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 168 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sns. I. Ch. 11. 1897. wmy$®_ 202. Pickets, palings and staves of wood, of all kinds, ten per centum muses-crmnma. Bd V=rl01‘¤¤1- 203. Shingles, thirty cents per thousand. 204. Casks, barrels, and hogsheads, (empty), sugar-box shooks,'and. packing-boxes (empty), and packing-box shooks, of wood, not specially provided for in this Act, thirty per centum ad valorem. 205. Boxes, .barrels,‘ or other articles containing oranges, lemons, limes, grape fruit, shaddocks or pomelos, thirty per centum ad valoremz mm. Provided, That the thin wood, so called, comprising the sides, tops and 0¤¤¤z¤ ¤¤¤ *°¤·°¤ bottoms of orange and lemon boxes of the growth and manufacture lm °h°°k°` of the United States, exported as orange and lemon box shooks, may be reimported in completed form, filled with oranges and lemons, by the payment of duty at one-half the rate imposed on similar boxes of entirely foreign growth and manufacture. 206. Chair cane or reeds, wrought or manufactured from rattans or reeds, ten per centum ad valorem; osier or willow prepared for basket makers’ use, twenty per centum ad valorem; manufactures of osier or willow, forty per centum ad valorem. _ 207. Toothpicks of wood or other vegetable substance, two cents per one thousand and fifteen per centum ad valorem; butchers’ and packers’ skewers of wood, forty cents per thousand. 208. House or cabinet turniture, of wood, wholly or partly finished, and manufactures of wood, or of which wood is the component material of chief value, not specially provided for in this Act, thirty-five per centum ad valorem. Sugxgknl SCHEDULE E.—SUGAB., MOLASSES, AND MANUFACTUBES oF. and rnariuhctures nf., 209. Sugars not above number sixteen Dutch standard in color, tank bottoms, sirups of cane juice, melada, concentrated melada, concrete and concentrated molasses, testing by the polariscope not above seventy- five degrees, ninety-five one-hundredths of one cent per pound, and for every additional degree shown by the polariscopic test, thirty-five onethousandths of one cent per pound additional, and fractions of a degree in proportion; and on ngar above number sixteen Dutch standard in color, and on all sugar which has gone through a process of refining, one cent and ninety-five one-hundredths of one cent per pound; molasses testing above torty degrees and not above fifty-six degrees, three cents per gallon; testing fifty-six degrees and above, six cents per gallon; sugar (trainings and sugar sweepin gs shall be subiect to duty as 1ll0ll\S~ ses or sugar, as the case may be, according ·to polariscopic test: Prol·r¤¤·i»·»· vided, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to abro- ,m%:g}_f_°°°"*°*>"*°* gate or in any manner impair or affect the provisions of the treaty of ven. ig.p.•r:s. commercial reciprocity concluded between the United States and the $2} §·g· (Q lj}? Kin g of the Hawaiian Islands on the thirtieth day of January, eighteen i hundred and seventy-five, or the provisions of any Act of Congress heretofore passed for the execution of the same. 210. Maple sugar and maple sirup, four cents per pound; glucose or grape sugar, one and one-half cents per pound; sugar cane in its natural state, or unmanufactured. twenty per centum ad valorem. 211. Saccharine, one dollar and fifty cents per pound and ten per centum ad valorem. 212. Sugar candy and all confectionery not specially provided for in this Act, valued at fifteen cents per pound or less, and on sugars after being refined, when tinctured, colored or in any way adulterated, four cents per pound and liiteen per centum ad valorem; valued at more than fifteen cents per pound, fifty per centum ad valorem. The weight and the value of the immediate coverings, other than the outer packing case or other covering, shall be included in the dutiable weight andthe value of the merchandise.