Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1909-04-01

Iron, beams, girders, joists. angles,
etc.; anchors, foreings, hoop, band or
scroll iron or steel, cotton ties, sheets,
ingots, wire, bars or rods, bolts, cast
hollow ware, chains, table cutlery, files,
nails, spikes, tacks, rivets, .crews,
wheels for railway purposes, hooks and
eyes, lead-bearing ores, lead dross bull
lion and lead in pigs, zinc, aluminium,
and various kinds OF machines, such AS
cash registers, printing presses, sewing
machines, typewriters, etc.
Simplicity marks the treatment of
the wood schedule. Rates on timber,
sawed boards, planks, ETC., OF white
wood, sycamore and basswood;all other
sawed lumber, paving posts, railroad
ties, telephone poles, etc., are cut In
half; rates on clapboards are reduced
by one.third. Kindling wood and fence
posts are added to the free list, and
laths are reduced 20 per cent. Refined
sugar is reduced from 95-lO0 cents TO
/ 90-l00 cents per pound. Under the
agricultural products and provisions
schedule, barley is reduced from 80 TO
Is cents per bushel, and barley malt
from As to Is cents. Fresh meats and
lard are reduced from 2 cents to II
cents and bacon and hams from 5 to 4
cents per pound. Tsllow Is put on the
free list, and WOO, grease, dextrin,
starch, except potato starch, aud green
peas are cut In rates. The fax, hemp
and jute schedule shows reductions in
cables and cordage, threads, single
yarns, fax gill nettings, carpets, mats,
ETC.; hydraulic hose, oilcloth, linoleum,
and shirts, collars and cuffs of cotton.
Flax straw and fax not hackled nor
dressed, at l cent pound, are trans
ferred to the free list. In the wool sched-
ule, carpet wools OF the lower grades
are reduced, as are top and rowing
waste, shoddy, woolen rags, mungo and
fiocks.
Printing paper valued at not above
q cents pound Is reduced from three
tenths of cent to one-tenth OF | cent
per pound, and valued at above q
cents pound, and not above 2a cents a
pound from ! OF cent to two.ten tbs q
of l cent per pound. Mechanically
ground wood pulp from one-twetth of q
cent per pound is made exempt from
duty when coming from any country
not imp ,sing IN expert duty, ETC.: on
certain forest products. Bituminous
coal and coke from any country admit
ting American coal free are placed on
the free list. The former now pays 67
cents per ton for coal and the latter 20
per cent. ad valorem. Gunpowder
valued at 20 cents and less per pound
is cut from cents to 2 cents per pound :,
and valued ut over 20 cents, from TO 4
cents per pound, and there are reduc-
tioas on cartridges, blasting caps and
mine and blasting fuse.
Hides Of cattle, now paying Is per
cent. ad valorem, are transferred to
the free list. Band and sole feathers
are reduced from 20 to Is per cent. ad
valorem, and upper leather and calf,
chamois. kangaroo, sheep and goat
skins and other feathers not other wise
provided for are reduced from 20 to Is
per cent. ad valorem. Reductions are
also made on patent leather and piano
foi To leather, leather cut In shoe
uppers and other manufactures OF
leather. Boots and shoes are cut from
Is to Is per cent. ad valorem, and shoe
laces from SO cents per gross and 20 per
cent. ad valorem, to Is per cent, lad valo,
rem.Agricultural implemen,sare reduc.
ed from 20 tolls per cent. .ad valore m, and
provision is made for admitting to the
free list implements coming from
countries admitting American agricul-
tuIsl machinery frse, Works OF art,
including paintings and statuary, more
than 20 years old, are placed on the
free list.
A new paragraph is added TO section
III OF the customs administrative acI
which provides for the method o.
ascertaining market value. This para.
graph provides that the actual marke,
value or wholesale price, rs defined BY
law, OF any imported merchandise
which 10 consigned for sale In The
United States, or which is actual,
sold and freely offered for sale in us,ia
Wholesale quantities in the opel
market OF the country of expectation
to oil purchasers, shall not in any cas-,
be appraised at less than the whole
sale price at whict such or similar i'm
ported merchandise lie actually solt
and freely offered for sale 10 usua
Wholesale quantities in the Unite,
States In the open market to all pur
chasers, due allowance being made 70
estimated duties thereon, cost OF trans
portation, insurance and other neces
sary expenses from the place Of ship
ment TO the place OF delivery, and
reasonable commission not exceedin
10 per cent, If any OF the same ha
been paid.
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