FORM OF A BILL, 
ESTABLISHING RATES OF DUTY ON GOODS, WARES, AND 
MERCHANDISE, IMPORTED INTO THE UNITED 
STATES OF AMERICA. 
PREPARED, IN CONFORMITY WITH THE INSTRUCTIONS OF THE 
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, 
BY THE 
SPECIAL COMMISSIONER 01' THE REVENUE. 
TREASURY DEPARTMENT: 
1 8 6 6. TEAS, COFFEE, SUGAR, SPICES, WINES, LIQUORS, TOBACCO, AND CIGARS. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress 
assembled, That on and after the day of , in lieu of the 
duties heretofore imposed by law on the articles hereinafter mentioned, there shall be levied, collected, 
and paid, on the goods, wares, and merchandise herein enumerated and provided for, imported from 
foreign countries, the following duties and rates of duty, that is to say: 
Present 
Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On Teas of all kinds, twenty-five cents per pound.. 
25 cts. 
p. lb. 
12 £ cts. p. lb. 
25 cts. p. lb. 
On Coffee of all kinds, five cents per pound 
5 cts. 
p lb. 
2^- cts. p. lb. 
5 cts. p. lb. 
On Chiccory and Succory Roots, five cents per pound 
On Chiccory and Succory Roots ground, burnt, or prepared, six 
4 cts. 
p. lb. 
5 cts. p. lb. 
cents per pound 
On Acorn Coffee and Dandelion Root, raw or prepared, and on 
5 cts. 
p. lb. 
6 cts. p. lb. 
all substitutes for Coffee, five cents per pound 
3 cts. 
p. lb. 
5 cts. p. lb. 
On all Extracts or Essences of Coffee, one dollar per pound.... 
On all Sugar not above No. 12, Dutch standard in color, 
$1 per lb. 
$1 per lb. 
two and three fourths cents per pound 
On all Sugar above No. 12, and not above No. 15, Dutch 
3 cts. 
p. lb. 
2| cts. p. lb. 
standard in color, three and three fourths cents per pound. . 
On all Sugar above No. 15, and not above No. 20, Dutch 
3^-cts. p. lb. 
3^ cts. p. lb. 
standard in color, four and a half cents per pound 
On all Sugar above No. 20, Dutch standard in color, five and 
4 cts. 
p. lb. 
41 cts. p. lb. 
a half cents per pound 
Provided, that the standard by which the color and 
grades of Sugar are to be regulated shall be selected and 
furnished to the Collectors of such ports of entry as may 
be necessary by the Secretary of the Treasury, from time 
to time, and in such manner as he may deem expedient. 
5 cts. 
p. lb. 
5^ cts p. lb. 
On Sugar Candy, not colored, ten cents per pound 
On Confectionery, made wholly or in part of sugar, and on 
Sugars, after being refined, when tinctured, colored, or in 
10 cts. 
p. lb. 
10 cts. p. lb. 4 
Present 
Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
any way adulterated, valued at thirty cents per pound or 
less, fifteen cents per pound 
15 cts. per lb. 
15 cts. 
p. lb. 
On Confectionery valued at above thirty cents per pound, or 
when sold by the box, package, or otherwise than by the 
pound, fifty per centum ad valorem 
50 per 
cent. 
50 per cent. 
On Molasses, eight cents per gallon 
8 cts. p. gal. 
8 cts. p. gal. 
On Tank Bottoms and on Syrup of Sugar-cane juice, Melado, 
Concentrated Melado, or Concentrated Molasses, two and 
three-fourths cents per pound 
2| cts. 
p. lb. 
2| cts. 
p. ll>. 
Provided, That all syrups of sugar or sugar cane, cane 
juice, concentrated molasses, or concentrated melado, entered 
under the name of molasses, or any other name than syrup 
of sugar, or of sugar cane, cane juice, concentrated 
molasses, or concentrated melado, shall be liable to for- 
feiture to the United States, and the same shall be for- 
feited. 
On Pimento, ten cents per pound 
15 cts. 
p. lb. 
10 cts. 
p. lb. 
On Ground Pimento, twelve cents per pound 
18 cts. 
p lb 
12 cts. 
p lb 
On black, white, and red or Cayenne Pepper, fifteen cents per 
pound 
15 cts. 
p lb 
On Ground Pepper of all kinds, eighteen cents per pound 
18 cts. 
p. lb. 
18 cts. 
p. lb. 
On Ginger Root, ten cents per pound 
5 cts. 
p. lb. 
10 cts. 
p. lb. 
On Ginger, ground, fifteen cents per pound 
8 cts. 
p. lb. 
15 cts. 
p. lb. 
On Cinnamon, thirty cents per pound 
30 cts. 
p. lb. 
30 cts 
On Mace, forty cents per pound. 
40 cts. 
p. lb. 
p lb. 
On Nutmegs, fifty cents per pound 
50 cts. 
p. lb. 
50 cts 
p. lb. 
On Cloves, twenty cents per pound * 
20 cts. 
p. lb 
20 cts. 
On Clove stems, twenty cents per pound 
20 cts. 
p. lb. 
20 cts 
p lb. 
On Cassia, and Cassia Verit, twenty cents per pound 
20 cts. 
p. lb. 
20 cts. 
p. lb. 
On Cassia Buds and ground Cassia, twenty-five cents per pound. 
25 cts. 
p. lb. 
25 cts. 
p. lb. 
On all other Spices, twenty cents per pound ; 
20 per 
cent. 
20 cts. per lb 
Ground or prepared thirty cents per pound 
pts nor Hi 
On Cacao, or Cocoa, three cents per pound 
3 cts 
p lb 
U \J Mol 
Q n f a w 11a 
On Cocoa Leaves or Shells, two cents per pound 
2 cts. 
2 cts. 
r- 
n lb 
On Ground Cacao, or Cocoa, and on prepared Cocoa and 
Chocolate, six cents per pound 
7 cts. 
p. lb. 
6 cts. 
p. Ibu 5 
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Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On Mustard, ground, in glass or tin, sixteen cents per pound. .. . 
On Mustard, ground, dry or wet, in bulk of not less than one 
16 cts. p. lb. 
16 cts. p. lb. 
hundred pounds, twelve cents per pound 
On Brandy, containing fifty per centum, or less, of alcohol, Tralles' 
12 cts. p. lb. 
12 cts. p. lb. 
Hydrometer, three dollars per gallon 
On other Spirits manufactured or distilled from grain or other 
materials, containing fifty per centum, or less, of alcohol, 
$3 per gal. 
$3 per gal. 
two dollars per gallon 
On Cordials, Liqueurs, and Bitters containing spirits, of all 
kinds, and on Arrack, Absynthe, Kirschenwasser, Ratifia, 
and other similar spirituous beverages not otherwise 
$2.50 p. gal. 
$2 per gal. 
provided for in this act, two dollars per gallon 
$2.50 p. gal. 
$2 per gal. 
On Bay Rum or Bay Water, one dollar and fifty cents per gallon. 
$1.50 p. gal. 
$1.50 p. gal. 
On Coloring for Brandy, sixty per centum ad valorem 
50 per cent. 
60 per cent. 
On Wines of all kinds, irrespective of value, cost of cask in- 
20 cts. and 
25 per cent. 
40 cts. p. gal. 
75 " p. gal. 
eluded, containing not more than thirty per centum of alco- 
to $1, and 
100 " p. gal. 
hoi, Tralles' Hydrometer, fifty cents per gallon 
Provided, That any liquors containing more than thirty 
per cent, of alcohol, which shall be entered under the name of 
wines, shall be liable to forfeiture to the United States, and 
shall be so forfeited: A nd provided further, That upon bottled 
wines no allowance shall be made for breakage, unless the 
same shall be shown to be in excess of ten per cent, of the 
invoice value of the wines: And provided further, That no 
champagne or other sparkling wines in bottles shall pay a less 
25 per cent. 
and 25 p.ct- 
50 c. per gal. 
duty than six dollars per dozen bottles, each bottle contain- 
ing not more than one quart and more than one pint; or 
$6 per doz. 
$6 per doz. 
$6 per doz. 
six dollars per two dozen bottles, each containing not more 
than one pint: And provided further, That brandies, wines, 
and other spirituous liquors may be imported in bottles 
when the package shall contain not less than one dozen; 
and all bottles shall pay a separate and additional duty of 
$6 p. two doz. 
$6 p.two doz. 
$6 p two doz. 
three cents each, whether containing wines, brandies, or 
other spirituous liquors subject to duty as hereinbefore pro- 
vided ; and any spirituous liquors may be imported in casks 
of any capacity containing not less than fifteen gallons: 
2 cts. each. 
$1 per doz. 
3 cts. each. 6 
. 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
And provided further. That any wines, brandies, or other spirit- 
uous liquors imported on and after the first day of 
, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, in any less quanti- 
ties than herein provided for shall be forfeited to the United 
States. 
On all Spirituous Liquors not otherwise provided for, in this act, 
two dollars per gallon; Provided, That no lower rate or 
100 per cent 
$2 per gal. 
amount of duty shall be paid on brandy, spirits, and spirit- 
, u >us beverages than that fixed in this act, for spirits con- 
taining fifty per centum of alcohol, Tralles' standard; but 
the rate or amount shall be increased in proportion to the 
amount of alcohol contained, for any greater alcoholic strength 
than that of 50 per centum of alcohol. 
And provided further, That all imitations of brandies, spirits, 
or wines, imported by any names whatever, shall be sub- 
ject to the highest rate of duty provided for the genuine 
article respectively intended to be represented, and on all 
compounds or preparations of which distilled spirits are a 
component part of chief value, there shall be levied a duty 
not less than that imposed upon distilled spirits of like 
strength ■ 
On Ale, Porter, and Beer in bottles, thirty-five cents per gallon ; 
35 cts. p. gal 
50 cts. p. gal. 
35 cts. p. gal. 
otherwise than in bottles, twenty cents per gallon 
20 cts. p. gal. 
35 cts. p. gal. 
20 cts. p. gal. 
On Mineral or Medicinal Waters, or Waters from springs im- 
pregnated with minerals, seventy-five cents for each dozen 
bottles or jugs, containing not more than one pint each ; 
3 cents 
75 cts. p. doz. 
and one dollar and twenty-five cents for each dozen bot- 
and 
25 per cent. 
$1 25 p. doz. 
ties or jugs containing more than one pint, and not over 
one quart. 
On Tobacco in leaf, unmanufactured and not stemmed, thirty- 
five cents pei* pound 
35 cts. p. lb.: 
35 cts p. lb. 
On Tobacco manufactured, of all descriptions, and Stemmed 
Tobacco not otherwise provided for, fifty cents per 
pound 
50 cts. p. lb. 
50 cts. p. lb. 7 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill. 
No. 81T. 
Proposed Kates 
On Snuff and Snuff Flour, manufactured of tobacco, ground, 
dry, or damp, and pickled, scented, or otherwise, of all 
descriptions, fifty cents per pound 
On Cigars, Cigarettes, and Cheroots of all kinds, three dollars 
per pound, and in addition thereto, fifty per centum ad va- 
lorem ; and no tare for the box in which any cigars, cheroots 
or cigarettes are packed shall be allowed in ascertaining 
the weight: Provided, That paper cigars and cigarettes, 
including wrappers, shall be subject to the same duties as 
are herein imposed upon cigars : 
50 cts. p. lb. 
$3 per lb. 
and 
50 per cent. 
• 
50 cts. p. lb. 
$3 per lb. 
and 
50 per cent. 
And provided further, That from and after the passage of this Act, no cigars shall be imported unless 
the same are packed in boxes of not less than five hundred cigars in each box ; and no entry of any 
imported cigars shall be allowed of less quantity than three thousand in a single package ; and all cigars 
on importation shall be placed in public store or bonded warehouse, and shall not be removed therefrom 
until the same shall have been inspected and a stamp affixed to each box indicating such inspection, with 
the date thereof. And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to provide the requisite stamps 
and to make all necessary regulations for carrying the above provisions of law into effect. 8 
COTTON AND MANUFACTURES OF COTTON. 
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That in lieu of the duties heretofore imposed by law on the im- 
portation of Cotton, and the manufactures of Cotton, there shall be levied, collected, and paid the follow- 
ing duties and rates of duty, that is to say: 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On Cotton, raw or unmanufactured, three cents per pound 
On all manufactures of cotton, as follows, to wit: 
CLASS 1. 
On all plain woven manufactures of cotton, and on drills, jeans, 
3 cts. p. lb. 
3 cts. p. lb. 
3 cts. p. lb. 
silesias and other tweeled or twilled fabrics, not more than 
four-leaved twill, in the brown, grey, or unbleached condi- 
tion, not exceeding one hundred threads to the square inch, 
counting the warp and filling, and exceeding in weight five 
ounces per square yard, four cents per square yard; if 
bleached, four and one half cents per square yard ; if 
colored, stained, painted, or printed, four and one half 
cents per square yard, and in addition thereto, ten per 
cent ad valorem. 
5 c. p. sq. yd. 
and 
6 c. p. sq. yd. 
5|c. p sq.yd. 
and 
file p. sq.yd. 
51c. p. sq.yd. 
and 
20 per cent. 
file, p sq.yd. 
and 
15 per cent 
5c. p. sq. yd. 
and 
Gc. p. sq. yd. 
5|c. p. sq. yd. 
and 
61c. p. sq. yd. 
51c p. sq.yd. 
and 
10 per cent 
61c. p. sq. yd. 
and 
15 per cent. 
4c. p. sq. yd. 
4|c. p. sq. yd. 
41c. p. sq. yd. 
and 
10 per cent. 
CLASS 2. 
On finer or lighter goods of like description, not exceeding 
two hundred threads to the square inch, counting the warp 
and filling, in the brown, grey, or unbleached condition, 
five cents per square yard; if bleached, five and one 
5c. p. sq. yd. 
and 
6c. p. sq. yd. 
5c. p. sq. yd. 
and 
6c. p.sq. yd. 
5c. p. sq. yd. 
half cents per square yard; if colored, stained, painted, 
or printed, five and one half cents per square yard, 
and in addition thereto fifteen per cent, ad valorem. 
p. sq. yd. 
and 
6^c. p. sq. yd. 
5|c. p. sq. yd. 
and 
20 per cent. 
6|c. p. sq. yd 
and 
15 per cent. 
51c. p. sq. yd. 
and 
6|c. p. sq. yd. 
51c. p. sq. yd 
and 
10 per cent. 
61c. p. sq. yd. 
and 
15 per cent. 
5^c. p. sq. yd. 
5£c. p. sq. yd. 
and 
15 per cent. 9 
CLASS 3. 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On finer or lighter goods of like description, exceeding two 
hundred threads to the square inch, counting the warp 'and 
filling, in the brown, grey, or unbleached condition, seven 
cents per square yard ; if bleached, seven and one half 
5c. p. sq. yd. 
and 
7c. p. sq. yd. 
5c. p, sq. yd. 
and 10 p. ct- 
7c. 
p. sq. yd. 
cents per square yard; if colored, stained, painted, or 
5|c. p. sq. yd. 
and 
7|c.p. sq.yd. 
6c. p. sq. yd. 
51c. p. sq. yd. 
and 10 p. ct. 
Twills, 
71c. p. sq.yd. 
and 10 p. ct. 
7|c. p. sq. yd. 
printed, seven and one half cents per square yard, and in 
addition thereto twenty per centum ad valorem. 
5|c. p. sq. yd. 
and 
20 per cent. 
7|c. p. sq. yd. 
and 
15 per cent. 
51c. p. sq. yd. 
and 
30 per cent. 
7|c. p. sq. yd. 
and 
25 per cent. 
71c. p. sq. yd. 
and 
20 per cent. 
CLASS 4. 
• 
On all other manufactures of cotton commonly sold or purchased 
by the yard or other lineal measure or by the piece, com- 
prising twills over four-leaved, satteen jeans, nets, lappet 
and jacquard made fabrics, damasked and figured fabrics, 
cords, beaverteens, velvets, velveteens, and fabrics em- 
broidered or tamboured in the loom, not otherwise pro- 
vided for in the brown, grey, or unbleached condition, six 
35 per cent. 
40 per cent 
6c. 
p. sq. yd. 
cents per square yard; if bleached, colored, stained, painted, 
or printed, six cents per square yard, and in addition 
thereto twenty per centum ad valorem. 
Provided, That if the duties imposed upon manufactures 
of cotton, included in the four foregoing classes, shall 
amount upon brown, grey, or unbleached fabrics to less 
than thirty per centum ad valorem, then the duty shall 
35 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
6c. 
20 
p. sq. yd. 
and 
per cent. 
be assessed at thirty per centum ad valorem; upon 
30 per cent. 
bleached fabrics to less than thirty-three and one third 
per centum ad valorem, then the duty shall be assessed at 
thirty-three and* one third per centum ad valorem ; upon 
33 J per cent. 
colored, stained, painted, or printed fabrics to less than 
thirty-five per centum ad valorem, then the duty shall be 
.assessed at thirty-five per centum ad valorem. 
35 
per cent. 10 
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CLASS 5. 
spool thread of cotton, ten cents per dozen spools, con- 
taining on each spool two hundred yards or less, and in 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On 
On spools, 
200 yards or less. 
12 cts. p. doz. 
and 
35 per cent. 
On spools, 
200 yards or less. 
12c. per doz. 
and 
30 per cent. 
On spools, 
200 yards or less. 
10c. per doz. 
and 
30 per cent. 
addition thereto thirty per centum ad valorem ; and for 
every additional one hundred yards on each spool or frac- 
tional part thereof, five cents per dozen spools, and, in 
addition thereto, thirty per centum ad valorem. 
Each additional 
100 yards. 
G cts. p. doz. 
and 
30 per cent. 
Each additional 
100 yards. 
6 cts. p. doz. 
and 
30 per cent. 
Each additional 
100 yards. 
5 cts. per doz. 
and 
30 per cent. 
On 
cotton yarns in any form when not advanced beyond singles 
in numbers coarser than number fifty, twenty cents 
per pound, and in addition thereto thirty per centum 
ad valorem ; when not coarser than number fifty, nor 
40 
per cent. 
20c. to 50c. 
per lb. 
and 35 p. ct. 
20 cts. p. lb- 
and 
30 per cent. 
finer than number seventy, thirty cents per pound, 
30 cts. p. lb. 
and 
and in addition thereto thirty per centum ad valorem; 
40 
per cent. 
30 per cent. 
when finer than number seventy, forty cents per 
40 cts. p. lb- 
pound, and in addition thereto thirty per centum ad 
30 per cent. 
valorem. 
On 
cotton thread, when not wound upon spools, and on cotton 
yarns for warps or other purposes when two or more 
strands are twisted together, whether on beams, in bundles, 
skeins, hanks, cops, or in any other form, if composed of 
single yarns of numbers coarser than number fifty, 
4c. per skein 
20c. to 40c. 
20 cts. p. lb. 
twenty cents per pound, and in addition thereto thirty 
per centum ad valorem; if composed of single yarns not 
30 
ana 
per cent. 
per lb. 
and 35 p. ct. 
and 
30 per cent. 
coarser than number fifty, nor finer than number 
seventy, thirty cents per pound, and in addition thereto 
40 
per cent. 
40 cts. p. lb. 
and 
35 per cent. 
30 cts. p. 1b- 
and 
30 per cent. 
thirty per centum ad valorem; if composed of single 
yarns of numbers finer than number seventy, forty 
40 
per cent. 
40c. and 50c. 
40 cts p. lb- 
cents per pound, and in addition thereto thirty per centum 
ad valorem. 
per lb. 
35 per cent. 
and 
30 per cent. 
On 
all cotton hosiery, comprising shirts, drawers, stockings, 
socks, gloves, and all other goods knitted or made on frames, 
or by hand, ten cents per pound, and in addition thereto 
30 cts. p. lb. 
10 cts. p. lb. 
forty per centum ad valorem. 
35 
per cent. 
and 
35 per cent. 
and 
40 per cent. 
On 
cotton webbing, tapes, galloons, bindings, gimps, trimmings, 
and braids, plain or otherwise, fifty per centum ad valorem.. 
35 
per cent. 
25c. to 60c. 
per lb. 
and 35 p. ct. 
50 per cent- 
On 
cotton edgings, insertings, and embroideries, and on all 
embroideries of every material (except silk) of which the 11 
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Present Tariff. 
House Bill. 
No. 718. 
Present Rates. 
embroidering is the chief value, not otherwise provided for, 
forty per centum ad valorem 
On all manufactures of cotton not herein otherwise provided for 
forty per centum ad valorem 
35 per cent. 
35 per cent. 
40 per cent 
40 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
On all manufactures of cotton mixed with other material, in which cotton is the material of chief 
value, and not herein otherwise provided for, there shall be levied, collected, and paid the same duties as 
as are herein provided for similar manufactures composed wholly of cotton. 
WOOL AND MANUFACTURES OF WOOL. 
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That in lieu of the duties heretofore imposed by law (on the 
articles mentioned and embraced in this section), there shall be levied, collected, and paid, on all 
unmanufactured wool, hair of the alpaca, goat, and other like animals, imported from foreign countries, 
the duties hereinafter provided. 
All wools, hair of the alpaca, goat, and other like animals, as aforesaid, shall be divided, for the 
purpose of fixing the duties to be charged thereon, into three classes, to wit: 
CLASS 1 .-Clothing Wools : 
That is to say, merino, mestiza, metz, or metis wools, or other wools of merino blood, immediate or 
remote; Down clothing wools; and wools of like character with any of the preceding, including 
such as have been heretofore usually imported into the United States from Buenos Ayres, 
New Zealand, Australia, Cape of G-ood Hope, Russia, Great Britain, Canada, and elsewhere, 
and also including all wools not hereinafter described or designated in classes two (2) and three (3). 
CLASS 2-Combing Wools: 
That is to say, Leicester, Cotswold, Lincolnshire, Down combing wools, Canada long wools, or other 
like combing wools, of English blood, and usually known by the terms herein used; and also all 
hair of the alpaca, goat, and other like animals. 
CLASS 3-Carpet Woolsand 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. 12 
For the purpose of carrying into effect the classification herein provided, a sufficient number of 
distinctive samples of the various kinds of wool or hair embraced in each of the three classes 
above-named, selected and prepared under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, and 
duly verified by him (the standard samples being retained in the Treasury Department), shall be 
deposited in the custom-houses and elsewhere, as he may direct, which samples shall be used by 
the proper officers of the customs to determine the classes above specified, to which all imported 
wools belong. 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. • 
And upon wools of the first class, imported unwashed, 
the value whereof, at the last port or place whence 
exported to the United States, including charges in such 
port, shall be twenty-four cents or less per pound, the duty 
shall be six cents per pound; upon wools of the same class, 
imported unwashed, the value whereof, at the last port or 
3 cts. per lb. 
to 6 cts. p. lb. 
10 cts. p. lb. 
and 
10 per cent. 
6 cts. per 
lb. 
place whence exported to the United States, .including 
charges in such port, shall exceed twenty-four cents per 
pound, and not exceed thirty-two cents per pound, the duty 
shall be ten cents per pound, and, in addition thereto, ten 
per centum ad valorem ; upon wools of the same class, 
10 
10 
cts. p. lb. 
and 
per cent. 
10 cts. p. lb 
and 
10 per cent. 
10 cts. p. lb. 
and 
10 per cent. 
unwashed, the value whereof at the last port or place 
whence exported to the United States, including charges in 
such port, shall exceed thirty-two cents per pound, the duty 
shall be twelve cents per pound, and, in addition thereto, 
ten per centum ad valorem. 
12 
10 
cts. p. lb. 
and 
per cent. 
12 cts. p. lb. 
and 
10 per cent. 
12 cts. p. lb. 
and 
10 per cent. 
Upon wools of the second class, imported unwashed, and upon 
all hair of the alpaca, goat, and other like animals, the 
duty shall be six cents per pound. 
Upon wools of the third class, unwashed, the value whereof at 
12 
10 
cts. p. lb. 
and 
per cent. 
10 cts. p Jb 
and 
10 per cent. 
6 cts. per 
lb. 
the last port or place whence exported into the United 
States, including charges in such port, shall be fifteen cents 
or less, the duty shall be three cents per pound. Upon 
3 cts. per lb. 
3 cts. per lb 
3 cts. per 
lb. 
wools of the same class, unwashed, the value whereof at the 
last port or place whence exported to the United States, 
including charges in such port, shall exceed fifteen cents per 
pound, the duty shall be six cents per pound: 
3 cts. per lb. 
and 6c. p lb. 
6 cts. per lb. 
6 cts. per 
lb. 13 
Provided, That any wool of the sheep, or Lair of the alpaca, goat, and other like animals, which 
shall be imported in any other than the ordinary condition as now and heretofore practised, or which shall 
be changed in its character or condition, for the purpose of evading the duty, or which shall be reduced in 
value by the admixture of dirt or any other foreign substance, shall be subject to pay twice the amount 
of duty to which it would otherwise be subjected, anything in this act to the contrary notwithstand- 
ing: Provided further, That when wool of different qualities is imported in the same bale, bag, or pa -kage, 
it shall be appraised, by the appraiser, to determine the rate of duty to which it shall be subjected, at the 
average aggregate value of the contents of the bale, bag, or package; and when bales of different qualities 
are embraced in the same invoice at the same price, whereby the average price shall be reduced more 
than ten per centum below the value ,of the bale of the best quality, the value of the whole shall be 
appraised according to the value of the bale of the best quality; and no bale, bag, or package shall be 
liable to a less rate of duty in consequence of being invoiced with wool of lower value: And provided 
further, That the specific duty upon wool of all classes which shall be imported washed shall be twice 
the amount of the specific duty to which it would be subjected if imported unwashed, and that the 
specific duty upon wool of all classes which shall be imported scoured shall be three times the amount 
of the specific duty to which it would be subjected if imported unwashed. 
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Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On sheepskins and Angora goatskins, raw or unmanufac- 
tured, imported with the wool on, washed or unwashed, the 
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duty shall be twenty per centum ad valorem: and on 
20 per cent 
30 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
woollen rags, shoddy, mungo, and waste, the duty shall be 
six cents per pound; and on woollen flocks the duty shall 
3 cts. per lb 
1 2 cts. p lb. 
6 cts. per lb. 
be three cents per pound. 
3 cts. per lb 
12 cts. p lb. 
3 cts. per lb. 14 
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That in lieu of the duties heretofore imposed by law on manufac- 
tures of wool and similar materials, there shall be levied, collected, and paid on the goods, wares, and 
merchandise herein enumerated and provided for, imported from foreign countries, the following duties 
and rates of duty, that is to say: 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On Woollen Cloths, comprising broadcloths, cloakings, cassi- 
meres, ladies' cloths, doeskins, tricots, and all other fulled 
or felted goods or fabrics, woollen shawls, flannels, and all 
manufactures of wool of every description made wholly or 
in part of wool, not herein otherwise specified, twenty-five 
• 
^4 cts. p. lb 
50 cts. p. lb. 
cts. p. lb. 
cents per pound, and in addition thereto forty per centum 
and 
40 per cent. 
and 
35 per cent. 
and 
40 per cent. 
ad valorem. 
On Blankets and Woollen and Worsted Yarns, composed 
wholly or in part, of wool, the hair of the alpaca, goat, 
or other like animals, valued at not exceeding forty 
24 cts. p. lb. 
20 cts. p. lb. 
10 cts. p. lb. 
cents per pound, ten cents per pound ; valued at above 
and 
25 per cent. 
and 
35 per cent. 
and 
40 per cent. 
forty cents per pound, and not exceeding sixty cents 
24 cts. p. lb. 
30 cts. p. lb. 
15 cts. p. lb. 
per pound, fifteen cents per pound; valued at above 
and 
30 per cent. 
and 
35 per cent. 
and 
40 per cent. 
sixty cents per pound, and not exceeding eighty 
24 cts. p. lb. 
40 cts. p. lb. 
25 cts. p. lb. 
cents per pound, twenty-five cents per pound; valued 
and 
30 per cent. 
and 
35 per cent. 
and 
40 per cent. 
at above eighty cents per pound, thirty cents pdf 
24 cts. p. lb. 
50 cts. p. lb. 
30 cts. p. lb. 
and 
and 
and 
pound ; and in addition thereto, upon all the above-named 
30 per cent. 
35 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
articles, forty per centum ad valorem. 
On bunting, fifteen cents per square yard, and in addition 
50 per cent. 
20c. p. sq. yd. 
15c. p. sq. yd. 
thereto forty per centum ad valorem. 
On women's and children's dress goods, and real or imitation Ital- 
ian cloths, and lasting-!, either in the grey or of uniform color, 
or in various colors or figures produced in the process of 
weaving, or by coloring, staining, painting, printing or oth- 
erwise, commonly sold or purchased by the yard or other 
lineal measure, or by the piece, composed wholly or in part 
of wool, worsted, the hair of the alpaca, goat, or other 
like animals, valued at not exceeding twenty cents the 
and 
35 per cent. 
• 
and 
40 per cent. 15 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
square yard, four cents per square yard and in addition 
thereto forty per cent, ad valorem; valued at above 
4c. p. sq. yd 
and 
25 per cent. 
6c. p. sq. yd 
and 
35 per cent. 
4c. p. sq. yd. 
and 
40 per cent. 
twenty cents per square yard, six cents per square yard, and 
in addition thereto forty per cent, ad valorem: Provided, 
That on all such goods weighing four ounces and over per 
square yard, the duty shall be twenty-five cents per pound, 
and in addition thereto forty per cent, ad valorem. 
6c. p. sq. yd 
and 
30 per cent. 
8c. p. sq. yd 
and 
40 per cent. 
6c. p. sq. yd. 
and 
40 per cent. 
On 
Hosiery, composed wholly or in part of wool, comprising 
shirts, drawers, stockings, socks, gloves, mittens, and all 
other goods knitted or made on frames, or by han I, and 
cloth gloves, twenty cents per pound, and in addition 
thereto forty per centum ad valorem. 
20 cts. p. lb. 
and 
30 per cent. 
20c. to 50c. 
per lb. and 
35 per cent. 
20 cts. p- lb. 
and 
40 per cent. 
On 
hats and caps of wool, and clothing ready made, and 
wearing apparel of every description, and Balmoral 
skirts, composed wholly or in part of wool, worsted, 
the hair of the alpaca, goat, or other like animals, 
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made up or manufactured wholly or in part by the 
tailor, seamstress, or manufacturer, twenty-five cents per 
pound, and, in addition thereto, forty per centum ad 
valorem. 
24 cts. p. lb. 
and 
40 per cent. 
50 cts. p. lb. 
and 
40 per cent. 
25 cts. p. lb. 
and 
40 per cent. 
On 
webbings, beltings, cords, bindings, braids, and galloons, 
composed wholly or in part of wool, worsted, the hair of 
the alpaca, goat, or other like animals, forty cents per 
50 per cent. 
50 cts. p. lb. 
40 cts. p. lb. 
pound, and, in addition thereto, forty per cent, ad valorem. 
and 
50 per cent. 
and 
40 per cent. 
On fringes, gimp, tassels, dress trimmings, head nets, buttons or 
tassel buttons, or buttons of other forms for tassels or orna- 
ments, wrought by hand or braided by machinery, made 
of wool, worsted, the hair of the alpaca, goat, or other 
like animals, or of which the above-named materials are 
• 
the component parts of chief value, sixty per centum ad 
valorem. 
24 cts. p. lb. 
and 
40 per* cent. 
50 per cent. 
50 cts. per lb. 
and 
50 per cent. 
60 per cent. 
On Aubusson and Axminster carpets and carpets woven whole 
for rooms, fifty per centum ad valorem. . 
80c. p. sq. yd. 
50 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
On Saxony, Wilton, and Tournay velvet carpets, wrought by 
the Jacquard machine, eighty cents per square yard 
80c. p. sq. yd. 
fOc. p. sq. yd. 
and 35 p. ct. 
80c. p. sq. yd. 16 
* 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
wrought by the Jacquard machine, seventy cents per square 
yard; on patent velvet and tapestry velvet carpets, printed 
7 Oc. p. sq. yd. 
44c. p. sq. yd. 
and. 
35 per cent. 
70c. p. sq. yd. 
on the warp or otherwise, fifty cents per square yard 
On tapestry Brussels carpets, printed on the warp or otherwise, 
50c. p. sq. yd. 
40c. p. sq. yd. 
and 
35 per cent. 
50c. p. sq. yd. 
fifty cents per square yard 
50c. p. sq. yd. 
28c. p. sq. yd 
and 
35 per cent. 
50c. p. sq. yd. 
On treble ingrain, three-ply, and worsted chain Venetian carpets, 
forty cents per square yard * 
40c. p. sq. yd 
17c. p. sq,yd. 
and 
35 per cent. 
40c. p. sq. yd. 
On yarn Venetian and two-ply ingrain carpets, thirty-five cents 
per square yard 
35c. p. sq. yd. 
12c. p. sq. yd 
and 
35 p.-r cent. 
35c. p. sq. yd. 
On druggets and bookings, printed, colored, or otherwise, twenty- 
25c. p. sq. yd. 
25c. p. sq. yd. 
and 
25c. p. sq. yd. 
and 
five cents per square yard, and thirty per centum ad 
valorem ; on carpets and carpetings of wool, flax, or cotton, 
or parts of either, or other material not otherwise herein 
35 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
specified, forty per centum ad valorem: Provided, That 
mats, rugs, screens, covers, hassocks, bedsides, and other 
portions of carpets or carpeting shall be subjected to the 
rate of duty herein imposed on carpets or carpeting of like 
character or description, and that the duty on all other 
mats (not exclusively of vegetable material), screens, has- 
socks, and carpet, and door rugs, shall be forty per centum 
ad valorem. 
On oil cloths for floors, stamped, painted, or printed, valued at 
40 per cent. 
1 
40 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
fifty cents or less per square yard, thirty per centum ad 
valorem ; valued at over fifty cents per .square yard, and on 
all other oil cloth (except silk oil cloth), and on water-proof 
30 per cent. 
35 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
cloth, not otherwise provided for, forty per centum ad va- 
40 per cent. 
45 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
lorem; on oil silk cloth, sixty per centum ad valorem .... 
On all manufactures of cloth, woven, made, or cut in patterns 
of such size, shape, and form, as to be fit for use in the 
manufacture of buttons, shoes, boots, bootees, and slippers, 
exclusively, not combined with India-rubber, ten per 
50 per cent. 
60 per cent. 
60 per cent. 
centum ad valorem 
10 per cent. 
10 per cent. 
10 per cent. 
On roofing felt, twenty per centum ad valorem 
20 per cent 
20 per cent. 
20 per cent 17 
On all manufactures of wool, worsted, the hair of the alpaca, goat, or other like animal, mixed with 
other material, in which wool, worsted, the hair of the alpaca, goat, or other like animal, is the material 
of chief value, not herein otherwise specified, there shall be levied, collected, and paid, the same 
duties as are herein provided for similar manufactures, composed wholly of wool, worsted, the hair of the 
alpaca, goat, oi' other like animals ; 
Provided, That all manufactures of worsted, the hair of the alpaca, goat, or any other animal, and 
of shoddy, mungo, waste, or flocks, not herein specified, shall be known as manufactures of wool, and 
the same rate of duties shall be levied, collected, and paid on them as are herein imposed on similar 
fabrics, composed wholly of wool. 
ON SILK AND ITS MANUFACTURES. 
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That in lieu of the duties heretofore imposed by law on 
the importation of silk and manufactures of silk, there shall be levied, collected, and paid the 
following duties and rates of duty, that is to say : 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On spun silk for filling, in skeins or cops, twenty-five per 
centum ad valorem; on silk in the gum, not more ad- 
vanced. than singles, tram, thrown or organzine, and on 
Floss silks, thirty-five per centum ad valorem 
25 per cent. 
35 per cent 
25 per cent. 
35 per cent. 
On sewing silk in the gum or purified, fifty per centum ad 
valorem. 
On all ribbons, beltings, galloons, hat-bands, bindings, braids, 
fringes, gimps, cloak and dress trimmings, fancy buttons, 
cords, dress cords, cords and tassels, head nets, head 
40 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
dresses, neck ties, collars, and scarfs, made of silk, sixty 
per centum ad valorem. 
On each and every other description of manufactures of silk, 
whether produced by the loom, or frame, or in any other 
way, or further advanced by the needle, whether by hand 
35 per cent, 
to 
60 per cent. 
60 per cent, 
to 
75 per cent. 
60 per cent. 
or machinery, sixty per centum ad valorem 
On all other manufactures of silk, mixed with other material*, 
comprised as above, in which silk is the material of chief 
value, fifty per centum ad valorem. . . , 
60 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
60 per cent. 
60 per cent. 
50 per cent. 18 
FLAX, HEMP, JUTE, ETC., AND MANUFACTURES THEREOF. 
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That in lieu of the duties heretofore imposed by law on the 
importation of Flax, Hemp, Jute, or similar vegetable materials, or on manufactures of the same, there 
shall be hereafter levied, collected, and paid the following duties and rates of duty, that is to say: 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On flax unmanufactured, ten dollars per ton 
$15 per ton. 
$15 per ton. 
Manila, 
$25 per ton. 
$45 per ton. 
$45 per ton. 
$10 per ton. 
$20 per ton. 
$20 per ton. 
$1 per ton. 
$5 per ton. 
$5 per ton. 
$5 per ton. 
30 per cent. 
35 per cent. 
3 cts. per lb. 
3 cts. per, lb. 
4 cts. per lb. 
3 cts. per yd- 
and 
30 per cent. 
On flax hackled, known as dressed line, twenty dollars per ton. . 
On Russia, Manila, Italian, and all other hemps, unmanufac- 
tured, twenty dollars per ton 
On flax straw, one dollar per ton 
On the tow of flax or hernp, five dollars per ton -| 
On jute, unmanufactured, and Sisal grass, and other vegetable 
fibres not otherwise provided for, five dollars per ton 
On all manufactures of Sisal grass, thirty per cent, ad valorem.. 
On all brown or bleached linens, ducks, canvas paddings, cot bot- 
toms, burlaps, drills, coatings, brown Hollands, blay linens, 
Spanish linens, diaper, damasks, crash, huckabacks, hand- 
kerchiefs, lawns, or other manufactures of flax, hemp, or 
jute, or of which flax, hemp, or jute, is the component 
material of chief value, not herein otherwise specified, 
thirty-five per centum ad valorem 
Flax, 
$5 per ton. 
Hemp, 
$10 per ton. 
$15 per ton. 
30 per cent, 
and 
40 per cent. 
Tarred, 
3 cts. per lb. 
Uutarred, 
3| cts p. lb. 
Manila, 
2| cts. per lb 
3 cts per lb. 
4 cts. per lb. 
6|c. p. sq. yd. 
Coir, 
30 per cent. 
$5 per ton. 
$20 per ton. 
6c. p. sq yd. 
and 30 p. ct. 
to 40 p. ct. 
Manila, • 
3 cts. per lb. 
3 cts. per ib. 
and 
30 per cent. 
4 cts. per lb. 
and 
35 per cent. 
5 cts. per yd. 
and 
28 per cent. 
On cordage and rope, of whatever vegetable material com- 
posed, three cents per pound 
On gunny cloth, gunny bags, cotton bagging, or other manufac- 
tures not otherwise herein provided for, suitable for the 
uses to which cotton bagging is applied, composed wholly 
or in part of hemp, jute, flax, or other material 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. 
On jute, hemp, or cocoanut matting, and carpeting, three cents 
per square yard, and, in addition thereto, thirty per centum 
ad valorem. 19 
On mats, and on matting not otherwise specified, of the same and 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Ratos. 
30 per cent. 
25 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
other exclusively vegetable materials, thirty per centum 
ad valorem ; 
On 
matting made of bass or linden wood bark, fifteen per 
centum ad valorem 
30 per cent. 
15 per cent. 
On 
thread, patent threads, saddler's thread, shoe thread, gill- 
net thread or gill-net twine, and pack thread and sewing- 
machine thread, and all other threads, and twines, and 
yarn, when advanced beyond single, made of flax, hemp, 
or jute, or of the tow of flax, hemp, or jute, valued 
at fifty cents or less per pound, five cents per pound, 
and, in addition thereto, thirty per centum ad valorem ; 
40 per cent. 
10 cts. p. lb. 
and 
35 per cent. 
5 cts. per lb. 
and 
30 per cent. 
valued at over fifty cents and not over one dol- 
lar per pound, ten cents per pound, and, in addition 
thereto, thirty per centum ad valorem ; valued at over 
20 cts. p. lb. 
and 
35 per cent. 
10 cts. p. lb. 
and 
30 per cent. 
one dollar per pound, fifteen cents per pound, and, in 
addition thereto, thirty per centum ad valorem. 
30 cts p. lb. 
and 
35 per cent. 
15 cts. p. lb. 
and 
30 per cent. 
On 
webbing, tapes, galloons bindings, gimps, trimmings, braids, 
plain or otherwise, made of flax, hemp, or jute, or of parts 
of either, or of which flax, hemp, or jute, shall be the 
component material of chief value, fifty per centum ad 
valorem 
40 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
On 
all other manufactures of flax, hemp, or jute, or other 
similar fibres, not herein otherwise specified, forty per 
centum ad valorem 
40 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
On all manufactures of flax, hemp, or jute, in which flax, hemp, 
or jute, shall be the component material of chief value, 
there shall be levied, collected, and paid, the same duties 
as those herein assessed on similar articles composed 
wholly of the above-named materials. 20 
IRON AND STEEL, AND MANUFACTURES THEREOF. 
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That, in lieu of the duties heretofore imposed by law on the 
importation of the articles hereinafter enumerated, there shall be levied, collected, and paid, the follow- 
ing duties and rates of duty, that is to say: 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On iron in pigs, nine dollars per ton 
$9 per ton. 
$9 per ton. 
$9 per ton. 
On old iron, cast or wrought, three dollars per ton : Provided, 
That nothing shall be deemed old iron but what is fit only 
to be re manufactured. 
On all iron in slabs, blooms, loops, or other forms, less finished 
than bars and more advanced than pig iron, except castings, 
$8 per ton. 
$5 per ton. 
$3 per ton. 
one and one fourth cents per pound 
On iron bars for railroads or inclined planes, made to pattern, 
1 cent p. lb. 
If cts. p. lb. 
If cts. p. lb. 
ready to lay down, seventy cents per one hundred pounds.. 
70 cents 
70 cents 
70 cents 
On iron bars rolled or hammered, comprising flat bars not less 
than one inch, nor more than six inches wide, nor less than 
three eighths of an inch, nor more than two inches thick, 
per 100 lbs. 
per 100 lbs. 
per 100 lbs. 
one and one fourth cents per pound 
On iron bars rolled or hammered, comprising flat bars less than 
one inch, and more than six inches wide, and less than 
three eighths of an inch, and more than two inches thick, 
1 cent p. lb. 
If cts. p. lb. 
& l^c. p lb. 
If cts. p. lb. 
one and three fourths cents per pound 
On iron bars or rods, round or square, not less than three 
fourths of an inch, nor more than two inches diameter or 
1| cts. p. lb. 
If cts. p. lb. 
& 2c. per lb. 
1f cts. p. lb. 
square, one and one fourth cents per pound 
On iron bars or rods, round or square, less than three fourths 
of an inch, and more than two inches diameter or square, 
1 cent p. lb. 
11 cts. p. lb. 
& Ifc. p. lb. 
11 cts. p. lb. 
one and three fourths cents per pound 
On^iron rods and wire rods, less than number nine wire gauge, 
1| cts. p. lb. 
1 f cts. p. lb. 
to 2|c. p. lb. 
if cts. p. lb. 
two and three fourths cents per pound 
On all sizes nail rods, slit or rolled, and on all slit iron, 
cts. p. lb. 
3 cts. p. lb. 
2 J cts. p. lb. 
two and one fourth cents per pound 
On all sizes of oval, half oval, and half round iron, two and 
1| cts. p. lb. 
2f cts. p. lb. 
2Jets. p. lb. 
one fourth cents per pound 
On all sizes hoop, band, and scroll iron, thinner than number 
eight and not thinner than number fourteen wire gauge, two 
35 per cent. 
2| cts. p. lb. 
2Jets. p. lb. 
and one fourth cents per pound 
11 cts. p. lb. 
2f cts. p. lb. 
2f cts. p. lb. 21 
Present Pariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On all sizes of hoop, band, and scroll iron, thinner than number 
fourteen wire gauge, two and three fourths cents per pound.. 
If cts. p. lb. 
2f cts. p. lb. 
2f cts. p. lb. 
On all sizes of plate iron, not thinner than number ten wire 
gauge, one and three fourths cents per pound 
If cts. p. lb. 
2 cts. per lb. 
If cts. p. lb. 
On sheet or plate iron thinner than number ten, and not thinner 
than number eighteen wire gauge, two cents per pound 
On sheet or plate iron thinner than number eighteen wire gauge, 
Ifc. to l|c. 
per lb. 
2f cts. p. lb. 
2 cts. per lb. 
and not thinner than number twenty-two wire gauge, 
two and one fourth cents per pound 
Ifc. to l^c. 
per lb. 
21 cts p. lb. 
2| cts. p. lb. 
On sheet or plate iron thinner than number twenty-two, and not 
thinner than number twenty-four wire gauge, two and a 
half cents per pound 
1| cts. p. lb. 
2f cts. p. lb. 
2-f cts. p. lb. 
On sheet or plate iron thinner than number twenty-four wire 
gauge, not including tagger's iron, three cents per pound. . . 
1 f cts. p. lb. 
2cts. p. lb. 
3 cts. per lb. 
On tagger's iron, thirty per centum ad valorem „ 
30 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
On glazed and polished sheet iron of all descriptions, three and 
one fourth cents per pound 
3 cts. per lb. 
4 cts. per lb. 
3| cts. p. lb. 
On iron hoops, cut to uniform length or lengths, fit for use, all 
sizes and descriptions, three and one fourth cents per pound 
35 per cent. 
2f cts. p. lb. 
3f cts. p. lb. 
Ou all iron rolled or hammered in shapes, and on iron known as 
angle iron, whether in forms of T, L, and H, on any other 
forms than round, square, or flat, not herein otherwise 
specified, two and three fourths cents per pound 
35 per cent. 
2| cts. p. lb. 
2f cts. p, lb. 
On locomotive tire of iron, or bars rolled and cut for such uses, 
of whatever length, three cents per pound . 
3 cts. per lb. 
3f cts. p. lb. 
3 cts. p..lb. 
On locomotive tire, or bars rolled for such uses, of steel or of 
iron refined by the Bessemer process, three cents per pound. 
3 cts. p. lb. 
4 cts. per lb. 
3 cts. p. lb. 
On railroad splice-bars or chairs, punched or unpunched, two 
and one fourth cents per pound 
2 cts. per lb. 
2-1 cts. p. lb. 
2| cts. p. lb. 
On railway frogs, frog points, side bars, and finger bars, of iron, 
two and a half cents per pound 
3 cts. per lb. 
4^ cts. p. lb. 
2£ cts. p. lb. 
On railway frogs, frog points, side bars, and finger bars, of steel, 
four cents per pound 
45 per cent. 
4-f cts. p. lb. 
4 cts. p. lb. 
On iron wire, bright, coppered, galvanized, or tinned, drawn 
and finished, not more than one fourth of an inch in diame- 
ter, nor less than number sixteen wire gauge, three cents 
per pound, and in addition thereto fifteen per cent, ad | 
2 cts. per lb. 
and 
15 per cent. 
4 cts. per lb. 
3 cts. p. lb. 
and 
15 per cent. 22 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. T18. 
Proposd Rates. 
valorem ; less in size than number sixteen, and not less 
than number twenty-five wire gauge, four cents per pound, 
3£ cts. p. lb. 
and 
5-j- cts. p. lb. 
4 cts. p. lb. 
and 
and, in addition thereto, fifteen per cent, ad valorem ; less than 
15 per cent. 
15 per cent. 
number twenty-five wire gauge, five cents per pound, and 
3^ cts. p. lb 
and 
6 cts. p. lb. 
and 
5 cts. p. lb. 
and 
in addition thereto, fifteen per centum ad valorem 
On iron or steel wire rope, made of wire over number sixteen 
wire gauge, in size, six cents per pound; made of wire less 
in size than number sixteen, and not less than number 
twenty-five, seven cents per pound ; made of wire less in 
size than number twenty-five wire gauge, eight cents per 
pound: Provided, That iron wire rope, galvanized, shall 
pay one fourth of one cent per pound in addition to the 
foregoing rates: And provided, Tlnjt all iron wire, covered 
15 per cent. 
35 p. ct. 
10 per cent. 
15 per cent. 
6 cts. p. lb. 
7 cts. p. lb. 
8 cts. p. lb. 
galvanized, 
| ct. add'l. 
with silk, cotton, or other material, shall pay five cents per 
pound in addition to the rates of duty herein imposed on 
iron wire not covered. 
5 cts. per lb. 
5 cts. p. lb. 
On iron wire cloth, forty per centum ad valorem 
35 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
On wire spiral furniture springs, five cents per pound 
On machinery forgings, mill irons and mill cranks, of wrought 
iron, and wrought iron pieces or parts, of any weight, for 
35 per cent. 
6$ cts. p. lb. 
5 cts. p. lb. 
ships, steam engines, or locomotives, two cents per pound. . 
On iron of any size or description, not included, embraced, or 
2 cts. p. lb. 
2 cts. p. lb. 
enumerated in this act, one and three fourths cents per 
pound. 
35 per cent. 
If cts. p. lb. 
If cts. p. lb. 
On anchors or parts thereof, two and one fourth cents per 
pound. 
2| cts. p. lb. 
3 cts. p. lb. 
2| cts. p. lb. 
On iron cables or cable chains, or parts thereof, two and one half 
cents per pound: Provided, That no chains made of wire 
or rods of a^diameter less than one half of one inch, shall 
be considered a chain cable. 
On chains, trace chains, halter chains, and fence chains, made of 
wire or rods not less than one fourth of an inch in diameter, 
2-^ cts. p. lb. 
3 cts. p. lb. 
3 cts. p. lb. 
2^ cts. p. lb. 
two and one half cents per pound; less than one fourth of 
an inch in^diameter, and not less than number nine wire 
2| cts. p. lb. 
3-^ cts. p. lb. 
and 4c. p. lb. 
2^ cts. p. lb. 
gauge, four cents per pound; less than number nine wire 
3 cts. per lb. 
5 cts. p. lb. 
4 cts. p. lb. 
gauge, six cents per pound 
35 per cent. 
5 cts. p. lb. 
and 
20 per cent. 
G cts. p. lb. 23 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On anvils of all descriptions, two and one half cents per pound. . 
On blacksmiths' hammers, stone hammers, and sledges of all 
2-^ cts. p. lb. 
4 cts. p. lb. 
2-^ cts. p. lb. 
descriptions, wholly or partially finished, two and one half 
cents per pound. 
On wrought iron washers, nuts, bolts, and rivets, wholly or par- 
tially finished, of all descriptions, punched or unpunched, 
2^- cts. p. lb. 
4 cts. p. lb. 
2| cts. p. lb. 
two and a half cents per pound 
On wrought iron tubes and Hues, of all descriptions, three and 
2 cts. p. lb. 
2-1 cts. p. lb. 
and 
3-j- cts. p. lb. 
* 
21 cts. p. lb. 
one half cents per pound 
On wrought iron hinges of all descriptions, and bed-screws, 
3^ cts. p. lb. 
4 cts. per lb. 
3| cts. p. lb. 
three cents per pound 
On galvanized iron, and iron coated with zinc, of all descrip- 
2^ cts. p. lb. 
4 cts. per lb. 
3 cts. per lb. 
tions, three cents per pound 
On wrought iron board nails and spikes, and nails made of wire, 
21 cts. p. lb. 
41 cts. p. lb. 
3 cts. per lb. 
three cents per pound 
21 cts. p. lb. 
3to4cts.p.lb. 
3 cts. per lb. 
On horse and mule shoes, two cents per pound 
35 per cent. 
2 cts. per lb. 
2 cts. per lb. 
On cut nails and spikes of all descriptions, one and a half cents 
per pound. 
1^- cts. p. lb. 
2 cts per lb. 
1| cts. p. lb. 
On horseshoe nails, all kinds, five cents per pound 
On cut tacks, brads, or sprigs, not exceeding sixteen ounces to 
5 cts. per lb. 
7 cts. per lb. 
5 cts. per lb 
the thousand, two and a half cents per thousand ; exceeding 
2^- cts. p. M. 
2| cts. p. M. 
2| cts. p. M. 
sixteen ounces to the thousand, three cents per pound 
On screws, commonly called wood screws, two inches or over in 
3 cts. per lb. 
3 cts. per lb. 
3 cts. per lb. 
length, seven cents per pound; less than two inches in 
8 cts. per lb. 
8 cts. per lb. 
7 cts. per lb. 
length, ten cents per pound 
On all other screws of iron, not herein enumerated, and on 
11 cts. p. lb. 
11 cts. p. lb. 
10 cts. p. lb. 
screws of any other metal than iron, thirty-five per centum 
ad valorem. 
On vessels of cast-iron, not herein otherwise provided for, and on 
andirons, sad irons, tailors' and hatters' irons, stoves and stove- 
35 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
35 per cent. 
plates of cast iron, one and three fourths cents per pound... . 
On glazed, tinned, or enamelled cast-iron hollow-ware, four and 
2f cts. p. lb. 
1^- cts. p. lb. 
If cts. p. lb. 
and a half cents per pound 
On tinned and enamelled wrought iron hollow-ware, six and a 
31 cts. p. lb. 
cts. p. lb. 
4^ cts. p. lb. 
half cents per pound > 
On cast-iron steam-gas water-pipe, one and three fourths cents 
31 cts. p lb. 
6| cts. p. lb. 
6| cts. p. lb. 
per pound 
11 cts. p. lb. 
2 cts. per lb. 
If cts. p. lb. 24 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On 
cast-iron butts and hinges, two and one half cents per 
pound. 
2| cts. p. lb 
3 cts. per lb. 
2| cts. p. lb. 
On 
all other castings of iron, not herein otherwise provided for, 
thirty-five per centum ad valorem 
30 per cent. 
35 per cent. 
35 per cent. 
On 
all puddled and blistered steel, and on all steel other than 
cast or shear steel, in bars, sheets, slabs, plates, coils com- 
posed of rods or bars above three eighths of an inch in 
diameter, axles, tire, and parts of machinery forgings, a 
duty of three cents per pound 
2| cts. p lb. 
3^ cts. p, lb. 
3 cts. p. lb. 
On 
all cast and sheer steel in bars, ingots, sheets, slabs, plates, 
coils composed of rods or bars above three eighths of an 
inch in diameter, axles, tire, and parts of machinery forg- 
ings, valued at seven cents per pound or less, a duty of 
four cents per pound 
2| cts. p. lb. 
41 cts. p. lb. 
4 cts. per lb 
On 
all cast and sheer steel, in bars, ingots, sheets, slabs, plates, 
coils composed of rods or bars above three eighths of an 
inch in diameter, axles, tire, and parts of machinery for- 
gings, and steel wire rods exceeding three eighths of an inch 
in diameter, valued at above seven cents per pound, a duty 
of four and a half cents per pound, and in addition thereto, 
ten per centum ad valorem 
3 cts. per lb. 
and 
3| cts. p. lb. 
and 
10 per cent. 
5 cts. per lb- 
and 
10 per cent. 
41 cts. p. lb. 
2 and 
10 per cent. 
On 
steel rods and steel wire rods not exceeding three eighths of 
an inch in diameter, and not less than one eighth of an inch 
in diameter, a duty of three and a half cents per pound and 
21 cts. p. lb. 
5'cts. per lb. 
31 cts. p. lb. 
in addition thereto, ten per centum ad valorem ; less than one 
eighth of an inch in diameter, four cents per pound, and in 
addition thereto, ten per centum ad valorem. 
and , 
20 per cent. 
2| cts. p. lb. 
and 
20 per cent. 
and 
20 per cent. 
and 
10 per cent. 
4 cts. per lb. 
and 
10 per cent. 
On 
steel wire not less th^n number sixteen wire gauge, a duty 
of five cents per pound, and in addition thereto, twenty per 
2| cts. p. lb. 
5 cts. per lb. 
5 cts. per lb. 
centum ad valorem. 
and 
20 per cent. 
and 
20 per cent. 
and 
20 per cent. 
On 
steel wire, less or finer than number sixteen wire gauge, six 
3 cts. per lb. 
6 cts. p. lb. 
6 cts. per lb. 
cents per pound, and, in addition thereto, twenty per centum, 
and 
20 per cent. 
and 
20 per cent. 
and 
20 per cent. 
ad valorem. 
On 
metal, converted, cast, or made from iron by the Bessemer 
01 pneumatic process, of whatever form or description, ex-* 
cept railway bars, whether invoiced as steel, or iron, or 
otherwise, three cents per pound.., 
3 cts. per lb. 
3 cts. per lb. 25 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
1 Proposed Rates. 
On railway bars, made in whole or in part by the Bessemer or 
• 
pneumatic process, and steel railway bars, made in whole 
nr in part by any other process, two cents per pound 
new. 
21 cts. p. lb. 
2 cts. per lb. 
45 per cent. 
45 per cent. 
3 cts. per lb. 
6 cts. per lb. 
On steel carriage springs, six cents per pound 
8 cts. per lb. 
On steel railway-frogs, frog-points, fish-bars, side-bars, splice- 
bars, cutter-bars, finger-bars, crow-bars, and sledge-moulds, 
three and a half cents per pound 
45 per cent. 
cts. p. lb. 
3| cts. p. lb. 
On crinoline and hat steel wire, flattened, whether covered or 
otherwise, nine cents per pound, and in addition thereto, 
45 per cent. 
10 cts. p. lb. 
9 cts. per lb. 
ten per centum ad valorem. 
10 per cent. 
On cross-cut saws, twelve cents per lineal foot; on mill, pit, 
10 cts. p. ft. 
12 cts. per ft. 
12 cts. p. ft. 
and drag-saws, not over nine inches wide, fifteen cents per 
121 cts. p. ft. 
15 cts. per ft. 
15 cts. p. ft. 
lineal foot; over nine inches wide, twenty-five cents per 
20 cts. p. ft. 
25 cts. per ft. 
25 cts. p. ft. 
lineal foot. 
On all hand-saws not over twenty-four inches in length, one 
dollar per dozen, and, in addition thereto, thirty per centum 
75c. per doz. 
and 
30 per cent. 
$1.50 p. doz. 
and 
30 per cent. 
$1 per doz. 
and 
30 per cent. 
ad valorem; over twenty-four inches in length, one dollar 
and fifty cents per dozen, and, in addition thereto, thirty per 
centum ad valorem. 
$1 per doz. 
and 
30 per cent. 
$2.50 p. doz. 
and 
30 per cent. 
$1.50 p. doz. 
and 
,30 per cent. 
On all back-saws not exceeding ten inches in length, one dollar 
75 c. per doz. 
$1.25 p. doz. 
$1 per doz. 
per dozen, and, in addition thereto, thirty per centum ad 
30 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
valorem ; over ten inches in length, one dollar and fifty 
$1 per doz. 
$2.25 p. doz. 
$1.50 p. doz. 
cents per dozen, and, in addition thereto, thirty per centum 
30 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
ad valorem. 
.) 
On files, file blanks, rasps, and floats of every description, not 
exceeding ten inches in length, ten cents per pound, and, 
in addition thereto, thirty per centum ad valorem; over- 
ten inches in length, six cents per pound, and, in addition 
10 cts. p. lb. 
and 
30 per cent. 
6 cts. per lb. 
and 
30 per cent. 
40c. p. doz. 
to 
$1 per doz. 
$1.35 p. doz. 
to 
$3.25 p. doz. 
10 cts. p. lb. 
and 
30 per cent. 
6 cts. per lb. 
and 
30 per cent. 
On squares of steel or iron, marked for measuring, nine cents 
per pound, and, in addition thereto, thirty per centum ad 
6 cts. per lb. 
and 
30 per cent. 
9 cts. per lb. 
and 
30 per cent. 
9 cts. per lb. 
and 
30 per cent. 
valorem. 
On needles of all kinds for sewing, darning, knitting and crochet- 
ing, thirty per centum ad valorem; on needles for knit- 
25 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
ting or sewing machines, one dollar per thousand, and, in 
addition thereto, thirty-five per centum ad valorem 
$1 per M. 
and 
35 per cent. 
$1 per M. 
and 
35 per cent. 
$1 per M. 
and 
35 per cent. 26 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
.Proposed Rates. } 
On table cutlery, valued at not over five dollars per gross, 
forty per centum ad valorem 
35 per cent. 
$1 per doz. 
and 
45 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
On table cutlery with other than ivory, pearl, or metal handles, 
valued at over five dollars per gross, one dollar per gross, 
and in addition thereto, forty per centum ad valorem 
35 per cent 
12 cts. p. doz. 
and 
40 per cent. 
$1 per gross, 
and 
40 per cent. 
On butcher knives, cooks', and shoe knives, and spatulas and 
palettes, one dollar per gross, and, in addition thereto, 
forty per centum ad valorem 
35 per cent. 
$1 per gross, 
and 
50 per cent. 
$1 per gross, 
and 
40 per cent. 
On cutlery of all kinds, not including pocket cutlery, not herein 
otherwise provided for, forty-five per centum ad valorem... 
35 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
45 per cent. 
On pocket knives and pocket cutlery of all kinds, fifty cents per 
dozen, and, in addition thereto, fifty per centum ad valorem. 
50 per cent. 
75 c. p. doz. 
and 
50 per cent. 
50 cts. p.doz. 
and 
50 per cent. 
On swords and sword-blades, forty-five per centum ad valorem.. 
45 per cent. 
$2 per doz. 
and 
50 per cent. 
25 cts. each. 
45 per cent. 
On planters' or other hoes, wholly or in part of steel or iron, 
one dollar and a half per dozen 
45 per cent. 
45 per cent. 
$2 per doz. 
$1.50 p. doz. 
On steel skates costing twenty cents or less per pair, eight cents 
8 cts. per pr. 
10c. per pair. 
8 cts. p. pair. 
per pair; costing over twenty cents per pair, forty-five per 
centum ad valorem 
35 per cent. 
45 per cent. 
45 per cent. 
On padlocks and currycombs of every description and of what- 
ever material composed, fifteen cents per dozen, and in ad- 
dition thereto, forty-five per centum ad valorem 
35 per cent. 
25c. per doz. 
and 
45 per cent. 
15 cts. p. doz. 
and 
45 per cent. 
On chest, drawer, till, cupboard, and wardrobe locks of every 
description, and on door and shutter bolts and wrought-iron 
drawer handles, forty-five per centum ad valorem 
35 per cent. 
12c. per doz. 
and 
45 per cent. 
45 per cent. 
On hardware, tools, implements, carpenters' tools, vises, braces, 
bitts, fire-tongs, and shovels, house building hardware not 
otherwise herein provided for, sheaves, scales, instruments 
for surgical and medical uses, and all like finished articles 
of steel wholly or in part, or of iron, brass, copper, or 
other metal, and whether washed, plated, or gilt, forty-five 
per centum ad valorem 
35 per cent. 
45 per cent. 
45 per cent. 
On all harness and saddlery hardware, forty-five per centum ad 
valorem 
35 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
45 per cent. 
On muskets, rifles, fowling-pieces, pistols, and all other fire-arms, 
forty-five per centum ad valorem | 
35 per cent. 
45 per cent. 
45 per cent. 27 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On all machinery composed in part of iron or steel for the 
manufacture of flax or hemp, and for the manufacture of 
combing wools or worsted, silk, silk and worsted, twenty 
per centum ad valorem 
Flax machinery, 
free. 
20 per cent. 
45 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
35 per cent. 
All machinery for other purposes, composed in part of iron or 
steel, or of any other metal or material, complete or in 
parts, thirty-five per centum ad valorem * 
35 per cent. 
On steel in any form, and on manufactures of steel of every 
description not otherwise herein provided for, forty-five per 
centum ad valorem . ..., 
45 per cent 
50 per cent. 
45 per cent 
On trays and waiters and all other articles of japanned, gilt, or 
plated ware, not herein otherwise provided for, forty-five 
per centum ad valorem 
45 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
45 per cent. 
On machine cards, or card clothing, for use in covering carding 
engines, or parts of the same, composed of leather and 
wire, or cloth and wire, whether the cloth be composed 
wholly of wool, flax, or cotton, or of the same materials 
mixed with India-rubber, or combined with each other, 
and India-rubber in any way, forty per centum ad valorem. 
35 per cent 
40 per cent. 28 
METALS OTHER THAN IRON AND STEEL, AND MANUFACTURES THEREOF. 
» 
Sec. And be it further enacted, That, in lieu of the duties heretofore imposed bylaw on the 
importation of the articles hereinafter enumerated, there shall be levied, collected, and paid the following 
duties and rates of duty, that is to say; 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On manufactures and wareg of gold or silver, or of which either 
shall be the component material of chief value, forty per 
r. « t' . 
1 • r 
centum ad valorem ., 
40 per cent. 
40 per cent.. 
On all manufactures of platinum, twenty per centum ad valorem,: 
40 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
Provided, That platinum in sheets and plates, and vases or 
retorts of platinum for chemical uses shall be admitted 
• • - . .. . 
X 
- () 
free of duty ,. 
free. 
free. 
On copper ore, ten per cenium ad valorem 
5 per cent. 
15 per cent. 
10 per cent. 
On regulus of copper, twenty per centum ad valorem 
,5 per cent. 
20 per cent; 
20 per cent. 
On copper in .pigs, ingots, pr bars, four cents per pound 
2| cts. p. lb 
5 cts. per lb. 
4 cts. per lb. 
On copper sheathing for vessels, and yellow metal sheathing, 
five cents per pound 
3| cts. p. lb. 
6 cts. per lb. 
-5 cts. per lb. 
On old copper, two cents per pound 
cts. p. lb. 
3 cts. per lb. 
2 cts. per lb. 
On copper in plates, sheets, rods, pipes, and copper bottoms, and 
on all manufactures of copper, or of which copper shall be a 
component material of chief value, not otherwise herein 
provided for, forty-five per centum ad valorem 
35 per cent. 
45 per cent. 
45 per cent. 
On copper or brass wire-cloth finer than thirty-six wire# to the 
running inch, fifty per centum ad valorem 
35 per cent 
55 per cent. 
50 per cent- 
On brass in pigs and bars, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. . . 
15 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
25 per cent. 
On brass old, and fit only to be remanufactured, fifteen per 
centum ad valorem 
.5 per cent. 
15 per cent. 
15 per cent. 
On brass in plates, sheets or wire, thirty-five per centum ad 
valorem 
.35 per cent. 
35 per cent. 
35 per cent.. 
On castings of brass or bronze, and on all manufactures of, or 
articles of bra'ss or bronze, or of which brass or bronze 
shall be a component material of chief value, not otherwise 
herein provided for, forty per centum ad valorem 
35 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
40 per cent,. 
On lead in pigs or bars, two and one half cents per pound 
2 cts. per lb. 
3 cts. per lb. 
2| cts. p. lb 
On lead ore, one and one half cents^per pound. 
1 cts. p. lb. 
2| cts. p. lb. 
11 cts. p. lb. 29 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On old scrap-lead, one and one half cents per pound 
1| cts. p. lb. 
2 cts. per lb. 
1| cts. p. lb. 
On lead in sheets, pipe, and shot, three cents per pound 
On all manufactures of lead, not otherwise herein provided for, 
2| cts. p. lb. 
4 cts. per lb. 
3 cts. per lb. 
forty per centum ad valorem 
35 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
On pewter, britannia, and all like mixed metals, of lead or tin, 
, • - • 
five cents per pound 
Qn all articles of pewter or britannia, not otherwise herein pro- 
35 per cent. 
5 cts. per lb. 
vided for, forty per centum ad valorem 
35 per cent. 
45 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
On ore of antimony, natural, five dollars per ton 
10 per cent. 
$5 per ton. 
On regulus of antimony, two cents per pound 
10 per cent. 
2 cts. pei' lb. 
On nickel, forty cents per pound 
15 per cent. 
40 cts. p. lb. 
40 cts. p. lb. 
On--alloy of nickel with copper, forty cents per pound 
35 per cent. 
40 cts. p. lb. 
40 cts. p. lb. 
On nickel mitte, speiss, or oxide, thirty cents per pound 
10 per cent. 
30 cts. p. lb. 
30 cts. p. lb. 
On ores of nickel, and on cobalt ores, ten per centum ad valorem. 
10 per cent. 
10 per cent. 
10 per cent. 
On manufactures of nickel, forty per centum ad valorem 
On tinned iron, known as tin plates, twenty-five per centum ad 
35 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
valorem 
25 per cent. 
25 per cent. 
On manufactures or articles of tin or of tinned, iron, not other* 
i 
wise herein provided for, forty per centum ad .valorem 
35 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
On albata- or White metal, .argentine, German, silver, and the like 
mixed metals, forty per centum ad valorem,.. 
On. all manufactures of albata, argentine, German silver, and the 
35 per cent. 
40 per Cent. 
< . like miied metals, forty-five per centum ad valorem 
40 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
45 per cent. 
On .zinc, spelter or teutenague, in blocks or pigs, two cents per 
- 
pound J 
11 cts. p. lb. 
2| cts. p. lb. 
2 cts. per lb. 
On zinc in sheets, three cpnts per pound 
2| cts. p. lb. 
4 cts, per lb. 
3 cts. per lb. 
On all articles of zinc, hot otherwise herein provided for, forty 
per teptum ad valorem 
35 percent. 
40 per cent. 
On all native ores of zinc, ten per centum ad valorem ' 
10 per cent. 
- 
10 per cent. 
On gold lepf, one dollar and fifty cents per package of five 
hundred leaves; on, silver leaf, seventy-five cents per pack- 
$1.50 p. pkg. 
$1.50 p., pkg. 
75 c. per pkg. 
- 
75c. per pkg. 
age of five hundred leaves. 
■ ■ ■ . 
On types anjd type metal, thirty per centum ad'valorem J. 
25 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
Oh old type? fit only to be remanufactured, two1 cents'per pound 
*1 .'■/<>£ . . »■ . ! * * * r . 
i 
free. 
2 cts. per lb. DRUGS, DYES, CHEMICALS, PAINTS, OILS, CHEMICAL AND MEDICINAL PREPARATIONS. 
Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That from and after the day and year aforesaid, in lieu of the 
duties heretofore imposed by law on drugs, dyes, chemicals, paints, oils, chemical and medicinal preparations,, 
there shall be levied, collected, and paid the following duties and rates of duty, that is to say:- 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On acetate of alumina, five cents per pound . 
20 per cent. 
5 <ts. p. lb. 
Acetate of ammonia, fifty cents per pound . 
75 cts. p. lb. 
50 cts. p. lb. 
Acetate of baryta, forty cents per pound 
40 cts. p. lb. 
40 cts. p. lb. 
Sub-acetate of copper, or verdigris, six cents per pound 
Crystals of copper, or distilled verdigris, twenty cents per 
6 cts. p. lb. 
6 cts. p. lb. 
pound.. * ....... 
20 per cent. 
20 cts. p. lb. 
Acetate of iron, or red liquor, ten cents per pound 
50 cts. p. lb. 
10 cts. p. lb. 
Acetate of lead, or sugar of lead, ten cents per pound 
20 cts. p. lb. 
30 cts. p. lb. 
10 cts. p. lb. 
Acetate of lime, one and a quarter cents per pound... 
25 per cent. 
11 cts. p. lb. 
Acetate of magnesia, fifty cents per pound 
50 cts. p. lb. 
• 
50 cts. p. lb. 
Acetate of potassa, fifty cents per pound 
75 cts. p. lb. 
50 cts. p. lb. 
Acetates of soda, of strontia and of zinc, fifty cents per pound 
On acids-namely: on acetic or pyroligneous acid, exceeding 
50 cts. p. lb. 
50 cts. p. lb. 
the specific gravity of 1.010, sixteen cents per pound.... 
Not exceeding the specific gravity of 1.040, five cents per 
80 cts. p. lb. 
16 cts. p. lb. 
% 
pound 
On glacial acetic acid, solid at temperatures above 32° F., 
25 cts. p. lb. 
5 cts. p. lb. 
/ 
twenty-five cents per pound 
25 cts. p. lb. 
25 cts. p. lb. 
On arsenious acid, a half cent per pound * 
20 per cent. 
10 per cent. 
| cent p. lb. 
On benzoic acid, two dollars per pound 
10 per cent. 
$2.00 p. lb, 
On boracic acid, crude, five cents per pound 
On carbolic acid or phenic acid, crude, twenty per centum ad 
5 cts. p. lb. 
5 cts. p. lb. 
valorem. 
20 per cent. 
20 per cent. 31 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On carbolic acid, or phenic acid," refined; and on creasote 
twenty cents per pound 
20 per cent. 
20.cts. p. lb. 
On chromic acid, crystallized, sixty cents per pound 
15 per cent. 
60 cts. p. lb. 
On citric acid, white or yellow, twenty cents per pound 
10 cts. p. lb 
20 cts. p. lb. 
On gallic acid, and pyrogallic acid, one dollar and fifty cents 
per pound 
$1.50 p. lb. 
$1.50 per lb. 
On muriatic acid, three cents per pound 
10 per cent. 
I 3 cts. p. lb. 
On nitric acid, three cents per pound 
10 per cent. 
3 cts. p. lb. 
On oxalic acid, four cents per pound • 
On phosphoric acid, and on prussic acid : twenty per centum 
ad valorem 
4 cts. p. lb 
20 per cent. 
• 
4 cts. p. lb. 
20 per cent. 
On picric and nitro-picric acids, and on all dyes and colors 
made from coal tar, naphtha, benzole, or similar prod- 
ucts; or of which such products form a part, and not 
otherwise herein provided for ; fifty per centum ad valorem 
On sulphuric acid or oil of vitriol, one cent per pound 
On fuming sulphuric acid, two cents per pound 
$1 per lb. 
and 
35 per cent. 
1 cent p. lb. 
1 cent p. lb. 
20 per cent. 
$2.00 per lb. 
20 cts. p. lb. 
20 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
5 cts. per lb. 
20 per cent. [ 
40 per cent. | 
20 per cent. 
20 per cent, 
0 cts. p. lb. 
10 per cent. 1 
JOc.p 100 lbs. 
JO per cent. ( 
10 per cent. 
10 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
1 ct. per lb. 
2 cts. per lb. 
On succinic acid, twenty per centum ad valorem 
20 per cent. 
On tannic acid, one dollar and fifty cents per pound 
On tartaric acid, twelve cents per pound 
$1.50 per lb. 
12 cts. per lb. 
On aconite root, and aconite leaf; ten cents per pound 
10 cts. per lb. 
On aconitia and salts of aconitia, two dollars and a half per 
ounce 
$2.50 per oz. 
On albumen, as egg albumen, blood albumen, or of whatever 
kind; and on fibrin of whatever kind, five cents per pound . 
On aldehyde, one dollar per pound 
5 cts. per lb. 
$1.00 per lb. 
On alkekenei, thirty per centum ad valorem 
30 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
2 cts. per lb. 
4 cts. per lb. 
30 per cent. 
30c.p.l001bs. 
JO per cent. 
2 cts. per lb. 
On agaric, twenty per centum ad valorem 
On alkanet rdot, two cents per pound 
On aloes, four cents per pound.. 
On all medicinal preparations of aloes, thirty per centum ad 
On alum, alum substitute and aluminous cake, sixty .cents per 
( maber, twenty per centum ad valorem $ 
On carbonate of ammonia, two cents per pound 
| 32 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On salammoniac or muriate of ammonia, one and a half cents 
per pound 
20 per cent. 
4 . 
U cts. p. lb. 
On sulphate of ammonia, one cent per pound 
On alcoholic spirits of ammonia, fifty cents per pound 
20 per cent. 
$3 per gal.* 
50 cts. 
p. lb. 
1 ct. per lb. 
50 cts. per lb. 
On aqua ammonia and all salts of ammonia not otherwise herein 
provided for, thirty per centum ad valorem 
On aniline dyes and colors, by whatever name known, and on 
aniline; fifty per centum ad valorem 
On anise seed, five cents per pound 
On star anise seed, eight cents per pound 
On extract of annatto seed, five cents per pound 
On Hoffman's anodyne, and on spirits of nitrous ether, when of 
the strength indicated in the United States Pharmacopoeia ; 
fifty cents per pound 
20 per cent. 
$1.00 per lb. 
and 
35 per cent. 
6 cts. p. lb. 
10 cts. p. lb. 
20 per cent. 
50 cts. p. lb. 
75 cts. 
p. lb. 
30 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
5 cts. p. lb. 
8 cts. p. lb. 
5 cts. p. lb. 
50 cts. p. lb. 
On anthemis or chamomile, in flowers or otherwise; three cents 
per pound 
On crude sulphide of antimony, or crude antimony, one cent per 
pound 
On purified sulphide of antimony, and on alkermes and kermes 
mineral, thirty cents per pound 
On antimonium, or metallic antimony, two cents per pound 
On tartrate of antimony and potassa, or tartar emetic, twenty 
cents per pound 
On all antimonial preparations not otherwise herein provided for, 
thirty per centum ad valorem 
On argols or crude tartar, and on brown, gray or red tartar, five 
cents per pound 
On argols, white ; or partially refined tartar ; six cents per 
pound 
On cream of tartar, purified argols, or bitartrate of potassa; 
seven cents per pound 
On Armenian bole, fifty per centum ad valorem 
20 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
20 cts. p. lb. 
20 per cent. 
and 
40 per cent. 
6 cts. p. lb. 
6 cts. p. lb. 
10 cts. p. lb. 
50 per cent. 
3 cts. p. lb. 
1 ct. p. lb. 
30 cts. p. lb. 
2 cts. p. lb. 
20 cts. p. lb. 
30 per cent. 
5 cts. p. lb. 
6 cts. p. lb. 
7 cts. p. lb. 
50 per cent. 
* Or the duty on distilled spirits. Act of July 28, 1866. 33 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On arrowroot, six cents per pound 
6 cts. p. lb. 
6 cts. p. lb. 
On arsenic and arsenious acid, a half cent per pound 
20 per cent. 
10 per cent. 
ct. p.Tb. 
On all other forms of arsenic, and all arsenical preparations not 
otherwise herein provided for, forty per centum ad valorem 
40 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
On assafoetida, five cents per pound 
20 per cent. 
5 cts. p. lb. 
On atropia and salts of atropia, two dollars and a half per ounce 
40 per cent. 
$2.50 per oz. 
On belladonna root, and belladonna leaf, ten cents per pound . .. 
On balsam copaiva or copaiba, twenty cents per pound 
20 cts. p. lb. 
10 cts. p. lb. 
20 cts. p. lb. 
On balsam Tolu, thirty cents per pound 
30 cts. p. lb. 
30 cts. p. lb. 
On Peruvian balsam, and balsams of every description not other- 
wise herein provided for; fifty cents per pound 
50 cts. p. lb. 
50 cts. p. lb. 
On Canadian balsam, ten cents per pound 
20 per cent. 
10 cts. p. lb. 
[For Peruvian barks, see free list.] 
On canella alba, or Winter's bark, pomegranate bark, and all 
medicinal barks, crude, not otherwise herein provided for, 
ten per centum ad valorem 
20 per cent. 
• 
10 per cent. 
On croton cascarilla bark, and all other barks not medicinal, 
crude, and not otherwise herein provided for, ten per centum 
ad valorem 
10 per cent. 
10 per cent. 
On baryta, native carbonate and sulphate, or heavy spar, crude, 
five dollars per ton 
ct.per lb. 
$5 per ton. 
On sulphate of baryta, prepared, as blanc-fixe, enamel white, 
satin white, or by whatever name designated, three cents 
per pound 
3 cts. p. lb. 
3 cts. p. lb. 
On nitrate of baryta and muriate of baryta, six cents per pound. 
20 per cent. 
6 cts. p. lb. 
On all salts of baryta not otherwise herein provided for, thirty 
per centum ad valorem 
20 per cent. 
30 per cent, j 
On oxide of bismuth, carbonate, subnitrate and oxychloride of 
bismuth, one dollar per pound 
20 per cent. 
$1.00 P' lb. 
On bitter apples, colocynth, or coloquintida, ten cents per 
pound 
10 cts. p. lb. 
10 cts. p. lb. 
On blues, namely, on fig or wash blue, and on all other blues 
used for similar purposes, and not otherwise herein provided 
for; twenty-five per centum ad valorem 
25 per cent. 
25 per cent. 
On bone black and on animal charcoal of every description when 
of ordinary grade and value, one cent per pound 
25 per cent. 
1 ct. p. lb. 34 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On ivory drop black, in cones or in powder, six cents per pound. 
On Frankfort black, six cents per pound 
On spirit black and lampblack, two cents per pound 
On borax, crude, or tincal, and on crude borates not otherwise 
herein provided for, five cents per pound 
On borax, refined, ten cents per pound 
On boracic acid, crude, five cents per pound 
On boracic acid refined, hydrated, twelve cents per pound; 
anhydrous, twenty-five cents per pound 
On borate of lime, crude, one cent per pound 
On bronze metal or Dutch metal in leaf, and on bronze liquid, 
thirty per centum ad valorem 
On metallic bronze powder and frosting, of all colors and of what- 
ever material composed, one dollar and twenty cents per pound 
On bromint, fifty cents per pound 
On bromide of potassium and of sodium, sixty-five cents per pound 
On all salts and preparations of bromine not otherwise herein 
provided for, thirty per centum ad valorem 
On calamus, or flag root, five cents per pound 
On calomel, twenty-five cents per pound 
On corrosive sublimate, cyanide and iodide of mercury, red oxide 
of mercury, red precipitate, and all salts and preparations of 
mercury not otherwise herein provided for; thirty per 
centum ad valorem 
25 per cent. 
25 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
5 cts. p. lb. 
10 cts. p. lb. 
5 cts. p. lb. 
5 cts. p. lb 
5 cts. p. lb. 
10 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
15 per cent. 
25 per cent. 
10 per cent. 
30 cts. p. lb. 
40 cts. p. lb. 
50 cts. p. lb. 
35 per cent. 
1 cent 
2 cts. p. lb. 
15 cents 
and 
27 cents. 
6 cts. p. lb. 
6 cts. p. lb. 
2 cts. p. lb. 
5 cts. p. Jb. 
10 cts. p. lb. 
5 cts. p. lb. 
12 cents 
and 
25 cents. 
1 ct. p. lb. 
30 per cent. 
$1-20 per lb. 
50 cts. p. lb. 
65 cts. p. lb. 
30 per cent. 
5 cts. p. lb. 
25 cts. p. lb. 
30 per cent. 
On mercury or quicksilver, eight cents per pound 
On vermillion or prepared cinnabar and other prepared sulphides 
of mercury, twenty cents per pound 
On cinnabar ore, or other native ores of mercury, twenty per 
centum ad valorem 
8 cts. p. lb. 
20 cts. p. lb. 
20 per cent. 
15 cts. p. lb. 
23 cts. p lb. 
50 cts. p. lb. 
35 per cent. 
1 ct. p. lb. 
5 cts. p. lb. 
On camphor, crude, fifteen cents per pound 
On camphor, refined, twenty-three cents per pound 
On cantharides, or Spanish flies, fifty cents per pound 
On carmine in all forms, and carmine lake, dry or liquid, thirty- 
five per centum ad valorem 
On all prepared or manufactured chalk, as whiting,* Paris white, 
or under whatever name or form, dry, one cent per pound ; 
ground in oil, five cents per pound 
40 per cent. 
1| cts. p. lb. 
and 
2| cts. p. lb. 
* The House bill makes whiting, dry, one cent per pound ; ground in oil, two cents per pound. 35 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On red chalk, and French chalk or talc, three cents pei' pound.. 
20 per cent. 
3 cts. p. lb. 
On Vienna chalk and on Vienna lime, twenty per centum ad 
valorem 
20 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
On all native ores of cobalt, ten per centum ad valorem 
10 per cent. 
10 per cent. 
10 per cent. 
On cobalt and on oxide of cobalt, thirty per centum ad valorem . 
20 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
On smalts, zaffre, cobalt blue, and all like preparations of cobalt, 
thirty .per centum ad valorem 
20 per cent. 
40 cts. p. lb. 
30 per cent. 
On cocculus indicus, ten cents per pound 
10 cts. p. lb. 
10 cts. p. lb. 
On conium, cicuta, or hemlock, seed and leaf, ten cents per pound 
20 per cent. 
10 cts. p. lb. 
On cubebs, ten cents per pound 
10 cts. p. lb. 
10 cts. p. lb. 
On cuttle-fish bone, five cents per pound 
5 cts. p. lb. 
5 cts. p. lb. 
On crocus powder, crocus martis, colcothar, purple brown, In- 
dian red, and all like oxides of iron, five cents per pound. . . 
20 per cent, 
and 
25 per cent. 
5 cts. p. lb 
On cumin or cumin-seed, five cents per pound 
5 cts. p. lb. 
5 cts. p lb. 
On clay, China clay, pipe day, fire clay and kaoline, five dollars 
per ton 
$5 per ton. 
$7 per ton. 
$5 per ton. 
On Fuller's earth, three dollars per ton 
$3 per ton. 
$3 per ton. 
On clay prepared as satin white or lily white, five cents per pound 
3 cts. p. lb. 
5 cts. p. lb. 
On chloroform or chloric ether, fifty cents per pound 
$1 per lb. 
50 cts. per lb. 
On collodion, liquid or solid, and on gun-cotton, one dollar and 
fifty cents per pound 
$1 per lb. 
50 per cent. 
$1.50 per lb. 
On Colombo root, four cents per pound 
20 per cent. 
4 cts. p. lb. 
On Cologne water, or other perfumery of which alcohol forms 
the ingredient of chief value, three dollars per gallon, and 
$3 per gal. 
$3| per gal. 
$3 per gallon 
and 
and 
and 
in addition thereto, fifty per centum ad valorem 
50 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
On copperas, or sulphate of iron, a quarter of a cent per pound. 
1 ct. per lb. 
| ct. per lb. 
On sulphate of copper, blue or Roman vitriol, or blue stone, 
three cents per pound 
25 per cent? 
3 cts. p. lb. 
On dextrine or British gum, and on gum substitute, four cents 
* 
per pound , 
20 per cent. 
4 cts. p. lb 
On emery, ore or rock, twelve dollars per ton 
$6 per ton. 
$12 per ton. 
On emery, ground or pulverized, two cents per pound 
1 ct. per lb. 
2 cts. per lb. 
On emery cloth and emery paper, thirty-five per centum ad 
valorem 
35 per cent. 
35 per cent. 
On ergot, twenty cents per pound 
20 cts p. lb 
20 cts. p lb. 
On ergotine, one dollar per ounce 
20 per cent. 
$10 per lb. 
$1.00 per oz. 36 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On essences, so called, not properly designated as essentia' 
oils, and on cosmetics, hair oils, pomades, hair dressings 
and hair dyes, dentifrices, and all tooth washes and 
tooth pastes, aromatic cachous, or other perfumes and 
cosmetics, by whatever name or names known, used or 
applied as perfumes, or applications to the hair, mouth, 
or skin, and not otherwise herein provided for, fifty per 
centum ad valorem 
50 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
On all essences or compounds distilled or expressed, and on all 
compounds or preparations of which distilled spirits is a 
component part of chief value, three dollars per gallon, and 
in addition thereto, fifty per centum ad valorem 
$3 per gal. 
$3.50 p. gal. 
$3 per gal. 
and 
and 
and 
50 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
On medicinal extracts, namely:- 
On extracts of aconite ; chamomile or anthemis; digitalis or 
foxglove ; humulus or hops; ipecacuanha, quassia and 
valerian, fifty-five cents per pound , 
40 per cent. 
55 cts. p. lb. 
On extracts of arnica, colchicum, colocynth, simple or com- 
pound ; nux vomica, rhatany and stramonium, one dollar 
per pound 
40 per cent. 
$1.00 per lb. 
On extracts of belladonna, hyoscyamus and lettuce, forty 
cents per pound 
40 per cent. 
40 cts. p. lb. 
On lactucarium, two dollars per pound 
40 per cent. 
$2.00 per lb. 
On extracts of cannabis indica, or Indian hemp, or gunjah; 
and opium, when strictly an officinal extract for medical 
uses, two dollars and fifty cents per pound 
40 per cent. 
$2.50 per lb. 
On extracts of conium, cicuta, or hemlock; gentian ; papaver 
or poppy • and taraxacum, or dandelion, fifteen cents per 
pound 
40 per cent. 
• 
15 cts. p. lb. 
On extracts of cinchona, or Peruvian barks; and calumba, or 
col umbo, three dollars and thirty cents per pound 
40 per cent. 
$3.30 per lb. 
On extract of elaterium, or elaterium, sixty cents per ounce,.. 
40 per cent. 
60 cts. p. oz. 
On extract of hellebore, sixty-five cents per pound 
40 per cent. 
65 cts. p. lb. 
On extracts of jalap and rhubarb, one dollar and thirty-five 
cents per pound 
40 per cent. 
* 
§1/35 per lb. 
On all medicinal extracts not otherwise herein provided for, forty 
per centum ad valorem 
40 per cent. 
40 per cent. 37 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On extract of madder, as garancine, or in any form, ten per 
centum ad valorem 
10 per cent. 
10 per cent. 
On extract of indigo, acid or neutral, twenty per centum ad 
valorem 
10 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
On carmined indigo, and on all preparations of indigo not other- 
wise provided for, twenty per centum ad valorem 
20 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
On extract of logwood or Campeachy wood, and on all other 
extracts and decoctions of dye woods, ten per centum ad 
valorem 
10 per cent 
10 per cent. 
On fruit ethers, and all ethers used as fruit or liquor flavors, not 
otherwise herein provided for, two dollars and fifty cents per 
pound 
$2 per lb. 
• 
$2.50 per lb. 
On all ethers and ethereal extracts, not otherwise herein provided 
for, two dollars per pound 
.'Bl per lb. 
$2.00 per lb. 
$2.00 per lb. 
On fulminates and fulminating powders, two dollars and a half 
per pound 
30 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
$2.50 per lb. 
On nitro-glycerine or blasting oil, or glonoin, fifty cents per 
pound - 
20 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
50 cts. p. lb. 
On gelatine, refined, and on refined or white glues, twenty cents 
per pound; and all gelatines and glues, the dutiable price 
or value of which shall exceed twenty-five cents per pound, 
shall be considered white. 
35 per cent. 
20 cts. p. lb. 
On dark glues and glue sizings, and on all glues not refined, five 
cents per pound 
On isinglass and fish glue, fifty cents per pound 
20 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
50 cts. p. lb. 
5 cts. p. lb. 
On glycerine in all forms, fifteen cents per pound 
30 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
15 cts. p. lb. 
On glucose, or grape sugar, six cents per pound 
On gum arabic, known as sorts; or natural unpicked Alexandria 
or Turkey gum ; on Mogadore gum, and on all acacia gums 
not otherwise herein provided for, three cents per pound... 
20 per cent. 
6 cts. p. lb. 
3 cts. p. lb. 
On gum arabic, picked; known as Alexandria, or Turkey, first, 
second, third, and fourth picked, six cents per pound 
20 per cent. 
6 cts. p. lb. 
On gum arabic, known as gum Gedda, gum Senegal, Barbary 
gum, East India gum, Cape gum, Australian gum, or by 
whatever name known, provided the kind, quality, value 
and uses be similar to gum Gedda, one cent per pound 
20 per cent. 
1 ct. per lb. 
On gum benzoin or Benjamin, ten cents per pound 
10 cts. p. lb. 
10 cts. p. lb. 
10 cts. p. lb. 38 
t 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On copal or gum copal, and sandarac or gum sandarac; on dam- 
mar or gum damar, and on all resinous gums or substances 
used for similar purposes, and not otherwise herein provi- 
ded for ; three cents per pound 
10 cts. p. lb. 
3 cts. p. lb. 
3 cts. p. lb. 
On gamboge, or gum gamboge, twelve cents per pound 
10 percent. 
12 cts. p. lb. 
On kowrie, or gum kowrie, two cents per pound 
10 cts. p. lb. 
2 cts. p, lb. 
On mastic, or gum mastiche, thirty cents per pound 
50 cts. p. lb. 
30 cts. p. lb 
On shellac, or gum-shellac, three cents per pound 
10 cts. p. lb. 
3 cts. p. lb. 
On gum tragacanth, known as sorts, or natural unpicked traga- 
canth, five cents per pound 
20 per cent. 
5 cts. p. lb. 
On gum tragacanth, picked ten cents per pound 
20 per cent. 
10 cts. p. lb. 
On gum olibanum, guaiac, myrrh, bdellium, galbanum, thus, and 
all other medicinal gums or gum resins of like character or 
use, not otherwise herein provided for, six cents per pound. 
20 per cent. 
6 cts. p. lb. 
On preserved or pickled ginger, and on extract of ginger, fifty per 
centum ad valorem 
50 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
On ground or calcined plaster of Paris, or ground or calcined 
gypsum, or sulphate of lime, as terra alba, blonde trieste, or 
in any other form, one cent per pound 
20 per cent. 
| ct. per lb. 
1 ct. per lb. 
On hyoscyamus or henbane leaf, ten cents per pound 
20 per cent. 
10 cts. p. lb. 
On ink powders and ink of all kinds, thirty-five per centum ad 
valorem 
35 per cent. 
35 per cent. 
On iodine, crude, forty cents per pound 
50 cts. p. lb. 
40 cts. p. lb. 
On iodine, resublimed, sixty-five cents per pound 
75 cts. p. lb. 
65 cts. p. lb. 
On all salts and preparations of iodine not otherwise herein pro- 
vided for, thirty per centum ad valorem ... 
*20 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
On ipecac, fifty cents per pound 
oO cts. p. lb. 
50 cts. p. lb. 
On jalap, fifty cents per pound 
50 cts. p. lb. 
50 cts. p. lb. 
On iron rust, red oxide, black oxide, and all dry oxides of iron, 
not otherwise herein provided for, five cents per pound .... 
20 per cent. 
5 cts. p. lb. 
On iron powder, and all chlorides, salts, solutions and chemical 
or medicinal preparations of iron, not otherwise herein pro- 
vided for, thirty per centum ad valorem 
20 per cent. 
* 
30 per c£nt. 
On iron by hydrogen, twenty-five cents per pound 
20 per cent. 
25 cts. p. lb. 
On juniper berries, two cents per pound 
10 per cent. 
2 cts. p. lb. 
On laurel berries, two cents per p<5und 
20 per cent. 
2 cts. p. lb. 
On lac dye, five cents per pound 
free. 
5 cts. p lb. 
* Iodides of iron now 15 per cent. 39 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On lac spirits and lac dye liquid, thirty-five per cent, ad 
valorem 
On lactarene, twenty-five per centum ad valorem 
On lactose, lactin, or sugar of milk, six cents per pound.... 
On medicinal leaves, flowers, berries, roots and plants, dry, 
and not otherwise prepared, and not otherwise herein 
provided for, twenty per centum ad valorem 
On buchu leaves, ten cents per pound 
On muriate of lime and citrate of lime, twenty per centum 
ad valorem 
On all chemical and medicinal preparations of lime, not other- 
wise herein provided for, thirty per centum ad valorem . 
On lime juice and on lemon juice, ten cents per gallon 
free 
20 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
10 cts. p. lb. 
20 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
10 per cent. 
35 per cent. 
25 per cent. 
6 cts. per lb. 
20 per cent. 
10 cts. p. lb. 
20 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
10 cts. p. gal. 
On white lead or carbonate of lead, dry, four cents per pound 
On white lead, moist, or ground in water or in oil, four 
3 cts. p. lb. 
5 cts. p. lb. 
4 cts. p. lb. 
cents per pound 
On litharge or semi-vitrified oxide of lead, dry, four cents 
5 cts. p. lb. 
5 cts. p. lb. 
4 cts. p. lb. 
per pound 
On red lead or minium, or red oxide of lead, dry, four cents 
3 cts. p. lb. 
4j cts. p. lb. 
4 cts. p. lb. 
per pound 
On red lead, moist, or ground in water or in oil, four cents 
3 cts. p. lb. 
41 cts. p. lb. 
4 cts. p. lb. 
per pound 
On orange mineral or orange red, or orange-colored oxide of 
3 cts. p. lb. 
4| cts. p. lb. 
4 cts. p. lb. 
lead, four cents per pound 
On all paints, pigments, enamels, sizings and glazings of 
lead, not otherwise herein provided for, dry, moist, or 
3 cts. p. lb. 
5 cts. p. lb. 
5 cts. p. lb. 
and 
4 cts. p. lb. 
ground in oil, five cents per pound 
3 cts. p. lb. 
4| cts. p. lb. 
5 cts. p. lb. 
On acetate of lead, or sugar of lead, ten cents per pound.... 
On chromate of lead or chrome yellow, six cents per pound . 
On nitrate of lead, three cents per pound 
On lint, linen or cotton, or mixed, forty per centum ad valorem 
On liquorice root,-two cents per pound; liquorice paste, juice 
or rolls, ten cents per pound 
On litmus paper, thirty per centum ad valorem 
On all extracts of litmus, extracts of orchil or archil, or other 
lichens, twenty per centum ad valorem 
On magnesia carbonate, five cents per pound 
20 cts. p. lb. 
25 per cent. 
3 cts. p. lb. 
40p.c.&35p.c 
2 cts. p. lb. 
and 
10 cts. p. lb. 
20 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
6 cts. p. lb. 
30 cts. p. lb. 
10 cts. p. lb. 
6 cts. p. lb. 
3 cts. p. lb. 
40 per cent. 
2 cts. p. lb. 
and 
10 cts. p. lb. 
30 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
5 cts. p. lb. 40 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On sulphate of magnesia, or 'Epsom salts, a half cent per 
pound 
1 cent p. lb. 
12 cts. p. lb. 
| cent p. lb. 
12 cts. p. lb. 
On calcined magnesia, twelve cents per pound 
On all other preparations of magnesia, not otherwise herein 
provided for, thirty per centum ad valorem 
40 per cent. 
10 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
| cent p. lb. 
On manganese, crude or mineral, a half cent per pound 
On prepared oxide of manganese, and on sulphate of manga- 
- 
nese, thirty per centum ad valorem 
40 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
On methylated spirit, or any similar spirit, the duty imposed 
on distilled spirits 
$2 per gal. 
$2 per gal. 
On Iceland moss and all other mosses, crude, ten per centum 
ad valorem 
10 per cent. 
10 per cent. 
On musk or civet, crude, in natural pod, two dollars pei' ounce. 
On musk in grain, or manufactured musk, two dollars and fifty 
20 per cent. 
$2.00 per oz. 
cents per ounce 
$2.50 per oz. 
On oil of musk and civet, fifty cents per ounce 
Musk, 
50 per cent. 
Civet, 
30 per cent. 
50 cts. p. oz. 
On ochres and ochrey earths, terra umbra or umber, terra di 
sienna, Spanish brown, Roman ochre, French ochre, and 
all colored earths or preparations of colored earths used 
for similar purposes and not otherwise herein provided 
for, if dry, fifty cents per one hundred pounds ; if 
ground in oil, five cents per pound 
50 cents per 
100 lbs. 
$1.50 per 
100 lbs. 
50 cents per 
100 lbs. 
On oils, expressed or unctuous, not volatile, aromatic, or 
5 cts. p. IK 
essential, namely : on neat's foot oil and all animal oils, 
crude, not otherwise herein provided for, twenty per cen- 
tum ad valorem 
20 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
On all pomades, dressings and preparations of oils for per- 
sonal use, fifty per centum ad valorem 
50 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
On pomades and perfumed oils not prepared for personal 
use, made by the process known as enfleurage, and 
used exclusively for the manufacture of perfumery, fifty 
cents per pound 
50 per cent. 
50 cts. p. lb-. 
On linseed, flaxseed, hempseed and, rape seed oil, twenty- 
three cents per gallon 
23 cts. p. gal. 
30 cts. p. gal. 
23 cts. p. gal. 41 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On castor oil, ricina oil, or palma-christi oil, seventy-five 
cents per gallon 
SI per gal. 
75 cts. p. gal. 
On olive oil in casks or bottles, known as salad oil, or of 
such quality oi' value as to be adapted to table uses ; 
and mustard oil of similar grade or quality ; and on salad 
or table oils of every description, one dollar per gallon ; 
per gal. 
$1 per gal. 
Provided, that all salad oil in bottles or flasks shall pay 
a separate and additional duty of three cents on each 
bottle or flask 
3 cents each 
3 cents each 
On olive oil and mustard oil, and all similar oils of lower 
grade or quality and value than salad or table oils, and 
not used for salad and table purposes, and not otherwise 
herein provided for, fifty cents per gallon 
25 cts.p.gal. 
50 cts. p. gal. 
On whale oil, seal oil, and fish oil of foreign fishing, twenty 
cents per gallon 
20 per cent. 
20 cts. p. gal. 
On rock oil, peat, shale, wood and coal oil, and on all bitu- 
minous oils, crude, ten cents per gallon 
20 per cent. 
10 cts.p. gal. 
On all rock, peat, shale, wood, coal and bituminous oils, 
refined, and not otherwise herein provided for, thirty 
cents per gallon 
40 cts. p. gal. 
30 cts. p. gal. 
On all expressed oils of seeds or plants not containing es- 
sential oils, and not otherwise herein provided for, fifty 
cents per gallon 
20 per cent. 
50 cts. p. gal. 
On burning fluid, three dollars per gallon 
50 cts.p. gal. 
$3 per gal. 
$3 per gal. 
On oils, essential, volatile or aromatic, whether obtained by 
distillation or by compression and absorption, or how- 
ever obtained or made, namely :- 
On oils of allspice or pimento ; cumin or cumin-seed; dill or 
anethum; and fern or male fern, two dollars per pound. 
50 per cent. 
$2 per lb. 
On oil of sweet almonds, fifteen cents per pound 
10 cts. p. lb. 
15 cts. p. lb. 
On oil of almonds, essential, or oil of bitter almonds, one 
dollar and fifty cents per pound 
Sl-50 per lb. 
$1.50 p. lb. 
On oil of amber or succinum, crude, six cents per pound.... 
10 cts. p. lb. 
6 cts. p. lb. 
On oil of amber or succinum, rectified, eighteen cents per 
z 
\ 1 
pound , 
20 cts. p. lb. 
18 cts. p. lb. 
On oils of anise seed, calamus or flag-root, cassia, cedar, rue 
and verbena, one dollar and fifteen cents per pound .... 
50 cts. p. lb. 
$1.15 per lb. 42 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates- 
On oils of apple, apricot, peach, pear, pineapple, raspberry, 
strawberry, or other fruit oils, essences or ethers ; or on 
substances made to resemble them ; or for similar uses, 
* 
two dollars and fifty cents per pound 
On oils of bay, or bay rum, or bay leaves, two dollars per 
♦S.SOperlb. 
$2.50 per 1b- 
pound 
$2.00 per oz. 
$2.00 per lb. 
On oil of bergamot, one dollar and a half per- pound 
On oils of black pepper, chamomile or anthemis, patchouli, 
$1.00 per lb. 
$1.50 per 1b- 
and mustard, essential or volatile, six dollars per pound. 
On oils of cajeput, caraway or carui, citronella, fennel or 
foeniculum, jasmin or jessamine, juniper, either from the 
berries or the wood, lavender, mace, mirbane, nutmegs, 
sassafras, thyme or origanum red or white, and tube- 
50 per cent. 
25 cts. p. lb. 
to 
/ 
$6.00 per lb. 
rose, fifty cents per pound 
On oil of cinnamon, whether from the bark or leaves, four 
50 per cent. 
50 cts. p. lb- 
dollars per pound 
$2.00 per lb. 
$4.00 per lb. 
On oil of cloves, one dollar per pound 
On oil of cognac, or aenanthic ether, or oil of brandy, four 
$2.00 per lb. 
$3.00 per lb. 
$1.00 per 1b- 
dollars per ounce 
$4 00 per oz. 
$4 per oz. 
On oil of copaiba, or copaiva, seventy-five cents per pound . . 
50 per cent. 
75 cts. p. lb- 
On oil of coriander, two dollars and fifty cents per pound . . . 
50 per cent. 
$2.50 per lb- 
On oil of cubebs, one dollar per pound 
$1.00 per lb. 
$1 per lb. 
On oil of ergot, five dollars per pound 
On oil of geranium, and on oil of rose geranium, whether 
50 per cent. 
$10 per lb. 
$5 per lb. 
natural, prepared, or rectified, three dollars per pound.. 
50 per cent. 
$3 per lb. 
On oil of laurel, twenty cents per pound 
20 cts. p. lb. 
20 cts. p. lb- 
On oil of lemon, seventy-five cents per pound. . 
50 per cent. 
75 cts. p lb- 
On oil of lemongrass, two dollars per pound 
50 per cent. 
$2 per lb. 
On oil of neroli or orange flowers, sixteen dollars per pound. 
50 per cent. 
$16 per lb. 
On oil of bitter orange, one dollar and fifty cents per pound. 
50 per cent. 
$1.50 per lb- 
On oil of sweet orange, seventy-five cents per pound 
50 per cent.' 
75 cts. p. lb. 
On oil of peppermint, two dollars per pound . 
On oils of petit grain, sandal wood, valerian, and wormseed, 
50 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
$2 per lb. 
thre ■ dollars per pound 
$1.50 per lb. 
$3 per lb. 
On oil of rhodium, two dollars per pound 
On oil of rose, or otto of roses, one dollar and fifty cents per 
50 per cent. 
• 
$2.00 per lb. 
ounce ,...., 
$1.50 per oz. 
$1.50 per oz- 43 
1 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On oil of rosemary, savin or sabina, and spearmint, twenty 
T- 
five cents per pound 
50 per cenl 
25 cts.per lb. 
On oil of rum or oil of wine, or any oil' or essence used in th 
e 
manufacture of liquors or wines, and not otherwis 
herein provided for, two dollars per ounce 
e 
. $2.00 per oz 
V 
$2.00 per oz. 
On all essential oils not otherwise herein provided for, lift' 
per centum ad valorem - 
50 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
j50 per cent. 
On crude fusel oil, or amylic alcohol, two dollars pe 
r 
gallon 
$2.00 p. gal 
$2 00 p. gal. 
On opium, two dollars per pound 
$2.50 per lb 
$2.00 per lb. 
On opium prepared for smoking, and on all extracts anc 
other preparations of opium, not otherwise herein pro 
vided for, one hundred per centum ad valorem 
L 
100 per cent 
100 per cent. 
On morphia, and on all salts of morphia, two dollars per 
ounce 
$2.50 per oz. 
$2.00 per oz. 
On orange and lemon peel, three cents per pound 
10 per cent. 
3 cts. per lb. 
On green paints, namely: on chrome green, Brunswick 
green and imperial green, four cents per pound 
30 per cent. 
4 cts. p. lb. 
On Paris green, French green and all arsenical greens, and 
on all green paints or colors, not otherwise herein 
provided for, ten cents per pound 
30 per cent. 
10 Cts. p. lb. 
On ultra marine or lapis lazuli, twenty-five per centum ad 
valorem 
25 per cent. 
25 per cent. 
On Dutch pink and rose red, two cents per pound 
25 per cent. 
2 cts per lb. 
On Venetian red, dry, a half cent per pound 
25 per cent. 
cent per lb. 
On Venetian red, ground in oil, five cents per pound 
25 per cent. 
5 cts. p. lb. 
On prepared paints, oil-colors and water-colors of every 
description, dry, moist, or in oil, not otherwise herein 
provided for, thirty-five per centum ad valorem ; and 
the cost of packing, cases and packages of every sort in 
which the same shall be put up, shall be included in the 
dutiable value 2 
5 per cent. 
5 per cent. 
On enamel colors, for china, crockery and porcelain ware, 
not otherwise herein provided for, thirty-five per centum' 
ad valorem 
35 per-cent. 
5 per cent. 44 
Present Tariff, 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Bates. 
On paraffine, ten cents per pound 
lOcts. per lb. 
10 cts. per lb. 
On perfumes and perfumery not otherwise herein- provided 
for, not containing alcohol, fifty per centum ad valorem ; 
if containing alcohol as the ingredient of chief value, 
three dollars per gallon, and fifty per centum ad va- 
$3.00 p. gal. 
$3.50 p. gal. 
$3.00 p, gal. 
and 
and 
and 
lorem 
50 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
On phosphorus, ten cents per pound 
On phosphates and compounds of phosphorus, not otherwise 
20 per cent. 
10 cts. p. lb 
herein provided for, thirty per centum ad valorem 
20 per cent, 
and 
40 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
On phenyl, twenty per centum ad valorem 
20 per cent 
20 per cent. 
On plumbago or black lead, ten dollars per ton 
On black lead, when prepared for pencils, fifty pei- centum 
$10 per ton. 
11 cts. p. lb. 
$10 per ton. 
ad valorem . 
On polishing powders of all descriptions, polishing rouge, 
35 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
and on tripoli, five cents per pound 
25 per cent. 
5 cts. per lb. 
On potassium, metal, twenty per centum ad valorem 
On saleratus, salt of tartar, or other refined carbonate of 
20 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
potassa, one and a half cents per pound 
On chromate and bichromate of potassa, three cents per 
1| cts. p. lb. 
1| cts. p. lb. 
pound 
3 cts. per lb. 
31 cts. p. lb. 
3 cts. p. lb. 
On yellow prussiate of potassa, five cents per pound 
5 cts. per lb. 
5 cts. p. lb. 
On red prussiate of potassa, ten cents per pound 
10 cts. p. lb. 
10 cts. p. lb. 
On chlorate of potassa, five cents per pound 
On iodate or iodide and hydriodate of potassa, sixty-five 
6 cts. p. lb. 
5 cts. p. lb. 
cents per pound 
On saltpetre, or nitre, or nitrate of potassa, crude, one cent 
75 cts. p. lb. 
65 cts. p. lb- 
per pound 
2^ cts. p. lb. 
1 ct. p. lb. 
On saltpetre, partially refined, two cents per pound 
On saltpetre, or nitre, or nitrate of potassa, refined, three 
3 cts. p. lb. 
3 cts. p. lb. 
2 cts. p. lb. 
cents per pound 
On cream of tartar, tartrate and bitartrate of potassa, seven 
3 cts. p. lb. 
3 cts. p. lb. 
3 cts. per lb. 
cents per pound 
10 cts. p. lb 
7 cts. p. lb. 
On muriate of potassa, one fourth cent per pound 
On all salts of potassa, not otherwise herein provided for, 
20 per cent. 
15 per cent. 
J cent p. lb. 
thirty per centum ad valorem ; 
20to40p.ct. 
30 per cent. 45 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On gunpowder, valued at less than twenty-cents per pound, six 
6 cts. p. lb. 
and 
6 cts. p. lb. 
and 
cents per pound, and twenty per centum ad valorem ; 
20 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
valued at and over twenty cents per pound, ten cents per 
10 cts. p. lb. 
and 
10 cts. p. lb. 
and 
pound, and twenty per centum ad valorem 
20 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
On putty, five cents per pound 
On Prussian blue and on China blue, dry or liquid, twenty cents 
1-^ cts. p. lb. 
2 cts. p. lb. 
5 cts. p. lb. 
per pound 
30 per cent. 
20 cts. p. lb. 
On quassia or bitter wood, one cent per pound 
On quinia, quinidia, and all their salts, thirty-three cents per 
20 per cent. 
45 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
1 ct. p. lb. 
33 cts. p. oz. 
10 cts. p. oz. 
On cinchonia, chinoidine, and their salts, ten cents per ounce . . 
On resins, not otherwise herein provided for, if crude, three cents 
per pound 
On resins, prepared or manufactured, and not otherwise herein 
20 per cent. 
3 cts. p. lb, 
/ 
provided for, thirty per centum ad valorem 
40 pel' cent. 
30 per cent. 
On rhubarb, fifty cents per pound 
50 cts. p. lb. 
50 cts. p. lb. 
On rosin, two cents per pound 
20 per cent. 
2 cts. per lb. 
On crude turpentine, thirty per centum ad valorem 
20 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
On spirits of turpentine, thirty cents per gallon 
On saffron extract and extract of safflower, thirty per centum ad 
30 cts. p. gal. 
30 cts. p. gal. 
valorem 
20 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
On sago, pearl, two cents per pound 
On sago flour, as used in the arts for dressings and sizings, and 
1| cts. p. lb. 
2 cts. p. lb. 
not for dietetic uses, one cent per pound 
1£ cts. p. lb. 
1 cent p. lb. 
On Rochelle salts, ten cents per pound 
15 cts. p. lb. 
10 cts. p. lb. 
On Epsom salts, half a cent per pound 
1 cent p. lb. 
| ct. p. lb. 
On glauber salts, half a cent per pound 
On sal acetosella, salt of sorrel, or binoxalate of potassa, five 
1| cts. p lb. 
ct. p. lb. 
cents per pound 
40 per cent. 
5 cts. p. lb. 
On seidlitz mixture, ten cents per pound. / 
On salts not otherwise herein provided for, thirty per centum ad 
40 per cent. 
10 cts. p. lb. 
valorem 
20 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
On santonin, four dollars per pound 
$5 per lb. 
$4 per lb. 
On worm seed, crude, three cents per pound 
20 per cent. 
3 cts. p. lb. 
On sarsaparilla, crude, three cents per pound 
On seeds, namely, on cardamoms in capsules, thirty cents per 
20 per cent 
3 cts. p. lb. 
30 cents 
pound; not in capsules, seventy-five cents per pound 
50 cts. p. lb. 
75 cts. p. lb. 46 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On caraway, and coriander, five cents per pound 
3 cts. p. lb. 
5 cts. p. lb. 
On fenugreek and fennel seed, five cents per pound 
2 cts. p. lb. 
- 
5 cts. p. lb. 
On hemp seed and rape seed, and on other oil seeds of like char- 
acter, other than linseed, a half cent per pound 
1 ct. p. lb. 
30c. p. bush. 
| ct. p. lb. 
On linseed, or flaxseed, sixteen cents per bushel of fifty-two 
pounds weight 
16c. p bush. 
23c. p. bush. 
16c. p. bush. 
On linseed meal, and linseed cake, twenty per centum ad va- 
lorem 
20 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
On castor seed or beans, one and a fifth cents per pound 
60c. p. bush. 
cts. p. lb. 
On mustard seed, three cents per pound 
3 cts. p. lb. 
3 cts. p. lb. 
On all seeds not otherwise herein provided for, thirty per 
centum ad valorem 
25 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
On senna, in leaf, three cents per pound 
20 per cent. 
3 cts. p. lb. 
On soda ash a half cent per pound 
| ct. p. lb. 
ct. p. lb. 
On nitrate of soda, a half cent per pound 
1 cent p lb. 
| ct p. lb. 
| ct. p. lb. 
On crude sulphate of soda, or salt cake, five dollars per ton . .. . 
1 ct. p. lb. 
$5 per ton. 
On sal soda, soda crystals, and all crude carbonates of soda not 
otherwise herein provided for, a half cent per pound 
| ct. p. lb. 
| ct.' p. lb. 
On caustic soda, bicarbonate of soda, and all refined carbonates 
of soda, one and a half cents per pound 
,1| cts p. lb. 
1| cts. p lb. 
On iodate and hydriodate of soda, sixty-five cents per pound.... 
20 per cent. 
65 cts. p. lb. 
On phosphate of soda, hyposulphite of soda, silicate of soda, and 
all salts of soda not otherwise herein provided for, thirty per 
40 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
centum ad valorem > 
On sodium metal, or natrium, twenty per centum ad valorem. .. 
20 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
On soap in all forms not perfumed, nor toilet, including castile 
1 ct. p. lb. 
* 
soap, three cents per pound .. 
and 
30 per cent. 
3 cts. p. lb. 
On toilet, perfumed, and fancy soaps, ten cents per pound, and 
10 cts. p. lb. 
10 cts. p. lb 
twenty-five per* centum ad valorem 
and 
25 per cent. 
t 
and 
25 per cent. 
On all soap stocks and soap stuffs not manufactured or prepared, 
- 
ten per centum ad valorem 1 
10 per cent. 
10 per cent. 
On squills or scilla two cents per pound 
10 per cent. 
2 cts. p. lb. 
On potato starch, four and a half cents per pound -i 
On starch of all kinds not otherwise herein provided for, five 
1 to 3c. p. lb 
4^ cts p. lb. 
cents per pound 
20 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
• 
5 cts. p. lb. 
10 per cent. 
On strontia, in any form, mineral or crude, ten per centum ad 
valorem .. 
i 
■ 47 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On nitrate of strontia, and all preparations of strontia not 
otherwise herein provided for, thirty per centum ad valorem 
40 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
On strychnia, and salts of strychnia, or strychnine, one dollar 
per ounce 
$ 1.50 p. oz. 
$1 per oz. 
On sulphur, or brimstone in rolls, ten dollars per ton 
$ 10 per ton. 
$10 per ton. 
On flor oi' Hour of sulphur, twenty dollars per ton 
$20 per ton. 
$20 per ton. 
On lac sulphur, washed sulphur, and precipitated sulphur, five 
cents per pound 
20 per cent. 
5 cts. p lb. 
On talc, three cents per pound 
10 per cent. 
3 cts. p. lb. 
On tapioca, cassava, or cassada, two cents per pound 
20 per cent. 
2 cts. p. lb. 
On tar of resinous trees, twenty-five cents per gallon 
20 per cent. 
25 cts. p. gal. 
On coal tai' or mineral tar, twenty per centum ad valorem..... 
20 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
On tin crystals, oxymuriate or muriate of tin, and all salts of tin, 
dry, six cents per pound 
30 per cent. 
6 cts. p. lb. 
On tin liquor, and all solutions of tin, three cents per pound. . . . 
20 per cent. 
3 cts. p. lb. 
On toluidin, two dollars per pound ... 
On tonca or tonqua beans, twenty cents per pound 
10 cts. p. lb. 
$2 per lb. 
20 cts. p. lb. 
On vanilla beans, three dollars per pound 
$3 per lb. 
$3 per lb. 
On varnishes, prepared, fifty cents per gallon, and twenty-five 
50 cts. p. gal. 
50 cts. p. gal. 
and 
and 
per centum ad valorem ; if containing alcohol, or spirits, as 
25 per cent. 
25 per cent. 
the ingredient of chief value, three dollars per gallon, and 
twenty-five per centum ad valorem 
$3.00 p. gal. 
and 
25 per cent. 
On vegetables or plants, green or fresh, not otherwise herein pro- 
vided for, ten per centum ad valorem 
20 per cent 
\ 
10 per cent. 
On veratrine or veratria (alkaloid of hellebore), and all salts of 
veratria, one dollar and fifty cents per ounce 
40 per cent. 
$1.50 per oz. 
On vinegar containing not more than four per centum of acid, 
ten cents per gallon 
10 cts p. gal 
1 
10 cts. p. gal. 
On vermillion, or prepared cinnabar, and other prepared sul- 
phides of mercury, twenty cents per pound 
25 per cent. 
20 cts. p. lb. 
On concentrated vinegar, the same duty as on acetic acid 
25 cts. p. lb 
5 cts. p. lb. 
On refined or partially refined wax of all descriptions, and 
on shoemakers' wax, eight cents per pound 
20 per cent. 
z 
8 cts. p. lb. 
On sealing wax, thirty-five per centum ad valorem 
35 per cent. 
35 per cent. 
On wood naphtha, or pyroxilic spirit, fifty per centum ad valorem . 
20 per cent. 
50 per cent. 48 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 1 
On dyewoods of all kinds, prepared for use by cutting, grinding, 
or otherwise, ten per centum ad valorem 
20 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
1 cent p. lb. 
On sulphate of zinc, or white vitriol, one cent per pound 
On white oxide of zinc, or zinc paint, dry, two cents per pound 
On white oxide of zinc, or any zinc paint, moist, or ground in 
1| cts. p. lb. 
3 cts. 
p. lb. 
2 cts. p. lb. 
water or in oil, five cents per pound 
cts. p. lb. 
3 cts. 
p. lb. 
5 cts. p. lb. 
On all salts of zinc, not otherwise herein provided for, thirty per 
centum ad valorem 
30 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
On all pills, powders, tinctures, troches or lozenges, syrups, 
cordials, bitters, anodynes, tonics, plasters, liniments, salves, 
ointments, pastes, drops, waters, essences, spirits, oils, or 
other medicinal preparations or compositions, recommended 
to the public as proprietary medicines, or prepared accord- 
ing to some private formula or secret art, as remedies or 
specifics for any disease or diseases or affections whatever, 
affecting the human or animal body, and upon all mixed 
materials for such, in whatever state or stage of preparation, 
fifty per centum ad valorem 
50 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
On all articles and preparations of drugs, dyes, chemicals, dietetics, 
and aliments, known oi' claimed as patent, or bearing the 
maker's name as proprietary, and put up for popular sale 
and use under a special name or trademark; and on all 
prepared or manufactured materials, as boxes, labels, pack- 
ages, brands, trademarks, &c., for such articles, fifty per 
centum ad valorem 
20 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
On all drugs, dyes, chemicals, paints, and oils, crude, not other- 
wise herein provided for, ten per centum ad valorem 
20 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
10 per cent. 
On all prepared drugs, chemicals and medicines, not otherwise 
herein provided for, thirty per centum ad valorem 
40 per cent. 
30 per cent. 49 
MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURES. 
Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That, in lieu of the duties heretofore imposed by law on the im- 
portation of the articles hereinafter mentioned, there shall be levied, collected, and paid the following 
duties and rates of duty, that is to say : 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On bags and baskets, of any material, not otherwise herein pro- 
Baskets, 
35 per cent. 
Bags, 
vided for, forty per centum ad valorem 
On all manufactures of bamboos, ratans, or reeds, not otherwise 
30 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
herein provided for, thirty-five per centum ad valorem 
On beads, bead bags, bead ornaments, and bead manufactures of 
35 per cent. 
35 per cent. 
all kinds, fifty per centum ad valorem 
On boxes, of every material, not otherwise herein provided for, 
50 per cent 
✓ 
50 per cent. 
forty per centum ad valorem 
On brooms and brushes, of all kinds, forty per centum ad va- 
35 per cent. 
Brushes, 
40 per cent. 
Hair Brooms, 
35 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
On buttons of pearl, forty per centum ad valorem 
On buttons not otherwise herein provided for, forty per centum ad 
50 per cent. 
valorem 
On all button moulds, and material used exclusively for buttons, 
30 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
not otherwise herein provided for, thirty per centum ad valorem 
On all ai tides and manufactures of coral, lava, jet, or cornelian, 
or of which either shall be the component material or chief 
value, not otherwise herein provided for, forty per centum 
30 per cent. 
35' per cent- 
and 
30 per cent. 
ad valorem - 
40 per cent 
40 per cent. 
• 
On cork-wood, twenty per centum ad valorem 
30 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
Ou corks, forty per centum ad valorem 
On diamonds and gems, uncut and not set, five per centum ad 
50 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
valorem 
On diamonds and gems, cut or set, twenty-five per centum ad 
10 per cent. 
5 per cent. 
valorem 
25 per cent. 
25 per cent. 
On glaziers' diamonds, ten per centum ad valorem 
On embroideries, or embroidered articles, not otherwise herein pro- 
vided for, whether embroidered with gold, silver, silk, worsted, 
10 per cent. 
10 per cent. 
or other material, fifty per centum^ad valorem : Provided,^ 
That no articles shall be classed as embroideries which are 
not advanced twenty per centum in value by embroidered work. 
35 per cent. 
50 per cent. 50 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On raw bullion, camatile, or metal thread, twenty per centum 
ad valorem 
35 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
On epaulettes, galloons, laces, regalia, and all like ornaments of 
gold, silver, or gilt, or of any other material in imitation of 
either, fifty per centum ad valorem 
35 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
On eyelets, of every description, forty per centum ad valorem. .. 
35 per cent. 
8 cents p. M. 
40 per cent. 
On fans of palm-leaf, one half cent each 
1 cent each. 
| cent each. 
On fans of every other description, fifty per centum ad valorem.. 
35 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
On ostrich, vulture, maribout, cock, and all other ornamental 
feathers, crude, or not dressed, colored or ornamented, 
twenty per centum ad valorem 
20 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
When dressed, colored, or manufactured, fifty per centum ad 
valorem 
• 
50 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
On feathers and downs of all descriptions for beds or bedding, 
ten per centum ad valorem 
30 per cent. 
10 per cent. 
On featherbeds, twenty per centum ad valorem 
20 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
On skins of birds undressed, and not prepared, twenty per 
centum ad valorem 
20 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
On skins of birds prepared, dressed, or mounted, fifty per centum 
ad valorem. 
50 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
On artificial flowers when imported in roses, buds, leaves, and 
grasses, in gross, fifty per centum ad valorem 
50 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
When imported in bunches or wreaths, consisting of flowers, 
buds, leaves, or grasses combined, ready for sale and use, 
sixty per centum ad valorem. . . .• 
50 per cent. 
60 per cent. 
60 per cent. 
When made wholly or in part of silk, seventy-five per 
centum 
50 per cent. 
75 per cent. 
75 per cent. * 
On lace or laces of every description, composed of cotton or 
Hax, or cotton and flax, not made up by the needle, 
forty per centum ad valorem , 
35 per cent. 
40 per cent, 
and 
45 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
On lace shawls and scarfs, of cotton or .flax, or cotton and flax 
and all lace articles of the same materials where lace is of 
chief value, prepared by the needle, either by machine or 
by hand, forty-five per centum ad valorem 
30 per cent, 
and 
35 per cent. 
45 per cent. 
On silk lace or laces of every description, and all manufactures 
of >iik lace, prepared by the needle, whether by hand or 
ma h:ne, composed wholly of silk, or of wh'ch silk shall be 51 
* 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
the component material of chief value, sixty per centum 
ad valorem 
60 per cent. 
60 per cent, 
and 
75 per cent. 
60 per cent. 
On furs or fur skins, not dressed in any manner, and on fur of 
all descriptions cut from the skin, but not dressed, cleaned, 
or prepared, ten per centum ad valorem ... 
On hatters' or cut furs, cleaned and dressed, and on fur skins or 
fur on the skin, cleaned, dressed, or prepared, twenty per 
centum ad valorem 
On fur hats, hat bodies, caps, robes, muffs, and all like manufac- 
tures of fur for personal use, forty per centum ad valorem . . 
On gloves of every description, not otherwise herein provided for, 
fifty per centum ad valorem 
On hair of all kinds, not human, clean, drawn, or dressed, twenty 
per centum ad valorem 
On human hair, not cleaned, drawn or dressed, twenty per 
per centum ad valorem 
On human hair, cleaned, drawn, or dressed, thirty per centum 
ad valorem 
On hair bracelets, braids, curls, ringlets, and manufactures of hu- 
man hair of every description, forty-five per centum ad 
valorem 
On curled hair for beds, thirty per centum ad valorem 
On hair pencils, thirty-five per centum ad valorem 
On hair cloths, of the description known as hair seating, forty- 
five cents per square yard 
10 per cent, 
and 
20 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
35 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
35 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
35 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
10 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
45 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
35 per cent. 
45c. p. sq. yd- 
On hair cloth, known as crinoline cloth, or by any other name, 
forty per centum ad valorem 
30 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
On all other manufactures of hair, not otherwise provided for, 
forty per centum ad valorem 
30 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
On hats'and bonnets of straw, chip, palm leaf, or other vegetable 
material, and on bats, caps, and bonnets of every other ma- 
terial, except silk, wool, and fur, forty per centum ad va- 
lorem 
On hoop skirts, forty per centum ad valorem 
On dice, chessmen, draughts, chess-balls, billiard balls, and bag- 
atelle balls, of ivory, bone, wood, papier-mache, or any 
other material, fifty per centum ad valorem 
40 per cent. 
35 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
50 per cent. 52 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On manufactures of ivory, bone, horn, wood, leather, or other 
material for umbrellas, parasols, canes, whips, furniture 
trimmings, and all like uses, forty per centum ad valorem. . 
On all other manufactures of ivory or ivory nuts, not otherwise 
herein provided for, forty per centum ad valorem 
On jewelry, of whatever material composed, not otherwise herein 
provided for, thirty per centum ad valorem ; and no articles 
shall be classed as jewelry not used or intended to be used 
or worn as personal ornaments exclusively 
On India-rubber shoes and boots, and all manufactures of India- 
rubber not herein otherwise provided for, forty per centum 
35 per cent. 
35 per cent. 
25 per cent, 
and 
40 per cent. 
40 percent. 
40 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
ad valorem 
On waterproof cloth, stamped or gummed with India-rubber, 
thirty-five per centum advalorem 
On fabrics of India-rubber and other materials combined, three 
15 per cent. 
35 per cent 
50 per cent. 
40 per cent.' 
35 per cent. 
inches wide or over, six cents per lineal yard, and forty-five 
per centum ad valorem ; on all other fabrics of India-rubber, 
and other materials combined, not. otherwise provided 
35 per cent. 
6 c. per yard 
and 
45 per cent. 
6 c. per yard 
and 
45 per cent. 
for, twenty-five cents for every one hundred and forty-four 
yards, and fifty per centum ad valorem 
On braces and suspenders, made of India-rubber and other mate- 
50 per cent 
25c. p. gr. yds 25c. p. gr.yds 
and and 
50 per cent. 50 per cent. 
rials combined, thirty-five cents per dozen, and fifty per 
centum ad valorem 
35 per cent. 
35c. per doz. 
and 
50 pei- cent. 
35 cis. p. doz. 
and 
50 per cent. 
On umbrella and parasol elastic ties, fifty per centum ad valorem. 
On manufactures of guttapercha, and on all manufactured insu- 
lated telegraphic or electric wires or cables used for sub- 
marine telegraphic or other purposes, forty per centum ad 
35 percent. 
6 cts per doz. 
and 50 p. ct. 
50 per cent. 
valorem 
On oil-cloth, for floors, stamped, painted or printed, of all descrip- 
tions, forty-five cents per square yard ; on other oil-cloth, of 
every material except silk, and on water-proof cloth, and 
articles of water-proof cloth or oil-cloth, not otherwise 
herein provided for, forty-five per centum ad valorem: on 
silk oil-cloth, sixty per centum ad valorem 
On oil-paintings valued, exclusive of frames, at one hundred dol- 
lars, and less, ten dollars each painting; valued at over 
one hundred dollars, ten per centum ad valorem 
40 per cent. 
30 to 40 p. cl. 
40 per cent. 
50 per cent 
10 per cent 
10 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
45c. p. sq. yd. 
45 per cent. 
60 per cent. 
$10 each. 
10 per cent. 53 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill. 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On water-color paintings, ten per centum ad valorem 
10 per cent. 
lO^er cent. 
On paintings and statuary, not otherwise herein provided for, 
twenty per centum ad valorem. 
10 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
On manufactures of palm leaf, not otherwise herein provided 
for, thirty-five per centum ad valorem. 
35 per cent 
35 per cent. 
On manufactures and wares of papier mache, forty per centum 
ad valorem 
35 per cent. 
40 percent. 
On paste imitation of precious stones or jewelry, and on compo- 
sition of glass or paste, set or not set, forty per centum ad 
35 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
valorem 
On pearls, not set or cut, ten per centum ad valorem ... 
and 
40 per cent. 
10 per cent. 
10 per cent. 
On pearls, set, twenty-live per centum ad valorem 
25 per cent. 
25 per cent. 
On pencils of wood, filled with lead, chalk or other material, 
50 cts. per gr. 
50 cts. p. gr. 
50 cts. per gr. 
fifty cents per gross, and thirty-five per centum ad valorem. 
and 
and 
and 
30 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
35 per cent. 
On camel's hair pencils, an I on crayons, thirty-five per centum 
ad valorem 
35 per cent 
and 
30 per cent . 
35 per cent. 
On all pencils in bone, ivory or metal cases, not otherwise herein 
provided for, one dollar per g. oss, and thirty-five per 
centum ad valorem 
35 per cent. 
$1 per gross 
and 
35 per cent. 
On chalk pencils, fifty cents per gross, and thirty-five per centum 
ad valorem 
35 per cent. 
50 cts p. gr. 
and 
35 per cent. 
On pens, metallic, ten cents per gross, and twenty-five per 
10 cts. pergr. 
15 cts. pergr. 
10 cts. p. gr. 
centum ad valorem 
* 
and 
and 
and 
25 per cent. 
25 per cent. 
25 per cent. 
On penholders of every description, without pens, forty per 
centum ad valorem 
35 per cent. 
12c. per doz. 
and 
35 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
On penholder sticks and penholder tips, forty per centum ad 
valorem 
35 per cent. 
6 cts. p. doz. 
and 
35 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
On pins, hair-pins, bra^s or white metal pins, and all other pins 
for dress or personal use, of every description, not jewelry, 
forty per centum ad valorem 
35 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
On pin and needle cases of every material, forty per centum ad 
valorem 
35 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
On pocket-books, pass-books and note books, porte-monnaies, 
photograph albums, wallets, cabas and all like articles, and 
frames for leather bags and porte-monnaies, not otherwise 
herein provided for, fifty per centum ad valorem 
35 per cent, 
and 
40 per cent. 
60 per cent. 
50 per cent. 54 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On 
shell baskets, shell-work, and manufactures of shell of every 
description, forty per centum ad valorem 
35 
per cent, 
per cent, 
per cent, 
per cent. 
per cent, 
per cent. 
per cent. 
per cent. 
per cent. 
and 
per cent. 
per cent. 
per cent. 
per cent. 
and 
per cent. 
per cent, 
per cent. 
40 
per cent, 
per cent, 
per cent, 
per cent, 
percent, 
per cent. 
per cent, 
per cent, 
per cent. 
per cent. 
per cent. 
per cent. 
per cent, 
per cent. 
On 
On 
On 
On 
On 
On 
On 
On 
spectacle cases, of steel, forty-five per centum ad valorem : of 
gold, silver or other precious metal, forty per centum ad 
valorem; of iron, leather or paper, forty per centum 
ad valorem ; of all not otherwise herein provided for, forty- 
five per centum ad valorem 
straw, in bulk or for plaiting, ten per centum ad valorem. . . 
straw plaits and braids, and on chip in plaits, braids, or 
sprays, and not further manufactured, twenty-five per 
centum ad valorem 
finished articles of straw or chip, forty per centum ad va- 
lorem 
toys for children, dolls, and parts of dolls of every descrip- 
tion, fifty per centum ad valorem: Provided, That earthen- 
ware, china, or Parian ware toys, shall pay duty as other 
wares of the same materials. 
umbrellas, parasols, and sun-shades, covered with silk, sixty 
per centum ad valorem; if covered with cotton, or any 
other material than silk, and of whatever material the frame 
may be composed, fifty per centum ad valorem 
watches, watch movements, and parts of watches, and on 
watch cases of gold, silver, or other metal, thirty per centum 
ad valorem 
chronometers, and parts of chronometers, thirty per centum 
ad valorem 
45 
40 
35 
35 
10 
30 
40 
50 
35 
35 
35 
25 
20 
10 
GO 
60 
30 
30 
per 
per 
per 
per 
por 
cent. 
cent. 
cent. 
cent. 
cent. 
45 
40 
40 
45 
10 
25 
40 
50 
60 
50 
30 
30 
40 
On whips of every material, forty per centum ad valorem 
35 
50 55 
EARTHENWARE AND GLASSWARE. 
Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That in lieu of the duties heretofore imposed by law on the importa- 
tion of the articles hereinafter mentioned, there shall be levied, collected, and paid, the following duties 
and rates of duty, that is to say : 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On all brown earthenware, and common stone-ware, and gas re- 
torts, thirty per centum ad valorem 
25 per cent. 
35 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
On blacking jars or bottles, not glass, twenty-five per centum ad 
valorem. . 
40 per cent. 
25 per cent. 
25 per cent. 
On china and porcelain ware, gilded, ornamented, or decorated 
in any manner, fifty per centum ad valorem 
50 per cent. 
60 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
On china and porcelain ware, plain and not decorated in 
any manner, and on Parian ware, forty-five per centum ad 
45 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
45 per cent. 
valorem: On all other earthen, stone, or crockery ware, 
white, glazed, edged, printed, painted, dipped, or cream- 
colored, compose 1 of earthy or mineral substances, and not 
herein otherwise provided for, forty-five per centum ad va- 
lorem 
40 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
45 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
On all plam, mould and pressed glass, not cut, engraved, or 
painted, forty per centum ad valorem 
35 per cent 
50 per cent. 
On glass crystals for watches, forty per centum ad valorem 
40 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
On lenses for spectacles, whether of glass or pebble, forty per 
centum ad valorem; and in addition thereto, for lenses ground 
and polished on both sides, two dollars per gross pairs 
40 per cent. 
$2p. gr. pi s 
and 
40 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
40 per cent, 
and 
$2 p. gr. prs. 
On spectacles, spectacle frames, and parts thereof, of whatever 
m it'rial composed, two dollars per gross pairs, and in 
35 per cent 
$2 p. gr. prs. 
$2 p. gr. prs. 
addition thereto, forty per centum ad valorem 
and 
40 per cent. 
an I 
40 per cent 
and 
40 per cent. 
On all other lenses for optical purposes, whether in frames or 
otherwise, forty per centum ad valorem 
40 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
On all articles of glass, cut, engraved, painted, colored, printed, 
stainel, silvered, or gilded, not including plate glass silvered, 
or looking-glass plates, forty per centum ad valorem 
40 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
On all unpolishel cyliu ler, crown, aul co nmm window glass, 
not exceeding tea by fifteen inches square, two and .1 qu ir- 
• ter cents per pound ; above that, an I not exceeding sixt ten 
cts. p lb. 
2| cts. p. lb. 
* 1 
21 cts. p. lb. 56 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
by twenty-four inches square, two and three fourths cents 
per pound ; above that, and not exceeding twenty-four by 
2 cts. p. lb. 
2| cts. p. lb. 
2| cts. p. lb. 
thirty inches square, four cents per pound; all above that, 
2| cts. p. lb. 
4 cts. p. lb. 
4 cts. p. lb. 
four and a half cents per pound 
On cylinder and crown glass, polished, not exceeding ten by 
3 cts. p lb. 
4^ cts. p. lb. 
4£ cts. p lb. 
fifteen inches square, three and a half cents per square foot; 
above that, and not exceeding sixteen by twenty-four inches 
2|c. p. sq. ft. 
31c. p. sq. ft 
31c. p. sq. ft. 
square, five and a half cents per square foot; above that, 
4c. p. sq. ft. 
5^c. p. sq. ft. 
51c. p. sq. ft. 
and not exceeding twenty-four by thirty inches square, eight 
cents per square foot; above that, and not exceeding twenty- 
6c. p. sq. ft. 
8c. p. sq. ft. 
8c. p. sq. ft. 
four by sixty inches, twenty-five cents per square foot; all 
20c. p. sq. ft. 
25c. p. sq. ft. 
25c. p. sq. ft. 
above that, fifty cents per square foot 
On fluted, rolled, or rough plate glass, not including crown cylin- 
40c. p. sq. ft. 
|c. to l|c. 
50c p. sq. ft. 
l|c. to 21c. 
50c. p. sq. ft. 
der or common window glass, two cents per pound 
On all cast polished plate glass, unsilvered, not exceeding ten by 
per sq. foot. 
per sq. foot. 
. 
2 cts. p. lb. 
fifteen inches square, four cents per square foot; above that, 
and not exceeding sixteen by twenty-four inches square, 
3c. p. sq. ft. 
4 c. p. sq. ft. 
4c. p. sq. ft. 
six cents per square foot ; above that, and not exceeding 
5c. p. sq. ft. 
6c. p. sq. ft. 
6c. p. sq. ft. 
twenty-four by thirty inches square, ten cents per square 
foot; above that, and not exceeding twenty-four by sixty 
8c. p. sq. ft. 
10c. p. sq. ft. 
10c. p. sq. ft. 
inches square, thirty cents per square foot; all above that, 
25c. p sq. ft. 
30c p. sq. ft. 
30c. p. sq. ft. 
fifty cents per square foot 
On all cast polished plate glass, silvered, or looking-glass plates, 
50c. p. sq. ft. 
50c. p. sq. ft. 
50c. p. sq. ft. 
• 
not exceeding ten byr fifteen inches square, four cents per 
square foot; above that, and not exceeding sixteen by 
4c. p. sq. ft. 
4c. p. sq. ft. 
4c p. sq. ft. 
twenty-four inches square, six cents per square foot; above 
that, and not exceeding twenty-four by thirty inches square, 
6c. p. sq. ft. 
6c. p. sq. ft. 
6c. p. sq. ft. 
X 
ten cents per square foot; above that, and not exceeding 
10c. p. sq ft. 
10c p. sq. ft. 
10c. p. sq. ft. 
twenty-four by sixty inches square, thirty cents per square 
35c. p. sq. ft. 
30c p. sq. ft 
30c. p. sq. ft. 
foot; all above that, fifty cents per square foot: Provided, 
That no looking-glass plates or plate glass, silvered, when 
framed, shall pay a less rate of duty than that imposed 
upon similar glass of like description not framed, but shall 
be liable to pay, in addition thereto, forty per centum ad 
60c. p. sq. ft. 
50c p. sq. ft. 
50c. p. sq. ft. 
valorem 
• 
30 per cent. 
! 
40 per cent. 57 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On porcelain and Bohemian glass, paintings on glass or glasses, 
and all manufactures of glass, or of which glass shall be a 
component material of chief value, not otherwise hejein 
provided for, and all glass bottles or jars filled with 
sweetmeats or preserves, not otherwise herein provided for, 
forty-five per centum ad valorem 
40 per cent. 
^45 per cent.. 
HIDES, SKINS, AND LEATHER. 
Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That, in lieu of the duties heretofore imposed by law on the- 
importation of the articles hereinafter enumerated, there shall be levied, collected and paid the following 
duties and rates of duty, that is to say : 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On hides, raw or uncured, whether dry, salted or pickled, ten 
10 per cent 
10 per cent. 
10 per cent. 
per centum ad valorem ; on hide cuttings, strips, tails and 
like articles, used as glue stock, ten per centum ad valorem. 
10 per cent. 
5 per cent. 
10 per cent. 
On raw goat skins in the hair, and on deer skins and calf skins, 
raw, from any foreign port of shipment, five per centum ad 
valorem • 
10 per cent. 
15 per cent. 
5 per cent, 
On raw sheep skins, or pelts without wool, fifteen per centum 
10 per cent 
15 per cent. 
ad valorem ; and all skins, dressed, tanned, tawed or cur- 
ried, wholly or in part, not otherwise herein provided for, 
shall pay duty as leather, except skins of the North Amer- 
ican buffalo, which shall be admitted as raw skins, at a 
duty of ten per centum ad valorem 
10 per cent. 
10 per cent. 
On skivers and roans, pickled or salted, fifteen per centum ad 
valorem 
10 per cent. 
15 per cent. 
15 per cent. 
On skivers, tanned, colored or finished, forty per Centum ad 
valorem 
35 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
On leather, namely: on bend or belting leather, and on Spanish 
or other sole leather, thirty-five per centum ad valorem .... 
35 per cent. 
35 per cent, 
On French, German and other tanned calf skins, and on all 
upper leather, except Morocco, japanned and patent 
25 per cent. 
and 
leather, thirty per centum ad valorem 
30 per cent. 
35 per cent. 
39 per cent. 58 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On mofocco, enameled, glazed, japanned, varnished and patent 
leather, forty per centum ad valorem 
35 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
On fawn, kil and lamb skins, tanned and dressed, otherwise 
than in colors, and known as chamois, and on all skins 
tanned, tawed, curried or dressed, not otherwise herein pro- 
vided for, thirty per centum ad valorem . ., 
30 per cent. 
35 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
On shoes, boots and slippers, of which leather or lasting is the 
principal component material, and on all manufactures of 
» 
leather, not otherwise herein provided for, forty per centum 
ad valorem 
35 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
On mats of sheepskins, not colored, forty per centum ad valorem 
45 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
On mats of sheepskins, fancy, colored, sixty per centum ad 
valorem , 
45 per cent. 
60 per cent. 
60 per cent. 59 
COAL, MARBLE, BUILDING STONE, ORES AND EARTHS. 
Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passage of this act, in lieu of the duties 
heretofore imposed by law on the importation of the articles hereinafter mentionel, there shall b? levied, 
collected and paid the following duties, that is to say : 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Kates. 
Ou asbestos, not manufactured, twenty per centum ad valorem. . 
On Ayr stones, twenty per centum ad valorem 
25 per cent. 
10 per cent. 
20 percent. 
20 per cent. 
On bricks, for building or roofing, and on tiles of every descrip- 
tion other than marble, and on fire-bricks and Bath bricks, 
20 per ct. to 
or Bristol bricks, twenty-five per centum ad valorem 
35 per cent. 
25 per cent. 
On ce uent, Roman, Portland, and all other cement, thirty per 
centum ad valorem 
20 per cent. 
$10 per ton. 
30 per cent. 
$5 per ton. 
0 i chalk, white, or cliff stone, five dollars per ton 
$10 per ton. 
0 i clay, China clay, pipe clay, fire clay and Kaolin, five dollars 
per ton 
$5 per ton. 
$7 per ton 
$5 per ton. 
On candle or cannel coal, and on all bituminous coal mined 
and imported from any port or place thirty degrees of 
longitude east of Washington, one dollar and fifty cents per 
t >n of twenty-eight bushels, eighty pounds to the bushel. . .. 
$1.25 p. ton. 
$ i.5O p. ton. 
Si .50per ton. 
On all bituminous coal, mined and imported from any place not 
more than thirty degrees of longitu le east of Washington, 
fifty cents per ton of twenty-eight bushels, eighty pounds to 
the bushel 
$1.25 p. ton. 
50 cts. p. ton 
50 cts. p. ton. 
0 i anthracite, an I all other coal not herein otherwise provided 
for, one dollar and fifty cents per ton of twenty eight 
bushels eighty pounds to the bushel 
40 cts. p. ton. 
$1.50 p. ton. 
$1.50 per ton. 
On coke and culm of coa1, twen'y-five per centum al valorem . . 
25 per cent. 
25 per cent. 
25 per cent. 
0 i chipapote or asphaltu n, bitumen or mineral p:tch, Albertite 
and bituminous shales of every description, fifty cents per ton 
On flint, flint-stones and ground flint, twenty per centum ad 
25 per cent, 
and 
20 per cent. 
25 per cent, 
and 
20 per cent. 
50 cts. p. ton. 
valorem 
10 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
Oi Fuller's earth, three dollars per ton 
$3 per ton. 
$3 per ton. 
10 per cent. 
On grind dunes, two ity per centum ad valorem 
and 
20 per cent. 
$5 per ton. 
.20 per cent. 
On burr-stones, finished and bound up into mill-stones, twenty- 
five per centum ad valorem 
20 per cent. 
25 per cent. 60 
- , , 
, 
■ 
* 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposd Rates. 
10 per cent. 
$5 per ton. 
On limestone, not burned, cut or dressed, ten per centum ad va- 
10 per cent. 
3 cts. per lb. 
10 per cent. 
On lime white, three cents per pound 
3 cts. per lb. 
On lithographic stones engraved, twenty per centum ad valorem 
O.i mirble, white statuary, brocatella sienna and antique, in 
20 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
slab oi' block, one dollar per cubic foot 
$1 p. cubic ft. 
and 
25 per cent. 
$1 p cubic ft. 
and 
25 per cent. 
$1 p. cubic ft. 
Oa all other mirble, in slab or blick, fifty cents per cubic foot 
and twenty-five per centum ad valorem 
On marble monuments, figures, pillars and ornaments, slabs and 
50c.p.cubicft. 
and 
20 per cent. 
$1 p cub', c ft. 
50c. p. cub. ft. 
and 
25 per cent. 
tiles, and cut marble of every description, not otherwise 
herein provided for, seventy-five per centum al valorem ... 
50 per cent. 
75 per cent. 
75 per cent. 
On mirble busts, statues and statuettes, not the work of profes- 
sional artists, thirty per centum ad valorem . 
30 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
O.i minerals, cru le, not otherwise herein provided for, twenty 
per centum ad valorem 
20 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
On paving stones, slabs and flags, not dressed, and on Nova 
S;otia stone, Caen stone, and all building stones, not cut 
or dressed, twenty per centum ad valorem 
O i bail ling, paving or manunmtal stones, of every description, 
10 per cent, 
and 
20 per cent. 
$5 per ton 
of 13 cubic feet. 
20 per cent. 
cut or dressed, thirty-five per centum ad valorem 
20 per cent. 
35 per cent. 
On salt in bulk, an I on all rock salt or mineral salt, eighteen 
cents per one hundred pounds 
18 cents 
per 100 lbs. 
24 cents 
per 100 lbs. 
18 cents 
per 100 lbs. 
On ^salt in bags or sacks, twenty-four cents per one hundred 
pounds; and, in ad lition thereto, two cents for the bags or 
24 cents 
per 100 lbs. 
36 cents 
per 1 >0 lbs. 
24 cents 
per 100 lbs. 
.•sacks containing each one hundred pounds; Provided, That 
no return of duties shall be nude on account of damage to 
salt, or to sacks containing salt, in whatever form imported. 
2 cents per 
bag or sack. 
On slate, namely: on roofing slate, slaves for schools, slate pen 
cils, and all manufactures of slate, forty per centum ad 
valorem 
40 per cent. 
40, 60 and 80 
40 per cent. 
On all manufactures of prepared or e iam de I slate, forty per 
per cent. 
centum ad valorem 
49 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
O i polishing-stones, oil-stones, whet-stones and currier's stones, 
aid all stones for sharpening or polishing metals, twenty 
per centu n ad valorem 
20 pir cent. 
20 per cent. 61 
BOOKS, PERIODICALS, PAPER, ETC. 
Sec. 14. And be it further enacted, That, in lieu of the duties heretofore imposed by law, there 
shall be levied, collected, an I paid, on the importation of the articles hereinafter mentioned, the follow- 
ing duties and rates of duty, that is to say: 
Oa all books in the English language, printed prior to the year 
1840, fifteen per centum ad valorem 
On all books in foreign languages, twenty per centum ad va- 
lorem 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
25 per cent. 
25 per cent. 
25 per cent. 
25 per cent. 
25 per cent. 
25 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
25 per cent. 
20 per cent, 
and 
35 per cent. 
35 per cent. 
35 per cent. 
25c. p. pack 
and 
35c. p. pack. 
35 per cent. 
20 pir cent 
20 per cent. 
20 cts. p. lb. 
and 
25 per cent. 
30 cts. p. lb. 
and 
25 per cent. 
20 cts p. lb. 
and 
25 per cent. 
35 per cent. 
20 cts. p. lb. 
and 
25 per cent. 
15 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
30 cts. p. lb. 
40 cts. p. lb. 
10 cts. p. lb. 
25 per cent. 
25 per cent. 
25 cts. p. lb. 
20 per cent. 
35 per cent. 
45 per cent. 
25c. p. pack. 
40 per cent. 
On all books in the English language printed since the year 1840, 
and on all books not otherwise herein provided for, thirty 
cents per pound 
On all books reprinted from books first printed in the United 
States, forty cents per pound 
Oa magazines, periodicals, illustrated newspapers, and newspa- 
pers, except as lawfully transmitted by mail, ten cents per 
pound 
On maps, charts, engravings, lithographs, and photographs, not 
accompanying books, twenty-five per centum ad valorem ; 
when accompanying books, the duty imposed on books. 
Oa music, bound or unbound, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. 
Oa electrotype and stereotype plates of every description, twenty- 
five cents per pound 
Oa paper, namely, on book and printing paper, sized or un- 
sized, used for books and newspapers exclusively, twenty 
per centum ad valorem 
On writing paper, and all other paper not otherwise herein speci- 
fied, of every description, thirty-five per centum ad valorem. 
Oa blank-books, envelopes, card-board, Bristol-board, and paste- 
board, ename'ed paper of every description, and paper for 
labels, colored, marbled or gilt, forty-five per centum ad va- 
lorem 
Oa playing cards, of all kinds, twenty-five cents per pack 
Oa cards of every other description, forty per centum a I valorem. 62 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On paper-hangings, valued at not over twenty cents per roll, 
thirty-five per centum ad valorem 
35 per cent. 
4 cts. p. lb. 
and 
35 per cent. 
35 per cent. 
On all other paper-hangings, borders, and paper for screens and 
fire-boards, forty-five per centum ad valorem 
35 per cent. 
4 cts. per lb. 
and 
45 per cent. 
45 per cent. 
On parchment and vellum, thirty per centum ad valorem 
30 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
ASRICCTLTURAL PRODUCTS: MEATS, FlSH, SEEDS, LUMBER, ETC. 
Sec. 15. And be it further enacted, That, in lieu of the duties heretofore imposed bylaw on the 
importation of the arti des hereinafter enumerated, there shall be levied, collected, and paid the following 
duties and rates of duty, that is to say: 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On animals living, viz. : 
on horses, mares, colts, asses, and mules, ten dollars per head ; 
20 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
$10 p. head. 
on neat cattle, five dollars per head ; 
20 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
$5 p. head. 
on sheep, goats, calves, and swine, fifty cents per head : . . . 
20 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
50c. p. head. 
on all kinds not otherwise herein provided for, ten per 
centum ad valorem 
20 per cent 
30 per cent. 
10 per cent. 
O.i apples, garden fruit, and elible vegetables, and roots, in a 
green or fresh state, not otherwise herein provided for, ten 
cents per bushel 
10 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
10c. p. bush. 
O.i barley, not including pearl or hulled, fifteen cents per bushel. 
15c. p. bush. 
15c. p. bush. 
15c. p. bush. * 
Oa barley, pearl or hulled, one cent per pound 
1 ct. per lb. 
1 ct. p lb. 
1 ct. p. lb. 
On beans (except vanilla and castor), ten cents per bushel 
10 per cent. 
25c. p. bush. 
10c p. bush. 
On broom corn, fifteen per centum ad valorem 
10 per cent. 
15 per cent. 
15 per cent. 
On butter, throe cents per pound 
On buckwheat, ten cents per bushel 
and 
$5 per ton. 
4 cts. per lb. 
10 per cent. 
10c. p. bush. 
3 cts per lb. 
10c. p. bush. 
Oi flour and meal, mid Hings, and mill feed of wheat, rye, or 
o its, ten p'r centum ad valorem 
Wheat, 
20 per cent. 
Rye and Oats, 
10 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
10 per cent. 
On fruits, green, namely: on oranges, lemons, and limes, and on 
bananas, plantains, shad locks, mingoes, pine apples, and 
cocoa-nuts, tea per centu n al valorem: Provided, That 
25 per cent. 
10 per cent. 
10 per cent. 63 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Ratos. 
loss of quantity of the fruits above named by decay on the 
voyage, shall be admitted when such loss shall be of full 
packages or other separable portions; and on oranges and 
lemons in boxes loss of quantity may be allowed where such 
loss reaches thirty-three per cent, of the quantity in the 
boxes, such loss being certified by the appraisers of damage; 
but no other loss or damage shall be allowed in abatement of 
duty. 
On grapes, green, three cents per pound 
20 per cent. 
3 cts. p. lb. 
On fruits, dried or preserved, namely: on currants, raisins, figs, 
plums, prunes, apples, peaches, and all other dried fruits, 
three cents per pound ; on dates, green or ripe, two cents 
5 cts. per lb. 
3 cts. per lb. 
per pound 
2 cts. per lb. 
2 cts. per lb. 
On fruit juice, or fruits preserved in their own juice, thirty-five 
per centum ad valorem 
25 per cent. 
35 per cent. 
On fruits preserved in spirits or brandy, two dollars per gallon ; on 
35 per cent. 
$2 per gal. 
fruits preserved in sugar or molasses, and on all other sweet- 
meats, thirty-five per centum ad valorem : Provided, That 
35 per cent. 
35 per cent. 
all preserved fruits and pickled fruits in jars, bottles, or 
other packages, shall pay duty on the entire cost as put up, 
the cost of packages included. 
On fish, namely : 
on smoked salmon and halibut, one dollar per one hundred 
pounds; ' 
cent p. lb. 
$1 p. lOOlbs. 
$1 p. 100 lbs. 
on smoked herring, fifty cents per one hundred pounds ;. ... 
1 cent p. lb. 
$1 p. 100 lbs. 
50 cents 
on pickled salmon, white fish and trout, two dollars per 
barrel; 
Salmon, 
$3 per bbl. 
$3 per bbl. 
per 100 lbs. 
$2 per bbl. 
on pickled mackerel, shad and halibut, one dollar per barrel ; 
$2 per bbl. 
$2 per bbl. 
$1 per bbl. 
on pickled herring and alewives, fifty cents per barrel; . ... 
$1 pei' bbl. 
$1 per bbl. 
50c. per bbl. 
Provided, That any pickled fish in packages other than 
barrels shall pay in proportion to the rates charged for 
similar fish in barrels ; and provided further, that all 
fish imported in bulk (other than fresh) shall pay at the 
• 
above rates, estimating two hundred pounds to the barrel. I 
on all pickled fish, not otherwise provided for, one dollar 
per one hundred pounds 
$1.50 p. bbl. 
* 
$1 p. 100 lbs. 
$1 p. 100 lbs. 64 
Present Tariff. 
। ^OP08^ Rates. 
on all dry fish, one half cent per pound ; 
1 cent p. lb. 
| cent p. lb, cent per lb. 
on sardines and anchovies, and all preparations of the 
same, fifty per centum ad valorem 
50 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
On hay, one dollar per ton 
20 per cent. 
$2 per ton. $1 per ton. 
On honey, twenty cents per gallon 
20c. per gal. 
20c. per gal. 
On hops, five cents per pound 
5 cts. per lb 
5 cts. per lb. 
On meats, namely : 
on beef not cured, and on beef dried, one cent per pound;.. 
1 cent p. lb. 
1 & 2c. p. lb. 1 cent p. lb. 
on beef cured, in barrels, two dollars per barrel of two hun- 
dred pounds; 
1 cent p. lb. 
$3 per bbl. $2 per bbl. 
on pork, in any form, not cured, one cent per pound ; 
1 cent p. lb. 
1 cent p. lb. 1 cent p. lb. 
on pork, in barrels, two dollars per barrel of two hundred 
pounds; 
1 cent p. lb. 
$3 per bbl. §2 per bbl. 
on dressed poultry, one cent per pound 
1 cent p. lb. 
2 cts. per lb 1 cent p. lb. 
on all other meats not cured, one cent per pound ; 
20 per cent. 
1 cent p. lb. 1 cent p. lb. 
on all prepared or canned meats and sausages, thirty-five 
per centum ad valorem 
35 per cent. 
35 per cent. 35 per cent. 
On malt, thirty per centum ad valorem 
20 per cent. 
30 per cent. 30 per cent. 
On nuts, namely : 
on almonds, shelled, seven cents per pound ; 
10 cts. p. lb. 
7 cts. per lb. 
on almonds, not shelled, four cents per pound ; 
6 cts. p. lb. 
4 cts. per lb. 
on walnuts, three cents per pound ; 
6 cts. p. lb. 
3 cts. p. lb. 
on Brazil nuts or cream nuts, two cents per pound ; 
3 cts. per lb. 
2 cts. p. lb. 
on chestnuts, pecan nuts, filberts, and all other edible nuts, 
except shelled pea-nuts, one cent per pound 
2 cts. p. lb. 
1 cent p. lb. 
On oil cake, twenty per centum ad valorem : Provided, That no 
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• 
drawback shall be allowed on oil cake manufactured of 
imported linseed, when exported to foreign countries 
20 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
On olives, in oil or salt, thirty per centum ad valorem 
30 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
On pickles, capers, catsup and sauces of every description, and 
picklei fruits forty per centum ad valorem ; and the cost 
of all bottles and packages shall be included in the dutiable 
values 
35 per cent, 
and 
40 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
On peas, twenty-five cent-; per bushel T 
25c. p. bush. 25c. p. bi sh. 
On pea nuts, or ground beans, one cent per pound 
1 cent p lb. 
2 cts. p. lb. 1 cent p. lb. 
shelled, one and a half cents per pound 
11 cts. p. lb 
4 cts. p. lb. 1^ cts. p lb. 
On potatoes, ten cents per bushel 
25c. p. bush 
20c. p. bush. 10c. p. bush. 65 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On cleaned rice, including rice commonly called Patna rice, two 
and a half cents per pound . 
2| cts. p. lb. 
2^ cts. p. lb. 
2| cts. p. lb. 
On uncleaned rice, including Patna rice, one and a half cents 
per pound 
2 cts. per lb. 
2 cts. p. lb. 
1| cts. p. lb. 
On paddy, three-fourths of a cent per pound 
1^- cts. p. lb. 
1 cent p. lb. 
f ct. p. lb. 
On timothy, clover and other grass seeds, thirty per centum ad 
valorem 
30 per cent. 
35 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
On all garden seeds, thirty per centum ad valorem 
30 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
On canary seed, one dollar per bushel of sixty pounds 
$1 per bush. 
$1 per bush. 
On sesame seed, ten per centum ad valorem 
20 per cent. 
10 per cent. 
On all other seeds, not otherwise herein provided for, thirty per 
centum ad valorem 
20 per cent, 
and 
30 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
On vetches or tares, and seed of vetches or tares, twenty per 
centum ad valorem 
10 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
On tallow, lard and marrow, one cent per pound 
1 cent p. lb. 
2 cts. p. lb. 
1 cent per lb. 
On tamarinds, two cents per pound 
10 per cent. 
2 cts. per lb. 
On vegetables, dried, dessicated or canned, thirty-five per 
centum ad valorem 
35 per cent. 
35 per cent. 
On wheat, ten cents per bushel 
20c. p. bush. 
40c. p. bush. 
10c. p. bush. 
Sec. 16. And be it further enacted, That, in lieu of the duties heretofore imposed by law, there shall 
be levied, collected, and paid, on the importation of the articles hereinafter mentioned, the following 
duties and rates of duty, that is to say: 
tn 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On all timber, not otherwise herein provided for, squared or 
sided, one cent per cubic foot 
20 per cent. 
1 ct. to 1 Ct. 
1c. p. cub. ft. 
On sawed boards, plank, deals, and other lumber of spruce, hem- 
lock, white wood and bass wood, one dollar per thousand 
20 per cent. 
per cubic foot. 
$1 to $2 
per M. ft. 
feet, board measure 
On all other varieties of sawed lumber, two dollars per thousand 
20 per cent. 
per M. feet. 
$2 to $3 
$2 per M. ft. 
feet, board measure; Provided, That when lumber of any 
sort is planed or finished, in addition to the rates herein 
per M. feet. 66 
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Present 
Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Kates. 
provided, there shall be levied and paid, for each side so 
planed or finished, one dollar per thousand feet ; and if 
planed on one side and tongued and grooved, two dollars 
per thousand feet; and if planed on two sides and tongued 
and grooved, two dollars and fifty cents per thousand feet.. 
On hubs for wheels, posts, last-blocks, wagon-blocks, oar blocks, 
gun-blocks, heading-blocks, and all like blocks, or sticks, 
rough-hewn, or sawed only, ten per centum ad valorem . .. 
20 per cent. 
$2 to $3 
per M. ft. 
and 
SI p. M. ft. 
$2 p. M. ft. 
$2.50 
per M. feet. 
10 per cent. 
$2 p. M. ft. 
and 
$1 per M. ft. 
S2 per M. ft. 
$2.50 
per M. feet. 
10 per cent. 
On pickets, palings, and lath, ten per centum ad valorem 
20 per 
cent. 
20 per cent. 
10 per cent. 
On pine and cedar shingles, fifty cents per thousand 
35 per 
cent. 
50c. per M. 
50c. per M. 
On spruce shingles, thirty cents per thousand 
35 per 
cent. 
50c. per M. 
30c. per M. 
On pine clapboards, two dollars per thousand 
20 per 
cent. 
$4 per M. 
$2 per M. 
On spruce clapboards, one dollar and fifty cents per thousand . . . 
20 per 
cent. 
$2.50 per.M. 
$1.50 per M. 
On house or cabinet furniture, in pieces, or rough, and not fin- 
ished, thirty per centum ad valorem 
35 per 
cent. 
30 per cent. 
On cabinet wares and house furniture, finished, forty-five per 
centum ad valorem 
35 per 
cent. 
45 per cent. 
On casks and barrels, empty, and on sugar-box shooks, and pack- 
ing-boxes of wood, not otherwise provided for, thirty per 
centum ad valorem 
35 per 
cent. 
30 per cent. 
Provided, That casks, barrels, or carboys, and other vessels, 
and grain bags, the'manufacture of the United States, if exported 
containing American produce, and declaration be made of intent 
to return the same empty, shall be admitted free of duty under such 
regulations as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. 
O.i all manufactures of wood, not otherwise herein provided for, 
thirty-five per centum ad valorem 
35 per 
cent. 
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35 per cent. 67 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
(Including all articles not embraced in previous sections.) 
Sec. 17. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the passage of this act, in lieu of the 
duties heretofore imposed by law on the importation of the articles hereinafter mentioned, there shall be 
levied, collected, and paid on the goods, wares, and merchandise enumerated and provided for in this sec- 
tion, imported from foreign countries, the following duties and rates of duty, that is to say; 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On blacking of all kinds, forty per centum ad valorem 
On bladders, and all integuments of animals, not otherwise 
provided for, prepared or not prepared, except catgut and 
30 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
whipgut, twenty per centum ad valorem 
On bone manufactures of every description, not otherwise herein 
20 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
provided for, forty per centum ad valorem 
35 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
On bones ground, and bone-dust, ten per centum ad valorem.... 
free. 
10 per cent. 
On bristles, fifteen cents per pound. 
On busts or casts of plaster, or of earths, alabaster, bronze or 
metal, and on all figures, mouldings, and ornaments, statues, 
statuettes of plaster, alabaster, earths, bronze, or metal, not 
15 cts. p. lb. 
15 cts. p. lb. 
otherwise herein provided for, forty per centum ad valorem. 
40 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
On candles of tallow, two and one half cents per pound 
On candles and tapers of wax, spermaceti, or paraffine, wholly 
2| cts. p. lb 
21 cts. p. lb. 
orin part, eight cents per pound 
On candles ot other mixed materials, and of stearine, five cents 
8 cts. per lb. 
8 cts. per lb. 
per pound 
On canec for walking, of every description, finished or unfinished, 
5 cts. per lb 
5 cts. per lb. 
forty per centum ad valorem 
On carriages, wagons, and vehicles of every description, thirty- 
35 per cent 
40 per cent. 
five per centum ad valorem 
Provided, That vehicles in actual and necessary use, as 
the property of emigrants crossing the frontier from the Brit- 
ish North American Provinces, shall be admitted free of 
duty. 
35 per cent. 
• 
35 per cent 
On cider, twenty per centum ad valorem 
20 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
On clocks, and parts of clocks, forty per centum ad valorem.... 
35 per cent. 
40 per cent. 68 
S' 1 • : 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
On all manufactures of cork, not otherwise herein provided for, 
fifty per centum ad valorem 
50 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
On crucibles of sand or earths, twenty per centum ad valorem. . 
25 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
On crucibles or pots of black-lead or plumbago, wholly or in 
part, thirty per centum ad valorem 
a 
20 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
On fire-crackers, per box of not over forty packs, not exceeding 
eighty to each pack (and in the same proportion for any 
greater number), one dollar and twenty-five cents per box. 
$1 per box. 
$1.25 p box. 
$1.25 p. box. 
Provided, That no fire-crackers shall be admitted at a less 
rate of duty than sixty per centum ad valorem 
On fish skins, raw, or not manufactured, ten per centum ad va- 
lorem 
20 per cent. 
60 per cent. 
60 per cent. 
10 per cent. 
On gold-beaters' moulds, and gold-beaters' skins, ten per centum 
ad valorem 
10 per cent. 
10 per cent. 
On inkstands of ever} description, forty per centum ad valorem. . 
3 ' per cent. 
40 per cent. 
On jellies of every description, fifty per centum ad valorem 
50 per cent. 
35 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
50 per cent. 
On matches of every description, fifty per centum ad valorem. . . 
On mathematical and philosophical instruments, of whatever ma- 
terial composed, thirty-five per centum ad valorem 
35 to TO p. ct. 
35 per cent. 
On moss, seaweed, and all like vegetable substances used for beds, 
and mattresses, twenty per centum ad valorem 
20 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
On musical instruments, and parts of instruments, of every de- 
scription, and music strings of metal or gut, thirty-five per 
centum ad valorem 
30 per cent. 
35 per cent. 
On percussion caps, ten cents per thousand, and in addition 
thereto, forty per centum ad valorem 
• 
40 per cent. 
10c. per M. 
and 
40 per cent. 
10c. per M. 
and 
40 per cent. 
On common pipes of clay for smoking, thirty-five per centum ad 
valorem. . 
35 per cent. 
35 per cent. 
Oil pipes or meerschaums, of earthenware, porcelain, glass or 
wood, and on all other tobacco-smoking pipes and pipe- 
bowls, and on pipe stems, mountings and fixtures, cigar 
stands and cigar holders, of every material, seventy-five per 
centum ad valorem . . . 
$1.50 p. gr. 
and 
75 per cent. 
75 per cent. 
On ploughs, harrows, wheelbarrows, and all agricultural imple- 
ments, not otherwise herein provided for, forty per centum 
ad va'orem 
35 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
On quills and quill manufactures, thirty per centum ad valorem 
30 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
On whalebone, of foreign fishing, twenty per centum ad valorem 
20 per cent. 
20 per cent. 69 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Kates. 
On manufactures of whalebone, not otherwise herein provided 
for, forty per centum ad valorem 
35 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
Upon all fabrics or manufactured articles, in whole or in part, 
not herein otherwise provided for, except such as are 
included in the free list, there shall be levied, collected and 
20 per cent. 
paid duties at the rate of forty per centum ad valorem 
to 
40 per cent. 
40 per cent. 
On all raw or unmanufactured articles, not enumerated or 
provided for in this act, twenty per centum ad valorem. . . . 
10 per cent. 
20 per cent. 70 
FREE LIST. 
Section 18. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passage of this act, the importation 
of the articles hereinafter mentioned and embraced in this section, shall be exempt from duty, that is to 
say : 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Ra tes 
Ambergris 
free. 
free. 
Annatto, in rolls 
free. 
free. 
Annatto seed 
20 per cent. 
free. 
Articles imported for the use of the United States: Provided, 
that the price paid to the importer does not include the 
duty 
free. 
free. 
free. 
Articles, the growth, produce or manufacture of the United 
States, when returned in the same condition as exported : 
Provided, That proof of identify be made under such regu- 
lations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe, and 
such merchandise be admitted to entry, if of such character 
as was at the time of original exportation charged with 
internal revenue or duties, unless payment of such internal 
tax be made, or sufficient proof shall be made that such 
internal tax was not refunded at the time of exportation . .. 
free. 
free. 
Bamboos 
10 per cent. 
free. 
Barks, Peruvian, Lima, calisaya and all cinchona barks 
29 per cent. 
free. 
Beeswax, crude or unbleached 
20 per cent, 
free. 
free. 
Bells, old, and old bell-metal 
free» 
Berries and nuts, used in dyeing or in composing dyes, not 
otherwise herein provided for ; but no such article shall be 
classed as such that has undergone any manufacture 
free. 
free. 
Bismuth 
free. 
free. 
Bleaching powders, or chloride of lime 
30 per cent. 
free. 
Bolting cloths 
o 
free. 
free. 
Bones, crude, not manufactured ._ 
10 per cent. 
free. 
Burr stone, in blocks, rough or not manufactured, and not 
bound up into millstones 
free. 
free. 
free. 71 
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Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates 
Brazil wood, brazilletto, and all other dye woods in sticks . ... 
free. 
free- 
Bullion, gold and silver • 
free. 
free. 
Cabinets of either coins, medals, or gems, especially imported as 
objects of taste, and not for sale 
free. 
free. 
Calamus, dragon's blood 
10 cts. p. lb. 
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free. 
Catechu, or cutch 
10 per cent. 
free. 
Catgut and whipgut 
30 per cent. 
free. 
Cinnabar, native ore of mercury 
10 per cent. 
free. 
Coal stores of American vessels 
40c. per ton. 
free. 
Cadmium 
free. 
free- 
Castor, or castoreum 
20 per cent. 
free- 
Coins, gold, silver, or copper 
free. 
free- 
Collections of antiquities, especially imported as objects of taste, 
and not for sale 
free. 
free- 
Copper, v hen imported for the United States Mint 
free. 
free- 
Cochineal 
free 
free- 
Coral, unmanufactured 
free. 
free. 
Corn, Indian, or maize 
10c. p. bush. 
free. 
Corn meal 
10 per cent. 
free. 
Cork wood, unmanufactured 
30 per cent. 
free. 
Cornelian, unmanufactured 
10 per cent. 
free. 
Cudbear • • • 
10 per cent. 
free. 
free. 
Cryolite 
20 per cent. 
free. 
free. 
Diamond dust, or bort 
20 per cent. 
free. 
free. 
Divi-divi 
free. 
free- 
□o 
free. 
Esparte, or Spanish grass 
20 per cent. 
free. 
free. 
Felt, patent adhesive, for ships' bottoms 
free. 
free. 
Firewood 
20 per cent. 
free. 
Fish, fresh, for immediate consumption 
free. 
- 
free. 
Fish, for bait 
free. 
free. 
20 per cent. 
free. 
Glass, when old and not in pieces which can be cut for use, and 
fit only to be remanufactured 
free. 
free. 
Gold, silver, and platinum 
free. 
free. 
10 per cent. 
free. 
free. 72 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
Guano 
free. 
free. 
Gypsum, earthy .* ... 
free. 
free. 
Gypsum, all crude 
free. 
free. 
Gutta-percha, crude 
10 per cent. 
free. 
Hair, horse and cow, not cleaned or dressed 
free. 
free. 
Haij', hog, not cleaned or dressed 
1 ct. per lb. 
free. 
Hemlock bark 
20 per cent. 
free. 
Hemlock bark, extract of 
10 per cent. 
free. 
free. 
Hoofs, horns and horn tips 
10 per cent. 
free. 
free. 
Ice 
free. 
free. 
Iridium 
free. 
free. 
India-rubber, crude 
10 per cent. 
free. 
India-rubber, milk of 
20 per cent, 
free. 
10 per cent. 
free. 
< 
Indigo 
free. 
Ivory, unmanufactured 
free. 
free. 
Ivory, vegetable, unmanufactured 
10 per cent. 
free. 
Jet. unmanufactured 
10 per cent 
free. 
Junk, old 
free 
free. 
free. 
Kelp and barilla 
free. 
Lac, crude 
20 per cent. 
free. 
Lac, stick 
10 cts. p. lb. 
10 per cent. 
• 
free. 
Lava, unmanufactured 
free. 
Leeches 
20 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
30 per cent. 
free. 
free. 
Lith graphic stones, not engraved 
Leaves, for dyeing 
free. 
free. 
Logs and unmanufactured timber 
20 per cent. 
free. 
Litmus and all lichens, not prepared 
20 per cent. 
free. 
Machinery, steam, for agricultural purposes 
free. 
free. 
Madder root of all kinds, ground and unground 
free. 
free. 
Munjeet or Indian madder 
free. 
free. 
Manuscripts 
free. 
free. 
Manures 
free. 
20 per cent. 
free. 
free. 
Masts and spars, undressed 
Medals, when imported as objects of taste, and not for sale 
free. 
free. 73 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No- 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
Models of inventions and other improvements in the arts : Pro- 
vided, that no article or articles shall be deemed a model or 
improvement which can be fitted foi' use 
free. 
free. 
Nitrate of soda 
Nutgalls 
Nux vomica 
cent p. lb. 
free. 
20 ner cent. 
| ct. per lb. 
free. 
free. 
free. 
Oak bark .. ■ 
10 
per cent. 
free. 
free. 
Oakum and old junk 
• free. 
• 
Oils, spermaceti, whale and other fish oils of American fisheries, 
and all other articles the produce of such fisheries 
free. 
free. 
Oil, cocoanut 
10 ner cent. 
free. 
Orchil or archil, in the weed or liquid 
free. 
free. 
free. 
Oysters 
free. 
free. 
Palm leaf and palmetto leaf, unmanufactured 
free. 
free. 
Palm oil 
10 per cent. 
1 0 ner ppnt. 
free. 
free. 
Paper waste, or waste material of any kind, fit only for the man- 
ufacture of paper 
free. 
free. 
Pearl, mother of 
free. 
free. 
Persian berries or yellow berries, for dyeing 
free. 
free. 
Personal or household effects, not merchandise, k if accompanied 
by the owner, or if of American citizens dying abroad, with 
a certified list or invoice from a Consul or Commercial 
Agent of the United States; wearing apparel in use, pro- 
fessional books, implements and tools of trade, occupation, 
or employment, of immigrants : Provided, That this exemp- 
tion shall not include machinery or tools for use in a 
manufacturing establishment 
• 
free. 
free. 
free. 
Paintings and statuary, the production of American artists resid- 
ing abroad : Provided, The same be imported in good faith 
as objects of taste, and not of merchandise 
Paintings and statuary imported expressly for presentation to 
National, State, or Municipal institutions 
10 
free. 
per cent. 
per cent. 
free. 
free. 
free. 
♦free. 
Phosphates for fertilizing purposes 
20 
free. 
Plants, trees, shrubs, and seeds, imported by the Department of 
Agriculture for distribution - 
free. 74 
' 
Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rites. 
Plants, trees, shrubs, and seeds, imported especially for cultiva- 
tion, and not for sale or as merchandise 
30 per cent. 
15 per cent. 
free. 
Plaster of Paris, or sulphate of lime, unground 
free. 
free. 
Platinum, unmanufactured 
free. 
- 
free. 
Platinum vnsp<! nr rpfnrts for chemical uses 
free 
free. 
Potash crude 
20 per cent. 
1| cts. p. lb. 
free. 
free. 
Pearlash crude... 
free. 
/ 
Pumice-storre 
free. 
• 
Rags cotton linen, and hemp 
free. 
free. 
Railroad ties (of wood) 
20 per cent, 
free. 
free. 
Rattans unmanufactured 
free. 
Reeds, unmanufactured 
free. 
free. 
Rotten-stone 
free. 
free. 
Roucou. ..' 
free. 
/ 
free. 
Saffron 
10 per cent. 
free. 
Safllower 
10 per cent. 
free. 
Seaweeds not otherwise specially provided for 
20 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
free. 
Shrimps 
free. 
Sandalwood ... 
free. 
free. 
Shells of every description, not manufactured ................ 
free. 
- 
free. 
Shingle-bolts 
free. 
10 per cent. 
free. 
Stave-bolts 
• 
Silk, raw, or as reeled from the cocoon in the country of origin, 
free. 
free. 
and not doubled, twisted, or advanced in manufacture* any 
way, and silk cocoons and silk waste 
free. 
free. 
Spars (see. masts and spars) 
Specimens of natural history, botany, and mineralogy, when im- 
ported as objects of taste, and not for sale 
free. 
free. 
Sponges .... 
20 per cent. 
free 
Sulphur, crude 
$6 per ton 
free. 
Sumac 
10 per cent. 
free. 
free. 
Teazles... .• 
10 per cent. 
free. 
Timber, round, and not advanced by manufacturing 
Timber, ship 
20 per cent. 
20 per cent. 
| to 1| cents 
per cubic foot. 
50c. per ton. 
free. 
free. 
Tin, in pigs, bars, or blocks 
15 percent. 
free. 
Tortoise and other shell, unmanufactured 
free. 
free. 75 
j Present Tariff. 
House Bill 
No. 718. 
Proposed Rates. 
Turmeric 
free. 
free. 
Terra japonica 
10 per cent. 
free. 
Turtles, and other shell-fish 
20 per cent. 
free. 
Weld ; woad or pastel 
free. 
free. 
Wood ashes 
10 per cent. 
free. 
Wood ashes, lye of 
20 per cent. 
free. 
Woods, namely: cedar, lignumvitas, lancewood, ebony, box, 
granadilla, mahogany, rosewood, satinwood, in the log or 
stick, and all cabinet woods unmanufactured 
free. 
free. 76 
PROHIBITIONS. 
Section 19. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passage of this act, the importation 
of the articles mentioned and embraced in this section shall be absolutely prohibited ; and if imported or 
presented for entry in any collection district of the United States shall be declared forfeited, and shall be 
forfeited and disposed of as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct. 
1. False or counterfeit money, or plates or dies for printing the same. 
2. Indecent or obscene books, prints, paintings, photographs, cards, lithographs, engravings, or any 
other indecent or obscene articles. 
3. Articles of foreign manufacture, and any package of such articles bearing any names, brands, 
marks or devices, being or purporting to be the names, brands, marks or devices of any manu- 
facturer or producer residing in the United States. 
DAMAGES TO IMPORTED MERCHANDISE. 
Sec. 20. And be it further enacted, That in all cases of claims for return of duties on imports on 
account of damage occurring on the voyage of importation, where the damage so determined under exist- 
ing laws shall exceed fifteen per centum of the value of the merchandise damaged, the same shall be sold 
at public auction by the collector under the same conditions as now regulate the sale of imported mer- 
chandise by the collectors of customs, and the amount of damage awarded shall be determined by such 
sale ; the sound value of the merchandise to be determined by the appraiser of damage: Provided, That, 
when in the judgment of the collector the public interests require it, the said sale may be made by the 
importer after due and sufficient notice ; and in such case the report of said sale shall be made to the col- 
lector, and shall be attested by the importer, on oath, as being bona fide to the highest bidder.