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FOEEIGN  CUSTOMS  DUTIES.

Tariff  of  duties  on  imported  merchandise  in  the  Bepuhlie  of  Colmnhia—Continued.

Stone,  materials  for  construction,  and  other  crude  materials—Continued.
Marble  and  jasper,  in  tiles  and  bricks
not  in  tiles  or  bricks  nor  in  lithograph  stones
as  dust,  clay,  or  roman  cement.  Time,  crude  plaster  of  paris,  or  in  powder, ­
  chalk,  feldspar,  silicate,  bone-dust,  and  other  crude  materials  for
the  manufacture  of  earthenware
Statues  and  monuments  destined  to  ornament  of  buildings  and  public  squares
Slate  for  roofing
Clay  tiles
Shingles
Materials  for  construction,  as  rough  stones,  bricks,  and  tiles,  of  clav  and  stone
Plaster  of  paris  manufactured  in  any  form  not  mentioned  in  any  other  pai  t  of  this  tariff...
Colored  earth  for  buildings  ...
Alabaster  in  any  form  .
Crucibles  for  melting
Sundries  :
Live  animals
Mineral  coal
Tar
Black  pitch,  used  in  constructing  vessels
Eosin
Common  glue
Oakum  or  filastic,  or  felt  for  packing
Varnish
Paint,  in  powder  or  prepared
Common  brushes
Brushes  for  horses  or  boots
Blacking  for  boots
Black  wax  ^
Seeds,  roots,  and  bulbs,  or  shoots  of  plants  and  live  plants
Guano
Hops
Tobacco  in  leaves  or  cut  for  cigarettes
Idem,  prepared  for  chewing
Idem,  manufactured
Bones  and  horns  not  manufactured
Tubes,  gutters,  and  pipes,  of  wood,  india-rubber,  earthenware,  clay,  or  metal,  for  pumps,
drains,  roofs,  except  for  fire-engines
Slow-matches  for  mines
Cork-wood  in  boards  or  in  corks,  for  bottles,  &amp;c
Common  buttons  of  bone,  horn,  ivory  nut,  and  paste,  without  cover
Common  buttons  of  mother-of-pearl  shell
Common  horn  combs
Slates,  slate-pencils  for  writing
Precious  stones  ;
Umbrellas
Hats,  caps,,  &amp;c.,  pay  respectively  ;  also  the  ready-made  clothing,  as  the  fabrics  or  materials
they  are  made  ot  ;  except  those  of  straw,  which  pay  $1.20  each  kilogram,  and  60  cents
when  ordinary
Objects  introduced  for  account  of  the  National  Government.
Articles  which  for  their  own  use  bring,  or  import,  foreign  ministers  or  diplomatic  agents,
who  come  accredited  to  the  Government  of  the  Republic,  provided  that  those  nations  they
represent  concede  equal  grants  to  ministers  and  diplomatic  agents  of  the  republic,  and
that  the  requisites  the  law  imposes  on  this  subject  are  complied  with
The  natural  productions  of  Ecuador,  Venezuela,  l*eru.  and  other  nations  to  which  has,  or
will  be,  conceded  by  public  treaties,  franchise  with  character  of  reciprocity
Luggage  of  passengers  up  to  100  kilograms  for  each  person,  if  evident  that  the  articles  are
for  their  own  use,  and  are  presented  by  them  jiersonaily  when  passing  through  the  cus-.
  tom  house  and  enter  the  national  territory.  For  the  excess  without  invoice  they  pay
as  goods  of  the  highest  class  of  this  tariff  !
All  articles  not  mentioned  in  this  tariff  pay

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Paragraph.  The  before  specified  goods  form,  in  consequence,  one  class  exempt  of  duty,  and  thirteen
charged  with  1,  24,  5.  10,  20,  30,  40,  50,  60,70,80,  00.100,  and  120  cents,  respectively,  anil  are  called  as  to
their  order,  first,  second,  third,  &amp;c.
The  secretariate  of  hacienda  will  form  and  publish  a  rOsnnié  of  this  tariff,  dividing  it  into  the  expressed ­
  classes.
Art.  2.  The  importation  of  money  inferior  to  the  standard  of  900  thousands  fine  is  prohibited,  as  also
machinery  for  making  money,  arms,  and  ammunition  of  war,  if  not  done  by  the  N  ationai  Government.
Art.  3.  The  transit  through  the  national  territory  of  machinery,  arms,  and  ammunition,  mentioned
in  the  foregoing  article,  and  nitro-glycerine,  is  equally  prohibited.
Art.  4.  Additional  25  per  cent,  on  the  ordinary  duties  of  import,  established  by  decree  No.  093  of  1885,
will  continue  to  be  collected  for  the  articles  indicated  in  the  same  decree.
Art.  5.  The  dispositions  of  this  decree  will  commence  to  be  put  in  force  from  the  1st  of  October,.
1886.