Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-04-02
Internal Recommendations Con-
tributions.

The Washington correspondent of the Sac
ramento Union furnishes the following items
of Internal Revenue paid by California from
the time the law went into operation, up to
December lst, 1863:
Auction sales paying onc-tenth of one per cent.
on the gross amount, net the treasury only 81,
$40 II in California; newspaper advertisements,
paying three per cent. in newspapers having "a
circulation OF 1000 or more bring So 663 3d. cot.
ton manufactures 3 per cent, bring S773 Ii the
diamonds, emcraliS and other jewclry of Cal'fOr
mia net the treasury 81 ,eOl 9s; expresses, paying
. per cent. on gross receipts, bring in SIl5 ~, n
small item for California; 3 per cent. oil the gross
receipts Ofrsroads for carrying passengers brings
S5,2al Al; The horse railroads. paying ono and one
half of one per cent, bring in Sl,7l9 70, and the
toll bridges, paying per cent. on receipts, pay
So 0i9 d. while the ferry boats taxed one and one
half Of one per cent, net S2i2 81. The item of
billiard tables. paying s. each is in California the
largest of that of any other State in the Union
except that of the great State of New York,
California paying 81 ,a69 -, while New York
pays SS,472 IL; the big State of Ohio only pays
S2,Sl7 80; California, in proportion TO her popu-
lation, can beat the Union on billiards, discount
ing them 80 points in the game. California law
yrrs yield gOOdly share of revenue, paying
SsOi7 ~, nj the rate of $40 per month, the frac-
lions arising from the broken parts Of the year.
Not to class billiards. lawyers and liquor dealers
together we note that the retail dealers in liquid
damnation'' pay Uncle sam S94, 6i3 81, small
compensation for the mischief they do the whole
sale liquor men pay S23.027 " the wholesale
traders pay Sii,a62 ~. and retailers pay $50.
30 s3, the wholesale and retail liquor dealers
paying Sl705I 81 more than all of the other ira.
drrs put together. The horned cattle of CalfOr-
na, taxed ~ cents on each one over the tender
age Of Il months yield 693 IS to the treasury,
while the sheep ard lambs help to carry on the
war against the rebellion in the amount OF S..
652 81, each one being fcrced at the rate of per
cent. per annum. We arc not cxtravngant in gold
plate in California only paying 81 upon that
luxurious article, our people preferring TO invest
in feet" in paying silver leads; only S43i is paid
in California upon silver plate kept for Use; that
81 for gold plate ia paid i'm San Francisco, which
ex;ravagant city pays fully two.thirds Of the tax
on silver plate. The gas companies pay 81 $40 II
for the privilege Of supplying their customers, the
aforesaid customers paving the tax, however. The
humorous photographers pay bnt SEQ for the right
to secure the shadow of the human face divine;
the horcls and boarding houses net the Govern
mrnt sci ,5Jl Go, and steamboats,, which "eat"
their passengers, pay S2,g45 n for that privilege.
But l have exhausted your patience, if not the
figures II should be understood that these sums
are for only ten months, and that there is def
cheney of reports for two months from the Second
Collection District Enough has been given, how
ever, to show that our rich and growing State is
doing her share in the maintenance of our Govern
ment by furnishing the suews of war.-Hashing-
ton Cor. Union.