'• Mr. Justice Brewer, after making the foregoing statement, (delivered the opinion of the court. The contention of plaintiff in error is • that. the. license, tax is an excise, that it is laid and collected “to pay the debts and provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States,”-because by section 463 it is .provided that “all moneys re…
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