Unknown, January 11, 1864

No. 4. Richmond, January 11, 1864.

I. AN ACT authorizing the tax in kind on bacon to be commuted by collection of salt pork as an equivalent.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That assistant quartermasters and other agents engaged in the collection of tax in kind may be authorized, under orders and regulations made by the Secretary of War, to demand and receive, in commutation for the tax in kind on bacon, an equivalent therefor in salt pork.

Approved December 28, 1863.

II. The foregoing act of Congress being now in force, the officers mentioned in the act are hereby authorized to demand and receive, in commutation for the tax in kind, an equivalent in salt pork. In estimating what shall be an equivalent reference shall be made, as far as practicable, to the schedule rates established by the appraisers appointed under the fifth section of the act of Congress relative to impressments. But the Quartermaster-General may direct a variation from those rates and settle others, in such localities as a variation may be deemed advisable, for the interest of the public service.

Adjutant and Inspector General.