New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-28

| eeipt shall be issued 10 any manufacturer
| Of cigars until be shall have given the bond
required by law. Every person whose bust
ness it is TO make cigars for others, either
| for pay, upon commission, on shares, or
| otherwise. from material furnished by
| others, shall be regarded as a cigar maker.
Every cigar maker shall cause his name and
| residence to be registered, without pre-
viOus demand, with the assistant assessor
Of the division in which such cigar maker
shall be employed; and any manufacturer
| Of cigars employing any eigar-maker who
shall have neglected or refused to make
such registry shall, on conviction. be fined
five dollars for each day that such cigar.
maker so offending, by neglect or refusal to
register, shall be employed by him.
'Peddlers Of tobacco shall be classified
and rated as follows, to wit; When travel
ing with more than two horses, mules, or
other animals, the first class, and shall pay
fifty dollars when travelling with two
horses, mules, OF other animals, the second
class, and shall pay twenty-five dollars;
when travelling with one horse, mule, or
other animal, the third class, and shall pay
fifteen dollars; when travelling on foot or by
public conveyance, the fourth class, and
shall pay ten dollars ANY person who sells
or offers to sell and deliver manufactured
tobacco, snuff, or cigars, travelling from
place to place. in the town or through the
country, shall be regarded as a peddIer Of
tobacco. Every peddler of tobacco before
commencing, or, If already commenced, be-
fore continuing to peddle tobacco, shall
furnish TO the collector of his district a
statement accurately setting forth the place
of his residence, and if in a city, the street
and number of the street where he resides;
also, the State or States through which he
proposes to travel; the mode of travel,
whether on foot, by public conveyance, or
other animals; to state also whether he pro-
poses to sell his own manufactures or manu-
features Of others, and, if he sells for other
parties, to name the person or persons for
whom he sells. He shall also give a bond
in the sum of two thousand dollars to be
approved by the collector of the district,
that he viii not engage in any attempt, by
himself or by collision with others, to de
fraud the government of any tax on to-
baecO, snuff, or cigars; that he will neither
sell, nor offer for sale any tobacco, snuff or
cigars, except in original and full packages,
as the law requires the same to be put up
and prepared by the manufacturer for sale,
or for removal Tor sale or consumption, and
except such packages of tobacco, snuff and
cigars as bear the manufacturers label or
caution notice, and his legal marks and
brands, and genuine internal revenue
stamps which have never before been used.
travelling with a wagon, shall affix and
keep on the same, in a conspicuous place,
sign painted in oil colOrs, or gilded,
giving his full name business, and col
lection district, and shall obtain a certificate
from the collector of the district, who is
hereby authorized and directed to issue the
same, giving the name of the peddler, his
residence, the class of the special tax re-
ceipt, and the fact Of his having fled the re- F
quired bond; and every person peddling to-
bacco shall, on demand of any officer Of in
ternal revenue, produce and exhibit said
collectors certificate, and, unless he shall
do so, may be taken and deemed not to
have paid the special tax, nor otherwise to
have complied with the law And in case
any peddler shall refuse to exhibit his or
her receipt as aforesaid when demanded by
any officer of internal revenue, said officer
may seize the horse, or mule, wagon and
contents, or pack, bundle, or basket of any
person so refusing; and the assessor of the
district in which the seizure has occurred
may, on ten days notice, published in any
in the district, or served person
ally on the peddler, or at his dwelling
house, require such peddler to show cause,
if any he has, why the horses or mules,
wagon and contents, pack, bundle, or basket
so seized shall not be forfeited; and in case
no sufficient cause is shown the assessor
may direct a forfeiture, and issue an order
to the collector, or TO any deputy collector
of the district, for the sale of the prop
erty so forfeited; and the same, after pay
ment of the expenses of the proceedings,
shall be paid co the collector for the use of |
the United States; and all such special taxes |
shall become due on the first day of May in
each year, or on commencing business; and |
if such peddler shall not have paid the |
special tax for the current year, he shall |
pay the same within thirty days after the |
of this act. In the former case the !
tax shall be reckOned for one year. and in |
the latter case prOpOrtionately for that !
part of the year from the first day of the |
month in which the liability to a special |
tax commenced to the first day of May |
following. And any person who shall, after |
the passage of this act, be found peddling /
tobacco, snuff or cigars, without having /
given the bond, or without having previous |
ly obtained the collectors certificate as /
herein provided, or who shall sell tobacco, |
snuff, or cigars otherwise than in original |
and full packages as put up by the manu- l
or who shall have in his possession /
any internal revenue stamp orstamps which /
have been removed from any box or other /
package of tobacco, snuff, or cigars, or any /
empty or partially empty box or other
package which has been used for. tobacco, |
snuff, or cigars, the stamp or stamps on
which have not been destroyed, or shall |
fail to have affixed to his wagon, in a con
5picuOus place, a sign, painted in oil
3olors, or gilded, giving his full name,
and collection district, shall,
for each such otfense, on conviction,
be fined not less than one hundred
dollars nor more than five hundred dollars,
lr imprisoned not less than six months nor
more than one year, or both, at the discre-
ion of the court
That section sixty be amended by adding
1t the end of the section the following words,
10 wit: ''And if any manufacturer of to-
1acco, snuff or cigars shall sell, or re-
move for sale or consumption, any to-
llccO, sutf or cigars upon which tax is
'equired to be paid by stamps, without the
Use of the proper stamps, in addition to the
Jther penalties imposed by law for such
jale or removal, it shall be che duty of the
proper assessor or assistant assessor, or any
Internal revenue officer detailed by the
of Internal Revenue for that
purpose, within a period of not more than
,wO years after such sale or removal, upon
iuch information as he can obtain, to esti-
nate the amount of tax which has been
omitted to be paid, and to make an assess
nent therefor, and certify the same to the
collector. And the subsequent proceedings
or collection shall be in all respects like
hose for the collection of taxes upon man
fractures and productions
That section sixty-twO be amended by
triking out after the words "Or in blad-
lers" the words containing not exceeding
en- pounds each, or" and inserting in lieu
hereof the word ''and;" in the paragraph
elating to fne-cut chewing tobacco, by
triking out the word "one-half;" in the
paragraph relating to smoking tobacco, by
Inserting after the words ''al smoking to-
,aceO" the words "and all cut and granula-
ed tobacco other than tine-cut chewing, and
hOrts the refuse of fine-cut chewing" also,
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