Report on Glucose, 1884

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Excerpt from Report on Glucose, 1884: Prepared by the National Academy of Sciences in Response to a Request Made by the Commissioner of Internal RevenueSir There is now pending before Congress a bill (h. R. 3170) to tax and regulate the manufacture and sale of glucose, which bill pro poses to so amend the internal-revenue laws as to impose a Special tax upon the manufacturers of and dealers in glucose, and to levy a tax on the article in its solid, liquid, and semi-liquid form.In View of this, I have respectfully to request the appointment of a committee of the Academy to examine as to the composition, nature, and properties of the article commercially known as glucose, or grape-sugar.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.