The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-08-05
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chief value, including such as
is known as shifting cloth,
weighing less than AZ ounces
per square yard and containing
more than 100 threads to square
inch ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 90 p G 90 p
All such manufactures of fax,
hemp, raInie or other vegetable
fiber, or in which they are
chief value, not provided for. 45pc 30 pc
SCHEDULE K.-Wool and Manufactures
of Wool.
All woods, hair CS the camel, goat, alpaca
and other like animals shall be divided, for
the purpose of fixing the duties to be charged
thereon, into the three following classes:
Glass THAT is to say, merino, mestiza,
metz or metis wools or other woods of merino
blood, immediate or remote, down clothing
the preceding, including Bagdad wool, China
lambs wool, Castle Branca, Adrianople skin
wool or butchers wool, and such as have been
heretofore usually imported into the United
States from Buenos Ayres New Zealand, Aus
tralia, Cape of Good Hope, Russia, Great Brit
ain, Canada, Egypt, Marocco and elsewhere,
and also including all woods not hereinafter
described or designated in classes and 8.
Class 2-that is to say, Leicester, Cotswold,
Lincolnshire, down combing woods, Canada
long woods, or other like combing woods of
English blood, and usually known by the terms
CORA goat alpaca and other like animals.
Glass 3-that is to say, Donskoi, native
South American, Cordova, Valparaiso, native
Smyrna, Russian camel's hair, and all such
woods of like character as have been hereto
fore usually imported into the United States
from Turkey, Greece, Syria and elsewhere,
excepting improved woods hereinafter provided
for.
The standard samples Of all woods which are
now or may be hereafter deposited in the prin
cipal custom houses of the United States, I'M
der the authority of the secretary of the
treasury, shall be the standards for the CLASH
fcation of woods under this act, and the Sec
rotary of the treasury is authorized to renew
these standards and to make such additions
to them from time to time as may be required,
and he shall cause to be deposited like stand
ards in ether custom houses of the United
States when they may be needed.
Whenever woods of class shall have
been improved by the adnnixture of merino or
English blood from their present character, as
represented by the standard samples now
hereafter to be deposited in the principal Gus
tom houses of the United States, such improved
woods shall be classified for duty either as
class or as class 2, as the case may be.
The duty on woods of the first class which
shall be imported washed shall be twice the
amount of the duty to which they would be
subjected if imported unwashed, and the duty
on woods of the first and second classes which,
shall be imported secured shall be three times
the duty to which they would be subjected if
imported unwashed. The duty on woods Of the
third class if imported in condition for use in
carding or spinning into yarns which shall
not contain more than s per cent of dirt or
other foreign substance, shall be three times
the duty to which they would otherwise be
subjected
Unwashed woods shall be considered such as
shall have been shOrn from the sheep without
any cleansing-that is, in their natural condi-
ton. Washed woods shall be considered such
as have been washed with water only on the
sleeps back or on the skin. Woods of the first
and second classes washed in any other man
ner than on the sleeps back or on the skin
shall be considered as secured wool.
The duty upon wool of the sheep or hair Of
the camel, Angora goat, alpaca, or other like
animals of class l and class 2, which shall
be imported in any other than ordinary condi
ton, or which has been sorted or increased in
value by the rejection of any part of the orig
inal fleece, shall be twice the duty to which it
would be otherwise subject, provided that
skirted woods, as imported in 1890 and prior
thereto, are hereby excepted.
The duty upon wool Of the sheep or hair Of
the camel, Angora goat, alpaca and other like
animals of any class which shall be changed in
it's character or condition for the purpose OF
evading the duty, or which shall be reduced in
value by the admixture of dirt or any other
foreign substances, shall be twice the duty to
which 1t would be otherwise subject
When the duty assessed upon any wool equals
three times or more that which would be as
sessed if said wool was imported unwashed,
the duty shall not be doubled on account of
the wool being sorted.
If any bale or package of wool or hair speci-
fed in this act, imported as of any specified
class or claimed by the importer to be duti-
able as of any specified class, shall contain amy
wool or hair subject to higher rate of duty
than the class so specified, the whole bale
or package shall be subject to the highest
rate of duty chargeable on wool of the class
subject to such higher rate of duty, and if
any bale or package be claimed by the i'm
porter to be shoddy, mungo focks, wool, hair
or other material of any class specified in this
act, and such bale contain any admixture of
any one or more Of said materials or of any
other material, the whole bale or package shall
be subject to duty at the highest rate imposed
upon any article in said bale or package.
Woods and hair of the first class. lie Id Free
Woods and hair of the second
class. 12c Free
Woods of the third class and
cancels hair of the class valued
at 12c or less. &c Free
Woods of the third class and
cancels hair of the third class
valued above 12c. ........ &c Free
1.-THE duty on woods on the skin
shall be 1c less per lb than is
imposed other woods of the
same class
Top waste, stumbling waste, row
ing waste, ring waste and gar
neted waste. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Soc lb Free
ShOddy. ........... ............. zoe I0c
Noils, wool extract, yarn waste,
thread waste and all waste
wholly or part of wool not
provided for. observation-disclosures. zoe Free |
Wooden rags, mungo and focks. 10c Free
Wool and hair, advanced be-
yond washed or secured condi-
ton, not provided for, shall be
subject to same duties as i'm
posed on manufactures of wool
not specially provided for)
Yarns wholly and in part of
wool valued at not more than
SOC per Ib.. observation-disclosures. 277lc SOP
& 40pc
Valued at more than 85c. ........ 3816c 30 or
&40pc 40pc
Cloths, knit fabrics and all man
ufactures wholly or part Of
wool, not provided for, valued
at not more than 40c per b.. 33c 40c
&50pc
Valued above doc and not above
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