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 Resolution. 
 Conf Pam #254 
 
[SECRET .] 
 
 UOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Feb. 2, 1865.— Ordered to 
 1)6 printed. 
 
 [By Mr. Boyce. 
 
 1 Resolved. That the Bill to levy additional taxe? for tlie year 
 
 2 1865, for the support of the government, be recommitted to the 
 
 3 Committee of Ways and Means, with instructions to report a 
 
 4 bill providing tkat the taxes for the year 1865 shall, so far as 
 
 5 the same may be payable in Treasury note?, be payable exclu- 
 
 6 sivcly in Treasury notes hereafter to be issued. That the amount 
 
 7 of such Treasury notes shall be limited to double the amount of 
 
 8 the taxes estimated for the year 1865. That the Treasury notes 
 
 9 now outstanding shall be fundable in six per cent bonds. That 
 
 10 a tax in kind be levied on cotton, tobacco and specie. That the 
 
 1 1 existing rate of taxation be so modified as to enable the country 
 
 1 2 to meet the taxes in the improved currency. 
 
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