The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-07-04

N Nh These two are ex-
L. ~ ~ Comptroller John F.
Qly Kelly and William
S. Wolff. VOLTS
end of the district IS
CHIEF DEPUTY KELLY the Hoboken end
Kelly's is this end. In Kelly's district
there are 1859 liquor dealers and dealers
In manufactured tobacco, 2wholesale liquor
dealers, rectifier, brewers, 76 cigar man
ufacturers, 3 tobacco manufacturers, and
manufacturer of stills, who is required to
pay tax of 500 on each still, and another
of $40 on each "worm" he turns out. In
MIR. VOLTS district are 90S retail liquor
dealers, 428 dealers in manufactured to-
bacco, wholesale liquor dealers. brew
ers, 1876 cigar manufacturers, wholesale
malt liquor dealers, and Is of the retailers.
For many years back two inspectors have
been detailed to watch this army of special
taxpayers. It's growth into the proper
tons the figures given indicate has made
an additional inspector necessary; and
new district will be carved out of the old
two for Charles E. Esterbrooke, who has
just been appointed third inspector. The
liquor dealers are Obliged to take out q
Government license, and an additional
license if they propose to sell cigars as well,
as all of them do. The license is in the
form of a stamp, which they are required
to keep conspicuouslY displayed. This
stamp is for $25, if they commence with
the year. If they commence after the
opening of the Governments fiscal year,
deduction is made The stamp is arranged
with coupons attached go that the coupons
show the exact amount paid. The liquor
stamp costs $25; the tobacco sale license
$40. A penalty of one-haIf the amount
required to be paid for the year, or fraction
of the year, as the case may be, is imposed
on the dealers who sell before the stamp is
purchased.
The tobacco manufacturers are required
to pay a tax of cents per pound on their
product. The stamps for their use are made
SO as to cover variously Weighted packages.
Only those above 10 pound stamps are regis
tered. These, as well as the liquor stamps
are printed in books with stubs. Each
book represents various denominations of
ten pound stamps. One, for instance, all
stamps from 10 to 20 pounds; another
from 20 to 80, and so on. The highest
printed stamp represents go pounds.
Coupons attached to these stamps for even
10 pounds are supplied with the stamp and
attached to 1t, If stamp for an odd num-
Der of pounds is required; as. for example,
2 single pound coupons are attached to
40 pound stamp when a ~ pound stamp is
demanded. The tobacco men send in their
orders for stamps as required. designating
the denominations they require. Lorrillard
& Co. send IN an order each morning for
thousands of dollars worth of these stamps
a. vast pile of them made ready for that
monster factory lowered above one of the
desks in Chief Deputy Kelly's Office when
the TATTLER called on him on Friday last.
The Chief Deputy draws his supply of
stamps from Collector Klotz's office, and
makes his returns to them. They are
charged against him when supplied, and
come to him with stubs attached. On these
stubs are entered the day of sale; the cou-
pons show how much of each stamp was
sold; and the entry in the stub shows to
whom the sale was made.
ssThis system of registry" said one of
the gentlemen in the Office to the TATT1EB.
sis Of great service in preventing fraud.
Some time ago o firm in North Carolina
had been skinning the Government by
washing the marks off of used stamps and
using them again. They were caught and
prepared to fight, but when the stab books
were taken into court to prove that the
stamps bearing the numbers of those they
had used had been sold to Lorillard & Co.,
they wilted at once"
The value represented by the books of
stamps sent to his Office for use is, as has
been said, charged up against the Chief
Deputy. He returns the books to the Col
lector, and the value of the coupons still
attached to the stubs is deducted from the
account him, and the balance is expected
to represent his cash deposits to the credit
of the Government. These deposits are
made largely in the First National Bank.
Each evening balance is struck showing
what of each denomination of stamps he
has on hand, and once week or so an ac-
count of stock is taken to find ont whether
the balance, which the books indicate
ought to be on hand, is really in the safe.
The stamps come to him in large lots, and
it is not an unusual thing for him to have
$500, 900 or $500. 900 on hand.
The export business transacted by the
department. here is not large In fact
LoriIlard & Co. are the only exporters in
the county. It involves deal of red tape,
and they do not bother vita it much. BY
a sytem Of communication with the GUS
toms officers the tobacco, which is allowed
to go free out of the country, Is followed
from point to point till it is finally known
to leave port ON foreign bound vessels
Upon the inspectors devolves the duty OF
seeing that everybody that should pay
taxes does it, and that the tax is honestly
paid. As was explained some months ago,
in an interview with Finance Com missioner
John Edelstein, on the tobacco business,
the manufacturer is Obliged to report his
purchases to the department., aud out of
that quantity he is cxysctsd to axnalAo-
ture given Quantity Of product.
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