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 THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 128, 129. 1864. 133 fourth section of this act may be recovered in an action at law in any court P*=¤;¤l*~l¤S· Mw of record of the United States, or any court of competent jurisdiction, gzip H°°°V` which action may be brought in the name of the United States by any person who will sue for said penalty, one half for the use of the United Half of mom, States, and the other half for the use of the person bringing such action. to_go_t¤ person_ And the recovery and satisfaction of a judgment in any such action shall l’"“g‘"g °’h° Su"' be a bar to the imposition of any line for the same offence in any prosecution instituted subsequent to the recovery of such judgment, but shall not Judgmgnt’&c_, be a bar to the infliction of punishment by imprisonment, as provided by {10* *·§> be ber ef said fourth section. lmpUS°¤m€m' Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That all acts and parts of acts incon- Repeating sistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. °la“S€· Approved, June 17, 1864. cusp. CXXVIII. -A¤ Act to amend an Act emitted “An Aa to mend the Timefw the June 17, 1864, Mthdrawal cy" Goods from Public Stores and_Bonded Warehouses, and for other Pur- poses," approved twenty-ninth February, eighteen hundred and suctyjbur. Ame; p_ 12_ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all goods, wares, and mer- vCe¥¤*i¤ §90d$, chandise, in public stores or bonded warehouses, on which the duties are gg&;"§gPh° unpaid, and which shall have been in bond for more than one year and ° less than three years, may be entered for consumption and the bonds can- when and how celled at any time before the first day of September next, on payment of may be enteredduties and charges according to the laws in force at the time the goods shall be withdrawn. Approved, June 17, 1864. CHAP. CXXIX.-—An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to authorize the Oorpora- June 17, 1864. tion ty" Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, to lay and collect a-Water Tax, and for other Purposes," approved May twenty-one, eighteen hundred and stxtydwo. V01km_ p_ 405 Be it enacted by the Senate and Muse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in all cases in which an F*<>¤*~*`°<>* original town lot in Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, entirely owned by the same person or persons, or any subdivision of an original Georgetown. lot separately owned, as aforesaid, shall be situated at the intersection of two streets, so as to bind or.front on both, and in which both fronts would be liable to the front-foot tax authorized by the act entitled "An act to authorize the corporation of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, to lay and collect a water-tax, and for other purposes," approved May twenty-one, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, the said front-foot tax shall not be levied upon more than seventy-five feet-of the two fronts of said lot or part of lot; and all beyond said number of feet shall be exempt therefrom: Provided, That, for the purpose of avoiding inequality. and hardship in laying said tax, it shall be lawthl for the said corporation of Further pm. Georgetown, in such cases, to make such further exemptions from said ViSi0¤S· front-foot tax, either by general laws or in individual cases, as to them may seem just and proper. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for said cor- Instead of poration of Georgetown, in their discretion, instead of the front-foot tax front-foottsx, a. aforesaid, to lay and collect annually a general special tax not to exceed €€‘]‘*"“l sP"°l%l _ . . tax may be laid, one fifth of one per cent. per annum on all the assessable property in said &c_ town, for the purpose of defraying the cost of distributing water through said town from the mains or pipes of the Washington aqueduct, which tax shall be exclusively appropriated to said object, shall be collected in the same manner as the general tax of said town, and shall cease whenever the cost of said distribution shall have been fully paid : Provided, That all p,,,,,,,,,,_ persons liable to pay said tax shall be credited on account of the same with all sums heretofore paid by them on account of said front—foot tax, levied in pursuance of the act to which this is an amendment. von. xm. PUB.-- 12