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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Case No. 9,807.
    MORGAN v. ROWAN.
    [2 Cranch, C. C. 148.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    April Term. 1818.
    Taxation — Master and Servant — Poll-Tax op Servant — Liability op Master.
    The by-law of Alexandria requiring the master to pay a poll-tax for his journeymen, is not repugnant to the general law of the land, and is authorized by the charter.
    Trespass for taking f“ven pairs of shoes as a distress for not pay in. r a poll-tax due to the corporation for sundry journeymen shoemakers. employed by the plaintiff. Upon a special verdict the question was as to the power of the corporation to compel the master to pay a poll-tax for his journeymen. Corp. By-Laws, pp. 5, 52, 93, §§ 3, 12.
    ■■ E. J. Lee, for plaintiff.
    ■ J. D. Simms, for defendant.
    
      
       [Reported by Hon. William Cranch, Chief Judge.]
    
   THE COURT (MORSELL, Circuit Judge,

contra.) was of opinion-that the by-law was not contrary to the general law of the land, and was authorized by the charter of the town.