The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-02-12
FRIDAY, FEB. -, 1873.


have reported the folio wing revenue
bill to the House, and it is now before
the Committee Of the Whole:
Be 1t enacted, &c, that from and
after the date Of the passage of this
act, there shall be levied and col
lected on all distilled spirits, on
which the tax prescribed by law
shall not have been paid, whether
said spirits shall then be in the dis
tillery, bonded warehouse or not, a
tar OF one dollar on each proof gal
Ion, or wine gallon when below
proof, to be paid by the distiller,
owner or person having possession
thereof before its removal from the
distiliery or bonded warehouse; and
so much of section 325I of the revised
statutes of the United States as is in
consistent herewith is hereby re-
pealed. Provided, that in addition
to the tax of 20 cents per gallon i'm
posed by the law now existing, there
shall S3-levied and collected n tax of
Is cents, being one half the Increase
OF tax under this act, on each and
every proof gallon, or wine gallon
when below proof, OF domestic dis
titled spirits manufactured and placed
In bonded warehouse prior to the
day whom this act shall take effect,
and held in bonded warehouse at
that time, and on all such spirits
then held by distillers, rectiners or
wholesale dealers, having in their
possession or under their control dis
titled spirits or stamped packages;
and any person who shall sell, trans
fer or otherwise dispose of any such
distilled spirits, after this net takes
effect, until an additional stamp, to
be especially printed for this purpose
by the Commissioner of Internal Re
venue, denoting the payment of the
additional tax Of 10 cents per gallon
herein imposed, is purchased and
attached to all packages containing
the same, In such as the
Commissioner Of Internal Revenue
shall prescribe, shall be subject to
Nnd pay a penalty Of n dollar for
eSsh and every gallon so removed,
and spirits so removed shall be for
feited to the United States. And
provided further, that on all brandy,
gin and rum, and on all compounds
and preparations of which distilled
spirits is the component part of chief
value, embracing all forms of dis
titled spirits imported from foreign
countries, on which the duty, as
fixed in the revised statutes, is two
dollars per gallon, the duty here
after to be levied, collected and paid
shall be two dollars and fifty cents
per proof gallon.
Sec. 2. That section 1868, Revised
Statutes, be the same as hereby
amended, by striking out the words
" twenty cents per pound" and in
sorting In lieu thereof the words
" twentyfour cents per pound" Pro-
Vided, That the increase oftax herein
provided for shall not apply to tobac-
CO on which the tax under the exist
ing law shall have been paid when
this act takes effect.
Sec. 3. That 50 much Of section
3437 as imposes a stamp tax on fric
ton matches, lucifer matches or
articles made in part of wood used for
like purposes is, and the same is
hereby, repealed, to take effect on and
after the first day of July, 1878.
Sec. 4. That on all mOlasses, not
Including tank bottom, syrup OF
sugar, cane juice, melado or concen
trated melado, and on sugars, ac-
eording to the Dutch standard in
color, imported from foreign cOun-
tries, there shall be levied and col
lected and paid in addition to the
duties now imposed in Schedule G.,
section 1904, Revised Statutes, an
amount equal to twenty-five per cent.
of said duties as levied upon the
several grades therein designated.
Section fifth repeats the ten per
cent. reduction in the tariff on certain
articles enumerated in section 25O3
Revised Statutes.
The sixth section provides hat the
increase of duties shall not apply to
goods in transit on shipboard Feb.
10th, nor to goods in bond at that
date.
The committee, yesterday agreed
to favor the repeal of the bank check
stamp law, but this morning con
-sfdsred its action.