Volume 30
Public Law 55–151
To receive arrearages of taxes due the District of Columbia to July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, at six per centum per annum, in lieu of penalties and costs.
Approved February 10, 1899
Statutory text
An Act
To receive arrearages of taxes due the District of Columbia to July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, at six per centum per annum, in lieu of penalties and costs.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the rate of interest to be
District of Columbia.
Arrearages of taxes due to July 1, 1897, to be received at 6 per cent in lieu of penalties and costs.
collected of any person owing arrearages of general taxes prior to July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, now due to and the liens for which are held by the District of Columbia shall be six per centum per annum in lieu of the rate and penalties now fixed by law and all accrued costs: Provided, That this Act shall apply only to taxes paid
Proviso.
To apply only to taxes paid before July 1, 1899.
on or before the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine.
Approved, .