The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-03-02
NEW REVENUE ACT ADOPTED
House Recommends Few Changes
and Consideration Of Measure
ShOTt-LinGd
MERCHANTS TAX CUT OUT
Interesting Synopsis Of Amend
ments Accepted.-Whiskey
Comes In For Share
Of Taxes
MERCHANTS TAX CUT OUT.
Raleigh, N, G. Feb. q, 1905.

Raleigh, N, G. Feb. q, 1905. =
The House, on motion of Represent
ative Wood, of Randolph, the House
went into Committee of the Whole.
Saturday night at o'clock, to consider
the Revenue bill and Machinery Acts.
and Representative Cunningham, of Per-
son, was called to the chair.
Mr.. Wood read the Revenue bill by.
sections, noting the principal changes
from the act of 1908. The changes, so
far as it was possible to learn from the
reading, as no changes were sho wn in
the printed bill are as follows:
In Schedule A" the Inheritance tax
is to apply to real property in addition
to personal property. 1t is made the
duty of solicitor of the district to sue
delinquents for the recovery of such
tax, his fee not to exceed five per cent
of the amount recovered to be allow
ed by the Judge, the clerk to be allow
ed costs of advertising and reasonable
fees and expenses incurred in collecting
the tax. In the income tax section all
incomes obtained from commissions are
added this beng added so as to catch
insurance agents: a provision exempting
incomes Obtained from commissioners
from the sale of leaf tobacco, cotton
and other farm products was stricken
out.
In Schedule ''B" in defining taxes it
= A. lSoo~cae o1ofoinaI ch 1o q
personal privilege. not transferable,
nor an abatement in the tax allowed
a-.6s ~ less :a5ha@wiSe provided the -.
to be collected in The county where in
Cured. For circuses and shows with
menageries the tax is made $500 per-
formance for exhibitions where admis-
sion and reserved seats exceeds Is cents
or where it does not exceed Is cents or
where more than fifteen cars are re-
quired to transport the circus 5000
performance: when less than fifteen
cars are required $50. The former tax
is 5000 to main and $50 to side show
where so cents is charged, other! $50.
Unde er the new regulation $50 is charg-
ed each side show, attached or unat-
tached to the circus. Oculists and Op-
ticians are not relieved of the extra tax
in cities, towns or counties The tax in
peddlers of clocks, stoves and ranges is
put at $l00 a year in each county.
Every one conducting a livery stable
where horses or mules are bought or
sold is classed as a horse dealer, with
an extra tax of $25. Peddlers or ven.
dors of medicines are taxed $100a cOun-
ty; the tax on other peddlers on foot
| being raised from $40 TO S25 a county
those with horse, mule or OK with or
without vehicle from $50 to $50 for each
county. Poor and inirm persons and
Confederate soldiers may be exempted
by the county commissioners. A tax OF
S50a year is put on cotton congresses for
each compress in place of this tax on
each 1000 bales compressed. An entire
new section is given to slot machines,
this begging $3.50 a county where ar
ticles are obtained from machines by
depositing a coin, where music is given
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machines. Machines used as automatic
clerks are exempted. Other slot ma
chimes or those with nude or obscene
figures are prohibited under penalty of
misdemeanor, fine $3.50 to $500, or i'm
prisonment three months to one year,
or both.
The tax for cultures" is kept in SO
as to tax these if the Woodard bill
fails. All medicated bitters medicines
or liquors that intoxicate are put in
as liquors In license TO whiskey dealers
fines of $3.50 to $500 being imposed, this
including rice beer, medicated bitters,
champagne, cherry, orange and plum
cider, schiedam Snaps. The tax on
grain distillers is doubled. A new Sec
tion is put in for social clubs, this SINH
lar to the section in the laws of 1901
but omitted in the law of 1903. This
provides tax of one dollar person
for all members where liquors are sold
or given away, fifty cents place where
only malt liquors are used. A license
and bona fide membership are required
with more than thirty members and
proof of its being a bona fde social
club, not simply to escape the liquor
laws. Members must be over q years
old and no club is to be incorporated
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