The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-12-04


YER .ntlei Juae So, 1871, from special
taxes OF tobacco and cigar Iuanuiac-
tuTejs .................... lt2,SVi IS
Increased collection from special taxes
OF tobacco and cigar manufacturers. S20,!is 81
Showing an increase in the total receipts
from the manufacture and sale Of tobacco in
n Is forms over the receipts from the same
sources for the preceding fiscal year Of
,51,263.3i.
The quantity Of manufactured tobacco
represented by the collection Of taxes from
tni, source for the fiscal year ended June so,
1872, is as follows:
Pounds.
or chewing tobacco, SNUFF. &C., class SO
b.iS>"sa
OF smoking tobscco, scraps, shorts, &c,
rNrrr,e9 to foreign countries. ......... O.St5,esI
Ixcc,s IL warehouses June 50. 1872, over
JlLe S1 iel......... s's55a"e
Total product for the year.......... lo7,4e,ss5
The number Of cigars. cheroots, &C., on
which taxes We're collected during the last
G,cal wear, was l,521,I05,9I2. From lie
above Statement it will lie seen that the en-
tire product Of manufactured tobacco re-
ported for the fiscal year ended June so, 1872,
exceeds the total product Of the preceding
fiscal year by l,43l,2S2 pounds, while the
r--rcgate quantity which reached taxation
for the last fiscal year was only 1885
pounds in excess Of the quantity which
reached taxation the preceding year.
EFFORT BONDED WAREHOUSES; AND MANurAc-
TURED TOBACCO IN EoNp.
PouniS.
There were remaining In store In the seve-
raj expor; bonded warehouses on the tst
DAY Of july, 1872 .;........,.. 5c5o.5s7
Placed in bond during the fiscal year ended
Lunc 20,
Making total 1850
There were withdrawn FOR export during
bc fiscal year ended June 80, is72....... 95c5 aSl
GcaI year ended june 30, ls72............ al4a,l9t
Making total withdrawn during tho
Ssc.L year ended uue 30, ls7........lS. 7o2, lo7
And leaving balance IN The warehouses
July - 1917. Ol....... ............ e,iSt,lo1
Commissioner Douglass says: 81 have
seen nothing as yet which leads me to dis
trust the practicability and complete success
Of the provisions made by the act Of june 6,
1872. for facilitating the expectation Of to-
hacco to foreign countries. Any radical
change in the law and regulations touching
business so varied and extensive as is the
tobacco trade requires time for persons en-
gaged in 1t to accustom themselves to the
alteration. For this reason such changes
should be IS infrequent as possible and
Only made upon urgent necessity. That such
necessity existed for abolishing the old sys-
TEN of bonded warehouses at ports of entry,
which allowed tobacco to be stored therein
Tor home consumption az well rs for export,
and to be withdrawn thcre!rom at any time
upon the payment of the tax, few persons
except those who enjoyed the privileges of
such warehouses have expressed a doubt.
Under the present law the credit system is
entirely dispensed with, and no special privi-
le9eS are given for making monopoly of the
trade in manufactured tobacco. All tobacco
j. required 10 have proper stamps affixed, in
diCaling the payment Of the tax, before it is
removed from the place where it Is
nlde, except that which is intended for and
actually bonded for export 10 foreign coun-
Try before it leaves the mandatory. This
system. it is believed, will greatly widen the
held Tor eXportalion, since 1t provides Tor
direct shipments from any district in the
country, the man utacturer filing bis bonds
and completing his shipping papers in his
own district. It provides, also, for the ship
lneut Of tlX-paid tobacco by any person who
desires TO export, giving him an allowance
Of drawback for the taxes paid-a privilege
which was not allowed under the previous
law. Persons having in their possession
tax-paid tobacco, however badly damaged
and unsaiaD!e, even TO such degree aS 10
render il worthless for sale or consumption,
can, by exporting the same, always realize
tIcgefrom all amount equal TO the tax"
sPIRlTs
The following is statement showing the
receipts from the several sources under
"spiri,s" during the fiscal year ended June
81, 1872. Aggregate increase over lSI0-'l.
s., l93.G 6S, or SO per cent:
.S.urcss 1872.