Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-01-07
THE TAX BILL.

5SIdE IAA BILL.
At Genera, Assembly, begun and holden at
Columbia: on the fourth Monday OF NoVem..
ber, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and fifty six, and from thence
continued by divers adjournments to the 2oth
: day of December, in the same year.
An Act to raise supplies for the year, cpm-
mencing in October, one thousand eight hun
dred and fifty six.
l. BE ii enacted by Tie Senate and House OF
Representatives, nCso met and sitting in General
Assembly, and by the authority gfsthe same, That
tax, for the sums and in the inanncr herein
after mentioned, shall he raisedsand paid into
the public treasury of this State, for the USE and
service thereof! that is to say:.sixty cents dd
ralorem on every hundred dollars, Of the value
Of all the lands granted in this State, according
to the existing classification as heretofore eStab-
lished: seventy cents per head on all slaves
two dollars on each free negro, mulatto or mus
tizo, Egyptian and Indian (free Indians in ami
tys with this Government exceped,) between
the ages of fifteen and fifty:years, except such
as shall be clearly proved to the satisfaction OF
the Collector to be incapable, from mains or
otherwise, of procuring a livelihood twelve anu
half cents ad rahfem on every hundred dol
lars Of the value of all lots, lands and buildings
within any city, town, village or borough, in
this State fifty cents per- hundred dollars on
factoragc, employments; sfaculties and proies-
sions including the profession OF dentistry,
whether in the profession of the Law, the
profit be derived from the costs OF suit, fees, or
other sources of professional income excepting
cergymcn, schoolmasters schoolmstresses and
mechanics, and on t! c amount. of commissions
received by vendue masters and commission mer-
chants; twenty-five cents rshundred dollars
on the capital stock paid in on the lst of Octo-
Der, one thousand eight hundred and iiity-slX,
of all banks, which, for their present charters,
have not paid a bonus to the State; twenty.tiv
cents on every hundred dollars of capital OF
banks of issue out of this State, used and en-
ployed in this State by agents of said banks,
between the first of October one thousand eight
| hundred and fifty-fve, and the first day OF DC
tober, one thousand eight hundred and ftty-six,
effecting lones or discounts and dealing in eX-
change or notes twenty cents per hundred dol
lars on the capital stock of all Incorporated gas
light companies; one per cent on all premiums
taken in this State, by Incorporated insurance
companies, and by the agencies of insurance
companies, and underwriters without the limits
of thi State fifteen cents on every hundred
dollars of the amount Of saies of goods wares
and merchandise, embracing oil the articles OF
trade for sale, barter or exchange, (the products
of this State and the manufactured products
of any of the United States or Territories there
of excepted which any person shall have made
from the first day of January in the year OF
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ttty-
seyen either on his, her or their capital, or bor-
rowcd capital, or on account of any person or
persons as agent, attorney or.consignee; twenty
five cents upon every hundred dollars OF the
amount of sales of goods, wares and merchan-
die whatever, which any transient person not
resident in this State shall make, in any house,
stall or public place; ten dollars per day for
representing publicly, for gain and reward, 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 whatsoevcr-to be paid into
the hands of the clerks of the court respective
ly whom 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 cor
porations or otherwise.
2. That al the taxes levied on property as
prescribed in the first section of this act shall
be paid tn the Tax Collector for the Tax Dis
trict in which said property is located
g. In making assessments for taxes on tho
OF TOT ss,ttr e11,aae used manufacturn
value of the machinery used therein shall not
be included, but only the value of the lots and
buildings rs property merely.
t. That the Tax Collectors in the several Dis
tricts and Parishes in this State in their return
hereafter to be made, be, and they are hereby
required and enjoined to state the precise amount
of taxes collected by them for the purpose Of
supporting the police of the said several Dis.
trcts and Parishes aforesaid, state the rates pei
centum on the amounts of the State tax collec.
ted for said Districts and Parish Police purpo-
ses and the Comptroller General shall return
the same in his report.
5. That free negroes, mulattoeS, nustizoes
Egyptions and Indians (free Indians in amity
with this government eXceptcd) be, and they
are hereby required to make their returns and
! pay their taxes during tue month of March.
Q. That the lots and houses on Sullivans Is
land shall he returned to the Tax Collector Of
the Tax District in which they are situate in the
same manner as other towf, lots and houses, and
shall be liable to the same rates of taxation
In. the Senate House, the twentieth day Of
December, in the year of our Lord one thou
sand eight hundred and fty-six, and i'll the
cghty-frst year Of the sovereignty and indie
pendence of the United States of America.
JAMES CHESTNUT, Jr,
President Of the Senate.
JAMES SIMuNs,
Speaker Of the House of Representatives.
SEcnErARY's OFFICE, COLUMBIA, Dec. "a, 1856.
hereby certify the foregoing to be true