Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-11-28
Internal Revenue Report.

port of the Commissioner of Internal Rev.
enue shows that the aggregate receipts
from all sources for the year ending with
June last, exclusive Of the direct tax upon
lands and the duty upon the capital, Cir
culation and deposits of National Banks
were $114,075, ,456. The amount includes
sums refunded and allowed on drawbacks.
The total amount on drawbacks was
$52,346 On spirits, tobacco, and general
merchandise there were refunded for taxes
illegally assessed and collected, $61S, ,667.
The receipts from the several sources re-
lating to distilled spirits were for the year
1879, $49, 1856; for 1878, $50, ,099,3 81.
Increase in the receipts from the gallon
tax on distilled spirits, $10013,276; from
the special tax on rectifiers and dealers in
liquors, $1,094264.
A part of this increase was, however,
offset by the loss of nearly 100000 during
the last year, by the reduction of the value
of stamps for spirits other than tax-paid
Stamps, from 25 cents to 10 cents each,
and by the further loss of little over
$S,OO0,000 by the repeal of certain acts
relating to spirits, leaving q balance of
more than $2,5O0,000 increase in receipts
from all sources relating to spirits.
The production of spirits during the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1878, was from
materials other than fruit, 68,236,567 tax
able gallons total production from fruit,
2,914,S00. Tax collected ON spirits with
drawn from warehouse during the fiscal
year 1878, $41, ,102 ,921; tax on spirits with
drawn for export during the fiscal year
1878, $1,651 ,041. The tax received on
imitation wines during the year ending
June 80, 1878, was $3,551; on fermented
liquors at 81 per barrel, for the years 1879
and 1878, was $S,0O9,9 800 and $S,910,S 1923
respectively.
Total receipts from tobacco for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1878, were $34, 1885,
303. Compared with the total receipts for
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1872, there
was decrease of collections on manu-
factured tobacco of all descriptions of
81, 172,917. There was an increase in the
total receipts from the manufacture and
sale of tobacco, snuff, and cigars,
in all their forms, over the re-
ceipts from the same sources
for the preceding fiscal year of $3.50, 132.
One hundred and sixteen millions four
hundred and fifty thousand nine hundred
and thirty-four pounds are given as the
actual product of the year, so far as such
products have been reported, and show
ing an increase over the annual produc-
tion reported for the preceding fiscal year
of 9,160,079 pounds. The number of
cigars, cheroots, ETC., on which taxes were
collected during the fiscal year end
ing June 30, 1878, was 1907 134,646
showing an excess over the number re-
ported for the preceding fiscal year of
279, 1926, ,674. There was an increase of
544, ,064 pounds of exported tobacco during
the last fiscal year. The aggregate re-
ceipts for the last fiscal year exceeded the
Commissioners estimate by $4,075,456.
1t is estimated that the total receipts for
the current fiscal year will be $100,000,-
600.
ces of Assessors and Assistant Assessors
reduced expenses 81, ,O62, 1927 lower than
the estimated reduction under the eighty
district plan, and $1,060,00O lower than
the appropriations for 1878 under the old
system. The estimates for the fiscal year
1874 show further reduction of $9,478,
or 81, ,069, ,458 less than the appropriation
for the fiscal year 1873, and 81, ,072, 1856 less
than the estimate for 1874 on the eighty
district plan. The Commissioner recon-
mends that Collectors salaries be fixed at
amounts ranging from $4,000 to
$4,000, and Supervisors salaries at
$4,000 per annum, and repeats the
suggestion contained in his report,
Nov. 81, 1871, that Sec A of the act of
July 90, 1868, be amended by making the
minimum penalty smaller, such penalty
being now fine of not less than 81 900,
with not less than six months imprison-
ment.
The Commissioner recommends legisla-
ton limiting the time to July 1, 1874,
within which documentary stamps, issued
under Schedule B. of greater denomina-
ton than cents, may be presented for re-
demption The report concludes with the
suggestion, made in the last annual re-
port, that the amendments of June 6,
1872 to Sec. SO of the act of July 90,
1868, relating to special taxes of dealers
in liquors, should be made more explicit.
The peculiar methods of French judi
cial proceedings are strikingly illustrated
in the trial of Marshal Bazaine. The
president of the court (the Due d d'Aumale)
conducts the examination of the accused,
and cross-questions him with all the ap-
parent bias of prosecuting attorney,
criticiZinp his answers commenting on