182- FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 11. 1897. mm Jam three-fourths cents per square yard; containing more than sixty and not ¤am£¤¤r§°i>"¢i»)}¤€`°¢$’. more than one hundred and twenty threads to the square inch, two and °°““"“°“· three-fourths cents per square yard; containing more than one hundred ` and twenty and not more than one hundred and eighty threads to the square inch, six cents per square yard; containing more than one hundred and eighty threads to the square inch, nine cents per square yard, — and in addition thereto, on all the foregoing, thirty per centum ad
valorem: Provided, That none of the foregoing articles in this para-
' graph shall pay a less rate of duty than fifty per centum ad valorem. Woven fabrics of ilax, hemp, or ramie, or of which these substances or either of them is the component material of chief value, includin g such as is known as shirting cloth, weighing less than four and one-half ounces per square yard and containing more than one hundred threads to the square inch, counting the warp and illling, thirty-five per centum ad valorem. 347. All manufactures of flax, hemp, ramie, or other vegetable iiber, or of which these substances, or either of them, is the component material of chief value, not specially provided for in this Act, forty-five per centum ad valorem. smnm K. Scmcnutn K.-Woor. Ann Mmvursoruans or Woot. Wool and manufac-
- “"’° °f "'°°l‘ 348. All wools, hair of the camel, goat, alpaca, and other like animals shall be divided, for the purpose of Hxing the duties to be charged ·
thereon, into the three following classes: C1¤¤·i¤¤¤¢·i¤¤· 349. Class one, that is to say, merino, mestiza, metz, or metis wools, or other wools of Merino blood, immediate or remote, Down clothing wools, and wools of like character with any of the preceding, including Bagdad wool, China lamb’s wool, Castel Branco, Adrianople skin wool or butcher’s wool, and such as have been heretofore usually imported into the United States from Buenos Ayres, New Zealand, Australia, Cape of Good Hope, Russia, Great Britain, Canada, Egypt, Morocco, and elsewhere, and all wools not hereinafter included in classes two and three. ’ 350. Class two, that is to say, Leicester, Cotswold, Lincolnshire, Down combing wools, Canada long wools, or other like combing wools of English blood, and usually known by the terms herein used, and also hair of the camel, Angora goat, alpaca, and other like animals. 351. Class three, that is to say, Donskoi, native South American, Cordova, Valparaiso, native Smyrna, Russian camel’s hair, and all such wools of like character as have been heretofore usually imported into the United States from Turkey, Greece, Syria, and elsewhere, excepting improved wools hereinafter provided tor. S¤¤d¤"*•°mPl°°· 352. The standard samples of all wools which are now or may be hereafter deposited in the principal custonthouses of the United States, under the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall be the standards for the classiiicatiou of wools under this A ct, and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to renew these standards and to make such additions to them from time to time as may be required, and he shall cause to be deposited like standards in other customhouses of the United States when they may be needed. 353. Whenever wools of class three shall have been improved by the admixture of Merino or English blood, from their present character as represented by the standard samples now or hereafter to be deposited in the principal custom-houses of the United States, such improved wools shall be classitied for duty either as class one or as class two, as the case may be. 354. The duty on wools of the ilrst class which shall be imported washed shall be twice the amount of the duty to which they would be subjected if imported unwashed; and the duty on wools of the first and second classes which shall be imported scoured shall be three times the duty to which they would be subjected if imported unwashed. The
