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An act to correct errors and to supply omissions in the Revised Statutes of the United States, approved February 18, 1875 (18 Stat., 316).

The changes made by this act were incorporated into the second edition, Revised Statutes, in their proper place.

An act to further protect the sinking fund and provide for the exigencies of the Government, approved March 3, 1875 (18 Stat., 339). Increased tax on spirits to 90 cents per gallon and tobacco to 24 cents per pound; cigars to $6 per thousand.

An act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June 30, 1876, and for other purposes, approved March 3, 1875 (18 Stat., 352).

Section 12 of "An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for fiscal years ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and prior years, and for other purposes,' approved March 3, 1875 (18 Stat., 419).

An act to amend section numbered 3342 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, in relation to affixing stamps on brewers' casks, approved March 3, 1875 (18 Stat., 484).

An act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to adjust and remit certain taxes and penalties claimed to be due from mining and other corporations, and for other purposes, approved March 3, 1875 (18 Stat., 507).

Forty-fourth Congress.

An act to extend the time for stamping unstamped instruments, approved February 25, 1876 (19 Stat., 5).

Time extended to January 1, 1877.

Joint resolution concerning special-tax stamps, approved May 8, 1876 (19 Stat., 213). [Sec. 3233a.]

An act to define the tax on fermented or malt liquors, approved May 13, 1876 (19 Stat., 53). [Sec. 3337a.]

An act relative to the redemption of unused stamps, approved July 12, 1876 (19 Stat., 88).

An act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June 30, 1877, and for other purposes, approved August 15, 1876 (19 Stat., 152).

Supervisors abolished. Reduced number of collection districts.

An act to perfect the revision of the statutes of the United States, and of the statutes relating to the District of Columbia, approved February 27, 1877 (19 Stat., 240).

Changes made by this act were incorporated in the second edition Revised Statutes.

An act making appropriatians for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June 30, 1878, and for other purposes, approved March 3, 1877 (19 Stat., 303).

Reduced number of collection districts.

An act relating to the production of fruit brandy and to punish frauds connected with the same, approved March 3, 1877 (19 Stat.,

Forty-fifth Congress.

Joint resolution declaring that a reduction of the tax on distilled spirits is inexpedient, approved February 18, 1878 (20 Stat., 248). Joint resolution to prescribe the time for the payment of the tax on distilled spirits, and for other purposes, approved March 28, 1878 (20 Stat., 249).

Repealed by the act of May 28, 1880.

An act to extend the provisions of section 3297 of the Revised Statutes to other institutions of learning, approved May 3, 1878 (20 Stat.. 48). [Sec. 3297a.]

An act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1879, and for other purposes, approved June 19, 1878 (20 Stat., 187). [Secs. 3157a, 3463a.]

An act to amend section 5497 of the Revised Statutes, relating to embezzlement by officers of the United States, approved February 3, 1879 (20 Stat., 280). [Sec. 5497, Sec. 96, Criminal Code, Appendix.] An act to amend the laws relating to internal revenue, approved March 1, 1879 (20 Stat., 327).

Reduced tax on tobacco and many important changes made.

Forty-sixth Congress.

An act relating to vinegar factories established and operated prior to March 1, 1879, approved June 14, 1879 (21 Stat., 20). [Sec. 3282.] An act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880, and for other purposes, approved June 21. 1879 (21 Stat., 23).

Salary of storekeepers limited.

An act providing for the binding of the Internal-Revenue Laws and Manual, approved June 27, 1879 (21 Stat., 35).

An act authorizing an allowance for loss by leakage or casualty of spirits withdrawn from distillery warehouses for exportation, approved December 20, 1879 (21 Stat., 59).

An act to amend the laws in relation to internal revenue, approved May 28, 1880 (21 Stat., 145).

"Carlisle bill." Repealed provision charging 10 cents for stamps other than tax-paid or export.

An act to amend sections 3385 and 3357 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, approved June 9, 1880 (21 Stat., 167).

An act to amend the sixth subdivision of section 3244 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, approved June 16, 1880 (21 Stat., 291).

Forty-seventh Congress.

An act to repeal so much of section 3385 of the Revised Statutes as imposes an export tax on tobacco, approved August 8, 1882 (22 Stat., 372).

An act to amend section 3362 of the Revised Statutes relating to the tax on perique tobacco, approved January 9, 1883 (22 Stat., 401).

An act relating to exportation of tobacco, snuff, and cigars, in bond, free of tax to adjacent foreign territory, approved January 13, 1883 (22 Stat., 402).

An act to reduce internal-revenue taxation, and for other purposes, approved March 3, 1883 (22 Stat., 488).

Reduced tax on tobacco to 8 cents per pound and repealed stamp taxes on bank checks, matches, perfumery, medicinal preparations, and other articles imposed by Schedule A following section 3437, Revised Statutes.

Forty-eighth Congress.

An act to limit the time within which prosecutions may be instituted against persons charged with violating internal-revenue laws, approved July 5, 1884 (23 Stat., 122).

An act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1885, and for other purposes, approved July 7, 1884 (23 Stat., 172). Similar act for fiscal year ending June 30, 1886, approved March 3, 1885 (23 Stat., 404).

Forty-ninth Congress.

An act to amend section 3336 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, approved April 29, 1886 (24 Stat., 15).

An act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1887, and for other purposes, approved July 31, 1886 24 Stat., 187). An act defining butter, also imposing a tax upon and regulating the manufacture, sale, importation, and exportation of oleomargarine, approved August 2, 1886 (24 Stat., 209).

An act to provide for the inspection of tobacco, cigars, and snuff, and to repeal section 3151 of the Revised Statutes, approved August 4, 1886 (24 Stat., 218).

Fiftieth Congress.

An act to prevent the manufacture or sale of adulterated food or drugs in the District of Columbia, approved October 12, 1888 (25 Stat., 549).

Practically repealed by the "Act relating to the adulteration of foods and drugs in the District of Columbia," approved February 17, 1898 (30 Stat., 246). An act to provide for warehousing fruit brandy, approved October 18, 1888 (25 Stat., 560).

An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890, and for other purposes, approved March 2, 1889 (25 Stat., 939).

Fifty-first Congress.

An act to provide for certain of the most urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890, and for other purposes, approved April 4, 1890 (26 Stat., 34).

An act to amend section 3354, Revised Statutes, approved June 18, 1890 (26 Stat., 161).

Removal of beer for bottling by a pipe line or conduit.

An act to provide for the exportation of fermented liquor in bond without payment of internal-revenue tax, approved June 18, 1890 (26 Stat., 162).

An act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891, approved July 11, 1890 (26 Stat., 228).

An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890, and for prior years, and for other purposes, approved September 30, 1890 (26 Stat., 504). An act to reduce the revenue and equalize the duty on imports, and for other purposes, approved October 1, 1890 (26 Stat., 567).

"McKinley bill." Imposed tax on opium, authorized bounty on sugar, reduced tax on tobacco to 6 cents per pound, special-tax year to commence July 1.

An act to authorize the payment of drawback or rebate in certain cases, approved December 18, 1890 (26 Stat., 689).

An act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1892, approved March 3, 1891 (26 Stat., 862).

An act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1892, approved March 3, 1891 (26 Stat., 1050).

Removal of distilled spirits free of tax for making sugar from sorghum.

Fifty-second Congress.

An act to prohibit the coming of Chinese persons into the United States, approved May 5, 1892 (27 Stat., 25).

The "Geary bill." Certificates of residence to be obtained from collector of internal revenue. This act was amended by the act, approved November 3, 1893, known as the "McCreary bill" (28 Stat., 7). This matter is now under the Commissioner General of Immigration. (Sec. 7, act of Feb. 14, 1903, 32 Stat., 828).

An act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893, and for other purposes, approved July 16, 1892 (27 Stat., 183).

An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1894, and for other purposes, approved March 3, 1893 (27 Stat., 572).

An act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1894, and for other purposes, approved March 3, 1893 (27 Stat., 675).

Fifty-third Congress.

An act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1895, and for other purposes, approved July 31, 1894 (28 Stat., 162).

Contains "THE DOCKERY BILL."

An act to provide for the collection of internal revenue, and for other purposes, approved August 27, 1894 (28 Stat., 508).

An act to reduce taxation, to provide revenue for the support of the Government, and for other purposes, became a law without the President's approval, in effect August 28, 1894 (28 Stat., 509).

"THE WILSON BILL" imposed an income tax, since declared unconstitutional. Tax, 2 per cent upon incomes over $4,000. Law declared unconstitutional May 20, 1895 (Pollock v. The Farmers' Loan & Trust Company, and Hyde v. The Continental Trust Co., of N. Y.), on the ground that the tax was a direct tax (158 U. S., 601).

The court had previously held the law was unconstitutional as far as it sought to tax rents and income from real estate, and income from State, county, and municipal bonds (157 U. S., 429). Reimposed tax on playing cards. Repealed bounty on sugar.

(Became a law August 27 according to Supp. R. S., vol. 2, p. 334. See United States v. Burr, 159 U. S., 78.)

An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1896, and for other purposes, approved March 2, 1895 (28 Stat., 910).

Bounty on sugar-payment on production prior to August 28, 1894.

Fifty-fourth Congress.

An act to repeal section 61 of an act to reduce taxation, to provide revenue for the Government, and for other purposes, which became a law August 28, 1894, approved June 3, 1896 (29 Stat., 195).

Repeals provision exempting alcohol used in the arts from tax.

An act to amend section 3255 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, concerning the distilling of brandy from fruits, approved June 3, 1896 (29 Stat., 195).

An act defining cheese, and also imposing a tax upon and regulating the manufacture, sale, importation, and exportation of "filled cheese,' approved June 6, 1896 (29 Stat., 253).

An act to allow the bottling of distilled spirits in bond, approved March 3, 1897 (29 Stat., 626).

An act to amend section 40 of "An act to reduce the revenue and equalize duties on imports, and for other purposes," approved October 1, 1890, so as to authorize the sale of forfeited domestic smoking opium to the highest bidder, approved March 3, 1897 (29 Stat., 695).

Fifty-fifth Congress.

An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898, and for other purposes, approved June 4, 1897 (30 Stat., 11).

Bounty on sugar-payment of balance of claims, etc.

An act to provide revenue for the Government and to encourage the industries of the United States, approved July 24, 1897 (30 Stat., 151).

The "DINGLEY BILL." Amended sections 3341 and 3394, Revised Statutes. An act to provide ways and means to meet war expenditures, and for other purposes, approved June 13, 1898 (30 Stat., 448).

War-revenue act. Additional special taxes imposed; increased tax on fermented liquors, tobacco, and cigars; imposed legacy taxes, tax on mixed flour, stamp taxes on instruments, etc.

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