Semi-weekly news., 1865-04-22

AND lt os n0FoOy es'@Cse~ >'A"
certificates Of indebtedness. author
ized by the said act Of February
seventeenth, eighteen hundred and
sixty four. may bo issued for debts
contracted prior to tile passage Of
said act. And the Agent of the
Treasury for the Trans mississippi
Department, be and he is hereby au-
thorized to issue, under regulations
to be prescribed by the Secretary "t
the Treasury, the certificates of in-
debtedness provided for in said act of
February seventeenth, eighteen hun
dred and sixty-four, for debts coE-
tracted prior or subsequent to tie
passage of said act, in the Trans
Mississippi Department, and that all
the certificates above mentio,:ed shall
be received in payment Of said taxes
in like manner and to the same ex-
tent as the certificates originally au-
thorizad by the said act Of seven
teenth of February, eighteen hun
dred and sixty-four, subject to the =
provisions above mentioned
SEC. 4: That upon al! the subjects
Of taxation mentioned in this act and
the act approved seventeenth OF Feb
ruary, eighteen hundred and sixty
four, entitled "an act to amend An
act entitled an act to lay taxes for
the. common defence and carry on
the Government Of the Confederate
/ States" approved twenty-fourth OF
April, eighteen hundred and sixty
three, there shall be levied and as
sessed for the year eighteen hundred
and sixty FIVE. an additional tax, i'll
money, equal to one-eighth of the
amount Of the tax on the same sub
iects, imposed for the year eighteen
hundred and sixty-ive, by this act
, and the said act of seventeenth Of
? February, eighteen hundred and six
5 ty four; which tax shall be payable
4 in Confederate treasury notes of the
: new issue only, and shall be assessed
= and collected at the same time with
8 the oth.r taxes; and the money ar's-
. irs thervirom shall be first appropri.
at.d to the payment Of the increased
$ compensation Of the soldiers Of the
e armv: Provided, That this addition.
k al tax shall not be construed to ap-
:, ply to or to increase the tax-in-kind.
Z SECS. Any tax payer, under reg
/, ulatiops TO &c prescribed by the Sc
,r retary of tie Treasury. shall be al"
e. lowed to pay into the Treasury. in
u atlvauce, such sum Or sums as he
Il, may choose. on account Of taxes to
L. accrue against him, and 10 obtain
in therefor an unassisnable certificate o.
v such payment, =
h, SEC. 6. Congress- having intended
n, hv the act Of the 18th February
r, 1864, entitled "an act to levy addl
ps ,ional taxes for the common defeuc'
no aud support Of the Government,
h. as amended by the act Of l4th June
I'd 1864, to impose said additional tax.
v tor the year 1864 only, the said &C
be Of 18th February, 1864, as amended
ng in s, far as it can be construed to OF
nt crate otherwise than as thus intended
ty- shall be, and the salne is hereby IT
Ii. pealed. And all the taxes impose
by this &C: shall be paid without ar
M. discount or credit for the value
ms. the tax-iu-kinl or the income Ia
,r;- and all the taxes on incomes and pro
nnt its, I'm Ter existing Laws, shall be pal
ons without any credit or deduction
All the I'D valo:e:n tax.
ne SE3. Z: That when property, re
on. or personal, has been injured or d
uch s1ruyvd by the enemy, OF the own
.re- thereof has been temporarily deprl
der cd ct the use thereof. or, IN the Ca
ons oi real estate, Of the means of cui
two vating the same, by the reason
act. the possession or proximity OF
:, ..al enemy, tho assessment on such p
and pcrty may be reduced in proporti
wed TO the damage sustained by
..bv owner, or the tax assessed there
ur., may be. reduced in the same ra
,r.e py the District Collector. on sa,
the factory evi lencs submitted to h
..ar- sv tie cwEnr or Assessor.
bv SEC. 8. That the Secretary Of
,mp- Treasury, on the recommendat''
,v.s Of tie Boards Of Police, Cou1
oar. Courts. or such other county,
and trict or parish tribunal as may
" of prescribed by the State Collect
corn, Respectively, transmitted thro'
lucts said collectors, is hereby autlori
wear to suspend the collection OF ia
pav- now due, or imposed by this or
Ilrinr other ur future at, IL these str
,ss.s where dcprelations have been c
,al of nii,tel by the enemy, III cases .
taxa divlduals in such districts, will
in his Judgment, the resources
.op-r- the tax payer asking such sns
d and sion have been SO seriously c;A'
shall ed or destroyed as to render
(. pas. payment of taxes impossible or