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Public Law 38–CXCII
authorizing the Levy Court of Washington County, in the District of Columbia, to levy and collect its Portion of the Direct Tax imposed by the Act of Congress of August five, eighteen hundred and sixty-one.
Approved July 1, 1864
Statutory text
An Act
authorizing the Levy Court of Washington County, in the District of Columbia, to levy and collect its Portion of the Direct Tax imposed by the Act of Congress of August five, eighteen hundred and sixty-one.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That
Levy court may levy and collect the direct tax.
the levy court of Washington County, in the District of Columbia, is hereby authorized and empowered to levy and collect, in the same manner as other county taxes in said county of Washington are levied and collected, a sum sufficient toTHIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 193, 194. 1864. pay the
1861, ch. 45.
Vol. xii. p. 292.
county’s proportion of the direct tax imposed on the District of Columbia by the act of congress approved August five, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and the expense and cost of collecting the same, and that the aggregate of said direct tax imposed by the aet aforesaid shall be dis tribu ted and apportioned between the cities of Washington and George town, and that part of said county of Washington lying outside the limits of said cities, according to the assessed valuation of property made in the jurisdiction of each by the assessment last prior to the date of the passage of said act of August five, eighteen hundred and sixty-one.
Approved, .