cluding quilts of down and other manufactures of down, and also including dressed and finished birds suitable for millinery ornaments, and artificial and ornamental feathers and flowers, or parts thereof, of whatever material composed, not specially provided for in this act, fifty per centum ad valorem. 444. Furs, dressed on the skin but not made up into articles, and furs not on the skin, prepared for hatters' use, twenty per centum ad valorem. 445. Glass beads, loose, unthreaded or unstrung, ten per centum ad valorem. 446. Gun-wads of all descriptions, thirty-five per centum ad valo rem. 447. Hair, human, if clean or drawn but not manufactured, twenty per centum ad valorem. 448. Hair-cloth, known as "crinoline-cloth," eight cents per square yard. 449. Hair-cloth, known as "hair seating," thirty cents per square yard. 450. Hair, curled, suitable for beds or mattresses, fifteen per centum ad valorem. 451. Hats, for men's, women's, and children's wear, composed of the fur of the rabbit, beaver, or other animals or of which such fur is the component material of chief value, wholly or partially manufactured, including fur hat bodies, fifty-five per centum ad valorem. JEWELRY AND PRECIOUS STONES. 452. Jewelry: All articles, not elsewhere specially provided for in this act composed of precious metals or imitations thereof, whether set with coral, jet, or pearls, or with diamonds, rubies, cameos, or other precious stones, or imitations thereof, or otherwise, and which shall be known commercially as "jewelry," and cameos in frames, fifty per centum ad valorem. 453. Pearls, ten per centum ad valorem. 454. Precious stones of all kinds, cut but not set, ten per centum ad valorem; if set, and not specially provided for in this act, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. Imitations of precious stones composed of paste or glass not exceeding one inch in dimensions, not set, ten per centum ad valorem. LEATHER AND MANUFACTURES OF. 455. Bend or belting leather and sole leather, and leather not specially provided for in this act, ten per centum ad valorem. 456. Calf-skins, tanned, or tanned and dressed, dressed upper leather, including patent, enameled, and japanned leather, dressed or undressed, and finished; chamois or other skins not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, twenty per centum ad valorem; book-binders' calf-skins, kangaroo, sheep and goat skins, including lamb and kid skins, dressed and finished, twenty per centum ad valorem; skins for morocco, tanned but unfinished, ten per centum ad valorem; piano forte leather and piano forte action leather, thirty-five per centum ad valorem; japanned calf-skins, thirty per centum ad valorem; boots and shoes, made of leather, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. 457. But leather cut into shoe uppers or vamps, or other forms, suitable for conversion into manufactured articles, shall be classified as manufactures of leather, and pay duty accordingly. 458. Gloves of all descriptions, composed wholly or in part of kid or other leather, and whether wholly or partly manufactured, shall pay duty at the rates fixed in connection with the following specified kinds thereof, fourteen inches in extreme length when stretched to the full extent, being in each case hereby fixed as the standard, and one dozen pairs as the basis, namely: Ladies' and children's schmaschen of said length or under, one dollar and seventy-five cents per dozen; ladies' and children's lamb of said length or under, two dollars and twenty-five cents per dozen; ladies' and children's kid of said length or under, three dollars and twenty-five cents per dozen; ladies' and children's suedes of said length or under, fifty per centum ad valorem; all other ladies' and children's leather gloves, and all men's leather gloves of said length or under, fifty per centum ad valorem; all leather gloves over fourteen inches in length, fifty per centum ad valorem; and in addition to the above rates there shall be paid on all men's gloves one dollar per dozen; on all lined gloves one dollar per dozen; on all pique or prick seam gloves, fifty cents per dozen; on all embroidered gloves, with more than three single strands or cords, fifty cents per dozen pairs. Provided, That all gloves represented to be of a kind or grade below their actual kind or grade shall pay an additional duty of five dollars per dozen pairs: Provided further, That none of the articles named in this paragraph shall pay a less rate of duty than fifty per centum ad valorem. MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURES.— 459. Manufactures of alabaster, amber, asbestos, bladders, coral, cat-gut or whip-gut or worm-gut, jet, paste, spar, wax, or of which these substances or either of them is the component material of chief value, not specially provided for in this act, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; osier or willow prepared for basketmakers' use, thirty per centum ad valorem; manufactures of osier or willow, forty per centum ad valorem. 460. Manufactures of bone, chip, grass, horn, India-rubber, palmleaf, straw, weeds, or whalebone, or of which these substances or either of them is the component material of chief value, not specially provided for in this act, thirty per centum ad valorem. 461. Manufactures of leather, fur, gutta-percha, vulcanized India rubber, known as hard rubber, human hair, papier-mache, indurated fiber wares and other manufactures composed of wood or other pulp, or of which these substances or either of them is the component material of chief value, all of the above not specially provided for in this act, thirty-five per centum ad valorem. 462. Manufactures of ivory, vegetable ivory, mother-of-pearl, and shell, or of which these substances or either of them is the component material of chief value, not specially provided for in this act, forty per centum ad valorem. 463. Masks, composed of paper or pulp, thirty-five per centum ad valorem. 464. Matting made of cocoa-fiber or rattan, twelve cents per square yard; mats made of cocoa-fiber or rattan, eight cents per square foot. 465. Paintings, in oil or water colors, and statuary, not otherwise provided for in this act, fifteen per centum ad valorem; but the term "statuary" as herein used shall be understood to include only such statuary as is cut, carved, or otherwise wrought by hand from a solid block or mass of marble, stone, or alabaster, or from metal, and as is the professional production of a statuary or sculptor only. 466, Pencils of wood filled with lead or other material, and pencils of lead, fifty cents per gross and thirty per centum ad valorem; slate pencils, four cents per gross. 467. Pencil-leads not in wood, ten per centum ad valorem. PIPES AND SMOKERS' ARTICLES. 468. Pipes, pipe-bowls, of all materials, and all smokers' articles whatsoever, not specially provided for in this act, including cigarette-books, cigarette book-covers, pouches for smoking or chewing tobacco, and cigarette-paper in all forms, seventy per centum ad valorem ; all common tobacco pipes of clay, fifteen cents per gross. 469. Plush, black, known commercially as hatters' plush, composed of silk, or of silk and cotton, and used exclusively for making men's hats, ten per centum ad valorem. 470. Umbrellas, parasols, and sun-shades, covered with silk, or alpaca, fifty-five per centum ad valorem; if covered with other material, forty-five per centum ad valorem. 471. Umbrellas, parasols, and sunshades, sticks for, if plain, finished or unfinished, thirty-five per centum ad valorem; if carved, fifty per centum ad valorem. 472. Waste, not specially provided for in this act, ten per centum ad valorem. FREE LIST. SEC. 2. On and after the sixth day of October, eighteen hundred and ninety, unless otherwise specially provided for in this act, the following articles when imported shall be exempt from duty: 473. Acids used for medicinal, chemical, or manufacturing purposes, not specially provided for in this act. 474, Aconite. 475. Acorns, raw, dried or undried, but unground. 476. Agates, unmanufactured. 477. Albumen. 478. Alizarine, natural or artificial, and dyes commercially known as Alizarine yellow, Alizarine orange, Alizarine green, Alizarine blue, Alizarine brown, Alizarine black. 479. Amber, unmanufactured, or crude gum. 480. Ambergris. 481. Aniline salts, 482. Any animal imported specially for breeding purposes shall be admitted free: Provided, That no such animal shall be admitted free unless pure bred of a recognized breed, and duly registered in the book of record established for that breed: And provided further, That certificate of such record and of the pedigree of such animal shall be produced and submitted to the customs officer, duly authenticated by the proper custodian of such book of record, together with the affidavit of the owner, agent, or importer that such animal is the identical animal described in said certificate of record and pedigree. The Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe such additional regulations as may be required for the strict enforcement of this provision. 483. Animals brought into the United States temporarily 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 given in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury; also, teams of animals, including their harness and tackle and the wagons or other vehicles 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 under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe; and wild animals intended for exhibition in zoological collections for scientific and educational purposes, and not for sale or profit. 484. Annatto, roucou, rocoa, or orleans, and all extracts of. 485. Antimony ore, crude sulphite of. 486. Apatite. 487. Argal, or argol, or crude tartar. 488. Arrow root, raw or unmanufactured. 489. Arsenic and sulphide of, or orpiment. 490. Arseniate of aniline. 491. Art educational stops, composed of glass and metal and valued at not more than six cents per gross. 492. Articles in a crude state used in dyeing or tanning not specially provided for in this act. 493. Articles the growth, produce, and manufacture of the United States, when returned after having been exported, without having been advanced in value or improved in condition by any process of manufacture or other means; 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; also quicksilver flasks or bottles, of either domestic or foreign manufacture, which shall have been actually exported from the United States; 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 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 paragraph shall not apply to any article upon which an allowance of drawback has been made, the re-importation of which is hereby prohibited except upon payment of duties equal to the drawbacks allowed; or to any article manufactured in bonded-warehouse and exported under any provision of law: And provided further, That when manufactured tobacco which has been exported without payment of internal-revenue tax shall be re-imported it shall be retained in the custody of the collector of customs until internal-revenue stamps in payment of the legal duties shall be placed thereon. 494. Asbestos, unmanufactured. 495. Ashes, wood and lye of, and beet-root ashes. 496. Asphaltum and bitumen, crude. 497. Asafetida. 498. Balm of Gilead. 499. Barks, cinchona or other from which quinine may be extracted. 500 Baryta, carbonate of, or witherite. 501. Bauxite, or beauxite. 502. Beeswax. 503. Bells, broken, and bell metal broken and fit only to be remanufactured. 504 Birds, stuffed, not suitable for millinery ornaments, and bird skins, prepared for preservation, but not further advanced in manufacture. 505. Birds and land and water fowls. 506. Bismuth. 507. Bladders, including fish-bladders or fish-sounds, crude, and all integuments of animals not specially provided for in this act. 508. Blood, dried. 509. Bologna sausages. 510. Bolting-cloths, especially for milling purposes, but not suitable for the manufacture of wearing apparel. 511. Bones, crude, or not burned, calcined, ground, steamed, or otherwise manufactured, and bone-dust or animal carbon, and bone ash, fit only for fertilizing purposes. 512. Books, engravings, photographs, bound or unbound etchings, maps, and charts, which shall have been printed and bound or manufactured more than twenty years at the date of importation. 513. Books and pamphlets printed exclusively in languages other than English; also books and music, in raised print, used exclusively by the blind. 514. Books, engravings, photographs, etchings, bound or unbound, maps and charts imported by authority or for the use of the United States or for the use of the Library of Congress. 515. Books, maps, lithographic prints, 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 educational, 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, subject to such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe. 516. Books, or libraries, or parts of libraries, and other household effects of persons or families from foreign countries, if actually used abroad by them not less than one year, and not intended for any other person or persons, nor for sale. 517. Brazil paste. 518. Braids, plaits, laces, and similar manufactures composed of straw, chip, grass, palm-leaf, willow, osier, or rattan, suitable for making or ornamenting hats, bonnets, and hoods. 519. Brazilian pebble, unwrought or unmanufactured. 520. Breccia, in block or slabs. 521. Bromine. 522. Bullion, gold or silver. 523. Burgundy pitch. 524. Cabinets of old coins and medals, and other collections of antiquities, but the term "antiquities" as used in this act shall include only such articles as are suitable for souvenirs or cabinet collections, and which shall have been produced at any period prior to the year seventeen hundred. 525. Cadmium. 526. Calamine. 527. Camphor, crude. |