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 THIRTY——SlXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 68. 1861. 193 Parasols and sunshaldes ; Parchment ; Plated and gilt ware of all kinds; Playing cards; Prepared vegetables, meats, ish, poultry, and game, sealed or unscaled, in cans or otherwise; Red chalk pencils ; Salmon, preserved ; Scagliola tops, for tables or other articles of furniture ; Sealing-wax ; Side arms of every description ; Silvenplated metal, in sheets or other form ; Slates, rooting slates, slate pencils, slate chimney pieces, mantels, slabs for tables, and all other manufactures of slate; Soap, castile, perfumed, Windsor, and all other kinds ; Twines and packthread, of whatever material composed, not otherwise provided for; Umbrellas ; Unwrought clay, three dollars per ton ; Post, p. 294. Vellum ; velvet, when printed or painted ; Wafers; water colors; Webbing composed of wool, cotton, flax, or any other materials. S1:0. 23. And be it further enacted, That from and after the day and Aflicles free of year aforesaid, the importation of the articles hereinafter mentioned and duty' embraced in this section shall be exempt from duty, that is to say: Acids, acetic, acetous, benzoic, boracic, muriatic, sulphuric, and pyroligneous, and all acids of every description used for chemical and manufacturing purposes, not otherwise provided for; Alcornoque; All books, maps, charts, mathematical, nautical instruments, philosophical apparatus, and all other articles whatever, imported for the use of the United States; all philosophical apparatus, instruments, books, maps, and charts, statues, statuary, busts and casts of marble, bronze, alabaster, or plaster of Paris; paintings and drawings, etchings, specimens of sculpture, cabinets of coins, medals, regalia, gems, and all collections of antiquities: Provided, The same be specially imported, in good faith, for the use Proviso. 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 the order of any college, academy, school, or seminary of learning in the United States; Ambergris; Annatto, Roncou or Orleans; Animal carbon, (bone black) ; Animals, living, of all kinds ; Antimony, crude or regulus of ; Argol, or crude tartar; Arsenic ; Articles in a crude state used in dyeing or tanning, not otherwise provided for; Asphaltum; Bananas; Bark, Peruvian, or bark quilla; Barilla, and soda ash; Bells, old, and bell metal; Berries, nuts, {lowers, plants, and vegetables used exclusively in dyeing or in composing dyes; but no article shall be classed as such that has undergone any manufacture; Birds, singing or other, and land and water fowls; Bismuth ; von. xm Pun.--25