Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-03-18

on stockings fashioned and shaped
wholly or in part on knitting machines"
CHANGES IN PAPER RATES.
Changes in the paper schedule. which
include those recommended by the sps-
c;al committee on wood pulp and print
paper investigation, are:
Surface coated papers, covered with
metal, from three cents and 20 per
centum to five cents and 20 per centum
cd valorem; other surface coated paper.
from two and one-half cents per pound
and Is per centum ad valorem to five
cents per pound.
photographic prints. from six cents
Ter pound to eight cents; cardboard.
from 20 cents to Is cents per pound !;
other paper, 20 cents to % cents per
pound with small increases on various
sizes of other papers. photographic cigar
labels from 20 cents per pound to 80 cents
rer pound; printed In colors less than
eight from 20 cents to 30 cents per pound.
more than eight. from 30 cents to 81 IL
cents per pound. printed in metal leaf.
from 20 cents per pound to g., 1-2 cents
PER pound; paper hangings. from 70 per
oentum to 30 per centum ad valoreni;
PAPER not specially provided for, from 20
per centum to S5 per centum ad valoren.
plain paper envelopes, from 20 per
oentum to 30 per centum ad valorem.
1.-THE recommendations Of the select
committee were to permit the free entry
&C mechanically ground wood pulp from
any country not imposing export duty
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not above two and one-fourth cents per
pound, from three-tenths TO one-tenth
Of one cent per pound; valued not above
two and one-half cents pound. from
four-tenths to two-tenths of one cent per
pound
REDUCTIONS ON CHEMICALS.
The reductions in duty are much more
numerous than the increases. In the
schedule on chemicals oils and paints
they are:
Boracic acid. borax from FIVE cents to
two cents per pound; reductions of two
cents per pound are made on gallic and
tartaric acids. borate OF lime. Reduc-
lions of so per cent are made in the
duty on salicylic acid. chloroform. fruit
others. oils or essences: peppermint OIL
whiting and paris white, dry: bichromate
and chromate of potash and santonin."
Other material reductions made in the
chemicals schedule are:
Borate of lime and other borate mater
ial is reduced from four cents to one
cent per pound according to the per
centage of anhydrous boracic acid
contained.
"Sulphuric others are reduced to eight
cents per pound; spirits of nitrous ether
to twenty cents per pound.
'Iodoform from 81 to 70 cents per
pound. Flaxseed. lnseed and poppyseed
oil reduced to Ii cents per gallon.
"Varnshes reduced from So to % per
centum ad valorem and spirit varnish
and from s1.S2 per gallon and So per GEN.
tum to 20 per centum ad valorem.
"Lead-Acetate Of. white. from three
and one-fourth cents to two and seven
eighths cents per pound: brown. gray or
yellow. from two and one-fourth cents
to one and seven-eighths cents
per pound; nitrate of. from two
and one-half cents to two and
one eighth cents per pound: litharge
from two and three-fourth cents to two
and one-fourth cents per pound.
Potash: Chlorate Of from two and
one half cents to two cents per pound
'Plasters, healing. etc. from IS per
centum to % per centum ad valorem.
"Hydrate of. or caustic soda, from three
fourths of one cent to one nalf cent per
pound; nitrate Of soda from two and
one half cents to two cents per pound;
hyposulphite of soda from one half OF
one cent per pound to 80 per centum
ad valorem.
"Sulphate Of soda. or salt cake, or
inter cake. from s1.25 per ton to 81.
"Sponges and manufactures Of, from a
per centum to 30 per centum ad yalorem.
"Strychnia or strychnine. from 30 cents
to Is cents per ounce.
Sulphur refined or sublimed, OF
flowers of. from 50 per ton to Is per ton.
"Vanillin. from so cents per ounce to
Is cents per ounce"
PLACED ON FREE LIST.
Articles In this schedule that are placed
on the free list are: Sulphate Of am
nonia; copperas, licorice; cottonseed oil
and oroton oil.
Continuing, the statement gives the
following important reductions in tho
other schedules:
Schedule on earths and earthenware:
Fire brick and other brick II glazec
and enameled. from As per centum to 8
Ger centum ad valorem.
Plaster rock or gypsum. crude, from
&c cents to 40 cents per ton; If grount
OF calcined. from s2.35 to SITS per ton.
DUTIES ON GLASS
unpublished. cylinder. crown and com
mon window glass above "A by 80 inche.
square. reduced one-eighth of cent pc
pound on all sizes; cylinder and crown
glass above "a by 90 and not exceeding
Is by 60 inches square, reduced from i
cents to u cents per square foot: size,
above that from 20 cents to 10 cents pc
square foot.
onyx In block. from sl.25 cubic foo
to 81 per cubic foot.
Cast polished glass. silvered exceeding
"a by 80 inches % cents per square foo,
which Is a reduction on most sizes from
IS to Is cents per square foot.
Mosaic cubes of marble. onyx, oil
stone, not exceeding two cubic inches /,
size; II loose. from one cent per poun,
TO one half cent and same ad vaorem; /
attached to paper or other material from
% cents to 10 cents and same ad valorem
"Freestone and other building o
monumental stone, except marble AM
onyx, manufactured. from Z cents L
six cents per cubic foot.
mica, cut or trimmed, from ~ cent
per pound and 20 per centum ad valorem
manufactured, from six cents pc
pound and 20 per centum ad valoren
and nn'-1 cut or trimmed. from ~ cent