New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-01-21
INTERVAL RRHENUE.

The Hon. George ). Boutwell,, COminlsNOnef
of Internal Revenue, has submitted to tie Sec
rotary Of the Treasury his first Annual Repoft,
from which it appears that the States not in
actual Rebellion have been divided into cOllec-
ton Districts corresponding generally with the
number Of Representatives to which they viii
be entitled in the XXXVlIIth Congress. The
whole number of Districts, including two in
Virginia, is 193. To each District with tew
exceptions, has been appointed one Assessor
and one Collector The Assessors have op-
pointed 2,55e Assisiant-Assessors, aud
tho Collectors have appointed 3l's De.
puty-CollectTs, making an aggregate
u Assessors, Assstant-Assessors. Collec.
tors aud Deputy-CQiectors .: 5sIA to which
add O. clerks employed IN the Commissioners
oflce aRd We have on aggregate of 3,6S2
persons Engaged in assessing aud collecting the
Internal Regrnue. The oct has not been 10
operation for a sufficiently long time on which
10 bnse accurate calculations as 10 the amount
oi revenue TO DO derived from this source;
but from the most careful estimates BY Col
lecOrs which It has been possible, under tue
circumstances, 10 make the Commissioner an.
ticipates that the revenue from al sources eX.
cept stamp duties, for the fiscal year ending
june 80, next, W,ll amount to SOL III, 100, and
40 estimates the receipts from stamp duties
Tor the same period at Slj, 600, 900, making
an aggregate OF s7o,T7,1W. The revenue
f,,p . 10 ..af H..
estimates At 100000, 600
,it. Boutwell, estimates the cos, of AS
sessug and collecting the revenue under the
present .ystcm at 4-iOO per centum, aud
thinks it VIII never exceed three per cent. Ii
is TO be hoped thns this opinion may not prove
itusory. Tho expenses of collecting the tax
in the Territories arc so dsprOportionate to
the income as to raise doubt in the MIND
of the Commissioner whether il would moi be
the part of wisdom to limit the operation of
the iaw to tho States. The supply OF stamps
duri,g tie mohths OF October, Aoscmber, and
December Was inadequate to the demand, but
is nov ample both ia amount and kind. The
Commissioner has declined all applications for
hlCilhl oiduiP uStftAA' lhibu5uVAl thc CpAhtly,
aud is of Op,nIon that the present rates OF COM
mission viii SO enlist private enterprise thar
stamps will be abundanty furnished ior sale in
every section of the country.
Tho Commissioner suggests the propriety %
the appointment OF a Solicitor who shall
devote himself to Interpreting aud explaining
the various law points which are being con.
staDtly raised by Collectors, Assessors aud tax
payers. ana which require the undivided atten.
ton and beet judgment of skillful and OK.
perienced lawyer. "lhus far the law" says
Tho Commissioner, - has not only not been
resisted, but its officers have been accepted
and welcomed; and the experience of the
country jusIiios the statement that the meas
lre, in plan aud in detail. was framed with a.
nigh degree of wisdom"
The Commissioners refers to the fact that arti.
lies of manufacture arc taxed two or three
limos over in cases where goods are manufac.
+ured from materials which have already paid
duty in a previous form, and suggests such
amendments as shall project The small capitalist,
who can, from his broitcd means, only CARRY
IA ono branch Of n'aulac,urc from tho damagiDg