United States v. Jonas

ACHESObT, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court in a proceeding brought by the collector of the port of Philadelphia under the fifteenth section of the customs administrative act of June 10,1890, to review a decision of the board of United States general appraisers as to the classification and rate of duty on certain imported merchandise, consisting of cotton hemstitched handkerchiefs with an initial embroidered thereon. The collector of the port of Philadelphia assessed a duty of 60 per cent, ad valorem upon these handkerchiefs under paragraph 373, Schedule J.,…