glass level, circle, and semicircle 10,000 r each, for ship's binnacle, and compasses not otherwise mentioned 15% a v, cases or boxes with drawing-pens, compasses, protractors, or with similar mathematical instruments, containing up to 12 pieces 800 r each, more than 12 and up to 18 pieces 1200 r each, more than 18 and up to 24 pieces 2500 r each, more than 24 pieces 5000 r each, with mineralogical necessaries or accessories 18,000 r each, not otherwise mentioned 15% a v, cephalotribes, forceps, &c. 2000 r each, scalpels, with handles of wood 1000 r per dozen, compresses 2400 r each, stylets and tent-probes of common metal, steel, or iron, 800 r per dozen, instruments for performing amputation 6000 r per dozen, instruments, separate, for stopping, cleaning, lancing, and cauterizing teeth 1800 r per dozen, fleams for bleeding 1200 r per dozen, trusses from 2000 r to 24,000 r per dozen, lancets from 1000 r to 1800 r per dozen, files for dentists, 4000 r, pincers from 1600 r to 9600 r per dozen, caustic-cases, needle-cases, and cases from 1000 r to 4000 r per dozen, scarifiers of every kind 640 r each, seals from 4000 r to 20,000 r, drums (roasters) for coffee, plain or common 350 r, for flour from 80 r to 350 r, vices, hand or fixed, for watchmakers, jewellers, &c. 300 r, for smiths, locksmiths, &c. 160 r, large, with steam motor, free, tape-measures from 1000 r to 6400 r, tools, utensils, and instruments, not otherwise distinguished, for the arts and trades 300 r, for chemical and pharmaceutical laboratories 15% a v, for any other purpose 48% a v, forges, small or portable, for blacksmiths 160 r, moulds, strainers and crystallizers for purifying or refining sugar, free, cranes, steam, hydraulic, &c. free, of any other kind, portable 130r, fruit-presses 400 r each, files not elsewhere specified 500 r, locomotives, sleepers, turntables, brakes, and all other materials for railways, free, machines for use in agriculture, for mines, manufactories, and navigation, propelled by steam, water, gas, air or wind, electricity or by animals, or other motors, fixed, locomobile, or portable, free, machines (for domestic use) for cleaning knives 9,600 r to 18,000 r each, for clean

stove

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ing linen, cutting tobacco, bread, corks, for sewing, &c. 180 r, mills (coffee, pepper, &c.) 350 r, picks, pick-axes, hoes, and other large tools, for masons, stone-cutters, miners, &c., spades, large and small, rakes, scythes, weeding-hooks, and tools for tilling the ground, sickles, hedge-bills, pruning-knives, and similar instruments for cutting grass or sugar-cane, axes, mallets of iron for blacksmiths, masons, &c., shovels, with or without handles 80 r, pill moulds 650 r, printing presses of any kind free, presses for copying 240 r, for numbering and marking paper, &c. 2400 r, for packing or wrapping, for clipping, gilding, or sateening paper, for lithographing, &c. free, nut-crackers from 800 r to 2000 r, corkscrews from 1300 r to 4000 r per kilo, needles for suture, without point 320 r per dozen, for seton, vaccine (Cooper, &c.), with point 1600 r per dozen, for cataract, &c. 4800r per dozen, pravaz, for sub-cutaneous injections, &c. (small syringes) 1300 r each, of any description, with point of gold and silver 10,000 r per dozen, of silver 6000 r per dozen, amygdalotomes 2500 r each, apparatus, esmarch, &c. for astrictions 1200 r each, potain, dieulafoy, &c. 3500 r each, for fractures of arms and legs 2000 r each, bistouries with handle of bone, wood, horn, &c. 2000 r per dozen, with handle of tortoise-shell, ivory, mother-of-pearl, &c. 4000 r per dozen, keys, pincers, levers, &c. for extracting teeth 600 r each, boxes, portfolios, and cases for surgeons and dentists, with instruments for lancing, stopping, and drawing teeth, or with scalpel and other similar surgical instruments, up to 6 instruments 2000 r each, more than 6 and up to 12 instruments 4000 r each, more than 12 and up to 24 instruments 8000 r each, more than 24 and up to 50 instruments 13,000 r each, more than 50 instruments 15% a v, with instruments for autopsy, amputation, trepanning, cataract, accouchement, and other similar surgical instruments, up to 6 instruments 3200 r each, more than 6 and up to 12 instruments 6500 r each, more than 12 and up to 24 instruments 12,000 r each, more than 24 and up to 50 instruments 25,000 r each, more than 50 nstruments 15% a v, with cupping glasses 2000 reach, empty boxes 1000 r, empty portfolios 500 r each. (NOTE.-Boxes or portfolios containing instruments which have the handles in ivory, tortoise-shell, or mother-of-pearl will pay a surtax of 50%.) C. Firearms, iron safes, cartridges, bedsteads, percussion caps, ammunition, gunpowder 35% a v, wire, galvanised or not, ploughs, chains, railway waggons of all kinds, plates and sheets galvanised or not, machinery, agricultural, hammer, locomotive engines, shovels, cranes, parts of machineries, gunpowder for mining purposes, bridges, iron and steel rails, anvils, screws 15% a v, steel unwrought in bars or sheets free, telegraph wire free, anchors of all kinds free, hoops free, printing machines Ch. free, mattresses 35% a v; Ch. Manufactured, as in sheets, rods, bars, hoops per 100 catties o'1'2'5, as in pigs o'o'7'5, iron kentledge o'o'i'o, wire o'2'5'o, steel o'2'5'o, machinery 5% a v, iron pans, iron Cor. rails, hoops, old, 5% a v; Cor. Iron, pig 5% a v, steel and manufactures 74% a v, medical instruments, also agricultural implements free, gunpowder, under special licence, 20%, guns, sporting and accoutrement 30%, machinery 8%. D. Raw iron, pig, scraps, filings and old iron only fit for remelting free, iron and steel in bars, shaped or not, ballast iron, bloom iron, rails, &c., for railways, hoops, axle-trees, ships' knees, tires, cast gas and water pipes, and gas retorts 7d, plates or sheets, rough or simply coated to preserve from rust 7d, ditto other kinds 2/41, bolts, spikes, nails, tacks with or without paper coverings, also steel springs, &c. 2/4, iron and steel wares, polished, gilt or plated combined with ivory, metals, mother-of-pearl, &c., needles, steel pens, articles of tinplate, painted, bronzed, varnished or lacquered and gunsmiths' wares 1 175 8d, coarse wrought iron wares, as anchors, anchor chains and cables, anvils, steam boilers, cisterns, gas and water pipes, parts of machines, large hammers, weights, also coarse cast goods, as ovens, cannon, bombs, balls, &c., retorts, ploughshares, parts of church clocks, &c. 2/44, all other iron or steel wares not specially tariffed 7/1, instruments, mathematical, astronomical, surgical, &c. £1 175 8d, locomotives £55 11s 1d each, arms and ammunition, cannon, mortars, bombs, balls, &c 2/41 per cwt, gunsmiths' E. wares £1 175 8d, gunpowder and percussion caps 9/5; E. Agricul tural implements 24d per kilo, gunpowder prohibited, manufactured goods 2d per kilo, pipings of 12 inch not forming part of machinery

C.

D.

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F.

5d per kilo, iron tacks id per kilo, cross-ties for tramways 2d per kilo, hand rumps id pes kilo, rails for tramways and railroads 5d per kilo, medical instruments 1/0 per kilo; F. Iron, chips and filings and slag or dross from the forge free, cast, rough, in mass or moulded for ships' ballast and old broken cast iron 7d, purified, called "mazée," and old broken wrought iron 71d, in bars, square, round or flat, rails of all forms and sizes, angle and T iron, axles and tires in the rough 2 of, wrought, crude in lumps or prisms, not freed from dross, containing 4% or more of scories 1/10, wrought, other kinds 2 o, machine iron 2/51, hoops exceeding 1 millimetre in thickness 251, hoops of the thickness of 1 millimetre or less 3/0, sheet, rolled or hammered exceeding 1 millimetre in thickness not cut 2/10), ditto cut to any shape 3 of, thin sheet and black iron in sheets of 1 millimetre or less in thickness cut to any shape 4/0, ditto not cut 38, tinned (tin plates) or coated with zinc, lead or copper 4'10, iron wire, plain or tinned, coppered or zinced, not exceeding millimetre in diameter 40, ditto other kinds 2/5, steel in bars of all kinds and hoop steel 38, rails, axles or tires in the rough 2/51, in sheet and bands, brown, not rolled, exceeding millimetre in thickness 38, ditto of less than millimetre in thickness 6/1, white, coldrolled, of any thickness 6 1. (NOTE. -Steel in sheets and bands cut out or trimmed in any way pays 10% more than rectangular plates.) Steel wire, including wire for instruments 8/2, old broken steel 1/2, iron manufactures of cast iron, moulded not turned or polished, chairs for railways, plates and other castings from the open mould o, cylindrical pipes (straight), rafters, columns, solid or hollow, gas retorts, solid bars, gratings and hearth plates, connecting rods, framework of machines and other articles without ornaments or fittings 1/3, hollow ware and all other manufactures not included in the two preceding classes 1/7, polished or turned 251, tinned, enamelled or varnished 4 o}, rough articles of malleable cast iron 3'3, of wrought iron, iron wares (heavy), beams and girders, knees and girders for ships, ironwork for carts and waggons, hinges, clamps, large bolts, braces and other fastenings for doors and windows not polished nor turned, solid gratings, bedsteads, garden seats and furniture with or without ornaments or adjuncts of cast iron, steel of copper 3/3, locksmiths' wares, including iron locks or padlocks of all sorts, bolts and hinges of sheet iron, latches and flat bolts and other articles in wrought or sheet iron for door and window fastenings, &c., filed or turned 4 10), woodscrews, bolts or hooks with screw threads, 7 millimetres or less in diameter 4/48, above 7 millimetres in diameter 211, screws, screw bolts and nuts 3/3, nails forged by machinery 3'3, ditto by hand 4/10, tubes of wrought iron, simply welded, of 1-3rd inch or more in interior diameter, 4 of ditto of less than 1-3rd inch 7/4, ditto welded on a mandril or lap-welded 7/4, fittings for tubes of all kinds 7 4, household and other articles not specified of wrought or sheet iron polished or painted 5/8, enamelled, varnished or tinned 6/6, articles made partly of cast and partly of wrought iron not polished, if the weight of wrought iron is less than half the total weight 1/10, if half or more than half the weight be of wrought iron 211, polished, enamelled or varnished or with ornaments or adjuncts of copper, brass or steel 4/4, anchors, cables, chains, &c. 3/3, cables of steel wire 1c/2. (NOTE -Materials and articles for the construction and fitting of merchant vessels are admitted free under certain conditions.) Steel wares, small articles of ornament, such as beads, brooches and thimbles 82, household articles and other wares of pure steel not enumerated 8 2, cutlery, common kitchen and butchers' knives and tailors' scissors £2 os 8d, common razors £4 1s 3d, common other £5 1s 11d, fine £9 155 id, needles for sewing less than 1'95 inch in length £4 1s 3d, ditto of more than 195 inch in length 2 os 8d, tools of pure iron with or without handles 4 of, ditto of iron tipped with steel with or without handles 56, ditto of pure steel and other tools unenumerated 8/2, instruments, surgical, astronomical, mathematical, chemical, &c. free, wire netting with meshes exceeding 2 centimetres 3/3, ditto less than 2 centimetres 4/1, barbed fence wire 58, wire gauze of iron or steel 4/01, buttons 16/3, pins of all kinds, fish-hooks of all kinds 1 os 4d, metal pens, other than gold or silver £2 os 8d, knitting needles, bodkins and similar articles 10'2, machines and machinery, steam engines, stationary or portable with or without boilers or flywheels 2/51, ditto marine 4/10, locomotives 3/8, tenders