Bisbee daily review., 1914-12-01

Local business men, theatre man agers. owners and operators Of pub. lie amusement houses, brokers and others will this morning commence their paying of internal revenues re- Quired under the special war revenue biu Iassed by the congress of the United States. October %. last
 Among those required to use the tax stamp In the conduct of their business are bankers, pawnbrokers, customhouse brokers, commercial brokers. proprietors of theatres, mus eums, or concert halls proprietors ol bowling alleys or billiard rooms. commission merchants and dealers in tobacco. Unless applications for special tax stamps are made to the collector of internal revenue at phoe- nix on or before December l, @ fifty percent penalty win attach
 In it's relation Go express and freight the act provides
 "lJ shall be the duty of every railroad or steamboat company carrier, eX- press company or corporation or per son whose occupation is Co act as such, Co issue Co the shipper or con- slguer or his agent or persons from w'hom any goods are accepted for transportation where a charge eX- ceeding five cents is made, bill of lading. manifest, Of other evidence of receipt and forwarding Of each shipment received for carriage and transportation whether in bulk or in boxes, bales or packages. bundles or not SO enclosed, are included, and such shipper consigner, agent or person shall duly attach and cancel as in this act provided for each Of said bills of lading manifest or other memorandum. a stamp of the value Of one cent"
 All deeds. mortgages, sales agree ments. memoranda of sales. bonds, certificates of any description, pow CTS of attorney and many other kinds of legal papers which must be placed on record by county recorders all over the United States. will be sub jecJ to taxation, in the form of a stamp tax similar Co that which was placed in operation during the Span ish-American war County Recorder Owen E Murphy has received his in- suuctions and a copy Of the internal revenue law which governs him in transactions with reference to all ..F aI and IS prepared to properly stamp all such documents at the expense of those having them placed on record
 On all sales, agreements to sell memoranda Of sales, or certificates Of stock of any association or cor poration, a tax of two cents will be required each one hundred dollar. Oi face value
 On bonds. except those required in legal proceedings. a tax Of fifty cents is required
 On brokers notes or memoranda Of sales of goods, merchandise, stocks bonds. exchange. notes of hand, rea estate or property of any kind issued by brokers etc, a tax of ten cents i. levied
 Fifty cents is required on every deed. instrument of writing convey ing lands, tenements or other realty and twenty-five cents on every on, hundred dollars represented to tn, value of one hundred dollars and no exceeding five hundred dollars, ana an additional fifty cents for ever five hundred dollars or fraction there of over the first five hundred
 Entry of goods. wares or merchan disc in customs houses, not exceed ing one hundred dollars in value twenty-five cents; exceeding fiv, hundred in value, one dollar
 Entry for withdrawal of goods oi merchandise from bonded customs warehouses, fifty cents.
 Power of attorney or proxy for yot ing at an election Of officers of any corporation, company or association except religious. charitable, literary societies or public cemetaries, ter cents
 The law is exhaustive and covers dozens of instruments such as ar, scarcely ever handled by recordor