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Joint resolution relating to and repealing all taxes 41
on legacies and distributive shares.
Joint resolution relative to the 10 per cent. addi- 41
tional tax imposed by the act of July 13, 1870,
on merchandise, &c.

Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of the 41
Treasury to refund penalty, interest, and costs
illegally assessed and collected under the direct-
tax laws.

Joint resolution declaring the meaning of the
twenty-sixth section of an act entitled "An act
to reduce internal taxes, and for other purposes,
approved July 14, 1870.

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Joint resolution construing the act of July 14, 1870, 41
entitled "An act to reduce internal taxes, and
for other purposes."

168, 209, 212, 214,
218, 239.

221, 475..

Joint resolution in relation to a tax therein named.
A bill to repeal the income-tax

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A bill to repeal the income-tax

A bill to collect unpaid direct tax, and for other
purposes.

Mr. Maynard

38.

A bill amending an act to reduce internal taxes,
and for other purposes, approved July 14, 1870.
A bill for the relief of purchasers of lands sold for
direct taxes in the insurrectionary States.
A bill to fix the tax on manufactured tobacco of
all kinds at sixteen cents per pound.

A bill for the repeal of the tax on illuminating-gas. 42
A bill to repeal the tax on matches....

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A bill to reduce taxation and to promote peace, 42
and for other purposes.

A bill to facilitate the legal interpretation of the
revenue laws of the United States.

42

Joint resolution authorizing the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue to provide and pay for instru
ments to secure revenue from distilled spirits.
A bill for the relief of purchasers of land sold for
direct taxes in the insurrectionary States.

A bill to repeal the income-tax

A bill to provide judicial proceedings in all cases
of assessment and collection of Federal taxes; to
prevent seizure of books, papers, &c., and for the
abolition of moieties and informers.

A bill to amend sections 61 and 63 of an act enti-
tled "An act imposing taxes on distilled spirits
and tobacco, and for other purposes," approved
July 20, 1868.

A bill authorizing the Commissioner of Internal 42
Revenue to remit and pay back taxes assessed
and collected on vessels.

A bill prohibiting that harbor, port, or pilotage 42
fees, dues, or other taxes on imposts be levied, or
pretended to be levied, on the tonnage, merchan.
dise, trade, imports, or cargoes of any vessel, or
the vessel itself, by virtue of the authority of
any State or municipal government, except
wharfage, pierage, and dockage, and enacting
that the collecting, or attempt to collect, the
same, or any portion thereof, be a penal offense.
A bill to reduce internal taxes, and to abolish the 42
office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue.

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R. 402

1871.

1871.

1871.

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Title of bill.

A bill fixing the rate of internal taxes on all kinds
of manufactured tobacco at sixteen cents per
pound.
A bill to refund the judicial officers of the United
States and the several States the taxes on their
salaries heretofore collected and paid under the
income-tax laws of the United States.
A bill to provide for the destruction of tobacco
legally forfeited and seized by the United States
for fraud against the laws for the raising and
collection of the internal revenue.

A bill for the repeal of all acts and parts of acts
creating and imposing a special tax on sales of
dealers in tobacco. manufacturers of tobacco,
and manufacturers of cigars.

A bill to refund the cotton tax collected under the
provisions of acts of Congress approved March 7,
1864, and March 2, 1867.

A bill prohibiting the collection of pilotage and
harbor dues by State or municipal authority.
A bill to repeal so much of the internal-revenue
law as imposes a tax on deposits of savings
banks.

A bill to repeal the stamp tax on lucifer and fric-
tion matches.

A bill amending an act to reduce internal taxes,
and for other purposes, approved July 14, 1870.
A bill to repeal the stamp duty or tax on matches.
A bill fixing a uniform rate of tax of sixteen cents
per pound on all manufactured tobacco entering
the market.

A bill amending an act to reduce internal taxes,
and for other purposes, approved July 14, 1870.
A bill to repeal the income tax and to provide that
the tax on incomes for the year 1871 shall not be
assessed or collected.

A bill to fix and establish the rate of tax on all de-
scriptions of manufactured tobacco entering the
market for consumption at the uniform rate of
sixteen cents per pound.

A bill to repeal so much of the internal-revenue
act as imposes a stamp-tax on sirups, fruits, and
vegetables.

A bill to repeal all laws imposing a tax upon spir. 42
its made exclusively from grapes,apples, peaches,
or other fruits.

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A bill to amend the thirty-second section of an act 42
entitled "An act to reduce internal taxes, and
for other purposes," approved July 14, 1870.
A bill to amend section 35 of an act to reduce in-
ternal taxes, and for other purposes.
A bill to amend section 110 of the internal-revenue
act, and for other purposes.

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A bill declaratory of au act entitled "An act to re-
duce internal revenue, and for other purposes,"
approved July 14, 18:0.

42

A bill to refund certain taxes collected by the
Government of the United States on raw cotton
during the years 1865, 1866, 1867, and 1868.

A bill for the remission of taxes on certain dis-
tilled spirits destroyed by the great fire in Chi-

cago.

A bill to reduce internal taxation, and to amend
an act to provide internal revenue to support the
Government, to pay interest on the public debt,
and for other purposes," approved June 30, 1864.

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