...proceeded to the consideration of the special order, being a bill (HR No. 54) to provide increased revenue from imports, to pay interest on the public debt, and for other purposes. The bill was read through. The committee then proceeded to consider the bill by sections for amendment....

...On the 5th day of August, 1861, a Federal statute was passed entitled "An act to provide increased revenue from imports to pay interest on the public debt, and for other purposes." This law was passed at a time when immense sums of money were needed by the Government for the prosecution.of...

...United States by act of Congress approved August 6th, AD 1861, entitled " An act to provide income and revenue from imports to pay interest on the public debt and for other purposes ;" provided, however, that the said assumption of the said quota of the said tax is, and the payment...

...obstructed so that the provisions of Uw 41 "Act to provide increased revenue from imports, to pay the interest on the public debt, and for other purposes,"...approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, cannot be peaceably executed, and that the taxes legally chargeable upon real estate under the act...

...States. Preamble. WHEREAS, By the act of the congress of the United States, " to provide increased revenue from imports, to pay interest on the public debt, and for other purposes," approved by the president August 5, 1861, a direct tax of twenty million dollars is annually laid upon the United...

...Department, August 7, 1861. The act of Congress of August 5, 1861, entitled "An act to provide increased revenue from imports, to pay interest on the public debt, and for other purposes," so far as it relates to the duties on imports, goes into immediate crl'ect, and I publish that portion...

...commerce of the United States, and punish the crime of piracy," HR 54. An act to provide increased revenue from imports, to pay interest on the public debt, and for other purposes; and When The Speaker signed the same. The Speaker, by unanimous consent, laid before t' e House the...

...provisions of the fifty-third section of an act of congress, entitled " An Act to provide increased Revenue from Imports, to pay interest on the public...approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. Approved January 27, 1862. RESOLVE MAKING APPROPRIATIONS TO PAY CERTAIN DAMAGES AND Chap. 3. OTHER...

...provisions of the fifty-third section of an act of congress, entitled " An Act to provide increased Revenue from Imports, to pay interest on the public...approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. Approved January 27, 1862. RESOLVE MAKING APPROPRIATIONS TO PAY CERTAIN DAMAGES AND Chap. 3. OTHER...

...assessment and collection of the direct tsx imposed by an act entitled "An act to provide increased revenue from imports to pay interest on the public...purposes," approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty one, or any direct tax which may be hereafter enatted : Provided, That the sum of nineteen thousand...