The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-02-02
Report 81 the Commi ssi oner ~ Im-
lerNal Revenue.

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Report 81 the Commissioner 81 In.
lernai Revenue.
The Secretary of the Treasury has COM
municated to Congress the first report
made to him by Hon. George s. Bout
well, Commissioner Of Internal Revenue,
from which We extract some information
of general interest. The States not in
actual rebellion have been divided into
collection districts, in proportion to the
number OF Representatives which they
will be entitled to in the Thirty eighth
Congress. An assessor and collector have
been appointed in each district. The
whole number Of districts is one hundred
and eighty-three. The aggregate num-
Der OF collectors, assessors and assistant
assessors is 3,8i4. In the Treasury De-
partu emit, assigned for duty 10 the Office
OF Internal Revenue, are sixty male and
eight female clerks. The whole number
Of persons employed in assessing AMI COL
lecting the revenue is therefore $3.50.
The Commissioner says that the returns
of assessors and collectors are not yet so
general and complete in their character ~
to enable him TO furnish an estimate Of
the revenue to be derived frsm specific
subjects of taxation. He says:
:" have not the means, at the present
time. of estima tins, with confidence, the
amount of revenue which will be derived
under the exci9e law of July lst, 1869.
During the last month / have caused a
careful Investigation to be Instituted into
the several sources of revenue, and an es-
innate to be made of the amount which
may be derived from each source.
According 70 this estimate, there will
be received from all sources, except stamp
duties, during the current fiscal year,
ending the 3Oth Of June next, the sum Of
S6lI77,799. | estimate the receipts from
stamp duties, during the same period will
amount to the SUM Of $i5, 600. 900, ma
king an aggregate revenue of $76,777,-
799. This result has been reached BY
the most careful inquiry that could be
instituted into the amount of the various
kinds of manufactures, the revenue TO be
derived from each, and by like careful
inquiry into all the other sources of in
come.
This estimate is less by about eight
million dollars than the general estimates
which l had the honor to submit to you
early in the month of December last.
have only tosay that, in themor carefulin-
vestigation which has recently been made,
the revenue from each source has been
estimated below, rather than above, what
may reasonably be anticipated II may
be assumed, further, that the revenue
from the same source, for the fiscal year
1865, will not be less than Sl50OOO,-
O00."
The Commissioners also gives an esti-
mate of the amount that will be annually
expended in collecting the revenue, as
follows:
"Fox expenses OF assessing the taxes,
the sum of ten thousand dollars in each
collection district, or total Of 81 $780,
600; for the collection of the taxes in
each district, the sum OF eight thousand
dollars, or 81, A64, 000in all for station.
cry, seventy Thousand dollars for adver-
Using by assessors and collectors, thirty
thousand dollars for salaries of the Com
missioner and clerks in the office fInter-
nal Revenue, one hundred aud twenty
thousand dollars; for blank books and al .
vertising, ten thousand dollars; for print.
ing stamps, eighty Ave thousand dollars /;
for stamp agency at philadelphia, seven
thousand i've hundred dollars. Total,
three million six hundred aad sixteen
thousand Eve hundred dollars. The only
remaining item Of expenditure is that d
printing. Oh this l make no estimate. y