[PUBLIC-NO. 16.]

[H. R. 3321.]

An Act To reduce tariff duties and to provide revenue for the Government, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That on and after the day following the passage of this Act, except as otherwise specially provided for in this Act, there shall be levied, collected, and paid upon all articles when imported from any foreign country into the United States or into any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila) the rates of duty which are by the schedules and paragraphs of the dutiable list of this section prescribed, namely:

DUTIABLE LIST.

SCHEDULE A-CHEMICALS, OILS, AND PAINTS.

1. Acids: Boracic acid, cent per pound; citric acid, 5 cents per pound; formic acid, 14 cents per pound; gallic acid, 6 cents per pound; lactic acid, 1 cents per pound; oxalic acid, 1 cents per pound; pyrogallic acid, 12 cents per pound; salicylic acid, 2 cents per pound; tannic acid and tannin, 5 cents per pound; tartaric acid, 3 cents per pound; all other acids and acid anhydrides not specially provided for in this section, 15 per centum ad valorem.

2. Acetic anhydrid, 2 cents per pound.

3. Acetone, 1 cent per pound.

4. Dried egg albumen, 3 cents per pound.

5. Alkalies, alkaloids, and all chemical and medicinal compounds, preparations, mixtures and salts, and combinations thereof not specially provided for in this section, 15 per centum ad valorem.

6. Alumina, hydrate of, or refined bauxite; alum, alum cake, patent alum, sulphate of alumina, and aluminous cake, and all other manufactured compounds of alumina, not specially provided for in this section, 15 per centum ad valorem.

7. Ammonia, carbonate of, and muriate of, of 1 cent per pound; phosphate of, 1 cent per pound; liquid anhydrous, 2 cents per pound; ammoniacal gas liquor, 10 per centum ad valorem.

8. Argols or crude tartar or wine lees crude or partly refined, containing not more than 90 per centum of potassium bitartrate, 5 per centum ad valorem; containing more than 90 per centum of potassium bitartrate, cream of tartar, and Rochelle salts or tartrate of soda and potassa, 23 cents per pound; calcium tartrate crude, 5 per centum ad valorem.

9. Balsams: Copaiba, fir or Canada, Peru, tolu, and all other balsams, which are natural and uncompounded and not suitable for the manufacture of perfumery and cosmetics, if in a crude state, not advanced in value or condition by any process or treatment whatever Pub. No. 16-13—1