Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-04-26
INTERNAL REVENIE.

hedhcton OF fRates-IncreaSe Of Free List
The bill reported yesterday in the House OF
Representatives amending the Internal Rev
enue laws, proposes important changes, and
will be considered next week Among other
changes, are the following:
Clothing, l per cent. Clothing made Inv
weaving, feltIng, or kttIng; hoopskIrrs mats
and bonnets. articles made of india ru bber or
sutta perchS, or made separately and tor sale
Tor the ornamenting or trimming of clothing
} per cent. Boots and shoes . per cent
Pickles, preserves, fruit, &c, a stamp tax
equal TO per cent. OF the price Soau valued
at over cents, five mills per pound. General
manufacturing tax, per cent. Incomes. }
per cent. over $1,000. Brokers' sales of stocks
&c, stamp tax equal to = cents per 500
OF value OF sales. Brokers sales OF AIerchan-
disc, cents on SlOj Smoking tobacco. -
cents per pound. Smoking tobacco. OF stems
exclusively, cents per pound. Express com
panles, per cent. on gross receipts. Savings
Banks are relIeyed from the tax on their de-
posts invested in United States securities. and
on all other deposits under $500. MoIasses
IRON sugar cane, cents per gallon. On
reapeIs, mowers, scales, brooms, and wooden
ware, 3 per centum ad yalorem. On tin
ware OF all descriptions, not otherwise pro-
vided for, per centum ad valorem. Duty
on railroad iron, 50 ton, is continued
Insurance agents 10 pay SlOtax: when the
receipts dc not exceed 500, he shall paw 81.
Any person who peddles lewelry, distilled
spirits, fermented liquors or wines TO pay $50
license. Express carriages 10 pay $40 license.
Builders and contractors $40, instead OF S35
No tax 10 be imposed upon apothecaries con-
fectioners, keepers of eating houses. hotels
inns, or tayerns, tobacconists. or retail dealers
IN spIrltuous or malt liquors, when their an
nual gross receipts on sale shall not exceed the
sum of $1,000. The stamp duty on gaugers'
measures and weighers' returns, and ali re-
ceIpts, are stricken out of Schedule i, and the
following is inserted in lieu of the same: Re-
celpts for any sum OF money, or for the paw
ment OF any debt exceeding S2U in amount NOT
being for The satisfaction of any mortgage,
hi q a NJ
dorsement on any stamped obligation in ac-
encouragement of its fulfilment for each re-
ceipt 2 cents: PIorided, That when more than
one signature is affixed TO the same paper one
or more stamps may be affixed thereto, repre-
senting the whole amount of the stamp re-
qnired for such signatures.
The Free LiSi.-The following articles are on
the free list'-Barrels and casks, other than
those for fluids. Beds, palliases, pillows and
holsters. Boxes of wood for packing pur
poses. Books, maps, charts, and all printed
matter and bookbindmg. Building stone of ali
kinds, including slate, marble, freestone and
soapstone. Brick, friedrich, draining tiles,
earthen and stone water pipes. Collins and
burial cases. Medicinal and mineral waters of
all kinds sold in bottles and from fountains
Mineral coal of all kinds. Monuments of ali
KINDS not exceeding in value 500. Paintings
Paper OF all descriptions. Photographs not
exceeding IN value 10 cents each. Productions
OF stereo:ypers, photographers, and enyrayers
Paints and painters colors. Putty Petro-
leum' tcrnde) Ploughs, cultivators, harrows,
wmnowing mills; hubs. spokes, and felIoes;
wooden handles for agricultural, household
mechanical tools and implements Repairs of
ARTICLES, OF all kinds. Railroad chairs: railroad
ship, and boat spikes; Ak polls shoes for horses.
mules, and oxen; rivets, nuts, horse nails
washers, and bolts; anvIls, vices, IRON
chains, and anchors. and all other articles
maze OF wrought iron which has pre-
ylously paid the tax or duty assessed thereon
Roohng slate, slate and tiles. Roman and
wafer cement and lime. Soap valued at not
M mt
Stoves, composed in part of cast-iron and IN
part OF sheet-iron. or Of soapstone or freestone
with or without sheet-iron cast-iron, pro-
vlded the cast and sheet-Iron shall have paid
the tax or duty previously assessed thereon.
vinegar. Vegetable, animal and fish oils of All
descriptions. All gross receipts for transpor-
tatioh OF properly. Umbrellas and parasoIs
All KINDS OF slaughtered animals Carriages
not exceeding $StD in value. Pianos and other
mnsicai instruments In family use. Gold and
silver plate kept for use.