The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1862-07-10

There were in all three hundred and
Eileen amendments of the Internal
Revenue, or Tax bill, the House having,
through its Committee to Conference,
receded from 253, and the Senate,
through its Managers, from l6 OF them |
The remainder became subject OF com
promise as embodied in their JOINT re-
port. which was unanimously adopted
bv the Senate, while in the House the
the following named members voted
against it: Messrs. Allen of Illinois,
Browne of Rhode Island, Johnson,
Norton, Nugent, Pendleton, Shiel,
Styles, White of Ohio, Wickliffe and
Wood.
The bill only awaits the Presidents
approval to become law, and is to
take effect on the 1st OF August.
The Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue is TO receive salary of $4,000 per
annum.
Among the more important amend
ments to the bill are the following:
On all mineral Goals, except such as
are known to the trade as "pea COAL"
and dust coal, 81 cents per ton; pro-
vided that, for all contracts of lease for
coal lands made before the lst of April,
1862, the lessee shall pay the tax.
Tobacco = cavendish, plug, twist,
fne-cut and manufactured of all de-
scriptions not including snuff, cigars,
and smoking tobacco prepared with all
the stems in, or made exclusively of
stems-valued more than soc per TO-,
15c per pound valued at any sum not
exceeding SOC per pound, loo per
pound.
Smoking tobacco, prepared with all
the stems in, sc per pound.
Snuff, manufactured of tobacco
ground, dry or damp, of all descriptions,
zoe per pound.
Cigars, valued at not over SIS per
1000, $3.50 per thousand; valued at
over $40 per / 900, 50 per thousand /;
valued at over $40 and not 500 per
1000, $3.50 per 1000.
On all cloth, and all textile or knitted
or felted fabrics, of cotton, wool or
other materials, before the same has
been dyed, printed, bleached or pre-
pared in any other manner, duty of
three per centum ad valorem.
On and after October next, a tax of
J a cent shall be paid on cotton.
Whenever duty is imposed upon
any article, removed for consumption
for sale, it shall apply only TO such ar
ticles as are manufactured on and after
the LIST of July next No duty is to be
levied upon any sales by virtue of a
judgment or decree of any Court, nor
to public sales made by executors or
administrators.
Whiskey, twenty cents per gallon.
No tax on rectifed or mixed.
The tax on watches and piano fortes
is stricken out.
On all horned cattle exceeding eich-
teen months old, slaughtered for sale,
soc head.
On all calves and cattle under that
age, slaughtered for sale, SC a head,
and on all hogs exceeding six months
old, slaughtered for sale, when the
number thus slaughtered exceeds 20 in
any one year, 10c head.
Steam railroads and steamboats, paw
three per centum. Railroads using
other power than steam, and ferry boats,
u per centum, and toll bridges, 3 per
centum on the gross amount of all re.
ceipts.
Foreign passports, issued from the
office of the Secretary of State, SO.
When annual gains, profit or income
exceed the sum of 5000 but not Slo,-
600, duty of three per centum on the
above first named sum. If the income
exceeds $4,000, a duty of per centum
upon all over 5000.
Any telegraphic dispatch or message
when the charge for the the first ten
words does not exceed twenty cents,
one cent: when the charge for the first
ten words exceeds zoe, three cents.
Each policy of insurance, or other
instrument, by whatever name the same
shall be called, by which insurance
shall be made or renewed upon proper
ty of any description, whether against
perils by the seas or by fire, or by 9th
or peril of any kind, made by an insur.
ance company or its agents, twenty FIVE
cents.
The dog tax of 81 is stricken out.
In computing the allowance of draw
back upon articles manufactured ex-
clusively of cotton when exported,
there shall be allowed in addition to
the three per centum duty which shall
have been paid on said articles, draw
back OF five mills per pound in all cases
where the duties imposed by this act
upon the cotton used in the manufac-
ture thereof has been previously paid
the amount of the allowance to be as
certained in such manner as may be
prescribed by the Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue under the direction of
the Secretary Of the Treasury.
So much of the act of August last.
as imposes direct tax of 50 900 900
on the United States, shall only be held
to authorize the levy and collection of
one tax to that amount, and no other
tax shall be levied under and by virtue
thereof, until the LIST of April, 1865
when the same shall be in full force and
effect