Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-02-03

~ stable is assessed tax of one dollar
and fifty cents per stall or space for stall.
This fs one hundred per cent increase over
our law.
The taxes on merchants are increased
one hundred per cent. over the law here.
On merchants license to sell liquor, a tax
of hundred and Fifty dollars is laid. This
alone is an increase al one hundred per
cent. Under the name merchant, are COM
pretended rherchaut .ailors, lumber mer-
chants, aud coal and wood merchants The
The tax on commission merchants is in.
creased one hundred per cent. On auc-
ttoneeEs nearly that increase. On every
license to nsuufActure porter, ale md beer
seventy Ave dollars is assessed. On every
license 10 sell porter, ale and beer, by
wholesale. thirty dollars; by retail, the
license to be the same as that imposed on
ordinaries where ardent spirits are sold.
This is an increase OF one hundred per
cent.
But time nor space would suffice US 10
go through the whole list of increases on
all departments of business. In round
numbers it may be said that the increase is
full one hundred per cent. On every item
of property, except on slaves, the tax is
increased. Uuder twelve years of age ther,
as heretofore, are not taxed at all, and over
that age only one dollar and twenty cents
per head, regardless of their value.
One of the most important enactments
ia the whole volume is that comprised in
chapter 18th, and is entitled "au act pre-
viding for the collection ar taxes and other
public dues in the hands OF defauiting dis
loyal Offices aud in the hands of other per-
| sons dlsIOyal TO the State" This act was
passed March 9th. 1862, aud it provides
that all the banks located in Northwestern
Virginia that have failed to pay into the
treasury at Richmond during the past two
years, the txaes, dividends and bonuses due
from them to the State, shall have Judgment
entered up againstthem, and that such iudg
tnent shall be lien on all the estate. real or
personal, that they possess Aud tho act
further proVi les that in addition to the in
terest to be included in such Judgment.
there shall be damages at the rate OF fifteen
per centum on the amount of the judgment.
And it further provides that any sheriff or
collecting officer and all his secretaries,
Jointly and severaIIy, shall be liable for the
amounts collected by him and paid into the
treasury at Wheeling.
This is az important act, aud one that
radically effects all collectors and dtsburs.
cFs of the revenue in Western Virginia.
We have no space for any extended COM
ments on these euactments. Indeed, there
is but little use for any. They carry their
own comments with them. They say as
plainly to the people Of West Virginia as
language can speak, that if we who are in
rebellion ever get the power over you
again, we will make you realize as Won
never have before what taxes are. Thew
farther say, in equally unmistakAble lam
guage, that we recognise nothing that
you have done--no taxes that you have
paid-ail your receipts are null and void
and will DO so declared wheu we get the
opportunity.
This is the language OF these euactments.
Aud it appeals, in terms stronger than any
that we can command, to the people OF
Western Virginia to rise up now, while
there is mn opportunity, and secure the
new State. Now ia the peculiar Opportu-
nifty, and the only one we will ever have,
to escape the expressions and impositiens
which Eastern Virginia has in store for US.