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SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch.6. 1909. 23 126. Railway bars, made of iron or steel, and railway bars made .,,c§$§§,'§},",;§a‘f,;,,,0_ in part of steel, T rails and punched iron or steel Hat rails, seven- aiasor-couanuea. fortieths of one cent per pound; railway iish—plates or splice-bars, Rm]S’°t°‘ made of iron or steel, three-tenths of one cent er ound. 127. Sheets of iron or steel, common or black), otP whatever dimen- S"°°‘“· sions, and skelp iron or steel, valued at three cents per pound or less, thinner than number ten and not thinner than number twenty wire gauge, five-tenths of one cent per ound; thinner than number twenty wire gauge and not thinner tlhan number twenty-five wire gauge, six-tenths of one cent per pound; thinner than number twenty-five wire gau e and not thinner than number thirty-two wire gauge, eight-tenths of one cent tper pound; thinner than number thirty-two wire gauge, nine-tenths 0 one cent per pound; corrugated or crimped, eight—tenths of one cent per pound; all the foregoing valued at more than three cents per pound, thirty per centum a _ valorem: Provided, That all sheets or plates of common or black §"},°§"g"Q sheets 0, iron or steel not thinner than number ten wire gauge shall pay duty Pl¤**=¤· as plate iron or plate steel. _ 128. All iron or steel sheets or plates, and all hoo , band, or scroll €,gf’v°’°° ‘""’ "“°’ iron or steel, excepting what are known commerciagly as tin plates, terne plates, and taggers tin, and hereinafter provided for, when galvanized or coated with zinc, Spelter, or other metals, or any alloy of those metals, shall pay two-tenths of one cent per pound more , duty than if the same was notso galvanized or coated; sheets or lates composed of iron, steel, copper, nickel, or other metal with l)ayers of other metal or metals imposed thereon by forging, hammering, rolling, or welding, forty per centum ad valorem. _ 129. Sheets of iron or steel, polished, planished, or glanced, b m;l““’“h°‘1·"°“°°°· whatever name designated, one and one—half cents per pound; Provided, That plates or sheets of iron or steel, by whatever name ,{;{$;’g· c0,d_m,,cd designated, other than the polished, planished, or glanced herein ew. ’ ' provided for, which have been pickled or cleaned by acid, or b any other material or process, or which are cold-rolled, smoothed}bnly, not polished, shall pay two-tenths of one cent per pound more duty thai} the corresponding gauges of common or black sheet iron or stee . 130. Sheets or plates of iron or steel, or tag ers iron or steel, Tm "°‘°’·°‘°· coated with tin or lead, or with a mixture of which these metals, or either of them, is a component part, by the dipping or any other . process, and commercially known as tin plates, terne plates, and taggers tin, one and two-tenths cents per pound. 131. Steel inglots cogged ingots, b ooms, and slabs, by whatever S'°°u“g°”·°‘°‘ pgocess made; ie blocks or blanks; billets and bars and tapered or veled bars; mill shafting; pressed, sheared, or stamped shapes, not advanced in value or condition by any process or operation subsequent to the process of stamping; 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 sha es of dry sand, loam, or iron—molded steel castings; sheets and pqates and steel not specially rovided for in this section, all of the above valued at three-fourths of one cent per pound or less, seven·fortieths of one cent per pound; valued above three-fourths of one cent and not above one and three-tenths cents per pound, three·tenths of one cent per pound; valued above one and three-tenths cents and not above one and eight-tenths cents per tpound, five-tenths of one cent per pound; valued above one and eig t—tenths cents and not above two and two-tenths cents per pound, six-tenths of one cent per pound; valued above two and two-tenths cents and not above three cents per pound, eight-tenths of one cent per pound; valued above three cents per pound and not above four cents per pound, one and <me—tenth cents per pound; valued above four cents and nct above