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FORTY SEVEN TH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 121. 1883. 4})] SEO. 2497. No goods, wares, or merchandise, unless in cases provided _ UP°¤ i*¤P°¤'*¤· for by treaty, shall be imported into the United States from any foreign F""' °fB°°d°· °“’·· port or place, except in vessels of the United States, or in such foreign m1{°§°]§4I§;°:;Ql°' vessels as truly and wholly belong to the citizens or subjects of thaf` country of which the goods are the growth, production, or manufacture; or irom which such goods, wares, or merchandise can only be, or most usually ure, first shipped for transportation. All goods, wares, or mer- Penaltiesfor viochamhse unported mntrary to this section, and the vessel wherein the 1““°“> °"°· same shall be imported, together with her cargo, tackle, apparel, and iurmture, shall be forfeited to the United States · and such goods, wares, or merchandise, ship, or vessel, and cargo shall be liable to be seized, prosecuted, and condemned, in like manner, and under the same regul latxons, restrictions, and provisions as have been heretofore established for the recovery, collection, distribution, and remission of forfeitures to the United States by the several Revenue Laws. . Sec. 2498. The preceding section shall not apply to vessels, or goods, Pmvi¤icus,¤·L>Pliwares, or merchandise, imported in vessels of a foreign nation which °°b1° °¤1Y *0 Y°°· does not maintain 21 similar regulation against vessels of the United m°;’,:°::',{,$:,£°°3,:1}€ States. lurk . . , 6 . Sec. 2499. There shall be levied, collected, and paid on each and Ratesforarticles every nonenumerated article which bears a. similitude either in mate- '°°°’,;’u"!g,°”“'“°‘ rial, quality, texture, or the use to which it may be applied, to any arti- }:,.t°m.:‘,;§;‘;°,:{¤':,':,‘{ cle enumerated in this title 'as chargeablewith duty, the same rate of fgctumd from tw., duty which is levied and charged on the enumerated article which it or more materials. most resembles in any of the particulars before mentioned; and if any: R· S· ***99- 458- nowenumerated article equally resembles two or more enumerated articles on which diferent rates are chargeable, there shall be levied, collected and paid on such non-enumerated article the same rate of duty as is chargeable on the article which it resembles paying the highest duty; and on all articles manufactured from two or more materials the duty shall be assessed at the highest rates at which the component ma- mi ,· b. t terial of chief value may be chargeable. If two or more rates of duty ,0 m,,;,°';,,:; {,°:° should be applicable to any imported article it shall be classilied for rate or duty, cluduty under the highest of such rates: Provided, That non-enumerated ¤i¤•¤» 9¢¤— articles similar in material and quality and texture, and- the use to which Z':';", to be they may be applied, to articles on the free list and in the manufacture fm, ° °° of which no dntiable materials are used, shall the free. Sec. 2500. Upon the meimportation of articles once exported of the R e i m po rz e d growth product, or manufacture of the United States, upon which no 8°&1¤é-gg5b 459 internal tax has been assessed or paid, or upon which such tax has been • ‘ paid and refunded by allowance or drawback, there shall be levied, collected, and paid a duty equal to the tax imposed by the internal-revenue laws upon such articles · _ ‘ Btu. 2501. A discriminating duty of ten per centum ad valorem, m Memnaudimgmaddition to the duties imposed by law, shall be levied, collected, and g°¥*•°d m f°¥¤¤8¤ paid on all goods, wares and merchandise which shall be imported on °'°°1°* vessels not of the United States; but this discriminating duty shall not apply to goods, wares and merchandise which shall beimporaed invessels not of the United gtates, entitled, by treaty or any act of ongress, to be entered in the ports of the United States on payment of the same duties as shall then be paid on goods, wares, and merchandise xmported in vessels of the United States. _ _ Sec. 2502. There shall be levied, collected, and paid upon all articles nam of duty on ‘ imported from tbreign countries, and mentioned m the schedules herem www \¤¤P°!'*°dn contained, the rates of duty which are,_by the schedules, respechvely °*°· prescribed, namely : Scmsizumz A-Crmmclu. Pnonucrs. scixrnumn Gl twent er centum ad valorem. Chemical Betejywax, tvfegty per centum ad valorem. P*°d“°°'- Gelatine and all similar preparations, thirty per centum cd valorem.