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An Act to raise supplies for the year commencing in October, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five. 1855 393 (1855)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0397 and id is 1 raw text is: OF SOUTH, CAROLINA. A. D. 1856. AN ACT TO RAISE SUPPLIES FOR THE YEAR COMMENCING IN OCTOBER, 'Y - ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIVE. No. 4220. I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That a tax for the sums, and in the manner hereinafter mentioned, shall be raised and paid into the public treasury of this State, for the use and service thereof, that is to say: sixty cents ad valorem on every hundred dollars of the value Tax on lands. of all the lands granted in this State, according to the existing classification as heretofore established; seventy-five cents per head on all slaves ; two dol- Slaves, free lars on each free negro, mulatto or mestizo, Egyptians and Indians, (free negroes, &C. Indians in amity with this government excepted,) between the ages of fifteen and fifty years, except such as shall be clearly proved to the satisfaction of the collector to be incapable, from maims or otherwise, of procuring a liveli- hood; twenty-five cents ad valorem on every hundred dollars of the value of Lots and build- all lots, lands and buildings within any city, town, village or borough in this iugs. State; sixty cents per hundred dollars on factorage, employments, faculties, Professions,&c. and professions, including the profession of dentistry, (whether, in the profes- sion of the law, the profits be derived from the costs of suit, fees, or other sources of professional income,) excepting clergymen, schoolmasters, school- mistresses, and mechanics, and on the amount of commissions received by vendue masters and commission merchants; forty cents per hundred dollars Bank stocks. on the capital stock paid in on the first of October, one thousand eight hun- dred and fifty-five, of all banks which for their present charters have not paid a bonus to the State ; twenty cents per hundred dollars on the capital stock Incorporated of all incorporated gas-light companies; one per cent. on all premiums taken com.panes. in this State by incorporated insurance companies, and by the agencies of insurance companies and underwriters without the limits of this State; twenty-five cents upon every hundred dollars of the amount of sales of goods, Merchandise. wares, and merchandise, embracing all the articles of trade for sale, barter, or exchange, (the products of this State and the unmanufactured products of any of the United States or territories thereof excepted,) which any person shall have made from the first day of January of the present year, to the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, either on his, her, or their capital, or borrowed capital, or on account of any person or persons as agent, attorney, or consignee; twenty-five cents upcn every hundred dollars of the amount of sales of goods, wares, and mer- chandise whatever, which any transient person, not resident in this State, shall make in any house, stall, or public place ; ten dollars per day for repre- Exhibitions. 30 393

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