Shreveport news. [volume] (Shreveport [La.]) 1864-1865, 1865-06-06
T-7-- b SHREVE PORT TUESDAY, JUNE 6. 1865
department,

proper officer of this department,
whose duty it shall be to require, be
fore any articles are allowed to be
shipped, satisfactory evidence that
upon all merchandise the taxes and
dues required by law and these regu-
lations have been paid, or secured to
be paid; which act, with the amount
so paid, shall be certified upon the
manifest. No clearance shall be
granted if, upon any article so ship
ped, the fees and internal revenue
taxes, or either, shall only have been
secured to be paid; such fact shall
be noted upon the manifest, and the
proper officer, at the port Of destina-
ton of such vessel, shall hold the
goods till all such taxes aud fees
shall be paid according to law, and
these regulations.
SEVENTH. Supply stores.-Per-
sons desiring to keep supply store
at any place within an instruction
airy State, shall make application
therefor to the nearest officer of the
treasury department, which applica-
ton shall set forth that the applicant
lis loyal to the government Of the
United States, and, upon being con-
WINGED Of such loyalty, license for
such supply-store shall forthwith be
granted, and the person to whom the
license is given shall be authorized
to purchase goods at any other sup
Iply-store within the insurrectionary
States, or at such other point as he
may select The party receiving
such license shall pay therefor the Ii
cense fee prescribed by the internal
revenue law.
EIGHTH. Exempted -1y.icles.-All
articles Of local production and con-
sumption, such as fruits, butter, ice,
eggs, meat, wood, coal, &c, may
without fee or restrictions be freely
transported and sold at such points
in an insurrectionary State as the
owner may desire.
Ninth. Shipment Of Products Of
az hsu1rectionary State.-All cotton
not produced by persons with their
own labor, or with the labor Of freed
men or others employed and paid by
them, must before shipment to any
port or place in a loyal State, be sold
to, and resold by an Officer of the
government especially appointed fol
the purpose under regulations pres.
cribed by the Secretary of the Trea'
sury and approved by the President
and before slowing any cotton Oh
other product to be shipped, or grant
ling clearance for any vessel, the pro
/ per customs officer or other persons
acting as such, must require from the
purchasing agent or the internal re
VENUE officer a certificate that the
:: Icottoa proposed to be shipped ha:
been resold by him, or that twenty
five per cent. of the value Thereof
has been paid to such purchasing
agent in money, and that the cotton
is thereby free from further fee o
tax. If the cotton proposed to b.
f shipped is claimed and proved to b
the product Of persons own labor
t or of freedmen or others employed
> and paid by them, the officer will re
quire that the shipping fee Of tire
r cents per pound shall be paid or Sc
t cured to be paid thereon. If an.
r product other than cotton is ofere
for shipment the certificate of tn
internal revenue officer that all inter
: nal taxes due thereon has been co.
3 lected and paid must be produce
9 prior to such products being shippe
: or cleared; and if there is no inter
. NAL revenue officer there, such take
S shall be collected by the customs off
:, Ger, or he shall cause the same to b
t secured to be paid as provided i
q these regulations. a '-.
: TENTH. Inland I1ausportation.-