The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-03-06
THE NEW TAX BILL.

Full Text it Passed the Senate--WhIs-
ky Taxed at 90 Cents per Gallon--No
Additional Tax ON Whisky I'm Bond.
The following is the text Of the tax bill as
passed:
SECTION 1. That from and after the date of
the passage Of this act, there shall be levied
AMI collected on all distilled spirits thereafter
produced in the United States, a tax of ninety
cents on each proof gallon, or wine gallon
when below proof, to be paid by the distiller,
owner or person having possession thereof,
before removal from the distillery or bonded
warehouse and go much of section 1851 OF tho
revised statutes of the United States as is in
consistent herewith is hereby repealed.
Sec. 2. That section 1868 OF the revised
statutes be and the same is hereby amended
by striking out the words. twenty cents q
pound" and inserting in lieu thereof the
words, "twenty-four cents q pound :" pro-
yided that section 1894 of the revised statutes
be and the same is hereby amended by strik-
ing out the word ''five" wherever it occurs
therein and inserting in lieu thereof the word
''six." and by striking out the word sixty"
and inserting seventy five" increasing the
duty on cigars from IS to 90 Thousand, and
on cigarettes from $3.50 to 80 IS, provided
that the increase of tax herein provided
for shall not apply to tobacco, cigars or cigar
cites OH which the tax under the existing law
shall have been paid when this act takes ef-
feet.
Sec. 8. That on all molasses, concentrated
molasses, tank bottoms, syrup OF sugar, cane
juice, melada, and on sugar, according to duty
Of standard color, imported from foreign coun-
tries there shall be levied, collected and paid,
in addition to the duties now IMPOSED in
schedule G, section 1904, of the revised stat
utes, an amount equal to 25 per cent. Of said
duties as levied upon the several articles and
grades herein designated; Provided, that con-
centrated melada, or concrete, shall hereafter
be classed as sugar, dutiable according to the
color of the duties standard, and melada shall
be known and defined as an article made IN
the process Of suga making. cane juice boiled
down to al sugar point and containing all sugar
and molasses resulting from the boiling pro-
cess, without any process Of purging or clarid-
cation, and any and all productions of sugar
cane imported in bags, mats, baskets, or other
than light packages, shall be considered sugar
dutiable as such and provided further, that
of the drawback on refined sugars exported,
allowed by section 3018 of the revised statutes
of the Uni. ed States, only ore per cent. OF the
amount so allowed shall be retained by the
United States.
SEC. f. That 80 much of section 2503 of the
revised statutes as provides that only ninety
Fer cent. of several duties and rates Of duty
imposed on certain articles therein enumerated
by section 2504, shall be levied, collected and
paid, be and the same is hereby repealed, and
the several duties and rates of duty prescribed
in said section $50 shall be and remain as by
that section levied, without abatement OF ten
per cent. as pre- vided in section 2503.
Sec. g. That the increase OF duties provided
by this act shall not apply to any goods, wares
merchandise, actually on shipboard. and
bound to the United States, on or before the
10th day of February, 1875 nor on any such
goods, wares or merchandise on deposit in
ware houses or public stores at the date of the
passage Of this act
Section six provides that nothing in the act
of Feb. 10, 1S75-''the little tariff act"-shall
be construed to impose any duty on boiling
cloths heretofore admitted free Of duty, or to
require stamps on entries of receipts in pass
books Of savings banks.