Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1843-04-06

shutting suit IN any circuit superior
court of ia" and chancery, seventy-fye
cents; tor each subpoena instituting
SUIT IN a.superior court of chancery. Sc
veh.y-hye cents; for each writ of errot.
SuPersee'eas and ha6eas carpus cum causd,
ming record ofdppeal or appeals to
circuit superior court Of law on, chance
r,y' ana for each writ of certior0Yi issuing
IRON the general court, or curcuit sumo
rior court OF law or chancery. one dol
lar and iltty cents; for each appeal from
circuit superior court OF law and chan
Gerry I" the court OF appesss, aud for each
saperaeas OF. writ of error issuing from
the court of appeals. two dollars and
fifty cents; for each writ or declaration
IN eJectment. Or subpoena .instituting a
snit III any tunty or corporation court,
nifty cents; for each certificate under
the seal of any superior or inferior court
OF law or chancery, Except such as are
exempted by law from taxation, one
dollar; for every transfer of a surveyors
certificate in the registers office. one
dollar and fifty cents; for every attesta-
ton, protestatlon OF other instrument &c
publication by notary public under his
seal OF office, one dollar and twenty-five
cents; tor every certificate under the
seal OF the Common wealth, two dollars.
8. BE 1t fta thsr enacted, That there shall
also be levied, collected and paid. OH
the several licenses hereafter mentioned,
to be granted in the manner prescribed
BY law, the following taxes, to Wit
On every ordinary license, or license to
keep house of public. entertainment,
tax OF not less than twenty dollars;
and 1t yearly rent Or annual value of
such ordinary, or house Of public enter
talnment, Ito be ascertained by the COM
missioner, Of THE revenue in the manner
prescribed by law, shall exceed two
hundred dollars, an additional tax at the
rate OF seven and a half per centum on
such excess. of yearly rent or annual
value: On every license to keep house
OF private entertainment, a tax Of not
less than three dollars; and if the YEARLY
rent or annual value of such house of pri-
vate entertainment. Ito be. ascertained by
the commissioner of the revenue in the
manner presc ribed by law shall exceed
flity dollars, an additional tax at the rate
OF i've per centum on each eucess of
yearly rent or annual value. On every
license tor selling goods. wares, mer-
chandlZe, and other. articles of foreign
or domestic growth, production or man.
ufacture, or both, Oh either, at the.same
place, to a wholesale and retail merchant
according to the following scale, viz: ! X
his, her or their annual sales are under
live thousand dollars, twenty dollars; il
i've thousand and under ten. thousand
dollars, twenty five dollars; if ten thou
sand and under fifteen thousand dollars,
thirty dollars; it fifteen thousand and
under twenty thousand dollars, thirty
live dollars: If twenty thousand dollars
and under thirty thousand dollars, FORTY
five dollars; if thirty thousand dollars
and under fifty thousand dollars, sixty
five dollars; il fifty thousand dollars and
under seventy five thousand dollars,
eighty dollars; if seventy five thousand
dollars and over, one hundred dollars:-
Provided, That all retail merchants who
shall avail themselves Of the privilege
to sell by retail ardent spirits, under
the provisions of the act, entitled '.ail
act amending and reducing into one act
the several acts and parts of acts con-
corning the taxes on licenses to keepers
OF ordinaries and houses of private enter
tainment, to merchants, to vendue mas
tickets. to hawkers and pedlars, to exhib,
liors Of public shows, on law process, on
notarlal seals. and certain other subject
passed March the third, eighteen hun
dred and forty, shall pay an additional
tax of fifteen dollars, whether such mer-
chants store or stores be within or with
out an incorporated town: Ind provi-
ded also, That nothing in this act contain
ed shall be so construed as to prevent in
future any farmer or planter from selling
to his or her neighbors any spun cotton
or cotton yaIa manufactured in this
State, or in any of the u. States, when
the same is purchased as return load,
or part of return load, for his, her or
their produce or other property taken to
market, without paying tax. or obtain:
ing license therefor; nor shall it be law,
full for any commissioner of the revenue
TO grant license to any person to sell
spi ttuas liquors, UT gOous: WIRES, aug
merchandise of any description, on board
of any vessel within the tide waters Of
the Commonwealth. On every license
to a yenduemaster. or auctioneer accor-
ding to the following scale. viz: If his
annual sales are under twenty five thou
sand dollars. seventy five dollars; If
twenty five thousand and under fifty
thousand dollars. ore hundred and twen-
ty five dollars; if fifty thousand and un-
der seventy five thousand dollars, one
hundred and seventy five dollars; if sew.
enty five thousand and under. one huns
dred thousand dollars, two hundred and,
twenty five dollars, if one hundred thou
sand and under two hundted thousand
doIars. four hundred and twenty five
dollars: if Two hundred fbnnsand .ioIlars