The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1862-03-20
The New Tax Bill.

The tax bill provides for duty On spirit
uous liquors of fifteen cents per gallon; ale
and beer enc dollar per barrel; stem or
leaf tobacco three cents per pound, to add
when manufactured Eve cents; and on
cigars five, ten and twenty cents, according
to value on lard and Enseed oil, burning
fluid, crude coal oil, Eve cents per gallon /;
refined coal oil ten cents per gallon; gas
per 1000 cubic feettwenty-ive cents; bank
note paper five cents per pound, writing
paper two cents pet pouud +; printing paper
three mills per pound soap FIVE mills per
pound salt four cents per hundred pounds;
sole leather one cent per pound uppet
leather one-half cent per pound; -four ten
cents per barrel all other manufactures
three per cent al valorem on railroad pas
sengers two cents per mile of travel COM
mutation tickets three pei cent steamboat
travel one mill per mile; omnibus, ferry
boats and borse-railroads, three per cent on
gross receipts from passengers. Advertise
ments five per cent on amount of receipts
annually; for the use of carriages annually
from one to ten dollars, according to value
Gold 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 cat
tie fifty cents each hogs ten cents each
sheep FIVE CENTS Lceases-bankers, one
hundred dollars; auctioneers, twenty dol
lars; wholesale dealers, fifty dollars; retail
dealers in liquors twenty dollars retail
dealers in goods, ten dollars, pawnbrokers
fifty dollars, rectifers, one hundred dollars,
brewers fifty dollars hotels, inns and tav-
erns, graduated according to rental, from
five dollars to two hundred, eating house,
ten dollars commission. Brokers, fifty dol
lars, ether brokers, twenty dollars. Thea
ties, one hundred dollars, circuses, fifty
dollars, bowling alleys, five dollars each
alley. Peddlers fifty dollars, other peddlers
fifty to twenty dollars, coal oil distillers,
twenty dollars, &c. Iucome three per cent
on all over six hundred dollars, deducting
income derived from dividends, sc, which
ire taxed separately. Railroad bonds, and
dividends, and banks and saving institu-
lions, three per cent. Payment Of all sal
lries of all officers In the civil military and
naval service of the United States, includ-
ng Senator's and Members of Congress,
hree per cent. Legacies and distributive
shares of personal property of deceased
persons, from one to FIVE per cent, accord
ng to the degrees Of relationship, and
stamp duties on all kinds Of legal and com-
nercial papers, all patent medicines, tele
graphic messages. and goods by express.
The bill also provides for the appoint
nent by the President, Of commissioner
# internal revenue, with salary of five
housand dollars year. His Office to BE-
n the Treasury department, with suitable
lumber of clerks. |,
The country is to be divided as the I
PRESIDENT may direct, into convenient t
ollec'ion districts, with an assessor and c
ollector Cor each district to be appointed {
y the President, who shall have power to +
ppoint such deputies as may be necessary. t