scribed, and the latter shall pay by unities; the exterior receptacle will then be dutiable by its corresponding paragraph. For the purposes of this rule, goods dutiable ad valorem and goods free of duty shall be considered and appraised as by net weight. RULE 20. Where merchandise, dutiable upon its net weight, where not otherwise specially provided for, is customarily contained in packing, packages or receptacles of uniform or similar character, it shall be the duty of the Collector of the Islands from time to time to ascertain by tests the actual weight or quantity of such merchandise and the actual weight of the packages, packing or receptacles thereof, respectively, in which such merchandise is customarily imported, and, upon such ascertainment, to prescribe regulations for estimating the dutiable weight or quantity of such merchandise, and thereafter such merchandise imported in such customary packing, packages and receptacles shall be entered, and the duties thereon levied and collected, upon the basis of such estimated dutiable weight or quantity. PROHIBITED IMPORTATIONS. SEC. 6. The importation of the following articles is prohibited: (1) Dynamite, gunpowder, and similar explosives, and fire arms of all descriptions and detached parts therefor, unless the importer shall produce a special authorization for landing issued to him by the civil governor. (2) Books, pamphlets, or other printed matter, paintings or illustrations, figures, or other objects, of an obscene or indecent character. (3) Roulette wheels, gambling layouts, dealing boxes and all other machines, apparatus or mechanical devices used in gambling, or used in the distribution of money, cigars or other articles, when such distribution is dependent upon lot or chance. SEC. 7. The following abbreviations shall be employed in the tariff: G. W.=gross weight. = Kilo. kilogram. SEC. 8. Duties shall be paid in United States money except that: The following coins now in circulation in the Philippine Islands shall be received for customs duties and taxes at the following rates in money of the United States: Peso, fifty cents; Medio Peso, twenty-five cents; Peseta, ten cents; Media Peseta, five cents, but such rates shall be changed in accordance with a quarterly proclamation of the civil governor. SEC. 9. The metrical system of weights and measures as authorized by sections 3569 and 3570 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and at present in use in the Philippine Islands, shall be continued. The meter is equal to 39.37 inches. The liter is equal to 1.0567 quarts, wine measure. The kilogram is equal to 2.2046 pounds avoirdupois. SEC. 10. Importations from the United States are dutiable under the provisions of this Act, but no customs duties shall be imposed on articles, goods or merchandise transported only from one place or port to another place or port in the Philippine Islands. SEC. 11. The rates of duties to be collected on articles, goods and merchandise imported into the Philippine Islands shall be as follows: CLASS I.-Stones, earths, ores, glass and ceramic products. GROUP 1.-STONES AND EARTHS EMPLOYED IN BUILDING, ARTS AND MANUFACTURES. 1. Marble, onyx, jasper, alabaster and similar fine stones: (a) In the rough, or in dressed pieces squared or prepared for shaping, 100 kilos.. $0.50 (b) Slabs, plates or steps of any dimension, polished or not, G. W., 2.00 Marble affixed to or packed with and belonging to furniture shall (d) Wrought or chiseled into all other articles, polished or not, G. W., 2. Stones, other, natural or artificial: (a) In the rough, unwrought, in rough blocks or cubes, G. W., 100 kilos.. (d) Millstones and grindstones, G. W (e) Wrought into all other articles, N. W. 3. Earths employed in manufactures and arts: 4. Gypsum manufactured into articles: (a) Statuettes, N. W (b) Other articles, N. W. 5. Chalk manufactured into articles: 6.00 .04 .10 .100 kilos.. .50 .100 kilos.. .25 100 kilos.. 1.00 .100 kilos.. 04 .100 kilos.. .20 .100 kilos.. 3.00 .100 kilos.. .75 Billiard chalk, red chalk, including French and tailors' chalk, N.W..kilo.. .03 Group 2.—COAL. 6. Coal and coke, G. W. 1,000 kilos.. .25 GROUP 3.-SCHISTS, BITUMENS AND THEIR DERIVATIVES. In case of doubt as to the clearance of crude petroleum, the following rules shall be observed: 1. A sample of 200 cubic centimeters shall be taken from each 50 cases or less comprised in the declaration and belonging to the same kind of goods. If the oil is imported in bulk or in tanks, samples of equal quantities shall be taken from each receptacle in which the oil is contained, sufficient to make more than two liters in all after mixing. 2. These samples shall be thoroughly mixed in a large receptacle, and when the discharge of the shipment is terminated, 2 liters are taken therefrom and put into separate bottles, which are sealed and furnished with labels signed by the customs employees and the interested party. These bottles shall be forwarded to the customs chemical expert in order to be assayed. 3. Immediately after this operation the goods shall be cleared and the corresponding duty applied, but the interested party shall always be bound by the results of the analysis, and the clearance shall not be deemed definite until that result be known. 4. The samples must be assayed within one month, and the interested party has the right to be present when the samples are opened and analyzed, provided that he has made a written request to this effect at the time of identifying the samples by affixing his signature to the labels. He may also appeal to the Collector of the Islands from the report of the experts. 5. Should the interested party in his appeal request that a new analysis be made, this operation shall be effected at his expense if the report of the experts be sustained. In contrary cases the expense shall be borne by the Government. 6. The following shall be considered: ប (a) As crude oil derived from the distillation of slates or schists, those obtained from first distillation having a specific gravity of from 900 to 920, at a temperature of 21 Centigrade, or, measured on a Baumé scale for fluids lighter than water, which give a reading from about 27 (corresponding to a specific gravity of about 900) to 22 (corresponding to a specific gravity of about 924). (b) As crude and natural petroleum, that imported in the state in which found when extracted from the well, and which had undergone no operation whatever, whereby the natural chemical composition is altered or modified. When gradually and continuously distilled up to a temperature of 300° C., this petroleum must leave a residuum exceeding 20 per cent of its primitive weight. 7. Tar and mineral pitch, bitumens, schists, unrefined creosote, asphalt The customs authorities must take care that under the denomination of tar, or mixtures containing tar, no oils derived from schists are imported. Tar must not contain in appreciable proportions volatile products or oils which might be extracted by means of distillation at 300° Centigrade. Though imported under the name of asphalts, or bitumens, impure paraffin or other products must be included in No. 102 of Class III. 8. Crude oils derived from schists, including crude petroleum and axle grease .10 9. Petroleum and other mineral oils, rectified or refined, intended for illu- 100 kilos.. $1.25 10. Benzine, gasoline, and mineral oils not specially mentioned, including .100 kilos.. All mineral oils not having the properties described in paragraph (a) of Rule 6 of the rules for this group shall be considered as refined. 1.25 GROUP 4.-Ores. 11. Ores other than copper, gold, and silver, G. W GROUP 5.-CRYSTAL AND GLASS. 1,000 kilos.. . 25 12. Common or ordinary hollow glassware and electrical insulators, G. W., (a) Siphons for aerated waters, G. W 13. Crystal, and glass imitating crystal: .80 .100 kilos.. 2.80 (a) Articles cut, engraved, painted, enameled, or gilt, G. W...do........ 12.00 (c) Lamp chimneys, plain or ground, not decorated, per 100 chim neys. NOTE. Decanters, glasses, tumblers, cups, goblets, saucers, plates, dishes, pitchers, bowls, candlesticks, pillar-lamps, bracket-lamps, and other articles of table service and lighting, white or colored, and statuettes, flower stands, vases, urns, and similar articles for toilet purposes or house decoration are included in this paragraph. 14. Plate glass or plate crystal: (a) Slabs for paving or roofing, G. W 5.60 .25 .100 kilos.. 1.65 (b) For windows or in other articles, provided that they are neither (d) Articles engraved or enameled, G. W 4.50 100 kilos.. 10.00 (a) Common mirrors, not exceeding 2 mm. in thickness, coated with red or black mercurial varnish, G. W... (b) Other mirrors, not beveled, G. W. kilo.. .06 kilo.. .10 (c) Beveled mirrors, G. W.. 16. Other articles and manufactures of glass: (a) Spectacles, eyeglasses, and goggles, and glasses for the same, (b) Incandescent electric lamps, mounted or not G. W.. 4.00 100 kilos.. 8.00 Provided, that none of the articles classified under paragraphs 13 and 16 shall pay a less rate of duty than 30 per cent ad valorem, and none of the articles classified under paragraphs 12, 14, and 15 shall pay a less rate of duty than 20 per cent ad valorem. GROUP 6.-POTTERY, EARTHENWARE AND PORCELAIN. 17. Common clay: (a) In common bricks, fire bricks and squares, unglazed, for building (d) In tubes or pipes, varnished, glazed or vitrified, for industrial or 18. Ceramic tiles: .60 .10 .20 .32 (a) Varnished, vitrified, or not, plain and undecorated, G.W.100 kilos.. (a) Household or kitchen utensils, except dishes or tableware, not gilt, .100 kilos.. (b) Dishes, tableware, or other articles, not gilt, painted or ornamented .64 100 kilos.. 1.60 (c) Flowerpots of common earthenware and common bottles of the .80 (d) Articles, gilt, painted, or ornamented in relief, G. W..100 kilos.. 4.40 20. Faience, in dishes or hollow ware: 2.80 (a) Neither painted, gilt, nor ornamented in relief, G. W..100 kilos.. 21. Porcelain, in dishes or hollow ware: (a) Neither painted, gilt, nor in relief, G. W (b) Painted, gilt, or with ornaments in relief, G. W 100 kilos.. 5.60 .100 kilos.. 9.60 Provided, that none of the articles classified under letter (b) of this paragraph shall pay a less rate of duty than 60 per cent ad valorem. 22. Porcelain, plain, in door knobs, electric insulator and similar articles not decorated, not otherwise provided for, G. W... .100 kilos.. 4.00 23. Statuettes, flower stands, vases, high and bas reliefs, articles for toilet purposes and house decoration, all of said articles of clay, faïence, stoneware, porcelain or bisque, G. W.. .kilo.. .25 GROUP 7.-PRECIOUS STONES, PEARLS AND IMITATIONS OF THE SAME, UNSET. 24. Precious stones and doublets, unset: Ad valorem, 15 per cent. 25. Pearls, unset: Ad valorem 15 per cent. 26. Imitations of precious stones and of pearls, unset: Ad valorem 15 per cent. CLASS II.—Metals and all manufactures in which a metal enters as a principal element. GROUP 1.-GOLD, SILVER AND PLATINUM, AND ALLOYS OF THESE METALS, AND GOLD AND SILVER PLATE. 27. Gold and platinum or alloys thereof: (a) In jewelry, plate and goldsmiths' wares, not otherwise provided for, N.W... ...hectog..$12.50 (b) Same set with pearls or precious stones, not otherwise provided for, N.W. ..hectog.. 25. 00 (c) Same set with doublets, imitation precious stones or imitation hectog.. 17.50 (d) Same manufactured into articles other than jewelry or plate, except ..hectog.. 3.00 |