United States v. Downing
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McICenna
court.
This case involves the rate of duty under the Tariff Act of 1897, 30 Stat. 151, 156, 205, upon certain sticks of carbon used for electric lighting-. The collector of customs of the port of New York held them to be dutiable at ninety cents per one hundred sticks, under paragraph 98 of the act of 1897, which provides as follows: ’
• "Gas retorts, three dollars each; lava tips for burners, ten cents per gross and fifteen per centum , ad. válorepi; carbons for electric lighting, ninety cents per hundred;, filter tubes, forty-five per centum ad valorem; porous carbon pots for electric…
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