The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1862-03-26
THE GREAT TAX BILL,
$lOO,Oo0,000 TO BE RAISED.

$l0O,Oo0,O TO BE RAISED
WASHINGTON, March 8 The following
is an abstract of the tax bill, reported to
day: 80 H7s ea
Z Itprovides for the appointment by the
President of commissioner of internal
revenue, with q salary Of Eve thousand
dollars per annum, his Office to be in the
Treasury Department, with suitable
number of clerks. . A
The country is to be divided, as the
President may direct. into convenient
collection districts, with an assessor and
collector, appointed by the President, for
each district, who shall have power to
appoint such deputies as may be necessa-
~.
The bill provides for tax on spiritu'
ous liquors of fifteen cents per gellon.
Ale and porter one dollar per oarrel.
Stem or leaf tobacco three cents per
pound, to add, when manufactured, i've
cents; and on cigars, ten, aud twenty
cents per pound, according to value. On
lard and linseed oil, burning fluid, and
coal oil, five cents per gallon. Refined
coal oil tel cents per gallon. Gas per
thousand feet, twenty-five cents. Bank
note paper Eve cents per pound. Printing
paper three mills per pound Salt four
cents per one hundred pounds. Sole
leather one cent per pound. Upper leath-
er one.half cent per pound. Flour ten
cents per barrel All other manufactures
three per centum ad valorem On railroad
passengers two mills per mile of travel
Communication tickets three per cent
Steamboat travel one mill per mile. On
nibuses, ferry boats, and horse railroads.
three per cent. on gross receipts from
passengers Advertisements five per CT
on amount of receipts annoaily. For
the use of carriages. annually, from one
to ten dollars, according to value. Gold
watches one dollar. Silver watches fifty
cents. Gold plate City cents per ounce
Silver plate three cents per ounce. Bill
lard tables twenty dollars. On slaugh-
tered cattle City cents each. Hogs ten
cents Sneep FIVE cents. Lieenses-For
bankers, one hundred dollars, auctioneers,
twenty dollars; wholesale dealers, 6f-
ry dollars; retail dealers in liqaors, twenty
dollars; retail dealers in goods, ten dol.
lars; pawnbrokers, Fifty dollors; recii6srs.
one hundred dollars; brewers. fifty dol
lars. Hotels, iuns aud taverns. graduated
according to rental, from FIVE to two hud-
drsd dollars. Eating houses, ten dollars
C5m nercial brokers, fifty dollars, other
brokers', tweaty dollars. Tneatres, one
hundred dollars. Chcases, ffty dolla- s.
Bowling alleys, Eve dollars each alley.
Wholesale pedlars, fifty dollars; other
pedlars, from FIVE to twenty dollars. Coal
oil distiIlers. twenty dollars Income
Three per cent on all over six hundred
dollars, deducting the income derived
from dividends, etc., which are taxed
separately. Railroad bonds and divi-
dends of banks and savings institutions
three per cent. Payments Of all salaries
of officers in the civil, military or nava
service of the United States, including
Senators and members of Congress, three
per cent. Legacies and .distributiv'
shares of personal property of dtcsase,
persons, from one to Eve per cent, accord
ling to the degrees of relationship, ant
stamp duties on oil kinds of legal ant
commercial papers, all patent medicines
lEtelegraphic messages, aud all goods b!
express. 80 f#t3Aas 3sse eafs 30 sai
The tax bill comprises over one thou
tsand pages Of foolscap, aud contains ou
hundred and eight sections. 1t was de
Ilivered to the printer Immediately on be
ing presented to the House, and in hi
hands it still remains, with an injunction
of secrecy until the committee have re
vised the proof sheets. The bill reache
every class of property except real estat
and is constructed as to taxproperty q
srausitu from one hand to another; 70
instance, all cattle slaughtered are ta1e'
|5Octs. per head; hogs, ten cents; ant
sheep five cents. On spices tax of on
cent per pound is levied, and on reine'
sugar three mills. There is a genera
system of license. in which is included
hotels, inns, bar-rooms. etc. These Ii
censes are graduated according to rental
on the highest rent is license of tw'
hundred dollars, aud on the lowest fs
dollars psr year. Photographers. am
brotypists. and professions Of that 0.
! Iture. pay ten dollars per year. On sal
shere is tax of four cents per hundre
a 1pouads. il, ssjl. gs5a.6 3ss
The bill is expected to yield reyenu
of $10O, 900, 900, which the committe
think will be felt less than an indiree
high tariff measure.
W..The Senate of Wisconsin be
1passed an act repeating the famous, {
!, 4ha. Inf nnaua Aholition nnllifQinnr Pc