Excerpt from A Hand-Book of the U. S. Tax Law, (Approved July 1, 1862, ) With All the Amendments, to March 4, 1863: Comprising the Decisions of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Together With Copious Notes and Explanations; For the Use of Tax-Payers of Every Class, and the Officers of the Revenue of All the States and Territories It is presented to the public solely as a hand book, and can make no claim to being an exhaustive treatise upon the statute. It is confidently believed, however, that the state ments of the provisions of the statute are absolutely reliable, and that the arrangement of the work in the form of an Index or Digest will add to its usefulness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.