Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-01-21
WHOLE NO. 2416.
Laws of the United States.
Passed at he Third Session Of TIE Thirty
iSere7lh Congress. 7hl
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- PUBLIc-No. 81 -s,-,
AN ACT to amend an act entitled San
act to provide revenue to support the
Government and to pay interest on the
/ public debt" approved July first, 1862.
Be Il enacted 5y tie Senate and Hoxss Of
Representatives. Of The United States el AzseTiea
IN Congress assembled, That the assessors,
assistant assessors, collectors and deputy
collectors, appointed or who may be ap-
pointed, under the provisions of an act
entitled IAN act to provide internal
revenue to support the Government and
to pay interest.on the public debt" ap-
proved July first, eighteen hundred and
sixty-two, and all subsequent acts in rela-
ton thereto which have been or NAV be
enacted, are hereby authorized and en-
powered to administer oaths or afirma-
tions in all cases where the same are or
may be required by the act as foresaid:
Provided, That no fees shall be charged or
allowed therefor. -,
/. SEC. 3. And Bst further enacted, That no
instrument or document, writing, or pa
per of any description. required by law
70 be stamped, shall be deemed or held
invalid and of no effect for the want of
the particular kind or description of
stamp designated for and denoting the
duty charged on any such instrument,
document, writing, or paper, provided a
legal stamps, or stamps, denoting duty
of equal amount, shall have been duly
affixed and used thereon: Provided, That
the provisions of this section shall not
apply to any stamp appropriated to de-
note the duty charged on proprietary
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SEC. t. Ind Je q f,0ther enacted, That
all official instruments, documents, and
papers. issued or used by the officers of
the United States Government shall be,
and hereby are, exempt from duty.
SEC. D. And be 4 further enacted. That
the ninety fifth section of an act entitled
An act to provide internal revenue to
support the Government and to. pay in
terest on the public debt" approved July
first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, be
50 amended that no instrument, docu-
ment, or paper made, signed, or issued
prior to the first day of March, Ammo
Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-three,
without being duly stamped, or having
thereon an adhesive stamp TO denote the
duty imposed thereon, shall, for that
lduSCs DC QccLuctl lllNdllO anu Vi no
Provided, That no instrument, document,
writing, or paper, required by law TO be
signed, or issued. without being
luly stamped, prior to the day aforesaid,
1r any copy thereof, shall be admitted or
used as evidence many court until legal
stamp or stamps sdenoting the amount of
luty charged thereon, shall have been
lfhxed thereto. or used thereon, and the
initials of the person using or afhxing the
anne, together with the date when the
anne is so used or affixed, shall have been
,laced there by such person. And the
'erson desiring touse any such instrument,
document, writing, or paper, as evidence,
II his agent or attorney, is authorized in
he presence of the court to stamp the
anne as hereinbefore provided. And
ection twenty-four of an act entitled ''An
'et increasing, temporarily, the duties on
IMPORTS, and for other purposes" approx
ID July fourteen, Ammo Domini eighteen
hundred and sixty two, is hereby repealed
Approved, December 25th, 1862.