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 THIRTY-·NIN TH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 280, 281, 282, 283. 1866. 301 with the clerks of the said district courts of California and Louisiana, re- of Louisiana to speetively, all property, books, records, documents, and papers remaining g:g°;;_;ggf§f in their respective offices, and the same shall be received and kept by with me clerk; the said last-mentioned clerks subject to the order and direction of such Ofbggprg gmbf courts respectively. °S is °_ Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That executions may be issued out Execntions to of the said district court of California and the said district court of Lou- ;’:;f;“gg;§;foN isiana, respectively, to collect any judgment or decree rendered in the rendered_ said southern district of California or said western district of Louisiana before the passage of this act with the same effect as the same might now be issued out of the court in which such judgment or decree was rendered; and all process which shall have been issued out of said district court for the southern district of California or said western district of Louisiana, and shall not have been returned before the passage of this act, shall be returned to and filed with the clerks of the district courts of California and Louisiana respectively. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the salary of the United States _ §¤¥¤iU 0; district judge for the district of Louisiana shall hereafter be four thousand ·],`:S,§?c,°;ftL;u_ five hundred dollars per annum. isiaua. Armzovnn, July 27, 1866. CHAP. CCLXXXI.—An Act to authorize the Use in Post Ofices of Weights q/' the July 27, 1866- Denominalion of Grams. -`_—-__"` Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster- General Pg”*·¤l l’?"":‘d be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to furnish to the post offices ?§sg,:;;[€#’€°h§ exchanging mails with foreign countries, and to such other offices as he metric system shall think expedient. postal balances denominated in grams of the met- gg1E?: p‘:)‘?;“h°d 1-ie system; and, until otherwise provided by law, one half ounce evoir- 0mm_ dupois shall be deemed and taken for postal purposes as the equivalent of One hm fifteen grams of the metric weights, and so adopted in provression · and °°“$°° t° b° tm an ’ e uivulent of the rates of postage shall be applied accordingly. Sheen grams. Approved, July 27, 1866. CHAP. CCLXXXII. - An Act to authorize the Refanding of certain Taxes. July 27, 1866. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Obngress assembled, That where the license tax im- Cerfuinliwwv posed upon any wholesale dealer has been calculated upon the amount of ::;;°z;S:::’°;::y such dealefs sales for the previous year, in accordance with the terms of bg refunded. the seventy-ninth section of an act approved June thirtieth, eighteen hun- 1864»¤EE;178ti 79- dred and sixty-four, and it shall be proved to the satisfaction of the commis- WL xm` P' 2m' sioner of internal revenue that the sales made under such license did not equal in amount the sales of such previous year, it shall be lawful for said commissioner to refund to such wholesale dealer so much of the amount paid for such license as may be in excess of the proper tax chargeable upon the amount of sales actually made under such license during the year for which the same was issued. Arr1z0V1~:D, July 27, 1866. CHAP. CCLXXXIII. —— An Act amendatory of Section thirteen of an Act entitled “An July 27, 1866. Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Aet tv provide Internal Revenue to support the Gov- ernment, to pay Interest on the Public Debt, and fir other Purpose:} approved June 30, v0]_’xm_  Q5_ 1864," approved Jllarch 3, 1865. Be it muted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States ty America in Uongress assembled, That the thirteenth section of $¢<=ti°¤ 13 °Y an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled ‘An act to provide in- ;g°;,;;:ggg’§;" ternal revenue to support the government, to pay interest on the public snmiegcutiugutbet wor "w1 on