497. Manufactured dressed skins in any form not elsewhere specified.

498. Cotton tulle.

499. Riding saddles, bridle headgear, pistol pouches, reins, surcingles (girths), cruppers, sheepskin robes, dressed sheepskins.

500. Tobacco in leaf and the stalks of the tobacco leaf.

EIGHTH CLASS.

[12 bolivars ($2.316) per kilogram (2.2046 pounds).]

501. Hair ornaments and hair nets.

502. Manufactured or unmanufactured human hair and its imitations.

503. Ready-made woolen or cotton shirts, or partly of linen, and all pieces of readymade linen or cotton wearing apparel for men not elsewhere specified.

504. Linen or cotton collars, shirt bosoms and cuffs for men or women.

505. Rope hammocks of all kinds.

506. Linen cambric, linen and cotton mixed cambric skirts, petticoats, pillowcases, and chemises.

507. Artificial fruits and flowers, not elsewhere specified, and the materials for artificial flowers, excepting the colored paper for flowers, which is in the sixth class. 508. Dressed leather gloves, excepting fencing gloves, which are in the fifth class. 509. Cambric, knit work, zephyr, lawn, tarltan, muslin, and any other fine fabrics of lawn or of cotton made into neck pieces, ruchings, children's caps, christening robes, chemisettes, or ornaments not included in other classes.

510. Gems, jewels, pearls, precious stones, articles of gold or silver or those which contain any gold or silver, watches of any material whatever, empty cases made for watches and fine jewelry, even though they come separately.

511. Books and albums, the bindings of which contain plush, silk, mother-of-pearl, tortoise shell, ivory, russia leather, or gold or silver plated trimmings.

512. Handkerchiefs of linen or of linen and cotton mixed.

513. Bindings for books and the cleats for same.

514. Feathers for ornamenting hats, caps, etc., and also the plumes for funeral coaches when they come apart from the coach.

515. Pure silk, or when mixed with other materials, and other fabrics or textures when mixed with silk.

516. Fabrics or textures of any material that are mixed or trimmed with silver or gold, fine or false, except the ornaments for churches and priests, which belong to the seventh class.

517. Fabrics or textures of wool, or of wool and cotton mixed, made into mosquito nets, hangings, curtains, or other pieces not specified in previous classes.

518. Tobacco, worked or made into any form, except picadura for making cigarettes, plug tobacco, and the twisted chewing tobacco. In this class are included also those cigarettes with a tobacco wrapper.

NINTH CLASS.

[24 bolivars ($4.632) per kilogram (2.2046 pounds.]

519. Printed and lithographed posters, show bills, and sheets.

520. Cigarette paper boxes and wrappers.

521. Printed and lithographed circulars.

522. Printed and lithographed labels and inscriptions not attached to any object, and printed visiting cards, with or without colored drawings.

523. Broadcloth, inferior broadcloth, cassimere, satin, meshing, flannel, bombazine, alpaca, serge, cubica (woolen stuff), and damask, of wool or of wool and cotton mixed, made into men's wearing apparel.

521. Envelopes of all kinds, made or half made.

525. Trimmed hats, caps, turbans, etc., for women and children.

526. Hats of felt, of black silk, high-crowned hats, etc., and all other hats of this kind, of any material whatever, including in this class opera hats; hats in pieces, the prepared or stiffened forms of felt, and all kinds of made or half-made hats, excepting only those of straw and imitation straw.

527. Large printed or lithographed cards.

528. Tarlatan, silk, wool, cambric, zephyr, lawn, muslin, and all other similar fabrics of linen, or linen and cotton mixed, made up into women's wearing apparel. 529. Men's wearing apparel of wool, cotton, or linen, except those specified in other classes.

PROHIBITED ARTICLES.

The importation of the following articles is prohibited:

Cocoa oil.

Rum made from sugar cane.

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Starch.

Indigo blue.

Cocoa.

Coffee.

Molasses, sugar honey, bee honey.

Salted jerked beef.

Salt.

Dynamite.

Sarsaparilla root.

Counterfeit gold and silver money.

Apparatus for making money, not ordered by the Government.

Ready-made shoes and dressed skins made in shoes.

Matches of all kinds.

When the executive shall deem it necessary to allow any prohibited article to be entered through the custom-houses of the Republic, he shall fix the duty on said article and report it to the congress at its next session.

The executive shall have the power to prohibit the importation of all or any pieces of all kinds of ready-made clothing, of hats of all classes, caps, helmets, and trimmed caps through those custom-houses of the Republic in whose jurisdiction such industries or trades may have acquired the necessary extension and development for the supply of said articles without detriment to the consumers.

IMPORTS OF MUNITIONS OF WAR.

For the importation through the custom-houses of the Republic of dutiable firearms, gunpowder, bullets, cartridges, fulminate caps, flint stones, saltpeter, and any explosive material not specified in this law, a permission or order must be procured from the Government.

Arms of precision and all war material exclusively for armories can only be imported by the Government.

DETERMINING DUTIES.

In determining duties the material of which an article is composed is not taken into consideration, but the classification that has been made of it; e. g., trusses, syringes, clyster pumps, children's toys, masks, eyeglasses, card cases, and other specified articles pay the duty according to the classification that has been given them, regardless of the material of which they are made, excepting only when they contain any gold and silver, or are themselves of gold or silver, when they fall under the eighth class.

Samples. The packages containing samples of cloth in small pieces, and also samples of wall paper, which weigh more than 25 kilograms, will pay the duty of the third class on the excess over 25 kilograms.

Unassigned articles.-Whenever merchandise or other dutiable articles are imported, which are not known in the country, or are not included in this tariff law, nor in subsequent decisions of the ministry of finance, the importers can so state this fact in their manifests (consular declarations), and apply to the Government by means of an official communication, accompanied by a report from the custom-house of the port of entry, with a sample of the article, in order that it may be classified.

Mining machinery.-The machines, fixings, and other accessories for the working of mines are only exempt from duty once for each mining company, and the extra pieces for replacing those that have already been imported free of duty will not be exempt from duty.

The machines and apparatus specified under Nos. 6, 21, 22, and 23, as well as artistic objects to be used as monuments, will not be passed through the custom-house without a permit from the ministry of finance; to obtain this permit the owner in each case must petition the ministry of fomento for the free entry of said articles, accompanied by a report from the custom-house of the port of entry.

All unused foreign articles brought in by passengers from foreign countries in their baggage will pay an additional duty of 20 per cent over the duties prescribed by this tariff law.

DIMINUTION OR SUPPRESSION OF DUTIES.

The executive is hereby authorized to diminish and suppress duties on absolutely necessary articles of food only when unforeseen circumstances make it necessary, informing congress of any measure taken in this respect.

Articles imported into the country as disconnected parts of a whole, whether in one single package or in separate packages, shall pay the duty of the class to which the article belongs when put together.

GENERAL INDEX TO AMERICAN TARIFFS.

Introductory matter.-Explanatory introduction, 3; contents, 5; values of foreign coins and curren-
cies, 7-10; foreign weights and measures, 11-13; metric weights and measures, 13, 14; instructions
to diplomatic and consular officers, 15.

TARIFFS.