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MUNICIPAL BANK TAXATION.
Mr. Vater's bill [H. R. 219] to amend section 9 of the act to provide for the assessment and collection of taxes on the shares of stock owned in banks and banking associations doing business in this State, approved March 6, 1807, [proposing to insert these words: "this act shall be so construed as to authorize and apply to the taxation of all private, State or National Banks or Banking Associations, for municipal purposes,"] was taken up and ordered to be engrossed.