bicarbonate of, (73.) 11⁄2 ct. per lb. Free. 30 Academies, (see below, "Institutions," etc.) Free. 3 cts. per lb. uranate of, (92.) water, as artfl. min. water, (38, S. S., 3747, 5325.) water glass, silicate of soda, (76, S. S., 4710.) 25 Botanical Garden, U. S., all plants, trees, shrubs, roots, seed-cane, and seeds impt. by, (761.) Free. 30 Cabinets, (see below, "Specimens.") culture.") 25 20 25 25 25 Effects, household,* books, libraries or parts of Free. Free. personal,* (not merchandise), including wearing apparel in actual use, professional books, implements, instruments, and tools of trade, occupation, or employment, of persons arriving in the U. S., but not to include machinery or other articles impt. for use in any mfg. establishment, or for sale, Free. (660, 815.) tourists', (see S. S., 3673.) Embassies, foreign, exemption from duty is accorded by comity to all articles intended for the personal or family use of foreign ambassadors, ministers, or charges d'affaires to the U. S., but this is not extended to the importations of secretaries of legations, attachés, or consuls, (July 11, 1866, H. F. S.) Exhibition, animals brought into the U. S. temporarily, for a period not exceeding six months, for the purpose of exhibition or *Saddlery neither household nor personal effects, (S. S., 3321, 4145.) Paintings need not be portraits to be admissible as, (S. S., 4134.) Exhibition (continued): Per ct. competition for prizes offered by an agricultural or racing association, a bond having been first given in accordance with the regulations, (641.) Free. all paintings, statuary, and photographic pictures impt. for exhibition by any association duly authorized under the laws of the U. S., or of any State, for the promotion and encouragement of science, art, or industry, and not intended for sale, entered under Treasury regulations, and bonds having been given for the payment of such duties as may be imposed by law on any of such importations as shall not be re-exported within six months, (832.) Free. all works of art, collections in illustration of the progress of the arts, science, or mfs., photographs, works in terra cotta, parian, pottery, or porcelain, and artistic copies of antiquities in metal or other materials, hereafter impt. in good faith for permanent exhibition at a fixed place by any society or institution established for the encouragement of the arts or science, and not intended for sale, nor for any other purpose than is above expressed, and entered under regulations, together with all such articles impt. as aforesaid, and in bond March 3, 1883, (833.) Free. provided, that the parties impt. articles as aforesaid shall be required to give bonds, with sufficient sureties, under such rules and regs. 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 the provisions and intent above stated, (833.) See provisions for the entry, free of duty, under Treasury regulations of importations to the following special exhibitions and expositions, as indicated, to wit: exhibition of art and industry, to be held Fine arts, promotion of, (see, below, "Institutions," etc.) Fish-oil, and fish of all kinds, the product of the sea-fisheries of Canada, Prince Edward's Island, New Foundland, and Labrador, by virtue of the Treaty of Washington. (855, Pt. I., 1806, S. S., 1837, 1981.) Free. Per ct. Hawaiian Islands. Oil and bone, the production of American fisheries, shipped from these islands directly to ports of the United States, under the Hawaiian flag, exempt from discriminating duty of 10 per ct., under treaty of Dec. 20, 1849, (see Dec. 28, 1864, to Sec'y of State, and Dec. 31, 1864, U. S. Consul, Honolulu.) The following articles, being the growth and manufacture or produce of the Hawaiian Islands, to wit: arrowroot; castor oil; bananas; nuts; vegetables, dried and undried, preserved and unpreserved; hides and skins, undressed; rice; pulu; seeds; plants; shrubs, or trees; muscovado, brown, and all other unrefined sugar, meaning hereby the grades of sugar heretofore commonly imported from the Hawaiian Islands, and now known in the markets of San Francisco and Portland as "Sandwich Island sugar;" syrups of sugarcane, melado, and molasses; tallow, (Pt. I., 2232, and 2371 to 2381, S. S., 2962.) Free. Hawaii, mfs. from, must be of native mat. to be free under treaty, (S. S., 4202.) Hawaiian sugar above No. 20, D. S., dtbl., (S.S., 3262.) wool skins, W. dtbl., (S. S., 3414.) Immigrants, teams of animals, including their harness and tackle, and the wagons, sleighs,* or other vehicles actually owned by persons emigrating from foreign countries to the U.S., with their families, and in actual use for the purpose of such emigration, under Treasury regs., (642 b., S. S., 1929, 2056, 2388, 2403, 2439, 2823, 3143, 4136, and 4249.) Free. Free. Indian goods. No duty shall be levied or collected on the importation of peltries brought into the Territories of the United States by Indians, nor on the proper goods and effects, of whatever nature, of Indians passing or repassing the boundary-line aforesaid, unless the same be goods in bales or other large packages unusual among Indians, which shall not be considered as goods belonging to Indians, nor be entitled to the exemption from duty aforesaid, (836.) Institutions and societies. books, maps, and charts for, (see, above, "Books," etc., second paragraph.) philosophical and scientific apparatus, instruments, and preparations, 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 encouragement of the fine arts, and not intended for sale, (759.) Free. regalia and gems, statues, statuary and specimens of sculpture, where specially imported in good faith for the use of any society incorporated or established for philosophical, literary, or religious purposes, or for the encouragement of the fine arts, or for the use or by order of any college, academy, school, semi * Sleighs of immigrants may be legally admitted to free entry, provided they were actually owned by them at the time they quitted a foreign country, and provided they brought them to this country with the intention of continuing to use them here, (S. S., 3715.) Libraries, public, (see last item above.) by societies incorporated or established to encourge the saving of human life, (731.) Free. Machinery. 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, (831.) Free. Public monuments, all works of art, collections in illustration of the progress of the arts, science, or mfs., photographs, works in terra cotta, parian, pottery, or porcelain, and artistic copies of antiquities in metal or other materials, and like articles, impt. in good faith by any society or association for the purpose of erecting a public monument, and not for sale, and entered under regs., (833.) Free. provided, That the parties who impt, articles as aforesaid shall be required to give bonds, with sufficient sureties, under such rules and regs. as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, for the payment of lawful duties Per ct. Public monuments (continued): Ship materials, all bars, iron or steel, nails, iron or steel, which may be necessary for the construction and equipment of vessels built in the U. S. for foreign account and ownership or for the purpose of being employed in the foreign trade, including the trade between the Atlantic and Pacific ports of the U. S., 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 purpose, 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 U. S. more than two months in any one year, except upon the payment to the U. S. of the duties on which a rebate is herein allowed, (834.) Free. provided, That vessels built in the U. S. for foreign account and ownership shall not be allowed to engage in the coastwise trade of the U. S., (834 b.) all articles of foreign production needed for the repair of American vessels engaged exclusively in foreign trade may be withdrawn from bonded warehouses free of duty under such regs. as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, (835.) Free. Societies, (see above, "Institutions" and "Books.") Free. Specimens of natural history, mineralogy, and botany, when impt. for cabinets, or as objects of taste or science, and not for sale, (793.) Free. of natural history, microscopic, on glass, (793, S. S., 3958.) Free. United States, all articles impt. for, the duty on which shall not have been included in the price, (645.) United States, books, maps, and charts, impt. by authority, or for the use of the U. S., or for the use of the library of Congress, the duty on which shall not have been included in the contract or price paid, (659.) Free. United States mint, copper impt. for, (681.) Free. U. S. botanical garden, (see above, "Botanical," etc.) Wrecks, whenever any vessel laden with mer chandise in whole or in part subject to duty has been sunk in any river, harbor, bay, or waters subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S., and within its limits, for the period of two "Corn starch residuum," so-called, a coarse meal obtained from Indian corn in manufacturing starch, dtbl. as corn meal under 265 and 822, (S. S., 2700.) "The term 'statuary,' as used in the law, is understood to be confined in its application to 'figures repsenting living or deceased creatures, of whatever species, real or imaginary, in full relievo, insulated in every part, and which may be formed of marble, plaster, bronze, galvanized zinc, or other material appropriate to the composition of an object of taste. Sculptures of figures, in mezzo-relievo, cannot, therefore, consistently with the construction of the law given by the Department, be admitted" as statuary. (Treas. Reg. of 1857, p. 603.) See further definitions of, (S. S., 4416.) Marble rustic cross not classifiable as statuary, (S. S., 4240.) The component material of which the figures are made does not control the question whether they are statuary or not, but may extend to wooden figures, (S. S., 5604.) See S. S., 5155, as to the evidence to be required by the appraiser as to statuary. Per ct. Statuary (continued): statuary, fountains, paintings, and other works of art, the production of American artists, but the fact of such production must be verified by the certficate of a consul or minister of the United States, indorsed upon the written declaration of the artist, (819 a., April 30, 1858, Baltimore, S. S., 372, 587, 693.) Free. but the term "statuary," as used in the laws now in force, imposing duties on foreign importations, shall be understood to include professional productions of a statuary or of a sculptor only,* (470 b.) imported expressly for presentation to national institutions, or to any State, or to any municipal corporation, or religious corporation or society, (819 b.) Free. Per ct. 45 STEEL-all+++, (183 a.) Provided, that all metal produced from iron or its ores, which is cast and malleable, of whatever description or form, without regard to the percentage of carbon contained therein, whether produced by cementation, or converted, cast, or made from iron or its ores by the crucible, Bessemer, pneumatic, ThomasGilchrist, basic, Siemens-Martin, or openhearth process, or by the equivalent of either, or by the combination of two or more of the processes, or their equivalents, or by any fusion or other process which produces from iron or its ores a metal either granular or fibrous in structure, which is cast and malleable, excepting what is known as malleable iron castings, shall be classed and denominated as steel, (183 b.) no description of iron or steel, nor any manufacture of, nor any partly mfd. article of, is entitled to any allowance or reduction of duties for partial loss or damage in consequence of rust or of discoloration, (184.) ALL SPECIFIED FORMS OF, 1. General, to wit: alloys, used as substitutes for steel tools, axe-shaped, (S. S., 1486, sce proviso below.) bands, of all gauges and widths, bars, (see proviso below,) and excepting axle-bars, angle-, or bent-, (S. S., 5121; see proviso below,) bevelled, (see proviso below,) tapered, (see proviso below,) with raised borders, (S. S., 4906.) billets, "The term 'statuary,' as used in the law, is understood to be confined in its application to 'figures representing living or deceased creatures, of whatever species, real or imaginary, in full relievo, insulated in every part, und which may be formed of marble, plaster, bronze, galvanized zinc, or other material appropriate to the composition of an object of taste.' Sculptures of figures, in mezzo-relievo, cannot, therefore, consistently with the construction of the law given by the Department, be admitted" as statuary. (Treas. Reg. of 1857, p. 603.) See further definitions of, (S. S., 4416.) Marble rustic cross not classifiable as statuary, (S. S., 4240.) The component material of which the figures are made does not control the question whether they are statuary or not, but may extend to wooden figures,(S. S., 5604.) Ste S. S., 5155, as to the evidence to be required by the appraiser as to statuary. |