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their children not within the principle.

§ 226. Principle upon which children born in hostile occu

pation are excluded from citizenship.

227. Same-Person born within the seceded states. 228. Resume as to the qualifying words o fthe citizenship clause of the fourteenth amendment.

229. Citizenship by naturalization.

230. Same-Citizenship of married woman follows that of her husband.

231. "Collective naturalization" by the admission of new states into the union. 232. Same-Texas admitted into the union with her population as it stood.

233. "Collective naturalization" by treaty or statute.

234. Dual citienship.

235. The fourteenth amendment

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237. Same

Not accomplished by mere declaration of intention.

(d) THE PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES OF THE CITIZENS OF THE SEVERAL STATES.

238. Complex nature of those

rights denominated "Privileges and immunities of citizens."

239. Privileges and immunities of citizens not defined in the constitution.

240. Privileges and immunities of citizens defined by judicial inclusion and exclusion only.

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267. Same Same-Form of ac

tion in civil cases. 268. Corporations not citizens within the meaning of the constitutional provision. (1) NO STATE TO DEPRIVE ANY PERSON OF LIFE, LIBERTY, OR PROPERTY, WITHOUT DUE PROCESS OF LAW.

269. The "due process of law" of the state-Meaning of the constitutional provision.

270. Same-The states control their own judicial procedure-Law a progressive science.

271. Same-First ten amendments no restraint on the states.

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fixing destructive rates for common carriers. 285. Same State law requiring transfer facilities at railroad intersections. 286. Same Same Limitations of the fourteenth amendment operate on all instrumentalities of the

state government. 287. Same-State statute denying non-resident corporation equality in distribution of insolvent's assets. 288. Due process of law in state taxation-Strict judicial procedure not required.

289. Same-When notice and an opportunity to be heard are requisite.

290. Same Same-What is due

process of law in taxation-General rule.

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306. Same-When statute allow

ing attorney's fee is penalty for failure to pay debt.

307. Same State statute requiring railroad companies to fence track-Double damages for killing stock.

308. Same-Regulation of warehouses and elevators. 309. Same-Life and health insurance companies-State statute imposing damages and attorneys fees for failure to pay policy when due.

310. Same-Limiting hours of labor in mines.

311. Same--Illinois trust act. 312. Taxation and the equal protection of the laws.

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315. Same-Power of the state to

fix the situs of the transitory property of railroads for purposes of taxation.

316. Same-Power of the state to tax railroad companies to pay salaries and expenses of railroad commission.

317. Same-Classification. 318. Power of the state to impose conditions of admission upon foreign corporations.

319. Civil rights-Exclusion of negroes from grand and petit juries.

320. The fourteenth amendment does not require state judicial procedure to be uniform.

§ 321. Power

of the state to classify cities for the registration of voters. 322. State law imposing penalty on railroad companies for disseminating Johnson grass seed.

323. The design of the "equal protection" clause of the fourteenth amendment. 324. Conspiracy to deprive persons of the equal protection of the laws-Section 5519 U. S. Revised Statutes void.

(h) THE RIGHT OF CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES TO VOTE NOT TO BE ABRIDGED ON ACCOUNT OF RACE, COLOR, OR PREVIOUS CONDITION OF SERVITUDE. 325. The fifteenth amendment does not confer the right to vote.

326. The right to vote derived

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§ 332. Contract defined. 333. Same Charters of private corporations.

334. Same-Same-Rule for construing legislative grants. 334a. The prohibition protects all contracts, without regard to their nature or the character of the parties. 3346. Marriage not within the prohibition.

335. "Obligation of contract" defined.

336. Same-Axioms in American
jurisprudence.

337. Changing the remedy.
338. Same-Rule stated by Mr.
Justice Bradley.

339. Change in statute of limita-
tions.

340. Judgment for tort not a contract.

341. Withdrawing the power of taxation from municipal corporations impairs contract, when.

342. Increasing exemption from execution sale.

343. Laws altering terms of contracts.

344. What are laws?

345. Same-Judicial decisions. 346. Same Same Change of state decision.

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353. Imports and exports defined.

354. Impost defined.

355. Inhibition does not apply

to interstate shipments. 356. Right of the importer to sell in the original packages without taxation by the state.

357. Same-Brown v. Maryland. 358. Same-What is the "original package."

359. Tax on sales of imports made by auctioneer.

360. Effect of a sale of imported articles.

361. Duty on exports defined. 362. Cost of executing inspection laws-Exception to inhibi

tion.

(m) TONNAGE DUTIES.

363. The states prohibited from levying tonnage tax.

§ 364. Tonnage defined.
365. Tonnage tax defined.
366. The prohibition applies to
vessels engaged in local
commerce.

367. The prohibition does not ex-
tend to property tax on
vessels.

368. Charges for the use of local aids to commerce-Wharfage.

369. Same-Same.

370. Same-Same-What is not wharfage.

371. Tonnage tax cannot be levied to defray cost of executing quarantine regulations.

372. Whether a charge is wharfage or a tonnage duty is a question of fact and law.

373. Whether wharfage is reasonable must be determined by the local law. 374. Purpose and design of the constitutional prohibition against state tonnage du ties.

(a) THE EFFECT OF THE LATE AMENDMENTS UPON THE STATE AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS AND THEIR RELATIONS TOWARD EACH OTHER, AND UPON THE RELATIONS OF EACH TOWARD THE PEOPLE.

§ 178. The purposes of this chapter. The purposes of this chapter are: (1) To state the general effect, as developed by the decisions of the supreme court, produced by the adoption of the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments upon the dual system of government in this country, as it had been theretofore established and settled, including the effect of those amendments upon the state and federal governments and their relations toward each other and the relations of each toward the people of the several states; (2) to develop some of the practical results reached, and rules of law established by the decisions of the supreme court construing those amendments,

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