Keely v. Justices of Haywood County

McFarland, J.,

delivered tlie opinion of the court.

The petitioners, some fifteen persons, presented their petition to the judge of the thirteenth circuit showing that they are saloon keepers, carrying on the business of selling whiskies, etc., in less quantities than a quart-, in the county of Haywood, for which they pay certain taxes specified ; that the county court of Haywood, at its April term,. 1814, levied additional taxes for the support of common schools, and, among other things, levied an additional tax on the privilege of retailing spirits, equal to the state tax upon the privilege,…