The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-06-20
MR.. SEGAR TO Re PAID.
The New Tax Bill.

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ported its amendments to the House tax
bill. Under these amendments cotton Is
taxed two cents per pound. Tax assessors
are To give notice in one newspaper In their
districts. without regard TO circulation.
Cattle and produce brokers are to be taxed
on purchases rs well as sales. All diStlllcrS
of appcS grapes or peaches are 10 pay
fifty dollars license, even if they only dis
til small quantities. Keepers OF hotciS,
tavcrns, inns, or cuting-houScS having PAID
A special tax, shall not be required to pay
an additional tax for selling tobacco, Snuif
or cigars ON the same premises. Persons
who sell shell or other fish, trundling from
place to place, and not from any shop,
Shall be required to pay five dollars tax
only. and no special tax. Architects and
civil engineers are to pay ten dollars IL
ccnSc. Plumbers and gas-tittcrs are to
pay ten dollars license. Persons traudu-
lcntlv stamping boxes containing tobacco,
snuff or cigars shall be liable To n fine OF
not less than fifty dollars, or to impriSon-
mcnt not exceeding two years. Gas COM
panirS whose price is fixed by law are au-
thoriZcd 10 add the tax to the price OF gas
sold. Coal tar and ammoniaCal liquor pro-
duced al gas works is free. MolaSScS and
sugar from sorghum or imphcc is not free.
RcapcrS, mowers, threShng- machines,
corn-ShcllcrS and wooden ware, exempted
by the House, are taxed three per cent.
al roi0reH. The clothing clause, as
amended, reads thus:
On ready-made clothing, gloves, mecca
sins, felt hats, and other articles OF dress
for the wear OF men, women and children,
not otherwise assessed and taxed, tax of
two per centum al rai0rem to be paid by
every person making, manufacturing, or
producing for sale clothing, gloves, nit
tens, moccaSnS, caps, felt hats, and other
articles Of dress, or furnishing the mate
rialS or any part thereof, and employing
others to make, manufacture, or produce
them: Prorided, That any tailor or any
maker Of gloves, mittenS, mOccaSinS, caps,
felt hats, or other articles of dress 10 order
as custom work only, and not for general
sale, and whose annual products do not
exceed two thousand dollars, shall he cX-
cmpt from this tax; and articles of dress
made or trimmed by millincrS or dress
makers for the wear OF women and chill
drcn shall also be exempted from this tax.
Custom boot or shoe makers, whose annual
products do not exceed two thousand dol
lars, are exempt from the two per cent. tax
on boots or shoes.
Among the articles added to the free list
are iron drains and sewer pipes, tarrcd pa
per for roofing, wooden tanks and ciStcrns,
cordage rope and cables, wine made Of
grapes and other fruit. The tax on Smok-
ing tobacco, not Swectcned or stemmed, is
reduced from twenty TO fifteen cents per
pound. Upon all imported cigars and che
roots, but not including cigarettes, an in
ternal revenue tax shall be levied and col
lcctcd, in addition to the duties paid upon
importation thereof, Of. ten dollars per
thousand, and severe penalties are pro-
vidcd for the violation of this proviso. n
new section is added on auction sales Of
all kinds, including bonds, stocks and Sc
curities, fixing the tax at one-tenth OF one
per ccntum. Provision is made that
whenever any State bank or banking
association has been or shall be convert
ed into national banking association,
or has ceased TO do its usual banking
business, including the making of loans
and receiving of deposits, there shall be as
scSsed and collected in addition to the taxes
already imposed, Il tax of onc-tourth OF
one per ccntum upon the average amount
OF the circulation outstanding of any such
State bank or State banking association.
The House section concerning income is
stricken out, but it is proposed 10 amend
the one hundred and sixteenth section OF
the tax bill by providing that taxes shall
be levied and collected and paid annually
upon the gains, profits, and income Of every
business, trade, or profession carried on in
the United States by persons residing with
out the United States not citizens thereof.
Companies and persons owning railroads,
steamboats,, stages, horse-cars, terry-boatS,
or bridges, have restored to them the
right-oi which the House bill deprived
thcm-to add the tax imposed upon them
10 their rates of fare. Washington star.