The Placer herald., 1867-03-23
The Tax Bill.

The following are among the amendments
to the Revenue Law. The penalty for nc
glecl.to pay the tax is reduced to five per cent.
with interest at one per cent. per month.
The pay of Assistant Assessors is increased
to five dollars day. Sugar produced from
sugar cane is taxed one cent per pound; re-
fined sugars, and the products Of sugar re-
ineries, two per cent. ad valorem. Every
person is regarded as a sugar refiner whose
business is to advance the quality of sugar.
Gunpowder, canister, five cents; sporting, in
kegs, one cent. India rubber boots and
shoes, two per cent. ad valorem Hats, caps,
bonnets, hoods, two per cent. ad valorem.
class manufactured, except windows, three
per cent. ad valorem. Leather of all des
criplious-goat, deer, calf, kid. etc, tanned
or inished-two and one half per cent. ad
palorena. Wool manufactures, Of which
wool is the chief component part, two and
one halfper cent ad valoren,. Stamp duties
imposed by Schedule on manifesls bills Of
lading, passage tickets. etc, do not apply to
sieamboate and vessels trading 10 British
North. No stamp is required for probate Of
wills or letters teslamentary or admnistra
ton, Or guardians bond, where the value Of
the real estate and effects does not exceed
$1,000. No stamp on papers is necessary
for the collection of soldiers claims for pen
sion, back pay, bounty or property lost in
service. This reduction takes effect after
March Is! instant.
Section ten is amended after the word
"pupils," in the sixth paragraph, by inserting
the words "but not including disliIleries,
spirits, minerals, tobacco, snuff or cigars"
Section eighteen is amended by adding
"the exemptions herein shall not apply to
tobacco, snuff. or cigars manufactured, or
spirits distilled, or petroleum refined by
such schools, colleges or apothecares.
Butchers, confectoners, Plumbers or gas
filters, whose annual sales exceed $4,000,
pay in addition to the special tax now re-
quired, one dollar for every thousand in ex.
cess OF the said $25,oOO.'
The income tax is reduced to Eve per cent.
on the excess over 900.
The tax on grape brandy is one dollar,
and the penalty for fraudulent manufacture
or sale is 81 900 for each offence, and i'm
prisonment for one year.
ded to the free list: Alcoholic, ETHEREAL and
vegetable extracts, when sold or used solely
for medicinal purposes; balls Of rope, seioes,
netting for seines: twne, lines Of all kinds;
rod, hoop, band, sheet and plate iron (aIl
descriptions Of iron prepared for the manu-.
iacture OF steel not to be construed to be ex-
emrted) spikes and rails cans Of corned and
preserved meats, shelI-fsh, carbouic acid and
carbonate of lime. used solely for disin.
fecants; cornsd and preserved vegetables, and
fruits; casks churns barrels, wooden brushes
and broom handles; tanks, kits made Of wood,
including cooperage; all kinds of bungs,
plugs, packing boxes, nos. boxes and match |
boxes, whether Of wood or other material;
saddle trees made of wood; castings of iron.
copper and brass for machinery, cars; scales;
casting made to form part Of any article
upon which, in the finished state, tax is
paid; casl-iron hollow war; cloak trimmings,
clothing or articles Of dress not specially |
made by sewing, for he wear
Of men, women or children, ofcloh on which |
a tax has been paid; coffee mills, cotfee
grinders rosster', copper bottoms for
articles used for domestic purposes, DOORS
windows, sashes, blinds, frames, sinks, drains
and water pipe, male Of wood or cement;
glue and gaIalne Of al descriptions, in
solid STATE; horse rakes, horse powers, tread. |
ers, names, scy thes, snalhes, hay forks, hoes,
portable grinding mills, molasses, concenra-
ted molasses or melado. syrup, moasaes or
sugar cane juice, cistern bottoms, oil, naplha,
benzlne, benz2le or gazoliue, marking more
than seventy seventy degrees Baumes by.
drometor, the product Of distilation or re-
lining; crude petroleum, or crude oil pitch
forks, manure and sPading forks; pottery
ware Of all descriptions; pumps, garden en-
gines and hydraulic rams; rock and root DIG
gers, excayators; root beer and other small
beer; salt; scboolroom seats and desks, black,
boards. and globes Of all kinds; wheelbarrows.
handcsr,s and fences made of wood; SOAP,
common brown bars, sold for less than sew.
en- cents per pound; shirt fronts or bosoms,
or cuffs for shirts, except those
made of paper; stove polish aud other mani
ufaclnres made exclusively Of plumbaeo;
steel OF all descriptions, whether made from
bar, blooms, slabs, hoops, OF olherwise
scythes, straw or binders boards and bind |
ers cloths; straw wrapping paper; tinware,
for domestic and culinary purposes; varnisb,
wagons, carts and drays, made for farming
or freishlng; machinery made for the pur.
pose Of washing and manglng clothes, wiring.
ing machines, zine washboards; spinning fax
wheels, hand reels, hand looms; wooden
knobs, bee'hives.
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