lace, borders, bands, strips, or other forms, or cut or shaped for boxes or other articles, plain or printed, but not lithographed, and not specially provided for; paper board and pulpboard, including cardboard and leatherboard or compress leather, laminated, glazed, coated, lined, printed, decorated, or ornamented in any manner; press boards and press paper, 23 per centum ad valorem; stereotypematrix mat or board, 28 per centum ad valorem; wall pockets, composed wholly or in chief part of paper, papier-mâché or paper board, whether or not die-cut, embossed, or printed lithographically or otherwise; boxes, composed wholly or in chief value of paper, papier-mâché or paper board, and not specially provided for; manufactures of paper, or of which paper is the component material of chief value, not specially provided for, 26 per centum ad valorem.

SCHEDULE 14.-SUNDRIES.

PAR. 1401. Asbestos, manufactures of: Paper and millboard, composed of long fiber asbestos, used for making gaskets or similar articles, and electrical papers not exceeding five one-hundredths of one inch in thickness, 8 cents per pound; composed of other asbestos fibers, 1 cents per pound; sheets and plates, of asbestos and hydraulic cement, flat, not exceeding one-eighth of one inch in thickness, 1 cent per square foot; exceeding one-eighth but not exceeding onefourth of one inch in thickness, 2 cents per square foot; exceeding one-fourth of one inch in thickness, 2 cents per square foot; other than flat, 3 cents per square foot; colored, stained, or mixed with other material, 34 cents per square foot and 10 per centum ad valorem; wick and rope, 18 cents per pound; woven sheet packing, in rolls, 24 cents per pound; gaskets, folded or cut from the straight sheet, rubberized, graphited, or otherwise coated or treated, 56 cents per pound; yarn containing more than 10 per centum of foreign matter, 32 cents per pound; yarn and listings, containing less than 10 per centum of foreign matter, exceeding twenty-five one-thousandths of one inch in thickness, 84 cents per pound; not exceeding twenty-five one-thousandths of one inch in thickness, $1.68 per pound; textile fabrics containing 10 per centum and not more than 20 per centum of foreign matter, 42 cents per pound; containing more than 20 per centum of foreign matter, 32 cents per pound; mantle threads, with or without wire, treated or untreated, $1.40 per pound; all other manufactures of asbestos, or of which asbestos is the component material of chief value, not specially provided for, 20 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That no article manufactured from any of the foregoing shall pay a less rate of duty than herein imposed on the asbestos paper, millboard, electrical papers, sheets, plates, wick, rope, woven sheet packing, yarn, listings, or textile fabrics of which it is composed.

PAR. 1402. Boxing gloves, ice and roller skates, and parts thereof, baseballs, footballs, tennis balls, golf balls, and all other balls, of whatever material composed, finished or unfinished, designed for use in physical exercise or in any indoor or outdoor game or sport, and all clubs, rackets, bats, or other equipment, such as is ordinarily used in conjunction therewith in exercise or play, all the foregoing, not specially provided for, 30 per centum ad valorem.

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PAR. 1403. Spangles and beads, including bugles, but not including imitation pearl beads and beads in imitation of precious or semiprecious stones, 25 per centum ad valorem; fabrics and articles not embroidered, tamboured, appliquéd, nor scalloped, composed wholly or in chief value of beads or spangles other than imitation pearl beads and beads in imitation of precious or semiprecious stones, 40 per centum ad valorem; imitation pearl beads of all kinds and shapes, of whatever material composed, pierced or unpierced, strung or loose, mounted or unmounted, 40 per centum ad valorem; all other beads in imitation of precious or semiprecious stones, of all kinds and shapes, of whatever material composed, pierced or unpierced, strung or loose, mounted or unmounted, 45 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That no article composed wholly or in chief value of any of the foregoing beads or spangles shall pay duty at a less rate than is imposed in any paragraph of this Act upon such articles without such beads or spangles.

PAR. 1404. Ramie hat braids, 30 per centum ad valorem; manufactures of ramie hat braids, 40 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 1405. Braids, plaits, laces, and willow sheets or squares, composed wholly or in chief value of straw, chip, grass, palm leaf, willow, osier, rattan, real horsehair, cuba bark, or manila hemp, suitable for making or ornamenting hats, bonnets, or hoods, not bleached, dyed, colored, or stained, 13 per centum ad valorem; if bleached, dyed, colored, or stained, 17 per centum ad valorem; hats, bonnets, and hoods composed wholly or in chief value of any of the foregoing materials, whether wholly or partly manufactured, but not blocked or trimmed, 25 per centum ad valorem; if blocked or trimmed, 331 per centum ad valorem; straw hats known as harvest hats, valued at less than $3 per dozen, 20 per centum ad valorem; all other men's hats, composed wholly or in chief value of any of the foregoing materials, whether wholly or partly manufactured, either not blocked or blocked, not trimmed or trimmed, if sewed, 40 per centum ad valorem. But the terms "grass" and "straw" shall be understood to mean these substances in their natural form and structure, and not the separated fiber thereof.

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PAR. 1406. Brooms, made of broom corn, straw, wooden fiber, or twigs, 15 per centum ad valorem; tooth brushes and toilet brushes, 35 per centum ad valorem; all other brushes not specially provided for, including feather dusters and hair pencils, in quills or otherwise, 30 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 1407. Bristles, sorted, bunched, or prepared, 7 cents per pound.

PAR. 1408. Button forms of lastings, mohair or silk cloth, or other manufactures of other material, woven or made in patterns of such size, shape, or form as to be fit for buttons exclusively, and not exceeding three inches in any one dimension, 10 per centum ad valorem. PAR. 1409. Buttons of vegetable ivory, finished or partly finished, 14 cents per line per gross; vegetable ivory button blanks, not turned, faced, or drilled, three-fourths of 1 cent per line per gross; buttons of pearl or shell, finished or partly finished, 14 cents per line per gross; pearl or shell button blanks, not turned, faced, or drilled, 14 cents per line per gross; and, in addition thereto, on all the foregoing, 15 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That the term "line" as used in

this paragraph shall mean the line button measure of one-fortieth of one inch.

PAR. 1410. Buttons commonly known as agate buttons, 15 per centum ad valorem; parts of buttons and button molds or blanks, finished or unfinished, and all collar and cuff buttons and studs composed wholly of bone, mother-of-pearl, ivory, vegetable ivory, or agate, and buttons not specially provided for, 38 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 1411. Cork bark, cut into squares, cubes, or quarters, 8 cents per pound; stoppers over three-fourths of one inch in diameter, measured at the larger end, and disks, wafers, and washers over threesixteenths of one inch in thickness, made from natural cork bark, 20 cents per pound; made from artificial or composition cork, 10 cents per pound; stoppers, three-fourths of one inch or less in diameter, measured at the larger end, and disks, wafers, and washers, threesixteenths of one inch or less in thickness, made from natural cork bark, 25 cents per pound; made from artificial or composition cork, 12 cents per pound; cork, artificial, commonly known as composition or compressed cork manufactured from cork waste or granulated cork, in the rough and not further advanced than in the form of slabs, blocks, or planks, suitable for cutting into stoppers, disks, liners, floats, or similar articles, 6 cents per pound; in rods or sticks suitable for the manufacture of disks, wafers, or washers, 10 cents per pound; granulated or ground cork, cork insulation, wholly or in chief value of cork waste, granulated or ground cork in slabs, boards, planks, or molded forms, cork tile, cork paper and manufactures, wholly or in chief value of cork bark or artificial cork and not specially provided for, 25 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 1412. Dice, dominos, draughts, chessmen, billiard, pool, and bagatelle balls, and poker chips, of ivory, bone, or other material, 40 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 1413. Dolls, and parts of dolls, doll heads, toy marbles, of whatever materials composed, air rifles, toy balloons, toy books without reading matter other than letters, numerals, or descriptive words, bound or unbound, and parts thereof, and all other toys, and parts of toys, not composed of china, porcelain, parian, bisque, earthen or stone ware, and not specially provided for, 40 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 1414. Emery and corundum grains and emery and corundum, ground, pulverized, refined, or manufactured, 1 cent per pound; emery wheels, emery files, emery paper, and manufactures of which emery or corundum is the component material of chief value, 20 per centum ad valorem; crude artificial abrasives, 5 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 1415. Firecrackers of all kinds, 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. 1416. 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, 6 cents per gross; when imported otherwise than in boxes containing not more than one hundred matches each, three-fourths of 1 cent per one thousand matches; 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 substance, night lights, fusees and time-burning chemical signals, by whatever name known, 30 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 matches manufactured 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 phosphorus matches, and for other purposes, approved April 9, 1912.

PAR. 1417. Percussion caps, cartridges, and cartridge shells empty, 25 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; mining, blasting, or safety fuses of all kinds, not composed in chief value of cotton, $1 per thousand feet.

PAR. 1418. 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 manner, including quilts of down and other manufactures of down, artificial or ornamental feathers suitable for use as millinery ornaments, artificial and ornamental fruits, vegetables, grains, leaves, flowers, and stems or parts thereof, of whatever material composed, not specially provided for, 45 per centum ad valorem; boas, boutonnieres, wreaths, and all articles not specially provided for, composed wholly or in chief value of any of the feathers, flowers, leaves, or other material herein mentioned, 50 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That the importation of birds of paradise, aigrettes, egret plumes or so-called osprey plumes, and the feathers, quills, heads, wings, tails, skins, or parts of skins, of wild birds, either raw or manufactured, and not for scientific or educational purposes, is hereby prohibited; but this provision shall not apply to the feathers or plumes of ostriches or to the feathers or plumes of domestic fowls of any kind: Provided further, That birds of paradise, and the feathers, quills, heads, wings, tails, skins, or parts thereof, and all aigrettes, egret plumes, or so-called osprey plumes, and the feathers, quills, heads, wings, tails, skins, or parts of skins, of wild birds, either raw or manufactured, of like kind to those, the importation of which is prohibited by the foregoing provisions of this paragraph, which may be found in the United States, on and after the passage of this Act, except as to such plumage or parts of birds in actual use for personal adornment, and except such plumage, birds or parts thereof imported therein for scientific or educational purposes, shall be presumed for the purpose of seizure to have been imported unlawfully after October 3, 1913, and the collector of customs shall seize the same unless the possessor thereof shall establish, to the satisfaction of the collector that the same were imported into the United States prior to October 3, 1913, or as to such plumage or parts of birds that they were plucked or derived in the United States from birds lawfully therein; and in case of seizure by the collector, he shall proceed as in case of forfeiture

for violation of the customs laws, and the same shall be forfeited, unless the claimant shall, in any legal proceeding to enforce such forfeiture, other than a criminal prosecution, overcome the presumption of illegal importation and establish that the birds or articles seized, of like kind to those mentioned the importation of which is prohibited as above, were imported into the United States prior to October 3, 1913, or were plucked in the United States from birds. lawfully therein.

That whenever birds or plumage, the importation of which is prohibited by the foregoing provisions of this paragraph, are forfeited to the Government, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to place the same with the departments or bureaus of the Federal or State Governments or societies or museums for exhibition or scientific or educational purposes, but not for sale or personal use; and in the event of such birds or plumage not being required or desired by either Federal or State Government or for educational purposes, they shall be destroyed.

That nothing in this Act shall be construed to repeal the provisions of the Act of March 4, 1913, chapter 145 (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 847), or the Act of July 3, 1918 (Fortieth Statutes at Large, page 755), or any other law of the United States, now of force, intended for the protection or preservation of birds within the United States. That if on investigation by the collector before seizure, or before trial for forfeiture, or if at such trial if such seizure has been made, it shall be made to appear to the collector, or the prosecuting officer of the Government, as the case may be, that no illegal importation of such feathers has been made, but that the possession, acquisition or purchase of such feathers is or has been made in violation of the provisions of the Act of March 4, 1913, chapter 145 (Thirtyseventh Statutes at Large, page 847), or the Act of July 3, 1918 (Fortieth Statutes at Large, page 755), or any other law of the United States, now of force, intended for the protection or preservation of birds within the United States, it shall be the duty of the collector, or such prosecuting officer, as the case may be, to report the facts to the proper officials of the United States, or State or Territory charged with the duty of enforcing such laws.

PAR. 1419. Furs dressed on the skin, excepting silver or black fox furs, not advanced further than dyeing, 20 per centum ad valorem; plates and mats of dog and goat skins, 10 per centum ad valorem; manufactures of furs, excepting silver or black fox, further advanced than dressing and dyeing, prepared for use as material, joined or sewed together, including plates, linings, and crosses, except plates and mats of dog and goat skins, and articles manufactured from fur, not specially provided for, 35 per centum ad valorem; articles of wearing apparel of every description partly or wholly manufactured, composed wholly or in chief value of hides or skins of cattle of the bovine species, or of dog or goat skins, 15 per centum ad valorem; silver or black fox skins, dressed or undressed, and manufactures thereof, not specially provided for, 40 per centum ad valorem; articles of wearing apparel of every description wholly or in part manufactured, composed wholly or in chief value of fur, not specially provided for, 50 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 1420. Hatters' furs, or furs not on the skin, prepared for hatters' use, including fur skins carroted, 22 per centum ad valorem.