Overseers of the Poor of Upper Dublin v. Overseers of the Poor of Germantown

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• explaining that statute was enacted “for the particular protection of travellers upon the highways . . . and to afford them means of redress in case of injury by enabling them readily to ascertain the name and address of the owner of an automobile from which they might suffer injury”
• “A license fee may be exacted as a part of or incidental to regulations established in the exercise of the police power”
• “They involve no infraction of constitutional guarantees provided in other respects they are genuine excise taxes.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).