offenses or for the recovery of penalties or forfeitures embraced in or modified, changed, or repealed by this act, shall not be affected thereby; and all suits, proceedings, or prosecutions, whether civil or criminal, for causes arising or acts done or committed prior to the passage of this act, may be commenced and prosecuted within the same time and with the same effect as if this act had not been passed. And providea further, That nothing in this act shall be construed to repeal the provisions of section three thousand and fifty-eight of the Revised Statutes as amended by the act approved February twentythird, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, in respect to the abandonment of merchandise to underwriters or the salvors of property, and the ascertainment of duties thereon. Sec. 30. That this act shall take effect on the first day of August, eighteen hundred and ninety, except so much of section twelve as provides for the appointment of nine general appraisers, which shall take effect immediately. Sec. 31. That all of the general appraisers of merchandise heretofore or hereafter appointed under the authority of said Act shall hold their office during good behavior, but may, after due hearing, be removed by the President for the following causes, and no other: Neglect of duty, malfeasance in office, or inefficiency. That hereafter the salary of each of the general appraisers of merchandise shall be at the rate of nine thousand dollars per annum. That the said boards of general appraisers and the members thereof shall have and possess all the powers of a circuit court of the United States in preserving order, compelling the attendance of witnesses, and the production of evidence, and in punishing for contempt. Approved, June 10, 1890. Amended July 24, 1897, May 17, 1898, and May 27, 1908. Agricultural products and provisions-Schedule G..... Articles manufactured, nonenumerated-Section 6. Page. 131 131 173 173 173 Buttons and button forms-Schedule N Chemicals-Schedule A China and earthenware-Schedule B. Clays or earths-Schedule B Cotton manufactures-Schedule I Dairy products-Schedule G Explosive substances-Schedule N. Breadstuffs and farinaceous substances- Schedule G Cement, lime and plaster-Schedule B 131 114 155 115 109 115 115 138 123 132 179 156 Marking, branding and stamping-Section 8 Nails, spikes, tacks and needles-Schedule C Spirits, wines and other beverages-Schedule H Steel and manufactures of-Schedule C AN ACT To provide revenue for the Government and to encourage the industries of the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled, That on and after the passage of this Act, unless otherwise specially provided for in this Act, there shall be levied, collected, and paid upon all articles imported from foreign countries, and mentioned in the schedules herein contained, the rates of duty which are, by the schedules and paragraphs, respectively prescribed, namely: Schedule A-Chemicals, Oils and Paints. 1. Acids: Acetic or pyroligneous acid, not exceeding the зpecific gravity of one and forty-seven one-thousandths, threefourths of one cent per pound; exceeding the specific gravity of one and forty-seven one-thousandths, two cents per pound; boracic acid, five cents per pound; chromic acid and lactic acid, three cents per pound; citric acid, seven cents per pound; salicylic acid, ten cents per pound; sulphuric acid or oil of vitriol not specially provided for in this Act, one-fourth of one cent per pound; tannic acid or tannin, fifty cents per pound; gallic acid, ten cents per pound; tartaric acid, seven cents per pound; all othe acids not specially provided for in this Act, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. 2. All alcoholic perfumery, including cologne water and other toilet waters and toilet preparations of all kinds, containing alcoh or in the preparation of which alcohol is used, and alcoholic compounds not specially provided for in this Act, sixty cents per pound and forty-five per centum ad valorem. 3. Alkalies, alkaloids, distilled oils, essential oils, expressed oils, rendered oils, and all combinations of the foregoing, and all chemical compounds and salts not specially provided for in this Act, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. 4. Alumina, hydrate of, or refined bauxite, six-tenths of one cent per pound; alum, alum cake, patent lum, sulphate of alumina, and aluminous cake, and alum in crystals or ground, one-half of one cent per pound. 5. Ammonia, carbonate of, one and one-half cents per pound; muriate of, or sal ammoniac, three-fourths of one cent per pound; sulphate of, three-tenths of one cent per pound. 6. Argols or crude tartar or wine lees crude, containing not more than forty per centum of bitartrate of potash, one cent per pound; contain: g more than forty per centum of bitartrate of potash, one and one-half cents per pound; tartars and lees crystals, or partly refined argols, containing not more than ninety per centum of bitartrate of rotash, and tartrate of soda or potassa, or Rochelle salts, four cents per pound; containing more than ninety per centum of bitartrate of potash, five cents per pound; cream of tartar and patent tartar, six cnts per pound. 7. Blacking of all kinds, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. 8. Bleaching powder, or chloride of lime, one-fifth of one cent per po nd. 9. Blue vitriol or sulphate of copper, one-half of one cent per pound. 10. Bone char, suitable for use in decolorizing sugars, twenty per centum ad valorem. 11. Borax, five cents per pound; borates of lime or soda, or other borate material not otherwise provided for, containing more than thirty-six per centum of anhydrous boracic acid, four cents per pound; borates of lime or soda, or other borate material not otherwise provided for, containing not more than thirty-six per centum of anhydrous boracic acid, three cents per pound. 12. Camphor, refined, six cents per ound. 13. Chalk (not medicinal nor prepared for toilet purposes) when ground, precipitated naturally or artificially, or otherwise prepared, whether in the form of cubes, blocks, sticks or disks, or otherwise, including tailors', billiard, red, or French chals, one cent per pound. Manufactures of chalk not specially provide for in this Act, t enty-five per centum ad valorem. 14. Chloroform, twenty certs per pound. 15. Coal-tar dyes or colors, not specially provided for in this Act, thirty per centum ad valorem; all other products or preparations of coal tar, not colors or dyes and not medicinal, 1 t specially provided for in this Act, twenty per centum ad valorem. 16. Cobalt, oxide of, twenty-five cents per pound. 17. Collodion and all compounds of pyroxylin, whether known as celluloid or by any other name, fifty cents per pound; rolled or in sheets, unpolished, and not made up into articles, sixty cents per pound; if in finished or partly finished articles, and articles of which collodion or any compound of pyroxylin is the component material of chief value, sixty-five cents per pound and twenty-five per centum ad valorem. 18. Coloring for brandy, wine, beer, or other liquors, fifty per centum ad valorem. 19. Copperas or sulphate of iron, one-fourth of one cent per pound. 20. Drugs, such as barks, beans, berries, balsams, buda, bulbs, bulbous roots, excrescences, fruits, flowers, dried fibers, ied insects, grains, gums and gum resin, herbs, leaves, lichens, mosses, nuts, nutgalls, roots, stems, spices, vegetables, seeds (aromatic, not garden seeds), seeds of morbid growth, weeds, and woods used expressly for dyeing; any of the foregoing which are drugs and not edible, but which are advanced in value or condition by refining, grinding, or other process, and not specially provided for in this Act, one-fourth of one |