MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE delivered the opinion of the court.
This suit was brought by a bank incorporated under the laws of, and having its principal place of business in, California, against a collector of the internal revenue of the United States, to recover taxes alleged to have been illegally exacted under the second clause of sect. 3408 of the Revised Statutes. That clause provides for the levy and collection of "a tax of one twenty-fourth of one per centum each...
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