Chapter 161.
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CHAP. 161.— An act for the relief of E. S. Montell, executrix of the estate of James E. Montell.Mar. 3, 1883. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,James E. Montell, deceased.Payment to E. S. Montell, executrix of estate of. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to E. S. Montell, executrix of the estate of James E. Montell, deceased, of Baltimore, Maryland, the sum of eight hundred and fifty-nine dollars and twenty cents, or so much thereof as the said E.
S. Montell, executrix, shall prove, to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, that the said James E. Montell expended in the purchase of revenue stamps to stamp seventy-two eases of smoking tobacco purchased by him from S. Rosenfeld & Company, of Baltimore, Maryland, upon which a tax had been previously paid under the revenue laws in force at the time of its manufacture and sale, but which was made liable to be stamped under the act of July twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, thus requiring a double tax on the same tobacco; said payment to be made out of any money in the United States Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 3, 1883.