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FIFTY-FIFTH ooseunss. snss. 1. cu. 11. iser. 161 them, is a component part, by the dipping or any other process, and MQCFEDQIIE C- f commercially known as tin plates, terne plates, and taggers tin, one mss %i?]50ii]iilf$1eIf?` and one-half cents per pound. 135. Steel in gots, cogged in gots, blooms, and slabs, by whatever proc- $*6*** i¤g°*¤··¤*¤· ess made; die blocks or blanks; billets and bars and tapered or beveled bars; mill shafting; pressed, sheared, or stamped shapes; saw Saw platesplates, wholly or partially manufactured; hammer molds or swaged steel; gun-barrel molds not in bars; alloys used as substitutes for steel in the manufacture of tools; all descriptions and shapes of dry sand, loam, or iron-molded steel castings; sheets and plates and steel in all forms and shapes not specially provided for in this Act, all of the above valued at one cent per pound or less, three-tenths of one cent per pound ; valued above one cent and not above one and four·tenths cents per pound, four-tenths of one cent per pound; valued above one and fourtenths cents and not above one and eight-tenths cents per pound, sixtenths of one cent per pound; valued above one and eight-tenths cents and not above two and two-tenths cents per pound, seven-tenths of one cent per pound; valued above two and two-tenths cents and not above ‘ three cents per pound, nine-tenths of one cent per pound; valued above three cents per pound and not above four cents per pound, one and two-tenths cents per pound; valued above four cents and not above seven cents per pound, one and three-tenths cents per pound; valued above seven cents and not above ten cents per pound, two cents per pound; valued above ten cents and not above thirteen cents per pound, two and four-tenths cents per pound; valued above thirteen cents and not above sixteen cents per pound, two and eight-tenths cents per pound; valued above sixteen cents per pound, four and seven-tenths cents per pound. WIRE ; Wire. 136. Wire rods: Rivet, screw, fence, and other iron or steel wire rods, R°“°· whether round, oval, ilat, or square, or in any other shape, and nail rods, in coils or otherwise, valued at four cents or less per pound, four-tenths of one cent per pound; valued over four cents per pound, three-fourths of one cent per pound : Provided, §j_°m*;’_-jas That all round iron or steel rods smaller than number six wire ` gauge shall be classed and dutiable as wire: Provided jurther, That all iron or steel wire rods which have been tempered or A<l<¤¤<·¤¤1 duty treated in any manner or partly manufactured shall pay an "’h°‘"°"‘”°'°°‘°t°‘ additional duty of one-half of one cent per pound. _ 137. Round iron or steel wire, not smaller than number thirteen wire R°““" “°“·°‘°· gauge, one and one-fourth cents per pound; smaller than number thirteen and not smaller than number sixteen wire gauge, one and one-half cents per pound; smaller than number sixteen _ wire gauge, two cents per pound: Provided, That all the fore- €;‘{f,§_‘{’j;,m0m,m going valued at more than four cents per pound shall pay forty 4 cents per pound to per centum ad valorem. Iron or steel or other wire not specially *’“’ “" ‘"‘l°"“‘ "“”" provided for in this Act, including such as is commonly known as hat wire, or bonnet wire, crinoline wire, corset wire, needle wire, piano wire, clock wire, and watch wire, whether flat or otherwise, and corset clasps, corset steels and dress steels, and sheet steel in strips, twenty-tive one—th0usandths of an inch thick or thinner, any of the foregoing, whether uncovered or covered with cotton, silk, metal, or other material, valued at more than four cents per pound, forty-five per centum ad valorem: Provided, That articles manufactured from iron, M**¤¤‘**°°“’°¤· steel, brass, or copper wire, shall pay the rate of duty imposed upon the wire used in the manufacture of such articles, and in addition thereto one and one-fourth cents per pound, except that wire rope and wire strand shall pay the maximum rate or duty which would be imposed upon any wire used in the manufacture thereof, and in addition thereto one cent per pound; and on iron or steel wire coated with zinc, tin, or any vox, xxx--11