Act No. 2775 — An Act to Amend Section Fourteen Hundred and Ninety-Three of the Administrative Code.
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SECTION 1. Section fourteen hundred and ninety-three of the Administrative Code is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 1493. Specific tax on matches.—On matches there shall be collected: "(a) On each gross of boxes containing not more than eighty sticks to the box, forty centavos. "(b) On each gross of boxes containing over eighty sticks to the box, a proportionate additional tax."
SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on its approval. Effective, March 11, 1918.
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