Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1861-02-06

articles of trade for sale, barter or exchange
(the products of this State, and the unmanu-
factured products of any of the slaveholdinlg
States of the late United States excepted)
which any person shall have made from the
first of January, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty, either on his, her, or their capital,
or borrowed capital, or Oh account OF any
person or persons as agent, attorney or con-
signee ninety cents or every hundred dol,
lars of the amount of sales goods, wares and
merchandise whatever, wLich any transient
person not resident i'll this State Shall make
in any house, stall or public place, whether
the said sale be made by sample or otherwise;
twenty dollars per day on all circus oStlhi-
lions five dollars per day for representing
publicly, for gain and reward, any play, COM
edy, tragedy, interlude or farce, OF other en-
ployment Of the stage, or any part therein
or for exhibiting wax figures, or any shows
of any kind whatsoever, to be paid into the
hands of the Clerks of the Courts respective
", who shall be bound to pay the same into
the Treasures of the State of South Carolina,
except in cases where the same is now re-
oirued by law to be paid to corporations or Or
otherwise; one-tenth of one per cent, on all
monies loaned, monies at interest, all monies
invested in tue stocks or bonds of any other
State, other than the bonds or stock OF this
State, and other than the stocks of the banks
and railroad companies Of this State; one DOL
lar and fifty cents on every one hundred dol
lars of gross receipts Of all commercial agen'
cies within the limits Of this State; thirteen
cents on every pack Of playing cards sold in
the State; fifteen dollars OH every billiard ta'
BILE within th,s State used to and for Raising
the revenue therefrom; one hundred cents on
the hundred dollars of all the salaries, lnclu'
ding public Offices, (except officers of the Ar,
my and Navy, and wages over the sum Of
five hundred dollars,) from whatever source
derived or paid IN this State.
SEC. S. That the President of the Bank oi
the State of South Carolina be and he is
hereby authorized and required to issue, in
the name of the State of South Carolina, four
thousand five hundred certificates or bonds,
oil the value of fifty dollars each, two thouS-
and five hundred certificates or bonds, of the
value of one hundred dollars each, and four
hundred certificates or bonds Of the value OF
five hundred dollars each, to be signed by the
said President and countersigned by the
Cashier of the said Bank, bearing interest at
seven per cent per annum, payable on the
| first day of July of each and every year, at
the Treasury, and redeemable thereat; that
is to say, the four thousand five hundred GER
tifcatcs or bonds Of fifty dollars each TO be
redecn,able on the first day of July, which
will be in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty eight; the two thous.
and five hundred certificates or bonds of one
hundred dollars each, to be -edeemable on
the fist day of July, which will be in the
wear of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy, and the four hundred certificates
or bonds of five hundred dollars each, to be
redeemable on the first day of July, which
will be in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seTenty-two, and which
said certificates or bonds shall have suitable
coupons, to be signed by an officer appointed
by the President of the said Bank, attached
thereto.
SEC. 9. That the said certificates of bonds,
and the respective coupons thereto, shall be
received at the Treasury of the said State, as
the same shall respectively become payable,
in payment of taxes and other debts due to
the State of South Carolina.
SEC. II. That in case there shall be requir.
ed for military contingencies larger sum OF
money than shall be raised by the taxes herein
provided for, and the issuing Of the Treasury
notes also provided for, it shall and may be
lawful, upon the request of the Governor OF
the State, for the President of the Bank OF
the State of South Carolina to issue and put
in circulation notes or certificates in the form
hereinafter prescribed, of such denominations,
not less than Que dollar, as the said President
may think proper; which said notes or Ger.
lifcates shall be receivable in payment OF
taxes and other dues to the State for the sums
therein expressed: Proridsd, that the whole
amount of such notes or certificates shall not
exceed the sum Of three hundred thousand
dollars and the sai>. notes or certificates
shall be in the following tvrm, viz: "This
note or certificate shall Is: received in pay.
ment Of taxes and o'lar dues to the State for
- dollars and shall be signed b, the
President and Cashier of the said bank, nr
such other person or persons as the said Presi-
dent and Directors may appoint for that pur-
pose; and it shall be lawful for any banks in
this State to pay or deliver out and circulate
the noles or certificates issued in pursuance
of this Act That the President Of the Bank
of the State Of South Carolina shall pay the
drafts OF the Governor, countersigned by the
member of the Executive Council charged
with the Treasury Department, for any amount
not exceeding the amount Of such notes or
certificates issued and put in circulation
by the said bank. That the twenty-frst sec.
ton of an Act, entitled "An Act to raise sup.
plies for the year commencing October one
thousand eight hundred and twenty-three,
ratified on the twentieth day Of December,
one thousand eight hundred aud tweaty.three," :"
b.. re.enacted and henceforth declared Of
force in the words following, that is to say:
sThat the Treaslrers of the State shall be
required hereafter not to receive any tax re.
turns which shall not be made in strict con.
forlnity to the instructions of the Comptroller
General That the Treasurers of this State
be instructed to receive in payment of taxes,
the bill and notes of all the banks OF ihiS
State, unless, in the opinion Of tn. Comptrul-
Ter General, it shall become unsafe to receive
the bills or notes OF one or more OF such
banks, in which case he shall be authorized
to issue instructions TO the Tax Collectors to
refuse the notes Of such bank or banks
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