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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0468 and id is 1 raw text is: ACTS'
OF A
PUBLIC AND GENERAL NATURE.
PART I.
CHAP. I.-An ACT imposing taxes for the support of government.
['used February 20, 1835.]
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the public taxes Taxes otr 1 5.
for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-five, shall be as follows, to
wit: On lands, (except such as are exempted by law from taxation,) o, lnd..
for every hundred dollars value thereof, (agreeably to the act for
arranging the counties into districts for the election of senators, and
for equalizing the land tax, passed February the eighteenth, in the
year eighteen hundred and seventeen, and the act further to amend
and explain the act, entitled, an act for arranging the counties
into districts for the election of senators, and fbr equalizing the
land tax, passed March the first, in the year eighteen hundred and
nineteen,) eight cents; for all houses and lots in any city, borough oues and lots in
or town, (except such as are exempted by law from taxation,) twotown.
dollars for every hundred dollars yearly rent or annual value thereof;
for all houses and lots in any city, borough or town, (except such
as are exempted by law from taxation,) improved and not rented or
occupied, and for all unimproved lots as last aforesaid, eight cents
for every hundred dollars value thereof, agreeably to the above re-
cited acts for arranging the counties into districts for the election
of senators, and for equalizing the land tax; for every slave above Shae,.
the age of twelve years, (except such as have been or may be ex-
empted, in consequence of age or infirmity, by the respective county
and corporation courts,) twenty-five cents ; for every stallion or jack- ormes, aueu,&c.
ass, twice the price at whiclh such stallion or jackass covers a mare
by the season ; for all other horses, mares, asses, mules and colts,
six cents each ; for every riding or pleasure carriage, stage wagon, Carriages.
jersey wagon or carryall, and harness belonging thereto, one per
centum on the value thereof, to be ascertained by the commissioner
of the revenue, in the manner prescribed by law: Provided, That
not less than two dollars shall be paid on each four wheel riding or
pleasure carriage and harness; and not less than one dollar on each
stage wagon, jersey wagon or carryall and harness; and not less
than fifty cents on each two wheel riding or pleasure carriage and
harness.
2. There shall also be levied, collected and paid, in the manner Law process.
prescribed by law, the following taxes, to wit: For each writ or
declaration in ejectment, or other process, instituting a suit in a
superior court of law, seventy-five cents; for each subp(una in a
superior court of chancery, seventy-five cents; for each writ of](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/ssactsva0468&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)