Attorney General v. . Bank of Charlotte
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was a bill of information exhibited in the Court of Equity of Wake, to recover, to the use of the State, a forfeiture alleged to have been incurred by the Bank of Charlotte, by reason of the nonpayment of a tax, imposed by the revenue law of 1856. A general demurrer having been put in by the defendant, it was removed into this Court for argument. The case is fully stated in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the CourtBattle, J.
The bill is filed for the purpose of compelling the payment of a certain amount of taxes, claimed to be due from the defendant to the State, by virtue of the 133d section of the revenue act of 1856; (see acts of 1856, ch. 31, sec. 183d.) That section is in the following words: “ The President and Cashier of the several banks in this State, except the Bank of the State of North Carolina, shall annually pay three-fourths of one per cent, intg the treasury of the State, on the stock owned by individuals or corporations in the said banks, on or before the first day of October in each and every…
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