Vandegrift v. United States

DISSENTING OPINION

Bland, Judge:

It must be remembered that the rates of duty provided in the trade agreement with Czechoslovakia were terminated on the thirtieth day after the date of the proclamation. The thirtieth day began the instant the twenty-ninth day expired. It is well settled that there is to be no division of a day in the consideration of this kind of issue. Therefore the rates of duty were terminated on the beginning of the thirtieth day, just as tariff acts go into effect for the whole day on the date the President approves the act.

The statement in the majority opinion, “We are…