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HAMILTON v. DILLIN

88 U.S. 73 (____)

21 Wall. 73

HAMILTON v. DILLIN.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. W.M. Evarts and T.D. Lincoln (with whom were Messrs. C. Cole and E. Jordan), for the plaintiffs in error.

Mr. G.H. Williams, Attorney-General, and Mr. S.F. Phillips, Solicitor-General, contra.

Mr. Justice BRADLEY delivered the opinion of the court.

There can be no question that the condition requiring the payment of four cents per pound for a permit to purchase cotton in, and transport it from, the insurrectionary States during the late civil war, was competent to the war power of the United States government to impose. The war was a public one. The government in prosecuting...

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