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IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES, 



^ f&r jvo kilograms, etc. Continued. 



Description. Duty. 



Marks. 

 Fancy paper (excepting writing, printed, blotting, silk, and drawing paper, but 



including dolf and silver paper) 10 $2.38 



Printed paper, fancy and colored, subject to treaty 10 2.38 



Gout, fly, mustard, and vesicatory paper gross weight... i .238 



Card paper, double or more ply, parchment, and chemisen pepr. vegetable parch- 

 ment 10 2.38 



Blotting paper: 



Gray, common (small quantities) gross weight... i .238 



Other kinds, including filter and colored paper 10 2.38 



Smokers' paper for cigarettes, etc r. 100 23.80 



Slate paper for blackboards and slates not mixed with other material, gross 



weight i .238 



Polishing paper, sand, emery, glass, etc gross weight... i .238 



Writing paper, including letter paper, fancy and colored . 10 2.38 



Drawing paper, fancy and colored 10 2.38 



Silk paper, fancy and colored 310 73-78 



Soap paper 30 7.14 



Zunder (tinder) paper gross weight... 3 .71 



Saturated paper, not noted above: 



(a) Albumin and other photographic paper. 



(6) Asthma paper, bluing paper (indigo, ultramarine, etc.) to be used in 



bleaching, oil copy, paraffin, etc 10 2.38 



Lackmus, alkanna papers, sulspeter, wax cover on one or two sides with 



chalk, white lead, gelatin, or mucilage ; 10 2.38 



(<:) This class of paper with cloth backing 24 5.71 



(d) With satin and other silk, velvet, or plush, or similar paper for making 



paper ware, toys, etc 120 28.56 



(e) Lace-like paper, pressed for purposes of embroidery, designs, etc.... 10 2.38 



Printing and writing paper: 



(a) Lithographic, printed, lined for bills, etc., envelopes, etiquettes, etc 10 2.38 



(b) Manuscript and waste paper Free 



Funnel, bag paper r 12 2.86 



Linen-lined funnel 24 5.71 



Paper barrels 12 2.86 



Paper barrels with wooden bottom and top 24 5.71 



Papier-mache gross weight... i .238 



FREIGHT RATES. 



Freights are based as units, on kilograms, 100 of which equal 

 220.46 pounds avoirdupois. Shipments of less than 20 kilograms go 

 as 20 kilograms, 21 kilograms count as 30 kilograms, 32 kilograms 

 count as 40 kilograms, etc. Freight rates run high or low according 

 to speed /. *., as fast freight, parcel or piece rates, or carloads. Car- 

 loads sent by "fast" freight pay double the ordinary carload rates. 

 The minimum amount paid for a 'fast-freight letter is 50 pfennigs (11.9 

 cents). If this is sent by a fast-express train, with consent of railroad 

 authorities, i mark (23.8 cents) must be paid. The freight rates for 

 fast-train goods are twice what would be paid for the same quantity 

 in weight if sent on ordinary fast-freight trains. Parcel freight in- 

 cludes all that does not go on the fast-freight trains. 



Freight rates on wood for paper mills, to or from Hamburg (450 



