Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-01-24

Do 5000, do 5000, rs do.
Do 5000, 500 annually
Coin WATCHES, kept for use, annual tax of So each.
SILVER WATCHES kept for use annual tax of ST. each.
CON, SILVER AND PLATED WARE, and e,oeLy and paste
aoork, except time pieces, duty of per cent.
ad valorem.
Grevous as was the amount of taxation, as ex-
hiblted by the above enumeration, the of it,
if the news of Peace had not prevented its being
fully carried out, would not probably have been so
repugnant to the feelings of the people, as the mode
by which the collection Of these taxes was to be
made. The odious features of the English Excise
laws were engrafted upon the statutes of the United
States, as necessary aids in the collection domici-
liary visits, at all reasonable times" being among
the means directed to be- employed to secure the due
enforcement of the excuses. Witness the following
section Of the Distlery License law:
Sec 5. And be IL further enacted, That every such
collector his deputy duly authorized under his hand and
SEAL shall be authorized apply all reasonable times for
admance into any dsery place where any still or stills
kept used within his collection district for the purpose
of examining and measuring the said still stills boiler or
boilers And every Of such distie STILL or stills or
person having the superintendent, management
the who shall refuse to admit such officer as aforesaid
or TO suffer him to examine and the said still or stills
boiler or boilers SHALL for every such REFUSAL forfeit and PAY
the sum IF fpe hundred dollars "Acf Of July 24h 1919
Accounts were required to be kept, which were
to be open at all times between the rising and
setting of the sur" for the inspection of the Gov
eminent collector, "who may take any minutes,
memorandum, or transcripts therefrom' of the
number Of gallons distilled, dc-See Lars of the
United States, Pol. ~ p. 727.
Owners of buildings, &c. used for the manufac-
turing of goods, were subjected to the most vexa-
tious and troublesome enactments. In the act for
levying duties on American manufactures, for ex-
ample, it was provided
That every person who from and after the expiration of
ninety days subsequent to the passing of this act shall be
the owner occuper Of any building, vessel machine
implement utens used intended be used for the
manufacturing making Of such goods wares and mer-
chandse, either of them, who shall such building
vessel machine, implement, utens under his SUI
pernendencc either agent for owner or on his own
account SHALL before the expiration the said ninety DAYS.
and every person who after the expiration of the said ninety
days. shall use, intend use, building OF vessel or
machine implement, utens aforesaid either as own
err occupie agent otherwise SHALL before he shall begin
50 to the to be used give bond Nth al
least t,oo sees the satisfaction the collector of inter-
outes dlSrct IN which the shall be
in not less than the computed duties for one year.
less than hundred dollars that he will before
using the to be used make true and eract
entry and report, writig, TO The said collector ofepry
such building resscL machine implement or utens
o,oned occupied, superintendent by him. with THE SIZE
THEREOF, the Of the owner occuper agent and su
perntenden The place ohere situate and the manner in
which, and the time for which, exceeding one year. IL
Is intended TO employ the same, with the denominations
and quantities Of the articles manufactured made as ao
sad which he may have hand with the value thereof
that he will thereafter before using, causing the same to
be used make like entry and report Of any other building
vessel, machine implement utens, used, intended
be used aforesaid that he may own occupy or have
the agency upernendence of with the size thereof the
Of the owner, occupier agent and superintendent
the place where situate and the which, and the
time for which, not exceeding year, il s intended to
employ the same, with information from time tme Of
change in the FORM sze agency, ownership, occupan
cy, superntendence, which all either Of the said build
inss, vessels, machines, implements utensils, may
undergo" &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. &c.
If it was found to be an imperious necessity inl
the war OF 1912 to lay upon the People burdens
thus heavy and thus grievous to be borne that me-
cessity will be yet greater should the country find
itself again engaged in war with maritime Power,
Great Britain for instance. Since 1912 the ordina-
ry expenditures Of the Government have nearly
doubled in amount, whilst the revenue from customs,
keeping pace with the growth of the country, has
also nearly doubled. The receipts from customs
Tor the fiscal year ending on the 30th June last
amounted to over twenty-seven and half millions
Of dollars, and those for the year to end the 30th
OF June merit are estimated by the Secretary Of the
Treasury in his Annual Report at twenty-four mil
lions and half, which we will consider sum
sufficient to defray the annual ordinary expenses Of