The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-01-11
INTERNAL REVENUE.
Nearly 100000 Collected During
1874 In the City Of New York. 4
THE BANKING TAX,
Consumption Of Whiskey, Lager, Tobacco and
Cigars in The Metropolis.

Cigars in The Metropolis.
During the year 1874 the number OF internal
revenue collection dts riots In the city Of New
York was reduced from f1ve to four. This result
naturally flowed from the abolition OF the tn.
come and numerous other imposts until the fed
eral taxes are now almost confined to assessments
on the manufacture and sale OF tobacco. spirit.
uous and fermented liquors and on banks and
bankers. The tax on domestic whskey remains
at seventy cents per gallon. but there Is propo.
sition before Congress- to increase IL to eighty
cents; fermented liquors pay 81 Qess seven
and half per cent? on each barrel OF tbirty'two
gallons; and cigars, irrespective OF quality, pay
S. per 1000. There are besides special taxes lev
led on rectiners. $50 per abnum; retail liquor
Dealers SIS; malt liquors, $40; retail dealers IN
leaf tobacco. $780, and on sales OF over 0o0 nty
cents Tor every dollar IN excess; dealers In manu-
factured tobacco, S.; manufacturers OF cigars,
$40; and on brewers. $50 and 500, according to
extent OF operations The total amount Of
INTERNAL REVENUE COLLECTED IN NEW YORK
during the year 1874 was So 1877 IT. the largest
amount coming from the Second district, embrace
ing seven OF the most central wards OF the city.
It appears that the number OF retail liquor stores
is TO- 049 including 1923 in which lager beor alone
Is vended. The dealers in manufactured tobacco,
chewing and smoking, cigars and snuh, reach
lilo; but as nearly all liquor stores keep the
commodity, 1t would seem that those exclusively
engaged in the business Cigar stores) cannot ex.
coed 1000. There 2sl recti1ers in the city, Glib
wholesale liquor dealers and II breweries
RETAIL LIQUOR DEALERS.
The Internal Revenue Bureau has recently issued
Instructions Tor q more rigid enforcement OF the
law IN Inc cases OF retail liquor dealers. when
parties commence business they are required to
MAKE application for license before thirty days ex-
pre-. Otherwise penalty OF nny per cent Is to
be added to the special tax OF $50 Retail dealers
IN malt liquors cannot sell sprituOus liquors
without paying the prescribed spec al tax; nor
TO any one person at any one time unless they pay
q special tax as wholesale vendors; nor can they
either lawfully sell tobacco. snur or cigars with.
out paying the special tax Tor this privilege.
THIRTY-SECOND DISTRICT.
Fourth Wsrds. Mr.. Marshall Blake ' is IHe coz
lecor. the bulk Of the revenue Is derived nom
rms sum includes $ssO.27s impost on tobacco e
sumption in all iorms and $6Ol, SSI tax on tho
capital and deposits Of monetary Institutions.
which represents an equal number Of barrels OF
beer anuactured in the Jour breweries existing
in the asric, the ,oow vi came under tho
Rect,fers w.; retail liquor dealers LOSS; whole.
sale liquor dealers. SS1; wholesale dealers In malt
liquors. I; retail dealers in malt liquors, 80; deal
ers in leaI tobacco, 265; dealers In manufactured
tooacco, 1,4Ol; manufacturers OF tobacco, Q; man
- " BANKS ;i.;' AND ID BANKING FIRMS.
The number Of banks and BANKERS In the
Thirty.second district Is 40s, but there arc
not liable TO pay an internal revenue tax, which
amounts to one twenty-fourth OF one per cent per
month on capital and deposits. This tax Is paid
semi.annually; but in the case OF national banks
their business comes directly under the supervision
lquidating taxes is concerned. AT present there
are IN this city SO OF the latter denomination. ~
banks and q savings banks.
SECOND DISTRICT.
The Third, Filth, sixth, Eighth, Ninth. Fifteenth
and Sixteenth wards compose tile district OF which
General Max Weber ID the Collector. The amount
s2.oi4,24I II. The tobacco trade aud dealings in
of beer stamps sold brought $4li.l3s The brew.
cries 10 Tue district numoer eleven. The follow
revenue taxes are collected in the wards above
mentioned Retail liquor dealers, 2,6l4; recu.
hers, lag; wholesale liquor dealers. 1865; wholesale
malt liquor dealers, &; retail malt liquor dealers.
I22 dealers IN manufactured tobacco. 2914; deal
ers IN ieal tobacco, 49, manufacturers OF tobacco,
s. peder5 OF tobacco on loot ana public convey.
ances, 10; manufacturers OF cigars 270.
TUE THIRD DISTRICT
comprises the seventh. TENN, Eleventh, Thf.
teenth Fourteenth and seventeenth wards AZ
the Fourth IS the great beer man curing dis
Gt SO rs Inc nnTs tine s
one-tenth OF the cigars made IN the United States
are produced IN The wards above mentioned the
amount realized in the district during the last
year was sl.si5,s4o 3d. The stamps were sold
liquors, $69,775 so; banks aud bankers,
s4s3S5 81; miscellaneous, $5.7S7 ~. Tue
GLOWING are the number OF dealers paying
Internal Revenue taxes In the district :-Kectt.
ners, II; retail liquor Dealers 2,3l2; wholesale
liquor Dealers 81; wholesale dealers In malt IL
quors, 2; retail dealers in malt liquors, 412 deaers
in eai TOBACCO, 1874; dealers In MANUFACTURED to-
bacco, $3.50; manufacturers OF tobacco, 8; manu-
1actures OF cigars, 94S; pedlers oil tobacco, 80;
brewcrles e.
Notwithstanding the general depression liz bust.
ness throughout the country during the past
twelve or eighteen months, there does not seem
to nave been any falling on In the cigar manu-.
featuring trade. New YORK supplies not alone the
local consumption IN cigars. but furnishes In large
quantities the Western and Southern States.
FOURTH DISTRICT. :.
On the LIST OF April last the eighth and ninth COZ
lection districts In TINS city were consolidated,
and now form the Fourth district. The new dis
trict comprises all oil the territory above Four
tecnth street to the Harlem RIVER excepting the
Sixteenth ward, Mr.. Charles X. COster Is the coll
lector. The manufacture OF malt liquors Is tue
great interest In the Fourth. the magnitude Of
which can be estimated by the fact that
stamps were sold during the past year for
962. 1876 barrels (thlrty-two gaons) Of ale porter
ana beer. Tnc amount OF revenue collected from
all sources In the Two districts consolidated and
the new one formed from January to December
81 1874, was $1.2l2, 449 25 coming II ON breweries,
SO; rectifers, "A; retail liquor dealers, 29l2;
wholesale liquor Dealers 81; re all deaers In malt
liquors, 551; dealers in manufactured tobacco.
4,076; dealers In leaf tobacco, Is; banks aud