Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-02-02

! iuscd 70 concur, whom committee of conference
was appointed, which reported tho bill in this
paper, and which finally passed both houses.
The entire amount proposed to be raised is
about Sl,S00.000. 1t is thought the tax bill
will raise $S50,000 of this sum. The balance is
to be raised by bonds and bills receivable. ac-
cording to the terms of the act.
The State tax is about twenty five per cent
higher than it was last year. Our district tax
Ia also lower than usual in fact. but little more
1T any, taxes will be paid in this district tho
present year than that of the previous one.
An Act
To Raise Supplies for The Year commencing DC.
to6er, 1860.
BE II enacted by the Senate and House of Ron
rcSentatlvcs. 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
thrtY cents, al va(orem. on every hundred dol
lars OF the value of all lands granted in this
State, according to the existing classification as
heretofore established; one hundred and twenty
SIX cents per head on all slaves three dollars
ON each free negro mulntto or mestizo between
the ages of fifteen and fifty years except such.ns
shall clearly be proved, to the satisfaction of The
Collector, to be incapable from mains or other.
wise OF procuring livelihood twenty-five CENTS.
at cdtorem. on every hundred dollars of the
value 0f all lots, lands and buildings within any
city, town, borough or village in this State; one
hundred cents per hundred dollars on factnrarc.
c,mployments, Faculties and professions. inclu-
ding the profession of dentistry, and includinp
herein Clerks Of Courts of Common Pleas and
General Sessions. Shcriffs Masters and Com
miiSs'oners in Equity, Registers in Equity Reg.
listers in Mesne Conveyance, Ordnaries and
Coroncrs, whether in the profession of Law or
Equity, the profits he derived from the cost of
suits, fees, or other sources Of professional in
come, excepting clcrgymen schoolmasters.
schoOl'mistrcscs and mechanics; one hundred
cents on every one hundred dollars on the
amount of commissions received by veuduo
masters and commission merchants; f,rtv cents
on the capital stock paid in on the first of Octo.
bcr, one thousand eight hundred and sixtv. or
all banks which, for their present charters have
not paid n bonus to the State: eighty cents per
hundred dollars the capital stock of anv
bank of issue, not incorporated by this State.
pnid in on the FIRST day of October, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty, doing business by
agents within the limits of The State: fprty
cents per hundred dollars on the capital stock
OF all Incorporated gas light companies; one and
hait per centum on all premiums taken in
tins State by Incorporated insurance companies
and underwriters without the limits Of the
State; twenty-five couts on every hundred dol.
lars of the amount of sales of goods wares and
sale, barter or exchange (thc products Of this
State and the unmanufactured products of any
OF the savcholdRg States of the late United
States cxcepted) 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 on account
OF any person or persons as agent. attorney or
conslgnce; ninety cents on every hundred dol
lars of the mIunt 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:
hvc dollars per day for representing publicly.
tor gain and reward, any play comedy tragc.
dy, interlude or farce. or ether employment of
the stage. or any part therein or for exhibiting
wax figures, or any shows of any kind whatso-
ever. to be paid into the hands of the Clerks of
tho Courts respectively. who shall be bound to
pay the same into the Trcasurios of the State of
south CarOlinn. except in cases where the same
is now required by Law to be paid to corpora.
tons or otherwiSe ono tenth of one per cent
on all monies loaned. monies at interest. all
monies invested in the stocks or bonds of nny
other State other than the bonds or stocks of
this State, and other than the stocks of the banks
ana railroad companies of this State; one dollar
and fifty cents on every hundred dollars of gross
receipts of all commercial agencies within the
iim!ts OF tins State; thirteen cents on every
I".h VI PiHiHS chrlS SoId IN the state; fifteen
dollars on every billiard table within this State
used to and for raising the revenue therefrom
one hundred cents on the hundred dollars of all
the salaries, including public Offices, (except
oihcers of the Army and Navy and wages over
the sum of Ave hundred dollars from whatever
source derived or paid in this State
SEC. 2. All taxes levied on property as pre-.
scrbcd in the first section Of this Act. shall be
paid to the Tax Collector for the tax district in
which SAID property is located.
SEC 3. The Tax Collectors in the several dis
tricts and parishes in this State, in their re-
turns hereafter to be made, arc hereby required
ana enJoned to state the precise amount of
taxes collected by them for supporting tho po-
lice of The said several districts and parishes
aforesaid, stating the rates per centum on the
amounts of the State tax collected for snid dis
trlct ami parish police purposes, and the Comp
trol'er-Gonoral shall return the same in his
report.
SEC. 4 Free negroes, mulattos and mestizos
are hereby required to make their returns and
pay their taxes during the month of March,
and the Tax Collector Of st. Philips and st.
MichaePs is allowed until the month of May to
receive the axes Of white persons.
SEC. 8. The lots and houses on Sullivan's Is-
land shall be returned to the Tax Collector of
the tax dctrIct in which they situnte. in tile
same manner as other town lots and houses,
and shall he liable to the same rates of taxa.
ton.
SEC. 6. That within thirty days after the rat
ihcation ot thus Act the varinus Tax Collectors
throughout the State shall file i'm the Office of
the Treasurer of their respective divisions their
respective bonds, approved by Commissioners
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