Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-01-07
Mistellaneous Aeablng
AN ACT

To raise Supplies for the gear commencing
IN October, one thousand eight hundred
and ffiy-seren.
I. Be II enacted by the Senate and House
of Represe utatives, now met and sitting in
General Assembly, and by the authority of
the same, That tax for the sums, and in
the manner hereinafter mentioned, shall be
raised and paid into the public treasury of
this State, for the use and service thereof,
that is to say sixty cents, ad raloem, on
every hundred dollars of the value of all the
lands granted in this State, according to the
existing classification as heretofore establish
ed seventy cents per head on 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
to the satisfaction of the Collector to be in
capable, from mains or otherwise, of proeu-
ring a livelihood twelve-and-a-half cents,
al co1orem, on every hundred dollars 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
factorage, employmeuts, faculties and profess
sions, including the profession Of dentistry,
(whether in the profession of law, the profits
be derived from the cost of suit, fees, or
other sources of professional income } ex-
cepting cleroymen, schoolmasters, school
mistresses and mechanics, and on the amount
of commissions received by vendue masters
and commission merchants ; twenty five cents
per hundred dollars on the capital stock paid
in on the first of October, one thousand
eight hundred and 6fty.seven, of all banks
which for their present charters have not
paid bonus to the State; fifty cents On ev-
cry hundred dollars used or employed in this
State by any agent of any bank of issue out
of this State, between the first of October,
one thousand eight hundred and ffty-six,
and the first of October, one thousand eight
hundred and ffty-seven, in etfecting loans
or discounts, and dealing in exchange or
notes; twenty cents per hundred dollars on
the capital stock of all incorporated Gas
Light Companies; one per cent. on all pre-
miums taken in this State by incorporated
insurance companies, and by the agencies of
insurance companies, and under writer's,
without the limits of this State fifteen cents
on every hundred dollars of the amount Of
sales of goods, wares and merchandise, en-
bracing all the articles of trade for sale, bar
ter or exchange, (the products of this State,
and the unmanufactured products of any of
the United States or Territories thereof ex-
cepted,) which any person shall have made
from the first day of January, of the present
year, to the first day of January, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and ffty-eight, either on his, her or their
capital, or borrowed capital, or on account of
any person or persons, as agent, attorney or
consiguee; twenty-five cents upon every
hundred dollars of the amount of sales of
goods, wares and merchandise whatever,
which any transient person, not resident in
this State, shall make in any house, stall or
public place; ten dollars per day for repre-
senting 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 whatsoever, to be paid
into the hands of the Clerks of the Court
respectively, 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.
II. That all taxes levied on property, as
prescribed in the first section of this Act
shall be paid to the tax collector for the tax
district in which said property is located.
III. In making assessments for taxes OF
the value of taxable property used in manu-
featuring or for railroad purposes, within thi:
State, the value of the machinery used there