Chapter 13. to modify existing laws relating to duties on imports and the collection of the revenue
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CHAP. 13.— An Act to modify existing laws relating to duties on imports and the collection of the revenue.February 18, 1890. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Hat trimmings. That on and after the passage and approval of this act the following amendments to, and provision for, existing laws shall take effect, as follows: Vol. 23, p. 312.Amended.Section six of the act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, entitled “An act to reduce internal-revenue taxation, and for other purposes,” providing a substitute for title thirty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States, is hereby amended as to the following section or part of section or schedule in such substituted title as follows:
" Import duty on hat materials modified.Section 2502, Schedule N, strike out the clause of this schedule commencing with the words “hats, and so forth, materials for,” and Laces and trimmings omitted.insert in lieu thereof the following: Braids, plaits, fiats, willow sheets, and squares fit only for use in making or ornamenting hats, bonnets, and hoods, composed of straw, chip, grass, palmleaf, willow, hair, whalebone, or any vegetable material, not specially enumerated or provided for twenty per centum ad valorem.
" Sec. 2. Repeal All laws or parts of laws inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Approved, February 18, 1890.