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House bill No. 718.

Proposed rates.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That in lieu of the duties heretofore imposed by law on manufactures of wool and similar materials, there shall be levied,
collected, and paid on the goods, wares, and merchandise herein enumerated and provided for, imported from foreign countries, the following duties and
rates of duty, that is to say:

Present tariff.

On woollen cloths, comprising broadcloths, cloakings, 24 cents per lb. and 40 per cent. 50 cents per lb. and 35 per cent. 25 cents per lb. and 40 per cent.
cassimeres, ladies' cloths, doeskins, tricots, and all
other fulled or felted goods or fabrics, woollen shawls,
flannels, and all manufactures of wool of every de
scription made wholly or in part of wool, not herein
otherwise specified, twenty-five cents per pound; and
in addition thereto, forty per centum ad valorem.
On blankets and woollen and worsted yarns, com-
posed wholly or in part of wool, the hair of the al-
paca, goat, or other like animals, valued at not ex-

24 cents per lb. and 25 per cent. 20 cents per lb. and 35 per cent. 10 cents per lb. and 40 per cent.

ceeding forty cents per pound, ten cents per pound; 24 cents per lb. and 30 per cent. 30 cents per lb. and 35 per cent. 15 cents per lb. and 40 per cent.
valued at above forty cents per pound, and not ex-
ceeding sixty cents per pound, fifteen cents per
pound; valued at above sixty cents per pound, and
not exceeding eighty cents per pound, twenty-five
cents per pound; valued at above eighty cents per
pound, thirty cents per pound; and in addition
thereto, upon all the above-named articles, forty
per centum ad valorem.

On bunting, fifteen cents per square yard, and in ad-
dition thereto forty per centum ad valorem.
On women's and children's dress goods, and real or
imitation Italian cloths and lastings, and all other
similar fabrics, either in the grey or of uni-
form color, or in various colors or figures pro-
duced in the process of weaving, or by coloring,
staining, painting, printing, or otherwise, com-
monly sold or purchased by the yard or lineal
measure, or by the piece, composed wholly or in
part of wool, worsted, the hair of the alpaca, goat,"
or other like animals, valued at not exceeding
twenty cents the square yard, four cents per square
yard, and in addition thereto forty per cent. ad va-

24 cents per lb. and 30 per cent.
24 cents per lb. and 30 per cent

40 cents per lb. and 35 per cent.
50 cents per lb. and 35 per cent.

25 cents per lb. and 40 per cent.
30 cents per lb. and 40 per cent.

20 cents p. sq. yd. and 35 p. ct.

50 per cent.

4 cents per sq. yd. and 25 p. ct. 6 cents per sq. yd. and 35 p. ct.

15 cents p. sq. yd. and 40 p. ct.
4 cents per sq. yd. and 40 p. ct.

Wool and manufactures of wool-Continued.

lorem; valued at above twenty cents per square
yard, six cents per square yard, and in addition
thereto forty per cent. ad valorem: Provided, That
on all such goods weighing four ounces and over
per square yard, the duty shall be twenty-five cents
per pound, and in addition thereto forty per cent.
ad valorem.

On hosiery, composed wholly or in part of wool, com-
prising shirts, drawers, stockings, socks, gloves,
mittens, and all other goods knitted or made on
frames or by hand, and cloth gloves, twenty cents
per pound; and in addition thereto, forty per centum
ad valorem.

Present tariff.

House bill No. 718.

Proposed rates.

6 cents per sq. yd. and 30 p. ct. 8 cents per sq. yd. and 40 p. ct. 6 cents per sq. yd. and 40 p. ct.

20 cts. per lb. and 30 per cent.. 20c. to 50c. p. lb. and 35 per cent. 20 cts. per lb. and 40 per cent.

On hats and caps of wool, and clothing ready made, 24 cts. per lb. and 40 per cent.. 50 cts. per lb. and 40 per cent.. 25 cts. per lb. and 40 per cent. and wearing apparel of every description, and Balmoral skirts, composed wholly or in part of wool, worsted, the hair of the alpaca, goat, or other like animals, made up or manufactured wholly or in part by the tailor, seamstress, or manufacturer, twentyfive cents per pound; and in addition thereto, forty per centum ad valorem.

On webbings, beltings, cords, bindings, braids, and 50 per cent.
galloons, composed wholly or in part of wool,
worsted, the hair of the alpaca, goat, or other like
animals, forty cents per pound, and in addition
thereto, forty per centum ad valorem.

On fringes, gimp, tassels, dress trimmings, head nets,
buttons or tassel buttons, or buttons of other forms
for tassels or ornaments, wrought by hand or braided
by machinery, made of wool, worsted, the hair of
the alpaca, goat, or other like animals, or of which
the above-named materials are the component parts
of chief value, sixty per centum ad valorem.
On Aubusson and Axminster carpets and carpets
woven whole for rooms, fifty per centum ad valorem.

50 cts. per lb. and 50 per cent.. 40 cts. per lb. and 40 per cent.

24 cts. per lb. and 40 per cent.. 50 cts. per lb. and 50 per cent.. 60 per cent. 50 per cent.

80 cents per square yard.

50 per cent.

On Saxony, Wilton, and Tournay velvet carpets,
wrought by the Jacquard machine, eighty cents
per square yard; wrought by the Jacquard ma-
chine, seventy cents per square yard; on patent
velvet and tapestry velvet carpets, printed on the
warp or otherwise, fifty cents per square yard.
On Brussels or tapestry Brussels carpets, printed on
the warp or otherwise, fifty cents per square yard.
On treble ingrain, three-ply, and worsted chain Vene-
tian carpets, forty cents per square yard.
On yarn Venetian and two-ply ingrain carpets, thirty-
five cents per square yard.

On druggets, baizes and bockings, printed, colored, or
otherwise, twenty-five cents per square yard, and in
addition thereto thirty per centum ad valorem; on
carpets and carpetings of wool, flax. or cotton, or
parts of either, or other material not otherwise herein
specified, forty per centum ad valorem: Provided,
That mats, rugs, screens, covers, hassocks, bedsides,
and other portions of carpets or carpeting, shall be
subjected to the rate of duty herein imposed on car-
pets or carpeting of like character or description, and
that the duty on all other mats, (not exclusively of
vegetable material,) screens, hassocks, and carpet,
and door rugs, shall be forty per centum ad valorem.
On oil-cloths for floors, stamped, painted, or printed,
valued at fifty cents or less per square yard, thirty
per centum ad valorem; valued at over fifty cents
per square yard, and on all other oil-cloth, (except
silk oil-cloth,) and on water-proof cloth, not other-
wise herein provided for, forty per centum ad valo-
rem; on oil-silk cloth, sixty per centum ad valo-

20 per cent..

20 per cent.

On all manufactures of wool, worsted, the hair of the alpaca, goat, or other like animal, mixed with other material, in which wool, worsted, the hair of the alpaca, goat, or other like animal, is the material of chief value, not herein otherwise specified, there shall be levied, collected, and paid the same duties. as are herein provided for similar manufactures composed wholly of wool, worsted, the hair of the alpaca, goat, or other like animals: Provided, That all manufactures of worsted, the hair of the alpaca, goat, or any other animal, and of shoddy, mungo, waste, or flocks, not herein specified, shall be known wholly of wool. as manufactures of wool, and the same rate of duties shall be levied, collected, and paid on them as are herein imposed on similar fabrics composed

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ON SILK AND ITS MANUFACTURES

shall be levied, collected, and paid the following duties and rates of duty, that is to say: SECTION 5. And be it further enacted, That in lieu of the duties heretofore imposed by law on the importation of silk and manufactures of silk, there

Present tariff.

On spur silk for filling, in skeins or cops, twenty-five
per centum ad valorem; on silk in the gum, not
more advanced than singles, tram, thrown, or or-
ganzine, and on floss silks, thirty-five per centum
ad valorem.

On sewing silk in the gum or purified, fifty per centum
ad valorem.

On all ribbons, beltings, galloons, hat-bands, bind-
ings, braids, fringes, gimps, cloak and dress trim-
mings, fancy buttons, cords, dress cords, cords and
tassels, head nets, head dresses, neck ties, collars,
and scarfs, made of silk, sixty per centum ad va-
lorem.

On each and every other description of manufactures 60 per cent.. of silk, whether produced by the loom or frame or in any other way, or further advanced by the needle, whether by hand or machinery, sixty per centum

ad valorem.

On all other manufactures of silk, mixed with other
materials, comprised as above, in which silk is the
material of chief value, fifty per centum ad valorem.

50 per cent..

FLAX, HEMP, JUTE, &c., AND MANUFACTURES THEREOF. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That in lieu of the duties heretofore imposed by law on the importation of flax, hemp, jute, or similar vegetable materials, or on manufactures of the same, there shall be hereafter levied, collected, and paid the following duties and rates of duty, that is to say:

On flax, unmanufactured, ten dollars per ton..

On flax, hackled, known as dressed line, twenty dollars per ton..
On Russia, Manilla, Italian, and all other hemps, unmanufactured, twenty dollars per ton.

On flax straw, one dollar per ton

On the tow of flax or hemp, five dollars per ton.

Flax, $5 p. ton. Hemp, $10 p.ton.

$5 per ton.

$10 per ton. $20 per ton. $20 per t $1 per ton. $5 per ton. $5 p. ton.

$20 per ton.

$5 per ton.

30 per cent. 35 per cent.

On jute, unmanufactured, and Sisal grass, and other vegetable fibres not otherwise provided for, five $15 per ton.... dollars per ton.

On all manufactures of Sisal grass, thirty per cent. ad valorem

On all brown or bleached linens, ducks, canvas paddings, cot bottoms, burlaps, drills, coatings, brown
Hollands, blay linens, Spanish linens, diaper, dama-ks, crash, huckabacks, handkerchiefs, lawns,
or other manufactures of flax, hemp, or jute, or of which flax, hemp, or jute is the component ma-
terial of chief value, not herein otherwise specified, thirty-five per centum ad valorem.
On cordage and rope, of whatever vegetable material composed, three cents per pound

On gunny cloth. gunny bags, cotton bagging, or other manufactures not otherwise herein provided for, suitable for the uses to which cotton bagging is applied, composed wholly or in part of hemp, jute, flax, or other material valued at ten cents or less per square yard, three cents per pound; valued at over ten cents per square yard, four cents per pound.

On jute, hemp, or cocoanut matting and carpeting, three cents per square yard, and, in addition thereto, thirty per centum ad valorem.

On mats, and on matting not otherwise specified, of the same and other exclusively vegetable materials, thirty per centum ad valorem.

On matting made of bass or linden wood bark, fifteen per centum ad valorem.

On fish lines of flax or hemp, or twines of flax or hemp, suitable for fish lines, valued at fifty cents
or less per pound, five cents per pound and thirty per centum ad valorem; valued at over fifty
cents, and not over one dollar per pound, ten cents per pound and thirty per centum ad valorem;
valued at over one dollar per pound, twenty cents per pound and thirty per centum ad valorem.

35 per c. and 40 6 c. p. sq. yard,

per cent.

Tarred, 3 c. p. lb.;
untarred, 34 c. p.
lb.; Mauilla, 2 c.
per lb.

and 30 p. c. to 40 per cent.

Manilla, 3 cents 3 cts. per pound. per pound.

3 c. per pound.. 3 cts. per pound. 4 c. per pound..

3 cts. per pound.

4 cts. per pound.

c. per sq. yd.; coir, 30 per ct. 30 per cent.....

30 per cent.. Flax, 40 per ct. hemp, 35 p. ct.

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