Guy v. Baltimore
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to tbe Baltimore City Court, State of Maryland. Section 4 of an act of tbe General Assembly of Maryland of 1827, chapter 162, entitled “ An Act to appoint State wharfingers in tbe city of Baltimore, and to authorize tbe collection of wharfage in certain cases in said city” (Maryland Code of Public Local Laws, art. 4, sect. 945), provides as follows : — “The mayor and city council of Baltimore shall.be, and they are hereby, empowered and authorized to regulate,…
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Error to tbe Baltimore City Court, State of Maryland. Section 4 of an act of tbe General Assembly of Maryland of 1827, chapter 162, entitled “ An Act to appoint State wharfingers in tbe city of Baltimore, and to authorize tbe collection of wharfage in certain cases in said city” (Maryland Code of Public Local Laws, art. 4, sect. 945), provides as follows : — “The mayor and city council of Baltimore shall.be, and they are hereby, empowered and authorized to regulate, establish, charge and collect, to the use of the said mayor and city council, such rate of wharfage as they may think…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hablan
In Woodruff v. Parham (8 Wall. 123), we had occasion to consider the constitutional validity of an ordinance of the city of Mobile under the provisions of which had been assessed, for municipal purposes, a tax upon sales in that city of certain goods and merchandise, the product of States other than Alabama.. The ordinance, in its application to articles carried into Alabama from other States, was assailed as being inconsistent with the constitutional inhibition upon the States levying imposts or duties on imports or exports — with the power of Congress to regulate commerce with foreign…
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