Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-02-07


he will not garrison these forts unless some
apprehended demonstration of violence
should render it necessary.
Mistellaneons Artifles.
TAX BILL.
AN ACT TO RAISE SUPPLIES FOR THE YEAR
COMMENCING OCTOBER, 1860.
Be 1t enacted By the Senate and House
Of Representatives., 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 Treasury of this
State, for the use and service thereof, that
is to say: One dollar and thirty cents, at
ualorena, on every hundred dollars of the
value of all lands granted in this State, ac
cording to the existing classification as here
tofore established one hundred and twenty
six cents per head on slaves three dollars
on each free negro, mulatto or mestzo, be.
tween the ages of fifteen and fifty years, ex-
cept such as shall clearly be proved, to the
satisfaction of the Collector, to be inca
pable, from mains or otherwise, of procur.
ing livelihood twenty-five cents, ad "a.
lorem, on every hundred dollars of the val
ue of all lots, lands and buildings within
any city, town, borough or village in this
State; one hundred cents per hudred dol.
lars on factorage, employments, faculties
and professions, including the profession Of
dentristry, and including herein Clerks Of
Courts of Common Pleas and General Ses.
sions, Sheriffs, Masters and Commissioners
in Equity, Registers in Equity, Registers
in Mesue Conveyance, Ordinaries and Coro
ners, whether in the profession of Law or
Equity, the profits be derived from the cost
of suits, fees, or other sources of profession
al income, excepting clergymen, school
masters, school. .mistresses and mechanics !;
one hundred cents on every one hundred
dollars on the amount of commissions re-
ceived by vendue masters and commission
merchants; forty cents on the capita! stock
paid iu on the first day of October, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty, of all
banks which, for their present charters,
have not paid bonus to the State eighty
cents per hundred dollars on the capital
stock of any bank of issue, not incorporated
by this State, paid in on the first day of
October, one thousand eight hundred aud
sixty, doing business by agents within the
limits of the State: forty cents per hundred
dollars on the capital stock of all incorpora
ted gas light companies; one and half
per centum on all premiums taken in this
State by incorporated insurance companies,
and by the agencies Of insurance companies
and underwriters without the limits of the
State; twenty-five cents on every hundred
dollars of the amount of sales of goods,
wares and merchandise, embracing all ar
ticles of trade for sale, barter or exchange
the products of this State, and the un-
manufactured products of any of the slave
holding States of the late United States ex-
cepted) which any person shall have made
from the first of January, Que thousand
eight hundred and sixty, either on his, her,
or their capital, or borrowed capital, or on
account of any person or persons as agent,
attorney or cousignee; ninety cents on eve
ry hundred dollars of the amount Of sales,
goods, wares and merchandise whatever,
which any transient person not resident in
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 exhibitions; five dollars
per day for representing publicly. for gain
and reward, any play, comedy, tragedy, in
terlude or farce, or other employment of
the stage, or any part therein, or for exhib-
iting wax figures, or any shows Of any kind
whatsoever, to be paid into the hands of the
Clerks Ct the Courts respectively, who shall
be bound to pay the same into the Treasu-
ries of the State of South Carolina, except
in cases where the same is now required by
law to be paid to corporations or otherwise !;
one-tenth of one per cent. on all monies
loaned, monies at interest, all monies in
vested in the stocks or bonds Of any other
State, other than the bonds or stocks of
this State, and other than the stocks of the
banks and railroad companies of this State !;
one dollar and fifty cents on every one hun
dred dollars of gross receipts of all CON-
mercial agencies within the limits of this
State; thirteen cents on every pack of play
ing cards sold in the State; fifteen dollars
on every billiard table within the State
used to and for raising revenue there
from; one hundred cents on the hundred
dollars of all the salaries, including pub
lie Offices, (except officers of the Army
aud Navy, and wages over the sum of FIVE
hundred dollars,) from whatever source de-
rived or p:;d in this State.
SEC 8. That the President of the Bank
of the State of South Carolina be and is
hereby authorized and required to issue in
the name of the State of South Carolina four
thousand five hundred certificates or bonds,
of the value of fifty dollars each, two
thousand 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 couu-
tersgned by the Cashier of the said Bank,
bearing interest at the rate of seven per
cent per anuum, payable on the first day
Of July of each and every year, at the Treas
ury, and redeemable thereat that is to say,