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fron or steel flat rails, seven twentieths of one cent 

 per pound. 



118. Sheets of iron or steel, common or black, in- 

 cluding all iron or steel commercially known as com- 

 mon or black taggers iron or steel, and skelp iron or 

 steel, valued at three cents per pound or less, thinner 

 than Mo. 10 and not thinner than No. 20 wire gauge, 

 seven tenths of one cent per pound ; thinner than No. 

 '20 wire gauge and not thinner than No. 25 wire 

 gauge, eight tenths of one cent per pound; thinner 

 than No. 25 wire gauge, one and one tenth cent per 

 pound ; corrugated or crimped, one and one tenth cent 

 per pound : Provided, That all common or black sheet 

 iron or sheet steel not thinner than No. 10 wire gauge 

 shall pay duty as plate iron or plate steel. 



119. All iron or steel sheets or plates, and all hoop, 

 hand, or scroll iron or steel, excepting what are 

 known commercially as tin plates, terne plates,and tag- 

 gers tin, and hereinafter provided for, when galvanized 

 or coated with zinc or spelter, or other metals, or any 

 alloy of those metals, shall pay one quarter of one cent 

 per pound more duty than the rates imposed by the pre- 

 ceding paragraph upon the corresponding gauges or 

 forms of common black sheet or taggers iron or steel. 



120. Sheet iron or sheet steel, polished, planished, 

 or glanced, by whatever name designated, one and 

 three quarters cent per pound : Promded, That plate 

 or sheet or taggers iron or steel, by w-hatever name 

 designated, other than the polished, planished, or 

 glanced herein provided for, which has been picked 

 or cleaned by acid or by any other material or process, 

 or which is cold-rolled, smoothed only, not polished, 

 shall pay one eighth of one cent per pound more duty 

 than the corresponding gauges of common or black 

 sheet or taggers iron or steel. 



121. Sheets or plates of iron or. steel, or taggers iron 

 or steel, coated with tin or lead, or with a mixture of 

 which these metals, or either of them, is a component 

 part, by the dipping or any other process, and com- 

 mercially known as tin plates, terne plates, and tag- 

 gers tin, one and one fifth cent per pound : Provided, 

 That the reduction of duty herein provided for shall 

 take effect on and after Oct. 1, 1894. No article not 

 specially provided for in this act, wholly or partly 

 manufactured from tin plate, terne plate, or the sheet, 

 or plate iron or steel herein provided for, or of which 

 such tin plate, terne plate, sheet, or plate iron or steel 

 shall be the material of chief value, shall pay a lower 

 rate of duty than that imposed on the tin plate, terne 

 plate, or sheet, or plate iron or steel from which it is 

 made, or of which it shall be the component thereof 

 of chief value. 



122. Steel ingots, cogged ingots, blooms, and slabs, 

 by whatever process made ; die blocks or blanks ; bil- 

 lets and bars and tapered or beveled bars ; steamer, 

 crank, and other shafts; shafting: wrist or crank 

 pins ; connecting rods and piston rods ; pressed, 

 sheared, or stamped shapes: saw plates, wholly or 

 partially manufactured ; hammer molds or swaged 

 steel ; gun-barrel molds not in bars ; alloys used as 

 substitutes for steel in the manufacture of tools; all 

 descriptions and shapes of dry sand, loam, or iron- 

 molded steel castings; sheets and plates not specially 

 provided for in this act ; and steel in all forms and 

 shapes not specially provided for in this act, all of the 

 above valued at one cent per pound or less, three 

 tenths of one cent per pound ; valued above one cent 

 and not above one and four tenths cent per pound, 

 four tenths of one cent per pound ; valued above one 

 and four tenths cent and not above one and eight 

 tenths cent per pound, six tenths of one cent per 

 pound ; valued above one and eight tenths cent and 

 not above two and two tenths cents per pound, seven 

 tenths of one cent; valued above two and two tenths 

 cents and not above three cents per pound, nine tenths 

 of one cent per pound ; valued above three cents per 

 pound and not above four cents per pound, one and 

 two tenths cent per pound ; valued above four cents 

 and not above seven cents per pound, one and three 

 tenths cent per pound; valued above seven cents and 

 not above ten cents per pound, one and nine tenths 



cent per pound; valued, above ten cents and not 

 above thirteen cents per pound, two and four tenths 

 cents per pound ; valued above thirteen cents and not 

 above sixteen cents per pound, two and eight tenths 

 cents per pound; valued above sixteen cents per 

 pound, four and seven tenths cents per pound. 



Wire. 123. Wire rods: .Rivet, screw, fence, and 

 other iron or steel wire rods, whether round, oval, Hat, 

 or_ square, or in any other shape, and nail rods, in 

 coils or otherwise, valued at four cents or less per 

 pound, four tenths cent per pound; valued over four 

 cents per pound, three quarters cent per pound : Pro- 

 vided, That all round iron or steel rods smaller than 

 number six wire gauge shall be classed and dutiable 

 as wire. 



124. Wire, round iron or steel wire, all sizes not 

 smaller than thirteen wire gauge, one and one quar- 

 ter cent per pound ; smaller "than thirteen wire gauge 

 and not smaller than sixteen wire gauge, one and one 

 half cent per pound ; smaller than sixteen wire gauge, 

 two cents per pound ; all other iron or steel wire and 

 wire or strip steel commonly known as crinoline wire, 

 corset wire,drill rods, needle wire, piano wire, clock and 

 watch wires, and all steel wires, whether polished or 

 unpolished, in coils or straightened and cut to lengths, 

 drawn cold through dies, and hat wire, flat steel wire, 

 or sheet steel in strips uncovered or covered with cot- 

 ton, silk, or other material or metal, and all the fore- 

 going manufactures of iron or steel, of whatever shape 

 or form, valued above four cents per pound, shall pay 

 a duty of forty per centum ad valorem : Provided, 

 That articles manufactured from iron or steel wires 

 shall pay the maximum rate of duty which would be 

 imposed upon any wire used in the manufacture of 

 suoh articles, and in addition thereto one cent per 

 pound. 



General Provisions. 125. No allowance or reduc- 

 tion of duties for partial loss or damage in consequence 

 of rust or discoloration shall be made upon any de- 

 scription of iron or steel, or upon any article wholly 

 or partly manufactured of iron or steel. 



Manufactures of Iron and Steel. 126. Anchors, or 

 parts thereof, of iron or steel, mill irons and mill 

 cranks of wrought iron and wrought iron for ships, 

 and forgings ofiron or steel, or of combined iron and 

 steel, for vessels, steam engines, and locomotives, or 

 parts thereof, one and two tenths cent per pound. 



127.- Axles, or parts thereof, axle bars, axle blanks, 

 or forgings for axles, whether of iron or steel, without 

 reference to the stage or state of manufacture, one and 

 one half cent per pound : Provided, That when iron 

 or steel axles are imported fitted in wheels, or parts 

 of wheels, of iron or steel, they shall be dutiable at 

 the same rate as the wheels in which they are fltted. 



128. Anvils of iron or steel, or of iron and steel 

 combined, by whatever process made, or in whatever 

 stage of manufacture, one and three quarters cent per 

 pound. 



129. Blacksmiths' hammers and sledges, track tools, 

 wedges, and crowbars, whether of iron or steel, one 

 and one half cent per pound. 



130. Boiler or other tubes, pipes, flues, or stays of 

 wrought iron or steel, twenty-five per centum ad 

 valorem. 



131. Bolts, with or without threads or nuts, or bolt 

 blanks, and finished hinges or hinge blanks, whether 

 of iron or steel, one and one half cent per pound. 



132. Card clothing manufactured from tempered 

 steel wire, forty cents per square foot; all others, 

 twenty cents per square foot. 



133. Cast-iron pipe of every description, six tenths 

 of one cent per pound. 



134. Cast-iron vessels, plates, stove plates, and- 

 irons, sadirons, tailors' irons, hatters' irons, and cast- 

 ings of iron not specially provided for in this act, 

 eight tenths of one cent per pound. 



135. Castings of malleable iron not specially pro- 

 vided for in "this act, nine tenths of one cent per 

 pound. 



136. Cast, hollow ware, coated, glazed, or. tinned, 

 two cents per pound. 



