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940 FlFTY—EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 1408. 1905. 32. Articles of all kinds not coated or ornamented with another metal or porcelain, either polished or turned, N. W., one hundred kilos, one dollar and twenty cents. 33. Articles of all kinds, enameled, bronze, gilt, tinncd, or coated, or with ornaments, borders, or (parts of other metals [gold or silver excepted), or combine with glass or ceramic ware, N. W. one hundred kilos, two dollars: _

 Provided, That none of the articles classified under paragraphs thirty-two and thirty-three shall pay a less rate of duty

than fifteen per centum ad valorem. G’°“P 3-Gnour 3.—WROUGHT mos Ann sum1.. ,,L'{°“"“ l’°“ °“ 34. Iron, soft or wrought, in ingots or “tochos,” steel in ingots, G. W., one hundre kilos, twenty-four cents. 35. Wrou ht iron or steel, rolled: . (a) Tails, G. W., one hundred kilos, thirty cents; Bent rails, or rails screwed or bolted together in crossings, and similar simple track sections, shall be dutiable under letter (a);pf this paragraph, with a surtax of thirty per centu_m. (b) rs and beams, neither perforated, riveted with screws, nor cut to measure, of all inds (exceipting line crucible steel), including rods, tires, and hoops, . ., one hundred kilos, sixt cents: The rhds in duestion are iron or steel rods exceeding eight millimeters in thickness employed in the manufacture of iron wire. (c) The same, of crucible steel, G. W., one hundred kilos, one dollar and five cents; ` Crucible steel is distinguishable from bar and other pieces of iron or common steel by its sharp edges. The surface is very smooth, of a bluish color darker than that of iron, and its fracture is close grained. (This steel is nerall imported in round, triau ular, square, octagonal, or Bill bars.; 36. Wrou Et iron and steel in sheets, rolled: (a) Iqeither polished nor tinned, and hoop iron, G. W., one hundred kilos, seventy-eight cents; By hoop iron (ile es) shall Te understood unpolished, flat bands or circles Ess than three millimeters in thickness. 2b) Tinned and tin plate, G. W., one hundred kilos, one dollar; c) Polished, corru rated, perforated, cold rolled, lvanized or not, and bands of polished hoop iron, G. W., one hundred kilos, ninety cents: §{Qgj;*{· Provided, That any of the foregoing made up in ridgings, eaves, drainpipes, gutters, and similar articles shall be dutiable at the rate rovide for the respective materials, with a surtax of one hundlred per centum. 37. Wrought iron or steel: ' Cast in pieces in the rough, neither polished, turned, nor adjusted, weighing each: (a) Twenty-five kilos or more, G. W., one hundred kilos, seventy-five cents; (b) Lepslfhan twenty-five kilos, G. W., one hundred kilos, one o ar. · 38. Wrougl`}t iron or steel cast in pieces, finished: (a) heels weighing more than one hundred kilos, iishplates, chairs, sleepers, axles and springs for railways and tramp·ays,End ubricating boxes, G. W., one hundred kilos, orty- ve cents; (b) Wheels weighing one hundred kilos or less; axles and springs other than for railways and tramways, and cranks, G. Vi ., one hundred kilos. one dollar and five cents.