The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-10

and on all transfers thereof. on each 500
of face value, cents.
Certificates of damage, issued by any
( port warden or marine surveyor. % cents.
/ Certificates of any other description, 10
cents. Charter party, If the registered
/ tonnage of the vessel does not exceed 800
tons, So; exceeding 300 tons and not ex-
ceedIng 600 tons, So; exceeding 600 tons, SO.
Contract, brokers' note or memorandum
of sale of any goods or merchandise.
! stocks. bonds. exchange, notes on hand,
! real estate, or property of any description
| issued by brokers or persons acting as
such, for each note or memorandum of
/ sale, 10 cents. Conveyance or deed for
! real estate on which consideration exceeds
| 500 and does not exceed $500, 80 cents, and
! for each additional $500, so cents.
Entry bonds at any. custom house not
| exceeding 800 in value, 25 cents: exceed
ing 500 and not exceeding $500 in value, %
for the withdrawal of goods from customs
! bonded warehouse, so cents.
The secretary of the treasury is author
lied to borrow on the credit of the United
States from time to time, as the proceeds
may be required, to defray expenditures
authorized on account of the existing war
(Such proceeds when received to be used
only for the purpose of meeting Such war
expenditures, the sum of $4O0OOO,OOO, or SO
prepare and issue therefor coupon or reg
istered bonds of the United States in de-
nominations of $40 or some multiple OF
that sum, redeemable in coin at the pleas
ure of the United States, after ten years
from the date of their issue, and payapie
20 wears from such date, bearing interest,
payable quarterly, in coin. at the rate OF
per cent per annum. The bonds are 10
be first offered at par as popular loan.
The conference added the following pro-
viso: .,ooe
any issue of said bonds not subscribed 1or
as above provided may be disposed Oh py
the secretary of the treasury at not less
than par. and under such regulatlons as
he may prescribe, but no commission
shall be allowed or paid thereon, and
sum not exceeding one-tenth OF per CEN
tum of the amount of the bonds and GER
tificates herein authorized is hereby APP
propriated out of any money IN the treas
ury not otherwise appropriated TO the eX-
pense of preparing, advertising and issu-
ing the same.
SILVER COINAGE PROVISION.
The provision for the silver bullion is as
follows: That the secretary OF the treas
rlly is hereby authorized and directed 10
coin into standard silver dollars, as rapid
ly as the public interests may require 10
81. 500 600 a month, of silver bullion now in
the treasury purchased in accordance
with the provisions of the act approved
July IA, 1890 entitled An act dlree ,t tne
of treasury notes thereon, and for other
purposes Said dollars, when SO coined,
shall be used when applied in the man
ner and for the purpose named IN SAID
W MIXED FLOUR.
A substitute was adopted for the SEN
ate provision for a tax on mixed HOUR nut
the material points We're retained In ao-
dition to the annual license of S12 upon
manufacturers a tax of cents per barrel
is levied upon all mixed flour manufac-
tured, sold, or removed Tor SAFE: Inc
same rate is proportionately LEVIED on
half barrels and smaller packages.
TEA TAX.
There shall be levied, collected and paid
upon tea when imported from foreign
countries a duty of 10 cents per pound.
The tax becomes operative with the act.
PENALTIES PROVIDED.
Section Z provides that if any person or
persons shall make, sign or issue any IN
strument or paper OF any descrlplippn
without it's being stamped, he snail De
guilty of a misdemeanor, the penalty be-
ing S1OO at the discretion of the court.
Section provides a penalty OF a nne NOT |
term of not exceeding five years or both, |
for counterfeiting the stamps and the |
penalty is made to apply to all persons |
having any connection with the counter
feiting.
Proprietors or proprietary articles are |
given the privilege of furnishing their |
own dies or designs IST SleIIlpS, IL
to perform which act is made misde- |
meanor punishable by fine of not less
than $50 nor more than 5000. or by i'm |
of not to exceed six months |
or BOTH 1t is also made a miSdemeanor |
bv section 10 to evade the provisions of The |
stamp law, punishable by a fine not ex
ceeding $500.
Other sections following relate to the |
of the law. Section II pro-
vides for the distribution of stamps. Sec
ton 16 exemptS government, state, county |
and municipal bonds from the operation
Of the law and also the stocks and bonds
issued by cooperative building and loan
associations whose capital stock does not
exceed $4,000 and building and loan as
sociationS or companies that make loans
only to their shareholders.
TELEGRPH MESSAGES.
Section Is provides for tax stamp on
messages and eXemptS mes
sages of officers and employees of the
on official business and also
the messages of telegraph and railroad |
over their own lines.
Section 20 makes it Il miSdemeanor to
evade the plans of schedule B, relative to
drugs medicines, perfumery, etc, pun
shable by a fine not to exceed $500 or
TO not exceed six months
Or both.
Incorporated medicines or those hav-
ing been put up and sold at retail as pre-
scriptions are not included in the taxable
articles, leaving it to apply particularly to
proprietary articles.
Section "a adds tax on proprietary arti-
,leS to the duty on them, requiring the
lffiXing of the internal revenue stamp be-
fore withdrawal for consumption.