The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-02-03
CONFEDERATE STATES TAKES.
aurARNING TO TAX,pAYERS.-

e w 81. As to Specific Tcrss--Ambrotypist
apothec tries auc.ioneers, bikers, bankers, billiard
ker Butchers cartcrs cattle brokers' circus exhib-
itprs, commercial brokers, commission merchants,
confectoners, daguer coypsts Dentists diatillers,
draymen, catirg-house keepers, inn-keepers, jug
piers, lawyers, hycry-stable keepers, pawn bro
kers, pedlars, photographers (which denomina-
ton includes all who make for sale pictures Of any
kind glass metal paper, or other material, BY the
action OF light ply sicians, surgeons, tobacoosss.
and i'm generall all dealers, by Wholesale or by re
tail, liquors orn any other things, are required BY
law to register their respective occupations or call.
ing; and pay the rgescribed specific tax thereon at
the commencement OF every A. d., to wit: On the
lst day Ut January in each year, no matter how
shortly before they may have registered in pre-
cedng year. or within such further time as is az
lowed by the Tax Commissioner, unless tho blisl-
ness itself be cOmmaaced after such time Is elapsed:
pecitic tax paid at the time Of beginning busi-
In my district, the time first appointed for
this year has been (at my request, for Whist ap-
pe,red sufficient reason, enlarged by the Tax Com
missioner that any person not yet registered for
1865 may still register and pay the specific tax in
good time before on the LIST day Of February next.
but not afterwards, save only where the business
itself is commenced after that period. Tie penalty
which the statute mot departmental reg,llo-
ton imposes is doubling of the tax for the frst
failure, With like accumulation for every thirty
day. OF continued failure.
=. is ~ Tarcs on Quarterly Sales o. Receipts.-
The time prescribed for making returns Of such
sales and receipts of the quarter ended 3lst Decem
Der, 1861, has been, in my district, lin like man.
ner,l enlarged by the Tax Commissioner so that
such returns may be made 10 an assessor before OF
on the lst day Of February next, but not after
wards. In case Of failure herein the statute re-
quires the whole tax the quarters sales or re-
ceipts to be doubled A ter the returns have been
made and the taxes have been assessed thereon, the
latter may be paid at any time before the 10th Of
that month february; that is to say, before or
On, but not after, the 9th of the said month. Tbe
statutory penalty for failure in this also is doubling
of the whole tax on the sales or receipts.
No further extension OF time will, believe, be
granted with reference to the taxes above-men-
toned. The registrieS, returns and payments are
to be made in the district where the business 10 car.
ried on My district comprises all that part of Rich
mond city which lies between Sixth and Fourteenth
streets Offices for receiving returns and payments
anl making resistries are at the southeast coTnel
Of Main and Seventh streets.
g. Ay to Iarcs on Incomes and Salaries Of 1864
The time is now come for making returns Of them,
which should be done in the districts wherein the
taxpayers respectively reside.
WM. GREEN, District Collector,
ja25-t9thFeb Eleventh Virginia District.