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 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1244. 1890. 575 cents and not above four cents per pound, one and five-tenths cents scurmm c. per pound; valued above four cents and not above seven cents per f,,§f,§“QSS0f§;‘§n,Pl;f1“€g‘ pound, two cents per pound; valued above seven cents and not above ` ten cents perfpoun, two and eight-tenths cents per und;valued above ten cents an not above thirteen cents per poundjthree and one-half cents per pound ; valued above thirteen cents per pound, forty-five per centum ad valorem : Provided, That all plate iron or steel thinner amp. than number ten wire gauge shall pay duty as iron or steel sheets. wkT§*'mg’*m¤ N°· *° 139. Forgings of iron or steel, or forged iron and steel combined, of whatever shalpe, or in whatever stage of manufacture, not specially provide for in this act, two and three-tenths cents per pound: Provided, That no forgings of iron or steel, or forgings of mmm. iron and steel combined, by whatever process made, shall pay a less Minimum. rate of duty than forty-five per centum ad valorem. . 140. Hoop, or band, or scroll, or other iron or steel, valued at Hoop, em.,1¤m. three cents per pound or less, eight inches or less in width, and less than three-eighths of one inch thick and not thinner than number ten wire gauge, one cent per pound; thinner than number ten wire gauge an not thinner than number twenty wire gauge, one and onetent cents per pound; thinner than number twenty wire gauge, one and three-tenths cents per pound: Provided, That hoop or band aww. ’ iron, or hoop or band stee ,-cut to length, or wholly or artially Corwn ries, ew. manufactured into hoops or ties for balinglpurposes, barrel lioops of iron or steel, and hoop or band iron or oop or band steel flared, ` splayed or punched, with or without buckles or fastenings, shall ay two-tenths of one cent per pound more duty than that imposedp on the hoo or band iron or steel from which they are made. 141. Eailway-bars, made of iron or steel, and railway-bars made Railway 1m·¤,ew. in part of steel, T-rails, and punched iron or steel flat rails, sixtenths of one cent per pound. 142. Sheets of iron or steel, common or black, including all iron Shewircn, crc. or steel commercially known as common or black taggers iron or steel, and skelp iron or steel, valued at three cents per pound or less: Thinner than number ten and not thinner than number twenty wire gauge, one cent per pound ; thinner than number twenty wire gauge, and not thinner than number twenty-five wire gauge, one and onetenth cents per pound ; thinner than number twentpfive wire gauge, one and four-tenths cents per pound; corrugate or crimped, one and four-tenths cents per pound : Provided, That all common or Prove"- black sheet-iron or sheet-steel not thinner than number ten wire w1`Q5’§,§",;',}{‘,;f_,l"°“1°°* gauge shall pay duty as plate iron or plate steel. 143, All iron or steel s eets or §tes,‘and all hoop, band, or scroll shgg¤¤iz<->¤» ¤¤c·» iron or steel, excepting what are own commercia ly as tin plates, ' terne plates, and t gers tin, and hereinafter provided for, when galvanized or coatdd with zinc or spelter, or other metals, or any alloy of those metals, shall pay three-fourths of one cent per pound more duty than the rates imposed by the preceding paragraph upon the corresponding auges, or forms, of common or black sheet or taggers iron or steel; and on and after July nrst, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, all iron or steel sheets, or plates, or taggers iron coated with tin or lead or with a mixture of which these metals or either of them is a com onent part, by the dipping or any other process, and commercially lknown as tin plates, terne plates, and taggers tin, shall pay two and two-tenths cents per (pound: Provided, That P¤¤*·¥·<>#- on and after July first, eighteen hundred an ninety-one, manufaot- e“fi¤$¤tgg~}im¤§¤1¤$8gg·_ nres of which tin, tin plates, terne plates, taggers tin, or either of " _ ’ them, are component materials of c ief value, and all articles, vessels or wares manufactured, stamped or drawn from sheet-iron or sheet-steel, such material being the component of chief value, and coated wholl or in art with tm or lead or a mixture of which these metals or either of tlhem is a component part, shall pay a duty of