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Building stone of all kinds, including slate, marble, freestone, and soapstone, and rock, and ground gypsum;

Bunting and flags of the United States, and banners made of bunting of domestic manufacture;

Burrstones, millstones, and grindstones, rough or wrought;

Candle wicking;

Chronometers;

Coffins and burial cases;

Copperas;

Copper, lead, and tin, in ingots, pigs, or bars;

Copper and yellow sheathing metal, not more advanced than rods or sheets;

Crates, and grain or farm baskets made of splints;

Crucibles of all kinds;

Crutches and artificial limbs, eyes, and teeth;

Deer-skins, smoked, or not oil-dressed;

Feather beds, mattresses, palliasses, bolsters, and pillows;

Fertilizers of all kinds;

Flasks and patterns used by founders;

Flax and the manufactures thereof;

Flavoring extracts solely for cooking purposes;

German silver in bars or sheets;

Gold leaf and gold foil;

Hemp and jute prepared for textile or felting purposes;

Hulls of ships and other vessels;

Illuminating gas manufactured by educational institutions for their own use exclusively;

India-rubber springs used exclusively for railroad cars;

Iron bridges, and castings for iron bridges;

Iron drain and sewer pipes;

Keys, actions, and strings for musical instruments;

Litharge and orange mineral;

Machines driven by horse power and used exclusively for cutting firewood, staves, and shingle bolts; and hand-saws;

Magnesium, calcined magnesia, and carbonate of magnesia;

Malleable iron castings, unfinished;

Manganese;

Masts, spars, ship and vessel blocks, and tree-nail wedges and deck plugs, cordage, ropes, and cables made of vegetable fibre;

Medicinal and mineral waters, of all kinds, sold in bottles or from fountains, and mead;

Mounting and machinery of telescopes for astronomical purposes;

Mills and machinery for the manufacture of sugar, sirup, and molasses from sorghum, imphee, beets and corn;

Mineral coal of all kinds, and peat;

Monuments.
Post, p. 475. Monuments of stone of all kinds, not exceeding in value the sum of one hundred dollars: Provided, That monuments exceeding the value aforesaid, erected by public or private contributions to commemorate the service of Union soldiers who have fallen in battle, shall be exempt from taxation;

Mouldings for looking-glasses and picture-frames;

Muriatic, nitric, and acetic acids;

Nickel, quicksilver, and sodium;

Nitrate of lead;

Oakum;

Original paintings, statues, and groups of statuary and casts made thereof by the artist from the original designs;

Oxide of zinc;

Paints, painters' and paper stainers' colors;