MR. JUSTICE HARLAN delivered the opinion of the court.
This action was brought to recover certain sums of money paid under protest by the plaintiff in error to the United States in the years 1881, 1882 and 1883, and which he alleged were exacted from him under an illegal assessment made upon capital employed in his business.
If within the meaning of the statutes under which the assessment
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