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162 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. OH. 11. 1897. scumqrn c. other metal, two-tenths of one cent per mund in addition to ,§°f,l€$,,},",{,,,,,,,,_ the rate imposed on the wire from which it IS made. General provisions. GENERAL PROVISIONS. No me snowman. 138. No allowance or reduction of duties for partial loss or damage in consequence of rust or of discoloration shall be made upon any description of iron or steel, or upon any article wholly or partly manufactured of iron or steel, or upon any manufacture of iron or steel. Mmm of ,,.,,,,;_ 139. All metal produced from iron or its ores, which is cast and malleable, of whatever description or form, without regard to the percentage of carbon contained therein, whether produced by cementation, or converted, cast, or made from iron or its ores, by the erucible, Bessemer, Clapp-Grithth, pneumatic, Thomas-Gilchrist, basic, Siemens-Martin, or open-hearth process, or by the equivalent of either, or by a combination of two or more of the processes, or their equivalents, or by any fusion or other process which produces from iron or its ores a metal either granular or fibrous in structure, which is cast and malleable, excepting what is known as mal1eable—iron castings, shall be classed and denominated as steel. _ _ _ Amd" mum 140. No article not specially provided for 111 this Act, which IS wholly emu from tin plate, or partly manufactured from tin plate, terne plate, or the sheet, plate, °‘°· hoop, band, or scroll iron or steel herein provided for, or of which such tin plate, terne plate, sheet, plate, hoop, band, or scroll iron or steel shall be the material of chief value, shall pay a lower rate of duty than that imposed on the tin plate, terne plate, or sheet, plate, hoop, band, or scroll iron or steel from which it is made, or of which it shall be the component thereof of chief value. ,,;,1,,,,,,,,; m,, f.,, 141. On all iron or steel bars or rods of whatever shape or section •=¤¤·¤¤¤¤•i¤¤•»·*¤· which are cold rolled, cold drawn, cold hammered, or polished in any way in addition to the ordinary process of hot rolling or hammering, there shall be paid one-fourth of one cent per pound in addition to the rates provided in this Act on bars or rods of whatever section or shape which are hot rolled; and on all strips, plates, or sheets of iron or steel of whatever shape, other than the polished, planished, or glanced sheetiron or sheet-steel hereinbefore provided for, which are cold rolled, cold hammered, blued, brightened, tempered, or polished by any process to such perfected surface finish or polish better than the grade of cold rolled, smoothed only, hereinbefore provided ior, there shall be paid one cent per pound in addition to the rates provided in this Act upon plates, strips, or sheets of iron or steel of common or black finish; and on steel circular saw plates there shall be paid one—ha1f of one cent por 4»»,p. mi. pound in addition to the rate provided in this Act for steel saw plates. Mauufncturesofiron MLNUFACTURES OF IRON AND STEEL. and steel. 142. Anvils of iron or steel, or of iron and steel combined, by whatever process made, or in whatever stage of manufacture, one and seveneighths cents per pound. 1-13. Axles, or parts thereof, axle bars, axle blanks, or forgings for axles, whether of iron or steel, without reference to the stage or state of manufacture, valued at not more than six cents per pound, one cent Qing)- mm, in per pound: Proritled, That when iron or steel axles are imported fitted wma. _ in wheels, or parts of wheels, of iron or steel, they shall be dntiable at "°*'·P· ‘“·’· the same rate as the wheels in which they are fitted. 11-1. Blacksmiths’ hammers and sledges, track tools, wedges, and crowbars, whether of iron or steel, one and one-half cents per pound. 145. Bolts, with or without threads or nuts, or boltblanks, and tin ished hinges or hinge-blanks, whether of iron or steel, one and one-half cents per pound. 14.6. Card-clothing manufactured from tempered steel wire, forty-five cents per square foot; all other, twenty cents per square foot.