Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1864-02-17
.esday. 81 Fabruarr

Tar on Incomes.
Taxpayers will be required to return on oats
the iuooro and profits derived from each porson
Joint Stock Company aud Corporation, from ever,
occupation, employment or business, whether reg
i,tcrcd or not, ia which thoy may have been on
gagged, and from every investment Of labor, skill
property, or money, or from any source Whatever
except fsTaries.~
All profit derived By any person from the ral0
Of all property, real or personal, in the gear 1863
will be returned and taxed as income, whether
these profits DO m.as froE tbs aa!cs Of lands and
He9rees; gr ashe wise.
Interest on Confederate, Corporate, or State
Bonds and Stocks is an income derived from tnt
investment of money, and therefore il taxable.
So is the interest or interest bearing Treasury
Notes.
If the producer coils Cotton during the year
tho value of Cotton on the LIST Of January 1858
will DO deducted from the snlea made during the
year, the balance will DO income. If the Cotton
sold, was held on the lst of July. aud he paid
the tax of 8 per cent this amount will be deduct
cd from the proceeds of sale, and the balance
income subject to tho tax.
All servants not engaged In agriculture, will be
estimated at a fair hire and taxed, and this In
cludes all houge and body servants, Gardeners,
Cooks. Nurses, &c. If negroes he engaged partly
in household and partly in planting, the value OF
partial hire for household work will DO taxed aa
income.
Persors owning dwelling houses or building
l,ts in a City, Town or Village, whether occupied
by the owner or cot, will be taxed according TO
their estimated rate as income. ",
Physicians will return their profits as so much
added to their income
Sales made of %pcultfy, mutton, butter, eggs,
mola,ses. Pork and articles of Dopsstic manufae-
ture, are liable to DO taxed, and must DO returned.
Taxpayers must return all profit made from
any chilling, transaction, speculation, or made any
money during the year 1853 from sny source
whatever and if it amount, in tho whole to $500
they shall DO taxed on it as income.
Tox on Salayiss.
All ~salaried persons, including Clergyuen and
Tcachers, ara required to rstsrn tho S9;oplt OF
their salaries for the year lSR3, Except the Snls-
ries of peraons in tho military and naval %seryice,
and ~saIariey not exceeding $1,000 per eunuu.)
Any person receiving two or moro salaries from
different souroca, amounting together TO nero
than $1,000 per annum, though each salary may
be less, must return the aggregate and pay tax
therein.
NsR Pork.
In retaining tho amour: of Nett Pork, I shall
rssuiro the hog To be weighed with the fost
bend. back bone and all the leaf lard attach
ed that il to SOY, Just as they are daily offer
cd for sale in the market after being slaughtered
and clcanScd.
I ahnll also receive quarterly returns from
registered Taxpayers for the quaf'sf ending Slst
Des, 1863.
There are 6 number Of Taxpayers who have
not completed their Returns Of "Tax in Kind"
I would be glad they would meet me at my ap-
pointments and do so.
All persons who have failed to return their
Cattle, &c., are earnestly requested TO do so, other.
wise the penalty of the law will DO enforced
against thsm.
R. C. GRIFFIN, Assessor
18th Col. Dist.
Jan l3tA,- IF 4