The statute of the United States under which the tax was assessed was § 110 of the act of June 30, 1864, c. 173, 13 Stat. 277, afterwards embodied in § 3408 of the Revised Statutes, which latter section reads as follows: "There shall be levied, collected and paid, as hereinafter provided: First. A tax of one twenty-fourth of one...
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