MR. JUSTICE MATTHEWS delivered the opinion of the court.
After stating the facts as above recited, he continued:
The construction of the statute and the rule of computation, adopted by the collector, proceed upon the supposition that the rate of duty to be charged and collected upon washed wool is to be double that charged and collected upon the same weight and value of unwashed wool. Hence, because 3,294 pounds of unwashed wool would be chargeable with a...
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