The PRESIDING OFFICER. That correction will be made. The amendment, as amended, was agreed to, as follows: That section9piyht be amendedby striking out all after the enacting clause and insertingin lieu there of the following: that thereshall be loud and collectedand paid monthly on allsalesofrenl estate, goods.wares, merchandise, articles or things at auction, including all salesof stocks, bonds, and other sv'cnritics.a.duty of one10th ofonc%.on the gross amount of such sales: Provided, hot no tax shall be levied under the provisions of llllB'SCCCIOIl upon any sales by or for Judicial or executive officers mnkin auction sales by virtue of a Judgment or decreeof any court, nor to public sales made by guardians, executors, or administrators. The next clause was read, as follows: That section 99 be amendedby striking out all after the enactins clause and iiiscrtingip lieu thereof the following: that there shall be paid on all sales made by brokers, banks, or bankers, whether made for the benefit of others or on their own account. the following taxes, that is to say: upon all salesand contracts for the saleofstocks, bonds, foreign exchange, gold and silvor‘bullion and coin, promissory notes or other securities, a tax at the rate of one cent for every 100 dollars of the amount of such salesor contracts: and on all salt s, and contracts for sale negotiatedand made by any person. firm or companynot paying a secial tax absulaliobnr, okfoerre, bank, xocrhabnognek, cr, of any pol or silver coin. uncurrent money. promissorynotes. stocks. bonds, or other securities. not his or their own property.there shall be Iflld a tax at the rate of vo cents for every 100 dollars of the amountot'suchsalesor contracts: iiiid on every sale and contract for sale. as aforesaid, there shall be made and delivered by the seller to the buyera bill or memorandumof such salo or contract.on which thereshall be affixeda lawful stamp or stamps in value equal to the amount of tax on such sale, to be detorinined by the rates of tax be forementioned; and in computin the amount of the stain i duty or tax in an case orein pronded for, any ractional part of 8 00of value or amount on which tax is computed shall be accounted as 8100. And everybill or meine randumofsiilc or con. tract of sale. Before mentioned, shall showthe date thereof.the nameof the seller, the amount of the sale or contract, and the matter or thing to which it refers. And any person or persons liable to pay the tax as herein provided, or anyone who actsin the matter as agentor broker for such person orpei‘sons, who shalfmako any such sale or contract, or who shall, in pursuanceof any sale or loontra‘ct, deliver or receive any stocks, bonds.bulliou.coin, uncurrent money. foreign exehunuq, promissory notes, or other securities without a bill or memorandum thereof, as herein required, or who shall deliver or receive such bill or memorandum Without the proor stamps afixed thereto shall forfehi tiua'imurf pay to t in U.S. a penalty of 8500 for each and every offciisewhere the tax so ovmled or at teinpted to be evaded, dues not exceed $100 and a penalty of 91.000 when such tax shall exceed$100, which may he recovered with costs of sni tin any court of the U.S.ofcompetentfiurisdiction. at anytime within oneyear after the lie ility to such pena ty shall have been incurred had the onnlty recoveredshall be awarded and distribu by the court betweenthe U.S and the informer, if there be any, asprovided by law. who, in thoJiidgment of the court, shall have 1st given the information of the violation of the law for which the recovery isbad: Prnci'rlml, That whereit shall appearthat the omissionto atlix the proper stamp was not with in tent to evadethe provisionsof this section, said penalty shall not be incurred. And the provisionsof low in relation to stampduties in schc ule B of the act to which this is an amendment, shall a plytotho stain taxes herein im oseduponsaleson contracts of so.es made by bro crs, banks, or bankers and othersas aforesaid. And there shall be paid on all Hales by commercial brokers of any goods, wares, or merchandise, a tax of one 20th ofone%. upon the amountof such sales: and on or before the 10thdayof each month every commercial briilicrsiiull make a list or return to the asst assessor of the district of their ross amountof such sales.assforesaid. for tie preceding month, Will] the amount of tax which i has accrued or shall accruethereon.in form and inniincriis may be prescribed by the ComrInternalRevenue, and pay to the collector thr amount of tax thereon before the end of the month: ProciTc/l, that in fritlultlllhgexiles of giinds, wares, and merchandisefor the purposesof “US ecction, any sales made by or through another broker, upon Which ll tax has conpaid, shall not be estimated and included as sold by the broker for whom the sale was made. The ComFinance proposed to amend this clause after the word “ bonds” by striking out, in line 2643, “ foreign exchange.”