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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 39 STAT. · August 7, 1916 · Chapter 294

Chapter 294.

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CHAP. 294.— Joint Resolution Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Treasury to credit the stamp account of Joseph J. Scott, as collector of internal revenue of the first collection district of California, in the sum of $300, being the representative value of certain internal-revenue special-tax stamps which were lost from the office of the said collector. August 7, 1916.[[H. J. Res. 158](/us/bill/64/hjres/158).][[Priv. Res., No. 4](/us/privres/64/4).] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of theJoseph J.
Scott.Credit in internal revenue accounts. Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to credit the stamp account of Joseph J. Scott, as collector of internal revenue of the first collection district of California, in the sum of $300, being the representative value of certain internal-revenue bowling alley and billiard table special-tax stamps which were lost from the office of said collector during the rush of business incident to the collection of the special taxes imposed by the Act of Congress dated October twenty-second,Vol. 38, p. 745. nineteen hundred and fourteen, it having been definitely ascertained that the same have never been issued.
Approved, August 7, 1916.
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