Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-01-10
AN ACT
To RAISE SUPPLIES FOR THE YEAR COMMENCING
N OCTOBER, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED
AND FIFTY-FOUG.

To RAISE SUPPLIES FOR THE YEAR COMMENCING
II OCTOBER, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED
AND FlrTY-FoUE.
Sec. l. Be ii enacted by The Seuate and House
of REPRESENTATIVES noac met and sitting IN Gcner-
nj Assembly and by The authority Of the same
That tax for the sums, and in the manner here
in after mentioned, shall be raised and paid into
the public treasury of the State, for the use and
service thereof, that is to say fifty cents ad
ralorem on every hundred dollars Of the value
of all the lands granted in this State, according
to the existing classification rs heretofore es-
tab,ished: one-half cent per acre on all lands
living within the Catawba Indian boundary, TO
he paid by each grantee or lesse of said Indian
lands, until otherwise directed by law sixty
cents per head an all slaves; two dollars on
each free negro, mulatto or mestizo between the
ages of fifteen and fifty years, except such as
shall be clearly proved, 20 the satisfaction OF
the collectors, 10 be incapable, from mains or
otherwise, of procuring 4 livelihood twenty
cents ad rolorenn on every hundred dollars of
the value of all lots, lands and buildings within
any city, town, village or borough in the State; !;
siItv cents per hundred dollars on factorage
empoyments, faculties and professions, inclu-
ding the profession ofdentistry, (whether in the
profession
from the costs of suit, fees or other sources OF
professional income0 excepting clergymen'
school-masters, schoo-mistresscs and mechan-
les, and on the amount of commissions received
by yendue masters and commission merchants !;
thirty cents per hundred dollars on the capital
stock paid in on the first of October, one thous-
and eight hundred and fifty-four, of all banks
which. for their present charters have not paid
a.. ~ no hundred
dollars on the capital stock of all Incorporated
pas-light companies; one per cent on all pre-
miums taken in this State by incorporated ln-
surance Companies, and by the agencies of In
surance Companies and underwriters without
the limits of this State; ten cents upon every
hundred dollars of the amount of sales OF
goods. wares and merchandise, embracing all
the articles of trade for sale, barter or exchange
1.-THE products of this State and the unmanutac-
tured products of any of the United States or
territories thereof exceptcd,) which any person
shall have made from the first day of January,
of the present year, to the first day of January
in the wear of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and ffty-five, either on his, her or their
capital, or borrowed capital, or on account OF
any person CT persons as agent, attorney OF
consignee; twenty cents upon every hundred
befson not resident in tGis State, snail make III
any house, stall or public place; ten dollars per
day for representing publicly, for gain and re-
ward, any play comedy, tragedy, interlude or
farce, or other employment of the stage, or any
part therein; or for exhibiting wax figures or
other shows OF any kind whatsoever, to be paid
into the bands of the Clerks of the Court res
peciively, who shall be bound to pay the same
into the public treasury, except in cases where
the same is now required by law TO be paid to
corporations or otherwise.
Sec 2. That all taxes levied on property, as
prescribed in the first section of this act, shall
be paid 10 the tax collector for the district or
parish in which said property is located.
Sec. 3. In making assessments for taxes on
the value of taxable property used in manutac-
turing or for railroad purposes within this State,
the value of the machinery used therein shall
not be included, but only the value of the lots
and buildings as property merely.
SEC. T. That the tax collectors in the several
districts and parishes in this State, in their re-
turns hereafter to be made, be and they are
hereby required and enjoned to state the pre-
else amount of taxes collected by them, for the
purpose of supporting the police of the said
several districts and parishes aforesaid, stating
the rates per centum on the amounts Of the
State tax collected for said district and parish
police purposes; and the Comptroller General
shall return the same in his report.
Sec. 5. That free negroes mu!attoes musti-
zoes be, and they are hereby, required to make
their returns, and pay their taxes during the
month of March.
In the Senate House, the twenty-frst day of
December, in the year of our Lord one-thous-
and eight hundred and ifty-four, and in the
Beventy-ninth year of the Sovereignty and
independence of the United States Of Ameri-
ca
R. F. W. ALLSTON,
President of the Senate.
JAMES SIMONS,