MR. JUSTICE WHITE, after making the foregoing statement of the case, delivered the opinion of the court.
In order to confine the controversy arising on this record to the propositions upon which its decision must really rest, to eliminate the questions discussed at bar, which are either irrelevant or so effectually foreclosed by prior decisions of this court as to be no longer open to controversy, the following propositions are stated:
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