The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1862-10-15
COLLECTION OF THE NATION
AL TAX.

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tional tax, are making their arrangements,
and will soon commence operations. The
Commissioner of Revenue at Washington
has just issued the following important
regulations TO the Collectors at Philadel-
phia, which apply equally to Collectors in
this locality:
l. All mechanics except those who
merely do repairs, must be registered as
manufacturers, and must take a license MS
such il the annual sales amount to 81 900.
2. But mechanics and other manufac-
turers who sell their own manufactures at
the place where they are produced are not
required to take out an additional license
as traders. This does not include reciifi-
ers, who must pay both licenses.
8. If manufacturers have au office,
depot, store-room, or agency, at a 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 a traders ms we'll rs a manufac-
turers license. Thus, tobacconist who
both makes cigars and keeps for sale goods
in his line which he has purchased, must
take ont both licences. So must drug
gist, who also makes patent articles, or
medicines, &C., for which he has private
formula or recipe.
4. Persons keeping bar-rooms or sa-
looms, for the sale of liquors, must take
out liquor dealers license. If they al
so furnish food, they must, in addition,
take out an eating-housc license; and the
sale of cigars, &c., requires tobacconist's
or retail dealers license, besides billiard
tables require special license, and baga-
telle tables are reckoned as billiards.
5. Commission merchants, who are
also ship or commercial brokers, are re-
quircd to take out two licenses.
6. Grocers selling flour by the barrel,
or salt by the sack, or any other article
in the original package, are reckoned as
wholesale dealers.
7. Stamps must be attached TO the
papers requiring them at the time Of their
execution, and must be obliterated by the
person writing his initials upon them
Telegrapbic dispatches must be stamped
and effaced when delivered to be transmit
ted. But railroad and telegraph compa-
nies are not required to stamp their own
dispatches over their own lines.
8. Arrangements will be made with
the Collectors in the districts to supply
stamps to parties desiring to purchase
$50 worth or over, at the rates of dis
count established by the Treasury Depart
ment.
0. Notes and bills of exchange drawn
for certain SUN, with interest, will be
stamped according to the principal sum.
Foreign currency will be estimated nc
cording 10 the real par of exchange; the
pound sterling, for instance, at the rate
fixed for sovereigns, not at the nominal
rate of 81 434, nor at the market rates
of exchange, which are now something
above the real par.
10. On and after October 1st the fol-
lowing instruments must be stamped: All
agreements, appraisements, checks, sight
drafts, promissory notes, inland and for
eign bills of exchange, bills of lading to
foreign ports, packages, &c, per express,
bonds, certificates of stocks, or profit, of
deposit in banks, of damages, and all 9th
er certificates, charter parties, brokers,
memorandums, conveyances, mortgages,
leases, telegraphic dispatches, custom
house entries, and manifests, policies of
insurance-life, marine and fire, and re-
newals of same-passage tickets to for
eign ports, powers Of attorney, proxies,
probate of wills, protests, warehouse re-
ceipts and writs or other original process
of commencing suit. Also, patent medi-
cincs, perfumes and playing cards.
In reference TO public houses and liquor
dealers exclusively, it is defined that in
tavern or public house where liquor is
sold, licenses must be taken for each busi
ness, the license for the tavern to be ac-
cording to the rental, and the license for
liquor in all cases of retail to be twenty
dollars. By retail is understood any guam
tity under three gallons. To sell above
that quantity is wholesale, and the license
is one hundred dollars. Restaurants
which keep liquors, are required to obtain
three licenses-frst tavern license, second
ly license for the liquor bar of twenty
dollars, and thirdly license for the eat
ing bar costing ten dollars, when the re-
ceipts amount TO or exceed one thousand
dollars a year.
The penalty for refusal or failure to
take out license is fine of three times
the amount of duty or tax imposed by
the law, one half of which goes TO the
informer. These taxes are, of course, in
addition to the State and city licenses
now imposed, and the accumulation of ex-
penses will materially affect the smaller
dealers who abound in every part of the
city. The prosecution of delinluents is
made imperative on the Collectors, who
hold the names and residences of oil deal
ers, so that escape from the penalty is i'm
possible.
FAMILY ties-A marriage certificate
and eight children.