MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.
The contention of plaintiff in error is that the first section of the act of April 4, 1868, is invalid because in contravention of the Fourteenth Amendment, in that it deprives him of due process of law and denies him the equal protection of the laws.
The validity of a statute is drawn in question whenever the power to enact it, as it is by its terms, or is made to read by...
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