The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1862-07-05
The National Tax Bill.

published of the national tax rates levied
by the recent act of congress, so that We
are unable to fulfil our promise of giving
the main portions of the bill this week
The bill goes into effect on the lst of
August, and its whole machinery is to be
put in motion and kept in working order
by an officer to be located at Washington,
at salary of $1,000 to be called the Com
missioner of Internal Revenue.
Among the more important duties levi.
ed by the bill are the following:
On all mineral Goals, except such as are
| known to the trade as "pea coal" and
| dust coal, % cents per ton provided that,
for all contracts of lease for coal lands
made before the first Of April, 1862, the
lessee shall pay the tax.
Tobacco-cavandish, plug, twist, fine cut
and manufactured of all descriptions, not
including snuff, cigars, and smoking tobac-
CO prepared with all the stems in. or made
exclusively OF stems-valued at more than
80 cents per pound, IS cents per pound !;
valued at any sum not aXceeding 80 cents
per pound, 10 cents per pound
Smoking tobacco, prepared with all the
stems in cents per pound.
| Snuff, manufactured of tobacco ground
dry or damp, ofall descriptions, 20 cents
per pound.
Cigars, valued at not over s. per 1000,
81 so per thousand; vailed at over s. and
not over $40 FER 600, 81 per thou and
valued at over so and not over $50 per
1000 80 30 per thousand; valued at over
| $50 per 1000, 50 so per thousand.
/ On all cloth, and ali textile or knitted
or felted fabrics Of cotton, wool or other
materials, before the same has been dyed,
! printed, bleached or prepared in any other
manner, duty of three per centum adj
yalorem.
On and after October next. a tax of one
half a cent shall be paid on cotton
Whenever duty is imposed upon any
article, removed for consumption or sale,
1t shall apply only to such articles as are
manufactured on and after the lst of July
. next No duty Is 10 be levied uron any
sales by .judicia! or executive officers, max
ing auction sales by virtue of judgment
or decree of any Court, nor TO public
sales made by executors or administrators
Whisky, twenty cents per gallon. No
tax on rec;itied or mixed
The tax on watches and piano fortes is
stricken out.
On all horned cattle exceeding eighteen
months old, slaughtered for sale, 80 cents
head. On all calves and cattle under
that age, slaughtered for sale, ) cents
head; and on all hogs exceeding six
months old, slaughtered for sale, when the
number thus slaughtered exceeds twenty
in any one year, 10 cents a head.
Steam railroads and steamboats, pay
three per centum. Railroads using other
power than steam, and ferry boats, gross
amount of all receipts
Foreign passport, issued from the Office
OF Secretary OF S,ate$3.
When annual gains, profit or income
exceed the sum OF 5000 but not $4,000 a
duty Of three per centum on the above
first named sum 1t the income exceeds
$4,000, a duty of five per centum upon all
over 5000.
Any telegraph dispatch or message when
the charge for the first ten words does not
exceed twenty cents, one cent; when the
charge for the first ten words exc, e Is TWEEN
~ cents three cents.
Each policy of insurance, or other in
strument, by whatever name the same
shall be called, by which insurance shall
be made or renewed, upon property OF any
description, whatever against peTils by the
seas or by fire, or by other peril OF any
kind made by an insurance company or
ies agents, twenty five cents.
The dog tax OF one dollar is stricken out.
Ia computing the allowance or draw
back upon articles manufactured OK ,u-
sively of cotton when exported, there shall
be allowed ia oddition TO the three per
centum duty which shall have been paid
on said articles, a drawback Of FIVE mills
per pound in all cases where the duties
imposed by this act upon the cotton used
in the manufacture thereof has been pre-
viously paid. The amount OF the allow
ance 10 be asccrtained in such manner as
may be prescribed by the Commissioner Of
Internal Revenue under the direction Of
the Secretary OF the Treasury.
So much Of the act Of August last, rs
imposes direct tax Of $4,000 600 on the
United States, shall only be held TO au-
thorize the levy aud collection of one tax
to that amount, and no other tax shall be (
levied under and by virtue Thereof, until
the LIST of April, 1865, when the some shall
be in full force and effect.