Supreme Court of Delaware June 5, 1867 (Pickering v. Day)

Gilpin,

C.

J.,

announced the opinion of the Court. The second section of the act of Congress of July 1st 1862, entitled “ An act to provide internal revenue to support the government and to pay the interest on the public debt,” authorized the President of the United States to appoint collectors of internal revenue, for the several collection districts into which the States, territories and the