The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-06-20

IN Ecu thereof new or imprinted stamps
at ,ae rate provided by this act
Adhesive Sfa,nne

lCtssn any ulclAatCn or message WlthO
" an adhesive stamp, denoting the tax Il
~ posed by this act, being affixed 10 CO
thereof or having the same stamped thel
- upon, and i'm default thereof shall incur
= penalty OF $40, provided that only o.
= stamp shall be required in each dispat'
u or message, whether sent through one
l. more companies; provided that the me
!, sages or dispatches of the officers and Ell
u ployees of any telegraph or telephone con
= pany concerning the affairs and service
= the company and like messages or di
patches of the officials and employees
: railroad companies sent over the wires O
their respective railroads shall be exemI
from this requirement.; provided furthe
that messages of officers and employees {
the government on official business shal
be exempt from the taxes herein imposes
upon Geographic and telephone messages
Sec. 10. That all the provisions of thi
act relating TO dies, stamps, ADHESIVE
stamps and stamp taxes shall extend {.
and include Except where manifestly in
applicable) all the articles or objects emu
merated i'm schedule b, subject to STAMP
taxes, and apply TO the provisions in rela
ton thereto.
Proprietary Medicines.
Sec. 20. That on and after the 1st day OF
July, 1898, any person. firm, company or
corporation that shall make, prepare and
sell or remove for consumption or sale
drugs medicines, preparations, compost
lions, articles or things, including per-
fumery and cosmetics, upon which a tax
is imposed by this act, as provided for i'm
schedule b, without affixing thereto an
adhesive stamp or label denoting the tax
before mentioned shall be deemed guilty
OF misdemeanor and upon conviction
thereof shall pay fine Of not more than
5000 or be imprisoned not more than six
months, or both, at the discretion of the
court, provided that no stamp tax shall
be imposed upon any incorporated me-
dicinal drug or chemical nor upon any
medicine sold TO or for the use of any per-
son which may be mixed or compounded
Tor said person according to the written
recipe or prescription of any practicing
physician or surgeon or which may be nut
up or compounded for said person by n
druggist or pharmacist selling at retail
only.
sec. II. That any manufactures or max
n OF any Of the articles for sale mentioned
N schedule b. after the same shall have
been SO made and the particulars herein
'efore required us TO stamps have been
compiled with, or any other person who
nail take OH, remove or detach or cause
r permit or suffer to be taken off or re-
moved or detached, any stamp, or who +
hall use any stamp or any wrapper or
over to which any stamp is affixed. to cover
ny other article or commodity than that
contained in such wrapper or
ilth the intent to evade the stamp duties
nan Tor every such article respectively,
respect of which any such offense shall
{ committed be deemed guilty of mis-
and upon conviction thereof
iali pay u me oi not more than $500 or
imprisoned not more than six months,
Doth, ana every such article or com
odity as aforesaid shall also be forfeited.
sec. ~. That any maker or manufac-
lrer OF any of the articles or commodities
entloned III schedule b as aforesaid or
~ other person who shall sell, send out
move or deliver any article or conmod.
manufactured as aforesaid before the |
!. thereon shall have been fully paid by
nxlng thereon the proper stamp, as in
is act provided, or who shall hide or |
mccall or cause to be hidden or concealed.
VINO shall remove or convey awav or {
post, or cause to be removed or convey !
away from or deposited in any place
y such article or commodity to eyade
9 tax chargeable thereon or any part
ereof shall be deemed guilty of a INSIDE. ]
amor and upon conviction thereof shall I
line OF not more than $500 or be i'm {
lsoned not more than six months, or
Tn, at the discretion of the court, togeth
with the forfeiture of any such article
provided that articles upon
llch stamp taxes are required by this act !;
", when intended for expectation. be 7,
'nufactured and sold or removed with
having stamps affixed thereto. and !,
Lhout being charged with tax as afore- =
u, ana every manufactures or maker of :,
article as aforesaid intended for OK =
'tatlon shall give such bonds and be :,
'Ject TO such rules and regulations to :,
'tect the revenue against fraud. :.
section 23 provides that manufacturers ! q
st furnish monthly schedules concern -
their output and file them with the -
lector. 81
'ec. "a. That the stamp taxes prescribed :,
this act on the articles provided for in -
edule Is shall attach to all such articles =
things sold or removed for sale on and
II the said LIST day of July, 1898. Every ;,
son. except as otherwise provided in this i
who offers or exposes for sale any arti- 9"
nr thing provided for in said schedule r g.
ether the article SO offered or exposed is -
oreign manufacture and imported or of -,
nestle manufacture, shall be deemed =,
manufacturer thereof and shall be sub q,
to all the taxes, liabilities and penal. .,
imposed by law for the sale of articles
hout the use of the proper stamp denot- -.
the tax paid thereon, and all such ar =,
rs OF foreign manufacture shall i'm adj -
on to the import duty imposed on the -.
10 be subject to the stamp tax pre- -,
bed In this act; provided further that ca
rnal revenue stamps required by exist on
law on imported merchandise shall lie 90
Ied thereto and cancelled at the expense ~
he owner or importer before the with 80
val or such merchandise for consump- -
cotton 20 provides for the preparation g.
nc stamps, etc. ~
Schedule A--Stamp Taxes. AZ
onds debentures or certificates of in. nc
.edness issued after the LIST day of July. TO
), by any association, company or cor co
ltion, on each 500 of face value or
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