Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-04-17

REPuEpJNo ,BrAsp. DuTIEs, &C,--Tbe law
OF July last regulating be Tobacco and Liquor
questions, was amended before the adjourn.
ment and we give below 80 much Of those
amendments as relate To tic reminding " stamp
duties on tobacco, and also the dealing In
liquor, The l5ftyision relating TO refdnding
taxes on lobnoco seems 10. take effect, II we
got correct idea Of Il from rather SUPERFICIAL
reading, only In the future, aud ahords 20
relief Tor taxes heretofore paid. Those, there-
fore who have laid away their tobacco ana
cigsrs, may now stamp thob and get Their
money back from the Collectors bu: those who
purchased stamps and complied Immediately
/ with the law get no relief The amendment
regulating liquor dealing follows first
Strike out the fourth paragraph thereof, rc-
\ lating TO retail liquor dealers, and the fifth
paragraph 10 end, including the words shall
be required TO pay special tax of wholesale
! liquor dealer" and insert in lieu of the portion
stricken out the following: Retail dealers in
liquors shall pay twenty-five dollars. Every
person who sells or offers for sale foreign or
domestic distilled spirits, wines or malt liquors
IN less quantities than five gallons, at the same
| timc shall be regarded us u retail dealer in
! liquors Wholesale liquor dealers shall each
pay one hundred dollars. Every person who
sells or offers for sale foreign or domestic dis
| titled spirits, wines OF malt liquors In qnanti.
! ties of not less than five gallons at the same
time shall be regarded US Wholesale liquor
dealer. Dealers in liquors whose sales, includ-
| ing sales of all other merchandise, shall exceed
| $25, 900, shall each pay an additional tax at
the rate of one dollar for every one hundred
dollars of sales of liquors, in excess of such
$25, 600, and on every thousand dollars Of sales
| of other merchandise shall pay at the same
rate as o wholesale dealer and such excess
shall be returned assessed, and pay in the same
manner as required of wholesale dealers but
4 no disillcr or brewer who has paid his special
tax us such, and who sells only distilled spirits
or malt liquors Of his own production, at the
| place of manufacture In the original casks or
packages, to which the tax stamps are affixed,
shall bc required to pay the special tax of q
| wholesale deaers That section 50 be and is
further amended 50 as TO require that disillers
OF brandy from grape s. peaches, and apples en-
| cuslyclv, producing less than one hundred
and fifty barrels annually, shall pay a special
tax OF fifty dollars, and in addition thereto the
tax of four dollars per barrel of forty (40) proof
gallons on account of such sale: That section
| 50 be amended 80 that either the proprietors
name or the manufacturers name shall be
printed on the label FOR cigars provided for in
4 said section. ..... ....-...,- ...5
SEC. 2. AJad be Il further eharicd, That sec
ton 155>of the act entitled AN Act.tO provide
| Internal Revenue to support the Government,
to pay interest on the public debt and for 9th
er purposes, approved June 90 1864, as
amended by the 9th section of July -, 1906
be further amended by adding thereto the fol-
lowing SEC. 3. And be it further enacted,
That any person having in his possession any
tobacco, snuff, or cigars, manufactured and
sold, or removed from the manufactory or from
any place where tobacco, snuff, or cigars are
made since July 20, 1867, or any person having
in his possession cigars imported from foreign
i countries since July 20, 1868, or Withdrawn
from United States bonded warehouse siuce
said date, such as tobacco, snuff and cigars
having been put up in packages as prescribed
in the act which this act is an amendment,
and all the other requirements of said act re-
lating to tobacco snuff and cigars having bean
compile with, and who on the first day Of
February, 1860, filed with the ussrssor or as
sisaut assessor of the district within which he
resides, or his place of business, the inventory
required by the scyenty-eight and ninety
fourth sections of the act of July 20, 1868, and
who shall prior TO selling or offering such to-
bacco, snulf or cigars for sale, afliX and can
Gel the proper internal revenue stamps shall
be entitled TO have refunded 10 him an amount
of tax previously paid thereon, equal TO the
value OF the stamps affixed before sale rs aforc
said, and the collector of internal revenue shall
be and Is hereby authorized on appeal to him
be made TO refund and pay back sum of
money equal to the value of stamps so affixed
upon satisfactory evidence submitted to him.
that the tobacco and snuff were actually manu-
factured and removed from the place Of man.
ufacture, and that the cigars were so manufac
: turcd, and removed or imported and with
drawn from II United States bonded warehouse,
and the several rates of tax imposed on such
goods by the act of July 20, 1868, as aforesaid
assessed and paid, and that the claimant had
in all respects complied with the internal rcvc-
nue. laws as far as they have been or may be
applicable to such articles. The Collector of
Internal Revenue is hereby authorized and
empoM cred TO prescribe such rules and rcgula-
lations for carrying out the provisions of this
section as in his Judgment shall be deemed
proper and necessary and the collector may in
any case, at Lis discretion, allow sniff and smo-
: king tobacco manufactured prior to the Goth of
: July, 1868, not in wooden packages, to be
, stamped and sold in the original packages, and
the rate of duty on ci cars imported prior to
July 20, 1868, and now remaining in bond,
f shall be the same as on cignrs imported after
that date