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Show Insr IL TAXES i Have to Pay fVlaii" Quotes an upreme Court Decision, the Commonwealth, the Is Hardly a Parallel . rkansos Opinion. . . re no more popular with clerks and postofflco em-vlth em-vlth other folks, and the In a recent Issue of the that the courts had held bo exempt was hailed or of hope. The opinion Mall was handed down States Supreme court In ijel Dobbins vs. Common-tnsylvania. Common-tnsylvania. That cose Is 16 Peters 435. Justice iverlng the opinion of tho Supreme court, said e Court's Opinion, i of the national Govern- be executed by officers must be compensated by allowance Is In its dls-presumptlon dls-presumptlon is that the plven by law is no more ces are worth, and, only t as will secure from the igent performance of his officers execute their : publlo good. This im-lt im-lt of reaping from thence a the services they may deserve,' without that lng In any way lessened, sovereign power from leer derives his appolnt-mother appolnt-mother sovereign power first his delegated the on over all the objects of ommon with Itself, for Iwlh. And no diminution case of an officer is Just iless It be prospective, or atlon by tho sovereignty nver to impose it, and ded to bear equally upon to their estate, neatlon of an officer of :ates Is fixed by a law gress. It exercises tho fixes the amount, and the officer the right to en It has been earned, x, then, by a State upon ilnlshlng the recompense, the law of the United secures It to the officer e?3? It certainly has ; and any law of a State a tax cannot be constl-.um constl-.um It conflicts with a ss made in pursuance of 3U, and which makes It iw of the land." i Parallel Case. ; plaintiff in the above Captain of a revenue cut- |