The age-herald., 1898-04-24

dispatches, cent on messages below the charge of 20 cents and cents where the charge Is above 20 cents. On the entry or goods of custom houses for consumption, not exceeding s100 in value, % cents; be- tween S10O and S500, 40 cents; exceeding soOO. $1; entry for withdrawal of goods from bonded warehouses, 50 cents; life insurance policies, not including additional policies, for each s1 900, 20 centsi marine and fire in- surance, 25 cents; leases for a period not exceeding three years, 50 cents; exceeding that period, $1; clearance papers for cargo destined for a foreign port if the tonnage of the ship does not exceed 300 tons, $l; be- tween 300 and 600 tons, 8; exceeding 500 tons, s5.
 Mortgages, not exceeding $500, 50 cents; between $500 and $1, ,000 $1; between, H,OOO and $2,500, $2; between $25OO and 5000, S5; between $5O00 and $10,OO0, $1O between a0,- GOO and $20 900, S15; for each additional Sfl,- 000 Sl0; passage tickets for foreign port if less than $30, $1; exceeding $SO, S5. Power of attorney, 25 cents; power of at torney to convey real estate or rent or lease the same, $1 probate of will or letters of administration where the estate does not exceed $2.50O; 50 cents; between $2,5OO and $5,000 $1; between $5 900 and $20,000 s2; be- tween $20,000 and $50, 900, $5; between $5O,000 and $1OO,OOO $1O; between $1OO,00O and H5O,ooo, $2O and for each additional $50000, $1.
 
 ance, etc., 25 cents; warehouse receipt for goods in merchandise, etc., held in storage 25 cents.
 A Ton age Tax
 The bill also imposes a system of tonnage taxes of eight cents per ton not to exceed 96 cents per ton per year on all vessels for foreign ports and from the receipts of those duties $750,000 Is appropriated for the marino hospital service The loan provisions of the bill are as folows: That the secretary of the treasury is hereby authorized to borrow on the credit of the United States the sum of $500, ,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary and to prepare and issue therefor at not less than par, coupon or registered bonds of the UniAd States in such form as he may describe and in de- nominations 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 sush date and bearing interest payable quarterly in coin at the rate of cents per annum and the bonds herein authorized shall be exempt from all taxes or duties of the United States as well s from taxation in any form by or under state municipal CT focal authority; pro- vided, that the bonds authorized hv a's section shall be first offered as a popular loan under such regulations to be pre- scribed by the secretary of the treasury as will give opportunity to the citizens Of the united states 10 partlc1pdto III the StD- scriptions to such loans and suto not cx ceeding one-half of 1 per cent. of the amount of the bonds herein authorized is hereby appropriated to pay the expense Of Irej nring, advertising, issuing and dis posing of tho same.
 That the secretary of the treasury Is au- thorzed from time to time at the market rate of interest, not exceeding 3 per cent. per annum, such sum or sums as in his judgment may be necessary to meet pub lie expenditures and to issue therefor cer- tilicates in such form as he may prescribe in denominations of $50 or some multiple of that sum, and such certificate so issued shall be payable with the interest accrued thereon at such time, not exceeding one year from the date of it's issue, as the secretary of the treasury may prescribe.
 Not to Exceed a Million =
 Provided that the amount of such cer-. tifcates outstanding shall at no time ceed Sl00 ,000 900 and that the provisions of present laws respecting counterfeiting and other fraudulent practices are hereby ex- tended to the bonds and certificates of in- debtedness authorized by this act. Z.
 Itis also provided that in addition to the quantity of tobacco and snuff in packages now authorized by law, there may be package of smoking tobacco containing one and three-fourths ounces; and in ad- dition to the number now authorized by law in packages of cigarettes there may be packages containing eight and sixteen cigarettes each.