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Act approved June 30, 1864.

Digest of laws relating to duties on imports-Continued.

Sec. 5
Cont'd.

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
material of chief value, not otherwise provided for, fifty per
centum ad valorem.

Sec. 9 And be it further enacted, That on and after the day and year afore-
said, 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 coun-
tries, the following duties and rates of duty-that is to say:
On all brown earthenware and common stoneware, gas retorts,
stoneware not ornamented, twenty-five per centum ad valorem:
On China, porcelain, and Parian ware, gilded, ornamented, or
decorated in any manner, fifty per centum ad valorem:
On China, porcelain, and Parian ware, plain white, and not de-
corated in any manner, forty-five per centum ad valorem; on
all other earthen, stone, or crockery ware, white, glazed, edged,
printed, painted, dipped, or cream-colored, composed of earthy
or mineral substances, and not otherwise provided for, forty
per centum ad valorem:

On slates, slate pencils, slate chimney pieces, mantels, slabs for
tables, and all other manufactures of slate, forty per centum ad
valorem:

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
painted, thirty-five per centum ad valorem:

On all articles of glass, cut, engraved, painted, colored, printed,
stained, silvered, or gilded, not including plate glass silvered,
or looking glass plates, forty per centum ad valorem:
On all unpolished cylinder, crown, and common window-glass,
not exceeding ten by fifteen inches square, one and one-half
cent per pound; above that, and not exceeding sixteen by
twenty-four inches square, two cents [per] pound; above that,
and not exceeding twenty-four by thirty inches square, two
and one-half cents per pound; all above that, three cents per
pound:

On cylinder and crown glass, polished, not exceeding ten by
fifteen inches square, two and one-half cents per square foot;
above that, and not exceeding sixteen by twenty-four inches
square, four cents per square foot; above that, and not exceed-
ing twenty-four by thirty inches square, six cents per square
foot; above that, and not exceeding twenty-four by sixty
inches, twenty cents per square foot; all above that, forty
cents per square foot:

*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
fifteen inches square, three cents per square foot; above that,
and not exceeding sixteen by twenty-four inches square, five
cents per square foot: above that, and not exceeding twenty-
four by thirty inches square, eight cents per square foot; above
that, and not exceeding twenty-four by sixty inches square,
twenty-five cents per square foot; all above that, fifty cents per
square foot:

On all cast polished plate glass, silvered, or looking-glass plates
not exceeding ten by fifteen inches square, four cents per square
foot; above that, and not exceeding sixteen by twenty-four
inches square, six cents per square foot; above that, and not
exceeding twenty-four by thirty inches square, ten cents per
square foot; above that, and not exceeding twenty-four by
sixty inches square, thirty-five cents per square foot; all abov
that, sixty cents per square foot: Provided, That no looking
glass plates or plate glass, silvered, when framed, shall pay
less rate of duty than that imposed upon similar glass of lik
description not framed, but shall be liable to pay in addition
thereto thirty per centum ad valorem upon such frames:
On porcelain and Bohemian glass, glass crystals for watche,
paintings on glass or glasses, pebbles for spectacles, and al
manufactures of glass, or of which glass shall be a componert
material, not otherwise provided for, and all glass bottles or jan
filled with sweetmeats or preserves, not otherwise provided for
forty per centum ad valorem.

Sec. 10 And be it further enacted, That on and after the day and year afore
said, in lieu of the duties heretofore imposed by law on th
articles hereinafter mentioned, and on such as may now b
exempt from duty, 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 follow-
ing duties and rates of duty-that is to say:

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
combinations of barytes with acids or water, three cents per
pound; on carmine lake, dry or liquid, thirty-five per centum
ad valorem; on French green, Paris green, mineral green,
mineral blue, and Prussian blue, dry or moist, thirty per
centum ad valorem:

On almonds, six cents per pound; shelled, ten cents per pound:
On articles not otherwise provided for, made of gold, silver,
German silver, or platina, or of which either of these metals
shall be a component part, forty per centum ad valorem:
On antimony, crude, and regulus of antimony, ten per centum
ad valorem:

On opium, two dollars and fifty cents per pound:

On opium prepared for smoking, and the extract of opium, one
hundred per centum ad valorem :

On morphine and its salts, two dollars and fifty cents per ounce :
On arrowroot, thirty per centum ad valorem :

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
pound:

On bristles, fifteen cents per pound; on hogs' hair, one cent per
pound; on istle, or Tampico fibre, one cent per pound:
On brushes of all kinds, forty per centum ad valorem:

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
per one hundred pounds. On salt in bulk, eighteen cents per
one hundred pounds:

On crude saltpeter, [salt petre, ] two and one-half cents per pound:
On strychnine and its salts, one dollar and fifty cents per ounce:
On tagger's iron, thirty per centum ad valorem:

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,
twenty five cents per pack; costing over twenty-five cents per
pack, thirty-five cents per pack.

And be it further enacted, That on and after the day and year afore-
said there shall be levied, collected, and paid a duty of fifty per
centum ad valorem on the importation of the articles hereinafter
mentioned and embraced in this section-that is to say:
Anchovies and sardines, preserved in oil or otherwise:
Artificial and ornamental feathers and flowers, or parts thereof,
of whatever material composed, not otherwise provided for,
beads and bead ornaments:

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-
said, 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:
On books, periodicals, pamphlets, blank books, bound or un-
bound, and all printed matter, engravings, bound or unbound,
illustrated books and papers, and maps and charts, twenty-five
per centum ad valorem:

On cork, bark or wood, unmanufactured, thirty per centum ad
valorem. On corks and cork bark, manufactured, fifty per
centum ad valorem :

On hatters' furs, not on the skin, and dressed furs on the skin,
twenty per centum ad valorem. Furs on the skin, undressed,
ten per centum ad valorem :
On fire-crackers, one dollar per box of forty packs, not exceeding
eighty to each pack, and in the same proportion for any greater
number:

On gutta-percha, manufactured, forty per centum ad valorem:
On gunpowder, and all explosive substances used for mining,
blasting, artillery, or sporting purposes, when valued at twenty
cents or less per pound, a duty of six cents per pound, and in
addition thereto twenty per centum ad valorem; valued above
twenty cents per pound, a duty of ten cents per pound, and in
addition thereto twenty per centum ad valorem:

On marble, white statuary, brocatella, sienna, and verd antique

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