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 500 FORTY-SEVEN TH CONGRESS. SEss. H. C11. 121. 1883. Scmnuu number ten wire gauge, one and one·half cents per pound ; smaller than C- number ten and not smaller than number sixteen wire gauge, two cents u°"?1°’ per pound- smaller than number sixteen and not smaller than number continued. . 7 . twenty-six wire gauge, two and one-half cents per pound; smaller than number twenty-six wire gauge, three cents per pound: Provided, That iron or steel wire covered with cotton, silk, or other material, and wire commonly known as crinoline, corset, and hat wire, shall pay four cents per pound in addition to the foregoing rates : And provided further, That no article made from iron or steel wire, or of which iron or steel wire is a component part of chief value, shall pay a less rate of duty than the iron or steel wire from which it is made either wholly or in part : And providcdfurther, That iron or steel wire-cloths, and iron or steel wire-nettings, made in meshes of any form, shall pay a duty equal in amount to that imposed on iron or steel wire of the same gauge, and two cents per pound in addition thereto. There shall be paid on galvanized iron or steel wire (except fence wire), one half of one cent per pound in addition to the rate imposed on the wire of which it is made. On iron wire rope and wire strand, one cent per pound in addition to the rates imposed on the wire of which it is made. On steel wire rope and wire strand, two cents per pound in addition to the rates imposed on the wire of which it is made. Steel, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, forty-five percentum ad valorem: Provided, That all metal produced from iron or its ores, which is cast and malleable, of whatever description or form, without regard to the percentage of carbon contained therein, whether produced by cementation, or converted, cast, or made from iron or its ores, by the cruciblc, Bessemer, pneumatic, Thomas-Gilchrist, basic, Siemens—Martin, or open-hearth process, or by the equivalent of either, or by the combination of two or more of the processe, or their equivalents, or by any fusion or other process which produces from iron or its ores a metal either granular or fibrous in structure, which is cast and malleable, excepting what is known as malleable iron castings, shall be - classed and denominated as steel. · No allowance or reduction of duties for partial loss or damage in consequence of rust or of discoloration shall be made upon any description of iron or steel, or upon any partly manufactured article of iron or steel, or upon any manufacture of iron and steel. Argentine, alhata, or German silver, unmanufactured, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. Copper, imported in the form of ores, two and one-half cents on each pound of fine copper contained therein; regulus· of and black or coarse copper, and copper cement, three and one-half cents on each pound of fine copper contained therein; old copper, fit only for remanufacture, clippings from new copper, and all composition metal of which copper is a component material of chief value not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, three cents per pound; copper in plates, bars, ingots, Uhili or other pigs, and in other forms, not manufactured, or enumerated in this act, four cents per pound; in rolled plates, called brazier’s copper, sheets, rods, pipes, and copper bottoms, and all manuthetnres of copper, or of which copper shall be a component of chief value, not specially enumerated or provided f6r in this act, thirty-five per ccntum ad valorem. Brass, in bars or pig, old brass, and clippings from brass or Dutch metal, one and one-half cent per pound. Lead orc, and lead dross, one and one-half cent per pound. _ Lead, in pigs and bars, molten and old refuse lead run into blocks and bars, and old scrap lead, lit only to be remanufactured, two cents per pound. Lead, in sheets, pipes, or shot, three cents per pound. _ Nickel, in ore, matte, or other crude form not ready for consumption in the arts, fifteen cents per pound on the nickel contained therein.