The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-28

Plants, trees, shrubs and vines of all
kinds commonly known as nursery stock.
Plaster of Paris and sulpate OF lime,
unground.
Plows, tooland disc harrows, harvesters,
reapers, drills, mowers, horse rakes, culti-
vators, threhsing machines, cotton gins.
Plush, black (known commercially as
hatter's plush) composed of silk, or silk
and cotton, used exclusively for making
mems hats.
Professional books, implements, in
struments, tools of trade, occupation or
employment, in his actual possession at
the time of the person arriving in the
United States, this exemption not to be
construed to include machinery or other
articles, imported for use in manu-
featuring establishment, OF by any other
person or persons, or for sale.
Rags, not otherwise specially nrovided
for.
Salt in bulk. In bags, Sacks barrels or
other packages or covering, they shall
pay the same rate of duty as if i'm
ported separately, provided, that if salt
IS imported from any country which i'm
poses duty upon salt exported from the
United States, then there shall be levied
rate of duty not provided by law.
Saurkraut, sausage skins
Sugar beet, mangel, wurtzel, sorghum or
sugar cane for seed and all flower and
grass seeds, bulbs and bulbous roots,
not edible.
Shrimps and other shell fish.
Spurs and stilts used in the manu-
facture of earthen. porcelain and stone
ware.
Straw.
Stone and sand, burr stone in blocks,
rough or manufactured, bound up into
milestone; cliff. stone, ::unmanufactured; !;
tree stone; granite; sandstone; lime
stone and other building or monumental
stone, except marble, unmanufactured
or undressed. not specially provided for
in this act pumice stone and rotten
stone, crude or manufactured.
Sugars, all not above sixteen Dutch
standard in color; all tank bottoms; all
sugar DRAWINGS and sugar sweepings;
syrups OF cane juice. me1ada and con-
centrated melada; concrete and concen-
! trated molasses.
=. Tallow and wool grease,ss including
that known commercially as egras or
brown wool grease
Tin ore, cassiterite or black oxide of
tin; tin in bars, blocks, pigs or grain
or granulated.
Logs. round and unmanufactured tim
Der, not especially enumerated or pro-
vided for in this act; frewood, handle
| bolts, heading bolts, stave bolts and
shingle bolts; hop poles; fence posts;
railroad ties; ship timber and ship
planking, not specially provided for in
this act; timber, hewn and sawed; tim
Der, used for spars and in building
wharves; timber, squared or sided;
sawed boards. plank. deals and other
lumber; pine and spruce clapboards;
hubs for wheels, posts, lat blocks, wagon
blocks. oar blocks. gun blocks, heading
and all like blocks or sticks rough
heWed or sawed only; laths, pickets and
palings; shingles, slaves of wood of all
kinds; wood, manufactured, provided
that if any export duty is laid
upon the above mentioned articles.
OF either of them, all the said articles
imported from said countries shall be
subject to duty as now provided by law;
chair cane or reeds, wrought or manu-
factured from rattans or reeds; the fol-
lowing woods, cedar, lignum vitae, lance
wood, ebony, box, granadilla, mahogany,
rosewood, satinwood, and all forms of
cabinet woods, in the log, rough or
hewn; bamboo and rattan, unmanufac-
tured; briar root or briarwood, and SINH
lar wood unmanufactured, or not further
manufactured than to be cut into blocks
suitable for the articles into which they
are intended to be converted.
All wool of sheep; all wool and hair on
the skin; yarn waste, card waste and
bur waste; rags and flocl1s,. including all
waste or rags composed wholly or in
part of WOOL
Farm and Dairy Products
Duties are imposed as follows, in cases
where comparison is made the figures
first given being those of the bill and
the figures in parentheses following
those of the existing law. In many cases
the bill imposes only ad valorem duties
while the existing law provides both
specific and ad valorem, making COM
parison lmpracticable.
Butter and its substitutes, cents per
pound, (6 cents); cheese, 25 per cent, (6
cents pound) milk, preserved or con-
densed, 20 per cent, q cents pound);
beans, peas, mushrooms, other vegeta-
bles prepared or preserved in tin Jars,
bottles or otherwise, including pickles
and sauces of all kinds, 80 per cent, (4O
per cent?.
Hay. So a on,i(S4).
Onions, 20 cents bushel, 10 cents):
peas, dried, 20 cents bushel, go cents);
split peas, so cents bushels of go
pounds. 80 cents); peas in cartons, pa
pers and other small packages, cent
pound, Il cent?.
Potatoes, 10 cents a bushel of go
pounds, (25 cents).
Vegetables in their natural state, not
specially provided for. 10 per cent, (25
per cent?.
Anchovies, sardines and other fish
packed in OIL 80 per centum.
Fish, smoked or dried. salted, picked.
or otherwise prepared, three-fourths of
one cent per pound Zone cent) herrings,
picked, frozen or salted; fish, frozen or
packed in ice for preservation, half of
one cent a pound; (herfing, 1-2 cent;
fish, "a cent?; fish in cans or packages,
except anchovies and sardines, and fish
packed in other manner not specially
enumerated, 25 per cent go per cent?.
Grapes, plums, prunes, 20 per cent;
(grapes, 60 cents a Darrell; plums and
prumes cents pound); fruits preserv-
ed in sugar, syrup, molasses or spirits,
and jellies Of all kinds, 80 per centum (35
per cent?; fruits preserved in their own
juices, 20 per centum go per cent).
Walnuts of all kinds, not shelled, 2
cents a pound q cents; } shelled, cents a
pound Is cents); nuts of all kinds, shelled
or unShelled. not specially provided for