CONGRESS, UNITED STATES. ' (ARTICLES DUTY-FREE.) 



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Jet, manufactures and imitations of, twenty-five 

 per centum ad valorem. 



Jewelry of all kinds, twenty-five per centum ad 

 valorem. 



Leather, bend or belting leather, and Spanish or 

 other sole-leather, and leather not specially enumer- 

 ated or provided for in this act, fifteen per centum ad 

 valorem. 



Calf-skins, tanned, or tanned and dressed, and 

 dressed upper leather of all other kinds, and skins 

 dressed and finished, of all kinds, not specially enu- 

 merated or provided for in this act, and skins of mo- 

 rocco, finished, twenty per centum ad valorem. 



Skins for morocco, tanned, but unfinished, ten per 

 centum ad valorem. 



All manufactures and articles of leather, or of which 

 leather shall be a component part, not specially enu- 

 merated or provided for in this act, thirty per centum 

 ad valorem. 



Lime, ten per centum ad valorem. 



Garden-seeds, except seed of the sugar-beet, twenty 

 per centum ad valorem. 



Linseed or flaxseed, twenty cents per bushel of fifty- 

 six pounds ; but no drawback shall be allowed on oil- 

 cake made from imported seed. 



Marble of all kinds, in block, rough, or squared, 

 sixty-five cents per cubic foot: veined marble, sawed, 

 dressed, or otherwise, including marble slabs and 

 marble paving-tiles, one dollar and ten cents per cu- 

 bic foot. 



All manufactures of marble not specially enumer- 

 ated or provided for in this act, fifty per centum ad 

 valorem. 



Musical instruments of all kinds, twenty -five per 

 centum ad valorem. 



Paintings, in oil or water colors, and statuary not 

 otherwise provided for, thirty per centum ad valorem. 

 But the term " statuary," as used in the laws now in 

 force imposing duties on foreign importations, shall 

 be understood to include professional productions of a 

 statuary or of a sculptor only. 



Osier, or willow, prepared for basket-makers' use, 

 twenty-five per centum ad valorem. 



Papier-mache, manufactures, articles, and wares of, 

 thirty per centum ad valorem. 



Pencil^ of wood filled with lead or other material, 

 and pencils of lead, fifty cents per gross, and thirty 

 per centum ad valorem ; pencil-leads, not in wood, 

 ten per centum ad valorem. 



Percussion-caps, forty per centum ad valorem. 



Philosophical apparatus and instruments, thirty- 

 five per centum ad valorem. 



Pipes, pipe-bowls, and all smokers' articles what- 

 soever, not specially enumerated or provided for in 

 this act, seventy per centum ad valorem ; all common 

 pipes of clay, .thirty-five per centum ad valorem. 



Plaster- of-Paris, when ground or calcined, twenty 

 per centum ad valorem. 



Playing-cards, one hundred per centum ad valorem. 



Polishing-powders of every description, by what- 

 ever name known, including Frankfort black, and 

 Berlin, Chinese, fig, and wash blue, twenty per cen- 

 tum ad valorem. 



Precious stones, of all kinds, ten per centum ad va- 

 lorem. 



m Rags, of whatever material composed, and not spe- 

 cially enumerated or provided for in this act, ten per 

 centum ad valorem. 



Eattans and reeds, manufactured, but not made up 

 into completed articles, ten per centum ad valorem. 



Salt, in bags, sacks, barrels, or other packages, 

 twelve cents per one hundred pounds ; in bulk, ei^ht 

 cents per one hundred pounds : Provided, That ex- 

 porters of meats, whether packed or smoked, which 

 have been cured in the United States with imported 

 salt, shall, upon satisfactory proof, under such regu- 

 lations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall pre- 



sribe, that such meats have been cured with imported 

 salt, have refunded to them from the Treasury the 

 duties paid on the salt so used in curing such exported 



meats, in amounts not less than one hundred dollars : 

 And provided further, That imported salt in bond 

 may be used in curing fish taken by vessels licensed 

 to engage in the fisheries, and hi curing fish on the 

 shores of the navigable waters of the United States, 

 under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treas- 

 ury shall prescribe ; and upon proof that the salt has 

 been used for either of the purposes stated in this pro- 

 viso, the duties on the same shall be remitted. 



Scagliola. and composition tops for tables or for 

 other articles of furniture, thirty-five per centum ad 

 valorem. 



Sealing-wax, twenty per centum ad valorem. 



Shells, whole or parts of, manufactured, of every 

 description, not specially enumerated or provided for 

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



Stones, unmanufactured or undressed, freestone, 

 granite, sandstone, and all building or monumental 

 stone, except marble, not specially enumerated or pro- 

 vided, for in this act, one dollar per ton ; and upon 

 stones as above, hewn, dressed, or polished, twenty 

 per centum ad valorem. 



Strings : All strings of catgut, or any other like 

 material, other than strings for musical instruments, 

 twenty-five per centum ad valorem. 



Tallow, one cent per pound. 



Teeth, manufactured, twenty per centum ad va- 

 lorem. 



Umbrella and parasol ribs, and stretcher-frames, 

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

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

 metal, forty per centum ad valorem ; umbrellas, para- 

 sols, and shades, when covered with silk or alpaca, 

 fifty per centum ad valorem; all other umbrellas, 

 forty per centum ad valorem. 



Umbrellas, parasols, and sunshades, frames and 

 sticks for, finisned or unfinished, not specially enu- 

 merated or provided for in this act, thirty per centum 

 ad valorem. 



Waste, all not specially enumeratad or provided for 

 in this act, ten per centum ad valorem. 



Watches, watch-cases, watch-movements, parts of 

 watches, and watch-materials, not specially enumer- 

 ated or provided for in this act, twenty-five per centum 

 ad valorem. 



Webbing, composed of cotton, flax, or any other 

 materials, not specially enumerated or provided for in 

 this act, thirty-five per centum ad valorem. 



THE FREE LIST. 



SEC. 2503. The following articles when imported 

 shall be exempt from duty : 



CHEMICALS. 



Albumen, in any form or condition ; lactarine. 



Aconite. 



Ambergris. 



Annotto, roncou, rocou, or Orleans, and all ex- 

 tracts of. 



Balm of Gilead. 



Blood, dried. 



Bones, crude, not manufactured, burned, calcined, 

 ground, or steamed. 



Bone-dust and bone-ash for manufacture of phos- 

 phate and fertilizers. 



Carbon, animal, fit for fertilizing only. 



Guano, manures, and all substances expressly used 

 for manure. 



Musk, crude, in natural pod. 



Civet, crude. 



Cochineal. 



Dyeing or tanning : Articles in a crude state used 

 in dyeing or tanning, not specially enumerated or 

 provided for in this act. 



Fish-skins. 



Hide-cuttings, raw, with or without hair, and all 

 glue-stock. 



Hoofs. 



Horns, and parts of horns, unmanufactured, and 

 horn strips and tips. 



