MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE delivered the opinion of the court.
This petition is denied. The general revenue law of Virginia provides that no person shall do business in the State as a "sample merchant" until he has obtained a license therefor, on payment of a tax of seventy-five dollars; and that, if he does, he shall pay a fine of five hundred dollars for the first offence, and six hundred dollars for each succeeding offence. Acts of Virginia, 1884, ch. 445, §...
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