The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-30

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None of the foregoing woven fab
RIGS less than. 90 q
Woven fabrics of flax. hemp or
ramie, or in which they are
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 Observation-Disclosures. oopc % p G
All such manufactures of flax,
hemp, ramie or other vegetable
fiber or in which they are
chief value, not provided for. 45pc 35 @
SCHEDULE K.-Wool and Manufactures
of Wool.
All woods, hair of 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 OF metis woods, or other woods of merino
blood, immediate or remote, down clothing
woods and woods of like character with any of
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 combinP "A Il o.
English blood, and usually known by ,crms
herein used, and also hair of the camel, IN
CORA goat, alpaca and other like anmuls
Glass 3-that is to say, Donslloi, native
South American, Cordova, Valparaiso, native
Smyrna, Russian camel's hair, and all such
woods of like character as have been hereto
nsua1ly- ip,nortaI into fha Trpitp1
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
fication 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 may be required
and III shall cause to be deposited like stand
ards in other custom houses of the United
States when they may be needed.
Whenever woods of class shall have
been improved by the admixture of merino or
English blood from their present character, as
represented by the standard samples now or
hereafter to he 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 woods of the first class which
shall be imported washed shall be twice the
amount of the duty to which they would be
subjected IL 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, or which shall
not contain more than per cent of dirt or
other foreign substance, shall be three times
the duty to which they would otherwise be
subjected.
Unwashed wools 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
Its character or condition for the purpose of
evading the duty, or which shall be reduced in
value 10y the admixture of dirt or any other
foreign substances, shall be twice the duty to
which IL would be otherwise subject.
When the duty assessed upon any wool EQUALS
three times or more that which would be as
sessed IL 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 any
wool or hair subject to higher rate Of duty
than the class 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 II
any bale or package be claimed by the i'm
porter to be shoddy, mungo fiocks 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 lib Free
Woods and hair Of the second
Class. Observation-Disclosures. 10 Free
Woods of the third class and
camel hair Of the class valued
at l2c or less. ...........,.. Dc Free
Woods of tho third class and
camels hair of the third class
valued above l2c. ....... 20 Free
(The duty on woods on the skin
shall be lc less per Id than is
imposed on other woods of the
same class)
Top waste stubbing waste, row
ing waste, ring waste and gar
heted waste. ................... Doc Id Free
Snouuy' '.'''...... ............. 25c l5c
Noils, wool extract, yarn waste,
thread waste and all waste
wholly or part of wool not
provided for.. ................... zoo Free
Mooieh rags, mungo and locks loo 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
3Oc per ID. ...................,. 27l&o m N =