Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-01-06
ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE.
An Act to Raise Supplies

Thousand Fight Hundred and SaSctyy. Five
I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives, now met and sitting in
General Assembly, and by the authority of
the same, That tax for the sums and in the
manner hereinafter mentioned shall be raised
and paid into the public Treasury Of this
State for the use and service thereof; that is
Ito say: Fifteen cents o0 valorens on every
hundred dollars of the value of all the lands
granted in this State, except such lands as
during the year have been in possession of the
Freedman's Bureau, and on all lots, lands and
Buildings within any city, town, village, or bor-
ough in this State, except such as during the
wear have been in possession of the Freed
mans Bureau ); two dollars per head on all
male residents of this State between tire ages
of twenty-onc and sixty years, except such as
can he clearly proved, to the satisfaction of
the Collectors, to be incapable, from mains or
.otherwise, Of procuring a livelihood; sixty
cents per hundred dollars on factoragc, en-
ployments, faculties and professions, including
the profession of dentistry, (whethor in the
profession of the law, the profits be derived
from the costs of suit, fees, or other sources Of
professional incomcD excepting clergynlen;
sixty cents per hundred dollars on the amount
of commissions received by brokers, vcudue-
masters, and commission merchants one dol
lar per head on each and every dog, Of every
Z. kind and description, in the State on the first
day of January, one thousand eight hundred
/ and sixty-six, or brought into the State be-
tween that time and the date of the payment
.oSs taxes fofty gents per 'hundrea iplars'of,
the capital stock of all incorporated gaslisht
computes now in active operation one hun
drcd cents per hundred dollars on all premi-
(. unis taken in this State by the agencies of in
auranoe companies and underwriters incorpo-
rated without the limits of this State; on all
express companies doing business within this
State, one thousand dollars each, to be paid to
the Taxi Collector of Richland District; twcn-
7 ty cents upon every hundred dollars of the
. amount of sales Of goods, wares and merchan-
die, embracing all the articles of trade for
sale, barter or exchange, (thc products Of this
State aud the unmanufactured products of any
of the United States, Of Territories thereof.
excepted J which any person shall have made
from the first day Of May Of the present year,
to the first day Of January, in the year of cur
. Lerd one thousand eight hundred and sixty
six, either on his, her or their capital, or boz
rowed capital, or on account OF any person or
persons as agent, attorney or cons'gnee; one
hundred tents upon every hundred dollars of
the amount Of sales Of all goods, Ayares and
l>merchandize whatever, which any transient
person, not resident in this Statc shall make
in any house, stall or public place; one hun
,dred cents on every hundred dollars Of the
valse Of all articles manufactured in this State
for sale, barter or exchange; twenty dollars
upon every hundred dollars of the value Of all
sspirituous liquors manufactured in this State
for sale, barter or exchange, and upon all
spiritaous liquors brought into this State for
sale, barter or exchange; one hundred cents
on every hundred dollars in value Of all cotton
on hand. on the first day of October last, ex-
Guiding the crop Of the present year from this
:taSatisn ono dollar on every hundred dollars
',of all sales Of cotton made since the first day
of May last to the first day of October one
thousand eight hundred and sixty five: Pro-
yided, That the tax shall not be due on any
cotton seized by tho United States Govern
ntand not returned, or any cotton stolen
and not recovered one hundred cents on ev-
iery hundred dollars in value Of all crude tul-
pentne, spirits of turpentine and rosin,' on
hand on the first day Of October last, exclu-
ding tho production of the year one thousand
eight hundred and sixty.fve; one hundred
cents ON every hundred dollars Of all sales Of
said articles from first Of May lastao first. of
October, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-fve, except sales Of production Of pres
|ent year; twenty dollars per day for repro
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