Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-03-05
OFFICIAL.
LAWS OF fHE UNITED STATES,
Passed at Second Session OF Fortieth Congress.

. .s-r. "a TPUBLIo-No.sl 20
An ACT to facilitate the collection Of the dir ct
tax In the State of Della ware
Be enacted ~ tt< Senate aad Howse Of e Pc
atotires 9 4s Jnikd STATES 81 Amersca in Gen.
srsss dsssmbied, That the valuation enumer-
aled in The assessment iist for direct ta1 in the
State of Delaware, completed April nineteenth,
A. ID. siRhte1 n hundred and sixty -seven, being
the valuation Of real estate as owned at or near
the time OF the completion of said assessment.is is
h. n by declared and made a lawful aeseesnaent
of he direct TAI Of seventy four thousand SIX
hundred and eighty three dollars and thirty
THREE and one-third cents, apportioned to the
State of Delaware by virtue Of an act Of Con-
gress entitled "An ACT TO provide increased
revenue from imports to pay interest on the
public debt and for other purposes, (" approved
August fifth, eighteen hundred and eiYty-one,
upon the valuation therein enumerated, with
the same force and effect as II made with refer
en"e 10 the date mentioned in the thirteenth
section of said act; and that all existing pro-
visions of law for the collection Of said direct
tax in the loyal States, except as provided IN
the ffty-thir section of said act, shall be ap-
plicabie TO the collection Of the tax therein
assessed. The notification of the time and place
where appeals would hA received and deter
mined relative to said assessment, given by the
assessor Immediately after said completion,
shall be deemed a lawful notice and all pro-
eeedings under said notice, and in general fn
relation 10 said assessment are hereby mace as
valid and legal as they would have peen had
the assessment been valid from its commence
ment. ..f'
SIC. .. And be IL further enacted, That the time
within which the assessor is required to deliver
the assessment list to the collector shall be
within twenty days from the passage of this
act.
SEC. 3. And Be II further Enacted, That the lien
provided for by the thirty third section shall
be and remain in force during two wears after
the taxes assessed IN accordance with the first
section of this act shall become due and pay
able.
SEC. 4. And BE- IL further enacted That all
necessary expenses in procuring copies of the
State assessment lists and for advertising con.
nected with the assessment and collection of
the tax shall be paid out of any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated, the ac-
counts for such expenses being first approved
by the Secretary of the Treasury. VI
Approved, February II, 1853.
TPCBLIC-No. 81
AN ACT 10 authorize the Southern Minnesota
Railroad Company to construct and main
tain a bridge across the Mississippi river and
establish post route.
Be IL enacted ty the SsRdte and House Of Repr-
ssHtdirts Of the United States of Anericd in Con
greSs assembled, That the Southern Minnesota
Railroad Company, a corporation existing un-
by authorized 10 construct and operate a
railroad bridge across the Mississippi river, be-
twern the city of La Crosse, Wisconsin, and a
point opposite, in the State of Minnesota, with
the consent OF the legislatures of the States OF
Minnesota and Wisconsin, and said bridge by
this act authorized 10 be constructed, is hereby
declared post route and subject to all the
terms, conditions. restrictions, and require
ments, and emitted 10 all the privileges named
in an act approved July twenty fifth, eighteen
hundred and sixty-six, entitled San act TO au
thorlZe the construction of certain bridges and
10 establish them as post roads. ~
Approved, February 81, 1868.