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Qllestion'sh'ould be uuder patagraph 76 as cC a chJ\rnical compound not specially provided for," and at. the rate of 25 pel' c,wlt. "" JUdgment accordingly.
UNITED STATES ". McGRATH
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(Dtstrlct Oourt, E. D. Louisiana. May 11. 1892.) No·. 12,tli3. CUSTOM!! DuTIEs-ENTRY UNDER BOND-WITIIDRAWAL-ADDITIONAL DUTY.
Under Act. Congo Oct. I, 1890, (26 St. at Large. p. 624,) §50, goods deposited in bond prior to the'date thereof, for which no permit of delivery has issued, and withdrawn before February 1, 1891, but after the above law went into effect. are noi subject to the additional duty of 10 per cent. provided by Rev. 6t. U. 6. § 2970.
At Law. Action by the United States against James McGrath & Son to recover tb:e additional duty of 10 per cent. prescribed by Rev. St. U. S. § 2970, upon goods withdrawn from bond·. Verdiot directed for defendants. Wm. Grant, for complainant. Gurley « Mellen and W. O. Hart, for defendants. BIU,INGS! District Judge. The decisions by the treasury department as to the question involved in this case have not been uniform. It is a pure question oflaw, and arises from the following facts,whioh are undisputed: Merchandise was imported and entered in borid prior to the passage of the act of October 1,1890, to wit, in November and December, 1889, and was withdrawn after the 6th day of October, 1890, and after one year, but within three years of the time when it was entered and deposited in a bonded warehouse, and before February 1, 1891. It had not been in the warehouse a year at the time the present law went into effect. The duties upon this merchftndise were the same. in the former and the present act, and were liquidated and paid without the addition of the 10 per cent. additional duty, which is provided for by section 2970 of the Revised Statutes. This suit is 1;>rought to recover that additional duty of 10 per cent. It maybe stated also, as a fact, that no permit of delivery had been issued to the importer or his agent prior to October 6, 1890. If the statute of October 1, 1890, had not contained section 50, when we consider the public reasons against implied repeals of provisions imposing customs duties, there would have been presented a difficult question as to the effect of the general repealing clause contained in section 55, when taken in connection with the proviso contained in that section. But section 50 (26 St. p. 624) has made specific provision for the case of merchandise which had been entered in bond prior to the 6th of October, 1890, and subjects the duties upon all such merchandise to the effect of the general repealing clause. With this specific provision as to the duties upon goods already imported and in bonded warehouse, making them subject to no duties other than" those
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imposed upon goods subsequently imported, there was no lC accruing or accrued.l'ight" cif the government, and no "liability" of the importer for the additional 10 per cent.· and the general words of the repealing section operated upon this provision of the previous statute for this duty here sought to be recovered. Section 50 provides: "That, on and after the day when this act shall go into effect, all goods, wares. and merchandise previously imported. for which no entry has been made. and all goods, wares, and mercllandise previously entered, without payment of duty and under bond for warehousing, transportation. or any other purpose, for which no permit of delivery to the importer or his agent has been issued. shall be SUbjected to no other duty, upon the entry or the withdrawal thereof, than if the same were imported. respectively, after that day: provided, that any imported merchandise deposited in bond in any public or private bonded warehouse, having been so deposited prior to the first day of October. eighteen hundred and niuety, may be withdrawn for consumption at any tinle prior to February first. eighteen hundred and ninety-one, upon the payment of duties at the rates in force prior to the passage of this. act: provided. further, that, when duties are based upon the weight of merchandise depositpd in any public or private bonded warehouse, said duties sllall be levied and collected upon the weight of such merchandise at the time of its withdrawal." This was "merchandise entered without payment of duty and under bond for warehousing," and "no permit of delivery had been issued." Therefore it Can be subjected to no other duty upon the withdrawal thereof than if the same had been imported after the new law was in force. It is placed by the new statute in the same situation, as to duties additional or chief, as if it had been imported after October6,1890. The question presented here is not, as was that in Fabbriv.Murphy, 95 U. S. 194, one as to an implied repeal, for the new statute has expressly provided for the case of goods already in bond. His conclusive that congress was dealing with the whole subject of duties, for, in the following clause or proviso, they give the importer whose goods are in the bonded warehouse the option to pay the duties at the rates in force prior to the passage of this act. Section 54 provided for the extended pe.riod during which all goods, both those previously and subsequently imported, might remain in bond. Section 50 placed the goods already in bond on an eqUality with those afterwards imported in respect to duties. I shall therefore instruct the jury to find a verdict for the defendants.
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et :al:,County,(X)mmissloners.· D. May 14,1892.) No·. 911.
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LNAVJ(UllLllWATlIRIl-BltIDGBS-SUJ'l'IOIllNCT OJ' NOTIOB TO PROVIDE "DRAW.·
County commissioners of· M. cout\ty, Ohio, were notified by the secretary of war, February lIli, 1891, to proVide bridge over the M. river, with a "draw· for the passage of boats, on or before September 30, 1891. The commissioners had no funds with which to prOVide the "draw, "could make no levy for that purpose until March or June; 1891, which levy would not:be collectible in full before December 20th of the year following. .The pad applied to the legislature for the essary fUnds without .'success, and had no opportunity to submit the question of the necessary expenditure, wbich exceeded $10,000, to a popular vote, as required incase of such excess. HeW, that the notice did not give., reasonable time in which to provide the "draw. "
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Act Cong.: Aug. 11, 1888, (25 U. 8. 8t. at LI/orge, p. 9, 10,) providing that, 'When the secretary of war shall have reason to believe that any bridge is an obatructionto free navigation, he shall give notioe requiring the bridge to be so altered llII Ul render navigation 01 under it easy anI! unobstructed, and imposing a penalty on the controllers of the bridg(l for failing to make such provision, is unconsthutional, in that it delegates to the secretary of war powers exclusively vested III congreaa.· U.. S. v. Keokuk d: H. Br£due Co., 45 l<'ed. Rep. 178, followed.
At law. Information Frank M. Rider, John F. Burgess, and others, county commissioners of Muskingum county, Ohio, for failing to provide a bridge with a "draw" for the passage of boats. There was a verdict and judgment for plaintiff, and defendants move for a new trial. Motion sustained, and final judgment entered for defendants. John W. Herron, for the Uni-ted States. F. H. Southard and S. M. :If,nn, for defendants. SAGE, District Judge. The defendants are prosecuted under an information founded upon the 1'ourth and fifth sections of the river and harbor act, approved September 19, 1890. The charges are, in short, that on the 15th of October, 1891, the defendants were the county commissioners of Muskingum county, Ohio; and as such empowered by the law of Ohio to construct, alter, and keep in repair all necessary bridges over streams and public canals ·on allstate and county roads, and then and there. had control of the bridge across the Muskingum river between Taylorville and Duncan's and the secretary of war of the United States havil?g good reason to believe that said bridge was an unreasonable obof said river, a navigable stream over which struction to the the United States has jurisdiction, gave written notice to the defendants on the 19th of December, 1890, that said bridge was considered an obstruction to navigation by reason of the fact that it had no draw for the passage of boats by way of the new lock just above the south end of the new bridge at Taylorsville, Ohio, and, in order to afford defendants a reasonable opportunity to be heard and give evidence in regard to said complaint, the 6th of January, 1891, was named and a place fixed for Tonllt purpose; that the time was extended to the 3d of February, 1891, and that on the 25th of February, 1891, the secretary gave written notice the deJenuants that said bridge was an unreasonable oustxuction to