Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-05-14
CHANGES
In War Stamp
Taxes
Will Take Effect on
July I.
Statement of Notifications Of the
Revenue Law.


The changes in the war taxes TAX.
ing effect July /, are shown below. The
following stamp taxes have been re
pealed outright:
Bank checks, 2 cents; bills of lad
ing for export, 10 cents; bonds of in
demnity and bonds not otherwise
specified, 30 cents. Wepealed as to
bonds Of indemnity; certificate Of
damage, % cents; certificate of de-
posit cents; certificates not other
wise specified, 10 cents; charter party,
So to $40; chewing gum, 4 cents for
each 81; commercial brokers, $50; ex-
press receipts, l cent; insurance-life,
s cents Oh the 800; marine, inland,
fire, one-half cent on each 81; casualty,
fidelity and guaranty, one-half cent
on each 81; lease, 20 cents to 81;
manifest for customhouse entry. 81 to
So; money orders, 2 for each S1o0;
mortage or conveyance in trust, -
cents for each $1,5OO; perfumery and
cosmetics, one-eighth cent for
each five cents; power Of
attorney TO sell % cents
promissory notes, cents for each 500;
proprietary medicines, one-eighth
cent for each five cents; protest, 25
cents; telegraph messages, / cent; tele.
phone messages, one cent; warehouse
receipts, % cents.
Beer, 81 per barrel and ~ per cent
discount, changed to S1.60 per barrel
and 71s per cent. discount repealed;
bills of exchange, foreign, 4 cents for
each 500; changed to cents for each
500; cigars weighing more than 3
pounds per 1000 $3.50 per 1,0D0
changed to IS per 1000 cigarettes
weighing more than three pounds
per 1000 S1.50 per 1000. changed to
valued at not more than 81 per 1000
1S cents per pound; valued at more
than 81 per 1000, So cents per pound
cigars weighing not more than
pounds per 1000, 81 per 1000, changed
to IS cents per pound; conveyance, 5C
cents for each $500, now exempted be
low $4,000, above $500 % cents fol-
each $500; legacies-Law modified Sc
as to exclude from taxation legacles
of charitable religious, literary al edu-
cational character; passage ticket, 81 to
So now exempted below $50 in value
sales of products at exchanges, cent
for each 500 retained, but sales OF
merchandise in actual course of trans.
portation exempted from tax; tobacco
and snuff, II cents per pound, now
discount of 20 per cent.
These items have not been changed
Bankers capital and surplus, $50 fol
each $4,000, and 81 for each additional
81 900; bonds, debentures, certificates
of indebtedness, etc, 2 cents for each
81; brokers' contract, 10 cents; Ger
titicates of proti,s, 2 cents for each
$100; certificates of stock, original is
sue, 8 cents for each 500; certificates
of stocks, transfers, 2 cents for each
500 (amended to include bucket shops
cigarettes weighing more than {
pounds per 1000, $3.50 per LOCO; Gus.
tom house brokers $40; dealers in leaf
tobacco, So to $24; dealers in tobacco
$12; drafts or bills of exchange inland
? cents for each 500; entry of goods
at custom house for consumption, %
cents to 81; entry for withdrawal, 90
cents; freight receipts of domestic bills
of lading, l cent: manufacturers OF
tobacco cigars, Sc to $24: manu-,
facturers Of mixed -four, $12 per an.
mum; manufacturers of tobacco. So to
S24; mixed flour cents per barrel;
pawnbrokers $40; petroleum and sugar
reineries, one-fourth per cens. gross
receipts in excess of S250,O00; proprie
tors of bowling alleys OF billiard
rooms, So for each alley or table; pro.
prietors of circuses, 500, proprietors
of other public exhibitions, $40; pro.
prietors Of theatres, museums, and
cencert halls, 500; sleeping and par
lor car tickets, l cent; sparkling on
other wines, / pint, / cent more than
l pint 2 cents; stock brokers $50: tea