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 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1244. 1890. 595 in other custom-houses of the United States when the ma be S°¤¤>*¤·¤ K- rweded- y y ¤Q`Z¤°%tf';S£7‘Z‘If3fa°” 380. Whenever wools of class three shall have been improved by the admixture of Merino or English blood from their present character as represented by the standard samples now or hereafter to be deposite in the principal custom-houses of the United States, such improved wools shall be classified for duty either as class one or as class two, as the case ma be. 381. The duty on wools of the first class which shall be imported washed shall be twice the amount of the duty to which they would be subjected if imported unwashed · and the duty on wools of the nrst and,second classes which shall be imported scoured shall be three times the duty to which they would be subjected if imported unwashed. 382. Unwashed wools shall be considered such as shall have been shorn from the sheep without any cleansing · that is, in their natural condition. Washed wools shall be considered such as have been washed with water on the shee ’s back. Wool washed in any other manner than on the sheep’s back shall beconsidered as scoured wooL · 383. The duty ulpon wool of the sheep or hair of the camel, goat, alpaca, and other ike animals which shall be imported in any other than ordinary condition, 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 irt or any other foreign substance, or which has been sorted or increased in value by the rejection of any part of the original fleece, shall be twice the dutyto which it wou d beotherwise subject: Provided, That skirted wools novae. as now imported are hereby excepted. Wools on which a dut is g "°°!¤· °¤=· assessed amounting to three times or more than that which wouldy be assessed if said wool was impgrted unwashed, such duty shall not be doubled on account of its ing sorted. If any bale or package of wool or hair specied in this act imported as of any specified class, or claimed by the importer to be dutiable as of any specified class ‘ shall contain any wool or hair sub 'ect to a higher rate of duty than the class so specified, the whole bale or package shall be subject to the highest rate of duty chargeable on wool of the class subject to such higher rate of duty, and if any bale or package be claimed by the importer to be shoddy, mungo, flocks, wool, hair, or other material of any class specified in this act, and such bale contain any admixture of any one or more of said materials, or of any othen material, the whole bale or package shall be subject to duty at the highest rate imposed upon any article in said bale or package. 384. The duty upon all wools and hair of the iirst class shall be rmauruuey. eleven cents per_ pound, and upon all wools or hair of the second class twelve cents er pound. 385. On wools otp the third class and on camel’s hair of the third class the value whereof shall be thirteen cents or less per pound, including charges, the duty shall be thirty-two per centum ad valorem. 386. On wools of the third class, and on camel’s hair of the third class, the value whereof shall exceed thirteen cents per pound including charges the duty shall be fifty per cent. ad va orem. 387. Wools on the skin shall pay the same rate as other wools, the quantity and value to be ascertained under such rules as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe. _ 388. On noils, shoddy, top waste, slubbiug waste, roving waste, ring waste, yarn waste, garnetted waste, an all other wastes composeddwholly or in part of wool, the duty shall be thirty cents per oun. P 389. On woolen rags, mungo, and flocks, the duty shall be ten cents per pound.