The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-01-05
Internal Revenue In Vermont.

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The following dispatch from Wash
ipgton appeared In the Free Press last
Thursday:
Vermont's tribute to Uncle Sam for
her pipe and tipple is not a large figure.
The statements Of the com missioner
of internal revenue show that the state
paid last year taxes to the amount Of
1921 90049, while the whole internal
revenue district, which comprises
Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont
paid the large sum Of $404,7l 90. But
New Hampshire, which has the only
distilery In the three states, paid the
lions share OF this sum-2338 789 70 -
and Maine paid only S43,O2940, bat
more than twice what Vermont paid.
But this is not record TO be ashamed of,
for IL mean, the amount OF mono paid,
generally, for special liquor taxes and
the like. II is easy TO understand iiom
these figures why the state OF New
Hampshire nearly always gets the col
lector Of internal revenue for the dis
tiict and why most OF the deputy COL
lectors are chosen from The Granite
state. The amount of taxes collected
entitled the collector of the district to a
salary last year of 1885. There was
only one illicit still selzed in the three
states during last year and that illicit
still was seized in Vermont.
The number of registered tobacco
manufactures in Vermont last year was
eight against seven in the previous
year. New Hampshire has only two
fa n Main hao
only one. The number of cigar manu-
features in the three states is $50 as
against 166 the previous year. Ped
oilers of tobacco and snuff in the three
states number thirty. The $50 manu-
facturers of cigars consumed 35S,940
pounds OF tobacco in the making of
cigars last year and 1856 pounds of to-.
bacco in the making of cigarettes.
The number of cigars made was 49,
281 1927 and the number of cigarettes
S6,315.
There are many Vermonters who
pay special liquor taxes to the govern
ment. The retail liquor dealers in the
state. who have government licenses
are $40, but there are no wholesalers
holding government licenses. There
are 1876 retailers OF malt liquors who
hold government licenses and % whole
sale dealers in malt liquors who hold
licences from the government. This
makes the total number of special tax
PAYERS in the state 794. M zine has
1854, and New Hampshire l 400. The
populous state OF M assachusetts has
5,187 special taxpayers.
A curious fact shown by the commits
sioner of internal revenue is that
state like Maine, with little internal
times more cases of violations OF law
than Vermont end New Hampshire
combined. In Vermont the number
of suits begun during the year for viola
tions Of internal revenue laws was only
eleven, and six others came over from
the previous year. Eleven of these
cases were settled during the year.
COST OF ST. JOHNsBURY FISH
HATCHERY.
The government has made public the
cost OF running the fish pond at St.
Johnsbury for the twelve months that
ended June 80 last. The table of ex-
penses is as follows:
comp 3nsatlOn OF temporary en-
Dyes, s 5000
Travel, 2843
Buildings and ponds, maintep-
ance and repair, 1874
Fuel and light, 1876
Equipment, maintenance and re-
pair, 46S.5s
Collection OF fish and eggs, 1,021.A
Incidentals, including horse feed,
etc., 1879
Total, $2,O76 10
The total receipts from customs in
the state Of Vermont last year were
1895 .657 81. Maine collected only $685.
1888 IL, and New Hampshire hardly
$29 900. The imports into Vermont
tor the month of October by cars and
other land vehicles were worth S2l7,-
3S1, and the exports for the same pc
riOd were worth $l4S,528.