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SIXTY-SECOND CONGRESS . Sass . II . CCs . 255, 256, 258,283 . 1912.
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and masters of light vessels and of lighthouse tenders for rations and
provisions and clothing furnished shipwrecked persons who may be
temporarily provided for by them, not exceeding in all five thousand
dollars in any fiscal year.
Approved, July 27, 1912.
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CHAP. 256 .-An Act Extending the time for the repayment of certain war-revenue
taxes erroneously collected .
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That all claims for the refund.4e, w ing of any internal tax alleged to have been erroneously or illegally
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assessed or collected under the provisions of section twenty-nine of
Vol. so, P. 464 .
the Act of Congress approved June thirteenth, eighteen hundred and
ninety-eight, known as the war-revenue tax, or of any sums alleged
to have been excessive, or in any manner wrongfully collected under
the provisions of said Act may be presented to the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue on or before the first day of January, nineteen
hundred and fourteen, and not thereafter .
Payment directed.
SEC . 2 . That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized
and directed to pay, out of any moneys of the United States not
otherwise appropriated, to such claimants as have presented or shall
hereafter so present their claims, and shall establish such erroneous
or illegal assessment and collection, any sum paid by them or on
their account or in their interest to the United States under the provisions of the Act aforesaid.
Approved, July 27, 1912.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States America in Congress assembled That section forty-eight
hundred and seventy-five of the Revised Statutes be amended to read
as follows :
"SEC. 4875. The superintendents of the national cemeteries shall
receive for their compensation from sixty dollars to seventy-five
dollars a month each, according to the extent and importance of the
cemeteries to which they may be respectively assigned, to be determined by the Secretary of War except the superintendent of the
Arlin~ton, Virginia, Cemetery, whose compensation may be one hundred dollars per month, at the discretion of the Secretary of War ; and
they shall also be furnished with quarters and fuel at the several cemeteries."
Approved, July 30, 1912.
CHAP . 263 .-An Act To prohibit the importation and the interstate transportation
of films or other pictorial representations of prize fights, and for other purposes .
July 81, 191Z
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CRAP. 258.-An Act To amend section forty-eight hundred and seventy-five of
the Revised Statutes, to provide a compensation for superintendents of national
cemeteries.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be unlawful for
any person to. deposit lr cause to be deposited in, the United States
mails for mr..iling or den •v ery, or to deposit or cause to be deposited
with any express company or other common carrier for carriage, or to
send or carry from one Stats or Territory of the United States or the