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ied, 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:

On copper rods, bolts, nails, spikes, copper bottoms, copper in sheets or plates, called braziers' copper, and other sheets and manufactures of copper, not otherwise provided for, five per centum ad valorem;

On zinc, spelter, and teutenegue, unmanufactured, in blocks or pigs, twenty-five cents per one hundred pounds;

On zinc, spelter, and teutenegue, in sheets, one-half of one cent per pound;

On lead, in pipes and shot, three-fourths of one cent per pound;

On brass, in bars or pigs, and old brass, fit only to be remanufactured, five per centum ad valorem.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That from and after the day and year aforesaid, in lieu of the duties heretofore imposed by law on the articles hereinafter mentioned, and on such as may now be exempt from duty, there shall be levied, collected, and paid on the goods, wares, and merchandise enumerated and provided for in this section, imported from foreign countries, the following duties and rates of duty, that is to say:

Acid, boracic, five cents per pound; citric, ten cents per pound; oxalic, four cents per pound; sulphuric, one cent per pound; tartaric, twenty cents per pound; gallic, fifty cents per pound; tannic, twenty-five cents per pound;

Alum, patent alum, alum substitute, sulphate of alumina, and aluminous cake, sixty cents per one hundred pounds;

Argols, or crude tartar, six cents per pound; cream tartar, ten cents per pound;

Asphaltum, three cents per pound;

Balsam copaiva, twenty cents per pound; Peruvian, fifty cents per pound; tolu, thirty cents per pound;

Blanc fixe, enamelled white, satin white, or any combination of barytes and acid, two cents and a half per pound;

Barytes and sulphate of barytes, five mills per pound;

Burning fluid, fifty cents per gallon;

Bitter apples, colocynth, or coloquintida, ten cents per pound;

Borax, crude, or tincal, five cents per pound; refined, ten cents per pound;

Borate of lime, five cents per pound;

Buchu leaves, ten cents per pound;

Camphor, crude, thirty cents per pound; refined, forty cents per pound; Cantharides, fifty cents per pound;

Cloves, fifteen cents per pound; cassia, fifteen cents per pound; cassia buds, twenty cents per pound; cinnamon, twenty-five cents per pound; Cayenne pepper, twelve cents per pound; ground, fifteen cents per pound; black pepper, twelve cents per pound; ground, fifteen cents per

pound; white pepper, twelve cents per pound; ground, fifteen cents per pound;

Cocculus Indicus, ten cents per pound;

Cuttle-fish bone, five cents per pound;
Cubebs, ten cents per pound;

Dragon's blood, ten cents per pound;

Emery, ore or rock, six dollars per ton; manufactured, ground, or pulverized, one cent per pound;

Ergot, twenty cents per pound;

Epsom salts, one cent per pound; glauber salts, five mills per pound; Rochelle salts, fifteen cents per pound;

Fruit ethers, essences or oils of apple, pear, peach, apricot, strawberry, and raspberry, made of fusil oil or of fruit, or imitations thereof, two dollars and fifty cents per pound;

French green, Paris green, mineral green, carmine lake, wood lake, dry carmine, Venetian red, vermilion, mineral blue, Prussian blue, chrome yellow, rose pink, extract of resin or analine colors, Dutch pink, and paints and painters' colors, (except white and red lead and oxide of zinc,) dry or ground in oil, and moist water colors, used in the manufacture of paperhangings and colored papers and cards, not otherwise provided for, twentyfive per centum ad valorem;

Ginger root, five cents per pound; ginger ground, eight cents per pound; On gold leaf, one dollar and fifty cents per package of five hundred leaves; on silver leaf, seventy-five cents per package of five hundred leaves;

Gum aloes, six cents per pound; benzoin, ten cents per pound; sandarac, ten cents per pound; shellac, ten cents per pound; mastic, fifty cents per pound; copal, kowrie, damar, and all gums used for like purposes, ten cents per pound;

Honey, fifteen cents per gallon;

Iodine, crude, fifty cents per pound; resublimed, seventy-five cents per pound;

Ipecacuanha, or ipecac, fifty cents per pound;

Jalap, fifty cents per pound;

Licorice root, one cent per pound; paste or juice, five cents per pound; Litharge, two and one-fourth cents per pound;

Magnesia, carbonate, six cents per pound; calcined, twelve cents per pound;

Manna, twenty-five cents per pound;

Nitrate of soda, one cent per pound;

Morphine and its salts, two dollars per ounce; mace and nutmeg, thirty cents per pound;

Ochres and ochrey earths, not otherwise provided for, when dry, fifty cents per one hundred pounds; when ground in oil, one dollar and fifty cents per one hundred pounds;

Oils, fixed or expressed, croton, fifty cents per pound; almonds, ten cents

per pound; bay or laurel, twenty cents per pound; castor, fifty cents per gallon; mace, fifty cents per pound; olive, not salad, twenty-five cents per gallon; salad, fifty cents per gallon; mustard, not salad, twenty-five cents per gallon; salad, fifty cents per gallon;

Oils, essential or essence, anise, fifty cents per pound; almonds, one dollar and fifty cents per pound; amber, crude, ten cents per pound; rectified, twenty cents per pound; bay leaves, seventeen dollars and fifty cents per pound; bergamot, one dollar per pound; cajeput, twenty-five cents per pound; caraway, fifty cents per pound; cassia, one dollar per pound; cinnamon, two dollars per pound; cloves, one dollar per pound; citronella, fifty cents per pound; cognac or oenanthic ether, two dollars per ounce; cubebs, one dollar per pound; fennel, fifty cents per pound; juniper, twenty-five cents per pound; lemons, fifty cents per pound; orange, fifty cents per pound; origanum, or red thyme, twenty-five cents per pound; roses, or otto, one dollar and fifty cents per ounce; thyme, white, thirty cents per pound; valerian, one dollar and fifty cents per pound; all other essential oils, not otherwise provided for, fifty per centum ad valorem;

Opium, two dollars per pound;

Opium prepared for smoking, eighty per centum ad valorem;
Paraffine, ten cents per pound;

Paris white, when dry, sixty cents per one hundred pounds; when ground in oil, one dollar and fifty cents per one hundred pounds;

Pimento, twelve cents per pound; when ground, fifteen cents per pound; Potash, bichromate, three cents per pound; hydriodate, iodate, iodide, and acetate, seventy-five cents per pound; prussiate, yellow, five cents per pound; prussiate, red, ten cents per pound; chlorate, six cents per pound; Petroleum and coal illuminating oil, crude, ten cents per gallon; refined, or kerosene, produced from the distillation of coal, asphaltum, shale, peat, petroleum, or rock oil, or other bituminous substances, used for like purposes, twenty cents per gallon;

Putty, one dollar and fifty cents per one hundred pounds;

Quinine, sulphate of, and other salts of quinine, forty-five per centum ad valorem;

Rhubarb, fifty cents per pound;

Rose leaves, fifty cents per pound;

Rum essence or oil, and bay rum essence or oil, two dollars per ounce; Saltpetre, or nitrate of potash, crude, two cents per pound; refined, three cents per pound;

Seeds, anise, five cents per pound; star anise, ten cents per pound; canary, one dollar per bushel of sixty pounds; caraway, three cents per pound; cardamom, fifty cents per pound; cummin, five cents per pound; coriander, three cents per pound; fennel, two cents per pound; fe[n]ugreek, two cents per pound; hemp, one-half cent per pound; mustard, brown, three cents per pound; white, three cents per pound; rape, one cent per pound; castor seeds or beans, thirty cents per bushel;

Sugar of lead, four cents per pound;

Tartar emetic, fifteen cents per pound;

Varnish, valued at one dollar and fifty cents or less per gallon, fifty cents per gallon, and twenty per centum ad valorem; valued at above one dollar and fifty cents per gallon, fifty cents per gallon, and twenty-five per centum ad valorem;

Vanilla beans, three dollars per pound;

Verdigris, six cents per pound;

Whiting, when dry, fifty cents per one hundred pounds; when ground in oil, one dollar and fifty cents per one hundred pounds;

Acetous, benzoic, muriatic, and pyroligneous acids, cutch or catechu, orchil and cudbear, safflower and sumac, ten per centum ad valorem;

Arsenic in all forms, ammonia, and sulphate and carbonate of ammonia; bark, cinchona, Peruvian, Lima, Calisaya, quilla, and all other medicinal barks, flowers, leaves, plants, roots, and seeds, not otherwise provided for; cobalt, and oxide of cobalt; gums, amber, Arabic, Jedda, Senegal, tragacanth, myrrh, and all other gums and gum resins not otherwise provided for; quassia wood; smalts; sarsaparilla; tapioca; tonqua beans and sponges, twenty per centum ad valorem; acetic acid, twenty-five per centum ad valorem;

Santonine and glycerine, thirty per centum ad valorem;

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 according 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, fifty per centum ad valorem;

On all essences, extracts, toilet waters, cosmetics, hair oils, pomades, hair dressings, hair restoratives, hair dyes, tooth washes, dentifrices, tooth pastes, aromatic cachous, or other perfumeries or cosmetics, by whatsoever name or names known, used or applied as perfumes or applications to the hair, mouth, or skin, fifty per centum ad valorem.

SEc. 6. And be it further enacted, That from and after the day and year aforesaid, in addition to the duties heretofore imposed by law on the articles hereinafter mentioned, and on such as may now be exempt from duty, there shall be levied, collected, and paid on the goods, wares, and merchandise enumerated and provided for in this section, imported from foreign countries, a duty of ten per centum ad valorem, that is to say: Antimony, crude;

Assafoetida;

Beeswax;

Blacking of all descriptions;

Building stone of all descriptions not otherwise provided for;

Calomel;

Catsup;

Civet, oil of;

Cobalt ores;

Extract of indigo; extract of madder; extract and decoctions of logwood,

and other dyewoods;

Flints and flint, ground;

Flocks, waste or shoddy;

Furs, dressed, when not on the skin;

Garancine;

Ginger, preserved or pickled;

Green turtle;

Grindstones, unwrought, or wrought or finished;

Gutta-percha, unmanufactured;

Isinglass or fish glue;

Japanned ware of all kinds not otherwise provided for;

Lastings, mohair cloth, silk, twist, or other manufacture of cloth woven or made in patterns of such size, shape and form, or cut in such manner as to be fit for shoes, slippers, boots, bootees, gaiters and buttons, exclusively, not combined with India-rubber.

Mats of cocoa-nut;

Matting, China, and other floor-matting, and mats made of flags, jute, or grass;

Manufactures of gutta-percha;

Milk of India-rubber; medicinal preparations not otherwise provided for; Music, printed with lines, bound or unbound;

Musical instruments of all kinds, and strings for musical instruments of whipgut or catgut, and all other strings of the same material,

Nickel;

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

Philosophical apparatus and instruments;

Plaster of Paris, when ground;

Quills;

Strychnine;

Staves for pipes, hogsheads, or other casks;

Teeth, manufactured;

Thread lace and insertings;

Woollen listings.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That, in addition to the duties hereto fore imposed by law on the articles hereinafter mentioned and provided for in this section, there shall be levied, collected and paid, on the goods, wares and merchandise herein enumerated, imported from foreign countries, the following duties and rates of duty, that is to say:

On chocolate and cocoa prepared, one cent per pound;

On copperas, green vitriol, or sulphate of iron, one-fourth cent per pound; On linseed, flax-seed, hemp-seed, and rape-seed oil, three cents per gallon;

On saleratus and bicarbonate of soda, one-half cent per pound;

On caustic soda, one-half cent per pound;

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