No. 30.

HOME CONSUMPTION AND IMPOSTS.

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT

SHOWING THE QUANTITIES AND VALUES

OF

IMPORTED MERCHANDISE

ENTERED FOR CONSUMPTION

IN THE

UNITED STATES;

ENTRIES FOR IMMEDIATE CONSUMPTION AND WITHDRAWALS FROM WAREHOUSE FOR CONSUMPTION, COMBINED;

ALSO SHOWING

RATES OF DUTY AND AMOUNTS OF ACCRUING DUTIES,

DURING THE

FISCAL YEARS ENDED JUNE 30, 1879, 1880, AND 1881.

NOTE. This table embraces only merchandise, specie having been omitted. This fact should be observed in comparisons made with the data in corresponding tables for years previous to 1880, which tables include both merchandise and specie.

For imports of specie, see tables Nos. 2 and 7.

61

Total animals, living

630, 905 35

No. 30.-IMPORTED MERCHANDISE entered for CONSUMPTION, &c., during the Fiscal Years ended June 30, 1879, 1880, and 1881-Continued.

FREE OF DUTY.
Books, maps, and charts-Continued.
Books, or libraries, or parts of libra-
ries, in use of persons or families
from foreign countries, if used
abroad by them not less than one
year, and not intended for any
other person or persons, or for
sale

Books, imported as personal effects,
not merchandise, of persons arriv-

ing in the United States, and not
exceeding in value what is usual
for a traveler or other person to
carry with him for actual use; and
books, professional, of persons ar-
riving in the United States.
Books, imported as personal effects,
not merchandise, of citizens of
the United States dying abroad..
Total books, maps, and charts...
Brazil pebbles for spectacles, and peb-
bles for spectacles, rough
Burr-stones, rough

Cabinets of coins, medals and other col-
lections of antiquities, specially im-
ported, and not intended for sale, not
otherwise specified.

Cat-gut or whip-gut, unmanufactured,
and cat-gut strings or gut-cord for
musical instruments; also gut and
worm-gut for whip and other cord.
Chalk, white, and cliff-stone, unmanu-
factured

.cwts.

452, 910