Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-12-17

dent Mckinney, before leaving lor TIC
South last Tuesday, signed an execu-
tive order establishing a customs tarlH !
FOR the island OF Cuba, to go into Ell
tect January / next The tariff Is {
based upon the report and recommen-
cations made by Hon. Robert +. Pof-
ter who was sent to Cuba some |
months ago.
The under mentioned articles may
he imported into Cuba except from the
duties stipulated in the tariffs on COM
pliance of the described conditions ana
the formalities established for every
case in the customs ordinances:
Manures. natural; trees, plants ana
moss, in a natural Or fresh state; ma
tional products returning from foreign
eyhibitiens: carriages, trained animals,
portable theatres, panoramas, wax hs-
ures. and similar objects for pubic en-
.rtainment, imported temporarily
provided bond be given; specimens LOT
public museums, schools, etc.; USED
furniture of persons coming to settle
in the island; samples OF felt, wall
paper and tissues; gold in bars, powoer
or coined, also national silver OF
bronzed coins; wearing apparel, toilel
objects. ETC., imported by travellers III
their luggage; plows, hoes, hatchels'
r1achetes. cane knives, ETC., Tor agrl-
cultural purposes, and other agricul-
tural implements not machinery; qul-
rine. hemp, flax, and other vegetaoie
fbres: books. maps and scientific In
s.ruments: coal and coke; mineral
esrbonated or settler waters, and nom
lIcoholic beverages.
Following are export rates OF duty:
Cigarettes in boxes, per 1,OoO, W Genus.
Should wrapper and filler leaves be ex-
norted in the same package, bale or
/hundle. the export duty leviable on
wrapper tobacco shall be collected when
the weight of the latter exceeds IL per
cent of the total weight. Tobacco, CUT
100 kilos. s3.75; other, $3.50; cigars,
mn AZ cents. In the leaf or filled
tobacco. harvested in the province OF
Santiago de Cuba and exported through
the custom houses of Santiago, GlDara
or Manzanillo, 100 kilos, 1920. Tobac-
60. in the leaf for cigar wrappers,
shall be liable to the duty levlaDle on
tobacco in the leaf, with surtax OF
100 per cent.
Following are the duties on Alimen-
sYq Il it, benuerst666dds exce6tt when
otherwise indicated, or by G. W.
gross weight. Poultry and small
game, live or dead, per kilo., s cents;
beef, brine or salt, $3.50; pork, ditto,
$3.50; lard, $3.50; tallow, $500; bacon,
$500; ham, $3.50; jerked beef, 1896;
beef, canned, 500; beef, fresh, $3.50;
mutton, fresh, $3.50; pork, fresh, $500;
butter, $500; cheese, $500; condensed
mil, 10 per cent ad valorem; salt cod
and stock fish, 100 kilos., $500; her.
ring, picFled, $1.00; makerel, picked,
$500; salmon, canned. $500; eggs,
$500; rice, husked or not, $150;
wheat 60 cents; corn, 80 cents; pota-
toes, so cents; rye, 40 cents; barley,
80 cents; oats, 40 cents; wheat flour,
s1.50; rice flour, $500; corn, -four so
cents; oat -four, S1.20; beans, $1.10.
Machinery and apparatus for making
sugar and brandy, G. W., 100 kilos, 10
per cent ad valorem; agricultural ma
chinery and apparatus. G. W., 10 per
cent ad valorem; steam motors, sta
tionary g. W., 20 per cent ad valorem;
marine engines, steam pumps, hydrau
lie, 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,
G. W., 20 per cent ad valorem.
Horses and mares above the standard
height, $40; all others, So; mules, So;
asses, IS; oxen, 81; COWS, 81; bullocks,
calves and heifers, 81; pigs, 81; sheep,
goats and animals, not specifically
mentioned, 81; petroleum and other
mineral oils, refined, etc, 100 kilos &.
W., $4.66 bricks of clay, not glazed, |
for guiding purposes, furnaces, ETC.,
articles Of fire clay e. w, 100 kilos, 80 |
cents; roofing tiles OF clay, not glazed, !
per square, 90 by 10 feet), $3.50.
Books, hound or unbound. and other |
printed matter, 100 kilos, 1925; panos, |
each 40 PEI cent ad valorem: matches /
and clocks each 40 per cent ad val |
prem; sewing machines, G. W., 100 kolis, |
20 per cent ad valorem; wagons and !
carts, 40 per cent ad valorem; alcohol /
and brandy hectoD So; liquors. cog |
nae and othd compound spirits in |
casks (hectoDlS10; in bottle or sfiasks
is; WHISTLES In casks (hectoD IS: |
sparkling wines Qiter) 10 cents: malt |
liquor in casks, l(hectoD S1.65; in bot
ties s1S3; coffes, in bean or ground, |
100 kilos. sl215; cocoa, 100 kilos,
s2o.25; tobacco. in cakes. so-called
"Breva", or carrits, 100 kilos, $1,000;
In poyder or snuff per pound II cents: