Ex parte Whitwell

— This is a proceeding upon habeas corpus, and it appears from the return to the writ issued herein, that at the date of its service the petitioner was imprisoned by the sheriff of San Mateo County upon a charge of maintaining within *76that county a hospital for the treatment, for reward, of insane persons, without having procured a license so to do, as required by an ordinance adopted by its board of supervisors March 16, 1892. The ordinance referred to purports to be one “to license for purposes of regulation and revenue the business of keeping .... within the county of San Mateo ....…