Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-01-09
1MagolEl AMY.
Acts of the Legislature,
AN Acr NO nAIsE sUrpLIEs

AN ACT TO RAISE SUPPLIES.
/. BE 1 enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives., now met and sit
ting in General Assembly, and by the au-
thority of the same, That tax forthe sums,
and in the manner hereinafter mentioned,
shall be raised and paid into tho public
treasury of this State, for the use and SCR
vice thereof that is to say sixty cents, aa
galorea,, on every hundred dollars of the
value Of all the lands granted in this State,
Recording to the existing classification as
heretofore established; 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
ofthe Collector to be incapable, from mains
or otherwise, of procuring livelihood ;
twelye-and-a-ha cents, al cdloyen, on cv-
cry 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, employ
ments, faculties and professions, including
the profession of dentistry, [whethcr in the
profession OF law, the profits be derived from
the costs of suit, fees, or other sources OF
professional income,) excepting clergymen,
schoolmasterS. schoolnistresses and mo
chanics, and on the amount of commissions
received bySendue masters aud commission
merchants twenty-five cents per hundred
dollars ON the capital stock paid in on the
first of October, one thousand eight hun
dred and 6fty seven, of oil banks which for
their present charters have not paid bonus
TO the State !, fifty cents on every bundled
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 lfty-seSen, in effecting 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-
miuins taken in this State by incorporated
Insurance companies, and by the agencies
of insurance companies, and underwriters,
without the limits of this Statej fifteen
eentson every hundred doll lsrs of the amount
of galss of goods, wares and merchandise
embracing all the articles Of trade for sale,
hStcr az exchange, (the products of this
State, and the unnianuiacturcd products Of
any OF the United States or Territories
thereof excepted {. which any person shall
have made fromthe first day of Jaauqfys Of
the presentyeaf 20 the first day of Janua.
ry. ia the year Of opr lord one thousand
seight,hundred and 6fty-eight, either on lis,
!, her or their capits' or borrowed capital or
on !; = = or persons, sgent,
sattorneyor eonsignee; 25cents 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
Gef public place; ten dollars per day for re-
presenting publicly, for gain and reward,
any play, comedy, tragedy, interlude OF
farce or other emp loynient Of the stage, OF
B any part therein, or for exhibiting wax fig
lsfros, or other Shows of any kind whatsoeyes,
so be paid into The bands of tue Clerks Of
the Court respectively Who shall bo hoHpd
10 pay the SAME into the public tFcespFy,
except in cases wheye tho aalpo IS now re-
auired Sy lav 10 bcyaid to.corporations OF
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