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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 23 STAT. · March 3, 1885 · Chapter 444

Chapter 444. for the relief of Sarah E

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CHAP. 444.— An Act for the relief of Sarah E. Webster, administratrix.March 3, 1885. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Sarah E. Webster, administratrix of I. A. Verplank.Repayment to, of income tax unconstitutionally assessed. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and be is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Sarah E, Webster, of the city of Buffalo, New York, administratrix, and so forth, of Isaac A.
Verplank, deceased, late a judge of the superior court of Buffalo, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of money which was assessed as the income tax and was collected from and paid by said Isaac A. Verplank, now deceased, to the Government of the United States, upon his salary as a judge of the superior court of Buffalo, New York, such tax having been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Approved, March 3d, 1885.
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