The San Francisco call., 1897-03-16
IMPORTANT 10 CALIFORNIA.
Frait and Other Schedules In the Ding
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Fruit and Other Schedules in the Ding
ley Tariff Bill.
WASHINGTON, d. c., March 15.-The
following provisions of the Dingley tariff
bill are of special Importance to Cali
fornians:
Apples, green or ripe. 25 cents per bushel;
apples, peaches and other edible fruits, In
Guiding berries. when dried, desiccated. evap-
Grated or prepared in any manner not special
ly provided for in this act, 2 cents per pound !;
berries, edible, in their natural condition, /
cent per quart; comfits, sweetmeats and fruits
preserved in sugar or molasses or in their own
juices; or in spirits, when not containing over
S per cent of alcohol, and not specially pro-
vided for in this act, and jeliies of all kinds,
80 per cent ad valorem; figs, plums, prunes,
raisins and other dried grapes, 212 cents per
pound; dates and currants, Zante or other,
IA cents per pound; olives, green or
prepared, In bottles, jars, or similar packages
25 cents per gallon, in casks or otherwise than
in bottles. jars or similar packages, Is cents
per gallon: grapes and peaches. l cent per
pound: oranges, lemons, lines, grape fruit,
shaddocks or pomelos, three fourths of
cent per pound, and in addition thereto 80 per
cent ad valorem on the boxes, barrels or other
articles containing any of the foregoing |;
orange peel, lemon peel and citron or citron
peel, preserved or candied, and deslccated CO.
coanut. 2 cents per pound; pineapples, cents
per pound; nuts, almonds not shelled, cents
per pound; clear almonds and shelled, z cents
per pound; filberts and walnuts of all kinds,
not shelIed, cents per pound, shelled cents
per pound; peanuts or ground beans. un-
shelled, cent per pound, shelled ~ cents
per pound; nuts of all kinds, shelled or I'M
shelied, not specially provided for in this act,
~ cents per pound.
Borax crude, or borate of soda. or borate OF
lime, 2 cents per pound; refined borax, 8
cents; olive oil not specially provided for in
this act, so cents per gallon; seal, herrin g,
whale and other fish oils not specially pro-
vided for in this act, cents per gallon.
Opium, crude or unmanufactured and not
adulterated, tanning 8 per centum aud
over Of morphia, 81 per pound: morphia or
morphine, sulphate of and all alkaloids or
salts of opium, 81 per ounce; aqueous extract
OF opium for medicinal uses and tincture OF,
as laudanum and other liquid preparations of
opium not specially provided for il this act,
40 per centum ad valorcm; opium contain: ng
less than per centum of morphia, and opium
prepared for smoking, So per pound (but
opium prepared for smoking and other pre-
parations of opium deposited in bonded ware
houses shall not be removed therefrom with
out pay ment of duties and such duties shall
not be refunded); quicksilver, 10 cents per
pound; TASKS, 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.
Msckerel, salmon and halibut, fresh, picked,
salted, smoked, dried, frozen, packed In ice or
otherwise prepared for preservation and fish
skinned or boned, III cents per pound; pad
ding cotton, gunny cloth, similar fabrics, suit
able for covering cotton, composed of single
yarns made of jute, jute butts or hemp not
bleached, dyed, coIored, stained. painted or
printed, not exceeding sixteen threads to the
square inch, ting the warp and filing,
and Weighing not less than fifteen ounces per
square yard, one-half OF cent per square yard
and 10 per centum ad valorem.
Coal, bituminous and shale, IS cents per