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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0580 and id is 1 raw text is: ACTS
OF A
PUBLIC AND GENERAL NATURE.
PART I.
CHAP. 1.-An ACT imposing taxes for the support of government.
[Passed January ,6 1841.]
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the public taxes for Taxes for 1844.
the year eighteen hundred and forty-four, shall be as follow: On On lands.
lands, (except such as are exempted by law from taxation,) for every
hundred dollars value thereof, (agreeably to the assessment of lands
made pursuant to the act, entitled an act providing for the reassess-
ment of lands in this commonwea~tl, passed March tile twenty-
fourth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and the act, entitled an
act to amend the act, entitled ' an act providing for tile reassessment
of lands in this commonwealth,' passed March the first, eighteen
hundred and thirty-nine,) twelve and a half cents ; for all houses and Houses and lot
lots in any city, borough or town, (except such as are exempted by ill town,.
law from taxation,) three dollars for every hundred dollars yearly
rent or annual value thereof; for all houses and lots in any city, bo-
rough or town, (except such as are exempted by law from taxation,)
improved, and not rented or occupied, and for all unimproved lots as
aforesaid, twvelve and a half cents for every hundred dollars value
thereof, agreeably to the above cited acts providing for a reassess-
ment of lands in this commonwealth; for every slave above the age slaves.
of twelve years, except such as have been or may be exempted in
consequence of age or infirmity, by the respective county and corpo-
ration courts, forty cents; for every stallion or jackass, twice the horses.
price at which such stallion or jackass covers a mare by the season ;
and when the services of such stallion or jackass are charged for
not in money, but in provisions or other commodities of value, then
twice the alternative value of such property in money, such value to
be fixed by the commissioner of the revenue: Provided, That not less
than six dollars be paid oin every stallion or jackass let to mares; for
all other horses, mares, asses, mules and colts, twelve and a half ctnts
each; for every riding or pleasure carriage, stage coach, jersey wagon Cariages.
or carryall and gig and harness belonging thereto, one and a half 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 wheeled riding or
pleasure carriage and harness, and not less than three dollars on each
stage coach and harness, and not less than one dollar on each jersey
wagon and carryall and harness, and not less than fifty cents on
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