The San Francisco call., 1897-03-16
ON The FREE LIST.
Some of the articles Cpon Witch
DUTY Is Placed.

Some or the Artfctes Upon Hhfch No
Duty Is Placed.
WASHINGTON, D. c., March Is. =
Among the articles on the free list of the
tariff are the following:
Any nimal imported specially for breeding
purposes shall be admitted free, provided
that no such animal shall be admitted
free unless pure breed of a recognized
breed and duly registered in the book
OF record established for that breed:
snimals brought int the United States tenn
porarily for period of six months, for the
purpose of exhibition or competition for
prizes offered by any Agricultural or racing
association (but bond shall be given
in accordance with regulations presc scribed
by the Secretary of the Treasury);' also
teams of animals, including their harness and
tackle and the wagons or other vehicles
actually owned by persons emfgrating from
foreign countries to the United States with
their families, and in actual use for the pur-
pose OF such emigration under such regula-
tions as the Secretary of the Trea,ur may
prescribe, aud wild animals intended for ex-
hibition in geological collections for scien-
tific and educational purposes and not for
sale or profit; articles in a crude state,
used in dyeing and tanning, not
specially provided for; when manufactured
tobacco which has been exported without
payment of Internal revenue tax shall be re-
imported it shall be retained in the custody
OF the Collector of Customs until internal
revenue stamps in payment of the legal duties
shall be placed thereon; asbestos, in its
natural state as taken from the earth, not
sorted, purified or advanced in any manner !;
asphaltum and a!bumen, crude, not dried or
advanced in any manner.
Binding twine, except such as is imported
from country which lays an import duty on
like articles imported from the United States,
which shall be subject TO duty OF one-half of
one cent per pound: bullion. gold or silver
Camphor. crude; castor oil, castoreum coal,
anthracite and coal stores of American vessels /;
coal tar, crude and pitch of coal tar and dead
or creosote oil; cocoa or cocoa crude; coffee;
coins, gold, silver or copper; cotton and cotton
waste.
Diamonds and other precious stones, rough
or uncut; drugs.
Fruits; furs, undressed furs, skins.
Grasses and fibers, jute, butts, MANILA sisal
grass, sum and all other textile grasses or
fibrons vegetable substances, not dressed, not
specially provided for.
Hides, raw or uncured, wheth dry, salted
or pickled angora goat skins, raw, without
the wool unmanufactured; asses skins, raw
or unmanufactured. and skins excep. sheep
skins with the wool; hoofs. unmanufactured
wise manufactured; horn strips and tips.
Ice; indiarubber, crude and milk of, and old
scraps refuse rubber; ivory tusks, sawed
vertically across the grain, with cuts not less
than four inches apart and not otherwise cut
or manufactured or advanced in value from
the natural state, and vegetable ivory.
Lithographic stones, not engraved.
Meerschaum, crude or unmanufactured
mineral, crude or not advanced in value or
condition by refining or grinding, or by other
process OF manufacture not specially provided
for
Needles. hand sewing and darning; news
papers and periodicals, the latter meaning
unbound or paDer-covered publications, con-
tanning current literature and issued mt
periods; nuts, Brazil nuts, creamnuts, palm
nuts and palmnut kernels; coeoanuts in the
shell and broken cocoanut meat or copra, not
shredded, desiccated or prepared In any
manner.
Ores of gold, silver, copper or nickel and
nickel matter: sweepings of gold and silver.
Paper stock. crude, of every description, in-
Guiding all grasses, fibers, rags other than
wool, waste shavings, clippings, old
paper, rome ends, waste rope, waste
bagging and poplar or other woods,
parchment and vellum; pearl, mother OF, and
shells not sawed, cut, polished or otherwise
Manufactured or advanced in value from the
crude state; plants. trees, shrubbery, roots,
seed cane and seeds imported by the Govern
ment.
Silk. raw or as fromthe cocoon, but not
dou bled. twisted or advanced in manufacture;
silk cocoons and silk waste; sulphur, lacor
precipitsted or sulphur or birthstone crude in