Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-05-12

phSAeoOAEu anu OlnuerS OoarQsj Snoe OF
boot blacking, bucksktns, doeskins, tanned
or dressed; patent or euameled cloth; ma
chine betting of all kinds; wine made OF
graPesi furs of all description when made
up or manufactured; raw cotton.
The tax on all wood screws is one aud a
half cents per pound.
The clause taxing railroad iron re. .rolled,
10 cents per tax added.
Salt 8 instead of cents per 100
pounds.
Leather harness mills instead of ceUt
per pound.
Oil dressed and deer skins dressed or
smoked instead of % and cents per
pound. Tanned stricken out.
On all clothes died, printed, bleached,
manufactured into other fabrics, or other
wise prepared, on which tax shall have
been paid before such bleaching &c., the 8
per cent tax shall be assessed on the in
creased value.
Lime and Roman cement are added to
the list of articles not regarded as manu-
factures under the act.
Auction sales, no change.
PriUGte LururieS-The taxes on cArria-
ges, watches, piauoFortes, organs, melo-
deons, billiard tables kept for use, plate of
gold or silver, and yachts kept for use are
all stricken out.
tanned.
That on billiard tables kept for hire is
retained at $40.
Slaughtered Animqls.-Horned cattle, over
1smonths old, 30 instead of SO cents per
head. Calves and cattle under l3 months
scents per hend Hogs. over six months,
retained at 10 cents. All sheep, of what.
ever age, cents.
Railroads, Steamboats,, and Frrry Boats.-
This title is entirely rewritten. Three per
centum is imposed upon the gross amount
Of all the receipts or income of railroads,
whether using steam or horse power
Steamboats, and ferry boats of all kinds,
for the transportation of passengers, and
bridges over which toll is paid, to pay }
per ccntum of their gross receipts for the
transit of freight as well as OF persons aud
carriages. All are authorized to add this
tax to their rates of fare or tolls.
Railroad Bonds, Bank and Trust and In.
'Wronee Companies, and Savings Institutions
The only change is in the tax on insurance
companies, whether inland or marine, 3
per cent upon the gross receipts for premi-
ums and assessments, instead of specific
tax of 10 cents on every 500.
In the tax on salaries and pay of Gov
ernment officers there is no change.
PaSsports.-A section is added charging
50 for every passport.
Advertisements and Income Duty-NO
change.
Stamp Duties.-Proprietors aud those
| named in the schedule, viz: Patent medi-
cines, Pertumery aud cosmetics, and play
ing cards, with their own die or design, for
stamps are allowed discount on purcha-
ses of not less than $50 nor more than
$500, of five per cent, on purchases over
&500 of fnO
Bills of exchange, foreign or inland,
prommissary notes, bank checks, drafts or
orders for payment, for any sum over $40
and under $50, ! cent. For each addt-
tional sum of $50, or fractional part there
OIL cent;
Where bills of exchange are drawn in
sets or parts OF two or more, according TO
the custom of merchants, the samo stamp
duty shall be payable on each bill of the
set.
This tax is in form different from that
in tho uousa hill oDd IN 60, 5ooido5I,,
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Letters of credit, which were not taxed
by the House, so cents.
The tax is taken off bills Of lading for
goods transported from one domestic port
to another; that on those for goods export
| ed, remains at 10 cents.
| Express packages where carriers COM
pensation is under % cents, / cent; where
over 1Sd,.So 20 ar ana under 81, cents, 81,
the same address s cents % pA'AaseS 70
Telegraphic messages-ipstead of 3 cents
on all messages where, for the first 10
words the charge does not exceed 20 cents,
the tax Is cent; where it does exceed 20
cents 3 cents.
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