Mr. Justice Peckham, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court. In this case the ordinance in question is to be regarded as in effect a statute of the State, adopted under a power granted it by the state legislature, and hence it is an act of the State within the Fourteenth Amendment. New Orleans v.…
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