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Page 16 - ... (c) If the motion to discharge is agreed to or disagreed to, such motion may not be renewed, nor may another motion to discharge the committee be made with respect to any other resolution with respect to the same reorganization plan.
Page 29 - Section 3 shall take effect at midnight on the last day of the sixth month following the ratification of this article. Nothing contained in this article shall affect the power of the United States to...
Page 30 - December following the ratification of this article. Nothing contained in this article shall affect the power of the United States after said date to collect any tax on...
Page 29 - Section 1. The sixteenth article of amendment to the constitution of the United States is hereby repealed. ''Section 2. The congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration. The maximum aggregate rate of all taxes, duties and excises which the congress may lay or collect on, with respect to, or measured by, income, however, shall not exceed 25 per centum.
Page 29 - Section 1. The sixteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed. "Sec. 2. The congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration : Provided, That in no case shall the maximum rate of tax exceed 25 per centum.
Page 13 - States, shall adopt a resolution pursuant to this Act stating, in substance, that the legislature requests the calling of a convention for the purpose of proposing one or more amendments to the Constitution of the United States and stating the nature of the amendment or amendments to be proposed.
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Page 29 - Section 3. The maximum rate of any tax, duty, or excise which congress may lay and collect with respect to the devolution or transfer of property, or any interest therein, upon or in contemplation of or intended to take effect in possession or enjoyment at or after death, or by way of gift, shall in no case exceed 25 per cent.
Page 29 - SEC. 4. The limitations upon the rates of said taxes contained in sections 2 and 3 shall, however, be subject to the qualification that in the event of a war in which the United States is engaged creating a grave national emergency requiring such action to avoid national disaster, the congress by a vote of three-fourths of each house may for a period not exceeding one year increase beyond the limits above prescribed the maximum rate of any such tax...
Page 15 - ... proposed amendment, except that no State may rescind when there are existing valid ratifications of such amendment by three-fourths of the States. (b) Any State may ratify a proposed amendment even though it previously may have rejected the same proposal. (c...