The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-03-04
THE NEW TAX BILL.
Full Text as It Passed the SenaSe=-WhIs=
ky'Taxed at 90 Cents per GRlIOn--SO
Additional Tax ON WhisIky In Bond.

Full Text as 1t Passed the Sena4e=-VVhIs=
ky'Taxed at 90 Cents per GaIIOn--NO
Additional Tax ON whisIxy in Bond.
The following is the text of the tax bill as
passed
SECTION /. That from and after the date of
the passage Of this act, there shall be levied
AMI collected on al 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 distilleTy OF bonded
warehouse and so much of section 3251 OF the
revised statutes of the United States 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consistent herewith is hereby repealed.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, Z" twenty cents q
pound" and inserting in lieu thereof the
words, twenty cents pound :" pro-
vided 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 aud inserting in lieu thereof the word
six" and by striking out thtf word sixty"
and inserting " seventy five, " increasing the
| duty on cigars from $5 to SO Thousand, and
| on cigarettes from $3.50 to 50 rs, provided
| that the increase Of tax herein provided
for shall not apply to tobacco, cigars or cigar
cites on which the tax under the existing law
| shall have been paid when this act takes eff
| 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 2504, 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 sugar-making cane juice boiled
/ down to asugar point and containing all sugar
| and molasses resulting from the boiling pro-
| cess, without any process Of purging or claIih-
! cation, and any and all productions of sugar
| cane imported in bags, mats, baskets, or other
! than light packages, shall be considered sugar
dutiabie as such and provided further, that
/ of the drawback on refined sugars exported,
allowed by section 30lS of the revised statutes
| of the Uni ed States, only ore per cent. OF the
4 amount so allowed shall be retained by the
United States.
SEC. 4. That so much Of section 2503 Of the
revised statutes provides that only ninety
| per 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- ovided in section 2503.
SEC. 5. That the increase of duties provided
by this act shall not apply to any goods, wares
or merchandise, actually on shipboard. and
! bound to the United States, on or before ths
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. 1S, lS75-"the little tariff act"-shal
be construed to impose any duty on boiling
cloths heretofore admitted free of duty, or tC
| require stamps on entries of receipts in pass
books of savings banks.