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FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 349. 1694. 509 3ug%)¢€£l;gi3:r;:sA:t To reduce taxation, to provide revenue for the Government, ;,§,,EE§_ 18% Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That on and after the nrst Tmrr or isn. daylof Augpgé efighteenlhunidred {md ninlityifgur, unless otherwise spe- %;,§·§§°,,2@‘g P-“°· cia y provi or in t is ct ere s a e evied collected andh ` paid upon all articles imported from foreign countries oi withdrawn for 1******* °¤ i¤·v<·M consumption, and mentioned in the schedules herein contained, the rates ofllidiuty which are, by the schedules and paragraphs, respectively prescri , name y: Scumaumn A.-·CHEMIOA.LS, 011.s, Ami Psmrs. S¤¤¤¤¤·.¤ A. A.CIDS.-— _ Qhemicals, oils, and 1. Acetic or pyroligneous acid, twenty per centum ad valorem. ”°X‘§’§5,_ 2. Boracic acid, three cents per pound. ‘ 3. Chromic acid, four cents per pound. 4. Citric acid, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. » 5. Tanuic acid or tannin, sixty cents per pound. 6. Tartaric acid, twenty per centum ad valorem. _ 7. Alcoholic pcrfumery, including cologne water and other toilet waters, and alcoholic compounds not specially provided for in this Act, two dollars per gallon and fifty per centum ad valorem. 8. Alumina, alum, alum cake, patent alum, sulphate of alumina, and aluminous oaks, and alum in crystals or ground, four-tenths of one cent per poun . 8;. Ammonia, carbonate of, twenty per centum ad valorem; muriate oi, or sal ammioniaac, ten per centum ad valorem; sulphate ot, twenty per centum a v orem. 9. Blocking of all kinds, twenty per centum ad. valorem. Bone char suitable for use in decolorizing sugars, twenty per eentum ad valorem. 10. Borax, crude, or borate of soda, two cents per pound; borate of lime, one and one—half cents per pound. Refined borax, two cents per wound. I 10g. Camphor, refined, ten per centum ad valorem. 11. Chalk, prepared, precipitated, French, red, and all other chalk preparations not specially provided for in this Act, twenty per centum ad valorem. 12, Uhloral hydrate, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. 13. Ghloroform, twenty»tive cents per pound, Gon.-·1·Au PREPARATIONS.—- ,,§,‘;‘f""“’ ¥"° ¥’°"* 14. All coal-tar colors or dyes, by whatever name known, and not specially provided for in this Act, twenty-tive per centum ad valorem. . 145. Cobalt, oxide of, twenty-five cents per pound. 15. Collodion and all compounds of pyroxyliue, by whatever name known, forty cents per pound; rolled or in sheets, but not made up into articles, fifty cents per pound; if m iinished or partly finished articles, forty-five per centum ad valorem. _ 16. Coloring for brandy, wine, beer, or other liquors, fifty per centum ad valorem. 16}. Drugs, such as barks, beans, berries, balsams, buds, bulbs, bulbous roots, cxcrescences, fruits, flowers, dried fibers, dried insects, grains, gums and gum resin, herbs, leaves, hcheus, mosses, nuts, roots and stems, spices, vegetables, seeds (aromatic, not garden seeds), seeds of morbid growth, weeds, and woods used expressly for dyeing ; any of the foregoing which are not edible, but which are advanced in value or condition by reiining or grinding, or by other process of manufacture, and not specially provided for m this Act, ten per centnmad valorem. 17. Ethers, sulphuric, forty cents per pound; spirits of nitrous ether, twenty-five cents per pound; fruit ethers, oils, or essences, two dollars