Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-03-19

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STAr1sT1cAL.-The annual report Of the AN
ditor of Public Accounts, for the past fiscal
year, has 5undry items statistical interest lron
this city. ~, ,.
In tho tax on notarial sales, a. W. Chiffon
pays $lS.O5; w. 6. Gillingham. So. 50; =. Nj.
johnson, s4.75; K. Kemper, s435.l0; d; a.
Lowe, $3.50; G. A. Mushbach, 50 Albert
Stuart, $l0.45.
Of the tax on banks, insurance companles'
&C.. tho First National N ational Bank OF =, AeS'
andria paid $780,; the Citizens Nalona' DanA
$500; the Alexandria Insurance Company
5000; Inland and Seaboard Coastl !5o comp my
$47.70; Potomac Steamboat TO-, $S9. o..
The total amount paid Oh account OF criminal
charges for this city was SO ,4O4 20, and fol
Alexandria county. $67925. For expenses Of
lunatics in the Jail of this city $i21.I5 was
paid.
The number of males assessed With poll laS
in this city is l,949 white and 500 eo!ored; 10
tho county there arc S23 white and 45' coIoreu'
Of personal property there are 10 tn" city;
1877 horses and other beasts of burden valued
at Sl3,S2O; 81 head of CATTLE 81 ,GS5; lOI pleas
uro carriages, $l0,6G3; SCI watches, sls I25;
2SS clocks, 81, $50; 20 sewing mach es, $o4''
The value of other personal properly u as
follows books and pictures, S., 23O; me>'ban
les tools, 1885, musical instruments. $24 So;
household and kitchen furniture, Sl7j 1875;
plate and jewelry. $780, shipping, SIC GOO;
arms. $50; miscellaneous, $I54; bonds. claims,
&c., $29S. $50; capital used out of The State,
$24,375; stocks. $50, 52l. so; capital employed
in business, $50 $50; incomes liable to taxation
$53, AGO So Total value of personal property.
$742, lat; total personal tax Sc, S9G 81.
The total value of real estate, S., JAG, III;
total tax On same SIS ,S24.0S.
The license taxes as follows :-Merchants,
$4,O0C52 liquor merchants, 81 075 o.; oon
mission merchants, Sc TO- sample merchants,
$500. 90; pedlers $50; land agents. $50; book
agents, 50; agents for manufacturers, 81 -;
general auctionecrs, SOC; Junk Dealers $l9l 81;
retailers of tobacco, 50; common crierS,
500 brokers aud bankers. $500; manufacturers
of ardent spirits and malt liquors, $25; ord
naries, 50 $50 IS; boarding houses Sill 81; bag
atee saloons, $50; theatres. No., SIG 60;snows,
circuses, &C.. $32l.75; public rooms $50; at
torneys, 1925; physicians and dentists, $l25;
stations and jackasses. $40; livery stables sos.
Total license tax Sl9,G95 So.
The number of marriages was s.; white
births, 100; eolored births, sc; white deaths,
lyO; colored deaths. 10.
During the year the clerk of the Corporation
Court returned from that court for taxes on
law, process, NC, the sum OF SSO9.O5, ana
from the Circuit Court, $44.75.
10 addition to the personal tax reported by
the Auditor. the commissioner OF the revenue
states that there was collateral inheritance
tax of SIC, 900, tax on the German Bank $3.50,
and other items, which would bring the person.
al tax up to $4,000.
The quarterly report Of the Chief of the U.
8. Bureau Of Statistics tor the months OF July,
August and September 1877 has also been re-
oeived and has the following items relative to
Alexandria trade and commerce Tho imports
from the Dominion of Canada were 1898.
For tho twelve months ending September 30,
1877, the imports were SIS Cos. and the ex
ports $9Gll.
During the quarter IA vessels Of SOL tons
burtheu entered from the foreign trade, 81
vessels of &C, 476 tons entered from tho coast
wise trade, land 81 vessels OF 25,0l5 tons cleared
from tho same trade.