CHAPTER X.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE RECIPROCITY TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN, CONCLUDED JUNE 5, 1854.

SECTION I.

ARTICLES ENTITLED TO FREE ENTRY.

ART. 920. Under the treaty of reciprocity with Great Britain, concluded the 5th June, 1854, and promulgated by proclamation of the President on the 11th September, 1854, and 16th March, 1855, the following decisions in regard to the articles enumerated, imported from the British provinces of Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward's Island, and Newfoundland and its dependencies, will govern in the practice of the several ports of the United States, in view of the provisions of said treaty, and the acts of Congress to carry it into effect, namely in regard to fish of all kinds from any one of the enumerated provinces, imported after the 11th September, 1854, the date of the President's first proclamation; and in respect to all the other articles contained in the list appended to the treaty, imported subsequently to the date of the acceptance of said treaty by each of the provinces respectively, viz:

By Canada, from and after October 18, 1854.

New Brunswick, from and after November 11, 1854. Prince Edward's Island, from and after November 17, 1854.

Nova Scotia, from and after December 15, 1854.

Newfoundland, from and after November 14, 1855. Hudson's Bay Company or Prince Rupert's Land is not comprehended among the provinces or colonies referred to in the treaty.

Articles entitled to free entry.

Animals of all kinds.

Ashes, comprehending pot and pearl ashes, black salts and salts of ley.

Bags, barrels, or other original packages, containing flour, wheat, or other free product; provided the article so contained is not usually imported in bulk, and the envelope is appropriate and ordinarily used in the conveyance of such article. In cases where the character of the package may induce reasonable suspicion of an intent to evade the payment of the duties imposed by law, the collector will make seizure of the same, and report the facts to this Department.

Barley.

Bark of hemlock or trees.

Beams, when rough hewn or sawed only.
Beans.

Boards, when rough hewn or sawed only.
Bran.

Breadstuffs, of all kinds, not further manufactured than flour or meal.

Broom corn.

Burr stones, hewn or wrought, or unwrought.

Butter.

Canada balsam, collected from a species of the pine tree, as turpentine.

Castoreum, a product of the beaver.

Cattle tails, if undressed.

Cheese.

Clap boards, if rough hewn or sawed only.
Coal.

Corn, Indian, or maize.

Cotton wool.

Dried fruits.

Dye stuffs.

Fish, of all kinds, products of fish, and of all other creatures living in the water; the exemption from duty to extend to the fisheries of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Fish, wholly or partly cooked, in cans hermetically sealed.

Fire-wood.

Flax, unmanufactured.
Flour, of all kinds.

Fresh meats.

Fruits, dried or undried.

Fruits, preserved, in cans hermetically sealed.
Furs, undressed.

Grain of all kinds.

Grindstones, hewn or wrought, or unwrought.

Gypsum, ground or unground.

Hair, on the hide or skin, or tail thereof, undressed.
Hemp, uumanufactured.

Hides, undressed.

Horns.

Horn tips.

Hubs for wheels, if rough hewn or sawed only.

Lumber of all kinds, round, rough hewn, or sawed only.

Manures.

Marble, in its crude or unwrought state.

Meal, of all kinds.

Meats, fresh, smoked, or salted.

Meats, wholly or partly cooked, preserved without oil or

spirits, in cans hermetically sealed.

Middlings, (as flour.)

Mill feed, (as flour.)

Nuts.

Oats.

Oat meal.

Oil, from fish.

Ores of metals, of all kinds.

Palings, pickets, posts, &c., if rough hewn or sawed only.

Pates, or scraps of raw hides or skins.

Pearl and pot ash.

Peas.

Pelts.

Pitch.

Plants.

Potatoes.

Poultry.

Poultry, cooked wholly or partly, preserved in cans hermetically sealed.

Products of fish, and all other creatures living in the

Skins, or tails, undressed.

Skins, or parts thereof, undressed.
Slate.

Spars, round and sawed only.

Spokes of wheels, if rough hewn or sawed only.

Stone, in its crude or unmanufactured state.

Tails, undressed.

Tallow.

Tar.

Timber, of all kinds, round, rough hewn, or sawed only. Tobacco, unmanufactured.

Vegetables, wholly or partly cooked, preserved in cans

hermetically sealed.

Venison.

Wool, unmanufactured.

SECTION II.

ART. 921.-ARTICLES LIABLE TO DUTY UNDER THE EXISTING REVENUE LAWS.

Axle trees, for carriages, (see Timber and Lumber.)
Beams, (see Timber and Lumber.)

Bears' grease.

Beeswax.

Boards, (see Timber and Lumber.)

Biscuit.

Bread.

Cakes.

Clapboards, (see Timber and Lumber.)

Felloes for wheels, (see Timber and Lumber.)

Grease, of all kinds, except butter, tallow, and lard.