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 TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 75. 1846. 49 nut-galls; pearl, mother of; pewter, when old, and fit only to be remanufactured; rags, of whatever material; raw hides and skins of all kinds, whether dried, salted, or pickled, not otherwise provided for; sadiower; saltpetre, or nitrate of soda, or pctash, when crude; seedlac; shellac ; sumac; tin, in pigs, bars, or blocks; tortoise, and other shells unmanufactnred; turmeric; waste, or shoddy; weld; zinc, spelter, or teutenegue, unmanufactured, not otherwise provided for. Scnnnnmt I.—(Exempt from dum.) Animals imported for breed; bullion, gold and silver; cabinets of Schedule I,excoins, medals, and other collections of antiquities; coffee and tea, °¤P*f'°¤d“*!· when imported direct from the place of their growth or production, in American vessels, or in foreign vessels entitled by reciprocal treaties to be exempt from discriminating duties, tonnage, and other charges, coffee, the growth or production of the possessions of the Netherlands, imported from the Netherlands in the same manner; coins, gold, silver, and copper; copper ore; copper, when imported for the United States mint; cotton; felt, adhesive, for sheathing vessels; garden seeds, and all other seeds, not otherwise provided for; goods, wares, and merchandise, the growth, produce, or manufacture, of the United States, exported to a foreign country, and brought back to the United States in the same condition as when exported, upon which no drawback or bounty has been allowed ; -—-Provided, That all regulations to ascertain the identity thereof prescribed by existing laws, or which may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall be complied with ;·-—guano; household effects, old and in use, of persons or families from foreign countries, if used abroad by them, and not intended for any other person or persons, or for sale; junk, old; models of inventions and otherimprovements in the arts ;-— Provided, That no article or articles shall be deemed a model or improvement, which can be fitted for use;——oakum; oil, spermaceti, whale, and other ish, of American fisheries, and all other articles the produce of such fisheries; paintings and statuary, the production of American artists residing abroad, and all other paintings and statuary; —-·Pravided, The same be imported in good faith as objects of taste, and not of merchandise; — personal and household effects (not merchandise) of citizens of the United States dying abroad; plaster of Paris, unground; platina, unmanufactured; sheathing copper, but no copper to be considered such, and admitted free, except in sheets forty-eight inches long and fourteen inches wide, and weighing from fourteen to thirty-four ounces the square foot; sheathing metal ; specimens of natural history, mineralogy, or botany; trees, shrubs, bulbs, plants, and roots, not otherwise provided for; wearing apparel in actual use, and other personal eifects not merchandise, professional books, implements, instruments, and tools of trade, occupation, or employment, of persons arriving in the United States;-Provided, That this exemption shall not be construed to include machinery or other articles imported for use in any manufacturing establishment, or for sale. Approved, July 30, 1846. Crux-. LXXV.—.£n Act to exempt Cafes importedfram the Netherlands from August 3, 1846. Duty in certain Cases, and for other Punwse:. "*""""*' Be it enacted by the Senate and House ty" Representatives of the United States of America, in Chngress assembled, That, from and after the passage of this act, coffee, the production or growth of the C¤¤`¤¤ ¤¤|>¤¤·· Vox,. IX. Pun.-7