any person shall dispossess or rescue or attempt to dispossess or rescue, any property so taken or detained as aforesaid, or shall aid or assist therein, such person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to such punishment as is provided by the twenty-second section of the act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States, approved the thirtieth of April, Anno Domini seventeen hundred and ninety, for the willful obstruction or resistance of officers in the service of process.] Repeal of Section 50 of Act of June 30, 1864. (SEC. 68. Act of July, 1866.) [And be it further enacted, That the fiftieth section of an act passed June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled, "An act to provide internal revenue to support the government, to pay interest on the public debt, and for other purposes," is hereby repealed: Provided, That any case which may have been removed from the courts of any State under said fiftieth section to the courts of the United States shall be remanded to the State court from which it was so removed, with all the records relating to such cases, unless the justice of the circuit court of the United States in which such suit or prosecution is pending shall be of opinion that said case would be removable from the court of the State to the circuit court under and by virtue of the sixty-seventh section of this act. And in all cases which may have been removed from any court of any State under and by virtue of said fiftieth section of said act of June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, all attachments made, and all bail or other security given upon such suit or prosecution, shall be and continue in full force and effect until final judgment and execution, whether such suit shall be prosecuted to final judgment in the circuit court of the Uuited States or remanded to the State court from which it was removed.] Writs of Error for the Revision of Judgments in State Courts, under Section 25 of Act of September 24, 1789. (SEC. 69. Act of July, 1866.) [And be it further enacted, That whenever a writ of error shall be issued for the revision of any judgment or decree in any criminal proceeding where is drawn in question the construction of any statute of the United States, in a court of any State, as is provided in the twenty-fifth section of an act entitled, "An act to establish the judicial courts of the United States," passed September twenty-fourth, seventeen hundred and eighty-nine, the defendant, if charged with an offence bailable by the laws of such State, shall not be released from custody until a final judgment upon such writ, or until a bond, with sufficient sureties, in a reasonable sum, as ordered and approved by the State court, shall be given; and if the offence is not so bailable, until a final judgment upon the writ of error. Writs of error in criminal cases shall have precedence upon the docket of the Supreme Court of all cases to which the government of the United States is not a party, excepting only such cases as the court, at their discretion, may decide to be of public importance.] This Act of Amendment, &c., to take effect August 1, 1866. Saving Provisions, &c., for Accrued Taxes and Penalties Incurred, &c. (SEC. 70. Act of July, 1866.) [And be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect, where not otherwise provided, on the first day of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and all provisions of any former act inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed: Provided, however, That all the provisions of said acts shall be in force for collecting all taxes, duties and licenses properly assessed or liable to be assessed, or accruing under the provisions of acts, the right to which has already accrued or which may hereafter accrue under said acts, and for maintaining and continuing liens, fines, penalties and forfeitures incurred under and by virtue thereof. And for carrying out and completing all proceedings which have been already commenced, or that may be commenced, to enforce such fines, penalties, and forfeitures, or criminal proceedings under said acts, and for the punishment of crimes of which any party shall be or has been found guilty: And provided further, That whenever the duty imposed by any existing law shall cease in consequence of any limitation therein contained before the respective provisions of this act shall take effect, the same duty shall be, and is hereby, continued until such provisions of this act shall take effect; and where any act is hereby repealed, no duty imposed thereby shall be held to cease, in consequence of such repeal, until the respective corresponding provisions of this act shall take effect: And provided further, That all manufactures and productions on which a duty was imposed by either of the acts repealed by this act, which shall be in the possession of the manufacturer or producer, or of his agent or agents, on the day when this act takes effect, the duty imposed by any such former act not having been paid, shall be held and deemed to have been manufactured or produced after such date; and whenever by the terms of this act a duty is imposed upon any articles, goods, wares, or merchandise, manufactured or produced, upon which no duty was imposed by either of said former acts, it shall apply to such as were manufactured or produced, and not removed from the place of manufacture or production, on the day when this act takes effect; and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, under the direction of the Secretary of the treasury, is authorized to make all necessary regulations and prescribe all necessary forms and proceedings for the collection of such taxes and the enforcement of such fines and penalties for the execution of the provisions of this act.] The Act to be Published in the German Language. (SEC. 71. Act of July, 1866.) [And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to have this act, and the acts to which it is amendatory, published in at least one German newspaper in each of the States of the Union where such paper may be published.] AN ACT To Amend Existing Laws Relating to Internal Revenue, and for Other Purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and Hous: of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That all acts in relation to the assessment, return, collection, and payment of the income tax, special tax, and other annual taxes now by law required to be performed in the month of May, shall hereafter be performed on the corresponding days in the month of March in each year; all acts required to be performed in the month of June, in relation to the collection, return, and payment of said taxes, shall hereafter be performed on the corresponding days of the month of April of each year: Provided, That on and after the 1st day of September, 1867, a tax of 2 cents per pound only shall be levied, collected and paid on any cotton produced within the United States. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That apothecaries, butchers, confectioners, and plumbers and gas-fitters, whose annual sales exceed twenty-five thousand dollars, shall pay, in addition to the special tax now required by law, one dollar for every thousand dollars in excess of said twenty-five thousand dollars; and the taxes on such excess. shall be assessed and paid in the manner provided in the case of wholesale dealers. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That in all suits or proceedings arising under the internal revenue laws, to which the United States is party, and in all suits or proceedings against a collector or other officer of the internal revenue, wherein a district attorney shall appear for the purpose of prosecuting or defending, it shall be the duty of said. attorney, instead of reporting to the Solicitor of the Treasury, immediately at the end of every term of the court in which said suit or proceeding is or shall be instituted, to forward to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue a full and particular statement of the condition of all such suits or proceedings appearing upon the docket of said court: Provided, That upon the institution of any such suit or proceeding it shall be the duty of said attorney to report to said commissioner the full particulars relating to such suit or proceeding; and it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, (with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury,) to establish such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with law, for the observance of revenue officers, district |