The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-05-14
The Ne,o Tau Bill.
WASHINGTON, May II, 1868,

The tax bill introduced by MT ochenck
in the House of Representatives covers, IN
the first part, some sixty sections. The OBJ
iect of it is to reduce into one act and amend
the laws relating to internal taxes. It pro-
yides for changing the Internal Revenue
Bureau into a Department, with its officers, to
be q commissioner, assistant commissioners,
six deputies, and solicitor, with num-
Der of clerks and other subordinate officials.
The following are its features regarding
tobacco taxation: The bill provides-On
snnff manufactured of tobacco or any sub
stitute for tobacco, ground, dry, damp,
picked, scented, or otherwise, OF oil dc.
scriptions, when prepared for use, tax OF
forty cents per pound. And snuff -four, when hen
sold, or removed for use or consumption,
shall be taxed as snuff, land shall be put up
in packages and stamped in the same man
ner as snuff. N. & II
On all chewing tobacco ine-cut, plug,
or twist; on all smoking tobacco not made
exclusively of stems ION all tobacco twisted
by hand, or reduced from leaf into con-
dition to be consumed, or otherwise pre-
pared without the use of any machine or
instrument. and without being pressed OF
sweetened and on all other kindsof manu-
featured tobacco not herein otherwise pro
yided for, q tax of forty cents per pglna.
On all smoking tobacco made exclusively
of stems on all fne-cnt shorts, me Ieluse
ef fne-c,it chewing tobacco, which can DE
passed through q riddle of sixteen meshes
to the sonare incl and 0nafl refuse scraps
and sweepings Of tobacco, 9 tax OF sixteen
After; the passage of the act, all manufac-
fired fo,,acco +. is to be put up and prepared
M III manIlfa cturer, for sale or consump-
ton. n packages of the following descrip-
ti0ns
All snuff in packages of one, two, four,
eight and sixteen ounces, except yellow
snuff, which may, at the option of the
manufacturer, be put up in bladders not
exceeding ten pounds each. ),
All fne-cnt chewing tobacco, and all
other kinds of tobacco not otherwise pro-
yided for, in packages OF one half, one,
two, four, eight, and sixteen ounces, except
that fne-cut chewing tobacco may, OF the
option Of the. manufacturer, De put 81 IN
wooden packages of ten, twenty thirty, ana ~
sixty pounds each. e .. ,.ss. &
All smoking tobacco, all fine-cnt shorts %
which can be passed through Q riddie q ?,
sixteen meshes to the square inch, anu al
refuse scraps and sweepings Of tobacco, u
packages OF two, four, eight, ana sixteen
ounces each. so ,.laflse
All Cayendish, plug, and twist tobacco
4 in wooden boxes of the following dimen-
;sions, outside measure:
Eighths seven inches square and four.
teen inches deep.
Thirds ten inches square and { fifteen
inches deep. : 49,, n ~ 49, n
Halves fourteen inches square and
twelve inches deep.
Three-quarters fourteen inches square
and nineteen inches deep. aI
Every package shall have printed OF
marked thereon the manufacture RS name
and place OF manufacture, ). and the regis
tered number Of the manufae tory, and the
gross weight, the tare and the net weight OF
the tobacco in each box. Provided that
these limitations and descriptions Of pack
ages shall not apply to tobacco, and snuff
transported in bond for expectation, and
actually exported. IS sS
On cigarettes cigars, and cheroots, of all
descriptions, made Of tobacco or any substi-
tate therefor, ten dollars per thousand.
The Commissioner OF Internal Revenue
may prescribe such regulations for the In
spection OF cigars, eheroots, and cigarettes,
and the collection Of the tax thereon, as
shall, in his judgment, be most effective for
the prevention Of frauds in the pa ment Of
such tax.
The laWproyides for the collection al the
tax on tobacco in all IFS manufactured
iorns by means of stamps excepting such
as Z, Y intended for expectation.