Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-06-13
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bagging, gunny bags and gunny cloth,
old or refuse, to be used in making and
tit only to be converted into paper and
unfit for any other manufacture, and
cotton waste, whether for paper stock
or other purposes !; pellitory root per:
sis, or extract Of archil and cudbear
Peruvian bark pewter and Britannia
meta, old AMI fit only to be mannfac-
turc'l; phlang]ein; plumbago; polyo-
dunn; pulu; quick-grass root; quilts, pre-
pared or unprepared; railroad ties, of
wood; ratans and reeds, unmanufac.
turel; rennets, raw or prepared; root
flour; saffron and safflower, and OK.
tract of; saffron cake; sago. crude: sa-
go and sago -four; St. johns beans;
salacine; salep, or saloup: ssafras,
bark and root; sauerkraNt, cage
skins; seeds, namely, anise, anis 81,
Canary, CHA, sesamum, sugar can. q
seeds of forests trees; shark ski
snails; soap stocks; sparterre, I;
making or ornamenting hats; spunk;,
stavesacre, crude; storax, or styrax;
straw, manufactured; strontia, oxide
of or protoxide of strontium; succinic
acid; sugar of milk; taic; tama.
rinds teasels; teeth, unmannfao-
tured terra-alba, aluminous; tica,
crude; tin, in pigs, bars or blocks and
grain tin; tonquin, tOnqua or tonka
beans Tripoli umbrella sticks, crude,
to wit, all partridge, hairwood, pimen.
to, orange, myrtle and other sticks and
canes in the rough, or.no further man
ufactured than cut into lengths suitable
for umbrella, parasol or sunshine sticks
or walking canes; uranium, oxide of !;
vanilla beans or vanilla plants; Venice
turPentlne; waters; wax, bay or myr-
tie, Brazilian and Chinese whalebone,
manufactured ; yams yeast cakes !;
Zaffer.
STEAM MACHINERY.
For two years only, machinery for
steam towage or canals may be imported
free of duty, and under certain regula-
tions; while steam-plough machinery
may be imported by any farmer free Of
duty during that period.
VINEGAR STANDARD. -; - j..
The standard for the strength of vim.
egar, by which duties are assessed. is
fixed in the bill.
GOODS IN BOND. :.
Goods in bonded warehouses and
drawn out after the first of August,
shall only be liable for duty at new
rates, and where the old duties have
been paid, the difference between these
and the new rates will be refunded.
Where. agricultural implements are
made in part of American wood, are
exported for the benefit of drawback,
they shall be entitled to such drawback
in cases where the imported material
exceeds one-half of the value of the
whole.
AID TO sHIPBUHDING.
From the date of the passage of the
act, timber, hemp, MANILA, iron and
steel rods and metal used for the con-
struction of vessels tor foreign trade,
may be imported in bond under ceEtain
regulations, and when proved to. be
used for this purpose, shall be free OF
duty. When vessels thus aided engage
in the coast trade for more than two
months in the year, these duties shall
be repaid. -....
| CURING SALT FREE. .....-
The taxes on imported salt in bond
when used in curing fish shall be re:
mitted.
| DISTILLED SPIRITS. ...H
Changes have been made in the text
of the act of July 20, 1868 The tax on
distilled spirits is simplifed to one 'un-
form tax of seventy cents per gallon.
TOBACCO. =, .,
Changes have been made in the act
of July 20, 1868, which fix the tax on
all kinds Of tobacco at twenty cents PEI
pound after the 1st of July. =. >
COAL GAS TAX; ~ - .......,.-
The act Of June 80, 1864 imposing .
tax on gas made from coal or other ma
terial, is repealed after the list of July,
1872
STAMP TAXES
+ All the stamp taxes, after the list Of
October, 1872, are repealed-a tax Of
two cents on bank checks, drafts or
orders being retained. This, of course,
includes the abolition. of all taxes on
legal documents after that date. "a. -.
-. BANK TAXES. o.,
The taxes on the deposits, capital,
and circulation of banks arc hereafter
to be paid Jan. LIST and July 1st; but
in such a: way that the semi-annual tax
shall not be less than il would be were
the taxes collected monthly. The e1-
emption Of savings bank deposits of
less than $500, is extended to deposits
of $4,000. -. r ~:
The act providing for giving mole
ties to informers is repealed.
sHPBU11DERs TAX. y.
! :, Uncollected. taxes assessed against
shipbuilders or manufacturers, are de-
clared remitted. -,
INTERNAL REVENUE MATTERA
The internal Revenue districts Of the
United States are to be reduced to
eighty incnumber by January, 1879.
The President may unite two or more
districts in one, either creating new
Collectors and Assessors, or re.arrang.
ing old ones. The Secretary of the
Treasury. is instructed to reduce. bv
Jan. /, 1873, the whole force Of asses.
sors, gaugers, clerks and employees to
as small number as possible, and
make all such changes AS will bring
about economy in the service.
ACTIONS TO RECOVER TAxBs.
Suits to recover taxes wrongfully N.
sessed or collected shall be brought
within two years from the time of the
cause of action, and not after; as also
all claims for the refunding of any in
ternal revenue tax or penalty. Actions
on claims accruing prior to the passage
of this act must be brought before the
courts or the Commissioner within one
year from the passage of the act.
GOES INTO OPERATION.
Unless otherwise stated, the tax and
tariff bill goes into operation July l,
1872.
Fendal Tyranny Still Extant In England.
A gentleman writes to the London
Times to call attention to very old and
oppressive feudal custom in the county
of Sussex, England: the custom o1
taking heriots on change of tenants
in copyhoId estates. The sufferer in
this case was farmer in the village ol
Hankenbury, which ad]oins the town
of Tunbridge Wells, who, together with
his farm, which is freehold, occupies !
small piece of copyhold land under the
Marquis of Camden. The farmer hav
ing lately met his death from