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Page 525 - Down clothing wools, and wools of like character with any of the preceding, including such as have been heretofore usually imported into the United States from Buenos Ayres, New Zealand, Australia, Cape of Good Hope, Russia, Great Britain, Canada, and elsewhere, and also including all wools not hereinafter described or designated in classes two and three.
Page 72 - ... value for home use than the amount of the drawback claimed, all such goods, and the package containing the same, with all other the contents therein, shall be forfeited; and the person entering such goods, and claiming the drawback thereon, shall in any and every such case forfeit one hundred pounds, or treble the amount of the drawback claimed, at the election of the Commissioners of Customs.
Page 298 - Sykes's hydrometer, and so in proportion for any greater or less strength than the strength of proof, and for any greater or less quantity than a gallon, viz.
Page 222 - It occurred to me that if that bill was to be printed in the record, it ought to be printed as passed : otherwise it would be very misleading. Mr. HANECY. I have tried very hard. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, to get a copy of the bill as amended, but up to the present time I have not been able to do so. The CHAIRMAN. Can it not be held until that can be done? Mr. HANECY. Yes; I will do that; but I want it to have a place in the record, and I want to save that now. The CHAIRMAN. It might be well to...
Page 65 - Its solution is of a splendid red color, but appears of a dark violet tint when seen by transmitted light. It is obtained by treating a solution of permanganate of baryta with sulphuric acid, when sulphate of baryta falls and the permanganic acid remains dissolved in the water. Permanganate of potash, which crystallizes in reddish purple prisms, is the most important of its salts.
Page 154 - Treaty shall continue in force for ten years, dating from the tenth day after the exchange of the ratifications. In case neither of the two High Contracting Parties should have notified, twelve months before the end of the said period, its intention to terminate the Treaty, it shall remain in force until the expiration of a year dating from the day on which either of the High Contracting Parties shall have given notice for its termination.
Page 162 - August 27, 1912, on the organization of the consular service as \vell ns the tariff annexed thereto: on the report of the Secretary of State for the Department of Foreign Relations, and with the advice of the council of secretaries of state, has proposed, and the Council of State in its législative attributions has enacted the following law : ARTICI.K 1.
Page 532 - Zealand for 1881 was greater than that of any previous year in the history of the colony. The customs authorities did not make a separate return for the value of watches until 1880, but included it under the general head of
Page 196 - Wear for about four months — a state of things which greatly reduced the possible production of that river. But in spite of these drawbacks, unexampled prosperity has attended this industry. Wages have been raised throughout the district ; all the yards, with the exceptions given, have been working to their full capacity, and orders are "booked" in many, if not in all the yards, for more work than can be accomplished during 1882.
Page 325 - I beg also to invite attention to a statement compiled at this consulategeneral, giving the value of declared exports from the various consular districts of the United States in the United Kingdom for the four quarters of the years ending September 30, 1880 and 1881.