Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-10-24
sUNDRIEs.

sUNnRIEs.
Brstles, 10 cents pound; 10 cents.
Brushes and brooms, etc, 40 per cent;
25 and 80 per cent
Pearl and shell buttons, 81 cents line,
button measure, and 25 per cent; Is per
cent.
Ivory, bone or horn buttons, 80 per cent;
25 per cent.
Shoe buttons, valued at not exceeding 8
cents a gross | cent a gross; % per cent.
Cork bark, 10 cents pound.
Corks, 10 cents pound; % per cent.
Fire crackers of all kinds mo allowance
for tare), 8 cents pound; 100 per cent
Pawder valued at less than ~ cents a
pound, ) cents; cents.
Friction matches, 10 cents proes box
and cent per 1000 according " siss of
box; 81 per cent.
Undressed feathers, 10 per cent; 25 per
cent.
Glass beads, loose 10per cent; 80 per cent.
Human hair, manufactured, 20 per
cent; 30 per cent.
Crinoline cloth, 8 cents a square yard; 80
per cent.
Hair for mattresses, Is per cent; 25 per
cent.
Beaver hats and fine hat bodies, So per
cent; 90 and 30 per cent.
Jewelry, 80 per cent; p per cent.
Precious stones, set, % per cent; % per
cent.
Betting and sole leather, 10 per cent; Is
per cent.
Leather suitable for conversion into
manufactured articles shall pay duty ac-
cording to articles intended; 30 per cent.
Kid gloves, 81 IS to 50 25 dozen, accord
ing to size; suedes, 80 per cent; leather
gloves, 80 per cent, with from 30 cents to
81 dozen additional, according to style;
provided that all gloves represented to be
below their grade shall pay 50 dozen adj
ditional, and that no gloves shall pay less
than 80 per cent. The old duty on these
gloves was 80 per cent.
Miscellaneous manufactures show gen
eral reduction of about 25 per cent. in the
various rates of duties.
Common tobacco pipes of clay, 10 cents
gross; 80 per cent.
Hatters plush, 10 per cent. IS per cent
Silk and alpaca umbrellas, So per cent;
50 per cent.
Umbrellas, etc, covered with other ma
terial, 45 per cent; 40 per cent.
Sticks for umbrellas, etc, plain, IS per
cent; covered, so per cent; 30 per cent
CHANGES IN THE FREE LIST.
In the free list the following changes are
made:
AninIa. imported for breeding purposes
must be of pure blood of a recognized
breed and duly registered in the book Of
record established for that breed. The old
/ law admitted such animals on proof salts
factory to the secretary of the treasury;
also the teams of persons coming into the
United States from foreign countries.
Wild animals intended for exhibition in
geological collections for scientific and ed
vocational purposes, and not for sale or
profit, are also admitted free.
The provision providing for the return
free of duty of articles of American manu-
facture once sent out of the country is ex-
tended to make its terms more explicit
and to prevent fraud.
Boiling cloths to come in free must not
be suitable for manufacture into wearing
apparel
Straw braids, etc, for E.-.Aing or orna-
menting hats and bonnets dutiable at 20
per cent. are added.
Cotton waste, or flocks, is made free.
Precious stones other than diamonds,
rough or uncut, GLACIERS and engravers'
diamonds not set, and watch jewels are in
cluded.
Free eggs are limited to those of birds,
fish and insects.
Fashion plates engraved on cotton are
made free.
The provision about fish which stands
in the old law, Fresh for immediate con.
SUMPTION" reads, Fish, the product OF
American fisheries, and fresh or frozen fish
Excepting salmon) caught in fresh waters
bv American vessels or with nets or Other
devices owned by citizens of the United
States"
The following are added to the free list
Currants, dates, jute, jute butts, ssa
grass, sum, other textile grasses, unman
!. ufactured grease, sour orange juice, paper
stock and other waste, phosphate for Other
than fertilizing purposes, potash; seeds ant
dubious roots, not edible: sugars under
J No. 16 Dutch standard, and all forms OF
, sugar and molasses below that grade; tai
and pitch, tobacco stems, turpentine
nickel aud nickel matte, with this proviso
| That ores of nickel and nickel matte, con
tanning more than 10 per cent. of copper
| shall pay duty of 4 cent pound on thu
! copper contained therein.
The following provisos are inserted re
! speeding the subjects named The tern
! periodicals" shall be understood to EN-
brace only unbound or paper covered pub
I LEGATIONS, containing current literature o
the day and issued regularly at stated peri
4 DDS, AS weekly, monthly or quarterly.
q The term "regalia' shall be held to EN-
+, brace only such insignia of rank or Office
or emblems as may be worn upon the per
{ son or borne in the hand during public eX
ercises of the society or institution, an'
shall not include articles of furniture o
. fixtures, or of regular wearing ap
parel not personal property of individu
ais. There are numerous restriction
a made in the list combining the article
named to their unmanufactured stat
. in order to enable them to come with
in the law. All raw or unmanufacture'
II articles not named in the act shall pay
duty of 10 per cent. All manufactured al
8 ticles, 20 per cent.
In nearly all the cases of change from
,. ad valorem to specific duties the change i
a an increase as the article has declined il
price since the first duty was placed on il
r Many ingenious calculations have beel
made as to the proportion of total import
!. which come in free under the McKinle
hill Soma nlacinu the amount HIGH a