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THE FRENCH TREATS

Rates of Import
Duties.
1860. 1864.
100 kilo. 100 kilts
Free Free
Free Free
80 6 0
Free Free

rates of duty payable on the direct importation into France
from the United Kingdom, under the French or British flag,
of the undermentioned articles of British origin or manufac-
ture, as set forth in the tariff annexed to the Convention
concluded on the 12th inst. between Great Britain and
France, as compared with the corresponding rates of import
duty levied on the same articles under the old French tariff.
New Duties. Former
Duties. (Ad-
ding the two
1860 1864 decimes.)
100 kits. 100 kils. 100 kits.
F. c. F. c.
Free. Free.

New

Description of Articles,

Description of Articles.

(From a Supplement to the Gazette of Tuesday)

The following is the English text of the Conven-
tion between her Majesty and the Emperor of the
French, supplementary to the Treaty of Commerce
of Jan. 23, 1860, with a tariff annexed. This Con-
vention was signed at Paris on Oct. 12, and the
ratifications were exchanged at Paris yesterday :
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, and his Majesty the Emperor of the
French, desiring to ensure the execution of the Treaty of
Commerce concluded between them on the 23d of Ja-
nuary, 1860, within the limits and in the manner con-
templated by the second additional Article to that
Treaty, have resolved to negotiate a first comple •
mentary arrangement in order to determine the specific or
ad valorem duties which shall be imposed upon the goods of
British origin and manufacture enumerated in the said
Treaty, when imported into France; and they have for
that purpose named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to
say :

BISMOUTH.—Crude
ANTIMONY.—Ore and sulphurated
Metal or regulus
NICKEL Ore and Speiss • • ••
Pure, and alloyed with other metals
especially copper or zinc (argentine
or Geman silver) in ingots or pigs..
Ditto, rolled or drawn
MANGANESE.—Ore • •
ARSENlC.—Metallic
ORES.—Not enumerated
METAL MANUFACTURES.
CAST IRON.—Not turned nor polished :-
Ist Class. Chairs for 'railways, plates,
and other castings from the open
mould .. • • •
2d Class. Cylindrical pipes (straight),
rafters, solid columns, and gas retorts
3d Class. Pots and all other manufac-
tures not included in the preceding
classes .. . • • .
Polished or turned .. . • . .
Tinned, enamelled, or varnished ..
WROUGHT IRoN.—lronwares (heavy),
including framework; pieces of frames;
knees and girders for ships ; ironwork
for carts and waggons ; hinges, clamps,
large bolts, braces, and other fastenings
of doors and windows, not polished nor
turned ; gratings (solid), beds, seats,
and furniture for gardens and other
kinds, with or without ornaments or ad-
juncts in cast iron, steel, or copper ..
N.B.—Axles, springs, and tires for
wheels are not included in the above
category, but are classed among de-
tached pieces of machinery.
S wares (" serrureelie")
cis and padlocks of all sorts,
bolts, and hinges, in sheet iron,
latches, and flat bolts, and all other
articles in wrought or sheet iron for
fastenings of doors or windows, and
furniture, polished, flled,or turned ..
Nails, forged by machinery ..
Ditto, ditto, by hand ..
Wood screws, screw-bolts, and nuts..
Anchors
Chains and chain cables
Tools, in pure iron, with or without
handles.. .. .. .. ••
Tubes of wrought iron, simply welded,
of 9 millimetres interior diameter or

1860 184
100 kilo. 100

Cylinders of copper or brass
for printing, whether en-
graved or not ..

.. 15 0 15

fi 0

ili 0

Description of Articles,

Copper wares, metal gauze
of copper or brass, works
of art and ornament, and
all'other,manufactured ar-
ticles of copper, pure or •
alloyed with zinc or tii 25 0 20
Manufac. of zinc of all kinds 10 0 8
Lead pipes, and all other
manufactures of lead .. 5 0
Printing type, new .. 10 0
Tin pots and pans and other
manufactures of tin, whe-
ther pure or alloyed with
antimony

METALS.
IRON.—Ore of
Filings, slag and dross, from
the forge •• •• ••
Pig and fragments of old
cast iron ..
Purified cast, cal led "mazee,"
and old broken wrought
iron ..
Crude, in lumps or prisms,
not freed from the dross
Bars, square, round, or flat ;
rails of all shapes and di-
mensions ; angle and T
iron and wire, with the ex-
ceptions hereinafter men-
tioned ..
Hoops, of the thickness of one
millimetre or less, sheets,
rolled or hammered ex-
ceeding one millimetre in
thickness ; in plates
weighing 200 kilog-
rammes or less, and of
which the breadth does not
exceed 1 metro 20 centi-
metres, nor the length 4
mktalfi 40 centimetres .. 850 7 ,50 -24 f-
In -Males exceeding 200
kilogrammes in weight
1 metre 20 centimetres in
breadth, or 4 metres 60
centimetres in length ..
Sheet, thin, and black iron,
in plates of 1 millimetre
or less in thickness ..
(N.B. Thin sheet and
black iron in flat plates,
cut out or trimmed in
any way, to pay one-
tenth more than rectan-
gular plates.)
Sheets, tinned, coppered,
covered with zinc or lead 16 0
Wire, not exceeding 5-10ths
millimetres in diameter,
whether tinned, coppered,
or covered with zinc .. 14 0
STEEL.—In bars of all kinds 15 0
Sheet, exceeding 2 milli-
metres in thickness .. 22 0
Sheet, net exceeding 2
millimetres in thickness,
and wire, including 30 0
bright wire for instru-
ments
COPPER.—Ore, filings and old
broken articles .. .. Free.
Ditto, and brass smelted, in
pigs, bars, or plates .. Free.

Free.

„ Free and
96c
2 0 4f. 800.

0 Prohibited.

2 50

0 2Sf. SOc.
0 60f.t0

3 25

2 75 Bf. 40c. and

5 0

Of. 60c.
4 50 Prohibited

.. 30 0 30

0 Pots and
pans, 120 f.
to 240 f. ;
others,
prohibited

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Right Hon. Henry R. Charles,
Earl Cowley, Viscount Dangan, Baron Cowley, a Peer of the
United Kingdom, a member of her Britannic Majesty's
Most Hon. Privy Council, Knight Grand Cross of the Most
Hon. Order of the Bath, her said Majesty's Ambassador
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to his Majesty the Em-
peror of the French; and Richard Cobden, Esq., a member
of the British Parliament;
And his Majesty the Emperor of the French, M. Thou-
venal, a Senator of the Empire, Gran his Impe-
'rial Majesty's Order of the Legion of I'Mour, &c., his Im-
perial Majesty's Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs ; and M. Rouher, a Senator of the Empire, Grand
Cross of his Imperial Majesty's Order of the Legion of
Honour, &e., his Imperial Majesty's Minister and Secre-
taryof Statefor Agriculture, Commerce, and Public Works ;
Who, after having communicated to each other their re-
spective full powers, found in good and due form, have
agreed upon the following articles
ARTICLE I.—The articles of British origin or manufac-
ture enumerated in the Tariff annexed to the present Con-
vention shall, when imported direct from the United King-
dom, under the French or the British flag, be admitted into
France at the duties specified by the said Tariff.
ART. H.—ln order to establish the fact that the goods

7 0 6 0 Bars and
rails 12f. to
161. 80c.

Manufactures of nickel
allied with copper or zinc
(argentine) .. .. 100 0 100
Plated manufactures of
every description .. 100 0 100
Manufactures of metal gilt
or silvered by the mer-
curial or electro-plate
processes.. .. 100 0 100
Plate and jewellery of gold,
platina, and other
metals .. 500 0 500
..

0 Prohib;tal.

9 50

7 50

24f.

Cloeks and watches

.. 5 per c. 5 per c.
adval. ad val.

13 0 10 0 24f.

Clocks and watch move-
ments .. .. .. 100 0

MACHINES AND MA-
CHINERY.
WITH APPARATUS COM-
PLETE. Steam-engines
stationary, with or with-
out boilers sr fly-wheels le 0
Ditto, marine,with or with-
out boilers .. .. 20 0
Ditto, locomotive and port-
able engines .. .. 15 0
Tenders for locomotive en-
gines .. 10 0
Spinning machines .. 15 0
For weaving .. .. 9 0
For paper-making .. 9 0
For printing .. 9 0
For agricultural machines,
and machines for making
sheets and fillets of cards 9 0
Lace-making machines .. 16 0
Distilling apparatus, sugar-
pans and boilers made of
copper .. 15 0
Carding machines, not fur-
nished . -

13 0

more •• •• •• •• ••
Ditto, ditto, less than. 9 millimetres,
and fittings of tubes ..
Tubes in wrought iron, welded on a
mandril, or lap-welded
Fish-hooks (for sea fishing), tinned or
not ..•Household articles and other wares
unenumerated : In wrought or
sheet iron, polished or painted .. 17 0
Dittitnon,ed..
ditto, enameled, varnished, or
20 0
STEEL WAREs.—Tools in pure steel,files,
saws (circular or straight), sithes,
sickles, and other unenumerated .. 40 0
Needles for sewing, less than five cen-
timetres in length .. 200 0 200 0
Ditto, of five and more centimetres in
length .. .. • • • . 100 0 100 0
Fish-hooks (for river fishing), blued or
not 100 0 100 0
Metallic pens (other than gold or silver) 100 0 100 0
Small articles of ornament, such as
beads, purse garniture, brooches,
and thimbles .. • • • • .. 25 0 20 0
Household articles and other wares
unenumerated.. .. 40 0 32 0
CUTLERY.-Of every description, 20 per
cent. ad valorem, reduced to 15 per
cent. ad valorem on Jan. 1, 1866.
Instruments, surgical, optical, and
celnOt p. eard
teat.
tpeard
philosophical
• ' valorem. valorem.
ARMS, not being implements of war:--
Side arms •• •• ••
Fire arms
SUNDRY METALS.
Tools of iron tipped with steel, with or
without handles
Articles made partly of cast and partly
of wrought iron, not polished, if the
weight of wrought iron is less than
half the total weight • • • •
Ditto, if half or more than half the
total weight .. .
Ditto, polished, enamelled, or japan-
ned, and with ornamental adjuncts
in iron, copper, brass, or steel ..
Wire gauze of iron or steel ..
Cylinders of copper:or brass for print-
ing, whether engraved or not ..
Copper wares, metal gauze of copper or
brass, works of art and ornament,
and all other manufactured articles
of copper, pure or alloyed with zinc
or tin
Manufactures of zinc of ell kinds ..
Lead pipes, and all other manufactv-es
of lead •• •• •• ••
Printing typo, new
Tin pots and pans and other manufac-
tures of tin, whether pure or alloyed
with antimony 30 0 30 0
Manufactures of nickel allied with cop-
per or zinc (argentine) .. 100 0 100 0
Plated manufactures of every descrip-
tion .. 100 0 100 0
Manufactures of metal gilt or silvered
by the mercurial or electro-plate pro-
cesses

13 0

48f.

25 0

are of British origin or manufacture, the importer must pre.

25 0

10 0 36f. & 84f
13 0 36f.

sent at the French Castom-house either an official declara-
tion, made before a British magistrate exercising jurisdic-
tion at the place of despatch, or a certificate granted by the
chief officer of the Customs at the port of embarkation, or
a certificate granted by the Consuls or Consular agents of
France at the places of despatch, or at the ports of embar-
kation. The above-mentioned Consuls or Consular agents
of France shall legalise the signatures of the British autho-
rities.

50 0

18 0

Sheets
60f. to
600 f.
Wire,
M.

25 0

Free.

ART. 111. The importer of machines and mechanical

Free.

12c. to
2f. 40c.

instruments, complete or in detached pieces, of British ori-
gin or manufacture, shall be exempt from the obligation of
producing at the French Customs any model or drawing of
the imported article.
ART. IV.—The importer of any goods of British origin
or manufactured taxed ad valorem, must attach to the de-
claration verifying the value of that article, and to the cer-
tificate of origin, an invoice emanating from the manufac-

Rolled or beaten into bars
or sheets .. .. .. 15 0
Wire of all sizes, whether
polished or not ..

10 0 36f. to 961

.. 15 0

.. 15 0

10 0 120 f. to
343 f. 20c.

Steam-boilers, of sheet iron,
of cylindrical or spherical
shape, with or without
boiler -pipes or heating-
pipes .. 10 0
Ditto, tubular, of sheet iron,
with tubes of wrought
iron, copper or brass, or
of sheet iron rivetted, with
interior furnaces, and all
other boilers, not of cylin-
drical or spherical shape
Ditto, ditto, of sheet steel
of every shape .. .. 30 0
Gasometers, open boilers,
furnaces and staves in
sheet iron, or in cast and
sheet iron .. 10 0
Machines for making ma-
chines ("machines °utile")
and machines not enume-
rated :
Containing 75 per cent or
more of their weight in
cast-iron ..
Containing 50 per cent.
and less than 75 [per
cent. of cast-iron .. 15 0
Containing less than 50
per cent, of cast-iron.. 20 0
Detached parts of Ma-
chines:—Sheets and fillets
of earth nn loathor,
india-
rubber, or other materials 60 0
Dents of reeds in iron or in
copper .. .. 30 0
Reeds complete, in iron or

Gilt or silvered, beaten,
drawn, or rolled, and wire
laid on thread or silk .. 100 0

100 0 244 f. 80c.
to 1,140 f.

turer or from the seller, which shall show the real price,
and shall be vise by a Consul or Consular agent of France
in the United Kingdom.
AItT. V. When articles upon which an ad valorem duty

ZINC.—Ore, crude, calcined,
or pounded, filings, and
old broken articles .. Free.

Free. Free and

is levied have been previously warehoused, the duty shall
be levied according to the value of those articles at the
time of their actual entry into France.
ART. VI. The importer against whom the French Cus-
toms may desire to exercise the right of pre-emption stipu-
lated in the Treaty of the 23d of January, 1860, may, if he
prefers to do so, demand a valuation of his goods by experts.
The same demand may be made by the French Customs
when they may not think fit to have immediate recourse to
pre-emption.

In pigs, bars, or plates ..
Rolled ..
LEAD : —Ore and dross of all
sorts, filings, and old
broken articles Free.
In pigs, bars, or plates .. 3 0

12c.
0 10 12c.
4 0 60f.

40 0 40 0
.. 240 0 240 0

Free.
Pigs 6f.
Sheets
28f. 80c.

18 0

Rolled or sheet alloyed
with antimony, in pig,
and type, old .. 5 0
Tlx :—Ore and metal in pigs,
bars, or plates, filings, and
old broken articles .. Free.
Alloyed with antimony (Bri-
tannin metal in ingots .. 5 0
Pure metal or alloyed, beaten
or rolled ..
BISMUTH.—Crude

Alloyed
with an-
-3 0 timony
31f. 200.

5 0 450

AB:r. VII.—If the result of such valuation by experts
should prove that the goods have not a value of 5 per cent.
above that which has been declared by the importer, the
duty shall be levied upon the amount of declaration.
If the proved value is 5 per cent. above:the value declared,
the French Customs shall be entitled, at their choice, either
to exercise the right of pre-emption, or to levy the duty on
the value aetermined by the experts.

10 0

Free and
2f. 40c.

15 0

6 0 72f.
Free 2f. 40c.
Free and
~ If. 20c.
6 0 31f. 200.
Free Free

ANTlmoNv.—Oreand sulphu-
rated .. .• f "
Metal or regulus S 0
NICKEL.—Ore and speiss .. Free
Pure and unalloyed with
other metal, especially
copper or zinc (argentine
or German silver), in in-
gots or pigs .. • .
Ditto, ditto, rolled or drawn 15 0
MANGANESE :—Ore .. Free
ARSENIC :—Metallic .. Free
OBEs :—Not enumerated .. Free
METAL MANUFACTURES.
CAST IRON :—Not turned nor
polished :-
Ist Class.—Chairs for rail-
ways, plates, and other
castings from the open
mould .. • • • •
2d class.—Cylindrical pipes
(straight), rafters, solid
columns, and gas retorts 425
3d class.—Pets and all other
manufacture not included
in the preceding classes 5 0
Polished or turned 9 0
Tinned, enamelled, or var-
nished .. . •
WROUGHT IRON:—ITORWRTCS
(heavy), including frame-
work; pieces of frames.. ~
Knees and girders for ships ~
Ironwork for carts and
waggons .. „
Hinges, clamps, large bolts,
braces, and other fastenings
of doors and windows, not
polished nor turned. Grat-
ings (solid) beds, seats and
furniture for gardens and
other kinds, with or without
ornaments:or adjunctsin cast
iron, steel, or copper .. 9 0
N.B. Axles, springs, and
tires for wheels are not in-
cluded in the above cate-
gory, but are classed among
detached pieces of machinery
Small ironwares ( " serru-
relit") including locks and
padlocks of all sorts, bolts
and hinges, in sheet 'iron,
latches, and fiat bolts,
and all other articles in
wrought or sheet iron for
fastenings of doors or win-
dows, and furniture polished,
filed, or turned .. 15 0
Nails, forged by machinery 10 0
Ditto, ditto, by hand .. 15 0
Wood screws, screw bolts, and
nuts .. .. 10 0
Anchors .. 10 0

This duty shall be increased by 50 per cent., as a fine, if
the valuation of the experts is 10 per cent., above the de-
clared value.

25 0
10 0

If the value, as determined by the arbitration, exceeds
the declared value of 5 per cent., the costs of the inquiry by
the experts shall be defrayed by the declarant. In the con-
trary case, they shall be defrayed by the French Custom.
house.

5 0
10 0

3 0
8 0

If lf. 20c.
10 0 Free
Free Free
Free Free
Free Free

copper .. 56 0
l'ieces in cast iron, polished,
filed, and adjusted .. 9 0
Pieces in wrought iron,
polished, filed, and ad-
justed or not, without dis-
tinction of weight .. 15 () 10
Steel spring for carriages,
waggons, or locomotives 17 0 . 15
Pieces in stee, polished,
filed, adjusted or not—
weighing more than 1
kilogramme .. .. 30 0 25
Do., 1 kilogramme and less 40 0 35
Pieces in copper, pure or
mixed with any other
metals

ART. VIII.—In the cases contemplated by Art. VI. the
two arbitrating experts shall be named, one by the decla-
rant, the other by the local chief of the French Customs
Service. If there be difference of opinion between them, or
if at the time of appointing the experts the declarant shall
require it, the experts shall choose an umpire. In default
of agreement, this umpire shall be appointed by the Presi-
dent of the Tribunal of Commerce at the port of importation
or, in his default, by the President of the Tribunal of Com-
merce at the nearest place.
The decision of the arbitrators shall be given within the
15 days which follow their nomination.
ART. IX.—lndependently of the duties of Customs, ar-
ticles of goldsmith's work and of jewelry of British manu-
facture in gold, silver, platina, or other metals, imported
into France, shall be subject to the system of control esta-
blished in that country for similar articles of domestic ma-
nufacture, and shall pay, if it becomes necessary, on the
same basis as those, the duties of marking and of guarantee.
ART. X.—The Tariff annexed to the present Convention
shall, independently of the articles already admissible under
the Treaty of the 23d of January last, be immediately appli-
cable to refined sugars, to works in metal, to machines, to
detached pieces of machines, to tools, and to mechanical in-
struments of every description.
ART. Xl.—The present Convention shall have the same
duration as the Treaty concluded between the high con-
tracting parties on the 23d of January last, of which it is a
complement. _ _

.. 100 0 100 0

Plate and jewelry of gold, of silver,
platina, or other metals .. 500 0 500 0
Clocks and watches .. 5 pr. et. 6 pr. et.
ad val. ad val.
Clock and watch movements .. 100 0 100 0
MACHINES AND MACHINERY.
WITH APPARATUS COMPLETE :—Steam
engines stationary, with or without
boilers or flywheels
Ditto marine, NI ith or without boilers
Ditto locomotives and portable engines
Tenders for locomotive engines complete
Spinning machines
For weaving .. •• .. .
For papermaking
For printing ..
For agricultural machines and ma-
chines for making sheets and fillets
of cards

3 0 Prohibited.

3 75 Prohibited.

4 50 Prohibited.
6 0 Prohibited.

10 0
20 0
15 0
10 0
15 0
9 0
9 0
9 0

10 0 Prohibited.

„ Prohibited.
„ Prohibited,

„ Prohibited.

Lace-making machines
Distilling apparatus, sugar pans and
boilers made of copper
Carding machines, not furnished ..
Steam-boilers, of sheet iron, of cylin-
&lull or spherical shape, with or
without boiler pipes or heating-pipes
Do., tubular, of sheet iron, with tubes
of wrought iron, copper, or brass, or
of sheet-iron rivetted, with interior
furnaces, and all other boilers not of
cylindrical or spherical shape ..
Ditto, ditto, of sheet steel of every shape
Gasometers, open boilers, furnaces and
stoves in sheet iron, or in cast and
sheet iron ..
Machines for making machines (" ma-
chines outils") and machines not
enumerated :
Containing 75 per cent, or more of
their weight in cast iron ..
Containing 50 per cent. end less than
75 per cent. of cast iron ..
Containing less than 50 per cent of cast
iron .. .. .. •• ..

9 0
15 0

8 0 Prohibited,

AILT. Xll.—The present Convention shall be ratified,
and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Paris within 15
days, or sooner, if possible.
In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have
signed it, and have affixed thereto the seal of their arms.
Done, in duplicate, at Paris, the 12th day of October,
1860. (L.S.) COWLEY.

(L.S.) RICHARD COBDEN.
(L.S.) E. THOUVENEL.
(L.S.) F. ROUHER.
TARIFF ANNEXED TO THE CONVENTION CONCLUDED ON
THE 12TH OF OCT., 1860, BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN
AND FRANCE.

12 0 Prohibited.
8 0 Prohibited.
12 0 Prohibited.

Rates of Import
Duties.
1860. 1864.
100 Idle. 100 kils.
F. o. F. c.
Incox—Ore of .. • .. Free. Free'
Filings, slag and dross, from the forge „
Pig and fragments of old cast irtrn .. 2 50
Purified cast, called " mazee," and old
broken wrought iron .. 3 25
Crude, in lumps or prisms, not freed
from the dross •• •• ••
Bars, square, round, or flat; rails of all
shapes and dimensions ; angle and T
iron ; and wire, with the exceptions
hereinafter mentioned
Hoops, of the thickness of 1 millimetre
or less. Sheet, rolled or hammered,
exceeding 1 millimetre in thickness.
In plates weighing 200 kilos. or less,
and of which the breadth does not
exceed 1 metre 20 centimetres, nor
the length 4 metres 50 centimetres..
In plates exceeding 200 kilogrammes
in weight or
.1 metre 20 centimetres
in breadth, or 4 metres 50 centimetres
in length ..
•• • •
Sheet, thin, and black iron in plates of
1 millimetre or less in thickness ..
(N.B. Thin sheet and black iron in flat
plates, cut out or trimmed in any
way, to pay 1-10th more than rectan-
gular plates.)
Sheets, tinned, coppered, covered with
zinc or lead
Wye, not exceeding 5-10th millimetres
in diameter, whether tinned, cop-
pored, or covered with zinc ..
STEEL.—In bars of all kinds
Sheet, exceeding 2 millimetres in thick-

Detached parts of machines :—Sheets
and fillets of cards on leather, india-
rubber, or other materials
Dents of reeds in iron or in copper ..
Reeds complete, in iron or copper ..
Pieces in cast iron, polished, filed, and
adjusted • • • • • .•
Pieces in wrought iron, polished, filed,
and adjusted or not, without distinc-
tion of weight ..
Steel spring for carriages, waggons, or
locomotives

8 0 12f.
8 0 45f.

Description of Articles.

Chains and chain cables .. 10 0
Tools in pure iron with or
without handles .. .. 12 0
Tubes of wrought iron, sim-
ply welded, of 9 millime-
tres interior diameter or
more •• •• ••
Ditto, ditto, less than 9 milli-
metres, and fittings of
tubes -

10 0 60f.

METALS.

11 0

48f. to
72f.
20 0

.. 25 0

5 0

Tubes in wrought iron,
welded on a mandril, or
lap-wielded .. 25 0
Fish-hooks (for sea fishing)
tinned or not .. .. 50 0
Household articles and other
wares unenumorated :
In wrought or sheet-iron,
polished or painted .. 17 0
Ditto, ditto, enamelled,
varnished, or tinned .. 20 0
STEEL WARES:—TooIs inpure
steel ; files, saws, circular or
straight; scythes, sickles,
and others unenume:ated .. 40 0

20 0

7 0

20 0 240 f,

14 0 Prohi-
-16 0 bited.

8 50

9 50

32 0 96f. to
270 f.

13 0

Needles for sewing, less than
5 centimetres in length.. 200 0 200 0
Ditto, of 5 and more centi- 240 f. to
metres in length 100 0 100 0 96°f•
Fishhooks (for river fish-
ing), blued or not .. 100 0 100 0
Metalic pens (other than
gold or silver ).. 100 0 100 0
Small articles of ornament,
such as beads, purse gar-
niture, brooches, and
thimbles 1.. .. 25 0 20 0 Prohibited.
Household articles and other
wares unenumerated 40 0 32 0 Prohibited.
CUTLERY :-Of every de- 20 p. ct. advulo-
scription . . . . .. rem, reduced to
rein on the Ist
January, 1866
15 p.c. ad vain- Frohtbited.
Surgical
p. C. ad valo- 10 p.c.
Instruments, surgical,
Optical,
optical, and philosophical rem 30 p.c.

240 f.

16 0

280 f.

ness • • ••
Sheet, not exceeding 2 millimetres in
thickness, and wire' including bright
wire for insirnments
Corr.En.—Ore, filings, and old broken

22 0

ari ivies • • • • • • • •
Ditto, and brass smelled, in pigs, bars

or plates.. .. v '
Rolled or beaten into bars or sheets
Wire of all sizes, whether polished

or not .. • • • • • • • .
Gilt or silvered, beaten, drawn, or
rolled, and wire laid on thread or

Aims, not being implements
of war :—Side arms 40 0 40 0
Firearms 240 0 240 0
SUNDRY METALS.
Tools of iron tipped w ith steel,
with or without handles 18 0
Articles made partly of cast
and partly of wrought iron,
not polished, if the weight
ofiwrought iron is less than
half the total weight • •
Ditto, if half or more than
half the total weight .. 10 0
Ditto polished, enamelled, or
japanned, and with orna-
mental adjuncts in iron,
copper, brass, or steel .. 15 0
Wire gauze of iron and steel 15 0

480 f.
240 f.

silk . • • • • • • .
ZINC. Ore, crude, calcined, or
pounded, filings, and old broken
articles • •
In pigs, bars, or plates
Rolled • • • • • • • •
LEAD.—Ore and dross of all sorts,
filings and old broken articles
In pigs, bars, or plates • • • •
Rolled or sheet, alloyed with anti-
mony, in pig, and type, and old..
TlN.—Ore and metal in pigs, bars, or
plates, filings and old broken articles
Alloyed with antimony (Britannia

15 0

1501.

5 0

4 50 Prohibited.

8 0 Prohibited.

_
metal) in ingots ..
Pure metal or aUoyed, beaten or rolled

12 0 Prohibited.
10 0 901. and
1804

[ties. Former
Duties. (A d-
din g the two
decim es.)
100 kill.
Engraved
15 p. c.
ad val. ;
not en-
graved,
probib.
Gauze,
ISOf. ;
all others
prohibi-
ted.