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Show Juiim Utiow.i Smith is in in Northampton, Masa,. lor refilling to pay his poll lux, but John wantg (o gel out, nrnl with that onjr-rl iu view has Hpplird for a writof fiit-'i.i rorjm. Among other grounds upon wliich ho founds his application iq tiie following: follow-ing: "I am not a cih.'-n of the Unit- d tat'.p, but am tin aeknfiwlc)g"d rulijr ol the inrlepeii'lcnl eovrroignly kn-iwn BS.hihn Brown Hmitii; lionco, accejrrling to international law, I nni equal with other a ivereintics ol Ihn world, rind not Piihject to arri it whih' reii'ling in foreign countrietr, for the "arnfj reaioiis that nrubrtMndnri nr'i exempt from the operation of civil law; hence I arr boyond tlio juridia lion of civil law con r la otttmde of intorrnttioual law." It in i'jp" that hf will beat llm poll tax collector, ami . eneapo, and it in not cared much how ho doe t; f ,r a poll tax In nny country ia a iiuioui'.rj that slt''ild b , 4l'i(te. I, |