The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-05-06
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anu reIuse scraps, clippings, cuttings
ana sweepings of tobacco, tax of
| cents per pound.
| Section 1894 of of the Revised Stat.
utes is amended to read as follows.
| Upon cigars which shall be manufac.
tured or sold or removed for CONSUMPTION
or sale, there shall be assessed and COL
iected the following taxes, to be paid
Dy the manufacturer thereof, on cigars
OF all descriptions made of tobacco or
any substitute therefor, So per 1000: ON
cigarettes weighing not more than three
pounds per 1000, 81 per 1000; on cigar
ettes weighing more than three pounds
per 1000, $3 per 1000"
The cutlery paragraph is entirely
| stricken out and substitute added as
Pen knives, clasp knives. pruning
KNIVES, erasers, manicure knives, valued
ut not more than 40 cents per dozen, 40
per cent ad valOrem; valued at more
than 40 cents per dozen, cent per. niece
ana ~ per cent ad valorem; valued at
more than % cents, cents each and 40
per cent ad valorem; valued at more than
Sl.JO per dozen, 10 cents per niece and
~ per cent ad valorem; valued at more
| than w per dozen, 20 cents per niece md
~ per cent ad valorem. Razor blades
ana raz0rs valued at not more than 81 no
per dozen, 90 cents per dozen and III ner
cent ad valorem; valued at more than
80 per dozen, % cents per dozen and
70 per cent ad valorem. The classified.
ton in regard to files, rasps. etc is
somewhat changed, and these articles
when TWO and half inches in length
ana under are made dutiable Mt 70 cents
per dozen If exceeding that length and
not exceeding 1-2 inches in length 50
cents per dozen; over four inches. *
cents; over seven inches, 81 per dozen
instead OF 6O cents, as in the house bill
me mouse duty of 3 cents per square
yard ana ~ per cent on cloth of cotton or
otntr ot e;I,. Vegeta3le hbre with an admixture
Oh SIX, Is replaced by more specific mar
agraph putting the same rate on sclotb
composed of cotton or other vegetable
ilbre, silk, whether known as silk. strinnd
sleeve Innings. silk stripes or otherwise. ;,
ana 1t is provided that no such cloth shall
pay less than 80 per cent ad vaorem.
Cotton cloth, filled or coated, is made 3
cents per square yard and 20 per cent.
Ihe duties on pushes velvets, velvet
cen, corduroys, etc, not bleached, color
ed, ETC., are changed from 10 cents and
~ per cent to cents and % per cent
per square yard; bleached, dyed. etc.
from IA cents and 20 per cent TO ii
cents and 70 per cent. 1t is provided by
the senate bill that none of the fabrics of
the plush and corduroy class shall nav n
less rate than AZ IL per cent ad valorem.
Senate rates for stockings, hose and
half hose range from 80 cents to 50 per
dozen. ana 10 per cent ad valorem, ac-
c0rding to value.
knit by hand, finished or unfinished. nre
considerably higher than those provided
by the house bill.
The house rates on marble or onyx,
winch are 90 cents per cubic foot i'm the
rough and $1.10 on the sawed or dress
ed, are very slightly changed.
Freestone. granite, sandstone, lime
stone and other building or monumental
stone, except marble or onyx, unmanu-
factured and undressed, is raised from
lO TO IA cents per cubic foot; heWn,
dressed or polished from 40 to 80 per
cent ad valOrem.
The addition of hides to the dutiable
list made necessary various changes in
the bill concerning leather and articles
made therefrom, the duties ranging from
10 to 20 per cent ad valorem.
The rate on cattle importations is
changed so as to provide for duty of "a
per head on cattle not valued at more
than $40, and SO per head where the
value is greater. The house bill made
a uniform rate of &c.
Rates on rye were generally reduced.
Potatoes are reduced from 25 to 20
cents per bushel; faxseed or linseed from
30 to 25 cents per bushel, and seeds of
all kinds not specifically provided for
from 40 to 25 per cent ad valorem.
There is q, sub-paragraph in regard to
playing cards imposing duty of 20
cents per pack and 20 per cent ad valo-
rem. The house rate was 10 cents per
pack and so per cent.
There are numQrOus chnnQae 0n thQ
provisions in regard to fruits and nuts
Apples, peaches and other edible fruit,
when dried, are reduced from to cent
per bushel. and berries are stricken from
the dutiable list.
Jellies are made duitable at 35 per cent
ad valorem and pineapples, preserved in
their juice, at 25 per cent .ad valorem.
The duty on figs, plums, raisins, prunes
and other dried grapes is reduced is re-
duced from 2 IL cents per pound to 2
cents, and olives in bottles or jars from
% cents to 20 cents per gallon. Grapes
are made duitable at 20 cents per hun
dredweight instead of l cent per pound.
Oranges, lemons and other citrOus fruits
are placed at / cent instead of "a cent,
as provided in the house bill.
Duties on nuts are generally reduced.
The Free List.
The following additions are made TO
the house free list:
BezOic, carbolic, oxalic. salicylic val
erianic acids; all fast black coal tar dyes,
argols or crude tartars and lees, crys-
tails, crude bauxite, manila twine meas
uring 600 feet to the pound, boiling
cloths composed of silk, imported ex-
pressly for milling purposes; books, maps,
music, engravings, photographs, etchipgs
and charts printed more than twenty
years before the date of importation; all
photographic charts and scientific books
devoted to original scientific and literary
associations or publications of individuals
for gratuitOus private circulation and
public documents issued by foreign gov
ernments, books printed exclusively in
foreign languages or for the blind, books,
maps, etc., especially imported, not more
than two copies in one invoice, for the
use of any society or institution estab-
lished for religious, philosophical, educa-
tional, scientific or literary purposes or
for the encouragement of the fine arts
or for the use of any college, school or
public library and not for sale; brass. or
Dutch metal, bromine, crude liquid CT,
phor, unground chicory root, copper M
manufactured and not especially pro
vided for: feerina fashion plates, fish, ex1
cept salmon, caught in the great lakes
or other fresh waters by our citizens;
fruit in brine, tropical fruit, plants for
propagation, white glass enamel for
watch dials homes and keystOues lemon