The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-03-08
The New Taxes and Duties.
The following is the full text OF the new tariff hi
I'm relation TO tobacco:

facturers of cigars shall pay So. Peddlers of to-
bacco, SNUFF and cigars shall pay special taxes as
follows: PeddIers OF the first class. now defined
by law, shall pay $50 peddlers Of the second class
shall pay S15, peddlers of the third class shall pay
81 90 and peddlers Of the fourth class SIS co. Retail
dealers in lear tobacco shall pay $3.50 and thirty
cents for each dollar on the amount their monthly
sales in excess of the rate of $500 per annum Pro
vided, That farmers and producers of tobacco may
sell at the plac OF productions tobacco OF their own
growth and raising at RETAIL directly to consumers,
. to an amount not exceeding 500 annually.
SEC. 8. That hereafter the special tax OF dealer
in manufactured tobacco shall not be required from
any farmer, planter, or lumDerman, who furnishes
such tobacco only ratons supplies to his labor
ers employees, In the same manner as other p
plies are furnished by him to Them provided that
the aggregate OF the supplies of tobacco by him
furnished shall not exceed In quantity one hundred
pounds III any one special tax year, that is, from
the LIST day of May In any year until the Both day OF
April in the next year. and provided further that
| such farmer, planter lumberman, shall not be,
the time he Is furnishing such supplies, engaged
in the general business of selling dry goods, gro
ceries, other similar supplies in the manner of a
merchant or storekeeper, to other than his own en-
pIoyes or laborers.
SEC L. That on and after May 1, 1888, the internal
taxes on snuf, smoking and manufactured tobacco
shall be- eight cents pound and on cigars which
shall be manufactured and sold, or removed for
consumption or sale, on and after the list day of
May, 1885, there shall be assessed and collected the
following taxes, to be paid by the manufacturer
thereof
on cigars of all descriptions made of tobacco or
any substitute therefor, 50 per thousand; on Gig
arettes weighing not more than three pounds per
thousand, fifty cents per Thousand on cigarettes
weighing more than three pounds per thousand, SO
1 per thousand.
| Provided, that on all original and unbroken fac
tory packages OF smoking and manufactured to-
Dacco and snuff, cigars, cheroots and cigarettes
held by manufacturers or dealers the time such
reduction shall go into effect, upon which tax has
been paid, there shall be allowed a drawback
rebate OF the full amount OF the reduction but the
same shall not apply in any case where the claim
has not been presented within sixty days follow
ing the date OF the reduction, ana such rebate to
manufacturers may be paid in stamps at the
duced rate, and no claim shall be allowed draw
back paid for a less amount than SO
1tShall be the duty of the commissioner Of Inter
nal Revenue with the approval OF the secretary OF
the Treasury to adopt sucn rules and regulations,
and TO prescribe and furnish such blanks and forms
as may be necessary to carry this section into effect
| SEC. s. That from and AFTER the passage OF this
act, every manufacturer tobacco or snufr shall,
In addition to all other requirements of The law,
print on each package, or securely afix by FASTING
on each package containing tobacco snufr, man
ufactured for or by him, LABEL which shall be
printed the number or the manufactory the dis
trict, and the state In which IL is situated, and
these Words
NoTIcE-The manufacturer of this tobacco has
complied with all the requirements uf the law.
Every person is cautioned, under the penalties OF
the law, not to this package for tobacco again.
SEC d. That on and after the first day OF July,
1858, the following section shall constitute and
be a substitute for Title Thirty three of the Re-
| vised Statutes of the United States.
, The tax on imported tobacco ranges from $3.50
| per pound, and IS per cent. I'D ualorem, down.
1 The tax on sugars ranges from ;O-10O cent per
pound, to 80 per cent. I'd vaiorsnl according to
| quality.
! Champagne and other sparkling wines from 81. so
per dozen down.
Brandy and other spirits 50 per gallon and down.
The tor the metal schedule which relates to
1 cructDle iron, steel ingots blooms in which
trick was attempted In the Tariff Commissions
Bill, by which rates all steel from which agr1-
cultural implements are made were increased, is
rs follows:
The duty on iron ore fixed at rs cents per tom
Steel ingots, cogged ingots, blooms and Slabs by
Whatever process made; die blocks or blanks; bill
lets and bars, and tapered or beveled bars bands,
hoops, strips and sheets, of all gauges and widths
places of all thicknesses and wtuths steamer crank,
and other Shafts wrists, crank pins connecting
rods and piston rods; pressed, soeared stamped
shapes, or blanks of Sheet or pate steel, or COM
binatiOn of steel and iron, punched not punched,
hammer molds or swaged steel; gun molds, not in
bars; alloys used substitutes for steel tools; all
descriptions and shapes of dry sand, loan, or iron
nodded steelcastings; all of the above classes of
STEEL not otherwise specially provided in
act valued at cents pound less As per cen
| tum ad vaIorem above cents pound and not
| above cents per pound cents per pound; valued
cents per pound; valued at above 10 cents per !
pound, 34 cents per pound.
Provided, that all iron steel bars, rods, STRIPS
or steel sheets, Of whatever shape, and all iron
sleel bars OF irregular shape section cold rolled
cold hammered or polished in any way in addition |
to the ordinary process Of not rolling hammer /
ing, and steel circular plates there be
paid one quarter cent per pound in addition to the
rates provided in this act. steel, not specially /
enumerated or provided for In this act, fortyhve
per centum ad valorem. !
Provided, That all metal produced from iron or |
lis ores, which Is cast and malleabe, of whatever
description or form, without regard percent
by concentration or converted, cast, or made from /
iron or its ores, by the cructbe, Bessemer, pneu-
matte. Thomas-Gjlchrtst, Basic S1emens- Martin, |
or open-hear process by the equivalent OF |
either, OF by the combination of more of the
processes OF their equivalents, or by any fusion
other process which produces from iron its ores
metal either granular or hb GUS In structure,
which is cast and malleable, excepting what is
known as malleabe iron castings, shall be classed
and denominated as steel.
The duty lumber, hewn and sawed, ranges
from 81 to 50 per 1000 feet board measure
House or cabinet furniture, in piece or rough
and not finished, 80 per centum ad valorem. Cabt-
net ware and house furniture, finished SO per CEN
tum ad vaUrem. Casks and barrels, empty, sugar |
box shooks, and packing boxes and packing box |
shocks Of wood, not specially enumerated pro- |
vided Tor In this act 80 per centum ad valorem.
Manufactures Of cedar wood, granadilla ebony, |
mahogany. rosewood and sattnwood. 35 per centum |
al valorem Manufactures of wood, OF which
wood ID the chief component part, not specially
enumerated or provided for in this act So per
tum a. valorem. Wood manufactured, not spec
tally enumerated or provided for in this act 20 per
centum ad valorem.
The following is the wool schedule.
All wools hair of alpaca goat ana other like ami
mails, shall be divided tor the purpose of fixing du
ties be charged thereon into the three following
classes:
Glass I-Clothing woods, that is to say, Merino,
Mestiza, Metz or Metis woods, other woods OF
Mertno blood, immediate or remote; down clothing
woods, and woods of like character with any OF the
preceding, including such have been heretofore
usually i'm ported into the United States from Buenos
Ayres, New Zealand, Australia, the Cape of Good
Hope, Russia Great Britain, Canada and elsewhere,
and also including all woods not hereinafter de-
scribed or designated in Classes and
Glass 2-Combing woods, that Is to say, Leicester,
Cotswold, Lincolnshire, down combing WOODS, Can
ada long woods, or other like combng woods OF Eng
fish blood, and usually known by the terms herein
used and also hair of the alpaca goat and other like
animals.
Class 3-Carpet woods and other similar woods,
such as Donskoi, native South American, Cordova,
Valparaiso, native smyrna, and including all such
woods of like character as have been heretofore
usually imported into the United States from Tur-
key, Greece, Egypt, Syria, and elsewhere.
The duty on WOODS of the first class, which shall
be imported washed, shall be twice the amount of
duty to which they would be subjected If imported
unwashed, and the duty on woods of all classes,
which shall be imported secured, shall be three
times the duty to which they would be subjected
imported unwashed. The duty upon wool of sheep
or hair of alpaca goat and other like animals,
which shall be imported in any other than the ordi
nary condition as now and heretofore practiced or
which shall be changed in It's character condition
for the purpose of evad1ng the duty which shall
be reduced in value by the admixt1re of dirt or
other foreign substance shall be twice the duty to
which 1t would be otherwise sui ject The woods OF
first Glass; the value whereof the last place
whence exported to the United States, excluding
charges in such port shall be 80 cents less per
pound 10 cents per pound; woods Of the same class,
the value whereof at the last port place whence
exported to the United states excluding the charges
In such port shall exceed 30 cents per pound IL
cents per pound.
Woods OF the second class and all hair Of alpaca,
goat and other like animals, the value whereof at
the last port place whence exported to the United
States excluding charges in such port shall be
30 cents or less per pound, 10 cents per pound woods
or place whence exported to the United States ex-
Guiding charges in such port shall exceed 80 cents
per pound, IL cents per pound
Woods OF the third class, the value whereof at the
last port or place whence exported to the United
States excluding charges in such port shall be
twelve cents or less per pound twoand ahalr cents
per pound woods of the class the value where
Of at the last port or place whence exported othe
United States, excluding the charges in such port,
snail exceed twelve cents per pound, five per
pound.
Woods the skin at the same rates as other wools
the quantity and value to be ascertained under such
rules as the Secretary Of the Treasury may pre-
scribe. =
The following are clauses Of the earthenware
schedule:
Earthen, stone and crockery ware, white, glazed.
eoged, printed, painted, dipped cream-colored,
composed OF earthly or mineral substances, not
specially enumerated provided for in this act, so
per cent. adj valorem.
Stoneware above the capacity of ten gallons,
twenty per cent. ad valorem. Flint and lime glass
Dottles ana walls, and other plain nodded pressed
ninI or lime glassware forty per cent ad valofem
II nlied and not otherwise in this act provided for
SAID articles shall pay, exclusive of the contents
forty per cent ad yalorem, in addition to the duty
on contents.
The Democratic papers are making great {
ado about the inefficiency of our navy. As
it is not the policy of this country to
maintain large standing army, we do not
see the cons stency of demanding form-
dable war footing navy. The Democratic
party has done its level best to diminish