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regulations as he may prescribe : and teams of 

 mals, including their harness and tackle, and the 



ani- 



and the ve- 

 hicles or wagons actually owned by persons emigrat- 

 ing from foreign countries to the United States with 

 their families, and in actual use for the purpose of 

 such emigration, shall also be admitted free of duty, 

 under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treas- 

 ury may prescribe. 



Asphaltum and bitumen, crude. 



Arrowroot. 



Articles imported for the use of the United States, 

 provided that the price of the same did not include 

 the duty. 



Bamboo reeds, no further manufactured than cut 

 into suitable lengths for walking-sticks or canes, or 

 for sticks for umbrellas, parasols, or sunshades. 



Bamboo, unmanufactured. 



Barrels of American manufacture, exported filled 

 with domestic petroleum, and returned empty, under 

 such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may 

 prescribe, and without requiring the filing of a dec- 

 laration at time of export of intent to return the same 

 empty. 



Articles the growth, produce, and manufacture of 

 the United States, when returned in the same condi- 

 tion as exported. Casks, barrels, carboys, bags, and 

 other vessels of American manufacture, exported 

 filled with American products, or exported enipty and 

 returned filled with foreign products, including 

 shooksj when returned as barrels or boxes ; but proof 

 of the identity of such articles shall be made under 

 regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the 

 Treasury ; and if any of such articles are subject to 

 internal tax at the time of exportation, such tax shall 

 be proved to have been paid before exportation and 

 not refunded. 



Bed-feathers and downs. 



Bells, broken, and bell-metal broken and fit only 

 to be remanufactured. 



Birds, stuffed. 



Birds, and land and water fowls. 



Bismuth. 



Bladders, crude, and all integuments of animals 

 not specially enumerated or provided for in this act. 



Bologna sausages. 



Bolting-cloths. 



Books, engravings, bound or unbound, etchings, 

 maps, and charts, which shall have been printed and 

 manufactured more than twenty years at the date of 

 importation. 



Books, maps, and charts imported by authority or 

 for use of the United States or for the use of the 

 Library of Congress ; but the duty shall not have 

 been included in the contract of price paid. 



Books, maps, and charts specially imported, not 

 more than two copies in any one invoice, in good 

 taith, for the use of any society incorporated or es- 

 tablished for philosophical, literary, or religious pur- 

 poses, or for the encouragement of the fine arts, or for 

 the use or by order of any college, academy, school, or 

 seminary of learning in the United States. 



Books, professional, of persons arriving in the 

 United States. 



Books, household effects, or libraries, or parts of li- 

 braries, in use, of persons or families from foreign 

 countries, if used abroad by them not less than one 

 year, and not intended for any other person or per- 

 sons, nor for sale. 



Breccia, in blocks or slabs. 



Brime. 



Brazil pebbles for spectacles, and pebbles for spec- 

 tacles, rough. 



Bullion, gold and silver. 



Burgundy pitch. 



Burr- stone, in blocks, rough or unmanufactured, 

 and not bound up in millstones. 



Cabinets of coins, medals, and all other collections 

 of antiquities. 



Castor or castoreum. 



Catgut strings, or gut-cord, for musical instruments. 

 VOL. xxni. 14 A 



Catgut or whip-gut, unmanufactured. 



Coal, anthracite. 



Coal-stores of American vessels, but none shall be 

 unloaded. 



Cobalt, ore of. 



Cocoa, or cacao, crude, and fiber, leaves, and shells. 



Coffee. 



Coins, gold, silver, and copper. 



Coir and coir yarn. 



Copper, old, taken from the bottom of American 

 vessels compelled by marine disaster to repair in for- 

 eign ports. 



Copper, when imported for the United States Mint. 



Coral, marine, unmanufactured. 



Cork-wood, or cork- bark, unmanufactured. 



Cotton. 



Curling-stones, or quoits. 



Cuttle-fish bone. 



Diamonds, rough or uncut, including glaziers' dia- 

 monds. 



Diamond dust or bort. 



Dyeing or tanning articles, in a crude state, used 

 in dyeing or tanning, not specially enumerated or 

 provided for in this act. 



Eggs. 



Esparto or Spanish grass, and other grasses, and 

 pulp of, for the manufacture of paper. 



Emery-ore. 



Fans, common palm-leaf. 



Farina. 



Fashion-plates, engraved on steel or on wood, col- 

 ored or plain. 



Felt, adhesive, for sheathing vessels. 



Fibrin, in all forms. 



Fire-wood. 



Fish, fresh, for immediate consumption. 



Fish, for bait. 



Flint, flints, and ground flint-stones. 



Fossils. 



Fruit-plants, tropical and semi-tropical, for the pur- 

 pose of propagatio_n or cultivation. 



Fruits, green, ripe ? or dried, not specially enumer- 

 ated or provided for in this act. 



Furs, undressed. 



Fur-skins of all kinds, not dressed in any manner. 



Glass, broken pieces, and old glass which can not 

 be cut tor use, and tit only to be remanufactured. 



Glass-plate, or disks unwrought, for use in the 

 manufacture of optical instruments. 



Goat-skins, raw. 



Gold-beaters' molds, and gold-beaters' skins. 



Gold-size. 



Grease, for use as soap-stock only, not specially 

 enumerated or provided for. 



Gunny-bags, and gunny-cloth, old or refuse, fit only 

 for remanufacturing. 



Gut and worm-gut, manufactured or unmanufac- 

 tured. 



Guts, salted. 



Gutta-percha, crude. 



Hair, horse or cattle, and hair of all kinds, cleaned 

 or uncleaued, drawn or undrawn, but unmanufactured, 

 not specially enumerated or provided for in this act ; 

 of hogs, curled for beds and mattresses, and not fit 

 for bristles. 



Hide-rope. 



Hides, raw or uncured, whether dry, salted, or 

 pickled, and skins, except sheep-skins with the wool 

 on, Angora goat-skins, raw, without the wool, un- 

 manufactured, asses' skins, raw or unmanufactured. 



Hones and whetstones. 



Hop-roots, for cultivation. 



Hop-poles. 



Ice. 



India-rubber, crude, and milk of. 



India malacca joints, not further manufactured than 

 cut into suitable lengths for the manufactures into 

 which they are intended to be converted. 



Ivory, and vegetable ivory, unmanufactured. 



Jet, unmanufactured. 



