Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-06-22
TAXES! TAXES!!

r WILL ATTEND AT MY OFFICE ON FRIDAY and
SATURDAY, the LIST and I'd days OF July nef fr,m the
iert Merchants Taxes. The following extracts iron
Revenue Law published for the information OF 'hos0
in'ee''' SCHEDULE r.
Subjects taxed without being listed.
40 The sheriff shall annually collect the taxes as set l"rn
in this schedule and grant 10 each party G ,v Of JULY
@ ensuing except in cases where the tax is ON non'res
don't traders in slaves or horses and mule DRIVERS, IN "ncn
cases no license shall be required +b;s stoto
(4 Every insurance company Incorporated o. h's .oue
excrt companies for mutual assurance who take no pocy
ont of the State, one hundred dollars. -. - a.
(5) Every insurance com any lncorpor1 eu -
State one hundred dollars for each county III whcn I'm
| agency is established. &c tho st.to
t6) Every agency Of bank incorporated o" " '
~ Every money or exchange bond note broker pri'
vate banker agent of foreign broker or m %
hundred dollars fer each county i'll which ne mas al oce
fp Everv express company dollars for each county
in which 1t proposes to deliver packages a .,,t
(9 Every public billiard table, one hundred ana twehS
five dollars every private billiard table, twenty-five dollars
(1o) Every public bnwlng alley, whether called mne
min or tenpin alley, by any other hame MY oou's
| every priyate bowling alley, ten dollars. -
IN Every livery Stable, where horses and vehicles are
kent for hire, twenty five dollars ,:.,,o,, r;nos
or cordals or retailer of malt liquors thirty dollars IN
addition to this such retailer shall list the amount OF II!
ouors wines and cordias required III schedue Vi s
act and nav the tax there imposed .
(ls) Every itinerant surgeondentlst portrait OF h
ture painter, daguerrean artist and other persons m
he arres on his business ord That such per-
son as shall furnish satisfactory evidence to the sSr
the comfy in which he proposes to practice lia' ne V
Of the State and has listed the receipts of his pro-
for the previous year. shall be exempt from the tax
imposed in this paragraph :: .,o.,o, nv
bv agent shall purchase any slave or slaves in tins Sae
shalt Immediately after such purchase. become lane 10
nav tax of half of cent on the amount OF MS
pnychase and upon his neglect failure to pay such tax,
he shall forfeit and pay the OF one hundred COLLARS
which shall be collected by the sheriff one-hal 10 ms own
hale to fhn Mt he
purchase was made agent such agent shall be equally
liable for the tax and forfeiture with his principal.
5l Every non resident of the State who e'ther IN per-
SON or bv agent brings slave slaves into the State and
sells shall pay onehaf of pei cent on the amount OF
each sale effected If he fail to pay this tax the purchaser S
Shall be liable for the same and the sheriff OF the county
in which the sale made or in winch the purchaser re-
SIDES shall collect bv distress otherwise out OF the seller
if 10 be found in his county, and if the seller Is not 10 VI
0 mS Everv person that playing cards sum equal to
thry-fve per pack on all cards so'd oy MIN curing
~ Every person that for himself or as agent for an
other at his regular place of business, sells riding 'ehce
Manufactured out of this State per cent on his safes
0S Every auc,oneer, all goods wares or neicha'
dis LACED in his hands by merchant resident IN me
State (whe,her not or by commission rLe'
ne nor cent on the amount of sales ana pf '
] traders or suc as are residents Of the State hve
per cent on gross amount Of sles subject to al inc !.
iauns and exemptions SCI forth in the TENN chapter VI
Revised Code, entitled auctions and 4actionee'S
n9I Every merchant merchant taller, lcwe'er, grocer
re druggist apohecsry produce dealer commission NAM
cpa or agent for another carries on 'he business VI w,
IS inc or selling goods merchandise OF Whatsoever
name or description and who is n" taxed on his purchases
in some ether paragraph this schedule one half OF one
rr cent the total amount OF his purchases, "ne'e
made in or out of the State for cash. or on credit: Fss
d That articles the growth or manufacture {" ms H'ae
if h,uoht III the State, and also articles the growth oil
manufacture of adjoining States, brought into tins s'a
for sale by the grower manufacturer, shall not be re
ouired to be returned in the amount OF purchases pu
IS shall be exempt from taxation. ,c,., -,
in 2o Every dealer in rtadvmade clothing Tor ma esq ON
f,ta1 nupt Dt
o. 3l Every person who for himself or as agent Tor an
other sells patent medicines or nostruS len per cent u
r. amount OF his sales. -
90 Who receives horses mules sell for nonresident on
per cent on the amount of each SALE due US soon as "
H. sale effected and upon his negec; or failure 10 pay SUI
of tax in every county in which he sells Re shall forfeit an
nav the sun, hundred dollars, which shall be c"ec
on cd bv the sheriff. bv distress otherwise, one half to h
and e-Ialf to the use the State Every hors
or mule drover shall b. considered nonresident uh'e>
the sheriff has satisfactory evidence that he Is
tLe State and the sheriff shall have power and anih"r
TO examine on OATH at any time, every horse or mule dr.
YER or person who receives horses or mules u sen or
other as to whether he has made any sale or exchange
not and as whether he is nonresident OF agent Oh
u resident and his failure to answer he sa De ST.
est iec to the penalty for failure or neglect 10 pay
od Ias) If any person bound list axabes in his own sf
MS or the right another shall fail to list the same OF Al
,ry mart thereof the sheriff shall collect from him. and ut
own proper estate double the lax imposed Oh the proper
6s. or subject not listed 49,, .
ted 81 On personal property in hands of executors and
of collateral relations strangers set forth IN scheaue
in connection with real descended or devised to C.
the lateral relations strangers the tax shall he Pa'a "
we'd sheriff direct. >. a.. .
ur- S. Every person that is intended to be taxed IN Gin"
sls el4 500 81, and "a, of schedule b. ana Sha' lii
!, been carrying his business twelve months before
first day of July of any year, shall reader to the oherl
statement of the amount of his purchases or SAFES rs
?, said paragraphs requcl OF taxable articles curing
year ending on such first day of July, and shall sign
swear to an affidavit that his purchases Tor sales as may
required, during that period did not exceed the ami"
JST stated and on his paying the imposed and cn"e
ted N schedule B. shall be entitled TO license 10 carry
his business unit, the first of July, next ensuing
- &c. Every person who is intended to be taxed IN p
h graphs &c. H. IS, 49, 20 81, and 81 OF schedule d.
~ nencng to do business who shall not have Deeh W.
business for twelve months before the first OF July,
nav at the end of the year which his license iss
The taxes his purchases sales, set orfh IN sara
~ apraps of schedule b and to the same, ne 81
IT bcfe license delivered, into bond with gnod
I'll S. PAYABLE the State of North Carolina IN such SUI
y. the sheriff may deem sufficient conditioned that he
Up render statement of the amount OF his purchases
"a sales as this may requre) for the period embrace
~ his ccnce and pay his taxes thereon, on the nrsI I'd
ID 10 July, when this license shall expire
@ ST. Every person that shall carry any business INT
% ed to be taxed as per schedule b. without having p
~ ously received license required, SHALL IN addto
~ the taxes forfeit and pay hundred dollars 10 De COZ
ed by distress otherwise, by the sheriff one'haii
VOW own use and the other half 10 the use OF the state
very w. ". nIGH Sher
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