Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1862-01-09

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of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-oue, to the first day Of January
in the year of our Lord one thousand eigh
hundred and sixty.two, either on his, he
or their capital, or borrowed capital, or or
account of any person or persons, as agent
attorney, or cousignee; ninety cents upol
every hundred dollars Of the amount of SALE
of goods, wares and merchandise whatever
which any transient person, not resident il
this State, shall make in any house, stall Of
public place, whether the said sale be made
by sample or otherwise; twenty dollars pei
day for all circus exhibitions; FIVE dollar!
per day for representing publicly, for gait
and reward, any play, comedy, tragedy, in
terlude or farce, or other employment Of
the stage, or any part therein, or for exhib
iting wax figures or other shows of any
kind whatever, to be paid into the hands
of the clerks of the courts respectively, who
shall be bound to pay the same into the
treasures of the State of South Carolina
except in cases where the same is now re-
quired by law to be paid to the corporations
or otherwise one tenth of one per cent. on
all moneys loaned, moneys at interest, all
moneys invested in the stocks or bonds of
any State or corporation, other than bonds
or stocks of this State, and other than the
stocks of the banks and railroad companies
of this State one hundred and fifty cents
for every hundred dollars of gross receipt:
of all commercial agencies within the lin
its of this State thirteen cents on every
pack of playing cards sold in this State
fifteen dollars upon every billiard table
within this State, used to and for the pur.
pose of raising revenue therefrom one
hundred cents on the hundred dollars of all
salaries, including public officers, except
officers of the army and navy, aud on all
wages from whatever source derived, ex.
cept wages of FIVE hundred dollars or less
per aunum.
2. All taxes levied GU property, as pre-.
scribed in the first section Of this Act, shall
be paid to the tax collector for the tax dis
trict in which said property is located, and
the commissions to be received by the va
rious tax collectors of this State, for the
year commencing on the first day of Octo
Der, one thousand eight hundred and sixty
one, shall be at the rate cf seventy per CEN
tum of the commission now allowed them
by law.
The tax collectors in the several districts
and parishes in this State, in their returns
hereafter to be made, are hereby required
and enjoined to state the precise amounts
of taxes collected by them for supporting
the police of the said several districts and
parishes aforesaid, stating the rates pei
centum on the amounts of the State tax
collected for said district and parish police
purposes, and the total amount of commits
sions received by each and every of such
tax collectors, aud the rate per ceutum o
his commissions, and the Comptroller-Gen
eral shall return the same 10 his report
4. Free negroes, mulattoes and mestizoes
are hereby required to make their returns
and pay their taxes during the month ot
March, and the tax collector of St. Phillips
and st. Mchael's is allowed until the
month of May to receive the taxes of white
persons.
5. The lots aud houses on Sulivan's Is
land shall be returned to the tax collector
of the tax district in which they are situate
in the same manner as other town lots anc
houses, and shall be liable to the same rate:
of taxation Provided, That lots aud hou
ses destroyed or occupied without compen
sation by the military, or used for military
purposes without compensation, or ordered
to be vacated by military authority, before
returns are made, shall be exempt from tax
alton.
6. That the President of the Columbi,
Branch Of the Bank of the State of Soutt
Carolina do pay in to the Treasurer of thi
State the following sums, to wit: The sun
of seventeen thousand FIVE hundred ant
fourteen dollars and ninety cents, now Oh
deposit 10 said Branch, and derived frou
the Government of the United States. a
the portion of South Carolina for sales o
public lands, received during the admins
tration of Governor Manning. Also, tn
sum of sixteen hundred and fifty dollars
now on deposit in said Branch, and whic
is the balance of an appropriation for tn
benefit Of the widows and orphans of tn
Palmetto Regiment.
AN ACT to enable Volunteers in tn
Military Service to Exercise tn
Right of Suffrage.
4. BE 1t Henactea by the Senate md Hons
Of Representatives., notc met and sitting i
General assembly, an1 by the authority 0
the suntc, That during the continuance Q
the existing war between the United State