...Union generally under consideration, and especially House bill No. 54, to provide increased revenue from imports, to pay interest on the public debt, and for other purposes, and had come to no conclusion thereon. And then, on motion of Mr. KELLOGG, of Michigan, (at ten minutes...

...5th day of August, 1861, a Federal statute was passed entitled "An act to provide increased revenue from imports to pay interest on the public debt, and for other purposes." This law was passed at a time when immense sums of money were needed by the Government for the prosecution.of...

...States by act of Congress approved August 6th, AD 1861, entitled " An act to provide income and revenue from imports to pay interest on the public debt and for other purposes ;" provided, however, that the said assumption of the said quota of the said tax is, and the payment...

...obstructed so that the provisions of Uw 41 "Act to provide increased revenue from imports, to pay the interest on the public debt, and for other purposes,"...approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, cannot be peaceably executed, and that the taxes legally chargeable upon real estate under the act...

...Preamble. WHEREAS, By the act of the congress of the United States, " to provide increased revenue from imports, to pay interest on the public debt, and for other purposes," approved by the president August 5, 1861, a direct tax of twenty million dollars is annually laid upon the United...

...August 7, 1861. The act of Congress of August 5, 1861, entitled "An act to provide increased revenue from imports, to pay interest on the public debt, and for other purposes," so far as it relates to the duties on imports, goes into immediate crl'ect, and I publish that portion...

...Whole House on the state of the Union on the bill of the House (HR 54) to provide increased revenue from imports, to pay interest on the public debt, and for other purposes, shall cease in one hour after its consideration is commenced; and the committee shall then proceed...

...provisions of the fifty-third section of an act of congress, entitled " An Act to provide increased Revenue from Imports, to pay interest on the public debt,...approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. Approved January 27, 1862. RESOLVE MAKING APPROPRIATIONS TO PAY CERTAIN DAMAGES AND Chap. 3. OTHER...

...provisions of the fifty-third section of an act of congress, entitled " An Act to provide increased Revenue from Imports, to pay interest on the public debt,...approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. Approved January 27, 1862. RESOLVE MAKING APPROPRIATIONS TO PAY CERTAIN DAMAGES AND Chap. 3. OTHER...

...whereas, the congress of the United States drd, by an act entitled " An act to provide increased revenue from imports, to pay interest on the public debt, and for other purposes," approved August fifth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, lay a direct tax of twenty millions of dollars upon the United...