Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-29

cents.
Charter parties, SO to $40.
Sight drafts, 2 cents.
Express receipts, / cent.
insurance policies, life, cents on
each 800; marine, inland and fire, u
cent on each 81 or fraction thereof;
casualty, fidelity and guaranty, "a cent
or each 500 or fraction thereof.
I Leases, Is cents to 81.
Manifest for custom house entry, 81
, to IS.
Mortgage or conveyance in trust, %
cents for each 81 500.
Order for payment of money, on sight
or on demand. 2 cents.
Power Of attorney to vote, 10 cents.
Power of attorney to sell, % cents.
Promissory notes, cents for each
S1C3.
Protests, rs cents.
telegraph messages, cent.
Telephone messages, cent.
Postofiice money orders, 2 cents for
each 500.
Warehouse receipts, 25 cents.
A few other stamp taxes have been
reduced. but Awholly abolished. Con-
veyances of rea..y are now taxed at the
rate of so cents for each $500. After
| July / transfers of real property worth
less than $500 will be exempt from
tax. II the value exceeds $500 and
does not exceed $4,000, the stamp tax
I will hereafter be % cents, with 25 cents
additional for each $500 in excess OF
| SO 600 Bills Of exchange forGgn),
letters of credit, telegraph orders FOR
money issued by express companies,
! drawn in bat payable out Of the United
States, are TO pay. IL drawn singly, two
cents, instead of four cents, for each
SEQ of value If they are drawn in
sets of two or more they are TO pay
one cent, Unsteady OF two cents for each
500 Of value. Passage tickets to a for
eign port now pay 81 if the cost does
not exceed $50, SO If the cost does not
exceed $50 and S. if the cost exceeds
SEQ Hereafter the tax will be so cents
for each $50 in value. Sales of products
or merchandise at exchanges will con-
tinue to pay one cent for each S100 of
value sold or agreed to be sold. But
, this tax is not to apply after July l to
products or merchandise actually in
j course of transportation for delivery
These documentary taxes are retained
in the law Of March 2, 1901:
Bonds. debentures, certificates of in
! debtedness, etc., 5 cents for each $1C0
of value.
Bonds for indemnity so cents.
! Brokers contracts, 10 cents.
Certificates of profits, 2 cents for each
s10o.
! Certificates of stock, original issue, 5
cents for each 500.
| Transfers of stock, 2 cents for each
$1G0.
Drafts on time, or bills of exchange,
inland, cents for each 500.
| Entries of goods at custom house for
| consumption, % cents to ST.
| Entries for withdrawal, so cents.
| Freight receipts or domestic bills Of
/ lading, / cent.
Sleeping and parlor car tickets, /
cent
These license taxes remain in force:
Bankers with a capital, including SUR
| plus, Of not over s25 000 $50 year, and
! for each additional 81 600 of capital, 81.
| Brokers who have not paid as bank
| ers, $50.
Pawnbrokers. $40.
Brokers, Glass No. 2. commonly
known as bucket shop operators, in
addition to the special tax of $50 i'm
posed on brokers proper. $50.
Custom house brokers, $40.
Proprietors of theatres, museums and
| concert halls in cities having over Is
coo population, $780,
| Proprietors of circuses ftax collect
| ible once within each State or Terri
tory, 500.
Proprietors or agents of all other
shows tor money. $40.
Proprietors of bowling alleys or BIZ
lard rooms, for each alley or table. SIS.
| Refiners of petroleum and sugar pay
one-fourth of one per cent on all gro IS
annual receipts in excess of $50 ono.
| Manufacturers of mixed flour" oay a
! license OF occupation tax of S12 a year
as we'll AS {. stamp tax of cents bar
! rel.
! These other changes are made.
| Discount of 20 per cent on all sales
OF stamps for tobacco Or snuff.
| Tax on cigars weighing more than
three pounds per thousand reduced from
$3.50 to S. per thousand.
Tax on cigars weighing less than
three pounds per THOUSAND, changed
| from 81 per thousand to IS cents per
| pound
! The tax on cigarettes weighing more
than three pounds thousand remains
at $3.50 thousand Cigarettes weigh
| ing not more than three pounds thou
sand paid under the law of 1923 A tar
OF II a thousand. BY the new law these
lighter varieties are divided into two
| classes. Those valued at who.esal, at
not more than 50. thousand will nav
Is cents pound, or 81 cents a thou
sand. Those valued at more than 50 a
thousand will pay SO cents pound or
/ $L0S thousand-eightc cents more than
under the law OF 1888. On all stocks
OF unbroken packages of smoking and
manufactured tobacco and snuff held on
July rebate will be paid equal to the
discount or reduction in STAMP taxes
authorised by the new law. but no claim
OF rebate will be allowed which amounts
to less than $40. No rebate will be paid
on stamps affixed to packages OF cigar
cites. No change is made by the new
law in the scnedule of special occupation
taxes imposed on tobacco dealers and
manufacturers. Dealers IN Leaf tobacco
and manufacturers Of tobacco whose