Chapter 52. to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to refund a certain tax erroneously collected
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CHAP. 52.— An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to refund a certain tax erroneously collected.April 08, 1878. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Thomas Bayne and Joseph W. Beck.Refund of tax to. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and they hereby are, authorized and directed to refund to Thomas Bayne, and the heirs or legal representatives of Joseph W.
Beck, deceased, if in their judgment they are entitled to the same, the amount of a certain tax erroneously collected of them, said tax having been assessed, as is alleged, as the. cost of a brick foot-pavement laid down in front of square seven hundred and twenty-six, in the city of Washington, on the east side of First street east, between A and B streets north, and chargeable to said square seven hundred and twenty-six, but by mistake assessed against the lots in square six hundred and eighty-seven, on the west side of said First street east, then owned or epresented by said Bayne or said Beck.
Approved, April 8, 1878.