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An Act to raise supplies for the year commencing in October, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven. 1857 595 (1857)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0412 and id is 1 raw text is: OF SOUTH CAROLINA. A. D.157. AN ACT TO RAISE SUPPIJES FOR THE YEAR COMMENCING IN OCTOBER, No. 4882. ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SEVEN. 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 Taxonlands. of all the lands granted in this State, according to the existing classification as heretofore established; seventy cents per head on all slaves; two dollars on each free negro, mulatto or-mestizo, between the ages of fifteen and fifty Slaves and free years, except such as shall be clearly proved to the satisfaction of the Col- negroes, &o. lector to be incapable, from maims or otherwise, of procuring a livelihood; twelve-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, in Lotsandbuild- this State ; fifty cents per hundred dollars on factorage, employments, facul- ing ,r ties and professions, including the profession of dentistry, (whether in the fas.lon, pr. profession of 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; twenty-five cents per hundred dollars on the capital stock paid in on the first of October, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, of all banks which for their present charters have not paid a bonus to the State; fifty cents on every hundred dollars used or employed in this State by any agent of any bank of issue out of this Bank Capital. State, between the first of October, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, and the first of October, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in effecting loans or discounts, and dealing in exchange or notes; twenty cents ih per hundred dollars on the capital stock of all incorporated Gas-Light Com- Ins, Companies. panies; one per cent. on all prdmiums taken in this State by incorporated insurance companies, and by the agencies of insurance companies, and under- writers, without the limits of this State; fifteen cents on every hundred dollars of the amount of sales of goods, wares and merchandise, embracing Merchandse. 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-eight, 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 upon every hundred dollars of the amount of sales of goods, wares and merchandise 56 595

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