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CHAP. 1.-An ACT to raise supplies for the year one thousand eight
huntired and tweaty-eight.
(:Sec. 1.] Ile it enacted hi the Sente and flouse if llepre.
sentativen nowt met and sittAme li Genpewl .4sily, nd by
the audhority of the saume, Tiat a tax fir the sums, ind in the Tax td be
manner hereinafter mentioned, shall be raised andl paid into raised I
the public Treasury of this State, for the use and service there-
of; that is to say, thirty-sevim and a halftcents ad valorem, on
every hundred dollars iof the value of all lands granted in this on lands,
State ; the sum of seventy-five cents per head on all slaves of iaves. cit
every description, and the sum of two dollars on all free ne. 1ot, kc.
grees, mulattoesand inustizoes, except such as shall be clear-
Iv proved to the satisfaction of the Collectors to be incapable,
frm maims, or otherwise, of providing a livelihood between
the ages of fifteen and fifty; and thirty seven and ai half cents,
ad valorem, on every hundred doillars of the value of all lots,
lands, and buildings within any city, town, village, or borough;
and seventy cents per hundred dollars on tacterage, em.
ployment, faculties, and professions, whether in the prol01nsion
of the Law the profits be derived fromt costs of suit, fees, or
otner sources of protfossional income, and tin the amotunt of
commiAsiols received by vendue masters and commission mer-
chants, (clergymen, school-masters, schwl-mlstresses, anti me-
chanics excepted) to be ascertained and rated by the Assessors
and Collectors througiout this State, according to the best of
their knowledge anti information-to be paid In specie, paper
medium, or the notes of the soecie paying banks of this State.
Sec. 2. .nd be it exteted, Ihat any person entitled to any Absentees
taxable property or estate in this State, who resides without double tax,
the limits of the United States, shall pay for the use of tlo*
State a double tax on the stames but this clause shall not be
construed to extend to any person sent, or to be heleafter sent
abroad ip tie service of this State, or tle United States, until
one year after the expiration of his commission.
Sec. .3. And be it enacted, 'That all persons representing Tax on plays
publicly for gain or reward, any play, comedy, tigoedy, inter. ad shows.
ude, or farce, or other employment of the stage, or anly part
therein, or those who exhibit wax figures, or shows of any kind
whatsoever, shall pay a tax of five dollars per day, befrs mea.
king such exhibitions; which sums shall be paid into the hands
of the Clerks of the Courts respectively, who shall be bound to
pay the same over into the public Treasury annually: And In
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