Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1909 — MUST PAY DUTY ON MEDALS [ARTICLE]

MUST PAY DUTY ON MEDALS

Prizes Imported From Europe Will Prove Costly to Catholic College. New York, April 2.—The Rev. F. A. Duguy, secretary of St Mary’s hospital at Superior, Wis., writing to the collector of customs here, protests that the duty of 45 per cent, levied on 5,500* medals, three statues of St. Peter and four Moslac crosses is unfair, as the articles were imported for prizes to be bestowed and accepted as honorary distinctions in the hospital and college there. General Appraiser Hay decided that duty must be paid because the articles w,ere imported before it was decided who was to receive them.