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An Act to raise supplies for the year commencing in October, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three. 1843 245 (1843)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0345 and id is 1 raw text is: OF SOUTH.CAROLINA. AN ACT To RAISE SUPPLIES FOR THE YEAR COMMENCING IN OCTOBER, ONE A. D. 1843. THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FORTY-THREE. No. 2884. Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in Goneral Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That a tax for Tax on Lands: the sums, and in the manner hereinafter mentioned, shall be raised and paid into the public Treasury of this State, for the usC 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, according to the existing classification heretofore established ; one half cent per acre on all Land lying within the Catawba In- dian boundary, to be paid by each grantee or lessee of said Indian lands, until otherwise directed by law; fifty-five cents per head on all Slaves ; two dollars Slves on each Free Negro, Mulatto and Mustizoo, betweon the ages of fifteen and Free Negroes: fifty years, except such as shall be clearly proved, to the satisfaction of the Collector, to be incapable, from maims, or otherwise, of providing a liveli. hood; twenty-five cents ad valorem on every hundred dollars of the value of all lots, lands and buildings, within any city, town, village or borough, inclu- Lots: ding all lots or portions of land on which buildings may be erected, in the immediate vicinity of any city, town, village or borough in this State ; sixty cents por hundred dollars on factorage, employments, faculties and professions, Factorage, (whether in the profession of law, the profits be derived from costs of suit, Employments, fees, or other sources of professional income,) and on the amount of com- etc. missions received by Vendue Musters and Commission Merchants, (Clergy. men, Schoolmasters, Schoolmistresses, and Mechanics excepted ;) fifty-five cents upon every hundred dollars worth of goods, wares and nerchandize, Merchandize: embracing all articles of trade for sale, barter or exchange, (the products of this State, and the unm-anufactured products of any of the United States, or Territories thereof, excepted,) which any person shall use or employ, as arti- cles of trade, sale, barter or exchange, or have in his, her or their posses. sion, on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, either on his, her or their own capital, or borrowed ca. pital, or on account of any person or persons, as agent, attorney or consignee; fifty.five cents upon every hundred dollars worth of goods, wares or marchan-Ditto, of tran- dize whatever, which any transient person, not resident in this State, shall sient persons: sell, or expose for sale, in any house, stall or public place; two thousand dol- lars for the privilege of opening or keeping any oflice for the sale of lottery Lottery tickets, or for the privilege of selling, or offering for sale, any lottery ticket in Tickets: any other lottery than such as may be authorized by the lyws of this State; ten dollars per day for representing publicly, for gain and reward, any play, Plays, Shows, comedy, tragedy, interlude or farce, or other employment of the stage, or any etc. part therein, or for exhibiting wax figures or shows of any kind whatsoever, to be paid into the hands of the Clerks of the Courts, respectively, who shall be bound to pay the same into the public Treasury. In the Senate House, the nineteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and in the sixty-eighth year of the Sovereign- ty and Independence of the United States of America. ANGUS PATTERSON, President of the Senate. W. F. COLCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. 13 245

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