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 THIRTY—EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 56, 57, 58. 1865. 439 appointed under the act entitled "An act to annex a part of the State of _ Enrolment and New Jersey to the collection district of New York, and to appoint an l*°°°q° °*` ****3*%*** assistant collector to reside at Jersey City," approved February twenty- `ff°:§;:,,°;,IQ° B2;. one, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, be, and he hereby is, authorized to gen Counties, enrol and license, according to the laws of the United States, all vessels "' J°”°y' engaged in the coasting-trade and fisheries, owned in whole or in part by residents of the counties of Hudson and Bergen, in the State of New Jersey; and all such enrolments and licenses shall be as valid and eifcctual as if the same had been effected in any other port of the United States; and the said assistant collector, in the enrolment and licensing of vessels, shall be subject to the laws of the United States, and liable to all the penalties and responsibilities imposed upon collectors in like cases. APPROVED, February 25, 1865. Cnr. LVI. -—An Act to authorize the Corporation of Georgetown to lem] certain Taxes. Feb. 25, 1865. Bc it enacted ln; the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the corporation of George- Corporation of town be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to levy and col- wm “‘“’ lect, in the same manner in which other taxes are levied and collected mm. in said town, an annual tax, not to exceed in any year fifteen-hundredths of one per centum of the assessed value of the taxable property in said town, to be applied to the payment of the interest and the extinction of the principal of the debt recently contracted by said corporation in filling its *quota under the several drafts for troops made during the present war. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said corporation are hereby Dim, tu O,. further authorized and empowered to levy and collect, in manner afore- 1861, said, a sum sufficient to pay the said town’s proportion of the direct tax 1861, oh. 45, imposed on the District of Columbia by the act of congress approved 9*%] ., 296 August fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and the cost and expenses ° `xu'P' ' of collecting the same. Approved, February 25, 1865. Cusr. LVII. -An Act authorizing and requiring the Opening of Si:rth Street West; Fe], 25, 1g55_ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the corporate authorities Sixth Street of the city of Washington be, and they are hereby, authorized and re-  ¥)V“5h*,° quired to open Sixth_ Street west, from the canal to Maine Avenue, under b,g0,,,;,,({_ " the direction of the commissioner of public buildings, in accordance with the plan approved in May, eighteen hundred and twenty-two, by James Monroe, then President of the United States: Provided, however, That Sixth Street through the public grounds known as Armory Square shall not be opened until after the removal of the army hospital from such public ground, or until the consent of the surgeon-general of the United States army shall be first had and obtained. Approved, February 25, 1865. Cnr. LVTH. —An Actin Reference to Prosecutions for Label in the District <y" Columbia. Feb- 25, 1865- Bo it enacted by the Senate and Ease of Representatives of the United States ¢y" America in Congress assembled, That in all prosecutions or In libel suits, indictments for libel instituted, or which may hereafter be instituted, in &$‘~» (lg? Dig? the District of Columbia, the truth thereof may be given in evidence $52,,,,,, ,3:.;*; under the general issue as a justincation of the alleged libel; and if it given ineviappear that the matter charged as libel‘[l]ous was true, and was written d°“°°· or published with good motives and or justifiable ends, the defendant shall be acquitted. ATPROVED, February 25, 1865.