Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1862-10-09
The National Taxes.

The following instructions are from Mr..
Boutwell,, the Commissioner of Revenue. They
will be found of interest to our citizens as an
swering many queries that are being constant
" propounded to the Assessor on the subject:
/. All mechanics except those who merely
do repairs, must be registered as manufactu-
rers, and must take out a license as such as If
their annual sales amount to 81 ,0O0.
2 But mechanics aud other manufacturers
who sell their own manufactures at that place
where they are produced are not required to
take out an additional license as traders
This does not include rectifers, who mast pay
both licenses.
If manufacturers nave an Office, depot,
storeroom or agency at place different from
the place where the goods are made, or if they
sell tue manufactures of others in addition to
their own, they must pay traders as well as
a manufacturers license. Thus tobacconist
who both makes cigars and keeps for sale
goods in bis line which he has purchased must
take out both licenses. So must a druggist,
who also makes patent articles, or medicines,
etc, for which be has O. private formula or re-
ceipt
4. Persons keeping bar-rooms or saloons for
The sale of liquors must take out retail liquor
dealers license If they also furnish food
they must in addition take out an eating house
license, and the sale OF cigars, etc, requires
to6acconist or retail dealers license besides.
Billiard tables require a special license, and
bagateIc tables are reckoned as billiards.
B. Commission merchants who are also ship
Or commercial brokers are required to take
out two licenses.
Grocers selling -four by the barrel, or by
the sack, or any other article in the original
package are reckODed as wholesale dealers.
Z Stamps must be attached TO the papers
requiring them at the time Of their execution,
and must be oblterated by the writing his in-
tals upon them Telegraphic dispatches must
be stamped and elfaced when delivered to be
transmitted. But railroad and telegraph com
panies are not required to stamp their own
dispatches over their own lines.
s. Arrangements will be made with the Col
lector OF this District to supply stamps to par
ties desiring TO purchase S5G or over, at the
rates OF discount established by the Treasury
Department.
g. Notes and bills cf exchange drawn for a
certain sum 1CitR interest will be Stamped &C
cordlng to principal sum. Foreign currency
will be estimated at the real par of exchange;
the pound sterling, for Instance, at the rate
fixed for sovereigus, not at the nominal rate
of 81 43 I, nor at the market rate Of eX,
change, which is now something above the
real par.
10. On and after October 1st the fellow
ing instruments must he stamped All agree
ments, appraisements, checks, sight drafts,
promissory notes, inlaad and foreign bills of
exchange, bills of ladiDg to foreign ports,
packages, etc, per express, bonds, certificates
of stock, or profits of deposit in bank, Of dam
ages and all other certificates, contemporaries,
brokers' memorandums, conveyances, mort
cages, leases, teegraphic dispatches, custom
house entries aud manifests, policies of insu.
rance-life, marine aud fre-and renewals of
same, passage. tickets to foreign ports, power
of attorney, proxies, probate Of wills, protests,
warehouse receipts, aud writs or other origi-
nal process for commencing suits.
Also, patent medicines, perfumeries and
playing cards.