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495. Glass, broken, and old glass, which can not be cut for use, and fit only to be remanufactured.

496. Glass plates or disks, rough-cut or unwrought, for use in the manufacture of optical instruments, spectacles and eyeglasses, and suitable only for such use: Provided, however, That such disks exceeding 8 inches in diameter may be polished sufficiently to enable the character of the glass to be determined.

Grasses and Fibers.--497. Istle or Tampico fiber, jute, jute butts, manilla, sisal grass, sunn, flax straw, flax not hackled, tow of flax or hemp, hemp not hackled, hemp, flax, jute, and tow wastes, and all other textile grasses or fibrous vegetable substances, unmanufactured or undressed, not specially provided for in this

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547. Manna.

548. Manuscripts.

549. Marrow, crude.

550. Marsh mallows.

551. Medals of gold, silver, or copper, and other metallic articles manufactured as trophies or prizes, and actually received or bestowed and accepted as honorary distinctions.

553. Meerschaum, crude or unmanufactured. 554. Milk, fresh.

555. Mineral waters, all not artificial, and mineral salts of the same, obtained by evaporation, when accompanied by duly authenticated certificate, showing that they are in no way artificially prepared, and are the product of a designated mineral spring; lemonade, soda water, and all similar waters.

556. Minerals, crude, or not advanced in value or condition by refining or grinding, or by other process of manufacture, not specially provided for in this act.

557. Models of inventions and of other improvements in the arts, including patterns for machinery, but no article shall be deemed a model or pattern which can be fitted for use otherwise.

5574. Molasses testing not above forty degrees polariscope test and containing twenty per centum or less of moisture.

558. Moss, seaweeds, and vegetable substances, crude or unmanufactured, not otherwise specially provided for in this act.

559. Musk, crude, in natural pods. 560. Myrobolan.

561. Needles, hand-sewing and darning.

562. Newspapers and periodicals; but the term "periodicals" as herein used shall be understood to embrace only unbound or paper-covered publications containing current literature of the day and issued regularly at stated periods, as weekly, monthly, or quarterly.

564. Nux vomica. 565. Oakum.

566. Ocher and ochery earths, sienna and sienna earths, umber and umber earths, not specially provided for in this act, dry.

567. Oil cake.

568. Oils: Almond, amber, crude and rectified ambergris, anise or anise-seed, aniline, aspic or spike lavender, bergamot, cajeput, caraway, cassia, cinnamon, cedrat, camomile, citronella or lemon-grass, civet, cotton-seed, croton, fennel, jasmine or jasimine, juglandium, juniper, lavender, lemon, limes, mace, neroli or orange-flower, enfleurage grease, nut oil or oil of nuts not otherwise specially provided for in this act: orange oil, olive oil for manufacturing or mechanical purposes unfit for eating and not otherwise provided for in this act; attar of roses, palm and cocoanut, rosemary or anthoss, sesame or sesamum seed or bean, thyme, origanum, red or white, valerian; and also spermaceti, whale, and other fish oils of American fisheries, and all fish and other products of such fisheries; petroleum, crude or refined: Provided, That if there be imported into the United States crude petroleum, or the products of crude petroleum, produced in any country which imposes a duty on petroleum or its products exported from the United States, there shall be levied, paid, and collected upon said crude petroleum or its products so imported forty per centum ad valorem.

569. Opium, crude or unmanufactured, and not adulterated, containing nine per centum and over of morphia.

570. Orange and lemon peel, not preserved, candied, or otherwise prepared.

571. Orchil, or orchil liquid.

589. Platina, in ingots, bars, sheets, and wire. 590. Platinum, unmanufactured, and vases, retorts, and other apparatus, vessels and parts thereof composed of platinum, adapted for chemical uses. 591. Plows, tooth and disk harrows, harvesters, reapers, agricultural drills and planters, mowers, horse rakes, cultivators, thrashing machines, and cotton gins: Provided, That all articles mentioned in this paragraph, if imported from a country which lays an import duty on like articles imported from the United States, shall be subject to the duties existing prior to the passage of this act.

592. Plumbago.

593. Plush, black, known commercially as hatters' plush, composed of silk, or of silk and cotton, and used exclusively for making men's hats.

594. Polishing stones and burnishing stones. 595. Potash, crude, carbonate of, or "black salts." Caustic potash, or hydrate of, including refined, in sticks or rolls. Nitrate of potash, or saltpeter, crude. Sulphate of potash, crude or refined. Chocolate of potash. Muriate of potash.

596. Professional books, implements, instruments, and tools of trade, occupation, or employment, in the actual possession at the time of persons arriving in the United States; but this exemption shall not be construed to include machinery or other articles imported for use in any manufacturing establishment, or for any other person or persons, or for sale; nor shall it be construed to include theatrical scenery,

573. Ores, of gold, silver, and nickel, and nickel properties, and apparel; but such articles bought by

matte.

574. Osmium.

575. Paintings, in oil or water colors, original draw-
ings and sketches, and artists' proofs of etchings and
engravings, and statuary not otherwise provided for
in this act; but the term "statuary" as herein used
shall be understood to include only professional pro-
ductions, whether round or in relief, in marble, stone,
alabaster, wood, or marble, of a statuary or sculptor;
and the word "painting" as used in this act shall not
be understood to include such as are made wholly or
in part by stenciling or other mechanical process.
576. Palladium.

577. Paper stock, crude, of every description, in-
cluding all grasses, fibers, rags, waste, shavings, clip-
pings, old paper, rope ends, waste rope, waste bag-
ging, old or refused gunny bags or gunny cloth, and
poplar or other woods, fit only to be converted into

paper.

578. Paraffin.

579. Parchment and vellum.

580. Pearl, mother-of-, not sawed or cut, or otherwise manufactured.

581. Peas, green, in bulk or in barrels, sacks, or similar packages.

582. Peltries and other usual goods and effects of Indians passing or repassing the boundary line of the United States, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe: Provided that this exception shall not apply to goods in bales or other packages unusual among Indians.

583. Personal and household effects not merchandise of citizens of the United States dying in foreign countries.

584. Pewter and britannia metal, old and fit only to be remanufactured.

585. Philosophical and scientific apparatus, utensils, instruments, and preparations, including bottles and boxes containing the same, statuary, casts of marble, bronze, alabaster, or plaster of Paris; paintings, drawings, and etchings, specially imported in good faith for the use of any society or institution incorporated or established for religious, philosophical, educational, scientific, or literary purposes, or for encouragement of the fine arts, and not intended for sale.

586. Phosphates, crude or native.

587. Plants, trees, shrubs, and vines of all kinds
commonly known as nursery stock, not specially pro-
vided for in this act.

588. Plaster of Paris and sulphate of lime, unground.
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proprietors or managers of theatrical exhibitions arriving from abroad for sale, and which have been used by them abroad, shall be admitted free of duty under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, but bonds shall be given for the payment to the United States of such duties as may be imposed by law upon any and all such articles as shall not be exported within six months after such importation: Provided, That the Secretary of the Treasury may in his discretion extend such period for a further term of six months in case application shall be made therefor.

597. Pulu.

598. Pumice.

600. Quills, prepared or unprepared, but not made up into complete articles.

601. Quinia, sulphate of, and all alkaloids or salts of cinchona bark.

602. Rags, not otherwise specially provided for in this act.

603. Regalia and gems, statues, statuary, and specimens of sculpture where specially imported in good faith for the use of any society incorporated or established solely for educational, philosophical, literary, or religious purposes, or for the encouragement of fine arts, or for the use or by order of any college, academy, school, seminary of learning, or public library in the United States; but the term "regalia" as herein used shall be held to embrace only such insignia of rank or office or emblems as may be worn upon the person or borne in the hand during public exercises of the society or institution, and shall not include articles of furniture or fixtures, or of regular wearing apparel, not personal property of individuals.

604. Rennets, raw or prepared.

605. Saffron and safflower, and extract of, and saffron cake.

606. Sago, crude, and sago flour.
607. Salicine.

608. Salt in bulk, and salt in bags, sacks, barrels,
or other packages, but the coverings shall pay the
same rate of duty as if imported separately: Pro-
vided. That if salt imported from any country, whether
independent or a dependency, which imposes a duty
upon salt exported from the United States, there shall
be levied, paid, and collected upon such salt the rate
of duty existing prior to the passage of this act.
609. Sauerkraut.

610. Sausage skins.

611. Seeds: Anise, canary, caraway, cardamom, cori

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613. Shells of all kinds, not cut, ground, or otherwise manufactured.

614. Shotgun barrels, forged, rough, bored. 615. Shrimps, and other shellfish, canned or otherwise.

616. Silk, raw or as reeled from the cocoon, but not doubled, twisted, nor advanced in manufacture in any way.

617. Silk cocoons and silk waste.

618. Silkworms' eggs.

619. Skeletons and other preparations of anatomy. 620. Snails.

621. Soda, nitrate of, or cubic nitrate, and chlorate of.

622. Sulphate of soda, or salt cake, or niter cake. 623. Sodium.

624. Sparterre, suitable for making or ornamenting hats.

625. Specimens of natural history, botany, and mineralogy, when imported for cabinets or as objects of science, and not for sale.

Spices.-626. Cassia, cassia vera, and cassia buds, unground.

627. Cinnamon, and chips of, unground. 628. Cloves and clove stems, unground.

629. Ginger root, unground, and not preserved or candied.

630. Mace.

631. Nutmegs.

632. Pepper, black or white, unground.

633. Pimento, unground.

635. Spunk.

636. Spurs and stilts used in the manufacture of earthen, porcelain, and stone ware.

6364. Stamps: Foreign postage or revenue, canceled or uncanceled.

638. Stone and sand: Buhrstone in blocks, rough or manufactured, or bound up into millstones; cliff stone, unmanufactured; pumice stone, rotten stone, and sand, crude or manufactured.

639. Storax or styrax.

640. Strontia, oxide of, and protoxide of strontian, and strontianite, or mineral carbonate of strontia.

642. Sulphur, refined, lac or precipitated, and sulphur or brimstone, crude, in bulk, sulphur ore, as pyrites, or sulphuret of iron in its natural state, containing in excess of twenty-five per centum of sulphur, and sulphur not otherwise provided for.

643. Sulphuric acid : Provided, That upon sulphuric acid imported from any country, whether independent or a dependency, which imposes a duty upon sulphuric acid exported from the United States, there shall be levied and collected the rate of duty existing prior to the passage of this act.

644. Sweepings of silver and gold.

645. Tallow and wool grease, including that known commercially as degras or brown wool grease. 646. Tapioca, cassava or cassady.

647. Tar and pitch of wood, and pitch of coal tar. 648. Tea and tea plants.

650. Teeth, natural or manufactured.

651. Terra alba.

652. Terra japonica.

653. Tin ore, cassiterite or black oxide of tin, and tin in bars, blocks, pigs, or grain, or granulated.

654. Tinsel wire, lame, or lahn.

655. Tobacco stems.

656. Tonquin, tonqua, or tonka beans.

657. Tripoli.

658. Turmeric.

659. Turpentine, Venice.

660. Turpentine, spirits of.

661. Turtles.

663. Uranium, oxide and salts of.
664. Vaccine virus.

665. Valonia.

666. Verdigris, or subacetate of copper.
667. Wafers, unmedicated, and not edible.
668. Wax, vegetable or mineral.

669. Wearing apparel and other personal effects (not merchandise) of persons arriving in the United States; but this exemption shall not be held to include articles not actually in use and necessary and appropriate for the use of such persons for the purposes of their journey and present comfort and convenience, or which are intended for any other person or persons, or for sale.

671. Whalebone, unmanufactured.

Wood.-672. Logs and round unmanufactured timber not specially enumerated or provided for in this

act.

673. Firewood, handle bolts, heading bolts, stave bolts, and shingle bolts, hop poles, fence posts, railroad ties, ship timber, and ship planking, not specially provided for in this act.

674. Timber, hewed and sawed, and timber used for spars and in building wharves,

675. Timber, squared or sided.

676. Sawed boards, plank, deals, and other lumher, rough or dressed, except boards, plank, deals, and other lumber of cedar, lignum vitæ, lancewood, ebony, box, granadilla, mahogany, rosewood, satinwood, and all other cabinet woods.

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683. Staves of wood of all kinds, wood unmanufactured: Provided, That all of the articles mentioned in paragraphs 672 to 683 inclusive, when imported from any country which lays an export duty or imposes discriminating stumpage dues on any of them, shall be subject to the duties existing prior to the passage of this act.

684. Woods-namely, cedar, lignum vitæ, lancewood, ebony, box, granadilla, mahogany, rosewood, satinwood, and all forms of cabinet woods, in the log, rough or hewed; bamboo and rattan, unmanufactured; brier root or brier wood, and similar wood, unmanufactured or not further manufactured than cut into blocks suitable for the articles into which they are intended to be converted; bamboo, reeds, and sticks of partridge, hair wood, pimento, orange, myrtle, and other woods, not otherwise specially provided for in this act, in the rough, or not further manufactured than cut into lengths suitable for sticks for unbrellas, parasols, sunshades, whips, or walking canes; and India malacca joints not further manufactured than cut into suitable lengths for the manufactures into which they are intended to be converted.

685. All wool of the sheep, hair of the camel, goat, alpaca, and other like animals, and all wool and hair on the skins, noils, yarn waste, card waste, bur waste, slubbing waste, roving waste, ring waste, and all waste, or rags composed wholly or in part of wool, all the foregoing not otherwise herein provided for.

686. Works of art, the production of American artists residing temporarily abroad, or other works of art, including pictorial paintings on glass, imported expressly for presentation to a national institution or to any State or municipal corporation, or incorporated religious society, college, or other public institution, including stained or painted window glass or stained or painted glass windows: but such exemption shall be subject to such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe.

687. Works of art, drawings, engravings, photographic pictures, and philosophical and scientific apparatus brought by professional artists, lecturers, or

662. Types, old, and fit only to be remanufactured. scientists arriving from abroad for use by them tein

porarily for exhibition and in illustration, promotion, and encouragement of art, science, or industry in the United States, and not for sale, and photographic pictures imported for exhibition by an association established in good faith and duly authorized under the laws of the United States, or of any State, expressly and solely for the promotion and encouragement of science, art, or industry, and not intended for sale, shall be admitted free of duty, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe; but bonds shall be given for the payment to the United States of such duties as may be imposed by law upon any and all such articles as shall not be exported within six months after such importations: Provided, That the Secretary of the Treasury may, in his discretion, extend such period for a further term of six months in cases where applications therefor shall be made.

688. Works of art, collections in illustration of the progress of the arts, sciences, or manufactures, photographs, works interra cotta, Parian, pottery, or porcelain, and artistic copies of antiquities in metal or other material, hereafter imported in good faith for permanent exhibition at a fixed place by any society or institution established for the encouragement of the arts or of science, and all like articles imported in good faith by any society or organization for the purpose of erecting a public monument, and not intended for sale, nor for any other purpose than herein expressed; but bonds shall be given, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, for the payment of lawful duties which may accrue should any of the articles aforesaid be sold, transferred, or used contrary to this provision, and such articles shall be subject, at any time, to examination and inspection by the proper officers of the customs: Provided, That the privileges of this and the preceding section shall not be allowed to associations or corporations engaged in or connected with business of a private or commercial character.

689. Yams. 690. Zaffer.

SEC. 3. That there shall be levied, collected, and paid on the importation of all raw or unmanufactured articles, not enumerated or provided for in this act, a duty of ten per centum ad valorem; and on all articles manufactured, in whole or in part, not provided for in this act, a duty of twenty per centum ad valorem.

SEC. 4. That each and every imported article, not enumerated in this act, which is similar, either in material, quality, texture, or the use to which it may be applied, to any article enumerated in this act as chargeable with duty, shall pay the same rate of duty which is levied on the enumerated article which it most resembles in any of the particulars before mentioned; and if any nonenumerated article equally resembles two or more enumerated articles on which different rates of duty are chargeable, there shall be levied on such nonenumerated article the same rates of duty as chargeable on the article which it resembles, paying the highest rate of duty; and on articles not enumerated, manufactured of two or more materials, the duty shall be assessed at the highest rate at which the same would be chargeable if composed wholly of the component material thereof of chief value; and the words component material of chief value." whenever used in this act, shall be held to mean that component material which shall exceed in value any other single ent material of the article; and the value of component material shall be determined by the ascertained value of such material in its condition as found in the article. If two or more rates of duty shall be applicable to any imported article, it shall pay duty at the highest of such rates.

SEC. 5. That all articles of foreign manufacture, such as usually or ordinarily marked, stamped, branded, or labeled, and all packages containing such or other imported articles, shall, respectively, be plainly marked, stamped, branded, or labeled in legible English words, so as to indicate the country of

their origin and the quantity of their contents; and until so marked, stamped, branded, or labeled they shall not be delivered to the importer; should any article of imported merchandise be marked, stamped, branded, or labeled so as to indicate a quantity, number, or measurement in excess of the quantity, number, or measurement actually contained in such article, no delivery of the same shall be made to the importer until the mark, stamp, brand, or label, as the case may be, shall be changed so as to conform to the facts of the case.

SEC. 6. That no article of imported merchandise which shall copy or simulate the name or trade-mark of any domestic manufacture or manufacturer shall be admitted to entry at any customhouse of the United States. And in order to aid the officers of the customs in enforcing this prohibition, any domestie manufacturer who has adopted trade-marks may require his name and residence and a description of his trade-marks to be recorded in books which shall be kept for the purpose in the Department of the Treasury, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe, and may furnish to the department facsimiles of such trade-marks; and thereupon the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause one or more copies of the same to be transmitted to each collector or other proper officer of the cus

toms.

SEC. 7. That all materials of foreign production which may be necessary for the construction of vessels built in the United States for foreign account and ownership, or for the purpose of being employed in the foreign trade between the Atlantic and Pacific ports of the United States, and all such materials necessary for the building of their machinery, and all articles necessary for their outfit and equipment, after the passage of this act, may be imported in bond under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, and upon proof that such materials have been used for such purposes no duties shall be paid thereon. But vessels receiving the benefit of this section shall not be allowed to engage in the coastwise trade of the United States more than two months in any one year, except upon the payment to the United States of the duties of which a rebate is herein allowed: Provided, That vessels built in the United States for foreign account and ownership shall not be allowed to engage in the coastwise trade of the United States.

SEC. 8. That all articles of foreign production needed for the repair of American vessels engaged in foreign trade, including the trade between the Atlantic and Pacific ports of the United States, may be withdrawn from bonded warehouses free of duty, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe.

SEC. 9. That all articles manufactured in whole or in part of imported materials, or of materials subject to internal-revenue tax, and intended for exportation without being charged with duty and without having an internal-revenue stamp affixed thereto, shall, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, in order to be so manufactured and exported, be made and manufactured in bonded warehouses similar to those known and designated in Treasury Regulations as bonded warehouses, Class 6: Provided, That the mannfacturer of such articles shall first give satisfactory bonds for the faithful observance of all the provisions of law and of such regulations as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided further, That the manufacturer of distilled spirits from grain, starch, molasses, or sugar, including all dilutions or mixtures of them or either of them, shall not be permitted in such manufacturing warehouses.

Whenever goods manufactured in any bonded warehouse established under the provisions of the preceding paragraph shall be exported directly therefrom or shall be duly laden for transportation and immediate exportation under the supervision of the proper officer who shall be duly designated for that

purpose, such goods shall be exempt from duty and from the requirements relating to revenue stamps.

shall knowingly aid or abet any person engaged in any violation of any of the provisions of law prohibitAny materials used in the manufacture of such ing importing, advertising, dealing in, exhibiting, or goods, and any packages, coverings, vessels, brands, sending or receiving by mail, obscene or indecent and labels used in putting up the same, may, under publications or representations, or means for preventthe regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury, be ing conception or procuring abortion, or other articles conveyed without the payment of revenue tax or duty of immoral use or tendency, shall be deemed guilty of into any bonded manufacturing warehouse, and im- a misdemeanor, and shall for every offense be punishported goods may, under the aforesaid regulations, be able by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars, transferred without the exaction of duty from any or by imprisonment at hard labor for not more than bonded warehouse into any bonded manufacturing ten years, or both. warehouse; but this privilege shall not be held to apply to implements, inachinery, or apparatus to be used in the construction or repair of any bonded manufacturing warehouse or for the prosecution of the business carried on therein.

No articles or materials received into such bonded manufacturing warehouses shall be withdrawn or removed therefrom except for direct shipment and exportation or for transportation and immediate exportation in bond under the supervision of the officer duly designated therefor by the collector of the port, who shall certify to such shipment and exportation, or ladening for transportation, as the case may be, describing the articles by their mark or otherwise, the quantity, the date of exportation, and the name of the vessel. All labor performed and services rendered under these provisions shall be under the supervision of a duly designated officer of the customs and at the expense of the manufacturer.

A careful account shall be kept by the collector of all merchandise delivered by him to any bonded manufacturing warehouse, and a sworn monthly return, verified by the customs officers in charge, shall be made by the manufacturers, containing a detailed statement of all imported merchandise used by him in the manufacture of exported articles.

Before commencing business the proprietor of any manufacturing warehouse shall file with the Secretary of the Treasury a list of all articles intended to be manufactured in such warehouse, and state the formula of manufacture and the names and quantities of the ingredients to be used therein.

Articles manufactured under these provisions may be withdrawn, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, for transportation and delivery into any bonded warehouse at an exterior port for the sole purpose of immediate export therefrom.

The provisions of Revised Statutes 3433 shall, so far as may be practicable, apply to any bonded manufacturing warehouse established under this act and to the merchandise conveyed therein.

SEC. 10. That all persons are prohibited from importing into the United States from any foreign country any obscene book, pamphlet, paper, writing, advertisement, circular, print, picture, drawing, or other representation, figure, or image on or of paper or other material, or any cast, instrument, or other article of an immoral nature, or any drug or medicine, or any article whatever for the prevention of conception or for causing unlawful abortion, or any lottery ticket or any advertisement of any lottery. No such articles, whether imported separately or contained in packages with other goods entitled to entry, shall be admitted to entry; and all such articles shall be proceeded against, seized, and forfeited by due course of law. All such prohibited articles, and the packages in which they are contained in the course of importation, shall be detained by the officer of customs, and proceedings taken against the same as hereinafter prescribed, unless it appears to the satisfaction of the collector of customs that the obscene articles contained in the package were inclosed therein without the knowledge or consent of the importer, owner, agent, or consignee; Provided, That the drugs hereinbefore mentioned, when imported in bulk and not put up for any purposes herein before specified, are excepted from the operation of this section.

SEC. 11. That whoever, being an officer, agent, or employee of the Government of the United States,

SEC. 12. That any judge of any district or circuit court of the United States, within the proper district, before whom complaint in writing of any violation of the two preceding sections is made, to the satisfaction of such judge, and founded on knowledge or belief, and if upon belief, setting forth the grounds of such belief, and supported by oath or affirmation of the complainant, may issue, conformably to the Constitution, a warrant directed to the marshal or any deputy marshal in the proper district, directing him to search for, seize, and take possession of any such article or thing mentioned in the two preceding sections, and to make due and immediate return thereof, to the end that the same may be condemned and destroyed by proceedings, which shall be conducted in the same manner as other proceedings in the case of municipal seizure, and with the same right of appeal or writ of

error.

SEC. 13. That machinery for repair may be imported into the United States without payment of duty, under bond, to be given in double the appraised value thereof, to be withdrawn and exported after said machinery shall have been repaired; and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary to protect the revenue against fraud, and secure the identity and character of all such importations when again withdrawn and exported, restricting and limiting the export and withdrawal to the same port of entry where imported, and also limiting all bonds to a period of time of not more than six months from the date of the importation.

SEC. 14. That a discriminating duty of ten per centum ad valorem, in addition to the duties imposed by law, shall be levied, collected, and paid on all goods, wares, or merchandise which shall be imported in vessels not of the United States; but this discriminating duty shall not apply to goods, wares, and merchandise which shall be imported in vessels not of the United States entitled, by treaty or any act of Congress, to be entered in the ports of the United States on payment of the same duties as shall then be paid on goods, wares, and merchandise imported in vessels of the United States.

SEC. 15. That no goods, wares, or merchandise, unless in cases provided for by treaty, shall be imported into the United States from any foreign port or place, except in vessels of the United States, or in such foreign vessels as truly and wholly belong to the citizens or subjects of that country of which the goods are the growth, production, or manufacture, or from which such goods, wares, or merchandise can only be, or most usually are, first shipped for transportation. All goods, wares, or merchandise imported contrary to this section, and the vessel wherein the same shall be imported, together with her cargo, tackle, apparel, and furniture, shall be forfeited to the United States; and such goods, wares, or merchandise, ship or vessel, and cargo, shall be liable to be seized, prosecuted, and condemned in like manner, and under the same regulations, restrictions, and provisions as have been heretofore established for the recovery, collection, and distribution and remission of forfeitures to the United States by the several revenue laws.

SEC. 16. That the preceding section shall not apply to vessels or goods, wares or merchandise imported in vessels of a foreign nation which does not maintain a similar regulation against vessels of the United States.

SEC. 17. That the importation of neat cattle and the hides of neat cattle from any foreign country into the

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