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 576 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. On. 1244. 1890. MmE£mM_ fifty-five ppr centum ad valorem; Provided further, That on and mires or-continued. after Octo er first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, tm plates and mT‘,‘;§“&"§*Q;,,°‘(§’_;;_ ‘f terne plates lighter in weight than sixty-three pounds lper hundred wm, mm domestic square feet shall be admitted free of duty, unless it sha be made to ,EY,°Ji$°°""° °°°’°°° appear to the satisfaction of the President (who Shall thereupon by .qmmu¢y. proclamation make known the fact) that the aggregate quantity of such plates lighter than sixty-three pounds per un red square feet produced in the United States during either of the six years next preceding June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, has equaled one-third the amount of such plates imported an entered for consumption during any Hscal year a ter the passage of this act, and prior to said October first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven: Pronmwmcks mt m- vided, That the amount of such plates manufactured into articles ‘°l“d°"· exported, and upon which a drawback shall be paid, shall not be included in ascertaining the amount of such importations: And rowesgnt or entire vided further, That the amount or weight of sheet iron or sheet '“‘“°“"“l ‘“°l"“°°· steel manufactured in the United States and applied or wrought in the manufacture of articles or wares tinned or terne-plated in the United States, with weight allowance as sold to manufacturers or » others, shall be considered as tin and terne plates produced in the United States within the meaning of this act. ?l’°““h°d· °“’· 144. Sheet-iron or sheet-steel, polished, planished, or glanced, by whatever name designated, two and one-half cents per pound : Pm- -Pr<>vi•¤- vided, That plate or sheet or ta gers iron or steel, by whatever name designated, other than the poli.§1ed, planished, or glanced herein pro- `Picldcd, ew. vided for, which has been pickled or cleaned by acid, or by any other , material or process, or which is cold-rolled, smoothed on y, not polished, shall pay one-quarter of one cent per und more duty than the cpriiesponding gauges of common or lackosheet or taggers iron or s ee. __m'*`;°,P‘;§;· °*<=··¤¤°” 1-15. Sheets or plates of iron or steel, or taggers iron or steel, 'coated with tin or ead, or with a mixture of which these metals, or either of them, is a component part, by the dipping or any other process, and commercially known as tin plates, terne plates, and taggers tin, one cent per pound until July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one. =$¤¤¤1i¤z<>t·¤.ew. M6. Steel ingots, co ged ingots, blooms, and slabs, by Whatever process made; die blocks or blanks; billets and bars and tapered or eveled bars; steamer, crank, and other shafts ; shafting; wrist or crank pins; connecting-rods and piston-rods; pressed, sheared, or stamped shapes; saw-plates, wholly or partially manufactured; hammer—mol s or swaged-steel ; gun- arrel molds 11ot in bars ; alloys used as substitutes for steel tools; all descri tions and shapes of dry sand, loam, or iron-molded steel castings; sheets and plates not specially provided for in this act ; and steel in all forms and shapes not special y provided for in this act; all of the above valued at one cent per pound or less, four-tenths of one cent per pound; valued above one cent and not above one and four-tenths cents per pound, five-tenths of one cent per pound ; valued above one and our-tenths cents and not above one and eight-tenths cents per pound, eighttenths of one cent per pound; valued above one and eight-tenths cents and not above two and two tenths cents er pound, nine-tenths of one cent per pound; valued above two andptwo-tenths cents, and not above three cents per pound, one and two-tenths cents per pound ; valued above three cents and not above four cents per pound, one and six—tenths cents per pound; valued above four cents and not above seven cents per pound, two cents per pound; valued above seven cents and not above ten cents per pound, two and eight—tenths cents per pound; valued above ten cents and not above thirteen cents per pound, three and one·half cents per pound; valued above thirteen cents and not above sixteen cents per pound, four and twotenths cents per pound ; valued above Sixteen cents per pound, seven cents per pound.