The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-06-14

cents Tor eacn Sl, OUO.
Order for payment of money on
sight or on demand.
Perfumery and cosmetics, q cent
for each cents
Power of attorney to vote, 10 cents.
Power of attorney to sell, % cents.
Promissory notes, 2 cents for each
800.
Proprietary medicines q cent for
each cents.
Protest, % cents.
Telegraph messages 1 cent.
Telephone messages, cent.
United States money orders, 2 cents
for each 800.
Warehouse receipts, % cents.
The following items have been modi-
fed:
Beer, So per barrel and ~ per cent
discount, changed to SIG per barrel,
and ~ per cent discount repealed.
Bills of exchange, foreign, cents
for each 500; changed to cents for
each 800.
Cigars weighing more than pounds
per 1, 900, So. 60 per 200; changed to
So per 1000.
Cigarettes weighing not more than
3 pounds per 1000, $3.50 per 1000;
changed to, valued at not more than
So per 1, 600, 10 cents per pound valued
at more than So per 1000, SO cents per
pound.
Cigars weighing not more than 8
pounds per 1000, 81 per 1000; chang
ed to IS cents per pound.
Conveyance, 80 cents for each $500:
now exempted below 50, 500; above
SO, 500, % cents for each $500.
Legacies-Law modified so as to ex-
clude from taxation legacies of charit-
able, religious, literary or educational
character after March 1, 1901.
Orders for payment of money by
telegraph, ETC., issued by express COM
panies, etc., drawn in but payable out
of United States, 2 cents for each
800.
Passage tickets, 81 to So ; now exempt
ed below $50 in value, for each 500, 80
cents; exceeding $50, in addition
thereto, so cents.
Sales of products at exchanges. 1
cent for each 500 retained, but sales
of merchandise in actual course of
transportation exempted from tax.
Tobacco and snuff, 10 cents per
pound now discount of 20 per cent
allowed.
Taxes on the following items were
retained, and not changed:
Bankers capital and surplus, $50 for
$685. 600, and....$2 for each additional
81, 900. 80
Bonds debentures, certificates of in
debtedness, etc., cents for each
800.
Bond for indemnity or for due exc
cution or performance of duties of
any Office or position, 30 cents.
Broker, $50.
Brokers' contract, 10 cents
Certificates of profits, 2 cents for each
800. Certificates of stock, original
issue, cents for each 800.
Certificates of stock, transfers, 2
cents for each 800.
amended to include sales at bucket
shops
Cigarettes weighing more than 3
pounds per $1,000, So. 80 per 1000.
Custom-hous brokers, $40.
Dealers in leaf tobacco, So to 1874, &C
cording to sales.
Dealers in tobacco, $12, when sales
exceed so, 900 pounds.
Drafts, time, or bills of exchange,
inland, 2 cents for each 500.
Entry of goods at custom-house for
consumption, % cents to 81.
Entry for withdrawal, 30 cents.
Freight receipts or domestic bills
of lading, cent.
manufacturer of cigars, Sc to $24.
Manufacturers of mixed -four, $12
per annum.
Manufacturers of tobacco, So to $24.
Mixed flour, cents per barrel.
Pawnbrokers, $50.
Petroleum and sugar refneries, one
fourth per cent gross receipts in excess
of $3.50, 900.
Proprietors of bowling alleys or bill
lard rooms, So for each alley or table.
Proprietors of circuses, 500.
Proprietors of other public exhibit
tions, $40.
Proprietors of theatres, museums
and concert halls. 800.
Sleeping and parlor Car tickets, 1
cent.
Sparkling and other wines, 1 pint
cent more than 1 pint 2 cents.
Tea, customs duty of 10 cents per
pound.
New taxes imposed, in force since
April l., 1901:
Broker, class 2, special tax in addi-
ton to all other special taxes, S 90.
Bucket shop transactions, 2 cents for
each $100