The defendant in error filed a petition in the District Court to recover the amount paid by it for documentary stamps used on manifests of cargoes on certain vessels bound to foreign ports, as required by an act of Congress approved June 13, 1898, entitled "An act to provide ways and means to meet war expenditures, and for other purposes."
The United States demurred...
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