Case Name: FIFTY-ONE BALES OF GOATS' HAIR
Court: United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1868-06
Citations: 9 F. Cas. 44
Docket Number: Case No. 4,781
Parties: FIFTY-ONE BALES OF GOATS’ HAIR.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 9
Pages: 44–44

Head Matter:
Case No. 4,781.
FIFTY-ONE BALES OF GOATS’ HAIR.
[2 Ben. 479.]
District Court, S. D. New York.
June, 1868.
[Reported by Robert D. Benedict, Esq., and here reprinted by permission.]

Opinion:
BLATCHFORD, District Judge.
The prayer of the petition is denied. I think that the twenty-third section of the act of March 2, 1861 (12 Stat. 193, 195), exempting from duty hair of all kinds, uncleaned and unmanu-factured, applies to the goats' hair in question, which is uncleaned and unmanufac-tured, and that such section is in force, notwithstanding any thing in the act of June 30, 1864. The fourth section of that act is merely a substitute for the twelfth section of the act of March 2, 1861, and is not repugnant to anything in the provision, in regard to hair, in the twenty-third section of the act of 1861. The hair in question was exempt from duty.