Volume 29
Private Law 54–286
For the relief of John S. Burwell, administrator of the estate of A. L. Burwell, deceased.
Approved May 30, 1896
Statutory text
An Act
For the relief of John S. Burwell, administrator of the estate of A. L. Burwell, deceased.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
A. L. Burwell.
Payment to administratrix.
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and be is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to John S. Burwell, administrator of the estate of A. L. Burwell, deceased, such sum of money, not exceeding one thousand four hundred and ninety-nine dollars and fifty-six cents, as shall be shown to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to have been expended by him, or by Thomas and John Peale as agents for him, in the purchase of tobacco stamps
Proviso.
Conditions.
used to stamp tobacco held by said agents for him and inventoried according to law: Provided, That the said Commissioner is satisfied that said tobacco was manufactured prior to July twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and that the internal-revenue tax imposed by law prior to said date had actually been paid thereon.
Approved, .