The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1862-03-20
The Uu,tea state, Tax Bni.

ana douDtless taxes many things which
should not be, and leaves others free that
ought to be made pay. Below We give an
abstract Of the bill: % ~ ~
1t provides for the appointment BY the
Pres:den, Of commissioner Of internal
revenue, with salary Of five thousand
dollars per anDum. his oficp to be in the
Treasury Department, with a suitable
: tunber Of clefks. @d
I The country is to be divided, as The
Prsdden, may direct, ihto convenient col
J lection districts. with an assesso or and col.
! iector,appo inted by the President, for each
! district, who shall have power to appoint
e. such deputies as may be necessary.
The bill provides for tax on spurious
liquors o. fifteen, cents Per gallon. AlG
: and porter one dollar per barrel. Stem
!. OF leaf tobacco three cents per pound. to
. add, when manufactured, FIVE cents, and
on cigars FIVE, ten aud twenty cents per
. pound; according 10 value. On lard and
iinSeed oil. burning fluid, and coal Eve
, cents per gallon. Refined coal oil ten
cents per gailon. Gas, per thousand feet
twenty. five cents Bank note paper five
cents per pound. Printing p4p4rs three
mills per pound. Soap Eve mills per,lb.
Salt four cents per one hundred pounds,
, Sole leather one cent per pound. Upper
leather one-balf cent per pound. Flour
ten cents per barrel. AL other manufac-
lures three per tebIdD ad valorem. On
railroad Passengers twO mills PET mile If
travel. Communication tickets three per
cent Steamboat travei one mill per mile.
Omnibuses, ferry boats. aud horse rail.
roads three per cent on gross receipts
from passengers. Advertisements Eve per
cent, on amount Of receipts annually
. For the use Of carriages annually from one
to ten dollars, according 10 value. Gold
watches one dollar. Silver watches City
cents Gold plate fifty cents per ounce.
Silver plate thIe- cents per ounce. Bill
lard tables twenty dollars. On slaugh-
tered catte City c-hts each. Hogs ten
n cents each, Sheep five cents each. Ii.
S ceuses-For bankers, one hundred dol.
Il ars, auctioreers twenty dollars. wholesale
d dealers. fifty dollars, retail dealers in
% goods ten dollars; pswnbrnkers, fity dol-
lars; rerti6ers. one hundred dollars; brew
! ers, fifty dollars. Hotels, iIns and tay.
b erus. graduated according to rental, from
five TO two hundred dollars Esting hous-
l. ss ten dollars. Commercial brokers fifty
dollars. other brokers twenty dollars
IT Thea'ers one hundred dollars. Circusss
d fifty dollars. Bowling alleys, Eve dollars
e each alley. Wholesale pedders fifty dol.
lars; other psddlsr- from five to twenty
dollars. Coal oil distillers. twenty dollars
q Income--Thrse per cent on all over six.
hundred d>llsrs, deducting the income
derived from dividends. etc, which are
taxed separately; Railroad bonds and
dividends Of banks aud savings inslitu-
4 tions. three Per cent. Payments Of all
/. salaries OF off ers in the civil military or
# naval service Of the United States, iniclu.
ding Senator'S aud members o. Congress.
three per cent. begscies and dislrbutiye
r shares of personal property of deceased
persons, from oLe 10 five per rent, accord
e ing to the degree Of relationship. and
stamp duties on all kinds Of legal aud
n commercial papers. all patent medicines,
r Geographic messages aud dall goods By ex-
4 press. i. 49, i.tae-. 5,.
II The tax bill comprises over one thous.
AID pages foolsosp. aud contains one
n hundred and eight secti ms. 1t was de-
livered to the printer immediately on be-
= ing pr sented 10 the House, and in his
; hands il still remains, with an injunction
s OF secresy until the committee have ievis-
ed the proof sheets. The bill reaches ev.
,e cry class Of property except real estate.
d aud is 30 constructed as to tax property
in !ransitu from one hand 10 another: for
ID irstiDce, all cattle slaughtered are taxed
nj City cents per head; hugs ten cents; and
i sh. ep. i've cents. On spices tax Of one
!. cent per pound is levied, aud on refined
sugar three mills. There is general sys-
ID tenn Of license, in which is included no.
u tells. inns, barrooms, etc. These licenses
n are graduated a cording TO rental; on the
a highest rent IS a license of two hundred
dollars, aud on the lowest five dollars per
a year. Photograph ets. ambrotypists aud
ID PROFESSIONS Of that nature psy ten dollars
% per year.
The bill is expected to yield revenue
"a of 500, 600 900, which the committee
4 think will be felt ltss than an indirect
.s high tariff measure. .s
III The New York Times, speaking Of the
ne practical operations Of the bill. says: !,
4. The practical operation Of tue system
80 - as whole. would seem to be tle impOsi'
,1 lion of much the heaviest share Of the
I'd taxation upon the wealth and privileges Of
~ the great cities. and next to these upon
:" he consumers, all over the laud, Of hq'
nOrs, tobacco, fresh mests. etc. And
lis from this point of view, we concldde that
ID the measure is likely 10 meet with less
opposition from the Western delegation
- - and the rural members generally than
was at ono apprehended It is certain, Al
i. ali events, that while lnoking to liberal
= sum total TO be colleced under the bill
~, the Committee have carefully studied to
j. nskc il as acceptable as possible to The
81. grea, mass Of th4 people. 10 doing So
- some injuslice may have been done 10 the
~ moueye interest. and to men OF fixed In
=, comes or salare but this. perhaps, Is in
,bs separable from the invslved nature ot'th'
ii. subject. and, the difficulty not to say "
mo Iueme delicsct, at ending ils adjustmen
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