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nues are internal revenue taxes.
Certificates of deposit in bank or trust
companies, cents for sums not exceed
ing S100, ) cents above that amount;
certificates of other descriptions, 1C
cents; charter contracts for ship, vessel
or steamer which does not exceed BOZ
tons, 81; or between 800 and 600 tons
50; exceeding 600 tons, SO; memoran-
dunn of sale of goods, stocks, bonds, real
estate or property of any kind issued
by brokers, 10 cents; conveyances when
the consideration exceeds 500 and does
not exceed $500, 90 cents; between $500
and $1,000, 81; between $1,000 and
s., 800, 50; between 5000 and $4,000
$40; between $4,000 and $4,000, $50;
for each additional $4,000, SO.
Telegraphic messages, except press
dispatches, j cent ON MESA ges below
the charge of 20 cents, and cents where
the charge is above 20 cents.
On the entry of goods of custom
houses for consumption, not exceeding
500 in value, % cents; between Sl0I
and 5000, 40 cents; exceeding $500, 81
entry for withdrawal of goods from
bonded warehouses, 90 cents; life insur-
ance policies, not including accident pol
icies, for $1,000, 20 cents; marine and
fire insurance, % cents: leases for a
period not exceeding three years,
so cents: exceeding that period,
81; clearance papers for a cargo
destined for a foreign port, if the tom
mage of the ship does not exceed 5000
tens, 81; between 800 and 600 tons, SO;
exceeding 600 tons, So
cents; between $500 and 81 900, 81;
between $1,000 and $1,000, 50; between
81, 800 and $1,000, 50; between So, ONO
and $4,000, $40; between $4,000 and
$50, 900, $40; for each additional 81 900,
$40; passage ticket for foreign port, if
less than $50, 81; exceeding $50, So.
Power of attorney, % cents; power of
attorney to convey real estate or rent or
lease the same, 81 probate of will or let
ters of administration where the estate
does not exceed $500, 80 cents; be-
tween $1,000 and So 600, 81; between
50, 600 and $4,000, 81; between $4,000
and $4,000, So; between 5000 and
100000 $40; between 100000 and
$3.50, 900, $50 and for each additional
$1,000 so. Protest against any note,
check, acceptance, etc, % cents; ware
house receipts for goods, merchandise,
etc, held in storage, % cents.
The bill also imposes a system of
tonnage taxes of s cents per ton, not
to exceed 96 cents per ton per year,
upon all vessels from foreign ports,
and from the receipts from these duties
800, 900 is appropriated for the marine
hospital service.
The loan provisions of the bill are as
follows:
The Secretary of the Treasury is
hereby authorized to borrow on the
credit of the United States a sum of
5000, 900. .00O or so much thereof az
may be necessary, and to prepare and
issue therefor at not less than par cou-
pom or registered bonds of the United
States in such form as he may pre-
scribe and in denominations of $50, or
some multiple of that sum, redeemable
in coin at the pleasure of the United
States after ten years from the date of
their issue and payable twenty years
from such date, and bearing interest
payable quarterly in coin, at the rate
of 3 per cent. per annum, and the
bonds herein authorized shall be ex-
empt from all taxes or duties of the
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ton in any form or under State, muni-
cipal or local authority; provided, that
the bonds authorized by this section
shall be first offered as a popular loan
under such regulations to be prescrib-
ed by the Secretary of the Treasury as
will give opportunity to the citizens of
the United States to participate in the
subscriptions to such loan; and a sum
not exceeding one-half of one per cent.
of the amount of the bonds herein au-
thorized is hereby appropriated to
pay the expense of preparing, adver-
tising, issuing and disposing of the
same.
That the Secretary of the Treasury is
authorized to borrow from time to time,
at the market rate of interest, not ex-
ceeding 3 per cent. per annum, such
sum or sums as in his judgment may
be necessary to meet public eXpendi-
tures and to issue therefor certificates
of Indebtedness in such form as he
may prescribe, and in denominations of
$50 or some multiple of that sum, and
each certificate so issued shall be pay
able with the interest accrued thereon,
at such time, not exceeding one year
from the date of its issue, as the Sec
retary of the Treasury may prescribe; !;
providing. that the amount of such GER
titicates outstanding shall at no time
exceed S100 900; and the provisions
of existing law respecting counterfeit
ing and other fraudulent practices are
hereby extended to the bonds and GER
tificates of Indebtedness authorized by
this Act.