Certainly not. but nevertheless the bill says: That there shall be levied. collected. and paid a duty of $3 for each and every passenger. That is what it says. It does not say "alien immigrant" or immigrant of any description. but a "passenger." I insist that my interpretation of the bill is the correct interpretation. and I want to give an illustration. A railroad company under that bill would be taxed $3 every time a tourist crossed the line into the United States. and as a glaring instance of the injustice that would result let me say that if a party of tourists wished to go from Toronto. in Canada. to Niagara Falls. N.
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