United States v. Danker & Marston

Some time in the latter part of 1905 the firm of Danker & Marston imported at Boston, Mass., several consignments of a product known as gum tragasol. The importation was classified by the collector of ■customs as a nonenumerated manufactured article and accordingly it was assessed for duty at 20 per cent ad valorem under the provisions of section 6 of the tariff act of J uly 24, 1897, winch section reads as follows:

Sec. 6. That there shall be levied, collected, and paid on the importation of all raw or unmanufactured articles, not enumerated or provided for in this act, a duty of ten per…