The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-02
THE INTERNAL REVENUE
COMMISSIONER REPORTS RECEIPTS FROM
ALL SOURCES sl73, ,484, ,582.
Increase or Decrease from Each Source for tie
Year as Compared With The
Year 1898.

Washington, August 1.-The annual
preliminary report Of the Commissioner
ef Internal Revenue for the fiscal year
ended June 30th, 1899, shows that the
receipts from all sources Of internal
revenue. for the year aggregated S2t3,-
4S4 .5S1. which amount included S2l4,-
953. tax on money orders turned over
by The Postmaster General to tile cot
lector for the District Of Maryland and
for which no expense for collecting was
incurred, making al increase of SlO2,-
GIT, TG3 over the receipts Tor the fiscal
year ended June Both. 1898.
The receipts from the several sources
Of revenue and the increase or decrease
in each for the year as compared vita
the year 1898 are given as follows:
Spirits, $50, 2s3. .543; increase. $685.,
543: tobacco Sa2, 49,, POT, increase Sl6.-
262, ,635: fermented liquors S6S.G14,35S,
increase S29 129. .131: oleomargarine ST.
95G,ils. increase SG40.S3S filled cheese
S,g9S, increase S1,579. mixed flour So
$40. (law not in effect last year.
Special taxes under war revenue act
not elsewhere enumerated S4,921 J93:
legacies a2d distribntive shares Of per-
sonal property 81 20, 4,..5, schedules A
and b (staanp taxi S43 .S37 SIS: miscel-
laneous 81 1,0S5, SOS: total S213, 49, 49,.
Among the war reyenua receipts inclu-
ded in the above are the following:
Bankers (capital not exceeding S25,-
000) S448,T02; bankers capital exceed
ing So, ,000) $500. 134: billiard rooms
S3G1 OIL; brokers (stock and bond etc.l
S331 .O10: commercial brokers S1S1 $40.
kcrs $50..122; Bowling alleys S61 $40;
circuses S1S.233; theatres. exhibitions
etc. S126541; playing cards, S2T1,2 ,2TS:
penalties. S1G6,576.
The quantities Of distilled spirits, fer
mented liquors, manufactured tobacco,
snuff, cigars cigarettes. ole0margarine
and filled cheese on which tax was paid
during last fiscal year. with the Increase
with the fiscal year 1898 are given az
follows:
Spirits distilled from fruit 1.306,21S
gallons, decrease 105.230. sIlirits dis
TILED from grain S3,S19.314 gallons, in
crease 5.4GG,013; fermented liquors
(beer) a6,5s1. iii barrels decrease H.
192; cigars weighing more than 3 pounds
per thousand 4.529.ST2 ,204, increase a.
G11,7ST: cigars weighing nor more than
1t.-t1 W
increase III ,738, ,640; cigarettes weighing
not more than three pounds per thons-
and 2.SG2.302,5I3, decrease 94S. 224: !:
cigarettes weighing more than three
pounds per thousand 2,62S, 1G4, increase
i17,G33 snuff 14.G27,1GG pounds. in
| crease 59S.02s; tobacco. chewing and
smoking 23T,f32 410 pounds, decrease
51,02S.2G3: oleomargarine so. 49,. .G2S
pounds, increase p. 1865 filled cheese
i,G8s,G41 pounds, increase 21J, IT'S.
The statement of the collections in
States showing receipts above 81 ,000,-
000 contains the following, cents omit
ted:
Louisiana. including Mississippi. So
%. .173: Maryland, including Delaware
District of Columbia ana two counties
in Virginia. IS. 10000; New York. SIG
G34 $50; North Carolina, S4,921 .016:
Tennessee, S2.173,s95; Texas. Sl.577.,
s33; Virginia, $4,S15,s51; West Virginia.
III, ,430, 106.