United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/13th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 4
[Obsolete.]
Chap. IV.—An Act to amend the seventh section of the act entitled “An act to lay and collect a direct tax within the United States.”
Where the legislature of a state shall not meet before January 1, 1814, such state to be allowed until February to make payment of the quota of the state of the direct tax.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in every case where the legislature of a state shall not convene prior to the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, no notice of the assumption of the quota of such state of the direct tax shall be deemed necessary; and such state shall be allowed until the twentieth of February next for making payment, and shall receive thereon the same deduction as if such payment had been made on the tenth day of February.
Approved, January 17, 1814.