The age-herald., 1898-12-17
CUBAN CUSTOMS
 TARIFF SCHEDULE President Mckinley Has Signed
 the Executive Order. IS BASED UPON THE REPORT Made by R. P. Porter, Who Was Ap- pointed Special Commissioner to
 the Island for Purpose of h.
 vestigating Revenues.
IS BASED UPON THE REPORT

Washington, December 16.-President Me Kinley, before leaving for the south last Tuesday, signed an executive order estaD- fishing a custom tariff for the island or Cuba, to go into effect January next This tariff is based upon the report and recom- mendations made by Hon. R. P. Porter, spe- eial commissioner, who was sent to Cuoa some months ago for the special purpose oi making an Investigation of the subject or revenues and customs of the island. Fol lowing are some of the important articles that may be imported into Cuba exempt from the duties stipulated in compliance with the prescribed conditions and the formalities established for every case in the customs ordinance:
 Carriages, portable theaters, panoramas and other similar objects for public enter tainment, imported temporarily, provided bond be given; receptacles exported from Cuua with fruits, sugar. honey and brandy and reimported empty; used furniture or persons coming to settle in the island; works of art acquired by the government, academies or other official corporations and intended for museums, galleries or art schools; gold in bars, powder, or coined, also national silver or bronze coins; wearing apparel, toilet objects and articles for per sonal use, bed and table linen, books, port able tools and instruments, theatrical cos tunes, jewels and table services bearing evident trace of having been used imported by travellers in their luggage in quantities proportionate to their class. profession and position; blows, hoes hatchets, machetes, cane knives, etc., for agricultural purposes and other agricultural implements not ma- chinery; spun jute for the manufacture of sugar bags; books, maps and scientific in- struments for the use of schools; coal and coke.
 Mineral carbonated or setzer waters, root beer, ginger ale and other similar non alcoholic beverages, not otherwise provided for.
 Following is the export rate of duty:
 Tobacco cigarettes in boxes. per 1000, 90 cents. Should wrapper and filler leaves be exported in the same package, bale or bun dle the export duty leviable on wrapper to- bacco shall be collected when the weight of the latter exceeds 10 per cent. of the total weight. Tobacco filters, 100 kilos, $3.75 other, s6.30; cigars. per thousand, $1.35. On leaf or filler tobacco, harvested in the prot vince of Santiago and exported through the custom houses of Santiago, Gibara or Man: zanillo, 100 kilos. s2.2O. Tobacco in the leaf for cigar wrappers shall be liable to the duty leviable on tobacco in the leaf with a surtax of 100 per cent.
 Following are the duties on alimentary substances: CWhere articles are sold by weight, net weight of 100 kilograms is to be understood except when otherwise indi- cated or by G. W. Gross weight) Poultry and small game, live or dead, per kilo, cents pork, brine of salt, s2.SO; lard, 2.So; bacon, 40 cents; hams. s5.70; jerked beef, $3.96; beef, canned $5; beef, fresh. $45O; mutton, fresh, $4.50; pork, fresh, s4; butter, S; cheese, s5; eggs, $5. Cereals: Rice, husked or not, $1; wheat, 60 cents corn, 30 cents; barley, 50 cents; oats, 40 cents; wheat flour, $1.50 rice flour, g; corn four 50 cents; oat flour, $1. 20; beans, s1.50.
 Apparatus and machines Machinery and apparatus for making sugar, g. w., 100 kilos, 10 per cent ad valorem; agricultural ma chfney and apparatus, g. w., 10 pc cent. ad valorem; marine engines, steam pumps, hy- draulic, petroleum, gas and hot or com pressed air motors, g w.. 20 per cent ad valorem; sheet iron boilers, g. w., 20 per cent. ad valorem; tubular boilers 20 per cent. ad valorem
 Animals-Horses and mares above the standard height, sl0 all others, $5; Mules, $5; Asses, $5; Oxen, $1; Cows S1; bullock calves and heifers, $1; pigs, $1 sheep, goats and animals not. specifically mentioned. s1.
 Books bound or unbound and other print ed matter, 100 kilos, s7.25
 Pianos, each 40 per cent. ad valorem watches and clocks, each 40 per cent. ad valorem; sewing machines, g. w. 100 kilos. 20 per cent. ad valorem; wagons and carts, 40 per cent. ad valorem; alcohol and bran dy, hectol, s25; liquors with cognac and other compound spirits in casks, hectol, s10; whiskies in casks, hectol $5 sparkling wines, litre, 10 cents: malt liquor in cases, hectol, $1.65: in bottles. $1.S3 coffee in bean or ground, 100 kilos, $12.15; tobacco, in cakes so-called "breva" in carrots 100 kiIos $10.50; in powder or snuff, per pound 12 cents; leaf tobacco, stemmed or unstemmed whether wrapper or filler, per pound s5: cigars cigarettes, cheroots of all kind per pound, A.50 and 25 per cent. ad valorem; paper cigars, cigarettes, $50 and 25 per cent. ad valorem; cotton, unbleached, half bleached or dyed in the piece, kilo, cents: bleached. printed or manufactured with dyed yarns. kiIo, 20 cents; undershirts and drawers of simple finish or rough sewing. kio, 70 cents; undershirts and drawers of double sewing fine finish, kilo 80 cents: stockings socks, gloves and other small articles, if simple finish or rough sewing. per kilo, 70 cents; ditto, of double sewing or fine finish, kilo 90 cents.
 In commenting upon the schedules Mir. Porter says:
 In recommendation of changes of rates fin several schedules of the Cuban tariff now in effect at ports held by the United States,