The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-03-12
New Internal Revenue Law.
Highly Important Provisions.

Highly Important Provisions.
The amended Internal Revenue bill
which passed both houses of Congress
OH Saturday was signed by the Presi-
dent OH Monday, and is now a law.
The reductions provided are to go into
effect from the first of the present
month. The following is an alphabet
ical list of the subjects, and the new tax
OH the same. The total estimated re-
duction is about s2s 100000:
Apothecaries, butchers, confectioners,
plumbers and gas-ftters whose annual
sales exceed S25, 900 lin addition to spe-
cial tax now required tax for every
thousand in addition to $4,000, of one
dollar.
Boots and shoes made wholly or in
part of India rubber, per cent.
Bonncts, per cent.
Cigars, cigarettes and cheroots of all
descriptions made of tobacco or any
substitute therefor, per thousand dol
lars after April 1st, 1867.
[NoTE.-The ad valorem tax on cigars
is wholly abolished, and a uniform rate
estabG bGshed as given.l
Copper and brass tubes per cent.
Ferry companies, receipts on, 81 per
cent.
Gas companies-Tax is same as in old
law, but the companies are authorized
to charge the tax to consumers without
limit of time. (The old law limited the
time to April l, 1867
Glass, manufacturers. of, other than
window glass, 3per cent.
Grapes, brandy made from, per gallon,
l dollar.
Hats, caps and hoods of all descriL-
tions, per cent.
Locomotive and marine engines, per
cent.
Leather of all descriptions, and goat,
deer, calf, kid, horse and dog skins, tan
ned or finished, orpartially in the rough,
q per cent.
Sugars produced from sugar cane, and
not from sorghum or imphee, per pound,
| cent.
Wool, manufacture of, where wool is
chief component, % per cent.
No tax shall be imposed upon the dye
ing or redying, or reprinting ofcloths or
other articles, except the process of their
manufacture.
THE STAMP TAN.
The stamp tax is but little changed
by this amendatOry act. No stamp
either for probate of will, on letters tes-
tamentary, or Of administration, or on
administrator or guardian bond is re-
quired when the value of the estate and
effects, real and personal, does not ex-
ceed 81 900. No stamp tax is required
upon any papers necessary to be used
for the collection from the Government
of the United States, for pensions, back
pay, bounty, or for property lost in the
service. The fifty cent stamp on writs
or other original documents by which
any suit is commenced in court and on
confessions Of Judgment, as well as
stamp tax of twenty-five cents on war
rants of distress, are abolished.
All aflidavits are exempt from stamp
duty. ..... a..
THE FREE LIST.
The following are some of the addi-
tional articles which have been relieved
from further taxation from March 1st,
1867.
Bale rope, seines, and netting for
seines, twine, and lines of all kinds.
Bar, rod, hoop, band, sheet and plate
iron, and iron prepared for manufac-
ture of steel.
Brush blocks.
Bee hives.
Canned and preserved meats, includ :
ing shell-fish.
Canned and preserved vegetables and
fruits.
Casks, churns, barrels, wooden
bru shes, and broom handles, tanks and
kits made of wood, including cooper
age of oil kinds, bungs and plugs, pack
ing boxes, nest boxes and match boxes,
whether made of wood or other materi-
ais; wooden names, plow beams, split
bottom chairs and turned materials, for
the same manufactured, and saddle
trees made of wood, and match boxes
heretofore made on which tax has not
been paid. ,a.
Castings of iron, copper, or brass
made for machinery, cars, or scales, and
castings made to form o part Of any ar
ticle upon which, in a finished state, a
tax is assessed and paid.
Cast iron hollow ware, and cast iron
hollow ware timed, enameled, japan
| ned, or galvanized. y
Clothing or articles of dress not spe-
cially enumerated, made by sewing, for
the wear of men, women or children,
from cloths or fabrics on which duty
has been paid. -
Copper bottoms for articles used for
domestic aud culinary purposes.
Doors, window sash, blinds, frames,
and sills, Of whatever material,
Drain, gas and water-pipe, made OF
wood or cement.
Potteryware of all descriptions, in
Guiding stone, carthen, brown and yel-
low earthen, and common or gray stone
ware.
Root beer and other small beer.
Salt.
Sleds, wheelbarrows and hand-carts,
and fence made of wood. .
Soap, common brown, in bars, sold
for less than seven cents per pound.
Steel Of all subscriptions, whether made
from muck, bar, blooms, slabs, loops or
otherwise.
TinwaIe for domestic OF culinary pur.
poses.
! Wagons, carts and drays, made to be
used for farming or lumber purposes.
Washing, mangling, and clothes
wringing machines, zinc washboards
spinning and fax wheels, hand reels
hand looms, wooden knobs.
1t is provided that the exemptions
aforesaid shall in all. cases be confined
exclusively to said articles in the state
and condition specified in the foregoing
enumeration, and shall not extend tt
articles in any other form, nor to manu-
factures from said articles.
! A man in Newark had his eyesight
destroyed by quantity of mustard. A
bad case of being mustered in.
!. Notices in the country papers indicate
that there will be o very large emigra