10 wire gauge shall pay duty as iron or steel sheets.

127. Iron or steel anchors, or parts thereof, 11⁄2 cents per pound; forgings of iron or steel, or of combined iron and steel, of whatever shape or whatever degree or stage of manufacture, not specially provided for in this Act, 35 per centum ad valorem; anti-friction ball forgings of iron or steel, or of combined iron and steel, 45 per centum ad valorem.

128. Hoop, band, or scroll iron or steel, not otherwise provided for in this Act, valued at 3 cents per pound or less, 8 inches or less in width, and less than three-eighths of 1 inch thick and not thinner than No. 10 wire gauge, five-tenths of 1 cent per pound; thinner than No. 10 wire gauge and not thinner than No. 20 wire gauge, six-tenths of 1 cent per pound; thinner than No. 20 wire gauge, eight-tenths of 1 cent per pound: Provided, That barrel hoops of iron or steel, and hoop or band iron or hoop or band steel, flared, splayed, or punched, with or without buckles or fastenings, shall pay one-tenth of 1 cent per pound more duty than that imposed on the hoop or band iron or steel from which they are made; steel bands or strips, untempered, suitable for making band saws, 3 cents per pound and 20 per centum ad valorem; if tempered, or tempered and polished, 6 cents per pound and 20 per centum ad valorem.

129. Hoop or band iron, or hoop or band steel, cut to lengths, or wholly or partly manufactured into hoops or ties, coated or not coated with paint or any other preparation, with or without buckles or fastenings, for baling cotton or any other commodity, five-tenths of Icent per pound.

130. Railway bars, made of iron or steel, and railway bars made in part of steel, T rails, and punched iron or steel flat rails, seven-twentieths of 1 cent per pound; railway fish-plates or splicebars, made of iron or steel, four-tenths of 1 cent per pound.

131. Sheets of iron or steel, common or black, of whatever dimensions, and skelp iron or steel, valued at 3 cents per pound or less, thinner than No. 10 and not thinner than No. 20 wire gauge, seven-tenths of 1 cent per pound; thinner than No. 20 wire gauge and not thinner than No. 25 wire gauge, eight-tenths of 1 cent per pound; thinner than No. 25 wire gauge and not thinner than No. 32 wire gauge, 11-10 cents per pound; thinner than No. 32 wire gauge, 12-10 cents per pound; corrugated or crimped, 11-10 cents per pound: Provided, That all sheets of common or black iron or steel not thinner than No. 10 wire gauge shall pay duty as plate iron or plate steel.

132. All iron or steel sheets or plates, and all hoop, band, or scroll iron or steel, excepting what are known commercially as tín plates, terne plates, and taggers tin, and hereinafter provided for, when galvanized or coated with zinc, spelter, or other metals, or any alloy of those metals, shall pay two-tenths of 1 cent per pound more duty than if the same were not so galvanized or coated. 133. Sheets of iron or steel, polished, planished, or glanced, by whatever name designated, 2 cents per pound: Provided, That plates or sheets of iron or steel, by whatever name designated, other than the polished, planished, or glanced herein provided for, which have been pickled or cleaned by acid, or by any other material or process, or which are cold rolled, smoothed only, not polished, shall pay two-tenths of 1 cent per pound more duty than the corresponding gauges of common or black sheet iron or steel.

134 Sheets or plates of iron or steel, or taggers iron or steel, coated with tin or lead, or with a mixture of which these metals, or either of them, is a component part, by the dipping or any other process, and commercially known as tin plates, terne plates, and taggers fin, 1% cents per pound. 135. Steel ingots, cogged ingots, blooms, and slabs, by whatever process made; die blocks or blanks; billets and bars and tapered or beveled bars; mill shafting; pressed, sheared, or stamped shapes; saw plates, wholly or partially manufactured; hammer molds or swaged steel; gun-barrel molds not in bars; alloys used as substitutes for steel in the manufacture of tools; all descriptions and shapes of dry sand, loam, or iron-molded steel castings; sheets and plates and steel in all forms

and shapes not specially provided for in this Act, all of the above valued at 1 cent per pound or less, three-tenths of 1 cent per pound; valued above 1 cent and not above 1 4-10 cents per pound, four-tenths of 1 cent per pound; valued above 14-10 cents and not above 1 8-10 cents per pound, six-tenths of 1 cent per pound; valued above 1 8-10 cents and not above 2 2-10 cents per pound, seven-tenths of 1 cent per pound; valued above 22-10 cents and not above 3 cents per pound, ninetenths of 1 cent per pound; valued above 3 cents per pound and not above 4 cents per pound, 12-10 cents per pound; valued above 4 cents and not above 7 cents per pound, 13-10 cents per pound; valued above 7 cents and not above 10 cents per pound, 2 cents per pound; valued above 10 cents and not above 13 cents per pound, 24-10 cents per pound; valued above 13 cents and not above 16 cents per pound, 2 8-10 cents per pound; valued above 16 cents per pound, 47-10 cents per pound. 136. WIRE: Wire rods: Rivet, screw, fence, and other iron or steel wire rods, whether round, oval, flat, or square, or in any other shape, and nail rods, in coils or otherwise, valued at 4 cents or less per pound, four-tenths of 1 cent per pound; valued over 4 cents per pound, three-fourths of 1 cent per pound: Provided, That all round iron or steel rods smaller than No. 6 wire gauge shall be classed and dutiable as wire: Provided further, That all iron or steel wire rods which have been tempered or treated in any manner or partly manufactured shall pay an additional duty of one-half of 1 cent per pound.

137. Round iron or steel wire, not smaller than No. 13 wire gauge, 14 cents per pound; smaller than No. 13 and not smaller than No. 16 wire gauge, 1% cents per pound; smaller than No. 16 wire gauge, 2 cents per pound: Provided, That all the foregoing valued at more than 4 cents per pound shall pay 40 per centum ad valorem. Iron or steel or other wire not specially provided for in this Act, including such as is commonly known as hat wire, or bonnet wire, crinoline wire, corset wire, needle wire, piano wire, clock wire, and watch wire, whether flat or otherwise, and corset clasps, corset steels and dress steels, and sheet steel in strips, twenty-five one-thousandths of an inch thick or thinner, any of the foregoing, whether uncovered, or covered with cotton, silk, metal, or other material, valued at more than 4 cents per pound, 45 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That articles manufactured from iron, steel, brass, or copper wire shall pay the rate of duty imposed upon the wire used in the manufaeture of such articles, and in addition thereto 134 cents per pound, except that wire rope and wire strand shall pay the maximum rate of duty which would be imposed upon any wire used in the manufacture thereof, and in addition thereto 1 cent per pound; and on iron or steel wire coated with zinc, tin, or any other metal, two-tenths of 1 cent per pound in addition to the rate imposed on the wire from which it is made.

GENERAL PROVISIONS.

138. No allowance or reduction of duties for partial loss or damage in consequence of rust or of discoloration shall be made upon any description of iron or steel, or upon any article wholly or partly manufactured of iron or steel, or upon any manufacture of iron or steel.

139. All metal produced from iron or its ores, which is cast and malleable, of whatever description or form, without regard to the percentage of carbon contained therein, whether produced by cementation, or converted, cast, or made from iron or its ores, by the crucible, Bessemer, ClappGriffith, pneumatic, Thomas-Gilchrist, basie, Siemens-Martin, or open-hearth process, or by the equivalent of either, or by a combination of two or more of the processes, or their equivalents, or by any fusion or other process which produces from iron or its ores a metal, either granular or fibrous in structure, which is cast and malleable, excepting what are known as malleable-iron castings, shall be classed and denominated as steel.

140. No article not specially provided for in this Act, which is wholly or partly manufactured from tin plate, terne plate, or the sheet, plate, hoop,

band, or scroll iron or steel herein provided for, or of which such tin plate, terne plate, sheet, plate, hoop, band, or scroll iron or steel shall be the material of chief value, shall pay a lower rate of duty than that imposed on the tin plate, terne plate, or sheet, plate, hoop, band, or scroll iron or steel from which it is made, or of which it shall be the component thereof of chief value.

141. On all iron or steel bars or rods of whatever shape or section which are cold rolled, cold drawn, cold hammered, or polished in any way in addition to the ordinary process of hot rolling or hammering, there shall be paid one-fourth of 1 cent per pound in addition to the rates provided in this Act on bars or rods of whatever section or shape which are hot rolled; and on all strips, plates, or sheets of iron or steel of whatever shape, other than the polished, planished, or glanced sheet-iron or sheet steel hereinbefore provided for, which are cold rolled, cold hammered, blued, brightened, tempered, or polished by any process to such perfected surface finish or polish better than the grade of cold rolled, smoothed only, hereinbefore provided for, there shall be paid 1 cent per pound in addition to the rates provided in this Act upon plates, strips, or sheets of iron or steel of common or black finish; and on steel circular saw plates there shall be paid one-half of 1 cent per pound in addition to the rate provided in this Act for steel saw plates.

MANUFACTURES OF IRON AND STEEL.

142. Anvils of iron or steel, or of iron and steel combined, by whatever process made, or in whatever stage of manufacture, 17% cents per pound. 143. Axles, or parts thereof, axle bars, axle blanks, or forgings for axles, whether of iron or steel, without reference to the stage or state of manufacture, valued at not more than 6 cents per pound, 1 cent per pound: Provided, That when iron or steel axles are imported fitted in wheels, or parts of wheels, of iron or steel, they shall be dutiable at the same rate as the wheels in which they are fitted.

144. Blacksmiths' hammers and sledges, track tools, wedges, and crowbars, whether of iron or steel, 11⁄2 cents per pound.

145. Bolts, with or without threads or nuts, or bolt blanks, and finished hinges or hinge blanks, whether of iron or steel, 1% cents per pound.

146. Card-clothing manufactured from tempered steel wire, 45 cents per square foot; all other, 20 cents per square foot.

147. Cast-iron pipe of every description, fourtenths of 1 cent per pound.

148. Cast-iron vessels, plates, stove-plates, andirons, sadirons, tailors' irons, hatters' irons, and castings of iron, not specially provided for in this Act, eight tenths of 1 cent per pound.

149. Castings of malleable iron not specially provided for in this Act, nine-tenths of 1 cent per pound.

150. Cast hollow-ware, coated, glazed, or tinned, 2 cents per pound. 151. Chain or chains of all kinds, made of iron or steel, not less than three-fourths of 1 inch in diameter, 1% cents per pound; less than threefourths of 1 inch and not less than three-eighths of 1 inch in diameter, 13% cents per pound; less than three-eighths of 1 inch in diameter and not less than five-sixteenths of 1 inch in diameter, 1% cents per pound; less than five-sixteenths of 1 inch in diameter, 3 cents per pound; but no chain or chains of any description shall pay a lower rate of duty than 45 per centum ad valorem.

152. Lap-welded, butt-welded, seamed, or jointed iron or steel boiler tubes, pipes, flues, or stays, not thinner than No. 16 wire gauge, 2 cents per pound; welded cylindrical furnaces made from plate metal, 2 cents per pound; all other iron or steel tubes, finished, not specially provided for in this Act, 35 per centum ad valorem.

153. CUTLERY: Penknives or pocket-knives, clasp-knives, pruning-knives, and budding-knives of all kinds, or parts thereof, and erasers or manicure knives, or parts thereof, wholly or partly manufactured, valued at not more than 40 cents per dozen, 40 per centum ad valorem; valued at

more than 40 cents per dozen and not exceeding 50 cents per dozen, 1 cent per piece and 40 per centum ad valorem; valued at more than 50 cents per dozen and not exceeding $1.25 per dozen, 5 cents per piece and 40 per centum ad valorem; valued at more than $1.25 per dozen and not exceeding $3 per dozen, 10 cents per piece and 40 per centum ad valorem: valued at more than $3 per dozen, 20 cents per piece and 40 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That blades, handles, or other parts of either or any of the foregoing articles, imported in any other manner than assembled in finished knives or erasers, shall be subject to no less rate of duty than herein provided for penknives, pocket-knives, clasp-knives, pruning-knives, manicure knives, and erasers valued at more than 50 cents and not more than $1.50 per dozen. Razors and razor blades, finished or unfinished, valued at less than $1.50 per dozen, 50 cents per dozen and 15 per centum ad valorem; valued at $1.50 per dozen and less than $3 per dozen, $1 per dozen and 15 per centum ad valorem; valued at $3 per dozen or more, $1.75 per dozen and 20 per centum ad valorem. Scissors and shears, and blades for the same, finished or unfinished, valued at not more than 50 cents per dozen, 15 cents per dozen and 15 per centum ad valorem; valued at more than 50 cents and not more than $1.75 per dozen, 50 cents per dozen and 15 per centum ad valorem; valued at more than $1.75 cents per dozen, 75 cents per dozen and 25 per centum ad valorem.

154. Swords, sword-blades, and side-arms, 35 per centum ad valorem.

155. Table, butchers', carving, cooks', hunting, kitchen, bread, butter, vegetable, fruit, cheese, plumbers', painters', palette, artists', and shoe knives, forks, and steels, finished or unfinished, with handles of mother-of-pearl, shell, or ivory, 16 cents each; with handles of deer horn, 12 cents each; with handles of hard rubber, solid bone, celluloid, or any pyroxylin material, 5 cents each; with handles of any other material than those above mentioned, 1% cents each, and in addition, on all the above articles, 15 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That none of the above-named articles shall pay a less rate of duty than 45 per centum ad valorem.

156. Files, file blanks, rasps, and floats, of all cuts and kinds, 2% inches in length and under, 30 cents per dozen; over 2% inches in length and not over 46 inches, 50 cents per dozen; over 4 inches in length and under 7 inches, 75 cents per dozen; 7 inches in length and over, $1 per dozen.

157. FIREARMS: Muskets, muzzle-loading shotguns, rifles, and parts thereof, 25 per centum ad valorem.

158. Double-barreled sporting breech-loading shotguns, combination shotguns and rifles, valued at not more than $5, $1.50 each, and in addition thereto 15 per centum ad valorem; valued at more than $5 and not more than $10, $4 each, and in addition thereto 15 per centum ad valorem each; valued at more than $10, $6 each; double barrels for sporting breech-loading shotguns and rifles further advanced in manufacture than rough-bored only, $3 each; stocks for double-barreled sporting breechloading shotguns and rifles wholly or partially manufactured, $3 each; and in addition thereto on all such guns and rifles valued at more than $10 each, and on such stocks and barrels, 35 per centum ad valorem; on all other parts of such guns or rifles, and fittings for such stocks or barrels, finished or unfinished, 50 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That all double-barrel sporting breech-loading shotguns and rifles imported without a lock or locks or other fittings shall be subject to a duty of $6 each and 35 per centum ad valorem; single-barreled breech-loading shotguns, or parts thereof, except as otherwise specially provided for in this Act, $1 each and 35 per centum ad valorem. Revolving pistols or parts thereof, 75 cents each and 25 per centum ad valorem.

159. Sheets, plates, wares, or articles of iron, steel, or other metal, enameled or glazed with vitreous glasses, 40 per centum ad valorem.

160. NAILS, SPIKES, TACKS, AND NEED ES: Cut nails and cut spikes of iron or steel, six-tenths of 1 cent per pound.

161. Horseshoe nails, hob nails, and all other

wrought iron or steel nails not specially provided for in this Act, 24 cents per pound.

162. Wire nails made of wrought iron or steel, not less than 1 inch in length and not lighter than No. 16 wire gauge, one-half of 1 cent per pound: less than 1 inch in length and lighter than No. 16 wire gauge, 1 cent per pound.

163. Spikes, nuts, and washers, and horse, mule, or ox shoes, of wrought iron or steel, 1 cent per pound.

164. Cut tacks, brads, or sprigs, not exceeding 16 ounces to the 1,000, 14 cents per 1,000; exceeding 16 ounces to the 1,000, 1% cents per pound.

165. Needles for knitting or sewing machines, including latch needles, $1 per 1,000 and 25 per centum ad valorem; crochet needles and tape needles, knitting and all other needles not specially provided for in this Act, and bodkins of metal, 25 per centum ad valorem

166. PLATES: Steel plates engraved, stereotype plates, electrotype plates, and plates of other materials, engraved or lithographed, for printing, 25 per centum ad valorem.

167. Rivets of iron or steel, 2 cents per pound. 168. SAWS: Cross-cut saws, 6 cents per linear foot; mill saws, 10 cents per linear foot; pit and drag saws, 8 cents per linear foot; circular saws, 25 por centum ad valorem; steel band saws, finished or further advanced than tempered and polished, 10 cents per pound and 20 per centum ad valorem ; hand, back, and all other saw, not specially provided for in this Act, 30 per centum ad valorem. 169. Screws, commonly called wood screws, made of iron or steel, more than 2 inches in length, 4 cents per pound; over 1 inch and not more than 2 inches in length, 6 cents per pound; over one-half inch and not more than 1 inch in length, 8% cents per pound; one-half inch and less in length, 12 cents per pound.

170. Umbrella and parasol ribs and stretchers, composed in chief value of iron, steel, or other metal, in frames or otherwise, 50 per centum ad valorem.

171. Wheels for railway purposes, or parts thereof, made of iron or steel, and steel-tired wheels for railway purposes, whether wholly or partly finished, and iron or steel locomotive, car, or other railway tires, or parts thereof, wholly or partly manufactured, 11⁄2 cents per pound; and ingots, cogged ingots, blooms, or blanks for the same, without regard to the degree of manufacture, 14 cents per pound: Provided, That when wheels for railway purposes, or parts thereof, of iron or steel, are imported with iron or steel axles fitted in them, the wheels and axles together shall be dutiable at the same rate as is provided for the wheels when imported separately.

MISCELLANEOUS METALS, AND MANUFAC TURES OF.

172. Aluminum, and alloys of any kind in which aluminum is the component material of chief value, in crude form, 8 cents per pound; in plates, sheets, bars, and rods, 13 cents per pound.

173. Antimony, as regulus or metal, three-fourths of 1 cent per pound.

174. Argentine, albata, or German silver, unmanufactured, 25 per centum ad valorem.

175. Bronze powder, 12 cents per pound; bronze or Dutch metal or aluminum, in leaf, 6 cents per package of 100 leaves.

176. Copper in rolled plates, called braziers' copper, sheets, rods, pipes, and copper bottoms, 2% cents per pound; sheathing or yellow metal of which copper is the component material of chief value, and not composed wholly or in part of iron ungalvanized, 2 cents per pound.

177. GOLD AND SILVER: Gold leaf, $1.75 per package of 500 leaves.

178. Silver leaf, 75 cents per package of 500 leaves.

179. Tinsel wire, lame or lahn, made wholly or in chief value of gold, silver, or other metal, 5 cents per pound; bullions and metal threads, made wholly or in chief value of tinsel wire, lame or lahn, 5 cents per pound and 35 per centum ad valorem; laces, embroideries, braids, galloons, trimmings, or other articles, made wholly or in

chief value of tinsel wire, lame or lahn, bullions, or metal threads, 60 per centum ad valorem.

180. Hooks and eyes, metallic, whether loose, carded, or otherwise, including weight of cards, cartons, and immediate wrappings and labels, 51⁄2 cents per pound and 15 per centum ad valorem.

181. LEAD: Lead-bearing ore of all kinds, 11⁄2 cents per pound on the lead contained therein: Provided, That on all importations of lead-bearing ores the duties shall be estimated at the port of entry, and a bond given in double the amount of such estimated duties for the transportation of the ores by common carriers bonded for the transportation of appraised or unappraised merchandise to properly equipped sampling or smelting establishments, whether designated as bonded warehouses or otherwise. On the arrival of the ores at such establishments they shall be sampled according to commercial methods under the supervision of Government officers, who shall be stationed at such establishments, and who shall submit the samples thus obtained to a Government assayer, designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall make a proper assay of the sample, and report the result to the proper customs officers, and the import entries shall be liquidated thereon, except in case of ores that shall be removed to a bonded warehouse to be refined for exportation as provided by law. And the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to make all necessary regulations to enforce the provisions of this paragraph.

182. Lead dross, lead bullion, or base bullion, lead in pigs and bars, lead in any form not specially provided for in this Act, old refuse lead run into blocks and bars, and old scrap lead fit only to be remanufactured; all the foregoing, 2% cents per pound; lead in sheets, pipe, shot, glaziers' lead, and lead wire, 2 cents per pound.

183. Metallic mineral substances in a crude state, and metals unwrought, not specially provided for in this Act, 20 per centum ad valorem; monazite sand and thorite, 6 cents per pound.

184. Mica, unmanufactured, or rough trimmed only, 6 cents per pound and 20 per centum ad valorem; mica, cut or trimmed, 12 cents per pound and 20 per centum ad valorem.

185, Nickel, nickel oxide, alloy of any kind in which nickel is a component material of chief value, in pigs, ingots, bars, or sheets, 6 cents per pound.

186. Pens, metallic, except gold pens, 12 cents per gross.

187. Penholder tips, penholders, or parts thereof, and gold pens, 25 per centum ad valorem.

188. Pins with solid heads, without ornamentation, including hair, safety, hat, bonnet, and shawl pins; any of the foregoing composed wholly of brass, copper, iron, steel, or other base metal, not plated, and not commonly known as jewelry, 35 per centum ad valorem.

189. Quicksilver, 7 cents per pound. The flasks, bottles, or other vessels in which quicksilver is imported shall be subject to the same rate of duty as they would be subjected to if imported empty. 190. Type metal, 1% cents per pound for the lead contained therein; new types, 25 per centum ad

valorem.

191. Watch movements, whether imported in cases or not, if having not more than 7 jewels, 35 cents each; if having more than 7 jewels and not more than 11 jewels, 50 cents each; if having more than 11 jewels and not more than 15 jewels, 75 cents each; if having more than 15 jewels and not more than 17 jewels, $1.25 each; if having more than 17 jewels, $3 each, and in addition thereto, on all the foregoing, 25 per centum ad valorem; watch cases and parts of watches, including watch dials, chronometers, box or ship, and parts thereof, clocks and parts thereof, not otherwise provided for in this Act, whether separately packed or otherwise, not composed wholly or in part of china, porcelain, parian, bisque, or earthenware, 40 per centum ad valorem; all jewels for use in the manufacture of watches or clocks, 10 per centum ad valorem.

192. Zinc in blocks or pigs, 131⁄2 cents per pound; in sheets, 2 cents per pound; old and worn-out, fit only to be remanufactured, 1 cent per pound.

193. Articles or wares not specially provided for

bacco, ground dry, or damp, and pickled, scented, or otherwise, of all descriptions, 55 cents per pound.

217. Cigars, cigarettes, cheroots of all kinds, $4.50 per pound and 25 per centum ad valorem; and paper cigars and cigarettes, including wrappers, shall be subject to the same duties as are herein imposed upon cigars.

SCHEDULE G.

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS AND PROVISIONS. 218. ANIMALS, LIVE: Cattle, if less than one year old, $2 per head; all other cattle if valued at not more than $14 per head, $3.75 per head; if valued at more than $14 per head, 27% per centum ad valorem.

219. Swine, $1.50 per head.

220. Horses and mules, valued at $150 or less per head, $30 per head; if valued at over $150, 25 per centum ad valorem.

221. Sheep, one year old or over, $1.50 per head; less than one year old, 75 cents per head.

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222. All other live animals, not specially provided for in this Act, 20 per centum ad valorem. 223. BREADSTUFFS AND FARINACEOUS STANCES: Barley, 30 cents per bushel of 48 pounds. 224. Barley malt, 45 cents per bushel of 34 pounds. 225. Barley, pearled, patent, or hulled, 2 cents per pound.

226. Buckwheat, 15 cents per bushel of 48 pounds. 227. Corn or maize, 15 cents per bushel of 56 pounds.

248. Corn meal, 20 cents per bushel of 48 pounds. 229. Macaroni, vermicelli, and all similar preparations, 11⁄2 cents per pound.

230. Oats, 15 cents per bushel. 231. Oatmeal and rolled oats, 1 cent per pound; oat hulls, 10 cents per 100 pounds.

232. Rice, cleaned, 2 cents per pound; uncleaned rice, or rice free of the outer hull and still having the inner cuticle on, 14 cents per pound; rice flour and rice meal, and rice broken which will pass through a sieve known commercially as No. 12 wire sieve, one-fourth of 1 cent per pound; paddy, or rice having the outer huli on, threefourths of 1 cent per pound.

233. Rye, 10 cents per bushel; rye flour, one-half of 1 cent per pound.

234. Wheat, 25 cents per bushel.

25. Wheat flour, 25 per centum ad valorem. 236. DAIRY PRODUCTS: Butter, and substitutes therefor, 6 cents per pound.

237. Cheese, and substitutes therefor, 6 cents per pound.

238. Milk, fresh, 2 cents per gallon.

239. Milk, preserved or condensed, or sterilized by heating or other processes, including weight of immediate coverings, 2 cents per pound; sugar of milk, 5 cents per pound.

240. FARM AND FIELD PRODUCTS: Beans, 45 cents per bushel of 60 pounds.

241. Beans, peas, and mushrooms, prepared or preserved, in tins, jars, bottles, or similar packages, 2 cents per pound, including the weight of all tins, jars, and other immediate coverings; all vegetables, prepared or preserved, including pickles and sauces of all kinds, not specially provided for in this Act, and fish paste or sauce, 40 per centum ad valorem.

242. Cabbages, 3 cents each.

243. Cider, 5 cents per gallon.

244. Eggs, not specially provided for in this Act, 5 cents per dozen.

245. Eggs, yolk of, 25 per centum ad valorem; albumen, egg or blood, 3 cents per pound; dried blood, when soluble, 11⁄2 cents per pound.

246. Hay, $4 per ton.

247. Honey, 20 cents per gallon. 248. Hops, 12 cents per pound; hop extract and lupulin, 50 per centum ad valorem.

249. Onions, 40 cents per bushel; garlic, 1 cent per pound.

250, eas, green, in bulk or in barrels, sacks, or similar packages, and seed peas, 40 cents per bushel of 60 pounds; peas, dried, not specially provided for, 30 cents per bushel; split peas, 40 cents per bushel of 60 pounds; peas in cartons, papers, or other small packages, i cent per pound.

251. Orchids, palms, dracenas, crotons, and azaleas, tulips, hyacinths, narcissi, jonquils, lilies, lilies of the valley, and all other bulbs, bulbous roots, or corms, which are cultivated for their flowers, and natural flowers of all kinds, preserved or fresh, suitable for decorative purposes, 25 per centum ad valorem.

252. Stocks, cuttings, or seedlings of myrobolan plum, mahaleb or mazard cherry, three years old or less, 50 cents per 1,000 plants and 15 per centum ad valorem ; stocks, cuttings, or seedlings of pear, apple, quince, and the St. Julien plum, three years old or less, and evergreen seedlings, $1 per 1,000 plants and 15 per centum ad valorem; rose plants, budded, grafted, or grown on their own roots, 22 cents each; stocks, cuttings, and seedlings of all fruit and ornamental trees, deciduous and evergreen, shrubs and vines, manetti, multiflora, and brier rose, and all trees, shrubs, plants, and vines, commonly known as nursery or greenhouse stock, not specially provided for in this Act, 25 per centum ad valorem.

253. Potatoes, 25 cents per bushel of 60 pounds. 254. Seeds: Castor beans or seeds, 25 cents per bushel of 50 pounds; flaxseed or linseed and other oil seeds not specially provided for in this Act, 25 cents per bushel of 56 pounds; poppy-seed, 15 cents per bushel; but no drawback shall be allowed upon oil cake made from imported seed, nor shall any allowance be made for dirt or other impurities in any seed; seeds of all kinds not specially provided for in this Act, 30 per centum ad valorem. 255. Straw, $1.50 per ton.

256. Teazles, 30 per centum ad valorem.

257. Vegetables in their natural state, not specially provided for in this Act, 25 per centum ad valorem.

258. FISH: Fish known or labeled as anchovies, sardines, sprats, brislings, sardels, or sardellen, packed in oil or otherwise, in bottles, jars, tin boxes, or cans, shall be dutiable as follows: When in packages containing 7% cubic inches or less, 11⁄2 cents per bottle, jar, box, or can; containing more than 7% and not more than 21 cubic inches, 2 cents per bottle, jar, box, or can; containing more than 21 and not more than 33 cubic inches, 5 cents per bottle, jar, box, or can; containing more than 33 and not more than 70 cubic inches, 10 cents per bottle, jar, box, or can; if in other packages, 40 per centum ad valorem. All other fish (except shellfish), in tin packages, 30 per centum ad valorem; fish in packages containing less than onehalf barrel, and not specially provided for in this Act, 30 per centum ad valorem.

259. Fresh-water fish not specially provided for in this Act, one-fourth of 1 cent per pound.

260. Herrings, pickled or salted, one-half of 1 cent per pound; herrings, fresh, one-fourth of 1 cent per pound,

261. Fish, fresh, smoked, dried, salted, pickled, frozen, packed in ice, or otherwise prepared for preservation, not specially provided for in this Act, three-fourths of 1 cent per pound; fish, skinned or boned, 14 cents per pound; mackerel, halibut, or salmon, fresh, pickled, or salted, 1 cent per pound.

262. FRUITS AND NUTS: Apples, peaches, quinces, cherries, plums, and pears, green or ripe, 25 cents per bushel; apples, peaches, pears, and other edible fruits, including berries, when dried, desiccated evaporated, or prepared in any manner, not specially provided for in this Act, 2 cents per pound; berries, edible, in their natural condition, i cent per quart; cranberries, 25 per centum að valorem.

263. Comfits, sweetmeats, and fruits preserved in sugar, molasses, spirits, or in their own juices, not specially provided for in this Act, 1 cent per pound and 35 per centum ad valorem; if containing over 10 per centum of alcohol and not specially provided for in this Act, 35 per centum ad valorem, and in addition $2.50 per proof galion on the alcohol contained therein in excess of 10 per centum; jellies of all kinds, 35 per centum ad valorem; pineapples preserved in their own juice, 25 per centum ad valorem.

264. Figs, plums, prunes, and prunelles, 2 cents per pound; raisins and other dried grapes, 2% cents per pound; dates, one-half of I cent per pound; currants, Zante or other, 2 cents per