The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1871-12-21
THE REVENUE BILL.
Full Text Of the Measure as it Pas
sed the General Assembly.


sed the General Assembly.
A bill to be entitled an act tc
provide Revenue for the state oi
Tennessee.
| SECTION l. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly Of the State oi
Tennessee; That the State tax on
every one hundred dollars worth oi
property, upon which taxes are by
law assessed for State purposes,
shall be forty cents.
SEC. 9. Be it further enacted,
That section 1 of an act passed
May %, 1860, be so amended as to
read, on each presentment or indict-
ment, FIVE dollars.
| SEC. 8. Be it further enacted
That a tax of FIVE dollars shall here
after be imposed upon each defen-
dant in state cases in the Supreme
! Court, where said defendant has the
cost to pay.
SEC. 4. Be it further enacted,
That in all criminal causes submit
ted under the small offense laws be-
fore Justice of. the Peace, n State
tax of two dollars in each case, in
addition to the fine imposed; and
the bond required to be executed by
section 1904 of the Code of Ten
nessee, by Justice of the Peace, shall
be held to include and make liable
the officers mentioned in said sec
ton for the tax imposed and collect
ed under this section, except that
said State tax shall be by said of
ficers paid to the Clerks of the
County Courts Of their respective
counties instead of to the County
Trustees.
SEC. 5. Be it further enacted,
That in all criminal causes before
any Mayor or Recorders Court in
this State, the defendant, or party
taxed with the cost, shall pay a
State tax of two dollars, to be col
lected by said Recorder and paid
over by him to the County Court
Clerk of the County, as in cases of
Justices of the Peace, SherifTs and
Constablcs under the preceding
section. And the County Clerks
receiving revenue provided for in
this act, are hereby directed to pay
over to the State Comptroller, said
revenue received by them; and Mag
istrates and Recorders so paying
money to the Clerks shall take from
the Clerks duplicate receipts for the
same, one of which shall be for
warded to the Comptroller of State.
SEC. 6. Be it further enacted,
That section 3 of the act of March |
IL, 1868, be so amended that here !
after all claim agents shall pay a
State tax of twenty five dollars, and /
that architects shall pay tax of /
twenty five d liars each, instead of
ten dollars, as now provided by Law.
SEC. Z. Be it further enacted, |
That the holders of all State, coun-
ty and corporation bonds, in this
State, shall pay an advalorem tax
thereon, equal to the tax on other
upon the actual value Of
said bonds in the market; and sec
sion Is OF the act OF March l, 1869,
30 far as it texempts said bonds from
taxation. is hereby repealed. That
a tax Of 68 cents on the dollar shall
be levied on all incomes derived
from United States Government
bonds. aad from all other stocks
and bonds not taxed ad valoFem.
The holders Of United States bonds
md all other stocks and bonds con-
IN this section, shall re-
port on the FIRST Mondays OF May
md September, to the County Court
Clerks Of their respective counties.
md state under oath TO him the
AMOUNT Of bonds SC held. and pay
% him the tax thereon.
SEC. s. BE it further enacted,
That section 5 Of the set Of Janua-
Y "a. 1871. TO provide for revenue
or the State, shall be 50 amended
y to read, "That each telegraph
company upon receipts from tele-
yrams to and fIom points IN this
State, and each railroad company
nd every other incorporated CON-