Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1862-10-08
The Collection of the National Tax
Important instructions to the Collect

The Collectors appointed under the re
cent act of Congress to collect the nation |
al tax are making their arrangements, and |
viii soon commence operations. The COM
missioner of Revenue at Washington has |
Just issued the following important regula- |
tons 10 the Collectors at Philadelphia
which viii apply equally to Collectors in
this locality:
l. All mechanics, except those who
merely do repairs, must be registered as
manufacturers and must take ont IL
cense as such if the annual sales amount
TO over 81, eco.
,. But the mechanics AID other manu-
fac.urers who sell their own manufactures
at the place where they are produced are
not required to take out an additional Ii
cense as traders. This does not include
rectiliers who must pay both licenses.
3. If manufacturers have an Office, depot,
storeroom, or agency, at place different
from the place where the goods are made
or if they sell the manufactures OF others
in addition to their own, they must pay
trader as well as = manufacturers license.
Thus, a tobacconist who both makes cigars
and keeps for sale GOODS in his line which
he has purchased, must take ont both Ii
censes So must A druggist, who also
makes patent articles, or medicines, &c,
for which he has private formula or re-
oeiPt- a,oo,.
for the sale Of liquors, must take out a
liquor dealers license If they also fur
nish food, they must, in addition, take out
an eating-house license; and the sale OF
cigars, DC, tobacconist's or retail deal
ers license besides billiard tables require
q special license, and bagatelle tables are
reckoned as billiards
D. Commission merchants who are also
ship or commercial brokers are required
to take out two licenses.
6. Grocers selling -four by the barrel or
salt by the sack, or any other article in
the original package, are reckoned as
wholesale dealers.
I. Stamps must be attached to the pa
pers requiring them at the time of their
execution, and must be oblterated by the
person writing his initials upon them. Tele-
graphic dispatches must be stamped and eff
faced when delivered to the transmitted
But railroad and telegraph companies are
not required to stamp heir own dispatch
es over their own lines
8. Arrangements will be made with the
collector Of this district to supply stamps
TO parties desiring to purchase $50 worth
Ell by the Treasury Department.
9. Notes and bills of exchange drawn
for a certain sum, with interest, will be
stamped ior a certain sum. Foreign cur
rency viii be estimated according to the
real par OF exchange; the pound sterling
for instance ct the rate fixed for sover-
eigns, not at the nominal rate Of 81 49,
nor at the market rate OF exchange, which
Is now something above the real par.
10 On and after October lst the follow
ing instruments must be stamped: All
agreements, appraisements, checks, sight
| drafts promisory notes, inland and foreign
bills of exchange, bills of lading to foreign
ports, packages, DC, per express, bonds.
| certificates Of stock, or profit, Of deposit in
| banks, of damages, and all other certif-
| Gates, charter parties brokers, memoran-
| dums, conyeyances, mortgages, leases, tel
| egraph dispatches, custom house entries,
and maniIests, policies Of insurance-Gie,
marine, and fire, and renewals Of same
passage tickets to foreign ports, powers
of attorney, proxies, probate of wills, pro-
| tests, warehouse receipts and writs or 9th
| er original process of commencing suit
| Also, patent medicines, pertumers, and
| playing cards
In reference to public houses and liq-
Lux NCA4CiS cACtHSthciNf II - tStfttA tt4stt
IN a tavern or put lie house where liquor
| is sold, licenses must be taken for each
| business, the license for the tavern TO be,
| according to the rental, and the license
| for liquor in al eases o; retail to b. TWEEN
| ty dollars. BY retail is understood any
quantity under three gallons. To sell
above that quantity Is wholesale, and the
| license is one hundred dollars Restau
rants which furnish bedding, and which
| keep liquors, are required to obtain three
| Hcenses-fc>t tavern license, secondly a
| license for 4 liquor bar, Of twenty dollars,
and thirdly a license for the eating bar,
| costing ten dollars, when the receipts a
mount TO or exceed one thousand dollars
| per year Eating houses are permitted to
keep confectionery without additional Il
| ceRSe.
All dealers in liquor by retail are re
| quired to bay license of twenty dollars
per year The penalty for refusal or fail
ure to take ont license is fine OF three
times the amount OF duty or tax imposed
| by the law, one half Of which goes to the
| iniormer. These taxes are, OF course, In
| addition to the State and city license now
! imposed. and the accumulation. Of xpen-
| ses will materially effect the smaller deal
ers, who abound in every part Of the city
| The prosecution of delinquents is made
| Imperative to the Collectors, who hold the
names and residences of all dealers, so
that escape from the penalty is next to
| impossible,