The new North-west., 1897-03-19

otHCt lllAC WoulS VI lLHSliSH DlUOu, Hdl
Of the Angora goat, alpaca and like ami
mails.
I Glass 3-Donskoi, native South Amori
can, Cordova, Valparaiso, native Smyrn
and Russian camels' hair and woods O
Hike character as have been imported int
the United States from Turkey, Greece
Syria and elsewhere, excepting improv
ed woods hereinafter provided for.
The Duties.
The duties fixed are: class /. II cent
per pound; class 2, IL cents; class 3, OF
woods valued at 13 cents or less pei
pound. including charges, and on com
mon goat hair, so per cent advalorem
valued at more than 13 cents per pound
81 cents advalorem. Standard samples o
wool deposited in the principal custom
houses are to be the standards for class.
ification, and the secretary is authorized
to renew the standard from time to time
in his judgment.
Wools of class 8, improved from their
present character by a mixture of me-
1ino or English blood, shall be classified
as class l or 2. Woods of the first class
| imported washed shall pay double duty,
and wools of the first and second classes,
imported secured treble duty
| UnWashed Wools shall be considered
such as shall have been shorn from sheep
| without any cleansing; washed woods
such as have been washed with water
only on the sleeps back or on the skin.
! Wool washed in any other manner shall
be considered secured. Woods of classes
/ and 2 imported in any other than ordi-
| nary condition, or sorted, or increased in
Vaiue by the rejection of any part of the
original fleece, shall pay double duty, but
skrted woods imported in 1890 and before
| are excepted. The duty upon wool
changed IN character or condition for
evading duty, or reduced in value hy ad-
| mix turG of dirt ut her ion ,bSt,
shall be twice doubled. The duty on wools
on which the duty is assessed amounting
to three times or more than If unwashed
shall not be doubled on account of it's be-
ing sorted. If any bale or package of
wool or hair, claimed by the importer to
be dutiable as of any specified class con-
tains any wool subject to a higher duty
than the class specified the whole bah, 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 package be claimed by the inn
porters to be shoddy, mungo, flocks wool
hair or other material of any class speci-
fled, and such bale contain any mixture
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
Wools on the skin shall pay the same
rate as other woods. The duties on nols
shoddy, top waste, slubbing waste row
ing waste ring waste, yarn waste, garnet
ted waste and all other wastes composed
wholly or in part of wool, 80 cents per
pound; on woolen rags, mungo and focl1s,
10 cents per pound.
Manufactured wooIs.
Wool and hair in the form of roping,
rowing or tops, and all of which have been
advanced in any manner or by any proc
ess of manufacture beyond the washed CT
secured condition, not specially provided
for in this act shall be subject to the
same duties as are imposed upon manu-
tactures of wool not specially provided
for.
In ropings and yarns made wholly or in
part of wool valued at not more than 90
cents peg pound, the duty shall be two
and half times the duty on one pound
OF unwashed wool of the first class; val
ued at more than 80 cents and not more
than 40 cents, three times the duty of un
washed woods of the first class; valued at
more than 40 cents, three and half times;
and upon all above, additional duties shall
be imposed as follows: On rovings, rop-
lnes and yarns wholly or in part of wool,
a1td not advanced beyond the condition of
si1i&le yarn by grouping or twisting two
CT i1sATe single rovings, roping, strands or
yarns together, the duty shall be Is cents
Per pound on all numbers up to and in
Guiding No 80; on all numbers finer than
NO. 30, IS cents, and in addition three
tenths of cent for each number in ex-
cess of 30. Ii advanced beyond the condi-
ton of a single yarn, the additional duty
shall be 1S cents on numbers finer than 50
and not finer than so, and three tenths of
d cent additional for each number of ex
cess of 30; on numbers finer than SO, IL
cents, and four-tenths of a cent for each
number exceeding 80.
On rovings, rope and yarns, bleacned, !
keyed, stained or printed in whole or in
part, cents per pound in addition to the
foregoing; and on genapped yarns, bleach- |
ed, keyed or stained or printed, in whole |
or in part, cents per pound shall be i'm
posed in addition to all the foregoing du-
ties. The numbers of rovings, ropings
and yarns shall be determined by the
number of hanks of 160 yards of single |
yarns or strands in a pound.
On Manufactured Goods.
The following schedule of mixed specific
and ad valorem duties on manufactured
goods has been revised. On clothes, knit |
fabrics not provided for in this act, and |
all manufactures of every description, |
wholly or in part of WOOL not specially |
provided for, valued at not more than 80 |
cents per pound, the duty shall be three |
times the duty on washed wool of the |
first class; more than 80 cents and not |
more than 40, three and a half times; |
ditional on all the foregoing following du- |
ties: valued at not more than so cents per |
pound, cents; more than 80 and not more |
than 40 cents, s cents; more than 40 and |
not more than so cents, Is cents: more |
than so and not more than 20 cents, q |
cents; more than so cents per pound, q |
cents, and in addition s cents per pound |
for every 20 cents per pound of value in |
excess of 10 cents per pound; and in adj |
dition to the foregoing, on all articles
mentioned In this paragraph, 20 per cent |
ad vaiOrem.
On blankets and fannels for underwear,
composed wholly or In part of WOOL val |
ued at not more than 80 cents per pound, |
the duty shall be the same as on one |
pound and one half of unWashed wool |
of the first class, and in addition cents
per pound and Is per centum ad valorem.
On women's and children's dresses, coat |
Innings, Italian clothes and goods of sim
liar character, valued at not exceeding Is
cents per square yard, cents per square
yard.
Clothing, ready made, and articles of |
wearing apparel, including shaWls and
knitted underwear not specially provided |
for, plushes and other pile fabrics, a duty |
four and a half times that On unwashed |
wool of the first class and go cents ad |
cloaks, jackets, talmans, uls-
ters, other outside garments for Ia
dies and children's apparel, four and |
times the duty on unWashed |
wool of the first class and 60 per cent ad
Valorem.
Administer, moquette and chenille car
figured or OlaiD c1rOptS woven |