The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1865-12-21

malt liquors and wines. 1t is estlmated
that the cotton crop Of next year will
amount to between 100000 and 3,OOO,-
600 of bales, on which might be levied a
tax of eight cents per pound, whichwould
realize $50, 100000, moro than sufficient
to pay the interest on the public debt at;
ter the entire amount is funded. The Ii
cense and stamp duties, it is thought,
could be dispensed with after the next
fiscal year.
REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE IN
TRRNAL REVENUE.
The Commissioner remarks his recent
accession to the post and consequent brief
time in which to prepare his views, and
offers some general considerations of in
terest and Importance. The amount of
revenue raised in4o one year, up to the Both
June last, was equal to all the revenues of
the United States from the foundation of
the Government up to 1872, and yet
100000 of men were withdrawn from
productive labor, and the marine was re-
.Iativelv idle. The following arc some of
the. aggregates: Receipts tor 1868, SAL
oO3. 1928; receipts for 1864, s116,85O,-
e72.14 = receipts for 1865, sl29, ,52s,ol7.
The tax on distilled spirits has been a
failure in great degree, but from causes
believed to have been obyiated- .s
The cost of collecting the revcnno is
estimated to have boon three and half
per centum of receipts up to tho present
wear, sum much below the cost of Brit
ish revenue, as shown by a citation intro
duced into the report. This will surprise
many. The per centum Of the last fiscal
ycar ris estimated at two and tilrcc-dourths
The current fiscal year, ending June 80,
1866, the cost will be greater, owing to
the sparsely inhabited and unsettled con-
ton of tho South.
The current fiscal year is expected to
bring s272,o0o,o00 revenue.
The Commissioner recommends that
The power to appoint Assistant Asses
sorg, now, in the opinion of tho Attorney
General, in the President only, be lodged
in the Secretary of the Treasury by law
lie recommends that the appeal sys-
TEN be abolished, as useless and generally
neglected by parties interested.
The penalties arc 50 various in the ox-
isting law TINT it lis recommended that,
by proper amendment, they may be sim
pIifed. The nanlling privilege is propo-
scds for Assessors and Collectors.
Section 46, Act June 80, 1864, is be-
lieyoa to require the ve..y careful atten-
ton of Congress. This section relates to
I, collection of taxes in insurroctionary dis
tricts. and attention is called to the mis-
chief which will arise from the fact that,
for nearly three years, all instruments of
writing in the South, on which hang i'm
mensc monetary interests, arc invalid for
want of stamps, as enjoined in schedule
B of the revenue Act, unless Congress,
in some appropriate manner, relieves the
matter. Section $50, of the Act of 3Oth
June, 1864, would seem to Indicate pur
pose at one timo Of, in somo way, collect
inc the duties on succession in the insur-
rcctionary districts, through the direct
tax commissioners. However that may
bo, there is now certainly no necessity
for the motion, and the Commissioner
recommends it's repeal. He also recon-
mends important notifications of the law
regulating stamps. But for inconven-
ionce in thinly poopled districts, he would
suggest the substitution of stamped pa
per for adhesive stamps. Hc thinks the
public have become sufficiently familiar
with the novelty to be held more severe
ly accountable for infraction of the law,
and suggests more stringent remedies,
Important analysis aro given and re-
commendations offered respecting the opc-
ration of the revenue and direct tax laws
in the Southern States.
An increase in the clerical force, and in
their compensation, is earnestly recon-
mendcd.
TIE FOLLOWING resolution was re-
Gently introduced in The Virginia hegisla-
turc by Mr. Hurst, of Norfolk, and was
laid upon the table:
Whereas, tits currently reported and
generally believed chat tho celebrated
IIudibrastic General B. F. Butler is about
70 taka cLarne of this military depart: