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CONGRESS, UNITED STATES. (DUTIES ON IMPOSTS.) 



kerchiefs, lawns, or other manufactures of flax, jute, 

 or hemp, or of which flax, jute, or hemp shall be the 

 component material of chief value, not specially enu- 

 merated or provided for in this act, thirty-five per 

 centum ad valorem. 



Flax, hemp, and jute- yarns, thirty- five per centum 

 ad valorem. 



Flax or linen thread, twine, and pack-thread, and 

 all manufactures of flax, or of which flax shall be the 

 component material of chief value, not specially enu- 

 merated or provided for in this act, forty per centum 

 ad valorem. 



Flax or linen laces and insertings, embroideries, or 

 manufactures of linen, if embroidered or tamboured 

 in the loom or otherwise, by machinery or with the 

 needle or other process, and not specially enumerated 

 or provided for in this act, thirty per centum ad va- 

 lorem. 



Burlaps, not exceeding sixty inches in width, of 

 flax, jute, or hemp, or of which flax, jute, or hemp, or 

 either of them, shall be the component material of 

 chief value (except such as may be suitable for bag- 

 ging for cotton), thirty per centum ad valorem. 



Oil-cloth foundations, or floor-cloth canvas, or bur- 

 laps exceeding sixty inches in width, made of flax, 

 jute, or hemp, or of which flax, jute, or hemp, or 

 either of them, shall be the component material of 

 chief value, forty per centum ad valorem. 



Oil-cloths for floors, stamped, painted, or printed, 

 and on all other oil-cloth (except silk oil-cloth), and 

 on water-proof cloth, not otherwise provided for, for- 

 ty per centum ad valorem. 



Gunny-cloth, not bagging, valued at ten cents or 

 less per square yard, three cents per pound ; valued 

 at over ten cents per square yard, four cents per 

 pound. 



Bags and bagging, and like manufactures, not spe- 

 cially enumerated or provided for in this act (except 

 bagging for cotton), composed wholly or in part of 

 flax, hemp, jute, gunny-cloth, gunny-bags, or other 

 material, forty per centum ad valorem. 



Bagging for cotton, or other manufactures not spe- 

 cially enumerated or provided for in this act ? suitable 

 to the uses for which cotton- bagging is applied, com- 

 posed in whole or in part of hemp, jute, jute-butts, 

 flax, gunny-bags, gunny-cloth, or other material, and 

 valued at seven cents or less per square yard, one and 

 one half cents per pound ; valued at over seven cents 

 per square yard, two cents per pound. 



Tarred cables or cordage, three cents per pound. 



Untarred manila cordage, two and one half cents 

 per pound. 



All other untarred cordage, three and one half cents 

 per pound. 



Seines and seine and gilling twine, twenty-five per 

 centum ad valorem. 



Sail-duck, or canvas for sails, thirty per centum ad 

 valorem. 



Kussia and other sheetings, of flax or hemp, brown 

 or white, thirty-five per centum ad valorem. 



All other manufactures of hemp, or manila, or of 

 which hemp or manila shall be a component material 

 of chief value, not specially enumerated or provided 

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



Grass-cloth and other manufactures of jute, ramp, 

 China and Sisal grass, not specially enumerated or 

 provided for in this act, thirty -five per centum ad va- 



8CHEDULE K. WOOL AND WOOLENS. 



All wools, hair of the alpaca, goat, and other like 

 animals, shall be divided, for the purpose of fixing 

 the duties to be charged thereon, into the three fol- 



Class one, clothing wools. That is to say, merino, 

 mestiza, metz or metis wools, or other wools of me- 

 rino blood, immediate or remote, down clothing wools, 

 and wools of like character with any of the preceding, 

 including such as have been heretofore usually im- 

 ported into the United States from Buenos Ayres, 

 New Zealand, Australia, Cape of Good Hope, Kussia, 



Great Britain, Canada, and elsewhere, and also in- 

 cluding all wools not hereinafter described or desig- 

 nated in classes two and three. 



Class two, combing wools. That is to say, Leices- 

 ter, Cots wold, Lincolnshire, Down combing wools, 

 Canada long wools, or other like combing wools of 

 English blood, and usually known by the terms here- 

 in used, and also all hair of the alpaca, goat, and other 

 like animals. 



Class three, carpet wools and other similar wools. 

 Such as Donskoi, native South American, Cordova, 

 Valparaiso, native Smyrna, and including all such 

 wools of like character as have been heretofore usually 

 imported into the United States from Turkey, Greece, 

 Egypt, Syria, and elsewhere. 



The duty on wools of the first class which shall be 

 imported washed shall be twice the amount of the 

 duty to which they would be subjected if imported 

 unwashed ; and the duty on wools of all classes which 

 shall be imported scoured shall be three times the 

 duty to which they would be subjected if imported 

 unwashed. The duty upon wool of the sheep, or hair 

 of the alpaca, goat, and other like animals, which 

 shall be imported in any other than ordinary condi- 

 tion, as now and heretofore practiced, or which shall 

 be changed in its character or condition for the pur- 

 pose of evading the duty, or which shall be reduced 

 in value by the admixture of dirt or any other foreign 

 substance, shall be twice the duty to which it would 

 be otherwise subject. 



Wools of the first class, the value whereof at the 

 last port or place whence exported to the United States, 

 excluding charges in such port, shall be thirty cents 

 or less per pound, ten cents per pound ; wools of the 

 same class, the value whereof at the last port or place 

 whence exported to the United States, excluding 

 charges in such port, shall exceed thirty cents per 

 pound, twelve cents per pound. 



Wools of the second class, and all hair of the alpaca, 

 goat, and other like animals, the value whereof, at 

 the last port or place whence exported to the United 

 States, excluding charges in such port, shall be thirty 

 cents or less per pound, ten cents per pound ; wools 

 of the same class, the value whereof at the last port 

 or place whence exported to the United States, ex- 

 cluding charges in such port, shall exceed thirty cents 

 per pound, twelve cents per pound. 



Wools of the third class, the value whereof, at the 

 last port or place whence exported to the United 

 States, excluding charges in such port, shall be twelve 

 cents or less per pound, two and a half cents per 

 pound; wools of the same class, the value whereof, 

 at the last port or place whence exported to the 

 United States, excluding charges in such port, ^hall 

 exceed twelve cents per pound, five cents per pound. 



Wools on the skin, the same rates as other wools, 

 the quantity and value to be ascertained under such 

 rules as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe. 



Woolen rags, shoddy, mungo, waste, and flocks, ten 

 cents per pound. 



Woolen cloths, woolen shawls, and all manufactures 

 of wool of every description, made wholly or in part 

 of wool, not specially enumerated or provided for in 

 this act, valued at not exceeding eighty cents per 

 pound, thirty-five cents per pound and thirty -five per 

 centum ad valorem ; valued at above eighty cents per 

 pound, thirty-five cents per pound, and in addition 

 thereto forty per centum ad valorem. 



Flannels, blankets, hats of wool, knit goods, and all 

 goods made on knitting-frames, balraorals, woolen and 

 worsted yarns, and all manufactures of every descrip- 

 tion, composed wholly or in part of worsted, the hair 

 of the alpaca, goat, or other animals (except such as 

 are composed in part of wool), not specially enumer- 

 ated or provided for in this act, valued at not exceed- 

 ing thirty cents per pound, ten cents per pound ; val- 

 ued at above thirty cents per pound, and not exceed- 

 ing forty cents per pound, twelve cents per pound ; 

 valued at above forty cents per pound, and not ex- 

 ceeding sixty cents per pound, eighteen cents per 





