Chapter LVI. *to authorize the Corporation of Georgetown to levy certain Taxes.* Feb. 25, 1865. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the corporation of Georgetown Corporation of Georgetown may levy certain taxes. be, and they are h
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Chap. LVI.— An Act *to authorize the Corporation of Georgetown to levy certain Taxes.* Feb. 25, 1865. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the corporation of Georgetown Corporation of Georgetown may levy certain taxes. be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to levy and collect, in the same manner in which other taxes are levied and collected in said town, an annual tax, not to exceed in any year fifteen-hundredths of one per centum of the assessed value of the taxable property in said town, to be applied to the payment of the interest and the extinction of the principal of the debt recently contracted by said corporation in filling its quota under the several drafts for troops made during the present war.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the said corporation are hereby Direct tax of 1861. 1861, ch. 45, § 8. Vol. xii.p. 296.further authorized and empowered to levy and collect, in manner aforesaid, a sum sufficient to pay the said town’s proportion of the direct tax imposed on the District of Columbia by the act of congress approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and the cost and expenses of collecting the same. Approved, February 25, 1865.