The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-10-23


when the pl oduct shall be above five millions,
fifteen cents per one thousand cubic feet
and the general average of the monthly pro-
duct for the year preceding the return re
quired by this act shall regulate the rate of
duty herein imposed; and where any gas
company shall not have been in operation
for the year next preceding the return as
! aforesaid, then the rate shall be regulated
upon the estimated average of the monthly
product: Provided, That the product re-
quired to be returned by this act shall be
understood to be the product charged in the
bills actually rendered by any gas company
during the month preceding the return. and
all gas companies are hereby authorized to
add the duty or tax imposed by this act tn
the price per thousand cubic feet on gas sold
Provided, further, That all gas furnished for
lighting street lamps, and not measured, and |
all gas made for and used by any hotel, inn,
tavern, and private dwelling-house, shall be
subject to duty, and may be estimated; and
if the returns IN any case shall be understated
or underestimated it shall be the duty of the
assistant assessor of the district to increase
the same as he shall deem Just and proper
And provided, further, That coal tar pro-
duced in the manufacture of Illuminating
gas, and the products of the redistillation of
coal tar thus produced, shall be exempt from
duty: And provided, further, That gas COM
panies so located as to compete with each
other shNl pay the rate imposed by this act
upon the company having the largest pro-
duction;
On coal illuminating oil, refined, produced
by the distiIlation of coal, asphaltum, shale,
peat, petroleum, or rock oil, and all other
bituminous substances, used for like purpo
ses, ten cents per gallon: Provided, That
such oil refined and produced by the distil-
lation of coal exclusively shall be subject to
pay duty of eight cents per gallon, any
| II, to tbo H.
standing: And provided, further. That dis
tillers of coal-oil shall be subject to all the
provisions of this act. hereinbefore set forth
and specified, applicable to distillers of
spirituous liquors, with regard to license,
bonds. returns, and all other provisions de-
signed for the purpose OF ascertalnlng the
quantity distilled, and securing the payment
of duties, so far as the same may, in the iudg-
ment of the Commissioner of Internal Re
venue, and under regulations prescibed by
him, be necessary for that purpose;
On ground coffee, and all preparations of
which coffee forms part, or which is pre-
pared for sale n substitute for coffee, three
miles per pound;
On ground pepper, ground mustard, ground
pimento, ground cloves, ground cassla, and
ground ginger, and all limitations of the same,
one cent per pound;
On sugar, refined, whether loaf, lump,
granulated, pulverized, two mills per
pound;
On sugar, refined or made from molasses,
sirup of molasses, melado or concentrated
meado, two mills per pound;
On all brown, Muscovado, clarified
sugars produced directly from the sugar cane,
and not from sorghum or imphee, other than
those produced by the refiner, one cent per
pound
On chocolate, and cocoa prepared, one
cent per pound;
On saleratus, and bicarbonate of sode, five
mills per pound;
On starch, made of potatoes one mill per
pound; made of corn or'wheat, one and a
half mills per pound; made of rice or any
other material, four mills per pound;
On tobacco, cavendish, plug twist, fine
cut, and manufactured of all descriptions,
| (not including snuff, cigars, and smoking
tobacco prepared with all the stems in, or
made exclusively of stems,) valued at more
than thirty cents per pound fifteen cents per
pound; valued at any sum not exceeding
thirty cents per pound, ten cents per pound;
On smoking tobacco prepared with all the
stems in, five cents per pound
| On smoking tobacco made exclusively of
stems, two cents per pound;
On snuff manufactured of tobacco, ground
dry or damp, of all descriptions, twenty cents
per pound;
On cigars, valued at not over five dollars
per thousand, one dollar and fifty cents per
thousand;
On cigars, valued at over five and not over
ten dollars per thousand, two dollars per
thousand;
| On cigars, valued at over ten and not over
twenty dollars per thousand, two dollars and
fifty cents per thousand;
On cigars, valued at over twenty dollars
per thousand, three dollars and fifty cents
! per thousand;
On gunpowder, and all explosive sub
|
or sporting purposes, when valued at eigh-
teen cents per pound or less, five mills per
pound when valued at above eighteen cents
| per pound, and not exceeding thirty cents
per pound, one cent per pound; and when
valuded at above thirty cents per pound, six
cents per pound.
| On white lead, twenty-five cents per one
On oxide of zinc, twenty-five cents per one
| hundred pounds;
On sulphate of barytes, ten cents per one
| hundred pounds Provided, That white lead,
oxide of zinc, and sulphate of barytes or any
one of them, shall not be subject to any adj
| ditional duty in consequence of being mixed
or ground with linseed oil, when the duties
upon all the materials so mixed or ground
shall have been previously actually paid;
On all paints and painters colors, dry or
ground in oil, or in paste with water, not
otherwise provided for, five per centum ad
valorem;
On clock movements made to run one day,
five cents each made to run more than one
day, ten cents each;
On pins, solid head or other, five per cen
| tum ad valorem;
| On umbrellas and parasols made of cotton,
silk, Or other material, five per centum adj
valorem
On screws, commonly called wood screws,
one and half cent per pound;
| ~, Ill
vanced beyond slabs, blooms, or loops, and
not advanced beyond bars OF rods, and band,
hoop, and sheet iron, not thinner than num-
Der eighteen wire-gauge, and plate iron not
less than one-eighth of an inch in thickness,
zone dollar and fifty cents per ton; on rail
road iron, re-rolled, seventy-fve cents per
ton ON band, hoop, and sheet iron, thinner
than number eighteen wire-gauge, plate iron
less than one-eighth of an inch in thickness,
and cut nails and spikes, two dollars per ton:
Provided, That bars, rods, bands, hoops,
Sheets plates. nails, and spikes manufactured
/ from iron upon which the duty of one dollar