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CONGRESS, UNITED STATES. (DUTIES ON IMPOBTS.) 



corded in books which shall be kept for that purpose 

 in the Department of the Treasury, under such regu- 

 lations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall pre- 

 scribe, and may 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 transmitted to each collector or other proper 

 officer of the customs. 



SEC. 2497. No goods, wares, or merchandise, unless 

 in cases provided for by treaty, shall be imported into 

 the United States from any foreign port or place, ex- 

 cept in vessels of the United States, oi*in such foreign 

 vessels as truly and wholly belong to the citizens or 

 subjects of that country of which the goods are the 

 growth, production, or manufacture ; or from which 

 such goods, wares, or merchandise can only be, or 

 most usually are, first shipped for transportation. All 

 goods, wares, or merchandise imported contrary to 

 this section, and the vessel wherein the same shall be 

 imported, together with her cargo, tackle, apparel, 

 and furniture, shall be forfeited to the United States ; 

 and such goods, wares, or merchandise, ship, or ves- 

 sel, and cargo shall be liable to be seized, prosecuted, 

 ana condemned, in like manner, and under the same 

 regulations, restrictions, and provisions, as have been 

 heretofore established .for the recovery, collection, dis- 

 tribution, and remission of forfeitures to the United 

 States by the several revenue laws. 



SEC. 2498. The preceding section shall not apply 

 to vessels, or goods, wares, or merchandise, imported 

 in vessels of a foreign nation which does not maintain 

 a similar regulation against vesstels of the United 

 States. 



SEC. 2499. There shall be levied, collected, and paid 

 on each and every non-enumerated article which bears 

 a similitude, either in material, quality, texture, or 

 the use to which it may be applied, to any article 

 enumerated in this title as chargeable with duty, the 

 same rate of duty which is levied and charged on the 

 enumerated article which it most resembles in any of 

 the particulars before mentioned ; and if any non- 

 enumerated article equally resembles two or more enu- 

 merated articles on which different rates are charge- 

 able, there shall be levied, collected, and paid on such 

 non-enumerated article the same rate of duty as is 

 chargeable on the article which it resembles paying 

 the highest duty; and on all articles manufactured 

 from two or more materials the duty shall be assessed 

 at the highest rates at which the component material 

 of chief value may be chargeable. If two or more 

 rates of duty should be applicable to any imported 

 article, it shall be classified for duty under the high- 

 est of such rates: Provided, That non-enumerated 

 articles similar in material and quality and texture, 

 and the use to which they may be applied, to articles 

 on the free list, and in the manufacture of which no 

 dutiable materials are used, shall be free. 



SEC. 2500. 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. 



SEO. 2501 . A discriminating duty of ten per centum 

 ad valorem^ in addition to the duties imposed by law, 

 shall be levied ? collected, and paid on all goods, wares, 

 and merchandise which shall be imported on vessels 

 not of the United States ; but this discriminating duty 

 shall not apply to goods, wares, and merchandise 

 which shall be imported in vessels not of the United 

 States, entitled, by treaty or any act of Congress, to 

 be entered in the ports of the U nited States on pay- 

 ment of the same duties as shall then be paid on 

 goods, wares, and merchandise imported hi vessels ot 

 the United States. 



SEC. 2502. There shall be levied, collected, and paid 

 upon all articles imported from foreign countries, and 

 mentioned in the schedules herein contained, the rates 



of duty which are, by the schedules, respectively pre- 

 scribed, namely : 



SCHEDULE A. CHEMICAL PRODUCTS. 



Glue, twenty per centum ad valorem. 



Beeswax, twenty per centum ad valorem. 



Gelatine and all similar preparations, thirty per 

 centum ad valorem. 



Glycerine, crude, brown or yellow, of the specific 

 gravity of one and twenty-five hundredths or less at 

 a temperature of sixty degrees Fahrenheit, not puri- 

 fied by refining or distilling, two cents per pound. 



Glycerine, refined, five cents per pound. 



Fish-glue or isinglass, twenty-five per centum ad 

 valorem. 



Phosphorus, ten cents per pound. 



Sc^ap, hard and soft, all which are not otherwise 

 specially enumerated or provided for in this act, and 

 castile soap, twenty per centum ad valorem. 



Fancy, perfumed, and all descriptions of toilet soap, 

 fifteen cents per pound. 



Sponges, twenty per centum ad valorem. 



Sumac, ground, three tenths of one cent per pound, 

 and sumac extract, twenty per centum ad valorem. 



Acid, acetic, acetous, or pyroligneous acid, not ex- 

 ceeding the specific gravity of one and forty-seven 

 one thousandths, two cents per pound ; exceeding the 

 specific gravity or one and forty-seven one thousandths, 

 ten cents per pound. 



Acid, citric, ten cents per pound. 



Acid, tartaric, ten cents per pound. 



Camphor, refined, five cents per pound. 



Castor beans, or seeds, fifty cents per bushel of fifty 

 pounds. 



Castor-oil, eighty cents per gallon. 



Cream of tartar, six cents per pound. 



Dextrine, burnt starch, gum substitute, or British 

 gum, one cent per pound. 



Extract of hemlock, and other bark used for tan- 

 ning, not otherwise enumerated or provided for in 

 this act, twenty per centum ad valorem. 



Glucose, or grape-sugar, twenty per centum ad va- 

 lorem. 



Indigo, extracts of, and carmined, ten per centum 

 ad valorem. 



Iodine, resublimed, forty cents per pound. 



Licorice, paste or roll, seven and one half cents per 

 pound ; licorice-juice, three cents per pound. 



Oil of bay-leaves, essential, or bay rum essence or 

 oil, two dollars and fifty cents per pound. 



Oil, croton, fifty cents per pound. 



Oil, flaxseed or linseed, and cotton-seed oil, twenty- 

 five cents per gallon ; seven and one half pounds 

 weight to be estimated as a gallon. 



Hemp-seed oil and rape-seed oil, ten cents per gallon. 



Soda and potassa, tartrate, or rochelle salt, three 

 cents per pound. 



Strychnia, or strychnine, and all salts thereof, fifty 

 cents per ounce. 



Tartars, partly refined, including lees crystals, four 

 cents per pound. 



Alumina, alum, patent alum, alum substitute, sul- 

 phate of alumina, and aluminous cake, and alum in 

 crystals or ground, sixty cents per hundred pounds. 



Ammonia, anhydrous, liquefied by pressure, twen- 

 ty per centum ad valorem. 



Ammonia aqua, or water of ammonia, twenty per 

 centum ad valorem. 



Ammonia, muriate of, or sal-ammoniac, ten per 

 centum ad valorem. 



Ammonia, carbonate of, twenty per centum ad va- 

 lorem. 



Ammonia, sulphate of, twenty per centum ad va- 

 lorem. 



All imitations of natural mineral waters and all ar- 

 tificial mineral waters, thirty per centum ad valorem. 



Asbestus, manufactured, twenty-five per centum ad 

 valorem. 



Baryta, sulphate of, or barytes, unmanufactured, 

 ten per centum ad valorem. 



