Austin v. United States

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of General Appraisers holding the importation in question dutiable under paragraph 118 of the tariff act of 1897. The protest claims the articles dutiable under paragraph 97 and alternatively under section 6. The four paragraphs in question read as follows:

117. Freestone, granite, sandstone, limestone, and other building or monumental stone, except marble and onyx, unmanufactured or undressed, not specially provided for in this act, twelve cents per cubic foot.

*511118. Freestone, granite, sandstone, limestone, and other building or monumental…