12 Statement showing the reduction of the customs tariff, &c.-Continued. The reductions on all the above-enumerated articles, with the exception of sulphate and other salts of quinine, amounting to $32,657 per annum, were made prior to March 4, 1875. Statement showing estimated reduction in internal-revenue receipts arising from reduction in taxes from June 30, 1870, to June 30, 1879. (See monthly report Bureau of Statistics May, 1870, and statement Commissioner of Internal Revenue to Senate Committee on Finance of May 31, 1872, and acts referred to below.) Act of July 14, 1870: All special taxes, including licenses for apothecaries, architects, auctioneers, brokers, conveyancers, butchers, claim agents, hotels, steamers and other vessels, insurance agents, lawyers, livery-stable keepers, manufacturers, peddlers, physicians, theaters, museums, &c. $10, 674, 000 Gross receipts, including taxes on bridges, canals, express companies, ferries, insurance companies, railroads, ships, barges, &c., stage. coaches, steamboats, telegraph companies, theaters, operas, museums, &c Sales, including sales of apothecaries, auctioneers, butchers, brokers, confectionery dealers, manufacturers not otherwise taxed, plumbers and gas-fitters Income, including salaries reduced to 2 per cent., and also including total repeal of the tax December 31, 1871. Legacies Successions. Articles in Schedule A, including tax on billiard tables, carriages, gold and silver plate and watches Passports... Stamps on promissory notes, &c., 6,784, 000 8, 804, 000 36, 988, 000 1,619, 000 1, 364, 000 892,000 25,000 1, 350, 000 Expenses of investigating committees appointed by the House of Representatives from March 4, 1875, to June 30, 1879. History of the thirteen regular * Public buildings, additional: Danville, Virginia, $70,000; Baltimore, Maryland, $550,000; Charleston, West Virginia, $75,000; Paducah, Kentucky, $100,000; Cleveland, Ohio, $150,000; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, $50,000; Memphis, Tennessee, $50,000; military sites, $200,000; site United States Naval Observatory, $75,000; Yorktown monument, $120,000; Herkimer monument, $4,100; Henry statue, $15,000; act of March 16, clerks to settle pension cases, $98,700; act June 8, Library Committee, $5,000; War Claims, $262,000; United States and French Claims Commission, $100,000; Uts treaty, -; Gettysburg battle-field, $50,000. |