...remaining the property of the importer, in his warehouse, in the 179 US 878-380 AUSTIN V. TENNESSEE. original form or package in which it was imported, a tax upon it is too plainly a dutj on imports to escape the prohibition in the Constitution." And upon this quotation this observation...

...acted upon the thin? imported that it has become incorporated and mixed up with mass of property of the country, it has, perhaps, lost Its distinctive...was imported, a tax upon it is too plainly a duty on imports to escape the prohibition of the constitution." The right of the State to require a license...

...thing imported, that it has become incorporated and mixed up with the mass of the property in this country, it has, perhaps, lost its distinctive character...was imported, a tax upon it is too plainly a duty on imports to escape the prohibition in the Constitution. This rule as applied generally to the regulation...

...and mixed up with the mass of property in the country, it has, perhaps, lost its distinctive charater as an import, and has become subject to the taxing...which it was imported, a tax upon it is too plainly a 1 12 Wheat. 419. 1(56 VOL. 31. 167 duty on imports to escape the prohibition in the constitution."...

...as being universal in its application. It is sufficient for the present to say, generally, that when the importer has so acted upon the thing imported...was imported, a tax upon it is too plainly a duty on imports to escape the prohibition in the constitution. . . . It has been contended, that this construction...

...state's power to tax property "imported for sale." It held that, as to property imported for sale, "while remaining the property of the importer, in...was imported, a tax upon it is too plainly a duty on imports to escape the prohibition in the Constitution." Brown v. Maryland, supra, at 442. The right...

...been the case ever since Brown v. Maryland, supra, an import is deemed to retain its character as such "while remaining the property of the importer, in...original form or package in which it was imported," see Brown v. Maryland, supra, 442, or until put to the use for which it was imported. Chief Justice...

...state; but while remaining the property of the importer, in his warehouse, in the • 378-380 3SO-3S3 original form or package in which it was imported, a tax upon it is too plainly a duty on imports to escape the prohibition in the Constitution." And upon this quotation this observation...

...to square that finding with the longfollowed rule laid down 132 years ago by Chief Justice Marshall: "While remaining the property of the importer, in...was imported, a tax upon it is too plainly a duty on imports to escape the prohibition of the constitution." In US Plywood Corporation vs. the City of...

...Court which ruled that an imported article did not become subject to the taxing power of the State "while remaining the property of the importer, in...original form or package in which it was imported." 3 To determine the time when an article passes out of interstate into State jurisdiction for the purpose...