Benziger v. Robertson

Citations

• 122 U.S. 211
• 7 S. Ct. 1169
• 30 L. Ed. 1149
• 1887 U.S. LEXIS 2101

Syllabus

<p>Rosaries composed of beads of glass, wood, steel, bone, ivory, silver, or mother-of-pearl, each rosary having a chain and cross of metal, were, under the Revised Statutes, dutiable at 50 per cent ad valorem, under the head of “beads and bead ornaments,” in Schedule M of § 2504, 2d ed., p. 473; the duty on manufactures of the articles'of which the beads were composed, and on manufactures of the metal of the chain and cross, being less than 50 per cent ad valorem; and § 2499 requiring that “ on all articles manufactured from two or more materials, the duty shall be assessed at the highest rates at which any of its component parts may be chargeable and rosaries not being an enumerated article.</p>