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An Act to raise supplies for the year commencing in October, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine. 1859 745 (1859)

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A. I). 1850.
AN ACT TO RAISE SUPPLIES FOR THE YEAR COMMENCING IN OCTOMR,               A
ONE THOUSAND EIGHT H1UNDRED AND FIFTY-NINE.                     No. 4435.
I. Be it emiacted by the Senate and House of Itopresentatives, now met
and sitting in General Assenibly, 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 valoren, on every hundred dol- Tax on lands.
lars 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; two dollars and seventy-five cents on each free negro, mulatto  Slave, and fre
or mestizo, between the ages of fifteen and fifty years, except such as shall ne'ro.*
be clearly proved to the satisfaction of the Collector to be incapable, from
maims or otherwise, of procuring a livelihood; seventeen cents, (d val ren,
on every hundred dollars of the value of all lots, lands and buildings, within  Lotsandbuild-
any city, town, village, or borough, in this State; sixty-eight cents per
hundred dollars on factorage, employments, faculties and professions, includ-  Factorage and
professions,
ing the profession of dentistry, (whether in the profession of law, the profits
be derived from   the costs of suit, fees, or other sources of professional
income,) excepting elergymien,sclioolmastors,schoohiistresses and miehanics;
sixty-eight cents on every hundred dollars on the amount of connissions conuinissions.
received by vendue masters and conminssion mirchants; thirty-five cents per
hundred dollars on the capital stock paid in, on the first of October, one
thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, of all banks which for their present
charters have not paid a bonis to the State; thirty-five cents per hundred
dollars on the capital stock of any bank of issue, not incorporated by this BankCaplital.
State, paid in on the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and
fifty-nine, doing business by agents within the limits of this State; twenty-
seven cents per hundred dollars on the capital stock of all incorporated Gas-  (  U   and
Light Companies; one and thirty-five one hundredths per centui on all Ins. Coupanles.
premiums taken in this State by incorporated insurance companies, and by the
agencies of insurance companies, and underwriters, without the limits of this
State; eighteen cents on every hundred dollars of the amount of sales of
goods, wares and merchandise, embracing all articles of trade for sale, barter sterchandizo.
or exchange, (the products of this State, and the unmanufactured products
of any of the United States or Territories thereof excepted,) which any per-
son 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 sixty, either on his, her or their capital, or borrowed capital, or on
account of any person or persons, as agent, attorney, or consignee; seventy-
five cents upon every hundred dollars of the amount of sale of goods, wares
and merchandize whatever, 'vhich any transient person, not resident in this
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