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This was an appeal from the decision of the board of general appraisers affirming the decision of the collector of the port of New York as to the assessment of duty upon certain merchandise imported by one Dickson.

Edward Hartley, for importer.

Jason Hinman, Asst. U. S. Atty.

TOWNSEND, District Judge (orally). In this case the importer entered certain ginger ale in bottles for duty at 20 per cent. ad valorem, under paragraph 248 of the tariff act of 1894.

The collector added the value of the bottles to that of the contents, and assessed the duty on the sum of the value of the ginger ale and of the bottles, as thus ascertained, under the provisions of section 19 of the customs administrative act of June 10, 1890. The importer protested, and subsequently appealed from the decision of the board of general appraisers sustaining the action of the collector.

The attorney for the United States first claims that this court has no jurisdiction, inasmuch as this was a mere question of valuation of goods and reappraisement by the collector, in accordance with the provisions of said section 13 of said customs administrative act. As no notice of dissatisfaction was given by the importer, it is claimed that said decision was final. I think the evidence shows that the real question involved herein was not one of valuation, but of classification for duty, and that under the practice and the decisions cited by counsel the proper way to raise and dispose of the question was by protest.

The importer claims that said bottles are free by virtue of the provision in said paragraph 248 of said act of 1894. Said paragraph is as follows: "248. Ginger ale or ginger beer, twenty per centum ad valorem, but no separate or additional duty shall be assessed on the bottles." In Lelar v. Hartranft, 33 Fed. 242, it was held that this paragraph exempted bottles containing ginger ale from all duty. The ground of this decision, however, seems to have been that section 7 of said act exempted all usual coverings of imported merchandise from duty. Section 19 of the customs administrative act of June 10, 1890, provides as follows: "That whenever imported merchandise is subject to an ad valorem rate of duty, the duty shall be assessed upon the actual market value or wholesale price of such merchandise, including the value of all coverings of any kind," etc. The history of the legislation on this subject leaves the intent of congress in doubt. The long-continued practice of the treasury department supports the interpretation contended for by the importer. I conclude that the duty assessed in this case upon the bottles was a separate and additional duty. Inasmuch as paragraphs 88 and 90 of the present tariff act provide for special rates of duty on glass bottles, filled or unfilled, whether the duty be ad valorem or otherwise, these ginger-ale bottles would be dutiable thereunder if they were not exempted, in terms, from any separate or additional duty. The decision of the board of general appraisers is reversed.

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KENT V. UNITED STATES.

(Circuit Court, S. D. New York. June 2, 1895.)

No. 1,801.

CUSTOMS DUTIES-TARIFF ACTS OF 1883 AND 1890.

The tariff acts of 1883 and 1890 were intended to be exhaustive, and to take the place of all prior legislation, and section 7 of the act of February 8, 1875, was thereby repealed.

This was an appeal from the decision of the board of general appraisers affirming the decision of the collector of the port of New York as to the imposition of duty upon certain merchandise imported by Percy Kent.

S. G. Clarke, for importer.

Jason Hinman, Asst. U. S. Atty.

TOWNSEND, District Judge (orally). The articles in question are empty grain bags, made of burlap, of foreign manufacture, having been used in the transportation of American products. The collector assessed the duty thereon at two cents per pound, under paragraph 365 of the act of October 1, 1890, and the board of general appraisers sustained the action of the collector. The importer claims that said bags are entitled to free entry under section 7 of the act of February 8, 1875. The sole question presented is whether said section of said act of 1875 has been repealed.

It appears that, after the passage of the tariff acts of 1883 and 1890, the treasury department admitted such bags free of duty, and continued to do so until August 22, 1893. In view of this fact, counsel for the importer invokes the application of the rule that the contemporaneous construction of a law by the officials charged with its administration is very persuasive evidence as to its proper interpretation, and, in cases of ambiguity or doubt, may be sufficient to turn the scale. An examination of said tariff acts of 1883 and 1890, and a consideration of the decisions thereon, have satisfied me that congress clearly intended said legislation to be exhaustive, and to take the place of all prior legislation. There is therefore no occasion for the application of said rule of interpretation. The decision of the board of general appraisers is affirmed.

UNITED STATES v. WOODRUFF.

(District Court, D. Kansas. June 1, 1895.)

No. 2,715.

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE-ERRONEOUS SENTENCE-UNDETERMINED ISSUE.
A defendant was convicted, under Rev. St. § 4046, of embezzling moneys
received by him as assistant postmaster. By consent of the district at-
torney, in view of the insolvency of the defendant, a verdict was taken
upon the issue of embezzlement alone, without any finding of the amount
embezzled; and the court sentenced the defendant to imprisonment only,
without rendering judgment, by way of fine, for the amount embezzled.

For this error the judgment was reversed and the cause remanded for further proceedings according to law. Held, that the trial court was without authority to fix the amount of the fine without the verdict of a jury, and, as the two issues must be tried together, the defendant, having been once in jeopardy on the issue of the amount embezzled, must be discharged.

This was an indictment against Frank Woodruff for embezzlement. The defendant was convicted on trial in the district court. On writ of error to the circuit court the judgment was reversed, and the cause remanded for further proceedings. 58 Fed. 766. The district attorney now moves the court to take further proceedings according to law.

W. C. Perry, U. S. Atty., for the United States.
J. G. Waters and S. A. Riggs, for defendant.

PHILIPS, District Judge. The defendant was convicted in 1891, in this court, under section 4046, Rev. St. U. S., for embezzling moneys received by him as assistant postmaster at Lawrence, Kan., and was sentenced to the state penitentiary for a year and a day. On writ of error to the circuit court (this being prior to the act creating the United States circuit court of appeals) the judgment was reversed on the ground that the trial court failed to ascertain, and render judgment by way of fine for, the sum embezzled, as provided in said section. See Woodruff v. U. S., 58 Fed. 766. The order of the circuit court is that "the judgment of the district court of the United States for the district of Kansas is reversed, and the cause remanded to that court for further proceeding therein according to law." By assignment of the circuit judge, I am directed to sit in hearing the motion of the United States district attorney "for further proceeding therein according to law."

At the trial of this cause in 1891, the district attorney, being satisfied of the insolvency of the defendant, expressed his content with a verdict upon the issue of embezzlement, without any finding or judgment as to the amount thereof. The trial court adopted this suggestion of the district attorney, because it recalled the text in Cooley, Const. Lim. (6th Ed.) p. 403, that:

"If the legal punishment consists of two distinct and several things, as fine and imprisonment, the imposition of either is legal, and the defendant cannot be heard to complain that the other was not imposed also."

The case cited in support of this text (Kane v. People, 8 Wend. 211) holds that:

"The defendant may, on writ of error, object that the punishment is too great in its extent, or that it is different in form from what the law has prescribed; but where a party is subject to distinct and independent punishments for the same offense, if one of them is inflicted upon him by the sentence of the court, he cannot object that the court has not gone further, and inflicted the other punishment also.”

The circuit court declined to give directions or to express opinion as to "the proper practice for the purpose of ascertaining the amount embezzled, with a view to the imposition of a fine which the statute requires shall be imposed," but did make reference to certain authorities which would seem to indicate that the inclination of the

court's mind was that the trial court might now proceed to enter up the proper judgment. It may be conceded to be the better established rule of criminal practice that where the trial court, after the coming in of a verdict of guilty, fails to render the proper judgment under the statute, on reversal for such error it may proceed to render the proper judgment. Reynolds v. U. S., 98 U. S. 168; Roberts v. State (Fla., 1892) 11 South. 536; Lacy v. State, 15 Wis. 13; State v. Smith, 6 Blackf. 549; Kelly v. State, 3 Smedes & M. 518; In re Bonner, 151 U. S. 242, 14 Sup. Ct. 323. So there would be no legal difficulty in now correcting the judgment by imposing the corporeal punishment of imprisonment for embezzlement, and adding thereto a fine for the amount embezzled, provided the statute in question permits the construction that where the indictment, as in this case, sets out the sum embezzled, a verdict of guilty thereon, without more, would be sufficient to authorize the court to assume that the amount stated in the indictment was found by the jury to have been embezzled, or if the meaning of the statute be that, on return of verdict of guilty, the court should proceed to fix the amount of the fine from the evidence in the case. The statute is silent on the subject. It does not provide, in terms, that the jury shall ascertain the sum embezzled. It would seem reasonable enough that the court should fix the amount of the fine, provided the statute contemplated a state of case where there was not any controversy as to the amount embezzled. But a statute like this, entitling the government to a judgment by fine against the defendant "in a sum equal to the amount embezzled," does not contemplate that the defendant, on a verdict of guilty of the act of embezzlement, should be concluded by the sum alleged in the indictment, as to the fine he should be called upon to pay. The statute, on the contrary, contemplates that there should be an ascer tainment of the exact sum for which a fine may be imposed. On such an issue the defendant is entitled to his constitutional right of trial by jury, which he has not waived. Nor was the jury which tried the case charged by the court to ascertain, and return in their verdict, the amount embezzled by the defendant. Recurring to the evidence preserved in the bill of exceptions in this case, it must be conceded that the jury might well have found that the defendant embezzled a lesser sum than that charged in the indictment, and there was ground for reasonable difference of opinion among 12 honest men as to the maximum amount taken by the defendant. In such a conjuncture of affairs, what is the proceeding to be had "according to law?" The jury which tried the case have been discharged, and gone to their homes, and some of them may be dead, and the term of court at which the trial was had has passed. No warrant in law is known to this court for reassembling the jury to pass upon this issue. Can another jury be impaneled in the case? If so, would the whole of the issues under the indictment be submitted de novo, or the single issue as to the amount of the sum embezzled by the defendant? Ordinarily the reversal and setting aside of judgment is equivalent to an order for a new trial, in which the plea of autrefois convict would not apply, because the judgment was arrested upon the motion of the defendant. People v. Casborus, 13 Johns. 351. But

it is quite evident, from the opinion of the circuit judge, that it was not contemplated that there should be a new trial as to the embezzlement, because the opinion expressly holds that there was no reversible error on that issue, up to the time of entering the verdict in the case. The verdict on the question of embezzlement was, in and of itself, complete. On that verdict the statute authorized a judgment of sentence to imprisonment "for not less than six months nor more than ten years." It was on this view that the trial court conceived that the judgment (being responsive to this verdict, and in and of itself complete, as respects the corporeal punishment) was so far independent of the matter of the fine that the sentence for embezzlement could not be made to depend upon the fine, the mere incident of the principal thing. But the circuit court has held, in effect, that the sentence of imprisonment is inseparable from the sentence of fine, and therefore the judgment of imprisonment for the act of embezzlement was reversed. And the trial court, in its opinion, being without authority to fix the amount of the fine without the verdict of the jury thereon, and the statute contemplating that the two issues of fact-as to the embezzlement, and the amount thereof-should be tried by one and the same jury, and the defendant having once been in jeopardy on the issue of fact as to the amount of his embezzlement, I see no escape from the conclusion, as a result of the reversal of said judgment, that the defendant must go "unwhipped of justice," and be discharged. Order of discharge made accordingly.

AMERICAN GROCERY CO. v. SLOAN et al.

(Circuit Court, S. D. New York. May 27, 1895.)

1. TRADE-MARKS-DESCRIPTIVE NAME.

The word "Momaja," as applied to a blend of Mocha, Maracaibo, and Java coffees, is not so far descriptive as to be objectionable as a trademark.

2. SAME-INFRINGEMENT "MOMAJA" AND "MOJAVA."

A trade-mark consisting of the word "Momaja," as applied to a blend of coffee, is infringed by the use of the word "Mojava," applied to another blend of coffee.

This was a suit by the American Grocery Company against Bennett Sloan & Company to restrain the infringement of plaintiff's trade-mark. Complainant moved for a preliminary injunction.

Granted.

J. C. Clayton, for complainant.

Wise & Lichtenstein, for defendants.

LACOMBE, Circuit Judge. In the year 1884, the firm of Thurber, Whyland & Co. devised and adopted a trade-mark for a blend of roasted coffee. The name thus adopted was "Momaja." This name is suggestive of a composition of Mocha, Maracaibo, and Java coffees, but certainly is not sufficiently descriptive to invalidate it as a trade-mark, under the decisions. See the "Cottolene" case N. K. Fairbank Co. v. Central Land Co., 64 Fed. 133), and cases

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