 If the states may tax one instrument employed by the government in the execution of its powers, they may tax any and every other instrument. They may tax the mail; they may tax the mint; they may tax patent rights; they may tax the papers of the custom-house;...  The American Law Register - Page 411863Full view - About this book
 | Frank Hendrick - Antitrust law - 1906 - 604 pages
...should be the supreme law of the land, would be empty and unmeaning declamation. If the States might tax one instrument employed by the government in the execution of its powers, they might tax every other instrument. They might tax the mail; they might tax the mint ; they might tax... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 618 pages
...pursuance thereof, to be supreme; but this principle would transfer the supremacy, in fact, to the states. If the states may tax one instrument employed by the...may tax the mail; they may tax the mint; they may tax patent rights; they may tax the papers of the custom-house; they may tax judicial process; they... | |
 | United States. Army. Judge Advocate General's Department. War Department - 1907 - 484 pages
...make it more certain. (Ibid.) States can not tax the instrumentalities of the General Government. — If the States may tax one instrument employed by the government in the execution of its powers, th»y may tax any and evgry other instrument. They may tax the mail; they may tax the mint: they may... | |
 | Illinois State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1896 - 762 pages
...declaration: SPECIAL ADDRESS. government the power to control the constitutional measures of another. If the states may tax one instrument employed by the government in the execution of its power, they may tax any and every other instrument. If they tax the mail, they may tax the mint; they... | |
 | United States - Naval law - 1945 - 712 pages
...acts. "' (United States v. Allegheny County, 322 US 174, IBS, May 1, 1944'.) Enforcement of tax laws. - "If the states may tax one instrument, employed by...may tax the mail; they may tax the mint; they may tax patent-rights; they may tax the papers of the custom-house; they may tax judicial process; they... | |
 | United States. Navy Dept. Office of the General Counsel - Public contracts - 1949 - 320 pages
...carry into execution the powers vested in the general government." In addition, the Court declared that "If the states may tax one instrument employed by...powers, they may tax any and every other instrument." The principle of Federal immunity from state and local taxation laid down in McCulloch v. Maryland... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Administrative procedure - 1969 - 1778 pages
...porsuance thereof, to be supreme ; but this principle would transfer the supremacy, in fart, to the states. If the states may tax one instrument, employed by...may tax the mail ; they may tax the mint ; they may fas latent-rights : they may tax the papers of the custom-house ; they may tax jndirial process; they... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1969 - 1080 pages
...principle would transfer the suprein fact, to the states. If the states may tax one instrument, employed government in the execution of its powers, they may tax any and every instrument. They may tax the mail; they may tax the mint; they may tent-rights ; they may tax the papers... | |
 | Louisiana. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 652 pages
...its constitutional powers." The Chief Justice, in McCullogh v. Maryland, as the organ of the court, says: "If the states may tax one instrument, employed...may tax the mail : they may tax the mint ; they may tax patent rights ; they may tax judicial process; they may tax all o£ the means employed by the government,... | |
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