Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1843-04-06

hundred and fifty thousand dollars three hundred
md twenty-five dollars; if one hundred and fifty
thousand and under two hundred thousand dollars,
our hundred and twenty five dollars; il two
hundred thousand and over, five hundred dollars.
On every license to broker, Eve hundred dollars;
which said licenses to vendue masters and bro
kers shall not be granted for less time than one
year. On every license to sell foreign lottery |
tickets lottery tickets in lotteries authorized by
the lave Of this Commonwealth, in each city, |
town, borough or county. ono thousand dollars:
which said license to sell lottery tickets shall not
be granted for less time than one year. On eve-
~ license to hawker or pedlar to sell or barter
goods, wares, merchandise, and other articles Of
foreign or domestic growth, production or manu-
facture, (except tho article Of clocks,) in each
county or corporation where he or she shall sell
or barter any of the aforesaid articles, one hun
dred dollars: Prorided, hoWercr, That hawkers or
pedlars trading upon the Ohio river, who shall
pay tax of one hundred dollars, and obtain a
license as suchiE any one Of the counties border
ing upon the Ohio river, shall be authorized to
sell or barter goods, wares and merchandise, and
any other articles of foreign domestic growth,
production or manufacture, (eXcept the article of
cocks,) on said river, and at the shores thereof,
within the jurisdiction Of all the other counties
bodering as aforesaid. On every license to
hawker or pedar, dealing in tin, pewter cotton
yarn, or either OF them only, in each county and
corporation where he or she shall trade, ten dol
lars. On every license to a hawker or pedlar
dealing either wholly partly in clocks. in every
county and corporation where he she shall trade
one hundred dollars: Prorided, That but one
hawker or pedlar Of any kind whatsoever, shall
trade under the same license; nor shall it be law
full for any such to sell by an agent, but all such
licenses shall be held and taken as personal
privilege and authority to the individual in whose
name the license shall be issued nor shall any
license be issued to any firm or company of hawk
ers and pedlars whatsoever: find provided also,
I'hDfn
ceiving on deposit any clock or other article Of
merchandise, for sale or barter, for the benefit of
any clock pedlar. or persons dealing in clocks,
and subject to his or their order, shall be subject
to the payment of the tax imposed by law upon
clock pedlar's license. On every license to an
exhibitor of any public show, and every exhibit
ton or performance for reward, (except lectures
on literary and scientific subjects.) shall be so re-
garded, sixty dollars in each county or corpora
ton where the same shall be exhibited That
hereafter all agencies for Offices of insurance. of
every description, authorized by other States,
kept in this State, shall be subject to tax of one
hundred dollars each, to be assessed, levied and
paid in the same manner as the tax on merchants
licenses.
4. BE ifuriher enacted, That there shall also
he levied, collected and paid, ia the manner pre-
scrlbed by law for other taxable property in this
Commonwealth, on the several subjects hereinaf-
ter mentioned, the following taxes, to wit: On
every gold watch, to be paid by the owner, one
dollar; on every patent lever or !epine silver
watch, fifty cents; and on every silver or metal
lie watch, other than gold, 10 be paid by the own
er, twenty -five cents; on every piano forte to be
paid by the owner, under the value of one hun
dred dollars, one dollar; on every piano forte, to
be paid by the owner, of the value of one hundred
dollars and upwards, two dollars; on all gold or
silver plate, to be paid by the owner, whether
In use or not, over the value of fifty dollars,
one per centum on the value thereof such value
TO BIO ascertained by the Commissioner of the
Revenue in the mode prescribed by law; on every
brass or other metallic clock, whether the same be
wholly OF metal or not, fifty cents; and on all
other clocks, twenty-five cents Provided, ho,c-
eUer, That none of the articles included as above
in this section, shall be subject to any tax in the
shop or manu- factory wherein the same are kept
Tor sale, except such worn or used by the
shopkeeper, manufacturer or manufacturers, or in
his or their families.
8. BE ii further enacted, That there shall also
be levied, collected and paid, the several sub
jects of taxation hereinafter mentioned, TO be as
certained and listed in the manner prescribed by
the act, entitled san act prescribing the mode of
asceriainlng certain subjects of taXation,' pas
sed March the eighteen hundred and forty
three, the following taxes, to wit: On all divi-
dends declared by every incorporated joint stock
company, to be ascertaned, collected and paid in
the manner prescribed by the said act last above
cited two and a half per centum such divi-
|OOfueu, iHdt HU payment Shall De re-
CURED OF the per centum herein imposed on the
dividends OF any coal mining company, until the
amount OF such per centum shall exceed the tax
pald by such company on the assessed value of
Its coal lands, and then only on such excess. On
all money loaned out at interest by individuals,
or any bonds, notes, or other securities acquired
by purchase, over and above the sum in. the ag-
gregate of one hundred dollars, two and a half
per centum on the amount of all interest or pro-
fits received therefrom within the year next pre-
cedpg the time of listing " giving in the same
to the Commissioner of the Revenue, after de-
Quoting therefrom the interest on all sums i'm
which such Individual shall be indebted to others.
On the dividends, or interest, or profits Of all
State bonds or certificates of public debt of this
Commonwealth, or in bonds or certificates of
debt issued by any public corporation Chartered
by this Commonwealth, and on all moneys in
vested in the bonds, certificates Of public debt, or
stocks of other States of this Union or of foreign
States, two and half per centum on such divi-
dends interest or profits. On all yearly income in
money, accruing 10 each individual during the
year next preceding the time fixed by law for list
ing his property with the Commissioner over and
above the sum of four hundred dollars i'm consid-
GRAFTON of the discharge of any Office or employ
ment in the service of this Commonwealth, or a.
ny body polite or corporate, joint stock company
or otherwise, or in the employment of any COM
pany, co-partnershp individual or individuals,
except such as is exempted by law from taxation
one per centum on the amount of such excess Of
income; all fees derived from any office, cal
ling profession, over and above The sum of four
hundred dollars per annum, one per centum on
the amount OF such excess: PrOyided houerer
That if any physician, surgeon dentist, or any
attorney law PRACTISING in aDy Of the courts oc