Act approved June 30, 1864. Digest of laws relating to duties on imports-Continued. Sec. 5 On lastings, mohair cloth, silk twist, or other manufacture of cloth, woven or made in patterns of such size, shape, and form, or cut in such manner, as to be fit for shoes, slippers, boots. bootees, gaiters, and buttons, exclusively, not combined with India-rubber, ten 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, forty per centum ad valorem : Sec. 6 (Cotton and cottons: for the duty on cotton yard or piece goods, see section 1, act of March 3, 1865:) Sec. 7 Sec. 8. On cotton shirts and drawers, woven or made on frames, and on all cotton hosiery, thirty-five per centum ad valorem: On cotton velvet, thirty-five per centum ad valorem: On cotton braids, insertings, lace, trimming, or bobbinet, and all other manufactures of cotton, not otherwise provided for, thirtyfive per centum ad valorem. And be it further enacted, That on and after the day and year aforesaid, in lieu of the duties heretofore imposed by law on the articles hereinafter mentioned, there shall be levied, collected, and paid, on the goods, wares, and merchandise enumerated and provided for in this section, imported from foreign countries, the following duties and rates of duty-that is to say: First. On brown and bleached linens, duck, canvas, paddings, cotton bottoms, burlaps, diapers, crash, huckabacks, handkerchiefs, lawns, or other manufactures of flax, jute, or hemp, or of which flax, jute, or hemp shall be the component material of chief value, not otherwise provided for, valued at thirty cents or less per square yard, thirty-five per centum ad valorem; valued at above thirty cents per square yard, forty per centum ad valorem. On flax or linen yarns for carpets, not exceeding number eight Lea, and valued at twenty-four cents or less per pound, thirty per centum ad valorem. On flax or linen yarns valued at above twenty-four cents per pound, thirty-five per centum ad valorem. On flax or linen thread, twine, and packthread, and all other manufactures of flax, or of which flax shall be the component material of chief value, not otherwise provided for, forty per centum ad valorem: Second. On tarred cables or cordage, three cents per pound. On untarred Manilla cordage, two and one-half cents per pound. On all other untarred cordage, three and one-half cents per pound. On hemp yarns, five cents per pound. On coir yarn, one and one-half cent per pound. On seines, six and one-half cents per pound: Third. On gunny cloth, gunny bags, and cotton bagging, or other manufacture not otherwise provided for, suitable for the uses to which cotton bagging is applied, composed in whole or in part of hemp, jute, flax, or other material, valued at ten cents or less per square yard, three cents per pound; over ten cents per square yard, four cents per pound. On sail duck or canvas for sails, thirty per centum ad valorem. On Russia and other sheetings of flax or hemp, brown and white, thirty-five per centum ad valorem. On all other manufactures of hemp, or of which hemp shall be the component material of chief value, not otherwise provided for, thirty per centum ad valorem. On grass cloth, thirty per centum ad valorem. On jute yarns, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. On all other manufactures of jute or Sisal grass, not otherwise provided for, thirty per centum ad valorem. And be it further enacted, That on and after the day and year aforesaid, in lieu of the duties heretofore imposed by law on the articles hereinafter mentioned, there shall be levied, collected, and paid, on the goods, wares, and merchandise enumerated and provided for in this section, imported from foreign countries, the following duties and rates of duty-that is to say: Digest of laws relating to duties on imports-Continued. Act approved Sec. 8 June 30, 1864. Cont'd. On spun silk for filling, in skeins or cops, twenty-five per centum ad valorem:* On silk in the gum not more advanced than singles, tram, and thrown or organzine, thirty-five per centum ad valorem. On floss silks, thirty-five per centum ad valorem. On sewing silk in the gum or purified, forty per centum ad valorem. On all dress and piece silks, ribbons, and silk velvets, or velvets of which silk is the component material of chief value, sixty per centum ad valorem. On silk vestings, pongees, shawls, scarfs, mantillas, pelerines, handkerchiefs, veils, laces, shirts, drawers, bonnets, hats, caps, turbans, chemisettes, hose, mitts, aprons, stockings, gloves, suspenders, watch chains, webbing, braids, fringes, galloons, tassels, cords, and trimmings, sixty per centum ad valorem : On all manufactures of silk, or of which silk is the component Sec. 9 And be it further enacted, That on and after the day and year afore- On slates, slate pencils, slate chimney pieces, mantels, slabs for On unwrought clay, pipe clay, fire clay, and kaoline, five dollars per ton: On fullers' earth, three dollars per ton: On white chalk and cliff stone, ten dollars per ton: On red and French chalk, twenty per centum ad valorem: On chalk of all descriptions, not otherwise provided for, twentyfive per centum ad valorem: On whiting and Paris-white, one cent per pound: On whiting, ground in oil, two cents per pound: On all plain and mould and press glass, not cut, engraved, or On all articles of glass, cut, engraved, painted, colored, printed, On cylinder and crown glass, polished, not exceeding ten by *Adds ten per cent. in sec. 2, act of March 3, 1865. See silk clothing in same act. Digest of laws relating to duties on imports-Continued. Act approved Sec. 9 June 30, 1864. Cont'd. On fluted, rolled, or rough plate glass, not including crown, cylinder, or common window glass, not exceeding ten by fifteen inches square, seventy-five cents per one hundred square feet; above that, and not exceeding sixteen by twenty-four inches square, one cent per square foot; above that, and not exceeding twenty-four by thirty inches square, one and one-half cent per square foot; all above that, two cents per square foot: Provided, That all fluted, rolled, or rough plate glass, weighing over one hundred pounds per one hundred square feet, shail pay an additional duty on the excess at the same rates herein imposed: On all cast polished plate glass, unsilvered, not exceeding ten by On all cast polished plate glass, silvered, or looking-glass plates Sec. 10 And be it further enacted, That on and after the day and year afore First. On annatto seed, extract of annatto, nitrate of barytes, carmined indigo, crude tica, extract of safflower, finishing powder, gold size and patent size, cobalt, oxide of cobalt, smalt, zaffie, and terra alba, twenty per centum ad valorem; on nickel, fifteen per centum ad valorem: Second. On albumen, asbestos, asphaltum, crocus, colcotra, blue or Roman vitriol or sulphate of copper, bone or ivory drop black, murexide, ultramarine, Indian red, and Spanish brown, twentyfive per centum ad valorem. Sec. 11 And be it further enacted, That on and after the day and year aforesaid, in lieu of the duties heretofore imposed by law on the articles hereinafter mentioned, there shall be levied, [and] collected, and paid, on the goods, wares, and merchandise enumerated and provided for in this section, imported from foreign countries, the following duties and rates of duty-that is to say: On acetic acid, acetous or concentrated vinegar, or pyroligneous acid, exceeding the specific gravity of 1.040, eighty cents per pound; not exceeding the specific gravity of 1.040, known as number eight, twenty-five cents per pound: On acetate or pyroliguate of ammonia, seventy cents per pound; of baryta, forty cents per pound; of iron, strontia, and zinc, Digest of laws relating to duties on imports-Continued. Aet approved Sec. 11 June 30, 1864. Cont'd. fifty cents per pound; of lead, twenty [cents] per pound; of magnesia and soda, fifty cents per pound; of lime, twenty-five per centum ad valorem: On analine dyes, one dollar per pound, and thirty-five per centum ad valorem: On blanc fixe, enamelled white, satin white, lime white, and all On almonds, six cents per pound; shelled, ten cents per pound: On opium, two dollars and fifty cents per pound: On opium prepared for smoking, and the extract of opium, one On morphine and its salts, two dollars and fifty cents per ounce : On brimstone, crude, six dollars per ton: On brimstone, in rolls, or refined, ten dollars per ton: On castor beans or seeds per bushel of fifty pounds, sixty cents: On chiccory root, four cents per pound; ground, burnt, or prepared, five cents per pound: On cassia, twenty cents per pound. On cassia buds and ground cassia, twenty-five cents per pound: On cinnamon, thirty cents per pound: On chloroform, one dollar per pound: On collodion and ethers of all kinds, not otherwise provided for, and ethereal preparations or extracts, fluid, one dollar per pound: On Cologne-water and other perfumery, of which alcohol forms the principal ingredient, three dollars per gallon, and fifty per centum ad valorem: On cloves, twenty cents per pound; on clove stems, ten cents per pound: On fusel oil, or amylic alcohol, two dollars per gallon: On Hoffman's anodyne and spirits of nitric ether, fifty cents per On bristles, fifteen cents per pound; on hogs' hair, one cent per On honey, twenty cents per gallon: On lead, white or red, and litharge, dry or ground in oil, three cents per pound: On percussion caps, forty per centum ad valorem : On lemons, oranges, pine-apples, plantains, cocoa-nuts, and fruits preserved in their own juice, and fruit juice, twenty-five per centum ad valorem: On licorice root, two cents per pound; on licorice paste or licorice in rolls, ten cents per pound: On nutmegs, fifty cents per pound: On mace, forty cents per pound: On oils, croton, one dollar per pound; olive, in flasks or bottles, and salad, one dollar per gallon; castor, one dollar per gallon; cloves, two dollars per pound; cognac or oenanthic ether, four dollars per ounce : On peanuts, or ground beans, one cent per pound; shelled, one and one-half cent per pound: On filberts and walnuts, of all kinds, three cents per pound: On pimento, and black, white, and red or Cayenne pepper, fifteen cents per pound; on ground pimento and pepper of all kinds, eighteen cents per pound: On spirits of turpentine, thirty cents per gallon: Digest of laws relating to duties on imports-Continued. Act approved Sec. 11 June 30, 1864. Cont'd. Sec. 12 Sec. 13 On sulphur, flour of, twenty dollars per ton and fifteen per centum ad valorem: On tannin and tannic acid, two dollars per pound; on gallie acid, one dollar and fifty cents per pound: On santonin, five dollars per pound: On salt in sacks, barrels, and other packages, twenty-four cents On crude saltpeter, [salt petre, ] two and one-half cents per pound: On vinegar, ten cents per gallon: On watches, gold or silver, twenty-five per centum ad valorem: On wood pencils, filled with lead or other materials, fifty cents per gross, and in addition thereto thirty per centum ad valorem: On ostrich, vulture, cock, and other ornamental feathers, crude or not dressed, colored, or manufactured, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; when dressed, colored, or manufactured, fifty per centum ad valorem: On playing cards, costing not over twenty-five cents per pack, And be it further enacted, That on and after the day and year afore- Billiard chalk: Ginger, preserved or pickled : Ivory or bone dice, draughts, chess men, chess balls, and bagatelle balls: Jellies of all kinds: On kid or other leather gloves of all descriptions, for men's, women's, or children's wear: On wooden and other toys for children, (not dolls.) And be it further enacted, That on and after the day and year afore- On cork, bark or wood, unmanufactured, thirty per centum ad On hatters' furs, not on the skin, and dressed furs on the skin, On gutta-percha, manufactured, forty per centum ad valorem: On marble, white statuary, brocatella, sienna, and verd antique |