CONGRESS. (THE TARIFF BILL.) 



United States is prohibited : Provided, That the opera- 

 tion of this section shall be suspended as to any for- 

 eign country or countries, or any part of such coun- 

 try or countries, whenever the Secretary of the 

 Treasury shall officially determine, and give public 

 notice thereof that such importation will not tend 

 to the introduction or spread of contagious or infec- 

 tious diseases among the cattle of the United States ; 

 and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby author- 

 ixrd and empowered, and it shall be his duty, to make 

 all necessary orders arid regulations to carry this sec- 

 tion into effect, or to suspend the same as herein pro- 

 vided, and to send copies thereof to the proper officers 

 of the United States, and to such officers or agents of 

 the United States in foreign countries as he shall 

 judge necessary. 



SEC. 18. That any person convicted of a willful 

 violation of any of the provisions of the preceding 

 section shall be fined not exceeding five hundred 

 dollars, or imprisoned not exceeding one year, or 

 both, in the discretion of the court. 



SEC. 19. That upon the reimportation of articles 

 once exported of the growth, product, or manufacture 

 of the United States, upon which no internal tax has 

 been assessed or paid, or upon which such tax has 

 been paid and refunded by allowance or drawback, 

 there shall be levied, collected, and paid a duty equal 

 to the tax imposed by the internal-revenue laws upon 

 such articles, except articles manufactured in bonded 

 warehouses and exported pursuant to law, which shall 

 be subject to the same rate of duty as if originally 

 imported. 



SEC. 20. That whenever any vessel, laden with 

 merchandise in whole or in part subject to duty, has 

 been sunk in any river, harbor, bay, or waters sub- 

 ject to the jurisdiction of the United States, and 

 within its limits, for the period of two years, and is 

 abandoned bv the owner thereof, any person who 

 may raise sucli vessel shall be permitted to bring any 

 merchandise recovered therefrom into the port near- 

 est to the place where such vessel was raised free from 

 the payment of any duty thereupon, but under such 

 regulations as the Secretary ot the Treasury may 

 prescribe. 



SEC. 21. That the works of manufacturers engaged 

 in smelting or refining metals, or both smelting and 

 refining, in the United States, may be designated as 

 bonded' warehouses under such regulations as the 

 Secretary of the Treasury rnav prescribe : Provided, 

 That such manufacturers" shall first give satisfactory 

 bonds to the Secretary of the Treasury. Ores or 

 metals in any crude form, requiring smelting or re- 

 fining to make them readily available in the arts, 

 imported into the United States to be smelted or 

 refined and intended to be exported in a refined but 

 unmanufactured state, shall, under such rules as the 

 Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, and under 

 the direction of the proper officer, be removed in 

 original packages or in bulk from the vessel or other 

 vehicle on which they have been imported, or from 

 the bonded warehouse in which such smelting or 

 refining, or both, may be carried on, for the purpose 

 of being smelted or refined, or both, without payment 

 of duties thereon, and may there be smelted or re- 

 fined, together with other metals of home or foreign 

 production : Provided, That each day a quantity of 

 refined metal, equal to the amount of imported metal 

 smelted or refined that day, shall be set aside ; and 

 such metal so set aside shall not be taken from said 

 works except for transportation to another bonded 

 warehouse or for exportation, under the direction of 

 the proper officer having charge thereof as aforesaid, 

 whose certificate, describing the articles by their 

 marks or otherwise, the quantity, the date of importa- 

 tion, the name of vessel or other vehicle bv which it 

 was imported, with such additional particulars as 

 may from time to time be required, shall be received 

 by the collector of customs as sufficient evidence of 

 the exportation of the metal, or it may be removed 

 under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treas- 

 ury may prescribe, upon entry and payment of duties, 



for domestic consumption. All labor performed and 

 services rendered under these regulations shall be 

 under the supervision of an officer of the customs, to 

 be appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and 

 at the expense of the manufacturer. 



SKC. 22. That where imported materials on which 

 duties have been paid are used in the manufacture of 

 articles manufactured or produced in the United 

 States there shall be allowed, on the exportation of 

 such articles, a drawback equal in amount to the 

 duties paid on the materials used, less one per centum 

 of such duties : Provided, That, when the articles ex- 

 ported are made in part from domestic materials, the 

 imported materials, or the parts of the articles made 

 from such materials, shall so appear in the completed 

 article that the quantity or measure thereof may be 

 ascertained: And provided further, That the draw- 

 back on any article allowed' under existing law shall 

 be continued at the rate herein provided. That the 

 imported materials used in the manufacture or pro- 

 duction of articles entitled to drawback of customs 

 duties when exported shall, in all cases where draw- 

 back of duties paid on such materials is claimed, be 

 identified, the quantity of such materials used and 

 the amount of duties paid thereon shall be ascer- 

 tained, the facts of the manufacture or production of 

 such articles in the United States and their exporta- 

 tion therefrom shall be determined, and the drawback 

 due thereon shall be paid to the manufacturer, pro- 

 ducer, or exporter, to the agent of either or to the 

 person to whom such manufacturer, producer, ex- 

 porter, or agent shall, in writing, order such draw- 

 back paid, under such regulations as the Secretary of 

 the Treasury shall prescribe. 



SEC. 23. That the collector or chief officer of the 

 customs at any port of entry or delivery shall issue a 

 license to any reputable and competent person desir- 

 ing to transact business as a customhouse broker. 

 Such license shall be granted for a period of one year, 

 and may be revoked for cause at any time by the 

 Secretary of the Treasury. From and after the 1st 

 day of August, 1894, no person shall transact business 

 as a customhouse broker without a license granted 

 in accordance with such provision ; but this act shall 

 not be so construed as to prohibit any importer from 

 transacting business at a customhouse pertaining to 

 his own importations. 



SEC. 24. That all goods, wares, articles, and mer- 

 chandise manufactured wholly or in part in any for- 

 eign country by convict labor shall not be entitled 

 to entry at any of the ports of the United States, and 

 the importation thereof is hereby prohibited, and 

 the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to pre- 

 scribe such regulations as may be necessary for the 

 enforcement of this provision. 



SEC. 25. That the value of foreign coin as ex- 

 pressed in the money of account of the United States 

 shall be that of the pure metal of such coin of 

 standard value ; and the values of the standard coins 

 in circulation of the various nations of the world 

 shall be estimated quarterly by the director ot the 

 mint, and be proclaimed by the Secretary of the 

 Treasury immediately after the passage of this act, 

 and thereafter quarterly on the 1st day of January, 

 April, July, and October in each year. And the 

 values proclaimed shall be followed in estimating 

 the value of all foreign merchandise exported to the 

 United States during the quarter for which the value 

 is proclaimed, and the date of the consular certifica- 

 tion of any invoice shall, for the purposes of this_sec- 

 tion, be considered the date of exportation : Provided, 

 That the Secretary of the Treasury may order the re- 

 liquidation of any entry at a different value, when- 

 ever satisfactory evidence shall be produced to hiin 

 showing that the value in United States currency of 

 the foreign money specified in the invoice was, at the 

 date of certification, at least ten per centum more or 

 less than the value proclaimed during the quarter m 

 which the consular certification occurred. 



SEC. 26. That section 2804 of the Kevised Statutes 

 be amended so as to read : 



