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190 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. SESs. I. Ch. 11. 1897. SuSlfg:Qg:*¥C§hdD_ tan, whether wholly or partly manufactured, but not trimmed, thirty- wi. five per centum ad valorem; if trimmed, nfty per centum ad valorem. But the terms "grass” and “ straw " shall be understood to mean these siebstances in their natural form and structure, and not the separated fi r thereof. 410. Brushes, brooms and feather dusters of all kinds, and hair pencils in quills or otherwise, forty per centum ad valorem. 411. Bristles, sorted, hunched or prepared, seven and one-half cents per pound. ,m*?;:*°¤· •¤d l*¤*'·>¤ Burrows AND BUrr0N Fonms: ` 412. Trousers buckles made wholly or partly of iron or steel, or parts thereof, valued at not more than fifteen cents per hundred, five cents per hundred; valued at more than fifteen cents per hundred and not more than fifty cents per hundred, ten cents per hundred; valued at more than fifty cents per hundred, fifteen cents per hundred; and in addition thereto on each and all of The above buckles or parts of buckles, fifteen per centum ad va orem. 413. Button forms: Lastings, mohair, cloth, silk, or other manufactures of cloth, woven or made in patterns of such size, shape, or form, or cut in such manner as to be fit for buttons exclusively, ten per centum ad valorem. 414. Buttons or parts of buttons and button molds or blanks, nnished or unfinished, shall pay duty at the following rates, the line button measure being one-fortieth of one inch, namely : Buttons known commercially as agate buttons, metal trousers buttons, (except steel), and nickel bar buttons, one—twelfth of one cent per line per gross; buttons of bone, and steel trousers buttons, ` one-fourth of one cent per line per gross; buttons of pearl or shell, one and one-half cents per line per gross; buttons of horn, vegetable ivory, glass, or metal, not specially provided for in this Act, three-fourths of one cent per line per gross, and in addition thereto, on all the foregoing articles in this paragraph, fifteen per centum ad valorem; shoe buttons made of paper, board, papier mache, pulp or other similar material, not specially provided for in this Act, valued at not exceeding three cents per gross, one cent per gross; buttons not specially provided for in this Act, and all collar or cuff buttons and studs, fifty per centum ad valorem. CML 415. Coal, bituminous, and all coals containing less than ninety-two per centum of fixed carbon, and shale, sixty-seven cents per ton of twenty-eight bushels, eighty pounds to the bushel; coal slack or culm, such as will pass through a half-inch screen, fifteen cents per ton of P~r¢•¤· twentyeight bushels, eighty pounds to the bushel: Provided, That on nmwimk when all coal imported into the United States, which is afterwards used for ggjjm jgguljggjgjg fuelon board_vessels propelled by steam and engaged in trade with in foreign muxmw. foreign countries, or in trade between the Atlantic and Pacific ports of the United States, and which are registered under the laws of the United States, a drawback shall be allowed equal to the duty imposed by law upon such coal, and shall be paid under such regulations as the Selcretary of the Treasury shall prescribe; coke, twenty per centum ad v orem. 416. Cork bark, cut into squares or cubes, eight cents per pound: manufactured corks over three-fourths of an inch in diameter measured at larger end, fifteen cents per pound; three-fourths of an inch and less in diameter, measured at larger end, twenty-five cents per pound; cork, artificial, or cork substitutes, manufactured from cork waste and not otherwise provided for, eight cents per pound. 417. Dice, draughts, chessmen, chess balls, and billiard, pool, and bggglfsglle balls, of ivory, bone, or other materials, fifty per centum ad