Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-06-23
SUNNI OF WAR TAXES.
These schedules went into effect or

These schedules went into effect on
June IA:
'Beer, ale, and other fermented Ii
quor, per barrel, 81; tobacco, manufac-
tured, per pound, IL cents; cigars, Gig
aretteS, over three pounds per 1000,
$3.50; cigars, under three pounds per
1000, 81; cigarettes, under three pounds
per 1000, sl50; tea imports, per pound,
10 cents.
These schedules will so into effect on
July 1:
Bank capital, including surplus, over
$4,000, $50; for each $1,000 over s25, 900,
81; brokers in negotiable securities, $50;
pawnbrokers, 500; commercial brokers,
$40; custom house brokers, $40: thea
tres, museums, concert halls, in cities
Of over $4,000 inhabitants, 500; cir
cuses, 800: other shows and exhibi-
tions, $40; bowling alleys, billiard
rooms, per alley or table, So; tobacco
dealers-leaf tobacco, sales between 50,-
900 and 100000 pounds, $12: sales over
100000, $24; manufacturers, sales under
$4,000, Sc; sales between $4,000 and 100,-
900, $12; sales over 100000, $24; ,aanu-
facturers of cigars, sales under 100000,
Sc; sales between 100000 and 200,00O
s12; sales over 100000, $24; Stocks
bonds, debentures, certificates of in
debtedness issued after July l, 1898, per
500 face value, 5 cents; transfers Of
stocks, per s100 face value, 2 cents;
sales of merchandise for present or
future delivery on exchanges, per $100,
1 cent; bank check or sight draft, 2
cents; bills of exchange Qnland), time
draft and promissory note, money Or
ders, for each 800, 2 cents; bills of ax-
lott Of
drawn singly, per 800, cents; in sets
of two or more for each bill, 2 cents;
bill of lading or receipt for any goods
to be exported. 10 cents; bill of lading
to be issued by express and transport
alton companies, per package, l cent;
telephone messages, charged at 10
cents or over, l cent; surety bonds, so
cents; certificates of profit, memu
showing interest in corporation, or
transfers of same, per 500 face value
cents; certificate of damage and GER
tlficates of port wardens or marine sur
veyors, rs cents; other certificates not
specified 10 cents: charter party, per
vessel of 300 tons. So; between 800 and
COO, So; exceeding 600, $40; contract
brokers' notes of sale or exchange of
goods, stocks, bonds, notes, real estate
&c, 10 cents: conveyances, value be-
tween 800 and $500, so cents; telegraph
messages, l cent; custom house entry,
not over 800, 25 cents; between one
and three year and $500, so cents; over
$500, 81; custom house entry for with
drawal, SO cents; insurance (ife), for
each 500 of policy, 8 cents; industrial
weekly payment plan, 40 per cent of
first weekly payment; leases-For one
year, 20 cents; between one and three
years, so cents: over three years, 81;
manifest for custom house entry or
clearance for foreign port, per ship Of
300 tons, ST. between 300 and 600 tons
SO; exceeding 600 tons, S. mortgage,
between $1,000 and $1,500, 25 cents; for
each $500 additional, % cents; passage
ticket to foreign port, costing not over
$50, 81: between $50 and $50, So; over
$780, IS; "-power of attorney to vote,
10 cents; *+'"to sell, rent or collect, 20
cents; protests or notes, &C., 25 cents;
warehouse receipts, 25 cents; medicinal
proprietary articles and perfumery,
cosmetics, &c, per package of cents,
retail price, 1.25 mills; between Is and
rs cents, 6.25 mills; chewing gum, per
package of 81, retail value, cents;
sparkling or other Wines per pint bot
tie. 1 cent; petroleum and sugar re-
fning or transporting oil or other pro-
ducts by pipe line, excise tax on gross
receipts exceeding $250000, 2.5 mills;
palace or parlor car seats or berths,
per seat or berth, l cent; "'legaces be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 to lineal de-
scendant, or brother or sister of tes-
tator per 800 clear value, rs cents; to
descendants of brother or sister of tes-
tator, $1.50; to brother or sister of faith
er or mother of testator, or their de-
| scendants, SO; to brother or sister of
| grandparents of testator. or their de-
scendants 81; to other beneficlaries,
So; tax on legac.es between $25, 900 and
100000, multiplied by one and one
half; between 100000 and $500, ,O00 null
| tiplled by two; between $500,0 and
$1,OO0.00O, multiplied by two and one
half; over s1,000.000, multiplied by
| three.
These schedules will go into effect in
sixty days:
Mixed flour, dealers, per annum, $1o;
per package, imports included, between
sS and 1856 lbs, cents.
TIP per cent discount allowed.
"Wives and husbands exempt. "'"Re-
ligious literary, charitable societies
and public cemeteries exempt. $40.
Claims against United States exempt.
Cadet Powell Remembered.
Washington, June 23.-''We do not
intend to forget the launch" said Capt.
Crowninshield, Chief of the Bureau of
Navigation, when his attention was
called to the conduct of Joseph Wright
Powell of Oswego, N. Y, a naval cadet