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 508 FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 121. 1883. · Scuznmn Scanners K.-Woot. un Woornss. K.. Yxmd · All wools, hair of the alpaca, goat, and other like animals, shall be divided, for the purpose of fixing the duties to be charged thereon, into the three following classes: _ _ CLASS ONE, CLOTHING WOOLs.—That is to say, merino, mestiza, _ metz, or metis wools, or other wools of merino blood, immediate or remotefdown clothing wools, and wools of like character with any of the preceding, including such as have been heretofore usually imported into the United States from Buenos Ayre, New Zealand, Australia, Cape of Good Hope, Russia, Great Britain, Canada, and elsewhere, and also including all wools not hereinafter described or designated in classes two and three. ` CLASS rwo, commute woors.-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 all hair of the alpaca, goat, and other like animals. CLASS THREE, churnr WOOLS AND orunn simmluz WooLs.—Such as Donskoi, native South American, Cordova,Valparaiso, native Smyrna, and including all such wools of like character as have been heretofore usually imported into the United States from Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Syria, and elsewhere. - The duty on wools of the iirst class which shall be imported washed shall be twice the amount of the duty to which they would be subjected if imported unwa shed; and the duty on wools of all classes which shall ` ‘ be imported scoured shall be three times the duty to which they would bc subjected if imported unwashed. The duty upon wool of the sheep, ‘ or hair of the alpaca, goat, and other like animals, which, shall be imported in any other than ordinary condition, as now and heretofore practiced, or which shall be changed in its character or condition for the purpose of evading the duty, or which shall be reduced` in value by the admixture of dirt or any other foreign substance, shall be twice the duty to which it would be otherwise subject. _ Wools of the iirst class, the value whereof at the last port or place ‘ whence exported to the United States, excluding charges in such port, shall be thirty cents or less per pound, ten cents per pound; wools of the same class, the value whereof at the last port or place whence exported to the United States, excluding charges in such port, shall exceed thirty cents per pound, twelve cents per pound. Wools of the second class, and all hair of the alpaca, goat, and other like aniuxals,_the value whereof, at the last port or place whence exported to the United States, excluding charges in such port, shall be thirty cents orless per pound, ten cents per pound; wools of the same class, the value whereof at the last port or place whence exported to the United States, excluding charges in such port, shall exceed thirty cents per pound, twelve cents per pound. Wools of the third class, the value whereof, at the last port or place whence exported to the United States, excluding charges in such port, shall be twelve cents or less per pound, two and a hal f cents per pound; wools of the same class, the value whereof, at the last port or place whence exported to the United States, excluding charges in such port, shall exceed twelve cents per pound, five cents per pound. Wools on the skin, the same rates as other wools, the quantity and value to be ascertained under such rules as the Secretary of the Treas ury may prescribe. Woolen rags, shoddy, mungo, waste, and flocks, ten cents per pound. Woolen cloths, wooleu shawls, and all manufactures of wool of every description, made wholly or in part of wool, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, valued at not exceeding eighty cents per pound, thirty-tive cents per pound and thirty-tive per centum ad valorem; valued at above eighty cents per pound, thirty-five cents per pound, and in addition thereto forty per centum ad valorem.