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An Act to raise supplies for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven. 1826 3 (1826)

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DECEMBER SESSION, 1826.
CH1AP. I.-An ACT to inise supplies for the 'ear one thousand eight
hunldred :61l twenty-seven.
[Sec. 1.1 BE it enacted by the Senate and House of
lIepresentatives now 'met and sitting in General ds-
syeIbiy, and by .the authority of thc same, Thatit tax Tax to be
for the sums, and in the manner hereinafter mentioned, raised;
shall be raised and paid into the public Treasury of this
Statc, for the use and service thereof; that is to say, thir-
ty-seven and a half conts, ad valorem, on every hundred
dollars of the value of all lands granted in this State; the Onlands,
sum of seventy-five cents per head on all slaves of every slaves, city
description, and the suIt of two dollars on all free negroes, lots, ks,
mulattoes and mustizoes, except such as shall be clearly
proved to the satisfaction of the Collectors to be ineapable,
from maims, or otherwise, of providing a livelihood be-
tween the ages of fifteen and fifty ; and thirty-seven and
a half cents, ad valorem, on every hundred dollars of the
value of all lots, lands and buildings within any city, town,
village or borough; and seventy-five cents per hundred
dollars on factorage, employment, faculties, and professions,
whether in the profession of Law the profits he derived
from costs of suit, fees, or other sources of professional
income, and on the amount of commissions received by
vendne masters and commission merchants, (clergymen,
school-masters, school-nistresses and mechanics excepted)
to be ascertained and rated by the Assessors and Collec-
tors throughout this State, according to the best of their
knowledge and information-to be paid in specie, paper
medium, or the notes of the specie paying banks of this
State.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That any person entitled to Absentee
any taxable property or estate in this State, who resides doublete.
without the limits of the United States, shall pay for the ed.
use of the State a double tax on the same ; but this clause
shall not be construed to extend to any person sent, or
hereafter to be sent abroad in the service of this State or
the United States, until one year after the expiration of
his commission.

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