Ling Su Fan v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. The facts, which involve the validity of the Philippine law prohibiting the exportation from the Philippine Islands of silver coin, are stated in the opinion.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. The facts, which involve the validity of the Philippine law prohibiting the exportation from the Philippine Islands of silver coin, are stated in the opinion. The Philippine Commission had no' power to enact law No. 1411. The. court below rests its decision sustaining the power of the Civil Commission in the premises, mainly upon the police powers of the State, but while the courts have not defined the limit of the police power under the terms, of any general rule, that power lias a limit. See Lawton v. Steele, 152 U. S,. 133,' 143,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lurton
The plaintiff in-error has been convicted of the offense of “exporting from the Philippine Islands Philippine silver coin” in violation of Philippine law No. 1411, being §§ 1998 and 199.9, Compiled Acts of the Philippine Commission, title 3, chapter 194. Sections 1 and 2 of law No. 1411 read- as follows:
“Sec. 1. The exportation from the Philippine Islands of Philippine silver coins, coined by authority of the act of Congress approved March 2nd, 1903, or the bullion made by melting or otherwise mutilating such coins, is hereby prohibited, and any of the aforementioned silver coins, or bullion…
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