Melville Fuller

“ The word 'handkerchiefs' is denominative, and not merely descriptive, and when an article is designated by a specific name and a duty imposed upon it by such name, general terms, in a later part of the same act, although sufficiently broad to comprehend such article, are not applicable to it. ”

“ The eighth paragraph covers handkerchiefs, and also 'other manufactures of flax, jute, or hemp, or of which flax, jute, or hemp shall be the component material of chief value,' and the eleventh paragraph applies to flax or linen laces, insertings, embroideries, or manufactures of linen, if embroidered or tamboured, and not specially enumerated or provided for in the act Where manufactures of linen other than those enumerated in the first provision are embroidered or tamboured, they are subjected to the rate specified in the second provision. ”

“ In that case certain linen embroidered dress-patterns had been imported into the port of New York, and were held dutiable at the rate imposed on embroidered manufactures of linen. The acts of March 2, 1861, of July 14, 1862, and of June 30, 1864, and the Revised Statutes of 1874, bearing upon the subject, were considered. By none of these acts were such dress-patterns specifically enumerated as subject to a different duty; but linen handkerchiefs were, as by the act of 1883 they are, mentioned as among the linen goods for which a certain rate was designated. ”