Jordan

Petitioner is a corporation, organized under the laws of the state of Illinois, for the purpose of manufacturing and selling and generally dealing in china, glassware, pottery, restaurant supplies, and other merchandise. It manufactures none of the enumerated articles in the state of California. However, as it avers, in its petition, it has for a long time been engaged in interstate commerce in these goods and wares between the state of Illinois, the state of California, and other states of the United States. It maintains a branch office and place of business in the city and county of San Francisco, and sells its goods, wares, and merchandise in the city and county of San Francisco and in other states of the United States, and ships its goods, wares, and merchandise from the state of Illinois into the state of California and into other states, and from the state of California into other states. It has tendered to the secretary of state for filing a certified copy of its articles of incorporation with other appropriate papers required by the laws of the state, and the secretary of state has refused to file the same excepting upon prepayment of the fee fixed by section 416 of the…