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THE NEW INTERNAL REVENUE LAW.

We have prepared the following alphabetical table of the Taxes and Stamp Duties under the Revenue Law, passed at the first session of the thirty-eighth Congress, and approved June 30, 1864. It will be found very full and complete, and, at the same time, extremely convenient and useful, nothing similar to it having yet been published :—

Advertisements, tax on gross receipts for
Advertisements (exempt), all receipts for, to the amount of $600
in newspapers whose circulation does not
exceed two thousand copies.

Agents of Insurance Companies, license of

Foreign Insurance companies, license of

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No tax

$10

Agreement or contract, other than those specified as requiring a different duty; any appraisement of value or damage, or for any other purpose; for every sheet or piece of paper upon which either of the same shall be written, a stamp duty of five cents is required

Provided, that if more than one appraisement, agreement, or con-
tract shall be written upon one sheet or piece of paper, a five
cent stamp for each and every additional appraisement, agree-
ment, or contract, is necessary.

Alcohol made of spirits which have paid taxes.
Apothecaries, license of (except wholesale and retail dealers who

have taken out a license therefor)

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whose sales do not amount to $1000 per annum Ale, lager beer and porter, per barrel of thirty-one gallons (and at a like rate for any other quantity, or for fractional parts of a barrel) Ale, lager beer and porter in bottles, for thirty-one gallons (when the duty has not been previously paid on the liquors) Ambrotypes. Any person who makes ambrotypes for sale, license is same as for " Photographers."

Animal oils, per gallon, tax

Architects, for license

Assayers, assaying gold and silver, or either, of a value not exceeding in one year, $250,000, for license

$50

5 cents

No tax

$10

Exempt

$1 25

$1

5 cents

$10

$100

when the value exceeds $250,000, and does not exceed
$500,000, for license

$200

when the value exceeds $500,000, for license

$500

Auctioneers, whose annual sales do not exceed $10,000, for license

$10

whose annual sales exceed $10.000, for license

$20

Auction sales of goods, real estate, merchandise, articles and things, including all sales of stocks, bonds, and other securities, tax on the gross amount of sale,

Awnings, tax on gross amount of sales

Bags, tax on gross amount of sales, or total value removed for consumption or for delivery

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Banks, on average amount of circulation, each month

1-12th of 1 per cent

issuing above 90 per cent of their capital in circulating
notes, additional tax of

1-6th of 1 per cent

tax on average amount of capital beyond the amount invest-
ed in U. S. bonds, each month

tax on all dividends, in scrip or money,

1-24th of 1 per cent

not making dividends, to pay a tax on their profits, of Bankers, using capital not exceeding $50,000, license duty of

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using capital exceeding $50,000, for every additional $,1000
in excess of $500,000, license duty.

Bank check, draft, or order for the payment of any sum of money
whatsoever, drawn upon any bank, banker, or trust company, or
for any sum exceeding ten dollars drawn upon any other person
or persons, companies or corporations, at sight or on demand, a
stamp duty of two cents

Barytes, sulphate of, tax per 100 pounds

Barks, hulls of, hereafter built or finished, on their valuation

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2 per cent

Provided, That billiard tables kept for hire, and upon which a
license tax has been imposed, shall not be required to pay the
tax on billiard tables kept for use as aforesaid, anything herein
to the contrary notwithstanding.

Billiard rooms, license for each table.
Bill of Exchange (inland), draft, or order for the payment of any
sum of money, not exceeding one hundred dollars
otherwise than at sight or on demand, or any
promissory note (except bank notes issued for cir-
culation, and checks made and intended to be
forthwith presented, and which shall be presented
to a bank or banker for payment), or any memo-
randum, check, receipt, or other written or printed
evidence of an amount of money to be paid on de-
mand, or at a time designated, for a sum not ex-

20 cents

20 cents

5 mills

5 per cent

$10

$10

ceeding one hundred dollars, five cent stamp required 5 cents

And for every additional hundred dollars, or fractional part thereof in excess of one hundred, five cent stamp Bill of Exchange (foreign), or letter of credit, drawn in but payable out of the United States, if drawn singly, or otherwise than in a set of three or more, according to the custom of merchants and bankers, are required to have stamps the same as inland bills of exchange or promissory notes.

If drawn in sets of three or more: for every bill of each set, where the sum made payable shall not exceed one hundred dollars, or the equivalent thereof, in any foreign currency in which such bills may be expressed, according to the standard of value fixed by the United States, two cent stamp And for every additional hundred dollars or fractional part thereof in excess of one hundred dollars, two cent stamp Bill of Lading or receipt (other than charter-pay), for any goods, merchandise, or effects to be exported from a port or place in the United States to any foreign port or place, ten cent stamp.

5 cents

2 cents

2 cents

10 cents

Bill of Sale, by which any ship or vessel, or any part thereof, shall
be conveyed to or vested in any other person or persons
when the consideration shall not exceed five hundred
dollars, fifty cent stamp

Exceeding five hundred and not exceeding one thousand dol-
lars, one dollar stamp

Exceeding one thousand dollars for every additional amount
of five hundred dollars, or fractional part thereof, fifty cent
stamp

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Bond. For indemnifying any person for the payment of any sum of
money, where the money ultimately recoverable there-
upon is one thousand dollars or less, fifty cent stamp is
required

Where the money ultimately recoverable thereupon exceeds
one thousand dollars, for every additional one thousand
dollars or fractional part thereof in excess of one thous-
and dollars, fifty cent stamp

For the due execution or performance of the duties of any
office, one dollar stamp

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Of any description, other than such as may be required in
legal proceedings, or used in connexion with mortgage
deeds, and not otherwise charged in this schedule, twenty-
five cent stamp.

Bonds of canal companies

auction sales of, on gross amount of sales,

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50 cents

$1

50 cents

3 per cent No tax

50 cents

50 cents

$1

25 cents

5 per cent

1 of 1 per cent

Bone, manufacturers of, wholly or in part, if not otherwise specified,

Bone dust

Bonnets

Books

Bootmaker, making articles to order as custom work, and not for sale generally, shall to the amount of $500 be exempt from duty, and for any excess beyond the amount of $600

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and, when no duty has been paid on ingots, pigs, or bars

Bread.
Breadstuffs

Brewers, license tax

those manufacturing less than 500 barrels per year Bricks, manufactures of, not otherwise provided for Bridges, toll, on gross receipts

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Bristles, manufactures of, not otherwise provided for Brokers, upon all sales of merchandise, produce, or other goods, of 1 per cent upon all sales and contracts for sales of stocks, bonds, gold and silver bullion and coin, foreign exchange, promissory notes or other securities

Brokers, license tax

1-20th of 1 per cent

$50

$50

$2

pawn, using capital not exceeding $50,000, license tax
do., using capital in excess of $50,000, for every additional
$1,000 in excess of $50,000,

Builders' license tax, when contracts do not exceed $25,000, and are
over $2,500

when contracts in any one year exceed $25,000, on every
ditional $1,000 in excess of $25,000

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whose contracts do not exceed $2,500 in any one year Bullion in lump, ingot, bar or otherwise, to be paid by the assayer, and stamped

used in the manufacture of silver ware, silver bullion rolled
or prepared for plated use exclusively

Butchers, license tax

whose annual sales do not exceed $1,000, and butchers
who retail butchers' meat exclusively, by themselves
or agents, and persons who sell shell or other fish,
or both, travelling from place to place, and not from any
shop or stand, license tax

Burning fluid
Butter.

Calves exceeding three months old, slaughtered, each under three months old, each

Calfskins, tanned

patent

Canals, on gross receipts

$25

$1

Exempt

of 1 per cent

No tax $10

$5

No tax
No tax

40 cents

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24 per cent

when the water is used for mining purposes, on gross receipts 24 per cent Canal companies, interest on bonds, coupons, dividends, or profits carried to the account of any fund

navigation companies, on interest, coupons, dividends,
or profits, carried to the account of any fund

Candles, of whatever material made.

Candy sugar. See" Sugar Candy."

Caps

Cards, printed

Carriages, &c., valued at $50 and not exceeding $100, including

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Cassia, ground, and all immitation of, per pound

Castile soap. See "soap."

Cattle brokers, whose annual sales do not exceed $10,000

whose annual sales exceed $10,000, for each addition-
al $1,000

Cattle, slaughtered, over three months old, except when slaughtered
for their hides and tallow exclusively, cach
under three months old, each .

slaughtered by any person for his own consumption, not ex

ceeding five in number

Cavendish tobacco, per pound

Certificate of stock in any incorporated company, twenty-five cent

stamp required

of profits, or any certificate or memorandum showing an
interest in the property or accumulations of any incor-
porated company, if for a sum not less than ten dol-
lars and not exceeding fifty dollars, ten cent stamp
exceeding fifty dollars and not exceeding one thousand dol-
lars, twenty-five cent stamp

40 cents

5 cents

No tax

35 cents

25 cents

10 cents

25 cents

Certificate exceeding one thousand dollars, for every additional one
thousand dollars, or fractional part thereof, twenty-
five cent stamp

any certificate of damage, or otherwise, and all other cer-
tificates, or documents issued by any port warden, ma-
rine surveyor, or other person acting as such, twenty-
five cent stamp

of deposit of any sum of money in any bank or trust com-
pany, or with any banker or person acting as such:
if for a sum uot exceeding one hundred dollars, two cent
stamp

for a sum exceeding one hundred dollars, five cent stamp
of any other description than those specified, five cent
stamp

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Cement, made wholly or in part of glue, to be sold in a liquid state
per gallon
Chairs, timber for, partially wrought and unfinished
Charcoal
Charter party.

Contract or agreement, for the charter of any ship
or vessel, or steamer, or any letter, memorandum,
or other writing, between the captain, master, or
owner, or person acting as agent of any ship or
vessel, or steamer, and any other person or persons
for or relating to the charter of such ship or ves-
sel, or steamer, or any renewal or transfer there-
of, if the registered tonnage of such ship or ves-
sel, or steamer, does not exceed one hundred and
fifty tons, one dollar stamp is required.

if the registered tonnage exceeds one hundred and fifty tons, &
does not exceed three hundred tons, three dollars

if the registered tonnage exceeds three hundred tons, and does
not exceed six hundred tons, five dollar stamp
exceeding six hundred tons, ten dollar stamp
Cheroots. See "Cigars."
Check. See "Bank Check."
Chemical productions, all uncompounded, not otherwise provided for
Cheese

Chocolate, prepared, per pound
Cigars.-Cigarettes made of tobacco inclosed in a paper wrapper,
valued at not over $5 per 100 packages, each containing
not more than 25 cigarettes, per 100 packages
Cigarettes made of tobacco inclosed in a paper wrapper,
valued at over $5 per 100 packages, shall be subject to
the same duties as cigars of like value.

made wholly of tobacco, and also on those known as che-
roots, or short sixes, valued in each case at not over $5
per 1.000, per 1,000

valued at over $5 and not over $15 per 1,000, per 1,000 .
valued at over $15 and not over $30 per 1,000, per 1,000.
valued at over $30 and not over $15 per 1,000, per 1,000.
valued at over $45 per 1,000, per 1,000

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movements, sold without being cased

5 per cent

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