Ex parte Ah Pong

California Supreme Court

Ex parte Ah Pong

19 Cal. 106

CourtCalifornia Supreme Court

DecidedJuly 1, 1861

StatusPublished

Cited by1 cases

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Ex parte Ah Pong, 19 Cal. 106 (Cal. 1861).

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Baldwin, J. delivered the opinion of the Court

Field, C. J. and Cope, J. concurring.

The prisoner must be discharged. The mere fact that the petitioner was a Chinaman residing in a mining district, does not subject him to the foreign miners’ tax. If the act is to be construed as imposing this tax, it cannot be supported, any more than could a law be sustained which imposed upon every man residing in a given section of the State a license as a merchant, whatever his occupation.

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Baldwin, J. delivered the opinion of the Court

Field, C. J. and Cope, J. concurring.

The prisoner must be discharged. The mere fact that the petitioner was a Chinaman residing in a mining district, does not subject him to the foreign miners’ tax. If the act is to be construed as imposing this tax, it cannot be supported, any more than could a law be sustained which imposed upon every man residing in a given section of the State a license as a merchant, whatever his occupation.

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