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 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 11. 1897. 183 duty on wools of the third class, if imported in condition for use in WS¤{¤*¤>g¤¤ KM carding or spinning into yarns, or which shall not contain more than e¤r¤g(t£j.li:¤¤iI1¤il?ueli.°` eight per cent of dirt or other foreign substance, shall be three times the duty to which they would otherwise be subjected. 355. 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 only on the sheep’s back, or on the skin. Wools of the iirst and second classes washed in any other manner than on the sheep’s back or on the skin shall be considered as scoured wool. 356. The duty upon wool of the sheep or hair of the camel, Angora goat, alpaca, and other like animals, of class one and class two, which shall be imported in any other than ordinary condition, or which has been sorted or increased in value by the rejection of any part of the original fleece, shall be twice the duty to which it would be otherwise subject: Provided, That skirted wools as imported in eighteen hundred g;?;}.;- I _ and ninety and prior thereto are hereby excepted. The duty upon wool mm, w°° ° °x of the sheep or hair of the camel, Angora goat, alpaca, and other like animals of any class which shall be changed in its character or condi— tion for the purpose of evading the duty, or which shall be reduced in value by the admixture of dirt or any other foreign substance, shall be twice the duty to which it would be otherwise subject. When the duty assessed upon any wool equals three times or more that which would be assessed if said_ wool was imported unwashed, the duty shall not be doubled on account of the wool being sorted. If any bale or package of wool or hair specified in this Act invoiced or entered as of any specified class, or claimed by the importer to be dutiable as of any specified class, shall contain any wool or hair subject 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 other material, the whole bale or package shall be subject to duty at the highest rate imposed upon any article in said bale or package. 357. The duty upon all wools and hair of the nrst class shall be %',,*§f,f"` °“°*’· eleven cents per pound, and upon all wools or hair of the second class twelve cents per pound. 358. On wools of the third class and on camel’s hair of the third class the value whereof shall be twelve cents or less per pound, the duty shall be four cents per pound. 359. On wools of the third class, and on camel’s hair of the third class, the value whereof shall exceed twelve cents per pound, the duty shall be seven cents per pound. 360. The duty on wools on the skin shall be one cent less per pound than is imposed in this schedule on other wools of the same class and condition, the quantity and value to be ascertained under such rules as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe. 361. Top waste, slubbing waste, roving waste, ring waste, and garnetted waste, thirty cents per pound. 362. Shoddy, twenty-five cents per pound; noils, wool extract, yarn waste, thread waste, and all other wastes composed wholly or in part of wolol, and not specially provided for in this Act, twenty cents per poun. 363. Woolen rags. mungo, and ilocks, ten cents per pound. 364. Wool and hair which have been advanced in any manner or by any process of manufacture beyond the washed or scoured condition, not_specially provided for in this Act, shall be subject to the same duties as are imposed upon manufactures of wool not specially provided for in this Act. `