...have been shipped ; an allowance bring proper for leakage. The proviso in the eighth 'section, viz., "that under no circumstances shall the duty be assessed upon an amount less than the invoice value," is not in hostility with the above construction, because the proviso refers only to the price,...

...section 20, 12 Stat. at L., 189, it is enacted as follows: "From and after the day and year aforesaid there shall be levied, collected, and paid a duty of twenty per centum on the importation of the articles hereinafter mentioned and embraced in this section ; that is to...

...thereof shall exceed, by ten per cent, or more, the value so declared on the entry, then, in addition to the duties imposed by law on the same, there shall...per centum, ad valorem, on such appraised value." The question is, whether the sums levied, collected and paid under this clause were by law distributable...

...on the quantity which actually arrives in our ports; and, 2d. That the proviso in the 8th section, "that under no circumstances shall the duty be assessed upon an amount loss than the invoice value," is not in hostility with the above construction, because the proviso...

...declared on the entry, then, -in addition to the duties imposed by law on the same, there shall [22] be levied, collected, and paid, a duty of twenty per...duty be assessed upon an amount less than the invoice value; any law of Congress to the contrary notwithstanding. SEC. 9. And. be it further enacted-, That...

...declared on the entry, then, in addition to the duties imposed by law on the same, there shall [22] [22] levied, collected, and paid, a duty of twenty per...duty be assessed upon an amount less than the invoice value; any law of Congress to the contrary notwithstanding. SEC. 9. And be it further enacted-, That...

...theieof be found to exceed by ten per cent., or more, the value declared on the entry, then, in addition to the duties imposed by law on the same, there shall be levied, collected and paid, a duty of twenty percent, ad valorem on such appraised value. Jn the case of imports procured otherwise than by purchase,...

...thereof shall exceed by ten per centum, or more, the value so declared on the entry, then, in addition to the duties imposed by law on the same, there shall be levied, collected, and paid, a duty of twtnty per centum ad valorem on such appraised value: Provided, newtheless, That under no circutnstanct...

...provisions in the case of Ballard v. Thomas (19 Howard, 382). The eighth section of the act of 1846 provided "that under no circumstances shall the duty be assessed upon an amount less than the invoice value, any law of Congress to the contrary notwithstanding.'' It was claimed that this section had...

...value thereof shall exceed by 10 per cent or more th« value so declared on entry, then in addition to the duties imposed by law on the same there shall be levied, collected, and paid duty of 20 per cent ad valorem on such appraised value: Provided, nevertheless, That under no circumstances...