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CLARK v. UNITED STATES

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102 U.S. 322 (1880)

26 L.Ed. 181

CLARK, v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

December 13, 1880.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Samuel Shellabarger and Mr. John J. Weed for the appellants.

The Solicitor-General, contra.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE delivered the opinion of the court.

Upon the facts found the court below was right in treating this as a case of bribery rather than extortion. The claimants undoubtedly held an executive license to transport by way of New Orleans, notwithstanding the act of July 2, 1864 (13 Stat. 377, sect. 9), any cotton they had bought in the parishes of East Feliciana and West Feliciana, under the authority of the special agent of the treasury at New Orleans...

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