—it was said:'Having the absolute power of excluding the foreign corporation, the state may, of course, impose such conditions upon permitting the corporation to do business within its limits as it may judge expedient; and it may make the grant or privilege dependent upon the payment of a specific license tax, or a

—foreign corporations can not do business in a State except by the consent of the State; that the State may exclude them arbitrarily or impose such conditions as it will upon their engaging in business within its jurisdiction.

—the corporation showed by its answer that it had employed part of its capital in manufacturing in New York.

—the right of a State to tax the franchise or privilege of being a corporation, as personal property, has been repeatedly recognized by this court, and this whether the corporation be a domestic, or a foreign corporation doing business by its permission within the State.

When in prescribing the procedure and estimating the amount of the tax upon the corporation for doing business within the state, according to the amount of its business or capital within the state, that is a matter resting entirely in the control of the state.

—suggests that interstate commerce was the exceptional situation, and that states' power to exclude foreign corporations or admit them on conditions was the rule.

How long and upon what terms a state-created corporation may continue to exist is a matter exclusively of state power.

—the tax imposed was applicable alike to corporations doing business in New York, whether organized in that state or not; and in the courtse of the opinion in the case Mr. Justice Field, speaking for the court, said:'It does not lie in any foreign corporation to complain that it is subjected to the same law with the domestic corporation.

The granting of a corporate right or privilege rests entirely within the discretion of the state, and when granted may be accompanied by such conditions as the Legislature may judge most befitting to its interests and policy.

—reaffirming Paul and observing that "[tihis doctrine has been so frequently declared by this court that it must be deemed no longer a matter of discussion