UNITED STATES INTERNAL REVENUE TAXES. [From the Revised Statutes of the United States as amended in 1880] Ale, per bbl. of 31 gallons....... $1.00 Banks and bankers, on average amount of deposits, each month...... of 1 per ct. Banks, savings, and savings institutions, having no capital stock and making no profit on deposits, are exempt from tax on so much of their deposits as is invested in United States securities, and on all sums not exceeding $2,000 in the name of one person. Banks and bankers, on capital, beyond the average amount invested in United States bonds, each month.. .4 of 1 per ct. Banks and bankers, on average amount of circulation, each month... of 1 per ct. Banks, on average amount of circulation, beyond 90 per cent. of the capital, an additional tax each month... ...... ..of 1 per ct. Banks, persons, firms, associations, etc., on amount of notes of any person, firm, association (other than a national banking association), corporation, State bank, or State banking association, town, city, or municipal corporation, used and paid out as circulation .10 per ct. Banks, persons, firms, associations (other than national bank associations), and every corporation, State bank, or State banking association, on the amount of their own notes used for circulation and paid out by them..10 per ct. Beer, per bbl. of 31 gallons. Brandy, per gallon...... $1.00 Cigars of all descriptions, made of tobacco or any substitute, per 1,000... 6 00 1 75 6 00 Cigars or cigarettes, imported in addition to import duty to pay same as above. Rectifiers, special tax less than 500 bbls., $100; above 500 bbls. 200 00 Snuff, or snuff flour, manufactured of tobacco, or any substitute, per lb. 16 90 Stamps, for distilled spirits for export, wholesale liquor dealers, special bonded warehouse, distillery warehouse, and rectified spirits.. ..each 10 Tobacco, dealers in leaf, for sales in excess of $1,000, per dollar of excess.... 50 50 90 25 00 15 00 Tobacco pedlers, travelling on foot, or by public conveyance... 10 00 Tobacco, snuff, and cigars, for export, stamps for, each.. 10 90 Wines and champagne (imitation), not made from grapes grown in the United States, and liquors not made from grapes, currants, rhubarb, or berries, grown in the United States, but rectified or mixed with distilled spirits, or by infusion of any matter in spirits, to be sold as wine or substitute for it, per dozen bottles of more than a pint and not more than a quart....... Imitation wines, containing not more than one pint, per dozen bottles.... STAMP TAXES. Bank check, draft, or order for the payment of any sum of money whatso- MEDICINES, PREPARATIONS, COSMETICS, ETC, $2.40 1 20 .2 cents. ...5 cents. Every packet, box, bottle, pot, vial, or other inclosure, containing any pills, powders, tinctures, troches, or lozenges, syrups, cordials, bitters, anodynes, tonics, plasters, liniments, salves, ointments, pastes, drops, waters, essences, spirits, oils, or other preparations or compositions whatsoever, made and sold, or removed for consumption and sale, by any person or persons whatever, wherein the person making or preparing the same has, or claims to have, any private formula or occult secret or art for the mak ing or preparing the same, or has, or claims to have, any exclusive right or title to the making or preparing the same, or which are prepared, uttered, vended or exposed for sale under any letters-patent, or held out or recommended to the public by the makers, venders, or proprietors thereof as proprietary medcines, or as remedies or specifics, and for every packet, box, bottle, pot, vial, or other inclosure, containing any essence, extract, toilet water, cosmetic, hair oil, pomade, hair dressing, hair restorative, hair dye, tooth wash, dentifrice, tooth paste, aromatic cachous, or any similar articles, by whatsoever name the same have been, now are, or may hereafter be called, known, or distinguished, used or applied, or to be used or applied as perfumes or applications to the hair, mouth, or skin, made, prepared, and sold or removed for consumption and sale in the United States as follows; where such packet, box, bottle, vial, or other inclosure, with its contents, shall not exceed, at the retail price or value, the sum of twenty-five cents.. Exceeding twenty-five, and not exceeding fifty cents. Exceeding fifty, and not exceeding seventy-five cents. 1 cent. .2 cents. .3 cents. .4 cents. Exceeding one dollar, for every additional fifty cents or fractional part thereof, an additional..... MATCHES, WAX TAPERS, AND CIGAR LIGHTS. .2 cents. Friction matches, or lucifer matches, or other articles made in part of wood, and used for like purposes, in parcels or packages containing 100 matches or less, for each parcel or package........... 1 cent. .2 cents. .1 cent. Packages containing more than 100, and not more than 200 matches. tional.... 1 cente SPECIE VALUE OF IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF THE UNITED STATES, FROM SEPT. 30, 1789, TO JUNE 30, 1881. [From the Annual Reports on Commerce and Navigation.] Before 1821, the Treasury accounts did not separate merchandise from specie. The figures for 1843 are fc 9 months, the fiscal year having then been changed from Sept. 80 to June 30. SPECIE VALUE OF IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF THE UNITED STATES FROM SEPT. 30, 1739, TO JUNE 30, 1881-(Continued). SPECIE VALUE OF IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF THE UNITED STATES, FROM SEPT. 30, 1789, TO JUNE 30, 1881-(Continued), 1850. 1851. 1852. 1853.. 1854. 1855. 1856. 1857 1859. 1860. 1861 1882. 1863. 1864. 1865. 1866. 1867. 1868. Dollars. Dollars. Dollars. 173,509,526 4,628,792 178,138,318 210,771,429 5,453,503 216,224,932 207,440,398 5,505,044 212.945,442 263,777,265 4,201,382 267,978,647 297,623,039 6,939,342 304,562,381 257,808,708 3,659,812 261,468,520 310,432,310 4,207,632 314,639,942 348,428,342 12,461,799 360,890,141 1858. 268,338,654 19,274,496 282,613,150 331,333,341 7,434,789 338,768,130 353,616,119 8,550,135 362,166,254 289,310,542 46,339,611 335,650,153 189,356,677 16,415,052 205,771,729 243,335,815 9,584,105 252,919,920 316,447,283 13,115,612 329,562,895 238,745,580 9,810,072 248,555,652 434,812,066 10,700,092 445,512,158 395,.63,100 22,070,475 417,833,575 357,436,440 14.188,368 371,624,808 1869. 417,506,379 19.807,876 437,314,255 1870. 435,958,408 26,419,179 462,377,587 1871. 520,223,684 21,270,024 541,493,708 1872. 626,595,077 13,743,689 640,338,766 1873. 642,136,210 21,480,937 663,617,147 567,406,342 28,454,906 595,861,248 1874.. 1875.. 1876.. 533,005,436 20,900,717 553,906,153 14,158,611 8,275,013 22,433,624 1877.. 1878. 1879. 1880. 1881. The import values are invoice prices in gold at place of shipment, and the export values are also in specie. From 1862 to 1878, representing the period of suspension of specie payments, an additional column on the right exhibits the currency value of domestic exports, added to the specie of domestic production exported. Estimated Aggregate Production of the Precious Metals during the Twenty-seven Years from 1849 to 1875, inclusive. |