The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-11-14
THE INTERNAL REVENUE.
Annual Report of the United States
Commissioner.

The annual report of the commissioner of
internal revenue for the fiscal year ended
June SO, 1884, says that the total receipts
rom all sources of internal revenue taxation
FOR the year were 1921 ,590039 as compared
with S144, 553, 344 for 1888, SAG, 523,273 for
1852, and S135, 300 ,912 for 1881. 1t is estim-
nted that S115 900, 600 will be collected dur
ing the present fiscal year.
A comparative statement Of the receipts for
the fiscal year 1888 and 1884 shows decrease
of s16,041, $50 from tobacco, an increase of
81, 536,6l0 from spirits. All increase of 81 1874,
33S from fermented liquors, and decrease of
SO, 642 44 from taxes under repealed laws
and penalties, making total decrease of S22,
J63, 305 The largest collection i'll any one
district was made in the Fifth Illinois district
-$l3, 036, 355, and the smallest in the Second
North Carolina district-S1, 192. There are
four States, namely, Illinois, Kentucky. New
York and Ohio, in which the collections were
over $13,00J0JO.
The total cost of collection for the past year
WIS S., 100, 40, as compared with S3,lO5,95I
for 1888. The total expenses were little less
than Is per cent. of the amount collected.
The internal revenue taxes collected from
tobacco during the year aggregated SIG O62,
80 The collections from the same sources
during the fiscal year 1885 were S4?, lO4 ~,
and during the fiscal year 1882 were AZ, 39l,
.lSS By comparing the receipts for the last
fiscal year with those for the fiscal year inn
mediately preceding it, it will be seen that
the decrease was S100il $40 and by compar-
ing those receipts with the receipts for the
fiscal year ended June 80, 1882, that the de-
crease was 81 ,329, SIS.
The total numler of grain distilleries
registered during the year was ,29l, of
which number only LOS were operated The
numbers registered and operated in the fiscal
year 1888 were $50 and |, 096 respectively
showing an increase during the last fiscal
year of forty-one in the number registered
number operated The quantities OF
grain used in the production of spirits during
the past fiscal year-lS, 1927 ,9S2 bushels-is ar
increase of 2S3, l95 bushels above the amount
IL ed in the preceding year, but is 5,l37 ,e9'
bushels less than the average for the last five
| years. A corresponding increase appears In
| the number of gallons of spirits produced
| from grain during the year-13, 724 ISL gal
| Ions, which is an excess of ,4S9, 4OO gallons
over the product for 1883
The quantity of spirits as, 435. 739 gallons
produced and deposited in distillery ware
! houses during the current fiscal year il
| greater than the production t74,O13,3OS gal
/ Ions of the year 1888 by Az, 43l gallons
The quantity of spirits (1S,342 474 gallons
withdrawn from distilery warehouses dur
ing the current fiscal year is greater than thu
| quantity withdrawn (75, AL ,0S0 during thu
year 1888 by 1901 ,3S7 gallons. The quantity
| of distilled spirits in the United States, ex
! cept what may be in customs bonded ware
houses on October /, 1884, was $50, 521 gal
Ions.