The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-03-02
nache articles. 20 per cent. ad valorem.

ments, 25 per cent. ad valorem. now 35.
Pipes and smokers articles not enumer-
ated 40 per cent. ad valorem. and clay
pipes 25 per cent. ad valorem, now 70
and 35 respectively. Umbrella and par
asol frames and ribs 80 per cent. ad val
orem. and umbrellas of silk or alpaca 80
per cent. ad valorem, now 40 and 80 per
cent, respectively. Cotton or fax
webbing. so per cent. ad valoren. now
30. The remainder of the bill, twenty
five printed pages, is made up entirely of
the leading features of the old Hewitt
bill, such as the similarity clause, the
provisions intended to guard against
smuggling, exemption of theatre
cal scenery and wardrobes when
intended for temporary use in the
United States and tourists wearing
apparel. 1t contains clause provid-
ing for the taxation of cartoons ON COW
erings, section intended to prevent the
filing of false invoices and underyalua-
tions and providing for the punishment
of persons guilty of these offenses, the
extension of the warehouse privilege to
three years, the abolition of allowance
for damage in warehouse. the abolition
of all fees upon entries of imported goods
and recruitment that invoices shall be
submitted to United States consular Off
GERS before expectation to the United
States. A section relative to appeals in
customs cases, and limiting the time
within which such suits can be brought,
bestowing the sole jurisdiction in trials
of suits against United States collectors
upon United States Circuit Courts and
a penalty clause directed against at
tempted bribery of custom officials.
Iron ore is not mentioned In the bill,
and other omissions have been noted
The following is the
FREE LIST,
Timber, hewn and sawed, and timber
used for spats and in building wharves.
and timber squared or sided; wood, un-
manufactured AMI not specially enumer-
afed or provided for; sawed boards.
planks. deals, and all other articles of
sawed lumber; 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; slaves of wood, pickets and palings,
lath, shingles, clapboards, pine or spruce
logs: provided, that if any export duty is
laid on the abeve mentioned articles, or
either of them. by any country whence
imported. all said articles imported from
said country shall be subject to duty as
now provided by law.
Salt in bags. sacks, barrels or other
packages, or in bulk, when imported
from any country which does not charge
an import duty on salt exported from
the United States.
Flax straw, fax dres sed or hacked,
known as dressed line; hemp, MANILA and
other like substitutes for hemp, iute
butts, jute sum; sisal grass and other
vegetable fibres; burlaps not exceeding
sixty inches in width, of flax, iute or
hemp, or of which flax, jute or hemp, or
either of them. shall be the component
material of chief value.
Bagging for cotton or other manufac-
lures not specially enumerated or pro-
vided for in this act, suitable to the uses
for which cotton bagging is applied,
composed in whole or in part of hemp,
jute, jute butts, flax, gunny bags, gunny
cloth, or other material, provided that
as to hemp and flax, jute, jute butts.
sunni and sisal grass, and manufactures
thereof, except burlaps, not exceeding
sixty inches in width and bagging for
cotton, this act shall take effect July /.
1889.
Iron ore, steel sheets or plates, or tag
gers, iron coated with tin or lead, or with
mixture of which these metals are a
component part. by dipping or any other
process, and commercially known as fin
plates, tern plates and taggers tin.
Beeswax, geiatine and all similar prep
arations, glycerine, crude, brown OF
yellow, fish glue or isinglass, phosphorus,
soap stocks, fit only for use as such
soap, hard and soft, all which are not
otherwise specially enumerated or pre-.
vided for; extract of hemlock or Other
bark used for tanning, indigo extracts OF
and carmined, iodine resublimed, licorics
juice; oil-croton, hemp seed and rape
seed oil, fax seed or linseed oil, oil from
cotton seed, petroleum, alumina, alum
| patent alum, alum substitute. sulphatt
of alumina and alum in cake and alum
in crystals or ground, all limitations o.
natural mineral waters, and all artificia
mineral waters; baryta. sulphate of o.
baryta manufactured. boracic acid
borate of lime and borax.
| Cement, Roman, Portland and al
others: whiting and Paris white, sui
phate of copper or blue vitriol. sulphat
of ircn or copperas, potash. crude, car
Donate of, or fused and caustio potash
chlorate of potash and nitrate of potash
or saltpetre crude, sulphate of potash
sulphate of soda, known as salt cake
| crude or refined or nitre cake, crude o
refined and glauber salts, sulphur re
tined in rolls, wood tar, coal tar. crud
anoline oil and its homologues, coal ia
products. such as naphtha, benzine
lead. oil and pitch. All preparations Q
coal tar not eolors or dyes and not acid
of colors or dyes, logwood and othe
dyewoods extracts and decoctions of.
| Spirits tIIrpentine bone black ivf,ry
drop black and bone charcoal, ochre an
ochery earths, lumber and um Der earth:
sienna and sienna earths, when dry
All preparations known as essential oil.
expressed oils, distilled oils, rendere
oils, alkalies. alkaloids. and all conlbin.
tions of any of the foregoing, and chem
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