The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-06-23

Tile direct Land tax imposed by the F.
...I Government in l>ol, and which has
...... reserved for enforcement in the south
..... present day, comes very hard upon
.r .run,r. The war ruined them. The
I..rnurut found them without money,
.gN.,u the vast capital they had invested
g.. ,...r>->Ay two billion of dollarS-anni-
#..r.i. lrt amongst the earliest Symp-
.u.> 90 the restored power Of the Wash
......a tiNtrnment over the south were
o.. 4>>r>>ur and collector of this tax.
IT people were greatly distressed. 1t was
. months before the Government i'll
.....ui. The Administration al last, being
..r fully aware of the distress which this
... tAN brought upon the people of the
.... ordered the tax -gathcrcr not 10 levy
m... property until further instructed.
II known that the State governments
.syUrl 10 the General Government 10
Allows them 10 assume the debt of the pc"-
,.. BIT NJ to this time nothing has been
...,. p. the Congress on the subject. In
...l .' rrmitting that tax altogether, las
...,.r.-.- party should ito il it felt the
.,.r nupu.>r> If humanity, and permitting
.>t. ~ aa, paving aS other people pay,
-r.sg ,g,. i.u.r al the breaking down of the
C,.ralrr4,N, they have turned a deaf ear
...g g., these petitions of the southern
States. .t', Hui .rcspt 50 tar as they have
....I ,o the subject in their proceedings
.,., reconstruction, in which they pro
r.,r;,.a,. the >onthuu people time on this
IAN provided they will adopt the amend
meat. to the Constitution proposed by
... Kruittng the tax has not entered
...e minds, and they oilcr time upon II as
.nrH,. 10 induce lis To aCquicScc IN their
.-a,a.ul demands
We give below some data as to this one
.#> tax. The Secretary Of the Treasury
800 Wednesday transmitted to the House
ur Representatives, in answer to Il rcSolu-
,.tn.a report from the Commissioner OF
Internal Revenue, from which it appears
that the amount Of dircc takes, by the act
OF l>5I, apportioncd 10 Virginia is 1897 $50,
u, which 1919, i9l has been collected; APP
a.mGuurd to North Carolina, S57G, l9i, col
..ctrl e2C0,2s3; apportioned TO South Ca
Nina. S363,570, collected S20j,S ap-
,agtiuued 10 Georgia, SjS7 ,3GI, collected
-, i2l apportioncd to Alabama, $500 ,3l3
.auc collected apportioncd to Mississippi
.,l%.Osi, collected $4,000; apportioncd
(, Louisiana, S3S5, $50, collected S3Ol ,l61
anrortioncd ~ Tennessee, S669, I9S, col
l.r,,d $3>&.~ll: apportioncd to Arkansas,
>-nl .~>6, collections not reported; appor-
Toned Ia Florida, 81, 522, collected S5,7l2
.,portionvl to Texas, $3.50, JOG, collected
SAYS.
The property held by the Government.
.alcr sales authorized by acts relating to
direct taxes, was purchased at prices
amounting in the several States as follows :
VIRGINIA. So ,2GS; South Carolina, s6j, 1872 A:
Florida. S6.l6s: Tennessee, $500. In
Arkansas, lands were struck off for taxes
nr,l 10 bidders who never completed
'hue purchases TO the amount of 5000.
Iar amounts received from sales i'll the
several states are as follows: Virginia,
..l@l3o. South Carolina, SIS, 433; Florida,
>4.i9J: Tennessee, Sl2Z,1l7 Arkansas il
MT reported. The whole amount standing
10 tie credit of the Arkansas Commission
rr,, from taxes collected and the proceeds
G sales deposited 10 the credit OF the
@.trd States, is sl6j, 262.