The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-08-02
INTERNAL REVENUE.
RECEIPTS FOR THE FISCAL
YEAR JUST ENDED.
Amounted to a Total Of Over Two
Hundred and Seventy-Three
Millions Of Dollars.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-The annual
preliminary report of the Commission
er of Internal Revenue for the fiscal
year ended June 30, 1899, shows that
the receipts from all sources of inter-
nal revenue for the year aggregated
$2I3, 4S4, oS2, which amount included
S2l4,933 tax on money orders turned
over by the Postmaster General to the
Collector of the District of Maryland,
and for which no expense for collec-
ton was incurred, making an increase
of S102,617, 1853 over the receipts for
the fiscal year ended June 30, 1898.
The expenses of the bureau for the
fiscal year approximate 81 ,5S4, 145, and
the percentage of cost of collection
predicated on these figures. less tax on
money orders, will be 1.6S, reduction
of O61 in the percentage of the cost of
collection. as compared with the pre-
ceding fiscal year, when the percent
age of cost was 2.29.
The receipts from the several sources
of revenue and the increase or decrease
in each for the year, as compared with
1898, are given as follows: Spirits S99,
2S3,543, increase So. 1885, 43; tobacco
So, 4O3. POI, increase S16,262, 800; fer
mented liquors E$6S.644. 55S. increase
S29, 129 1871; oleomargarine 81, 596,61S.
increase $640,S3S; filled cheese $1S,09S,
increase 81 ,o91; mixed -four 81, $40 Claw
not in effect last year,.
Special taxes under war revenue not
elsewhere enumerated 81 921 ,593; lega-
cies and distributive shares of persona,
property, 81 ,235, 435: schedules A and
B (stamp tax, S43,3S7, S1S; miscellan,
eous, $1,0S7 1858. Total, 1913, 4S4, 49,
Among the war revenue receipts in
cluded in the above are: Bankers (cap-
ital not exceeding S25,0OO), $44S, 0O7;
bankers Capital exceeding $50, O0O),
3,302, 1874; billiard rooms, $367 ,7O4;
brokers (stocks and bonds. etc), 1857,
O1O; commercial brokers, 1851 49,
pawn brokers'. $50522; bowling alleys.
Sol $40; circuses. $1S3 1913; theaters, ex-
hibitions, etc, S126,341; playing cards,
S211, 21S; penalties, $166,576
The quantities of distilled spirits, fer
mented liquors, manufactured tobacco,
snuff, cigars, cigarettes, oleomargarine
and filled cheese on which tax was paid
during the fiscal year. with the in,
crease or decrease in each case, as COM
pared with 1898. are given as follows:
Spirits distilled from fruit 1,3O6.21S
gallons. decrease 100. $50; spirits dis
titled from grain S3.S19314, increase
5,466, OBJ; fermented liquors (beer) &c.
5S1. UO4 barrels. decrease 1882; cigars
(weighing more than 3 pounds per L.,
000) 4.329, $40. 3O4. increase 24,611, 1877;
cigars (not more than 3 pounds per L.
O0O) o41 ,415,520, increase 141, 73S $40;
cigarettes (weighing not more than 3
pounds per 1,000) 1902, 500, 573. decrease
94S.9S4.224; cigarettes (weighing more
than 3 pounds per 1.00O) 1928 164, IN
crease All, 033; snuff 1867 1O6 pounds,
decrease sos, 02S; tobacco (chewing and
smoking) 23I .132,41O pounds, decrease
81 ,0oS,203 oleomargarine 80, 400. 62S
pounds. increase %. 106,9O1; filled cheese
1,6SS645 pounds, increase 275,71S.
The statement of the collections in
each of the several States showing re-
ceipts above $1.000,0O0 is as follows.