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 526 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 349. 1894. $•€¤¤¤°*:* H- other vessels containing more than one quart each, in addition Esmeg to eight dollars per dozen bottles, on the quantity in excess of °°¤'=l¤¤•*· one quart, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per gallon. sun vim. 244. Still wines, including ginger wine or ginger cordial and vermuth, in casks or packages other than bottles or jugs, if containing fourteen per centum or less of absolute alcohol, thirty cents per gallon; if containing more than fourteen per centum of absolute alcohol, fifty cents per gallon. In bottles or jugs,per case of one dozen bottles or jugs, containing each not more than one quart and more than one pint, or twenty-four bottles or jugs containing each not more than one pint, one dollar and sixty cents per case; and any excess beyond these quantities found in such bottles or jugs shall be ubject to a duty of live cents per pint ` or fractional part thereof, but no separate or additional duty hum. shall be assessed on the bottles or jugs: Provided, That any ,,,€,.‘,‘,§fm°'°'°° " wines, ginger cordial, or vermuth imported containing more than twenty-four per centum of alcohol shall beclassed as spirits ` and pay duty accordingly: A nd provided further, That there N0lm•k·ng¢. •t¤-. shall be no constructive or other allowance for breakage, leak- "n‘"""°°‘ age, or damage on wines, liquors,-cordials, or distilled spirits. Wines, cordials, brandy, and other spirituous liquors imported in bottles or jugs shall be packed in packages containing not less than one dozen bottles or jugs in each package, or duty shall be paid as if such package contained at least one dozen bottles or jugs. The percentage of alcohol in wines and fruit juices shall be determined in such manner as the Secretary of the Treasury shall by regulation prescribe. . om: bovcnnn. 245. Ale, porter, and beer, in bottles or jugs, thirty cents per gallon, but no separate or additional duty shall he assessed on the bottles or jugs; otherwise than in bottles or jugs, fifteen cents per gallon. 246. Malt extract, including all preparations bearing the name and commercially known as such, fluid in casks, fifteen cents per gallon; in bottles or jugs, thirty cents per gallon; solid or condensed, thirty per centum ad valorem. . 247. Cherryjuice and prune juice or prune wine, and other fruit juice not specially provided for in this Act, containing eighteen per centum or less of alcohol, fifty cents per gallon; if containing more than eighteen per centum of alcohol, one dollar and eighty cents per proof gallon. 248. Ginger ale or ginger beer, twenty per centum ad valorem, but no separate or additional duty shall be assessed on the bottles. Amacai mineral 249. All imitations of natural mineral waters, and all artificial min- '•‘°”- eral waters, twenty per centum ad valorem. m€:§$:E;°:‘::'r¤¤- SCHEDULE I.—COTT(}N MANUi=·AotrU1ms. rama mi ,-sm. 250. Uotton thread and carded yarn, warps or warp yarn, in singles, whether on beams or in bundles, skeins or cops, or in any other form, except spool thread of cotton hereinafter provided for, not colored, bleached, dyed, or advanced beyond the condition of singles by grouping or twisting two or more single yarns together, three cents per pound on all numbers up to and including number fifteen, one-fifth of a cent per number per pound on all numbers exceeding number fifteen and up to and including number thirty, and one-quarter of a cent per number per pound on all numbers exceeding number thirty; colored, bleached, dyed, combed or advanced beyond the condition of singles by grouping or twisting two or more single yarns together, whether on beams, or in bundles, skeins or cops, or in any other form, except spool thread of cotton hereinafter provided for, six cents per pound on all numbers up to and including number twenty, and on all numbers hmm exceeding number twenty, three-tenths of a cent per number per pound; M,,,,,,,§;,,_ Provided however, That in no case shall the duty levied exceed eight