, 1862-03-10
Division Of the Army ofthe Potomac
into Five Corps D. Armee.
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lspceial Dispatch to the Chicago Trfbune.]
WAaHNozoa, March 8, 1854
Tie following are additional items to the
tax bill licenses to tobacconIsts, statIouers,
confcctIonefs, horse dealers, where the gross
receipts are over one :thonAand annually,
ten dollars each; manufacturers Of talIow
candles half a centper pound, and on sperm,
stcsine and admaniine, one cent; also On vine
gar, other than cider or wine, fiJe cents q gal
lon; ground coffee and spices, one cent per
pound; refined sugar and candy, two mills
per pound; EaleratuE, five mills; corn starch,
four mills; common gun powder, five cents;
white lead, twenty-five cents per hundred
pounds; inks Of Ill kinds, three per cent I'D
yalorem; hats and caps, twenty-five
cents to one dollar and fifty cents per
dozen, according to value; hoop skirts,
two dollars to four dollars per dozen. accord
ing to va1ue; clocks twenty-five to ffty cents
each: umbrellas and parasols from aTeEto
twenty -fYe cents each; railroad iron one aE
lar and fiftEeents per ton; writing paper two:
cents and e&rapplng paper three mills per
pound; common WOOL. lax, hemp, In
dia rubber, wood, iron aud other metals
manufactured, three per cent. I'D valoruu1 all
patented articles five per cent; anction
sales, tenth Of one per cent. on the gross
amount; piano fortes four dollars each; forty
ounce silver spoons or plate silver are exempt
from duty; dividends Of insurance companies
three per cent; publishers Of official adEer
tiscments may add the tax to the price fixed
by law; incomes OF citizens resident
abroad arc taxed dye per cent; stamp duties,
agreements, or contracts, five cents bills
Of exchange from Two to twenty-five cents.
Bills of 1ading, five to ten cents; express
bundles, three to ten cents; bonds twenty
fyc to fifty cents; certificates Of stock, profits
or damage, twenty-five cents; certificates Of
depoeit two to five cents, and other certificates
ten cents; charter parties, three to ten dol
lars; contracts, ten cents; conveyance, one
do11ar; te1egraphic dispatches, three cents !;
custom house warehousiEg entries, fifty cents
to one dollar; policies Of insurance, fifty
cents to two dollars and }lalf; lenses, fifty
cents to one dol1ar; manifcsts Of o car
60, twenty-five cents to FIVE dollars !;
Mortgages one dollar; noIorial acts twenty
five cents passenger tickets abroad one half
- ~%e4AA ~ SAtS NAoAAAAA 1e"S4' " "otoAAey 'eAt
cents to one dollar; probate Of a will, fifty
cents to twenty dollars warehouse receipts,
twenty-five cents; legal documents fifty
cents medicines three to ten cents bottle.
Five hundred thousand lol1ars have been
appropriated for the salaries and EXPENSES OF
collection
t. It is doubtful whether the section Of the
House bill passed yesterday, making Treasury
notes Of the old issues legal tender, will get
through the Senate. Leading Senators say
these notes being already above par, don't
need this legislation:
As indicated days ago, it has .-bccn deter.
! mined to divide the Potomac army into five
corps d'd77aee commanded by Generals
Banks, Mcdowell, Sumner, Heintzelnan and
Reyes. These are not the commanders
originally selected by Mcclellan, who
formed this plan before Scott's retirement, but
has said little about it since.
SkirmiEhiDg took place yesterday between
Gen. Summers pickets and the enemy, neal
| Fairfax Staten. Ono< <Hfississippian was shot
| through the head and kf1led.