The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1898-06-24
Text of Revenue Taxes.

HOuey w llSut udtiouc, anu ~"
escape their share of taxation. The
amount expected to be realized is
about $175, 100000 annually: Beer, ale
and fermented liquors, - per barrel
Bankers, capital of $25 900, $50 and ~
tor EACH additional 81 900.
Brokers, $50; Pawn and commercial
brokers, 500; customhonse, $40.
City theaters, 800; circuses, each
state, 500; owners of public c%H;bl-
tions, $40; bowling alleys, billiard Ia
bles, So each.
Tobacco and snuff, IL cents pound;
cigars and cigarettes, ranging as high
as $3.50 per thousand, dealers rs to
1924.
Insurance, life one per cent; Crater
nails omitted), fire, etc, one half one
per cent.
Lease, land or tenement, each 70
cents, manifest, custom house, 81 50.
Mortgages, each $1,000, % cents;
Passage ticket to foreign ports 81 to
s..
Proxy for voting in corporated COM
pany, each, 10 cents, power OF attorney,
% cents; protests, IS cents;
Telegraph and telephone messages,
l cent;
Medicinal proprietary articles, up TO
scents each;
Chewing gum, 4 cents on every 81.
Wines, 4 cents pint.
Petroleum and sugar reGneries,
A tax OF one cent to be collected on
every palace car seat or berth sold.
Inheritance tax, ranging from IS
cents to S. per 500.
Flour manufacturers, tax SD per an
mum, and cents on each barrel sold.
Tea, ten cents a pound.
Bonds, debentures, etc. on each 800
5 cents.
On each sale, agreement, at stock
exchange Or board of trade, for each
500 one cent.
Each bank check, draft, etc, 2 cents,
bills of exchange foreign, each 500, 4
cents.
Every shipping bill or bill of lading
must have affixed a l cent stamp, by
the consignor.
Indemnifying bonds, so cents.
Contracts of brokers, memorandum
of sales, of any goods, stocks, etc., 10
to so cents.
"Coinage OF silver bullion-That the
Secretary of the Treasury is hereby
authorized and directed to coin into
standard silver dollars, as rapidly as
the public interests may require, to an
amount, however, of not less than ST.
500, 900 month, of the silver bullion
now in the Treasury, purchased in ac-
cordance with the provisions of the act
of July II, 1890, entitled San act di-
recting the purchase of silver bullion
and the issue of treasury notes thereon
and for other purposes and said dol
lars, when so coined, shall be used
when applied in the manner and for
the purpose named in said act"
Adhesive stamps: Section 7 pro-
vides that if any person or persons
shall make, sign or issue any instru-
ment or paper of any description with
out it's being stamped, he shall be gull
ty of misdemeanor, the penalty be-
ing 500, at the discretion of the
court.
Section s provides a penalty of a
fine not exceeding 81 900 or imprison-
ment for q term not exceeding five
years or both, for counterfeiting the
stamps, and the penalty is made to APP
ply to all persons having any connect
ion with the counterfeiting. Proprie-
tors of proprietary articles are given
the privilege of furnishing their own
dies or designs for stamps, failure to
perform which act is made a misde-
meanor, punishable by fine not less
than $50, nor more than $500, or by
Imprisonment Of not to exceed six
months, or both. 1t is also made a
misdemeanor by section 10 to evade
the provisions of the stamp law, pun
ishable by fine not exceeding 5000.
The penalties will be severe, instru
ments will not be legal without the
stamps affixed, and it will be awkward
to get used 10 these changes, but the
government officials will be numer-
Gus enough to remind us of any short
comings.
A LOGGER who has been operating
into Puget Sound for ten or fifteen
years, informs the w. C. CPS. Lum-
herman that the logging conditions
| here are DEMONSTRATING tho foot tbo,