In re Certain Merchandise

ALDRICH, District Judge.

This is a petition for review of the questions of law and fact involved in the decision of the board of United látales general appraisers in respect to a duty imposed upon an importation from Germany by C. F. Hovey & Co. in 1892. Para*578graph 397 of the act of 1890 establishes a duty of 4£ times the duty imposed on unwashed wool of the first class, and, in addition thereto, 60 per centum, ad valorem, “on cloaks, dolmans, jackets, talmas, ulsters or other outside garments for ladies’ and children’s apparel and goods of similar description, or used for like purposes,…