The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-13
HEAVY TAX ON SAVANNAH.
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In month for stamps. The telegraph
companies do not divulge the number of
kilograms that pass through their offices
here, but they aggregate many thousands
in month. Newspapers will pay one
cent on each special sent them, too An
estimate is made that the number of dis
patches of all kinds handled in Savannah
averages considerably over 1900 a day.
Such being the case Savannahs payments
for stamps and kilograms would be over
$500 in a year The telegraph companies
may pay the bill, but 1t is more likely that
the public will do it.
On every bank check or draft or certifl-
cate of deposit a 2-cent stamp viii have
10 be pasted. The effect of this may be
that savannah houses heretofore paying
all local accounts in checks will hereafter
pay in cash, drawing merely one large
check. The railroads win doubtless en-
tlfeiy discontinue paying off in checks.
Hundreds of houses in Savannah are
leased by the year. Hereafter 25-cenI
stamp must be affixed to each lease, if il
is for one year, a 50-cent stamp if it s
for three years and $1-stamp if for more
than three years So, on every mortgage
executed here for more than 81 900 and
less than Sl,500 there is a stamp tax of p
cents, and % cents for each additional
$500. If note comes due, is
not paid and is protested a 25-cent
stamp must go on the protest notice. So,
if a check or bin of exchange is protested.
A power of attorney to sell or lease real
estate also requires a 25-cent stamp, and
Incorporated companies or associations
10 cents. Twenty five-cent stamps soon
run up into the dollars and the dollars
into the hundreds. Patriotic Savannah
must go down into her pocket quite deeply.
Another large source of war revenue In
this city viii be in the warehouse receipts.
AS every one knows a great number of
o,va Ia, On fl,a foo
of each of them must be a 25-cent stamp.
Cotton and naval stores men will lay in
a liberal lot of stamps of that denOmi-
nation TO meet the demand.
Shipping men will yield quite literally
to the war funds There is hardly a prob
ability of any change in the taxes inn
posed on their line OF business. On every
certificate issued by one of Savannah's
port wardens there must be a 25-cent
stamp. On every charter of a vessel on
renewal or transfer of the same, there is
a stamp tax of SO on a registered ton
mage of 800 tons, s. on 600 tons, and $40 on
over GOO tons. On every custom house en-
try a stamp of % cents value is required
for 500 of value so cents for $500, and 81
for more than $500 For every withdrawal
of goods from a bonded warehouse Uncle
Sam takes another 50 cents. On each
manifest for custom house entry a clear
ance of ships foreign, British North
america excepted, the stamp TAX Is 81 on
registered tonnage of 800 tons, So on 600
tons and s. on more than COO tons a fight
has been made on this. At a port like
Savannah these shipping taxes would
| run we'll up into the thousands of dollars
in a year.
And so IL goes. Sales and agreements
| to sell securities of any kind. promissory
| notes, foreign bills of exchange bonds of
indemnity, certificates issued by notaries
and other law officers, all these carry
| their share of taxation. Even when a Sa-
MAMMALIAN has the misfortune to lose a
| relative and inherit a sum exceeding &c.,
| coo the Federal government proposes to
take a share to help free suffering Cuba"
| The Savannah business man will soon
find that 1t is taxes here, taxes there,
taxes everywhere he may turn.