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CONGRESS. (THE TARIFF MEASURE.) 



prescribe, for the payment of lawful duties which 

 may accrue should any of the articles aforesaid be 

 sold, transferred, or used contrary to this provision, 

 and such articles shall be subject, at any time, to ex- 

 amination and inspection by the proper officers of the 

 customs : Provided, That the privileges of this and 

 the preceding section shall not be allowed to asso- 

 ciations or corporations engaged in or connected with 

 business of a private or commercial character. 



760. Yams. 



761. Zaffer. 



SEC. 3. That with a view to secure_ reciprocal trade 

 with countries producing the following articles, and 

 for this purpose, on and after the first day of January, 

 eighteen hundred and ninety-two, whenever, and so 

 often as the President shall be satisfied that the Gov- 

 ernment of any country producing and exporting 

 sugars, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides, raw and un- 

 cured, or any of such articles, imposes duties or other 

 exactions upon the agricultural or other products of 

 the United States, which in view of the free intro- 

 duction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides 

 into the United States he may deem to be reciprocally 

 unequal and unreasonable, ne shall have the power 

 and it shall be his duty to suspend, by proclamation 

 to that effect, the provisions of this act relating to the 

 free introduction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea, 

 and hides, the production of such country, for such 

 time as he shall deem just, and in such case and dur- 

 ing such suspension duties shall be levied, collected, 

 and paid upon sugar, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides, 

 the product of or exported from such designated coun- 

 try as follows, namely : 



All sugars not above number thirteen Dutch stand- 

 ard in color shall pay duty on their polariscopic tests 

 as follows, namely : 



All sugars not above number thirteen Dutch stand- 

 ard in color, all tank bottoms, sirups of cane juice 

 or of beet juice, melada, concentrated melada, con- 

 crete and concentrated molasses, testing by the polar- 

 iscope not above seventy-five degrees, seventh tenths 

 of one cent per pound ; and for every additional de- 

 gree or fraction of a degree shown by the polariscopic 

 test, two hundredths of one cent per pound additional. 



All sugars above number thirteen Dutch standard 

 in color shall be classified by the Dutch standard of 

 color, and pay duty as follows, namely: All sugar 

 above number thirteen and not above number sixteen 

 Dutch standard of color, one and three eighths cent 

 per pound. 



All sugars above number sixteen and not above 

 number twenty Dutch standard of color, one and five 

 eighths cent per pound. 



All sugars above number twenty Dutch standard of 

 color, two cents per pound. 



Molasses testing above fifty-six degrees, four cents 

 per gallon. 



Sugar drainings and sugar sweepings shall be sub- 

 ject to duty either as molasses or sugar, as the case 

 may be, according to polariscopic test. 



On coffee, three cents per pound. 



On tea, ten cents per pound. 



Hides, raw or uncured, whether dry, salted, or 

 pickled, Angora goat skins, raw, without the wool, 

 unmanufactured, asses' skins, raw or unmanufactured, 

 and skins, except sheep skins, with the wool on, one 

 and one half cent per pound. 



SEO. 4. That there shall be levied, collected, and 

 paid on the importation of all raw or unmanufactured 

 articles, not enumerated or provided for in this act, a 

 duty of ten per centum ad valorem ; and on all arti- 

 cles manufactured, in whole or in part, not pro- 

 vided for in this act, a duty of twenty per centum ad 

 valorem. 



SEO. 5. That each and every imported article, not 

 enumerated in this act, which is similar, either in 

 material, quality, texture, or the use to which it may 

 be applied, to any article enumerated in this act as 

 chargeable with duty shall \>ay the same rate of duty 

 which is levied on the enumerated article which it 

 most resembles in any of the particulars before men- 



tioned : and if any non-enumerated article equally 

 resembles two or more enumerated articles on which, 

 different rates of duty are chargeable there shall be 

 levied on such non-enumerated article the same rate 

 of duty as is chargeable on the article which it resem- 

 bles paying the highest rate of duty ; and on articles 

 not enumerated, manufactured of two or more materi- 

 als, the duty shall be assessed at the highest rate at 

 which the same would be chargeable if composed 

 wholly of the component material thereof of chief 

 value ; and the words " component material of chief 

 value," wherever used in this act, shall be held to mean 

 that component material which shall exceed in value 

 any other single component material of the article ; 

 and the value of each component material shall be 

 determined by the ascertained value of such material 

 in its condition as found in the article. If two or 

 more rates of duty shall be applicable to any im- 

 ported article it shall pay duty at the highest of such 

 rates. 



t SEC. 6. That on and after the first day of March, 

 eighteen hundred and ninety-one, all articles of for- 

 eign manufacture, such as are usually or ordinarily 

 marked, stamped, branded, or labeled, and all pack- 

 ages containing such or other imported articles, shall, 

 respectively, be plainly marked, stamped, branded, 

 or labeled in legible English words, so as to indicate 

 the. country of their origin ; and unless so marked, 

 stamped, branded, or labeled, they shall not be ad- 

 mitted to entry. 



SEC. 7. That on and after March first, eighteen 

 hundred and ninety-one, no article of imported mer- 

 chandise which shall copy or simulate trie name or 

 trade-mark of any domestic manufacture or manu- 

 facturer, shall be admitted to entry at any custom 

 house of the United States. And in order to aid the 

 officers of the customs in enforcing this prohibition, 

 afty domestic manufacturer who has adopted trade- 

 marks may require his name and residence and a de- 

 scription of his trade-marks to be recorded in books 

 which shall be kept for that purpose in the Depart- 1 

 ment of the Treasury under such regulations as the | 

 Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe, and mayj 

 furnish to the department fac-similes of such trade-; 

 marks ; and thereupon the Secretary of the Treasury 

 shall cause one or more copies of the same to be trans- j 

 mitted to each collector or other proper officer of the) 

 customs. 



SEC. 8. That all lumber, timber, hemp, manilla, 

 wire rope, and iron and steel rods, bars, spikes, nails! 

 plates, tees, angles, beams, and bolts and copper and 

 composition metal which may be necessary for th( 

 construction and equipment of vessels built in th< 

 United States for foreign account and ownership oil 

 for the purpose of being employed in the fpreitfi 

 trade, including the trade between the Atlantic am 

 Pacific ports of the United States, after the passage o 

 this act, may be imported in bond, under such regu; 

 lations as the Secretary of the Treasury may pre| 

 scribe ; and upon proof that such materials have beei 

 used for such purpose no duties shall be paid thereon 

 But vessels receiving the benefit of this section shalj 

 not be allowed to engage in the coastwise trade of th < 

 United States more than two months in any one yeaii 

 except upon the payment to the United States of th; 

 duties on which a rebate is herein allowed : Provided] 

 That vessels built in the United States for foreign acl 

 count and ownership shall not be allowed to engag 

 in the coastwise trade of the United States. 



SEC. 9. That all articles of foreign production needc 

 for the repair of American vessels engaged in f'oreig 

 trade, including the trade between the Atlantic anj 

 Pacific ports of the United States, may be withdraw; 

 from bonded warehouses free of duty, under suci 

 regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may pr< 

 scribe. 



SEO. 10. That all medicines, preparations, comp< 

 sitions, perfumery, cosmetics, cordials, and otn<! 

 liquors manufactured wholly or in part of domesti 

 spirits, intended for exportation, as provided by In 

 in order to be manufactured and sold or remove' 



