The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-08-28
THE INTERNAL REVENUE.
The Revenue Officers and
Offices of This City.
|TE BROKERS' OBJECT TO BE TAXED.
f'he Seven Revenue Districts Of New
York Described.
DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF EACH.
Total Amount Of Revenue for the Year
Ending June 80.
lost OF COLLECTING the REVENUE.
Number Of Retail Liquor Dealers
i'm the City.
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|OsT OF COLLECTING The REVENUE.
Number Of Retail Liquor Dealers
i'm the City.
OMETHING ABOUT A, III, A..
sc. sc. sc.

A .blessing is popularity supposed to be benefit Of
me kind other by which our prosperity is in
eased. On the other hand, "debt is known to be u
oubesome thing to get rid Of and freedom from debt
s been shown by the immortal Micawber to be the
ppiest state Of existence, even where that debt
mounted to but a solitary sixpence. What Ia true in IN
vdual does not appear to be equally 80 when sp
led to nations as ''natonal debt" has lately been
oked lin pamphlet form) into 'national blessing"
other words an effort has been made to demonstrate
at what in the of individual is always carefully
oidcd looked upon with dread may, in the case Of
ltion, become Of the most powerful agents 10
omote its political influence and material prosperity
ngand nstanced example But no mention
ID made of the influence England exercised in Europe
e long period nior to the existence Of copsols and
whole argument was based on the principle that Il
will exist longer and hang together with greater
nacity the larger and heavier its liabilities The
ppression Of the rebellion bestowed one of these
He'd ''national blessings on our country It is now
dden away in drawers and locked up in safes in the
ape Of '1ve-twenties, 'ten-forties and ''seven
rites }" and is known under the old fashioned name
the Irrational debt" Every person In the country
bis its effects and called upon at certain intervals
hribute his quota in the shape Of internal revenue the
eater proportion Of which goes to pay the interest
b national debt.
THE INTERNAL REVENUE LAWS.
For the guidance Of the officials charged with the duty
assessing and collecting the internal revenue printed
bks have been issued from the department at Washing
J. These books contain copy Of the law, together
Ii the various amendments and fiji several hundred
ges BY this law it Is estimated that taxes lowed
about three thousand different articles The whole
stem is complicated beyond description, and every day
bcs arise which have to be referred to the Commis
at Washington for decision 1t is desired both by
paycrs and tax collectors that the laws should be
led and the system smpliled, say by having tax I'M
eed on about fifty hundred articles, and not on
tmI6cassc number embraced by the provisions OF the
sung laws 49, $780,. S... : lts--rr-
e. COLLECTING THE REVENUE. Asrax...
The collection Of the internal revenue gives employ
int TO an atmy of Office holders They exercise their
bottoms under the name OF Assessors and Collectors.
In addition there also scores of clerks and others
ploycd in the internal revenue Offices
70 facilitate the collection of the in this city
has been divided into seven districts Their bounds
arc almost the same those Of the Congressional
tricts and numbered follows, commencing
lower end OF the city-Thirty second Fourth, Fifth
tn, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth
- THE THIRTY.sECoND DISTRICT
nprises the First, Second and Fourth wards II is
bdvided into twenty-five divisions, in which the
sments are made by the following gentlemen:-