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An Act to raise supplies for the year commencing in October, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight. 1858 683 (1858)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0418 and id is 1 raw text is: OF SOUTH CAROLINA.

A. D. 186.
AN ACT TO RAISE SUPPLIES FOR THE YEAR COMMENCING IN OCTOBER,
ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY-EIGHT.                   -No. 438.
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: eighty-one cents, ad valorem, on every hundred dollars Tax on lads.
of the value of all the lands granted in this State, according to the existing
classification as heretofore established; ninety-five cents per head on all
Slaves and free
slaves; two dollars and seventy-five cents on each free negro, mulatto or negroes.
mestizo, 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 livelihood; seventeen cents, ad valorem,
0 Lots and build.
on every hundred dollars of the value of all lots, lands and buildings, within inagb.
any city, town, village, or borough, in this State; sixty-eight cents per
hundred dollars on factorage, employments, faculties and professions, includ- i on ane
ing the profession of dentistry, (whether in the profession of law, the profit
be derived from the costs of suit, fees, or other sources of professional income,)
excepting clergymen, schoolmasters, schoolmistresses and journeymen me-
chanics, whose income depends on their own manual labor; sixty-eight cents
on every hundred dollars on the amount of commissions received by vendue   commissions.
masters and commission merchants; thirty-five cents per hundred dollars on
the capital stock paid in, on the first of October, one thousand eight hundred
and fifty-eight, of all banks which for their present charters have not paid a
bonus to the State; thirty-four cents on every hundred dollars of capital of mank Capital.
banks of issue out of this State, used and employed in this State by agents
of said banks, between the first day of October, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, and the first day of October, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in effecting
loans or discounts, and dealing in exchange or notes; twenty-seven cents per
hundred dollars on the capital stock of all incorporated Gas-Light Companies; Gas g  and
one and thirty-five one hundreds per centum on all premiums taken in this
State by incorporated insurance companies, anid by the agencies of insurance
companies and underwriters, without the limits of this State; twenty-one
cents on every hundred dollars of the amount of sales of goods, wares and
merchandize, embracing all articles of trade for sale, barter or exchange, mercmandise.
(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-nine,
either on his, her or their capital, or borrowed capital, or on account of
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