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



Joss- stick, or joss- light. 



Junk, old. 



Lava, unmanufactured. 



Life -boats and life-saving apparatus, specially im- 

 ported by societies incorporated or established to en- 

 courage the saving of human life. 



Lithographic stones, not engraved. 



Loadstones. 



Logs, and round, unmanufactured timber, not spe- 

 cially enumerated or provided for in this act, and 

 ship-timber, and ship-planking. 



Maccaroni and vermicelli. 



Magnets. 



Manuscripts. 



Marrow, crude. 



Marsh-mallows. 



Medals of gold, silver, or copper. 



Meerschaum, crude or raw. 



Mica and mica waste. 



Models of inventions and other improvements in 

 the arts ; but no article or articles shall be deemed a 

 model or improvements which can be fitted for use. 



Moss, sea-weeds, and all other vegetable substances 

 used for beds and mattresses. 



Newspapers and periodicals. 



Nuts, cocoa, and Brazil or cream. 



Oakum. 



Oil-cake. 



Oil, spermaceti, whale, and other fish oils of Amer- 

 ican fisheries, and all other articles the produce of 

 such fisheries. 



Olives, green or prepared. 



Orange and lemon peel, not preserved, candied, or 

 otherwise prepared. 



Ores, of gold and silver. 



Palm-nuts and palm-nut kernels. 



Paper stock, crude, of every description, including 

 all grasses, fibers, rags of all kinds, other than wool, 

 waste, shavings, clippings, old paper, rope-ends, waste 

 rope, waste bagging, gunny-bags, gunny-cloth, old or 

 refuse, to be used in making, and fit only to be con- 

 verted into paper, and unfit for any other manufac- 

 ture, and cotton waste, whether for paper stock or 

 other purposes. 



Parchment. 



Pearl, mother of. 



Personal and household effects, not merchandise, of 

 citizens of the United States dying abroad. 



Pewter and Britannia metal, old, and fit only to be 

 remanufactured. 



Philosophical and scientific apparatus, instruments, 

 and preparations, statuary, casts of marble, bronze, 

 alabaster, or plaster-of-Paris, paintings, drawings, 

 and etchings, specially imported in good faith for the 

 use of any society or institution incorporated or estab- 

 lished for religious, philosophical, educational, scien- 

 tific, or literary purposes, or encouragement of the 

 fine arts, and not intended for sale. 



Plants, trees, shrubs, and vines of all kinds not 

 otherwise provided for, and seeds of all kinds, except 

 medicinal seeds not specially enumerated or provided 

 for in this act. 



Plants, trees, shrubs, roots, seed- cane, and seeds 

 imported by the Department of Agriculture or the 

 United States Botanical Garden. 



Platina, unmanufactured. 



Platinum, unmanufactured, and vases, retorts, and 

 other apparatus, vessels, and parts thereof, for chem- 

 ical uses. 



Plumbago. 



Polishing-stones. 



Pulu. 



Pumice and pumice-stone. 



Quills, prepared or unprepared. 



Eailroad-ties, of wood. 



Eattans and reeds, unmanufactured. 



Eegalia and gems, statues, statuary, and specimens 

 of sculpture, where specially imported in good faith 

 for the use of any society incorporated or established 

 for philosophical, literary, or religious purposes, or 



for the encouragement of the fine arts, or for the 

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

 seminary of learning, or public library in the United 

 States. 



Eoot-flour. 



Eotten-stone. 



Sago, sago crude, and sago-flour. 



Sauerkraut. 



Sausage-skins. 



Sea-weed, not otherwise provided for. 



Seed of the sugar-beet. 



Shark-skins. 



Shells of every description, not manufactured. 



Shingle-bolts and stave-bolts, provided that head- 

 ing-bolts shall be held and construed to be included 

 under the term stave-bolts. 



Handle-bolts. 



Shrimps, or other shell-fish. 



Silk, raw, or as reeled from the cocoon, but not 

 doubled, twisted, or advanced in manufacture in any 

 way. 



Silk cocoons and silk waste. 



Silk-worms' eggs. 



Skeletons, ancl other preparations of anatomy. 



Skins, dried, salted, or pickled. 



Snails. 



Soap-stocks. 



Sodium. 



Sparterre, for making or ornamenting hats. 



Specimens of natural history, botany, and mineral- 

 ogy, when imported for cabinets, or as objects of taste 

 or science, and not for sale. 



Spunk. 



Spurs and stilts, used in the manufacture of earth- 

 en, stone, or crockery ware. 



Straw, unmanufactured. 



Sugar of milk. 



Sweepings of silver and gold. 



Tamarinds. 



Tapioca, cassava, or cassada. 



Tea. 



Tea-plants. 



Teasels. 



Teeth, unmanufactured. 



Terra alba, aluminous. 



Terra japonica. 



Tin-ore, bars, blocks, or pigs, grain or granulated. 



Tonquin, Tonqua, or Tonka beans. 



Tortoise and other shells, unmanufactured. 



Turtles. 



Types, old, and fit only to be remanufactured. 



Umbrella-sticks, crude, to wit, all partridge, hair- 

 wood, pimento, orange, myrtle, and all other sticks 

 and canes in the roughj or no further manufactured 

 than cut into lengths suitable for umbrella, parasol, 

 or sunshade sticks or walking-canes. 



Vellum. ' 



Wafers, unmedicated. 



Wearing apparel, in actual use, and other personal 

 effects (not merchandise), professional books, imple- 

 ments, instruments, and tools of trade, occupation, or 

 employment of persons arriving in the United States. 

 But this exemption shall not be construed to include 

 machinery or other articles imported for use in any 

 manufacturing establishment, or for sale. 



Whalebone, unmanufactured. 



Woods, poplar, or other woods, for the manufacture 

 of paper. 



Woods, namely, cedar, lignum-vitse, lancewood, 

 ebony, box, granadilla, mahogany, rose-wood, satin- 

 wood, and all cabinet-woods, unmanufactured. 



Works of art, painting, statuary, fountains, and 

 other works of art, the production of American art- 

 ists. But the fact of such production must be verified 

 by the certificate of a consul or minister of the United 

 States indorsed upon the written declaration of the 

 artist ; paintings, statuary, fountains, and other works 

 of art, imported expressly for presentation to national 

 institutions, or to any State, or to any municipal cor- 

 poration, or religious' corporation or society. 



