MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court.
On the taking effect in Texas on the twelfth day of February, 1907, of a law imposing a state license tax of $5,000 annually on each place of business or agency of every express company where intoxicating liquors were delivered and the price collected on C.O.D. shipments, and by which law one-half of the amount of the state license was in addition authorized to be imposed by every county or municipality,...
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