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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0218 and id is 1 raw text is: ACTS
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GENERAL ASSEM3LY O:P SOUTE OAROLZMAr
DECEMBER SESSION, 1829.
CHAP. 1.-An ACT to raise supplies for the year one thousand eight
hundred and thirty.
[Sec. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of liepre- Tax to be
sentatives, That a tax for the sums, and in the manner herein raised,
after mentioned, shall be raised and paid into the public Trea-
sury of this State, for the use and service* thereof, that is to
say; thirty cents ad valorem, on every hundred dollars of
the value of all lands granted in this State; the sum of sixty
cents per head on all slaves of every description, and the
sum of two dollars on all free negroes, mulattoes, and mus-
tizoes, except such as shall be clearly proved to the satis-
faction of the Collectors to be incapable, from maims, or On lants
otherwise, of providing a livelihood, between the ages of fif- slavesc
teen and fifty; thirty cents ad valorem, on every hundred lotq, ke
dollars of the value of all lots, lands, and buildings within any
city, town, village, or borough; including all lots, and portions
of lands, on which buildings may be erected, in the imme-
diate vicinity of any city, town, village, or borough, which may
have been made, or shall hereafter be made, with a view to a
city, town, village, or borough settlement, or as shall ordina-
rily be regarded as forming a part of any city, town, village, or
borough in this State; and sixty cents per hundred dollars on
factorage, employment, flaculties and professions, whether in
the profession of the law, the profits be derived from costs of
suit, fees, or other sources of professional income, and on the
amount of commissions received by vendue masters and com-
mission merchants, (clergymen, school-masters, school-mis-
tresses, and mechanics excepted) to be ascertained and rated
by the Assessors and Collectors throughout this State, accord-
ing 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 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 the State ed.
a double tax on the same; but this clause shall not be construed.
to extend to any person sent, or to be hereafter sent abroad in
the service of this State, or the United States, until one year af-
ter the expiration of his commission.
Sec. S. And be it further enacted, That all persons repre. Tax on plajLs
senting publicly, for gain or reward, any play, comedy, tragg- and shms.
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