In re Hempstead

GRAY, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by William O. Hempstead, trading as O. G. Hempstead & Son, from the decision of the board of United States general appraisers affirming the action of the collector of the port of Philadelphia in respect to the classification for duty of five church banners. In 1896 the importers brought into Yew York five highly decorated church banners for presentation to the Trinity Lutheran Church, of Reading, Pa., by the Women’s Missionary Society of the same city. The designs embodied in these banners had been specially ordered by the donors, through tlieir…