The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-04-22

Foreign insurance agents, $40.
Gift enterprises, $50.
Plumbers and gas filters, $40.
Miners, $40 This refers to persons employ
ing others to work in mines.
General business, $40. This refers to all
persons not otherwise classified, whose bust
ness or profession yields more that 81 900.
IMPosTs ON MANUFACTURED ARTICLes
Candles five per cent.
Coal five cents per ton. .
Lard oil, mustard seed oil and all other ami
NAL or vegetable oils not otherwise provided
for, five cents per gallon. ...' .-
Illuminating gas Is and 80 cents per 1000 Gu
bic feet in place of existing scale.
Coal Illuminating oil, refined and distilled
from coal exclusively twelve cents per gallon.
Turpentine twenty cents. t.Ts
Coffee. ground, 1c per pound.
Pepper, mustard pimento, cloves, cassia and
ginger, ground, 1c per pound.
MOlasSes of sugar cane per cent.
Sugar (brown) cent per pound; do. refined
2 cents. - ..
Confectionery, class A, 10 per cent; class c..
no, exceeding zoe per pound, &c; not exceed
ing 40c, &c.
Chocolate and cocoa &c. .-us.
Starch made of potatoes, 2 mills; made of
corn or wheat, mills made of rice or other
materials. 1c
Gunpowder ~ and Sc in place of existing
scale. s.-.-..
Lead (white) 35c per hundred.
Znc oxide of, 35c per hundred
Barytes, 12c per hundred.
Glue, liquid, 40; solid, 1c.
Wood screws, per cent ad val.
Clocks, per cent
Parasols and umbrellas, per cent
Gold Leaf, 1Sc per pack. BE-
Soap not above sc per pound two mills !;
above five cents 1c; fancy soap Sc; soft soap
OF soap repealed.
Chemicals not otherwise provided for 5 per
cent advalOrem. ....s ..-.,.-. ..
Essential oils per cent --. XIX
Bill heads, cards and circulars per cent.
Printed books and periodicals, except news
papers, per cent.
Productions Of stereotypers, biographers,
and epgravers, per cent. .'
Repafrers of engines, cars, carriages, and
other articles, per cent on increased value.
Repairs on ships and steamboats,, 2 per cent.
I Dressed building stone, 3per cent.
Gravestones per cent.
Lime and water cement 8 per cent.
Brick and draining tiles per cent.
Masts and spars per cent -'" Hit
Furniture and wooden ware per cent
Salt, cents per hundred pounds.
Sails, tents, &C., per cent. "'- :. "l
Soda water and all other artificial mineral
waters or beverages used for like purposes, 10
per cent. ~
Iron-pig, 81 per ton: blooms, slabs, or
scraps, 81. so per ton, and an additional dollar
and fifty cents if not previously taxed as pig
iEon. '- +'' -.
Iron-railroad, 33 per ton; ditto rerolled,
81 so. Other irons doubled. Is.
WAsHINGToN, April 15-The new Internal
Revenue Bill is complete revision of the act
now in fore G. and retains the same machinery
with such improvements as experience has rem
dered necessary.
1t contains 173 sections, AZ of which are de-
voted to general provisions. There is one pro
vision which cxeInpts from distraint the tool
or implement of q trade or profession, one cow,
arms, provisions, household furniture kept for
use, and the apparel necessary for family.
Among the prominent features of the bill are
the following, in addition to duties paid for
licenses:
There is to be paid on all spirits distilled and
sold, or removed for consumption or sale, If
first proof. prior to the first of July next, a
duty of sixty cents per gallon; on and after
that date to the first of January, 1865, 81 90;
on and after January 1st 1865, $1.25-provided
the duty on all spirits shall become taxed at no
lower rate than the basis of first proof, and
saall be increased in proportion for any greater
strength than of first proof All distilled spir-
its and refined coal oil, upon which an excise
duty is imposed by law, may be removed with
out payment OF duty, provided these articles
80 removed shall be transferred directly from
the dstillcry or refinery to a bonded warehouse.