Page:Federal Reporter, 1st Series, Volume 4.djvu/515

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paste or liqnorice-jtiice." And the plaintîffs contend thàt, under the provisions of this section, "tin plates" should have been assessed 90 per cent, of 16 per cent, ad valorem, instead of the en tire 16 per cent. �If the plaintiffs are right in this position, it must be because "tin plates" areincluded in someof the general classifications of the section, as they are not mentioned, eo nomine, therein. The only classifications in which they can be included are metals or manufactures of metals. But they cannot be included among metals, because the metals mentioùed are metals not herein otherwise provided for, and "tin plates" are otherwise provided for in the following section, schedule E, p. 467, of the Eevised Statu tes. �It is objected that the worda "hereiû otherwise provided for" apply only to section 2503, aiid do not extend to other sections in the title ; but this limitation or construction can- �i not be admitted, because— Mrs*, oongress, in limiting or defining the goods, wares, and merchandise to which the pro- �1 visions in section 2503 should applyi uses the more precise and restrictive words "in thig section enumerated;" and, when it afterwards, lises the words "not herein provided for,'? must have intended something different and more extended, es^»- �' ciàlly as both expressions occur in the same section. They

Can hardly be held to be synonymous. Second, because the

words "herein provided for," "or not; herein providted for, "as nsed in the United States Statutes, generally, if not always, refer to the act, chapter, or title, and not to the section. Be- fore the revision they referred to the act or chapter, and eince, more generally, to the title, Third, because, in section 2 of the act of June 2, 1872, — from which the provisions of section 2503 of the Bevised Statutes are oopied almost ccr- batim, and where this precise expression is used, and in tho same manner, application, and connection, — it evidently does not apply to the section 3 in which it is used, but extends to other provisions of the act, Fourth, because, to give the words the limitation or application contended for by the plain- tiffs, they are rendered useless and meaningless in the sec- tion. There are no metals otherwise provided for in the ����