The weekly Butte record., 1862-11-08
The National Tax.

The following circular issued 10 the Tax
Collectors by the Commissioners Of Internal
Reveaue at Washington, VIII Be found in,e-
resting to the public al large:
l. All mechanics, except those who merely
DO repairs. must be registered as manufactn-
rers, and must take cut 4 license as such. if
their annual sales amount to $1,000
>. But mechanics and other manufacturers
who sell their own manufactures al the place
where they are produced are not required to
take out an additional license as traders. This
does not include recii6erS, who must nav both
licenses
3. II manufacturers have an Office. depot.
store room or agency at 4 place different from
the place where the goods are made. or if thev
sell the manufacture Of others, in addition TO
their own. they must pay traders as well q.
a manufacturers license. Thus. a tobaccoaist
who both makes cigars and keeps for. sale
goods in his line which be has purchased. mus,
take out both licenses. So must a druggist.
who also makes patent. or medicines. etc. for
which be has private formula or receipt
( I. Persons keeping bar-rooms or saloons, for
the sale Of liquors. must take out LIQUOR deal
er's license. Ii they also furnish food, they
must in addition. take cut an eating house H.
! cense aud the sale OF cigars. etc. requires q
tobacconists 5 and retail dealers license besides
Billiard tables require a special license, and
bagatelle tables are reckoned as billiards
). Commission merchants. who are also ship
/ or commercial brokers are required TO take out
two licenses.
6. Grocers selling -four by the baAel. or
salt by the sack, or any other article in the
original package, are reekoued as wholesale
1 dealers.
!. 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 Telegrap phic dispatch
es must be stamped and efaced when delivered
to be transmitted. But railroad and telegraph
companies are not required to stamp their OWL
dispatches over their own lines.
s. Arrangements will be made with the
/ Collector of this District TO supply stamps to
parties desiring TO purchase $50 worth or over
at the rates of discount established by the
Treasury Department.
( 9. Notes and bills of exchange drawn for a
certain sum. with interest, will be stamped
according to the principal sum. Foreign cur
rency viii be estimated at the real par of ex-
change; the pound sterling, for instance at the
rate fixed for soyereigns, not at the nominal
rate of 81 43 nor at the market rate of ex-
change, which is now something above the
real par
To- On and after October 1st, the following
instruments must be stamped All agreements,
checks, sight drafts, promissory notes. inland
and foreign bills of exchange. bills of landing
to foreign ports, packages, etc. per express
bond, certificates of-stock, or profit or deposit
in banks, of damages and all other certificates,
charter parties brokers' memorandums, con
yeyances, mortgages, leases. teegraphic dis
patches, customhouse entries and manifests,
policies Of insuranee-life, marine and fire, and
/ renewals of same-passage tickets to foreign
ports, powers of attorney proxies probate o.
wills, protests, warehouse receipts, and wri,s
or other original process of commencing suits
Also, patent medicines and perfumeries