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Jan . 11, 1868.
FORTIETH CONGRESS.
SEES . II. Ca. 3, 5, 6, 7. 1868 .
CHAP. M.- An Act to prevent Frauds in the Collection of the Tax on distilled Spirits.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
Full tax to be States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the paspaid ou distilled sage of this act no distilled spirits shall be withdrawn or removed from
spants, before
they are taken any warehouse for the purpose of transportation, redistillation, rectificafrom warehouse, tion, change of package, exportation, or for any other purpose whatever,
for any purpose
. until the full tax on such spirits shall have been duly paid to the collector
See ch.73, Post, of the proper district. And all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with
P. 78.
the provisions of this act be, and they are hereby, repealed .
APPROVED, January 11, 1868 .
Feb 8,1868.
CHAP. V. -An Act to provide for the Exemption of Cottonfrom internal Tax .
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
Cotton exStates of America in Congress assembled, That all cotton grown in the
t mpt from 'n- United States after the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven shall be
ernal tax after,
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exempt from internal tax ; and cotton imported from foreign countries on
&c. ;
imported, to and after November first, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, shall be
free& . duty,
tp, exempt from duty.
after,
APPROVED, February 3, 1868.
Feb. 4,186&
C HAT . VI. -An Act to suspend further Reduction of the Currency.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
Power of See- States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the
relary
ury
to re Tressuc
passage of this act, the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to make
ary red
currency by,&o. any reduction of the currency, by retiring or cancelling United States
suspended.
of
notes, shall be, and is hereby, suspended ; but nothing herein contained
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United States shall prevent the cancellation and destruction of mutilated United States
notes, may be notes, and the replacing of the same with notes of the same character and
replaced .
amount.
SCHUYLER COLFAX,
Speaker of the House of Representatives .
B . F. WADE,
President of the Senate pro tempore .
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by the President : "Received January 23, 1868 ."
NOTE BY TnE DEPARTMENT OF STATE. - The foregoing act having been
presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having
been returned by him to the House of Congress in which it originated within
the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law
without his approval.]
Feb. 10, 1868.
CHAP. VIL-An Act in Relation to taxing Shares in national Banks .
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
Shares in na- States of America in Congress assembled, That the words " place where
tional banks to the bank is located, and not elsewhere," in section forty-one of th e "act to
be taxed where
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1861, oh. ios, provide a national currency," approved June third, eighteen hundred and
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sixty-four, shall be construed and held to mean the State within which
Vol xiii .p 111the bank is located ; and the legislature of each State may determine
low to be
and direct the manner and place of taxing all the shares of national
taxed.
banks located within said State, subject to the restriction that the taxation
shall not be at a greater rate than is assessed upon other moneyed capital
in the hands of individual citizens of such State : And provided always,
Shares of non- That the shares of any national bank owned by non-residents of any
residents .
State shall be taxed in the city or town where said b an . is located, and
not elsewhere .
APPROVED, February 10, 1868.
FORTIETH CONGRESS . SESS .IL
Cs. 8.
1868.
CHAP. VIII .-An Ad making Appropriations to supply Deficiencies in the Appropria- Feb .
tions far the Execution of the Reconstruction Laws, and for the Serince ofthe Quartermaster's Department of the Government, for the fiscal Year ending June thirty, eighteen
hundred and sixty-eight, and for other Purposes .
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12, 1868.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums, or so Deficiencyap.
much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same are hereby, appro- propriation
priated out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for
the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending June thirty,
eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, namely
To provide for the expenses of carrying into effect the~~ ,' Act to pro- a peen truction
vide for the more efficient government of the rebel States
for the first 1867, oh . 153 .
military district, the sum of fifty thousand dollars ; for the second military Vol. xlv. p. 428
disdistrict, the sum of one hundred and ten thousand dollars ; for the third Military
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military district, the sum of ninety-seven thousand dollars ; for the fourth tricts
military district, the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ; and
for the fifth military district, the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars ; making, in all, the sum of six hundred and fifty-seven thousand
dollars.
QuartermasTo supply deficiencies in the service of the quartermaster's departter's department, to wit :
ment.
For regular supplies, three million five hundred thousand dollars.
Regular supplies .
For incidental expenses, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars .
.Forthepucasfvlryndatiehors,fundetbosand dollars .
For transportation of the army, seven million three hundred and fifty
thousand dollars ; making, in all, the sum of twelve million dollars .
Engineers .
Office of the chief of engineers :
To supply deficiencies in the office of the chief of engineers, for
blank books, stationery, and miscellaneous items, two thousand dollars .
Building corner of F and Seventeenth streets :
Building corTo supply deficiency for fuel, compensation of fireman, and miscella- ner of F and
17th Streets .
neous items, eight thousand dollars .
Congressional
Legislative . - For increased compensation to congressional printer, to
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June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty eight, one thousand three hun- p rinter
dred and forty-four dollars and forty-four cents .
House of RepTo supply a deficiency in the contingent expenses of the House of
resentatives .
Representatives for the present fiscal year, the following sums, namely :
Senators and
For stationery, fifteen thousand dollars : Provided, That from and after limi
ndted in new
the third day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, no senator or fu
srepresentative shall receive any newspapers except the Congressional papers and staGlobe, or stationery, or commutation therefor, exceeding one hundred and tionery'
twenty-five dollars for any one session of Congress .
For furniture, repairs, and packing-boxes for members, twenty thousand dollars.
For miscellaneous items, fifteen thousand dollars .
For folding documents, including materials, fifty thousand dollars .
For newspapers, twelve thousand five hundred dollars .
Senate .
To supply a deficiency in the contingent expenses of the Senate for the
present fiscal year, namely
For clerks to committees, and pages, horses, and carryalls, thirty-three
thousand eight hundred and four dollars.
For additional messengers and laborers, fifteen thousand dollars .
For labor and materials in the folding-room, to be provided by the
sergeant-at-arms, five thousand dollars .
Judiciary . -For salary of the marshal of the Supreme Court of the Judiciary
United States from April third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, to
June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, at thirty-five hundred dollars per annum, four thousand three hundred and fifty-five dollars and
seventy-seven cents.