—the term imports as used in that clause of the Constitution which declares that `no State shall without the consent of Congress lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports,'does not refer to articles carried from one State into another, but only to articles imported from foreign countries into the United States.

It was held that it was not, and that the words' imports and exports' as there used referred to, and included only merchandise brought in from, or transported to, foreign countries. The court

—which involved the validity of an ordinance of the city of Mobile, Ala., relating to sales at auction, Mr. Justice MILLER, speaking for this court, said:'There is no attempt to discriminate injuriously against the products of other states, or the rights of their citizens; and the case is not, therefore, an attempt to fetter commerce among the states, or to deprive the citizens of other …

It is well established that the dormant aspect of the Commerce Clause applies to the states' power to tax.

Our decisions show that, if goods carried from one State have reached destination in another where they are held in original packages for sale, the latter has power without discrimination to tax them as it does other property within its jurisdiction.

—goods carried from one State to another are not imports or exports within the meaning of the clause which prohibits a State from laying any impost or duty on imports or exports, we do not mean to be understood as holding that a State may levy import or export duties on goods imported from or exported to another State.

"In view of these and other decisions of this court, it must be regarded as settled that no State can, consistently with the Federal Constitution, impose upon the products of other States, brought therein for sale or use, or upon citizens because engaged in the sale therein, or the transportation thereto, of the products of other States, more onerous public burdens or taxes …

—the words "imports" and "exports" as used in the Constitution were used to define the shipment of articles between this and a foreign country and not that between the States, and while therefore that case is no longer an authority as to what is or what is not an export, the proposition that a stamp duty on a bill of lading is in effect a duty on the article transported remains …

—it was contended that a provision in the charter of the city of Mobile, Ala., authorizing the collection of a tax on sales at auction, was invalid in its application to auctioneers who sold in that state, in the original packages, goods and merchandise the product of states other than Alabama.

—it was said by this court, Mr. Justice Miller delivering its opinion, that that stamp tax "was a regulation of commerce, a tax imposed upon the transportation of goods from one State to another, over the high seas, in conflict with the freedom of transit of goods and persons between one State and another, which is within the rule laid down in Crandall