...educational stops composed of glass and metal. Articles in a crude state used in dyeing or tanning. Articles the growth, produce, and manufacture of the...condition by any process of manufacture or other means. Asbestos, unmanufactured. Ashes, wood and lye of, and beetroot ashes. Aspbaltum and bitumen, crude....

...section is exhansted. The general rule provided by the act of 1883 (free list, clanse No. 649) is, that "articles the growth, produce, and manufacture of the United States, when returned in the same condition as exported," shall be free. An exception to this rule is found in section 2500...

...will therefore be continued in full force and effect. 2. The provision in said paragraph 649 for " articles the growth, produce, and manufacture of the United States, when returned in the same condition as exported," has also been modified so as to read as follows, viz: "Articles...

...is not pertinent to the inquiry, that paragraph 493 of the act of October 1, 1890, exempts from duty ''articles the growth, produce, and manufacture of...exported without having been advanced in value or im-- proved iu condition by any process of manufacture or other means : * * * but proof of the identity...

...growth, produce, and manufacture of the United States," and inserting in lieu thereof the following: " Articles the growth, produce and manufacture of the...been exported without having been advanced in value by any process of manufacture or by labor thereon; casks, barrels, carboys, bags, and other vessels...

...6 cents per gross. Articles in a crude state used in dyeing or tan ning not specially provided for. Articles the growth, produce, and manufacture of the...returned after having been exported, without having been ad vanced in value or improved in condition by any process of manufacture or other means; casks, barrels,...

...reply, I would call your attention to the fact that the provision in paragraph 493, exempting from duty articles the growth, produce, and manufacture of the United States, when returned after having beeu exported, does not require that the articles shall be in' the same condi tiou as when exported,...

...is free of duty, under paragraph 493, as articles which are the "manufactures of the United States returned after having been exported without having...improved in condition by any process of manufacture "r other means." The testimony and papers in the case satisfactorily establish the fol"wing conclusions...

...exportation. Paragraph 493 of the act of October 1, 1890, provides for the free entry of articles the'growth, produce, and manufacture of the United States, when returned after having been exported, without havingbeen advanced in value or improved in condition. Inasmuch as it appears from your statement that...

...386. Articles in a crude state used in dyeing or tanning not specially provided for in this Act. 387. Articles the growth, produce, and manufacture of the...and other vessels of American manufacture exported tilled with American products, or exported empty and returned filled with foreign products, including...