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1 Supreme Court of the United States, No. 1063, the County of San Mateo, Plaintiff in Error, vs. The Southern Pacific Railroad Company, Defendant in Error 1882

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THE COUNTY OF SAN MATEO, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR,
VS.
THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY,
DEFENDANT IN ERROR.
ARGUMENT OF S. W. SANDERSON, Esq., COUNSEL FOR DE-
FENDANT.
Mr. SANDERSON said :
May it please the Court, before commencing my argu-
inent, I desire to make one or two observations in relation
to certain misconceptions of counsel in the very able and
forcible arguments which have been made upon the other
side. Counsel have put us in the position of maintaining
propositions which we do not maintain. We have been
misunders*tood or misrepresented. It has been assurred
upon the other side, first, that we maintain the proposi-
tion that this question of due process of law imports
into the taxing system of the States judicial proceedings
or methods in the matter of making assessments or ascer-
taining the value of property for the purposes of taxation.
We maintain no such doctrine., On the contrary, we ad-
mit that  due process of law  does not require a resort
to judicial proceedings in the matter of assessments; that

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