United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/22nd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 107
Chap. CVII.—An Act to amend an act, entitled “An act to enlarge the powers of the several corporations of the District of Columbia.”
Act of May 26, 1828, ch. 87.
Power to collect tax of one and thirteen hundredths of one per cent.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the corporation of Washington be, and it is hereby, empowered to collect, annually, the tax at the rate of one per centum and thirteen hundredths of one per centum, on the assessed value of the real and personal estates within the city of Washington, assessed and laid by the fifth section of said act, or any part thereof, for the purposes and objects designated in said act, by the same officers, process, and means by which said corporation is now, or may hereafter be, empowered to collect any other taxes; and to pay over said money, when so collected as aforesaid, to the treasury of the United States, in the manner, and within the times, prescribed by the acts to which this act is a supplement:In default of corporation, President may exercise powers reposed in, &c. and that, in default made by the said corporation, either in collecting or paying over as aforesaid, that then, and in such case, the President of the United States may proceed to exercise the powers reposed in, and conferred on, him, in and by the said fifth section.
Inspectors of tobacco in Alexandria.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the common council of Alexandria shall have power to appoint one or more inspectors of tobacco for the town of Alexandria; and the said inspectors shall take an oath before a justice of the peace of the county of Alexandria, or the mayor of the corporation, for the faithful discharge of the duties of office of inspector, a certificate of which he shall return to the clerk of the common council: And the said common council shall have power to pass all needful laws for the due and proper inspection of tobacco, and for regulating the conduct of the said inspectors; and the said common council shall have power to remove, for just cause, any inspector, and appoint another in his place.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall commence and be in force from the passage thereof.
Approved, May 25, 1832.