The times., 1897-03-16


rope, waste bagging, and poplar or
other woods; parchment and vellum; pearl,
mother of and shells, not sawed cut, pol
| ished or otherwise manufactured or ad-
vanced in value from the natural state.
Personal effects not merchandise of citi-
| zens OF the United States dying In foreign
| countries; pewter and old Britannia metal.
| Phosphates, crude or native.
Plants, trees, shrubs roots, seed cane and
seeds, imported by the Government
Plaster rock, or gypsum, or terra alba,
| crude and not calcined, ground or other
| wise advanced from the natural state.
| Platina, in ingots, bars, sheets and wire.
| Platinum. manufactured and vases, re-
torts ana herapparatus, vessels and parts
thereof composed of platinum for chem
cal use. Plumbago. Potash, crude or
"black salts;;" nitrate OF potash, or salt
peter, crude. sulphate' OF potash, crude
or refined, and muriate of potash. Pula.
Quinia, sulphate of, and all alkaloids or
salts OF chinchona bark.
| Rags, not otherwise specially provided
| for. RenDes, raw or prepared
| Saffron and safflower, and extract of,
! and saffron cake, sago, crude; salacin;
Seeds-Anise, caraway, cdrdamon, cot
|
| hoarhound, mustard, rape, st. Johns
bread, or bene; sugar beet mangel wurzel,
sorghum, or sugar cane, for seed, and all
F.! flower and grass seeds; all the foregoing
not specially provided for.
Salep, or saloup; shotgun barrels, forged,
| rough bored
Silk, raw, or as reeled from the cocoon,
but not doubled, twisted or advanced in
.cfI1y n,a1 cilI
! silkworms' eggs.
Skeletons and other preparations for
anatomy.
Soda, nitrate of, or cubic nitrate and
| chlorate of; sodium:
Specimens of natural history, botany,
ad mineralogy, when imported for cabinets
| or as objects OF science.
Spices -Cassia, cassia vera, and ca ssia
| buds; cinnamon and chips of, cloves and
Glove stems; mace; nuttnegs; pepper, black
| or white; pipemento; all the foregoing
| when unground; ginger-root, unground and
| not preserved or candied.
| Spunk.
Spurs and tilts used in the manufacture
| OF earthen, porcelain aud stoneware.
Stone and saud-Burr stone in blocks,
rough or unmanufactured; cliff stone, un-
manufactured; rotten stone, tripoli and
sand, crude or manufactured. not other
wise provided for in this act.
| Storax or stryax.
strontia, oxide Of and protoxide of
strontian and strOntianite, or mineral
| carbonate of Strontia.
| Sulphur, lac or precipitated, and sulphur
or birthstone, crude, In bulk; sulphur ore
| as pyrites, or sulphur OF iron in It's natural
state, containing In excess of % per cent
| OF sulphur, and sulphur not otherwise pro-
| vided for
Sulphuric acid, which at the temperature
| of 60 degrees Fahrenheit, does not exceed
the specific gravity OF one and three hum
dred and elghthy thousandths, for use in
! manufacturing super phosphate of lime or
! artificial nianures OF any kind, or for any
agricultural purposes: provided, that upon
all sulphuric acid imported from any
country, whether Independent or de-
| pendency, which imposes a duty upon
| sulphuric acid exported from the United
| States, there shall be levied and collected
| a duty OF Ia OF l cent per pound
Tamarinds.
Tar and pitch OF wood.
Tea aud te plants.
| Teeth. natural, or manufactured.
| Terra Japanica.
| Tin ore. cassiterite or black oxide or
| tin, and rim In bars, blocks, pigs, or grain
| or graduated.
| Tobacco stems,
Tonqun, tonqua, or tonka beans.
| Turmuric.
| TurpcntiDe, venice
| Tnrpentne, spirits OF.
Turtles.
Types, old and fit only to be manu-
factured.
Uranium, oxide and salts. |
Vaccine virus
| Valonia.
Verdigris, or subacetate Of copper.
Wax, vegetable or mineral.
| Wearing apparel, articles OF personal
adornment, toilet articles and similar per
| sonal effects of persons arriving in the
| United States. But this exemption shall
| only include such articles as actually ac-
| company and are in the use OF, and as
| are necessary and appropriate for the
| wear and use Of such persons for the i'm
| mediate purposes OF the journey and pres
| ent comfort and convenience, and shall
| not be held to apply TO merchandise or
| articles intended for other persons or for
| sale: and in case the persons thus arriving
are citizens or residents of the United
| States, the articles exempted shall not
| exceed 500 In value, nor shall the eX-
| emption apply to residents of other coun-
| tries entering the United States more
| than once in each year: provided, how
ever, that all the wearing apparel and
other personal effects of residents of the
| United States, so returning, as may have
| been taken by them out of the United
| States to foreign countries and which have
not been advanced in value or improved
| in condition by any process Of labor or
manufacture in such countries, Shall be
admitted free of duty, without regard to
their value, upon their identity being
established under appropriate rules and
! regulations to be prescribed by the Sec
retary of the Treasury.
Whalebone, unmanufactured.
Wood-Logs and round unmanufactured
timber, including pulp wood, firewood,
handle bolts, shingle bolts, gun blocks for
gUnstocks. rough hewn or sawed, hop poles,
fence posts, ship timber and ship plank
ing; all the foregoing not specially pro-
vided for.
Woods, namely-Cedar, lignum- vitae,
lancewood, ebony, box, granadilla, ma
hogany, rosewood, satinwood, and all
forms OF cabinet woods, in the log, rough,
or hewn only; briar root or briaT wood
and similar wood unmanufactured, or not
further advanced than out into blocks suit
able for the articles into which they are
intended to be converted; bamboo, attain,
reeds, India malacca joints, and sticks of
partridge, hair wood, pimento. orange,