Chapter 4. To amend paragraph five hundred of the Act approved August fifth, nineteen hundred and nine, entitled “An Act to provide revenue, equalize duties, and encourage the industries of the United States, and for other purposes.” July 27, 1911.[[H
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CHAP. 4.— An Act To amend paragraph five hundred of the Act approved August fifth, nineteen hundred and nine, entitled “An Act to provide revenue, equalize duties, and encourage the industries of the United States, and for other purposes.” July 27, 1911.[[H. R. 12312](/us/bill/62/hr/12312).][[Public, No. 4](/us/pl/62/4).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Tariff of 1909.Free list amended.Vol. 36, p. 72, amended.
That paragraph five hundred of the Act approved August fifth, nineteen and nine, entitled “An Act to provide revenue, equalize duties, and encourage the industries of the United States, and for other purposes,” shall be so amended as to read as follows: " “500. Articles of the United States returned. Articles the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United States, when returned after having been exported, without having been advanced in value or improved in condition by any process of manufacture or other means; casks, barrels, carboys, bags, and other containers or coverings of American manufacture exported filled with American products, or exported empty and returned filled with foreign products, including shooks and staves when returned as barrels or boxes; also quicksilver flasks or bottles, iron or steel drums used for the shipment of acids, of either domestic or foreign manufacture, which shall have been actually exported from the United States; but Proof of identity.proof of the identity of such articles shall be made, under general regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, but the exemption of bags from duty shall apply only to such domestic bags as may be imported by the exporter thereof, and if any such articles are subject to internal-revenue tax at the time of exportation, such tax shall be proved to have been paid before exportation and not Photographic plates or films.refunded; photographic dry plates or films of American manufacture (except moving-picture films), exposed abroad, whether developed or not, and films from moving-picture machines, light struck or otherwise damaged, or worn out, so as to be unsuitable for any other purpose than the recovery of the constituent materials, provided the basic films are of American manufacture, but proof of the identity of such articles shall be made under general regulations to be prescribed by *Provisos*.Exceptions.the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided,* That this paragraph shall not apply to any article upon which an allowance of drawback has 13been made, the reimportation of which is hereby prohibited except upon payment of duties equal to the drawbacks allowed; or to any article manufactured in bonded warehouse and exported under any provision of law: *And provided further,* That when manufacturedTobacco, to be taxed. tobacco which has been exported without payment of internal-revenue tax shall be reimported it shall be retained in the custody of the collector of customs until internal-revenue stamps in payment of the legal duties shall be placed thereon: *And provided further,* That cattle,Animals temporarily crossing boundary. horses, sheep, and other domestic animals straying across the boundary line into any foreign country or driven across such boundary line by the owners for temporary pasturage purposes only, together with their offspring, shall be dutiable, unless brought back to the UnitedRestriction.Vol. 36, p. 72, amended.
States within six months, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, in accordance with the provisions of paragraph four hundred and ninety-two.” " Approved, July 27, 1911.