Johnson v. Drummond
Supreme Court of Virginia
These cases were heard together, and the material facts as well as the question involved in both are the ^same. In the one case it is a bill by Johnson and a number of others, citizens of Aecómae county, engaged in carrying oysters from the waters of Virginia in their vessels, setting out that their vessels had been seized by.
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These cases were heard together, and the material facts as well as the question involved in both are the ^same. In the one case it is a bill by Johnson and a number of others, citizens of Aecómae county, engaged in carrying oysters from the waters of Virginia in their vessels, setting out that their vessels had been seized by. Drummond, an inspector appointed under the act of March 3, 1866, entitled an act imposing a tax on oysters, for their failure to pay the tax prescribed by § T of that act, and that he was about to sell the same, and asking for an injunction to restrain the sale; and…
1Opinion of the CourtJoynes, J.
The seventh section of the act passed. March 3, 1866, entitled “An act imposing a tax on oysters ” (Sess. Acts 1865-6, p. 75), contains the following provision: “ Every captain or officer of a vessel which shall be employed in carrying oysters taken in the waters of Virginia, shall obtain from an inspector-a license, for which he shall pay to said inspector a tax. of three dollars per ton for every ton said vessel may measure, according to the custom-house enrollment or license; and it shall be the duty of every such captain or officer to have said license framed, and so set or-placed upon…
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