[78-L] 1922 customs decision: Translation

[Mike Harkin]

--- On Sat, 12/20/08, Rodger Holtin <rjh334578 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Rodger Holtin <rjh334578 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] 1922 customs decision on broken records during shipment - between whea t and opium issues
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Saturday, December 20, 2008, 3:32 PM
> You may have to scroll down to pg 568:
> 
> "45056 - Breakage - Damage - Protest is here made
> against payment of duty on 243 phonograph records examined
> at the appraiser's store and found broken.  
> Opinion by Adamson GA - The merchandise can not be
> considered as perishable and no effort was made to abandon
> it to the Government.  The protest was therefore overruled,
> such an allowance being prohibited by paragraph X, section
> III, tariff act of 1913"
> 
> OK, would somebody like to translate the legalese for us
> laymen?  Pay the tax on missing opium but not on broken
> records, or pay the tax on broken records using opium?   I
> give up.
> 
> Rodger

"You're screwed, mate!"

Mike in Plovdiv
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> --- On Sat, 12/20/08, David Lennick
> <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] 1922 customs decision on broken records
> during shipment - between whea t and opium issues
> To: "78-L Mail List"
> <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Saturday, December 20, 2008, 4:36 PM
> 
> What am I looking for here? I get a few links to a book on
> Customs Decisions 
> but no direct access to wheat, broken records or opium.
> 
> dl
> 
> Steve Shapiro wrote:
> > A. J. Macksoud on Washington Street in New York. 
> Somewhere I have
> bookmarked from some internet photo site a photo of his
> store with a phonograph
> in the window.
> > 
> > Some people may need to paste together the url
> below./steve
> > 
> >
> http://books.google.com/books?id=2P1DAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA568&lpg=PA568&dq=%22a.+j.+m
> acksoud%22&source=bl&ots=GD_1vA2KFT&sig=YE6U0wPgJMdkgpZVgfH3alCk2aI&hl=en&
> amp;sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result
> > 
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