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FOREIGN  CUSTOMS  DUTIES.  193
Customs  duties  collected  on  various  articles  at  the  port  of  Bio  de  Janeiro—Continued.

Equivalent ­
  in
United
States
money.

Duty  in
Brazilian ­
  currency. ­


Unit

Unit

Tariff  classification

Beis.
700
300
3,  000

Dozen  ..
...do
...do

10.29
.12
1.26

Dozen  ....
...do
...do

Each
*.  .do  .....
...do

700
2,000
1,000

Each
...do

.84

Dozen

Dozen  ....

1,  200

1.00

...do

2,400

.17

Each

400

Each  ,
...do

Medical  instruments—Continued.
Probes  and  catheters:
Of  zinc,  pewter,  or  any  other  common  metal.
Of  rubber
Of  silver
Apparatus  :
Of  Esmarch,  and  the  like,  for  compression...
Of  Pqtain,  Dionlafov,  &amp;o
For  fractures  of  limbs
Bistouries:
With  handles  of  bone,  wood,  horn,  and  the
like.
With  handles  of  ivory,  tortoise-shell,  motherof-pearl,
  &amp;‘c.
Pincers  and  other  instruments  for  teeth-pulling.  Each
Surgical  and  dental  instrument  cases  :
With  instruments  for  removing  flesh,  for
plugging  teeth,  with  scalpels  and
other  instruments  of  minor  surgery
Up  to  6  instruments
Up  to  12  instruments
Up  to  24  instruments
Up  to  50  instruments.  -i
More  than  OOinstruments,  10  percent,  ad
valorem.
With  instruments  of  important  surgery  :
Up  to  0  instruments
Up  to  12  instruments
Up  to  24  instruments..-.do
Up  to  50  instruments  ..  .do
More  than  50  instruments,  10  per  cent,  ad
valorem.
With  cupping-glasses  Each
Empty  cases  ....'  Kilo  ■
Empty  pouches  do
Belts,  abdominal  and  umbilical.......
Ear-trnmpots,  of  rubber,  and  the  like
Artificial  teeth  :
Loose,  or  in  plates
Set  in  wax
Scalpels,  with  wooden  handles
Mashers
Surgical  and  dental  min  ors
Skeletons  for  anatomical  studies,  corpses,  &amp;o....
Stillets.  probes,  &amp;c.  :  ,
Of  ordinary  metal,  steel  or  iron
Of  silver
Knives  for  amputation  -  -  -  ■
Separate  instruments  for  plugging,  cleaning,  and
cauterizing  teeth.
Bleeding  lancets
Covered  with  any  kind  of  skin,  cloth,  or  rubber ­
  :
Single
Double
Electro  magnetic  :
Single
Double
Lancets:  ,  ,  .
With  handles  of  wood,  bone,  &amp;o
With  handles  of  ivory,  tortoise-shell
Laryngoscopes.  pharyngoscopes,  opthalmo
scopes,  and  the  like.
Files  for  dentists^  use
Lithotomes  y  ,'
*V  ulcanite  machines  for  dentists  use............
Nursing-bottles  :
Complete
Only  the  bottle  -  ;  v  y  '  '  '
The  nipple  complete  with  capsules  and  tubes
without  the  bottles.
The  nipples  alone
Figures  for  studying  anatomy  -  -
Hammers  for  purposes  of  autopsy  or  for  dentists
Masses,  for  plugging  teeth
H.  Ex.  58  13

Dozen
do  .
do  .
....  do.....
do  .

1,  200
2,400
4,800
8,000

2,  000
4,000
8,000
15,  000

20,000
10,000
500
1,500
2,400
200
400
800
8,600
1,200

Each  .
...  do  .....
do  .

Dozen
...do  .
do  .

600  do

Kilo  ..
Each  .
....  do  ...  #.
Dozen  ....
....do  .
do  .
Each...
Dozen
Kilo...

1.200
2,000
8,000
16,000
500
1,000
2,000
2,400
1,500
2,000
2,000
600
600
240
2,  000
3,000

,50
1.00
2.01
3.86

.84
1.68
3.36
6.30

3.80
1.90
.21
.63
1.00
.038

.26

3.86
6.30

Pound....
Each  ...
....  do  ...
Dozen  ....
do  ..
....  do  .....
—do  .,
Each...
Dozen..

6,000  Pound  ....

.96