MR. JUSTICE HUNT delivered the opinion of the court.
The question in this case is as to the proper duty to be imposed.
On the part of the government, it is now insisted that the third and the ninth sections of the act of June 30, 1864, give a partial description of the articles taxed; but that neither is so complete as to exclude the other, and therefore neither description can be applicable: hence it is argued that spectacles must be treated as a non-enumerated...
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