Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-03-14
The New Tux BtlI---Its Changes from
the Old One.

made In the mouth OF May, to be made on the
corresponding days In the month OF March. The
principal changes In the law respecting the In
come tax are those increasing the exemption from
5000 TO 81 900 and the repeal OF the tax of 10 pei
cent. on sums above 81, 600, so that the law now
imposes uniform tax Of o per cent. on incomes
In excess Of u, 600 Profits on sales of real estate
purchased since December ~, 1863 are made tax.
able as income.
Attention Is also called to that portion of the acl
of July Is, 1866, which repealed the tax on musi.
cal instruments, yachts, aud certain carriages
heretofore taxed In schedule A. Instructions and
rulings concerning the assessment Of the annual
taxes will be issued In few days. Where the
present number OF assistant Is insufficient
for the proper assessment of the annual taxes, an
additional number will he appointed upon the re-
quest of assessors. Care should be taken to
specify the divisions for which they are needed.
IL will be some days before a supply of income
blanks can be printed. and in the mean while as
SCISSORS who have any Of the form No. "a, prepar-
cd for use last year can adapt them tor present
service Form "a can be used with the altera-
ton Of dates only. limited number of last
years blanks Gun he furnished from this Office to
those assessors who desire to use them while walt
Ing for the preparation Of the new blanks.
E. A. ROLLINS, Commissioner.
The Act of March 9, 1867, above referred
to, contains among many provisions of gene
raj interest the following which will be
particularly agreeable to many Of our tax
payers:
And be IL further enacted, That on and
after March LIST, 1867, in addition to the ar
ticles now exempt by law, the articles and
products hereinafter enumerated shall beck
empt from internal tax, Namely
Alcoholic and ETHEREAL vegetable extracts,
when sold and used solely for medicinal pur-
poses.
Bale rope, seines and netting for seines,
Irvine, and lines of all kind
Bar, rod, hoop, band, sheet and plate iron
of all descriptions, and iron prepared for the
manufacture Of steel: Provided, That the
exemption aforesaid shall be confined ex-
clusively to said articles in the state and con
dtion specified in the foregoing, enumera-
ton, and shall not be construed as exempt
ing spikes, nails, or any other manufactures
of iron from the tax non-imposed by law |;
brush blocks.
Canned and preserved meats and shell
fish; carbolic acid and carboate of lime,
used solely for disinfectants carpet bag
and cabas frames canned and preserved
vegetables and fruits; casks, churns, barrels,
wooden brushes and broom handles, tanks,
and kits made Of wood, including cooperage
of all kinds, bungs and plugs, packing boxes,
nest boxes and match boxes, whether made
of wood or other materials wooden names,
plough beams, split bottom chairs, and
turned materials for the same unmanufac-
tured, and saddle trees made of wood and
match boxes heretofore made on which a
tax has not been paid
Castings OF iron, coppero or brass made for
machinery, cars or scales, and castings made
to form q part Of any article upon which, in
a finished state, a tax is assessed and paid I;
cast iron hollow ware, and cast iron hollow
ware timed, enamclled, japanned or galvan-
lied
Clock trimmings. namely; clock work,
clock pillars, sash fastenings for clocks,
winding keys, verges and pendulum rods.
Clothing or articles of dress not specially
enumerated, made by sewing for the wear
of men, women or children, from cloths, or
fabrics on which tax or duty has been
paid.
Coffee mills, coffee grinders and roasters,
and apple pairing machines
Copper bottoms for articles used for do
nestle and culinary purposes.
Doors, window sash blinds frames and
stills, of whatever material Drain, gas and
water pipe made of wood or cement; Frames
and handles for saws and buck saws
Glue and gelatine of all descriptions, in
the solid state Glue and cement made
wholly or in part of glue in the liquid states
Ilorse-rakes, horse powers, tedders, names,
scythe snaths, hay forks, hoes, and portable
grinding mills; Horse blankets, made from
cloth, on which tax or duty has been paid.
Liquorice and liquorice paste Magnesium
lamps manufactures of jute; moasses, con
centrated molasses or melado, strip of mo-
lasses or sugar cane juice, and cistern bot
toms.
Oil naphtha benzine, benzole, or gasoline,
marking more than seventy degrees Baume's
hydrometer, the product of the distillaiion,
or Redistribution, or refining of crude petro-
eum, or of crude oil produced by single
distillation of coal, shale, peat, asphaltum,
or other bitumnous substances.
Palm leaf and straw bleached, split, pre-
pared, or advanced by being braided or wo
ven, but not made up into hats, bonnets o.
hoods; Potato hooks, pitch forks, manure
and spading forks; Pottery ware of nll de
scriptions, including stone, earthen, brown
and yellow carthen, and common or gra,
stone ware; pumps, garden engines, and by
draulic rams.
Rock and root diggers or cxcavators
Root beer and other small beer.
Salt; Soap, common brown, in bars, soil
for less than seven cents per pound; Saw
for cotton gins, when used by the maker il
the manufacture of gins; School-room seat
and desks, blackboards, and globes of al
kinds; Sleds, wheelbarrows, and hand carts
and fence made of wood; Soles and heel
taps made of India-rubber and other mate
rals; Shirt-fronts or bosoms, wrist-band
or cuffs for shirts, except those made of pa
per; Spiral springs used in the manufactur
of furniture; Stove polish or other manu-
facture exclusively of plumbago, buck saws
stump machines, potato diggers; Steel G
all descriptions, whether made from muck
bar, blooms, slabs, loops, or otherwise
Scythes; Straw or binders board and bint
er's cloth, and straw wrapping paper;
Tags for merchandise and direction {
cloth, paper or metal, whether blank c
printed Thimble skeins and pipe boxe'
made of iron; Tinwarc for domestic an
culinary purposes.
Ultra-marine blue; Varnish; Wagon
carts, and drays made to be used for farm
ing, freighting, or lumber purposes; Wasl
ing, Managing, and clothcs-wringing mi
chimes, zinc washboards, spinning and fla
wheels, hand reels, hand looms, woodt
knobs and bee-hives.
Provided, That the exemptions aforesa
J shall, in all cases, be confined exclusively
said articles in the state and condition spec
fed in the foregoing enumeration, and shi
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