House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d Session-49th Congress, 1st Session, Volume 6

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Page 181 - That there might be no misunderstanding of the universality of this principle, it was expressly enacted, in 1867, that ' no suit for the purpose of restraining the assessment or collection of any tax shall be maintained in any court.
Page 186 - Every incorporated or other bank, and every person, firm, or company having a place of business where credits are opened by the deposit or collection of money or currency, nuDject to be paid or remitted upon draft, check, or order...
Page xvii - An act to authorize the issue of United States notes and for the redemption or funding thereof, and for funding the floating debt of the United States...
Page xvi - ... that this policy may be converted into cash at the option of the holder at any time after the expiration of fifteen years from the date hereof, for the amount indorsed upon the back of the policy.
Page xviii - And the United States also solemnly pledges its faith to make provision at the earliest practicable period for the redemption of the United States notes in coin.
Page 186 - ... without profit or compensation to the association or company, shall be exempt from tax on so much of their deposits as they have invested in securities of the United States, and on all deposits, less than five hundred dollars, made in the name of any one person...
Page xvi - To the purchase or payment of one per centum of the entire debt of the United States, to be made within each fiscal year after the first day of July, 1862, which Is to be set apart as a sinking fund, and the interest of which shall in like manner be applied to the purchase or payment of the public debt as the Secretary of the Treasury shall from time to time direct.
Page 777 - ... to remain at that temperature for several' hours. The plan adopted for determining the freezing-point of different samples of oil at one operation consisted in making a series of small openings, or windows, closed with glass, in the side of a cylindrical wooden tub about 2£ feet in diameter.
Page 171 - ... the Commissioner of Internal Revenue may prescribe. SEc. 3446 (RS, as amended). The Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, may establish and, from time to time, alter or change the form, style, character, material, and device of any stamp, mark, or label used under any provision of the laws relating to internal revenue.
Page xvi - In addition to other amounts that may be applied to the redemption or payment of the public debt...

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