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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 17 STAT. · Dec. 24, 1872 · Chapter XVI

Chapter XVI. for the Relief of Scales and Manning, of Nashville, Tennessee

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CHAP. XVI.— An Act for the Relief of Scales and Manning, of Nashville, Tennessee. Dec. 24, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Horace G. Scales and Samuel H. Manning may carry on the business of distilling. That Horace G. Scales and Samuel H. Manning, of Nashville, Tennessee, and the survivor of them, their heirs, administrators, and assigns, be, and they are hereby, permitted to commence and carry on the business of distilling in and at their distillery recently erected in Davidson county, Tennessee, upon a tract of land devised to the said Scales by the last will and testament of Charles Bosley, deceased, but for the accomplishment of certain trusts in said will named and limited in favor of persons incapable of giving the consent 1868, ch. 186, § 8.Vol. xv. p. 128.See vol. xvi. pp. 41, 256, and *Ante*, pp. 238–245.required by section eight of the act entitled “An act imposing taxes on distilled spirits and tobacco, and for other purposes,” approved July twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, upon compliance with all the provisions of law now existing, or that may hereafter be enacted, applicable to distilleries erected prior to the twentieth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
Approved, December 24, 1872.
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