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SEVENTY-FIRST C ONGRESS . SEss. II . CH. 497. 1930 .

661 children, whether or not also suitable for physical exercise or for mental development . The rates provided for in this paragraph shall apply to articles enumerated or described herein, whether or not more specifically provided for elsewhere in this Act . PAR . 1514 . Emery, corundum, garnet, and artificial abrasives, in grains, or ground, pulverized, refined, or manufactured, 1 cent per pound ; emery wheels, emery files, and manufactures of which emery, corundum, garnet or artificial abrasive is the component material of chief value, not specially provided for ; and all papers, cloths, and combinations of paper and cloth, wholly or partly coated with artificial or natural abrasives, or with a combination of natural and artificial abrasives ; all the foregoing, 20 per centum ad valorem . Any of the foregoing, if containing more than one-tenth of 1 per centum of vanadium, or more than two-tenths of 1 per centum of tungsten, molybdenum, boron, tantalum, columbium or niobium, or uranium, or more than three-tenths of 1 per centum of chromium, 60 per centum ad valorem . PAR . 1515 . Firecrackers more than five-sixteenths of one inch out- side diameter, or more than one and three-quarters inches in length, 25 cents per pound ; all other firecrackers, 8 cents per pound ; bombs, rockets, Roman candles, and fireworks of all descriptions, not specially provided for, 12 cents per pound ; the weight on all the foregoing to include all coverings, wrappings, and packing material . PAR . 1516 . Matches, friction or lucifer, of all descriptions, per gross of one hundred and forty-four boxes, containing not more than one hundred matches per box, 20 cents per gross ; when import ed oth erwise than in bo xes co ntaini ng no t more than one hundred matches each, 234 cents per one thousand matches ; match splints, 1 cent per thousand ; skillets, in any form, for match boxes, 12 cents per thousand ; wax matches, wind matches, and all matches in books or folders or having a stained, dyed, or colored stick or stem, tapers consisting of a wick coated with an inflammable sub- stance, night lights, fusees and time-burning chemical signals, by whatever name known, 40 per centum ad valorem : Provided, That in accordance with section 10 of "An Act to provide for a tax upon white phosphorus matches, and for other purposes," approved April 9, 1912, white phosphorus m atches manufa ctured wholly or in part in any foreign country shall not be entitled to enter at any of the ports of the United States, and the importation thereof is hereby prohibited : Provided further, That nothing in this Act contained shall be held to repeal or modify said Act to provide for a tax upon white phosphor us matches, a nd for other purposes, appr oved April 9, 1912 . PAR . 15 17 . Per cussion caps, cartri dges, a nd car tridge shells empty, 30 per centum ad valorem ; blasting caps, containing not more than one gram charge of explosive, $2 .25 per thousand ; containing more than one gram charge of explosive, 75 cents per thousand additional for each additional one-half gram charge of explosive

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ing, or safety fuses of all kinds, $1 per thousand feet . PAR. 1518 . Feathers and downs, on the skin or otherwise, crude or not dressed, colored, or otherwise advanced or manufactured in any manner, not specially provided for, 20 per centum ad valorem ; dressed, colored, or otherwise advanced or manufactured in any man- ner, including quilts of down and other manufactures of down, 60 per centum ad valorem ; feather dusters, 45 per centum ad valorem ; artificial or ornamental feathers suitable for use as millinery orna- ments, 60 per centum ad valorem ; artificial or ornamental fruits, vegetables, grasses, grains, leaves, flowers, stems, or parts thereof, when composed wholly or in chief value of yarns, threads, filaments, tinsel wire, lame, bullions, metal threads, beads, bugles, spangles, or SC HED ULE 15. Sundries . Emery , art ific ial a b- rasives . Addit ional , fo r all oy contents . Fireworks. Matches. Provisos. White phos phorus excluded. Vol.37,pp.81,53 . U.S. ('.,p.7,3. Tax not modified. Percussion caps, cartridges, fuses, etc. Feathers and downs . Millinery ornaments, feathers, flowers, etc .