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FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. 1. Ch. 11. 1897. 169 SCHEDULE F.-Tonaooo AND MANUFACTURES OF. , SCHEDULE F. faél;O1l;.;;C(;'·BD(l IDBI1I1- 213. \Vrapper tobacco, and filler tobacco when mixed or packed with Wrappers. more than fifteen per centum of wrappe‘r tobacco, and all leaf tobacco the product of two or more countries or dependencies when mixed or packed together, if unstemmed, one dollar and eighty-five cents per pound; if stemmed, two dollars and fifty cents per pound; filler tobacco Fillmnot specially provided for in this Act, if unstemmed, thirty-five cents per pound; if stemmed, fifty cents per pound. 214. The term wrapper tobacco as used in this Act means that quality £•?F{}g}{>¤¤;, "W¤¤1>- of leaf tobacco which is suitable for cigar wrappers, and the term filler P ’ "` tobacco means all other leaf tobacco. Collectors of customs shall not permit entry to be made, except under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, of any leaf tobacco, unless the invoices of the same shall specify in detail the character of such tobacco, whether wrapper or iiller, its origin and quality. In the examination for classiilcation of any imported leaf tobacco, at least one bale, box, or package in every ten, and at least one in every invoice, shall be examined by the appraiser or person authorized by law to make such examination, and at least ten hands shall be examined in each examined bale, box, or package. 215. All other tobacco, manufactured or unmanufactured, not specially provided for in this Act, fifty-five cents per pound. 216. Snuff and snud ilour, manufactured of tobacco, ground dry, or damp, and pickled, scented, or otherwise, of all descriptions, nfty-five cents per pound. , 217. Cigars, cigarettes, cheroots of all kinds, four dollars and nfty cents per pound and twenty-five per centum ad valorem; and paper cigars and cigarettes, including wrappers, shall be subject to the same duties as are herein imposed upon cigars. Scnnnomz G.—AGBICULTURAL Pnonncrs AND Pnovrsroivs. A Sgtggglgi G·md_ . uctsgand provisildus. ANIAIALS, LIVE ; Live animals. 218. Cattle, if less than one year old, two dollars per head; all other cattle if valued at not more than iourteen dollars per head, three dollars and seventy-tive cents per head; if valued at more than fourteen dollars per head, twenty-seven and onehalf per centum ad valorem. 219. Swine, one dollar and fifty cents per head. 220. Horses and mules, valued at one hundred and fifty dollars or less per head, thirty dollars per head; if valued at over one hundred and fifty dollars, twenty-tive per centum ad valorem. 221. Sheep, one year old or over, one dollar and fifty cents per head; less than one year old, seventy-five cents per head. 222. All other live animals, not specially provided for in this Act, twenty per centum ad valorem. BREADSTUFFS AND FABINACEOUS SUBSTANCES: Bre·¤<1¤t¤¤'¤· 223. Barley, thirty cents per bushel of forty-eight pounds. 224. Barley-malt, forty-five cents per bushel of thirty-four pounds. 225. Barley, pearled, patent, or hulled, two cents per pound. 226. Buckwheat, fifteen cents per bushel of forty-eight pounds. 227. Corn or maize, iitteen cents per bushel of fifty-six pounds. 228. Corn meal, twenty cents per bushel of forty-eight pounds. 229. Macaroni, vermicelli, and all similar preparations, one and onehalf cents per pound. _ 230. Oats, nfteen cents per bushel. 231. Oatmeal and rolled oats, one cent per pound; oat hulls, ten cents · per hundred pounds. _ 232. Rice, cleaned, two cents per pound; uncleaned rice, or rice free of the outer hull and still having the inner euticle on, one and one-fourth cents per pound; rice Hour, and rice meal, and rice