New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-04-24

was placed upon the tight to pursue the Dusl-
ness. For instance apothecaries we're taxed $40;
auctioneers. 500: bankers. 500; brewers, $50,
save in cases where the brewers made less than
five hundred barrels per annum, and then the
tax $25; billiard rooms, for each table. 80:
bowling alleys, for each alley, IS: stock and
commercial brokers. $50: land brokers. $25; cat
tie brokers, $40; circuses. $50 claim agents. $40;
coal oil distillers. $50; confectioners $40: dem
lists. So distillers, $50; In where the prod
uct less than three hundred barrels year
$25 dstiors Of apples and peaches making less
thar $50 barrels per annum. $l2 80; making
more than this. $50; eating houses. $40; public
exhibitions not otherwise provided for. $lO;
horse dealers $40: hotels. from $500 down to $S
according TO size and classification; steamers
and vessels carrying passengers, 10; )ugglers
$50; lawyers $40; lvcrymen. $40: manufacture
ers, SO; patent agents. S10 pawnbrokers $50;
peddlers. from $50 to So. according to amount
Of business done photographers from 30 I?
$40, physicians SO; rectAers, for every 5oa
barrels. SO: retail dealers in liquors $50; in
other goods, $40; soap makers and tallow
chambers, SO, surgeons SO; theatres. sl0E
tobacconists. $40: wholesale dealers in liquors.
500 In other materials, $50.
SPECIFIC DUTIES.
The specific duties levied were 81 on barrel
OF beer, ale porter calves slaughtered.
, cents a head; billiard tables for private use.
SO; cards. from l cent to . cents package;
cattle. slaughtered. 80 cents each; chocolate,
cent pound cigars. from 81 30 20 50 % per
thousand. according to sale price; CLOCKS run
ming one day, ) cents. or running more than one
day without rewindng, 10 cents; gas, from
cents to - cents per one thousand feet, accCrt
ing TO amount produced; hogs slaughtered "
cents each iron. from - cents to - 4 ton a'
corIing 10 its condition OF manufacture; lead
. cents per hundred pounds; leather. from
cent to cents a pound according 10 style; IN
hcritanccs were taxed from - cents TO - ever;
500 according TO the relationship borne to tha
deceased by the heirs; nails and spikes. y
ton; passports to travel in foreign countries. 81
gold plate 30 cents per Troy ounce; silver pia'''
3 cents A Troy ounce; snuff. 20 cents pound.
distilled spirits 20 cents gallon; steel in. bars
or ingots. 81 10 $40 ton. according to value;
sugar cents a pound; yachts. SO each to-
bacco. from . to 10 cents pound. according
TO grade
This tells in a general way how commodities
were taxed. OF course. the bill was almost IN
termlnable and provided for a Sigh; tax on al
most everything OF every day use. stamp duties
running from cent up to $50 were provided io'
all kinds % commercial transactions includln;
bills Of ladng. property transfers. contracts
bills OF exchange. express companies receipts
telegraph messages certificates Of stock. IN
surance leases probate OF wills ana 50 on.
AID vALOREM DUTIES
Al yalorem duties were placed upon gross 70
ceipts for advertisements amounting to > pc,
cent; auction sales, one-tenth Of | per cent
bridge tolls :; per cent: diamonds and all Jcwelry
:, per cent: dividends upon all banks. corpora
tIons insurance. companies. savings banks ant
trust companies 3 per cent. gross receipts II
ferry boats. H.. per cent insurance companies
upon gross receipts for assessment premiums
per cent. interest on railroad bonds. per cent:
railroads. on gross receipts for carrying pasSen-
gers . per cent: steamboats, on gross receipts. 5
per cent: horscclrs. IL per cent OF gross re-
cclpts. other taxes were imposed along these
lines until nearly every line Of commercial m
dustry was assessed.
There was NJ Quibbling over the much-mopteb
constitut.onality Of the income tax. ard IA
WAS proyid,i for upon the income of al persona
making over $500 a year The tax on inconet
between 5000 and SlOODo year was ; per cent;
in excess OF Slo.rD year the tax was > per
cent when the money was derived from prop
erty owned in the United states by people living
abroad the tax was > per cent no matter What
th, amount If the income was. lncon" from
United states securities was taxed l.. per cent
From these many sources money Was raised 10
meet the heavy expenses incurred by the civil
War. Along these lines beyond all probability.
money will Ice raised to meet the expense OF \
war with Spain if such money is needed.