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CONGRESS. (THE TARIFF BILL) 



137. Chains of nil kinds, made of iron or steel, 

 thirty per centum ad valorem. 



Cutlery. 138. Penknives, pocketknives, or erasers 

 of all kinds, valued at not more than thirty cents per 

 dozen, twenty-five per centum ad valorem'; valued at 

 more than thirty cents per dozen and not exceeding 

 fifty cents per dozen, twelve cents per dozen; valued 

 at more than fifty cents per dozen and not exceeding 

 one dollar per dozen, twenty-five cents per dozen ; 

 valued at more than one dollar per dozen and not 

 exeeedimr "e dollar and fifty cents per dozen, forty 

 cents per dozen ; valued at more than one dollar and 

 fi t'ty cents per dozen and not exceeding three dollars per 

 dozen, seventy-five cents per dozen; valued at more 

 than three dollars per dozen, fifty per centum ad va- 

 lorem ; and in addition thereto, on all the foregoing 

 valued at more than thirty cents per dozen and not more 

 than three dollars per dozen, twenty-five per centum ad 

 valorem : Provided, That blades, handles, or any other 

 parts of any or either of the articles named in this 

 paragraph, imported in any other manner than as- 

 semhled in penknives, pocketknives. or erasers, shall 

 be subject to no less rate of duty than herein provided 

 for penknives, pocketknives, 'or erasers valued at 

 more than thirty cents a dozen. 



139. Swords, sword blades, and side arms, thirty- 

 five per centum ad valorem. 



140. Table and carving knives and forks valued at 

 more than four dollars per dozen pieces, razors and 

 razor blades wholly or partly finished, scissors, arid 

 shears, forty -five per centum ad valorem; all other 

 table knives, forks, steels, and all hunting, kitchen, 

 bread, butter, vegetable, fruit, cheese, plumbers', 

 painters', palette, and artists' knives, also all cooks' 

 and buchers' knives, forks, and steels, thirty-five per 

 centum ad valorem. 



141. Files, file blanks, rasps, and floats of all cuts 

 and kinds four inches in length and under, thirty-five 

 cents per dozen ; over four inches in length and under 

 nine inches, sixty cents per dozen ; nine inches in 

 length or over, one dollar per dozen. 



Firearms. 142. Muskets, muzzle-loading shotguns 

 and sporting rifles, and parts thereof, twenty-five per 

 centum ad valorem. 



143. Sporting breech-loading shotguns, combina- 

 tion shotguns and rifles and pistols, and parts of all 

 the foregoing, thirty per centum ad valorem. 



144. Sheets, plates, wares or articles of iron, steel, 

 or other metal, enameled or glazed with vitreous 

 glasses, thirty-live per centum ad valorem. 



Nails, Spikes, Tacks, and Needles. 145. Cut nails 

 and cut spikes of iron or steel, twenty-two and one 

 half per centum ad valorem. 



146. Horseshoe nails, hobnails, and all other wrought 

 iron or steel nails not specially provided for in this 

 act. thirty per centum ad valorem. 



147. Wire nails made of wrought iron or steel, 

 twenty-five per centum ad valorem. 



148. Spikes, nuts and washers, and horse, mule, or 

 ox shoes of wrought iron or steel, twenty-five per 

 centum ad valorem. 



14'J. Cut tacks, brads, or springs of all kinds, twenty- 

 five per centum ad valorem. 



150. Needles for knitting or sewing machines, cro- 

 chet needles and tape needles, knitting and all other 

 needles not especially provided for in this act, and 

 bodkins of metal, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. 



Plates. 151. Steel plates engraved, stereotype 

 plates, electrotype plates, and plates of other ma- 

 terials, engraved or lithographed, for printing, twenty- 

 five per centum ad valorem. 



152. Railway fish plates or splice bars, made of iron 

 or steel, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. 



153. Rivets of iron or steel, t .venty-five per centum 

 ad valorem. 



Saws. 154. Crosscut saws, six cents per linear 

 foot; mill saws, ten cents per linear foot; pit and 

 drag saws, eight cents per linear foot; circular saws, 

 twenty-five per centum ad valorem ; hand back, and 

 all other saws not especially provided for in this act, 

 twenty-five per centum ad valorem. 



155. Screws, commonly called wood screws, more 

 than two inches in length, three cents per pound ; 

 over one inch and not more than two inches in 

 length, five cents per pound ; over one half inch and 

 not more than one inch in length, seven cents per 

 pound ; one half inch and less in length, ten cents 

 per pound. 



155i. Umbrella and parasol ribs, and stretcher 

 frames, tips, runners, handles, or other parts thereof, 

 made in whole or chief part of iron, steel, or any other 

 metal, fifty per centum ad valorem. 



156. Wheels for railway purposes, or parts thereof, 

 made of iron or steel, and steel-tired wheels for rail- 

 way purposes, whether wholly or partly finished, and 

 iron or steel locomotive, car, or other railway tires or 

 parts thereof, wholly or partly manufactured, and in- 

 gots, cogged ingots, blooms, or blanks for the same, 

 without regard to the degree of manufacture, one and 

 one quarter cent per pound : Provided, That when 

 wheels or parts thereof, of iron or steel are imported 

 with iron or steel axles fitted in them, the wheels 

 and axles together shall be dutiable at the same 

 rate as is provided for the wheels when imported 

 separately. 



Miscellaneous Metals, and Manufactures of. 157. 

 Aluminium, in crude form, alloys of any kind in 

 which aluminium is the component material of chief 

 value, ten cents per pound. 



158. Argentine, albata or German silver, unmanu- 

 factured,, fifteen per centum ad valorem. 



159. Brass, in bars or pigs, old brass, clippings from 

 brass or Dutch metal, and old sheathing, or yellow 

 metal, tit only for remanufacture, ten per centum ad 

 valorem. 



160. Bronze powder, metallics, or flitters, bronze or 

 Dutch metal, or aluminium, in leaf, forty per centum 

 ad valorem. 



_ Copper. 161. Copper in rolled plates, called bra- 

 ziers' copper, sheets, rods, pipes, and copper bottoms, 

 also sheathing or yellow metal of which copper is 

 the component material of chief value, and not com- 

 posed wholly or in part of iron ungalvanized, twenty 

 per centum ad valorem. 



Gold and Silver. 162. Bullions and metal thread 

 of gold, silver, or other metals, not specially provided 

 for "in this act, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. 



163. Gold leaf, thirty per centum ad valorem. 



164. Silver leaf and silver powder, thirty per cen- 

 tum ad valorem. 



Lead. 165. Lead ore and lead dross, three quarters 

 of one cent per pound : Provided, That silver ore and 

 all other ores containing lead shall pay a duty of three 

 quarters of one cent per pound on the lead contained 

 therein, according to sample and assay at the port of 

 entry, the method of sampling and assaying to be 

 that usually adopted for commercial purposes by 

 public sampling works in the United States. 



166. Lead in "piers and bars, molten and old refuse 

 lead run into blocks and bars, and old scrap lead, fit 

 only to be remanufactured, one cent per pound : Pro- 

 vided, That in case any foreign country shall impose 

 an export duty upon lead ore or lead dross or silver 

 ores containing lead, exported to the United States 

 from such country, then the duty upon lead in pigs 

 and bars, molten and old refuse lead run into blocks 

 and bars, and old scrap lead fit only to be remanu- 

 factured, herein provided for, when imported from 

 such country, shall remain the same as fixed by the 

 law in force prior to the passage of this act. 



167. Lead in sheets, pipes, shot, glaziers' lead, and 

 lead wire, one and one quarter cent per pound. 



167i. Nickel, nickel oxide, alloy of any kind in 

 which nickel is the component material of chief 

 value, six cents per pound. 



167*. Mica, twentv per centum ad valorem 



168. Pens, metallic, except gold pens, eight cents 

 per gross. 



169. Penholder tips, penholders or parts thereof, 

 and gold pens, twenty per centum ad valorem. 



170. Pins, metallic, including pins with solid or 

 glass heads, hairpins, safety pins, and hat, bonnet, 





