An ACT to Provide Internal Revenue to Support the Government, to Pay Interest on the Public Debt and for Other Purposes, Passed June 30th, 1864 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864. Excerpt: ... manufactures, or any security given therefor, unless the same shall have been bona fide transferred to the hands of an innocent holder, shall be entirely void, and the collection thereof shall not be enforced in any court. And if any such article, goods, wares, merchandise or manufacture has been paid for in whole or in part, the sum so paid shall be deemed forfeited, and any person who will sue for the same in an action of debt shall recover of the seller the amount so paid, one-half to his own use and the other half to the use of the.United States. Sec. 181. And be it further enacted, That four hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the payment of the expenses incident to carrying into effect the various acta connected "with internal revenue which are or may be authorized and payable after the first of July, 1864, is hereby appropriated for that purpose, payable out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended nnder the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. And it shall be the duty of the collectors of internal revenue, as the Secretary may direct, to act as disbursing agents to pay the aforesaid expenses, without increased compensation therefor, who shall give good and sufficient bonds for the faithful performance of their duties as such disbursing agents for such sum and in such form as shall be prescribed by the First Comptroller of the Treasury, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, That the aforesaid appropriation shall continue in force to the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-five; and thereafter the Secretary of the Treasury shall embrace in his annual estimates the amount which, in his opinion, will be required for the expenses of this b...