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 256 FOB.TY—FIBST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 254, 255. 1870. W %¤P°¤;Yi¤° designated, shall be, and are hereby, authorized to attend at all times and {3Q2fé?,?',, places fixed for the registration of voters, who, being registered, would be ceritain elecfgons. entitled to vote for representative in Congress, and at all times and places , °P°**l° ·for holding elections of representatives in Congress, and for countjng the 18}¤},§,Zh},_92l3_i8' votes cast at said elections, and to challenge any name proposed to be registered, and any vote offered, and to  present and witness throughout · A th f tlge popntmsg og albyoteshand to rgmarntyvlpizlre thp ballotgioiips are pecpt u orityo a a 1m a er e po sareopn uni evoes are na ycoune · '“°h P°”°¤°· and said persons and either of them shall have the right to affix their sig: nature or his signature to said register for purposes of identification, and to attach thereto, or to the certificate of the number of votes cast, and [any] statement touching the truth or fairness thereof which they or he may ask Penalty for to attach; and any one who shall prevent any person so designated from Q;’;:l*°"'”8 doing any of the acts authorized as aforesaid, or who shall hinder or molest any such person in doing any of the said acts, or shall aid or abet in preventing, hindering, or molesting any such person in respect of any such acts, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be I punished by imprisonment not less than one year. I l In clues of Sec. 6. And be ttfztrther enacted, That m any city having upwards of §;gQ;?;;;°3h;“` twenty thousand inhabitants, it shall be lawful for‘the marshal of the marshal may United States for the district wherein said city shall be, to appoint as gppgm ¤¥;€¤l¤l many special deputies as may be necessary to preserve order at any elecgfgmosu SQL? tion at which representatives in Congress are to be chosen; and said deptions, tec. uties are hereby authorized to preserve order at such elections, and to P"f'~ P· “°· _ arrest for any offence or breach of the peace committed in their view. NW"? 9*5**** Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the naturalization laws are can nativity and . . . . . dmmtmay hereby extended to aliens of African nativity and to persons of African become citizens. descent. Approved, July 14, 1870. July 14, 1870- CHAP. CCLV. — An Act to reduce interna.! Taxes, and jbr other Purposes. · Be it enactedby the Senate and House if Representatives of the United mpgs`?} $*61*- States of America in Congress assembled, That on and after the first day mm upon 0c_ of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, the special taxes imposed by cupmons re- the seventy-ninth section of the act entitled “An act to provide internal {?qQ%f'·f°°' Mw revenue to support the gpvernment, to pay interest on the public debt, ¥q,;,°;l_l1q3,;g¥_ and fpr other purptpsgab approved June thirty, eighteen hundred and ¤· lm- · - sixty- our, as amen e y section nine of the internal revenue act ap- {g$::1,';:{§:;%g: proved-July thirteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and as amended Vol. xiv. pp. by section two of the internal revenue act approved March two, eighteen pgaissécpngpduom brewers imposed by sand section, or the special taxes imposed by the act mdmmcg approved July twenty, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, entitled "An pass, ch, 1;;% act imposing lpaxes on disulled spirits and tobacco, and for other ¤l· XV- D· · purposes or the acts amendato thereof mus, n. . ’ . '7 · Am, A? Sec. 2. And be tt further enacted, That on and after the first day Tamespnszles, of October, eighteen hundred and seventy, the several taxes on sales imgiggsgbctgml posed by the internal revenue laws now in force, saving and excepting 1810,such taxes on sales as are by existing law paid by stamps, and the taxes on sales of- leaf tobacco, manufactured tobacco, snuff, cigars, foreign and domestic distilled spirits, and wines, imposed by said act, approved July {pent? Eighteen hundlredband sixtygzight, and acts amendatory thereof, e, an c same are ere y, repea e . m'£:l¤:5:iX on Sec. 3.. And be ttfurther enacted, That on and after the first day of b?m&&c_ legs, October, eighteen hundred and seventy,·the taxes imposed by the internal cies, c. pass- rev enue laws, now in force, here1n specified, be, and the same are hereby, P°¥l¤ °·¤<i sms repealed, namely: on articles in schedule A; the special tax on boats,
 * 1%:*:;; upon hundred and sixty-seven, be, and the same are hereby, repealed; but this
 * ,,,,w,,.,’d,,m_ act shalllnotbe held to repeal or in any way affect the special tax on