Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-03-06
THE GREAT TAX BILL.
S1GosOO6, 900 TO BI RAISED.
WAsAISsTox Marchss.
THE following Is "A ab1tfacf IL thoI 10

The following is an absttact Of the tax
bill reported to day: 81
1t provides for the appoiutmeut by the
President of a commissioner Of internal
revenue, with salary of five thousand
dollars per annum, his office 10 be in the
Treasury Department. with a ,suitable
number Of clerks! tf ~ & III ~
The country is To- be. divided, asz.the
PRESIDENT may direct, into convenient COL
lection districts, with an assessor and coll
lector, appointed by the President, for
each district, who shall have mower to ap.
point such deputies as may be necessary.
The bill provides for tax on spirituoHs
liquors of fifteen cents per gallon. Ale and
porter one dollar per barrel. Stem or leaf
tobacco three cents per pound, to add,
when manufactured, FIVE cents, and on ci-
gars five, ten aud twenty cents per pound;
according to vRlue. On lard aud linseed
oil, burning 1uid, and coal oil, FIVE CENTS
per gallon. Refined coal oil ten cents per
gallon. Gas per Thousand feet, twenty-five
cents. Bank note paper five cents per
pound. Printing paper three mills per
pound. Soap five mills per pound. Salt
four cents per one bundled pounds. Sole
leather one. cent per pound. Upperleather
one-halt cent per pound Flour ten cents
per barrel. All other manufactures three
per centum al UOEoTem. On railroad pass
engers Two mills per mile of travel. Com
mutation tickets three per cent. Steam
boat travel one mill per mile. Omnibus
ses, ferry boats, and horse RAILROADS, three
per cent ON gross receipts from gpasseu-
gers. Advertisements five per cent, on
amount of receipts annually. For the use
OF carriages, annually, from one to ten dol
lars, according to value! Cold watches
one dollar. Silver watches fifty cents
Gold plate fifty cents per ounce
Silver plate three cents per ounce
Billiard tables twenty dollars. On
slaughtered cattle ifty cents each. Hogs
ten cents. Sheep five cents each. Ii
censes-For bankers, one hundred dollars ;
auctioneers, twenty dollars wholesale
dealers, fifty dollars; retail dealers in
liquors, twenty dollars. retail dealers in
goods, ten dollars pawubrokers, fifty dol
lars ! recti6ers, one hundred dollars, brew
ers, fifty dollars. Hotels, iuns and taverus.
graduated according to rental, from five to
two hundred dollars, Eating houses, ten
dollars. Commercial brokers, fifty dol
lars other brokers, twenty dollars. The
aters, one hundred dollars. Circuses, fifty
dollars, Bowling alleys, FIVE dollars each
alley. Wholesale peddlers, fifty dollars ;
other Peddlers, from five to twenty dollars.
Coal oil distillers, twenty dollars. In
| come-Three per cent. on all over six hum
dred dollars, deducting the income derived
IRON dividends, etc., which are taxed sep
arately. Railroad bonds and dividends of
banks and savings institutions, three per
cent. Payments of all salaries of officers
in the civil, military or naval service of
the uited States, including Senators and
members of Congress, three per cent
Legacies and distributive shares of per.
sonal property of deceased persons, from
one to five per cent, according to the de.
| grees of relationship, and stamp duties on
all. kinds Of legal aud commercial papers,
all patent medicines, telegraphic messages,
and all goods by express. .is-. nit
The tax bill comprises over ono thous-
aud pages of foOlscap, and contains one
hundred aud eight sections. 1t was deliy-
cred to the printer Immediately. on being
presented 10 the House, aud in his hands II
still remains, with an injunction, of secresy
until the committee have revised the proof
sheets. 1t will be printed by Wednesday.
The bill reaches every class of property ex-
cePt real estate, and is so constructed as 10
tax property in trGHsitu from one hand "a
another: for instance, all cattle sIaugh.
tered are taxed fifty cents per head; hogs
ten cents; and sheep, five cents. Or
spices tax of one cent per pound is levied
aud on refined sugar three mills. There is
a general system of license, in which is in.
cluded hotels, inns, barrooms, etc. These
licenses are graduated according to rental
on the highest rent is alicense of two hun.
dred dollars, and on the lowest five dol.
lars per year, Photographers, ambrotyph.
ers, ambrotypists, and professions of thai
nature pay ten dollars per year, On sal
there is tax of four cents per hundred
ponds. ....5l..-rl- -
The bill is expected to yield revenue
OF 500 ,000, 900, which the committee thinl
Will be felt less than on indirect high tariff
measure. a., s-,i7 s4js5..., a., r.