FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 349. 1894. 515 SLATE: Scnnnuun B. 108. Slates, slate chimney pieces, mantels, slabs for tables, and all w»l°}:r:¤li1°g1z=:l$:t other manufactures of slate not specially provided for in this C°¤'*i¤¤°•*· Act, twenty per centum ad valorem. Sm" 109. Booting slates, twenty per centum ad valorem. Sonnnunn 0.—METALS Ann Msxuiucrumns or. mugcshuidllia 2;.. {ITC! 0 . IRON AND STEEL. Iron and steel. l09g. Iron -ore, including manganiferous iron ore, also the dross or Om- . residuum from burnt pyrites, forty cents per ton. 110. Iron in pigs, iron kentledge, spiegeleisen, ferro-manganese, Pig *’°'*-°*°· ferro-silicon, wrought and cast scrap iron, and scrap steel, four dollars per ton; but nothing shall be deemed scrap iron or scrap steel except waste or refuse iron or steel iit only to be remanufactured. 111. Bound iron, in coils or rods, less than seven-sixteenths of one 1z0¤¤asm¤,¤m. inch in diameter, and bars or shapes of rolled iron, not specially provided for in this Act, eight-tenths of one cent per pound: Provided, _ mam. That all ironin slabs, blooms, loops, or other form less finished than sm»¤,m. iron in bars, and more advanced than pig iron, except castings, shall be subject to a duty of five-tenths of one cent·per pound: Provided 0h¤¤·>¤1ir¤¤- further, That all iron bars, blooms, billets, or sizes or shapes of any kind, in the manufacture of which charcoal is used as fuel, shall be subject to a duty of twelve dollars per ton. _ 112. Bar iron, rolled or hammered, comprising flats not less than one ““' “‘“‘· """· inch wide nor less than three-eighths of one inch thick, six-tenths of one cent per pound; round iron not less than three-fourths of one inch in diameter, and square iron not less than three fourths of one inch square, six-tenths of one cent per pound; iiats less than one inch wide, or less than three-eighths of one inch thick; round iron less than tln·eefourths of one inch and not less than seven-sixteenths of one inch in _ diameter; and square iron less than three-fourths of one inch square, six-tenths of one cent per pound. , 113. Beams, girders, joists, angles, channels, car-truck channels, s”"“°*‘"‘“ “°“· T T, columns and posts or parts or sections of columns and posts, deck and bulb beams, and building forms together with all other structural shapes of iron or steel, whether plain or punched, or iitted for use, sixtenths of one cent per pound. · 114. Boiler or other plate iron or steel, except saw plates· hereinafter “‘“°*'°°·°'*’· provided for, not thinner than number ten wire gauge, sheared or uusheared, and skelp iron or steel sheared or rolled in grooves, valued at one cent per pound or less, tive-tenths of one cent per pound; valued _ above one cent and not above one and one-half cents, six-tenths of one cent per pound; valued above one and one-half cents and not above four cents per pound, thirty per centnm ud valorem; valued at over four _ _ cents per pound, twenty-tive per centum ad valorem: Provided, That {Iggy- all plate iron or steel thinner than number ten wire gauge shall pay — duty as iron or steel sheets. _ _ 115. Forgings of iron or steel, or forged iron or steel combined, of *'°*¤*¤!* whatever shape, or in whatever stage of manufacture, not specially provided for in this Act, one and one-half cents per pound; Provided, m_·;·:_¤&m_• That no forgings of iron or steel, or iorgings of iron and steel combined, by whatever process made, shall pay a less rate of duty than thirty-five ‘ per centum ad valorem. -‘ _ _ _ H M 116. Hoop, band, or scroll uéon or (pteed, except as otherwise provided ,._$l’;,_,,;,_ for in this Ac thirt cen um a va orem. 117. Railwdgy barsfrldgrde of iron or steel. and railway bars made in R““"°*' "“'“·°*‘· part ofstcel,1" rails, and punched iron or steel flat rails, seven-twentieths of one cent per pound.
