The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1861-08-09
Changes In the Tariff Direct Taxa


The new tariff and direct taxation bill has
passed both Houses of Congress. Among the
rates of duty, as given IN the Washington Sun
day Chronicle, are the following
On raw sugars, cents per POUND on unre-
fined sugars, 81 cents; refined sugars, cents
coved and tinctured sugars, cents; molasses,
cents per gallon teas, > cents almonds, 4
cents shelled almonds, 6 cents crude lime
stone, So per ton; rolled limestone, SO; coffee,4
cents per pound. cocoa, 3 cents cocoa berries
and shells, cents; chocolate, 6 cents; caSSla, 10
cents; cassia buds, 5 CENTS cinnamon 70 cents,
cyane pepper, 6 cts; cyane pepper ground, &c;
cloves, cents; cuTrants, 5 cents; tartarIc acid
and Rochelle salts, 10 cents; dates, cents, figs,
5 cents; ginger root, 8 cents; ginger ground,
cents licorice paste and juice, cents mace
and nutmegs, 20 cents; nuts, cents; pepper,
cents; Pimento, cents plums, prunes and
raisns, cents Russian hemp, $40 per ton; Ma
nilla and other hemps. $40; lead, in pig, 81 30
per cwt; lead in sheets, 1925 per cwt.; white
and red lead 1925 per cwt.; salt, in sacks, IS
cents per cwt salt, in bulk, IL cents; soda ash'
/ cent per pound; bicaTbonate of soda, cent !;
| sal soda, cent; caustic soda, ! cent; chloride
of lime, 80 cents per cwt.; crude saltpetre,
cent; refined saltpetre, 2 cents; turpentine, 10
cents per gallon; oil OF cloves, 10 cents per To-;
brandy, 81 so per gallon; spirits of grain, 90
cents per gallon; gum coPal and similar gums,
10 cents per pound.
The following articles are also rated at so
much per centum ad valorem:
Arrow root, 90 per cent; preserved gingeF,30
per cent; LINES, bananas, and other tropical
fruits, 20 per cent; Peruvian bark, II per Ct;
qumine, 80 per cent; rags, II per cent, feath-
ers, 80 per cent. hides, 10 per cent; sole leath-
er, 80 per cent; India raw, 10 per CT; India
rubber, manufactured, 80 per cent; vegetable
and manufactured ivory, 10 per cent; all
wines, so per cent; gum silk and partly manu-
facsured siIk 80 per cent; silk and partly vel
vet silks, So per yd, or 80 per Ct; silk ribbons
&c., 40 per cent. All importaions beyond the
Cape OF Good Hope, 10 per cent.
All goods in store, or In bonded warehouse,
will be subject to these duties. If not with
drawn IN three years, to be taken by tie
government and sold.
DIRECT TAX.
The bill also apportions a direct tax of $40,
900, 900 among the States.
The President will divide the country into
collection districts and appoint collectors, and
after the second Tuesday in February, the Sec
reiary Of the Treasury shall establish regulations
! to govern the assessment and collection. At
temPts to evade the act or commit fraud will be
punished. The salary of the assessors ranges
from So to 50 per day. In the event OF re-
| usal to paw the taxes, the collectors shall col
( lect it 5y distrant and sale of the goods, chat
ties or effects Of the persons delinquent as aiore-
said, at public auction. This distrainI does not
include tools or implements OF trade or pro-
iession, oeasts of the pow necessary for the cul-
tivalion OF improved lands, arms, household fur
niture and necessary apparel.
Any collector guilty OF oppression, injustice
or extor tlon, shall be liable to fine of So, ,000
Any person guilty of perjury shall be liable 20
! hn% Of $500.
| All incomes over $500 per annum are to be
taxed 3 per cent. on the surplus over $500 !;
when such income is derived from interest on
! treasury notes, the tax shall be per cent
This tax goes into effect Jan. /, 1862. All taxes
not paid June 80, 1862, shall draw interest at
! the rate oil per cent. per annum. Neglect or
| refusal TO pay this tax lenders the offender la
bic TO Imprisonment until the tax is paid
Should any of the people be in actual rebellion
at the time the act goes INTO effect, the Presi-
dent shall cause its provisions TO be executed
within such limits whenever the government.
authority is re-es:ablIshed. All taxes thus col
! lected shall bear interest.
The act authorizes the appointment of COM
missioner OF taxes in connection with the treas
ury department, who shall be appointed by the
President on the recommendation of the Secre-
tary, and receive salary of $4,000 per annum,
and shall have number OF clerks, whose ag-
gregate salaries do poi exceed Sc, 900.