218 



CONGRESS. (THE TARIFF MEASURE.) 



per centum ad valorem : Provided, That articles of 

 wearing apparel, and textile fabrics, when embroid- 

 ered by hand or machinery, and whether specially or 

 otherwise provided for in this act, shall not pay a less 

 rate of duty than that fixed by the respective para- 

 graphs and schedules of this act upon embroideries of 

 the materials of which they are respectively com- 



374. All manufactures of jute, or other vegetable 

 fiber, except flax, hemp, or cotton, or of which jute or 

 other vegetable nber, except flax, hemp, or cotton, ia 

 the component material of chief value, not specially 

 provided for in this act, valued at five cents per pound 

 or less, two cents per pound; valued above five cents 

 per pound, forty per centum ad valorem. 



SCHEDULE K. WOOL AND MANUFACTURES or WOOL. 



375. All wools, hair of the camel, goat, alpaca, and ( 

 other like animals, shall be divided for the purpose of 

 fixing the duties to be charged thereon into the three 

 following classes : 



376. Class one, that is to say, merinOj mestiza, 

 metz, or metis wools, or other wools of merino blood, 

 immediate or remote, Down clothing wools, and wools 

 of like character with any of the preceding, including 

 such as have been heretofore usually imported into 

 the United States from Buenos Ayres, New Zealand, 

 Australia, Cape of Good Hope. Eussia, Great Britain, 

 Canada, and elsewhere, and also including all wools 

 not hereinafter described or designated in classes two 

 and three. 



377. Class two, that is to say, Leicester, Cotswold, 

 Lincolnshire, Down combing wools, Canada long 

 wools, or other like combing wools of English blood, 

 and usually known by the terms herein used, and 

 also hair of the camel, goat, alpaca, and other like 

 animals. 



378. Class^ three, that is to say, Donskoi, native 

 South American, Cordova, Valparaiso, native Smyrna, 

 Kussian camel's hair, and including all such wools of 

 like character as have been heretofore usually im- 

 ported into the United States from Turkey, Greece. 

 Egypt, Syria, and elsewhere, excepting improved 

 wools hereinafter provided for. 



379. The standard samples of all wools which are 

 now or may be hereafter deposited in the principal 

 custom houses of the United States, under the author- 

 ity of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall be the 

 standards for the classification of wools under this 

 act, and the Secretary of the Treasury shall have the 

 authority to renew these standards and to make such 

 additions to them from time to time as may be re- 

 quired, and he shall cause to be deposited like stand- 

 ards in other custom houses of the United States 

 when they may be needed. 



380. Whenever wools of class three shall have been 

 improved by the admixture of merino or English 

 blood from their present character as represented by 

 the standard samples now or hereafter to be deposited 

 in the principal custom houses of the United States, 

 such improved wools shall be classified for duty either 

 as class one or as class two, as the case mav be. 



381. The duty on wools of the first class which 

 shall be imported washed shall be twice the amount 

 of the duty to which they would be subjected if im- 

 ported unwashed ; and the duty on wools of the first 

 and second classes which shall be imported scoured 

 shall be three times the duty to which they would be 

 subjected if imported unwashed. 



382. Unwashed wools shall be considered such as 

 shall have been shorn from the sheep without any 

 cleansing that is, in their natural condition. Washed 

 wools shall be considered such as have been washed 

 with water on the sheep's back. Wool washed in any 

 other manner than on the sheep's back shall be con- 

 sidered as scoured wool. 



383. The duty upon wool of the sheep or hair of 

 the camel, goat/alpaca, and other like animals, which 

 shall be imported in any other than ordinary condi- 

 tion, or which shall be changed in it* character or 

 condition for the purpose of evading the duty, or 



which shall be reduced in value, by the admixture of 

 dirt or any other foreign substance, or which has 

 been sorted or increased in value by the rejection of 

 any part of the original fleece, shall be twice the duty 

 to which it would be otherwise subject : Provided, 

 That skirted wools as now imported are hereby ex- 

 cepted. Wools on which a duty is assessed amount- 

 ing to three times or more than that which would be 

 assessed if said wool was imported unwashed, such 

 duty shall not be doubled on account of its being 

 sorted. If any bale or package of wool or hair speci- 

 fied in this act imported as of any specified class, or 

 claimed by the importer to be dutiable as of any 

 specified class, shall contain any wool or hair subject 

 to a higher rate of duty than the class so specified, 

 the whole bale or package shall be subject to the 

 highest rate of duty chargeable on wool of the class 

 subject to such higher rate of duty, and if any bale or 

 package be claimed by the importer to be shoddy, 

 mungo, flocks, wool, hair, or other material of any 

 class specified in this act, and such bale contain any 

 admixture of any one or more of said materials, or of 

 any other material, the whole bale or package shall 

 be subject to dutv at the highest rate imposed upon 

 any article in said bale or package. 



384. The duty upon all wools and hair of the first 

 class shall be eleven cents per pound, and upon all 

 wools or hair of the second class twelve cents per 

 pound. 



385. On wools of the third class and on camel's 

 hair of the third class the value whereof shall be thir- 

 teen cents or less per pound, including charges, the 

 duty shall be thirty -two per centum ad valorem. 



386. On wools of the third class, and on camel's 

 hair of the third class, the value whereof shall exceed 

 thirteen cents per pound including charges, the duty 

 shall be 50 per cent, ad valorem. 



387. Wools on the skin shall pay the same rate as 

 other wools, the quantity and value to be ascertained 

 under such rules as the Secretary of the Treasury 

 may prescribe. 



388. On noils, shoddy, top waste, slubbing waste, 

 roving waste, ring waste, yarn waste, garnetea 

 waste, and all other wastes composed wholly or in 

 part of wool, the duty shall be thirty cents per 

 pound. 



389. On woolen rags, mungo, and flocks, the duty 

 shall be ten cents per pound. 



390. Wools and hair of the camel, goat, alpaca, or 

 other like animals, in the form of roping, 'roving, or 



tops, and all wool and hair which have been ad- 

 vanced in any manner or by any process of manu- 

 facture beyond the washed or scoured condition, not 

 specially provided for in this act, shall be subject to 

 the same duties as are imposed upon manufactures of 

 wool not specially provided for in this act. 



391. On woolen and worsted yarns made wholly or 

 in part of wool, worsted, the hair of the camel, <roat, 

 alpaca, or other animals, valued' at not more than 

 thirty cents per pound, the duty per pound shall \ 

 two and one half times the duty imposed by this act 

 on a pound of unwashed wool of the first class, andin 

 addition thereto, thirty-five per centum ad valorem ; 

 valued at more than thirty cents and not more than 

 forty cents per pound, the duty per pound shall be 

 three times the duty imposed by this act on a pound 

 of unwashed wool of the first class, and in addition 

 thereto, thirty-five per centum ad valorem ; valued at 

 more than forty cents per pound, the duty per pound 

 shall be three and one half times the duty imposed by 

 this act on a pound of unwashed wool of the first class, 

 and in addition thereto, forty per centum ad valorem. 



392. On woolen or worsted cloths, shawls, knit 

 fabrics, and all fabrics made on knitting machine! o 

 frames, and all manufactures of every description 

 made wholly or in part of wool, worsted, the hair of tl 

 camel, goat, alpaca, or other animals, not special 

 provided tor in this act, valued at not more than thir 

 cents per pound, the duty per pound shall be three 

 times the duty imposed by this act on a pound of ui 

 washed wool 'of the first class, and in addition there- 



