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AND THE " Radical Preventive of Tan, Sunburn .and Freckles, and Peerless Cosmetic for Gentlemen s use in shaving, called the ORIENTAL OLEATE." This article has been used with the most flattering success by many of our citizens, and we have no hesitation m pronouncing it jWperior to all other preparations of the kind ra the market. Every bottle warranted. Price, 50 Cents. - 1 . Respectfully submitted, : DR. A. B. CHAPIN, " Druggist and Manufacturer of Plavaring Extracts of all Kiiids. a. .vrewumes, Essence Fenncmnnt. Tares-one Genuine. Hot Drops, Swveft Tinct. Rhubarb .teweet UU, Castor Oil. lJm'raHtfH -Pure. adn 1 1 I F n. n . 1 "I y " ' 't t - Ad Independent Dnian Republican Paper : Derated :N"0. Taxes Assessed. FOR GUILFORD COUNTY. The Board of Commissioners have or dered that the folloxcing taxe be levied and collected forlhe year ending April 1st, 1870 . 4. 1. On each taxable poll or male be tween the ages of twenty-one and fifty, except such poor and infirm persons as the County Commissioners maxjflecJare and record fit subjects for-exemption, there shall bo annually levied and col lected a tax of 05 cents. If any poll tax shall not be paid with in sixty days after the same shall be demandable, it shall be the duty of the Shentt, if he can find no property of the person liable sufficient to satisfy the same, to garnishee any person in debted to the person liable, or who may become indebted to him before the ex piration of the calendar year. And the person so garnisheed shall be liable for said tax. 2. The taxes hereafter designated shall be applied to defray the expenses of the County Government, to pay the County public debt, and to pay ap appropriations for charitable institu tions. Class 1. Sec. 1. There shall be an ad valorem tax of 31 cents on every one hundred dollars in value of real and personal property in this State, subject to ex emptions made by law. Upon all moneys, credits, invest ments in bonds, not exempted by law, l!)-(0 of one per cent. Upon all stocks, joint stock compa nies, or otherwise, 10-00 of one per cent, of their cash value. Class 2. The subjects and persons mentioned in the following class shall be taxed as specially mentioned : Sec. 1. On the net incomes and pro fits, other than that derived from prop eity taxed, from any source whatever, during the year preceding the first day of April in each year, there shall be a tax of two and one-half per cent. The income tax shall include interest on the securities of the United States, of this State, or other State or Government. In estimating the net income, the only deduction by way of expenses shall be : 1. Taxes other than the income tax due this State. 2. lient for use of buildings or other property, or interest on incumbrances on property used in the business from which the income is derived. 3. Usual or ordinarv repairs of the buildings Irom which tlie income is derived. 4. Cost or value of the labor, (except that of the tax payer himself) raw ma terial, food, and all other necessary expenses incidental to the business from which the income is derived, toge ther with the necessarv expenses of supporting the family, which shall, in no instance, exceed one thousand dol lars. The tax paver shall return to the ass essor the gross amount of his income, and the gross amount of his expenses to be deducted thert-from, which return the assessor shall file in the office of the Chirk of the Count v Commissioners. Sec: 2. Upon all real and personal estatej whether legal or equitable, sit uate iwithin the State, which shall descetltl, or be devised or bequeathed to any collateral relation or person, other than a lineal descendant or an cestor of the husband or wife of the deceased, or husband or wife of such ancestor or descendant, or to which such Collateral relation may become entitled, under the law, for the distri bution of the intestate estate, and which real and personal estate may not be required m payment of debts and Otherjliabilities, the followinglper cent um tax upon the value thereof, shall be paid : 1. If such collateral relation be brother or sister of the father or mother of the deceased, or issue of such brother or sister, a tax of one per cent. 2. If such collateral relation be moreiremote relation, or the devisee or legatee be a stranger, a tax of two per cent.? The real estate liable to taxation shall be listed by the devisee or heir, fdiic 1 A to wtatcTcr wid pjamate lis idnnceseat cf Mankind, GREENSBORO, N. C, Wednesday, May. in a separate column, designating its proper per cent. tax. The personal estate, or real estate reduced to assets, shall bo liable to the tax in the hands of the executor or ad ministrator, and shall be paid by him before his administration account is audited, or the real estate i3 settled, to the Sheriff of the County. If the real estate descended or devised shall not be the entire inheritance, the heir or. devisee shall pay a": pro rata part of the tax, correpondiii-jwith the- rela tive value of the estate or interest. If the legacy or distributive share to be received, shall not be the entire property, such legatee or distributee shall, in like manner, pay a pro rata part of the tax according to the value of his interest. Whenever the personal property in the hands of such administrator or executor (the same not being needed to be converted into money, in the course of the administration,) shall be of uncertain value, he shall apply to the County Commissioners to appoint three impartial men of probity to ass ess the value thereof ; and such assess ment being returned to the Commis- sioners, and being confirmed, shall Ik conclusive of the value. To facilitate the collection of the tax on collaterals, every exocuror-or admin istrator shall return in his inventory whether the estato of the deceased goes to the lineal or collateral relations, or to a stranger, and if to collaterals, the degree of relationship of such collater als to the deceased, under a penalty of one hundred dollars, to be recovered in the name and for the use of the State; and it shall be the duty of the Superior Court Clerk of the County to furnish the Sheriff with the names of the executors and the administrators, who make such returns, after each and everv term of his Court. Sciiiidi'lh 15. The taxes in this Schedule imposed are for the privilege of carrying on the business or doing the act named. Section 1. Travelling theatrical com panies shall pay five dollars for the first, and five dollars for each subse quentexhibition. When the theatrical exhibitions are by the season of not less than one month, the tax shall be fiftv dollars. Sec. 2. On each concert and musical entertainmeut for profit, shall be paid five dollars; on each lecture for reward, five dollars. Sec. 3. On museums, wax works or curiosities of any kind, natural or arti ficial (except paintings and statuarv,) on each day's ami night's exhibiting shall be paid five dollars. Sec. 4. On every exhibition of a cir- cus or menagerie, tor eacu day or part of a day forty dollars, and for each side show to a circus or menagerie, ten dol lars. Sec. 5. On itinerant companies, or persons who exhibit for amusement of the public, otherwise than is mentioned in the four preceding sections, five dol lars for each exhibition. Exhibitions given without charge for admission, and also those exclusively for charita ble objects, shall be exempt. Sec. tJ. On each exhibition of spirit rappings, or other device, by whatever name called, which professes to reveal communications from the spirits of the living or dead for profit, ten dollars. Sec 7. On all gift enterprises, or any person or establishment offering any article for sale, and proposing to pre sent purchasers with any gift or prize as an inducement to purchase, within the limits of the State, ten dollars for each day such person or establishment continues in operation. This tax shall not be construed to relieve such jer son or establishments from any penal ties incurred by a violation of the law. Sec 8. Every agency of a bank, in corporated out of the State, 82.50. Sec 9. The tax on billiard saloons shall be fifty dollars each. Sec 10. To keep a ten pin alley, or alley of like kind, or bowling saloon, bagatelle table, or any other table, stand or place for any other game or a ! play, with or without a name, unless ! such alley, stand, place or game is kept .IV ? . i ior pnvaie amusement or exercise a lone, aud not prohibited by law, there shall be a license tax of $10. Sec 11. Every retail dealer in spir- and the! Pstidir Interest cf the Prtpriet:;. 26, 1869. 16. it nous, ; viuons liquors, porter, lager beer, or other malt liquors, shall pay a tax of .j per cent, on the amount of pur chases, and every person who buys and sell spirituous, vinous or malt liquors in quantities less than three gallons, shall, within the meaning ot this act, be a retail dealer. Sec. 12. Even wholesale dealer or person who buys and sells spirituous, vinous or malt liquors in quantities not less than three gallous, shall pay a tax of i per cent, on the amount of his pur chases. Sec VI. Every person distilling spir ituous liquors shall pay a tax of ." per cent, on the cash value of the liquors distilled from grain, Htatoes, molasses and sugar tane ; and 2 per cent, on the liquors distilled from Irit. . Sec 14. Every manufacturer of to bacco shall pay a tax of one er cent. on his purchases of leaf tobacco. Sec 15. Every merchant or other dealer shall apply to the Sheriff for a license, and shall state on oath the esti mated amounts of his purchases from the time when the license is to legin to run to its expiration, and the amount of tax tb be paid by him shall be com puted i!ion;tliat estimate, and the tax shall btj one-fifth of one per cent., and shall. bq paid on receiving the license. Within jten days after the end of Jan uary, April, July and October, the mer chant or dealer shall deliver to the Sheriff ji sworn statement of the actual amountiof Iris purchases within the pre ceding quarter. The Sheriff shall have- power to require the merchant making such statement to submit his books to examination by the Sheriff, and every merchaiit refusing on demand to sub mit his books to such examination, shall bej liable to a penalty to the State of two hundred dollars, to be prosccu ted by the Sheriff and recovered in any court having jurisdiction of the case. It shall further be the dtitv of the Sheriff to prosecute every merchant re fusing ns aforesaid, in the Superior Court of the (.ouiitv, as mav be pre scribed for special proceedings, to the end of obtaining such examination and compelling payment of the proper tax. Sec. 10. On the gross receipts of hotels, boarding houses, (except those used for educational purposes,) restau rants and eating houses, the tax shall be one per cent. Sec. 17. On the gross receipts of gas companies, one percent. Sec. IS. Every money or exchange, bond oil note broker, private banker, ! in addition to the ad rolorem tax on their capital invested, or tlie tat on their net income, shall pay, if employ ing a capital of twenty thousand dol lars or more, .a license tax of 150 ; if a capital of less than twenty thousand dollars tind not less than ten thousand dollars,! $7.1 ; and if a capital of ten thousand dollars or less, a tax of 37.50. SeclO.Everv person who purchases in the State, or brings into the State fori sale or use, playing cards, shall pa a tax of twenty-five cents for each sep arate deck or pack so bought or brought into tho State Sec t'O. On each stud horseand jack ass let to mares for a price, there shall be a tax equal in amount to the price charged for the season, not to be less than five dollars, and if no price is charged by. the season, there shall be a taxofthi dollars; fifty ier cent ad ditionat lor county purjoses. Sec2l!Every horse or mule drover, or person who buys or receives horses or mules from another for rale, shall pay a tax of oue and one-half per cent, on each sale or profit made in exchange of horses or mules, due as soon as the sale is effected, or profit by the exchange-is received; ami upon failure to pay such tax, in theCountv, he shall forfeit and pay one hundred dollars, which shall be collected, by the Sheriff by distress or otherwise, one-half to his own use, and the other half to the use of the State. Sec. 22. Every person who, for him self or us an agent for another, sells riding vehicles, shall pay one percent, on his sales. Sec pi3. Every auctioneer on all goods, wares or merchandise, sold by himself: or agent, whether the growth or manufacture of this State or not, shall pay oue per cent, on tin; gross amount of his sales, subject to all the Your bill for TIiq: Topic TO. . is ICJ PLEASE REMIT PROMPT1 lC7Voar time expires mith No.... Please renew and remit future BubBcriptiou. 4 Office bn South-Elm Street,". In the rear of OAHPBJ'S DRUG STORE. regulations and exemptions set forth in tlie ten chapter of the Revised Code entitled " Auctions aud Auctioneers. Sec 2 4. Every commission merchant cliall pay a tax of one-fourth of one "per cent, on his sales as commission mer chant. . j Sec. 25. Every jersou whose occu-' pation or business is to keep horses or vehicles for hire, or to let, shall pay a tax of five dollars for every horse for that purpose, at any time during tho year, ,to be collected by tho Sberift quarterly : PronV7i7,That this section shall not apply to draymen. Sec 20. Every licensed retailer of spirituous liquors, wines or cordials, $7for one year. Every retailer of malt liquors only, shall pay 815. Tho taxes in this section shall be in addi tion to the tax imposed on purchases of liquors in this schedule. Sec. 2i. Every person that peddles fd wares or merchandise, either by land or water,orany drugs, nostrums, or medicines, whether such erson shall travel ou foot or with a convey ance or otherwise, shall first have proved to the County Commissioners that he is of good moral character, and shall have obtained from the Commis sioners (who may in their discretion make or refuse) an order to the Sheriff, to grant him peddlers license to expire on the tirst ot next ensumcr. and the sheriff, ou production of a copv of such order, certified by the Clerk of said Commissioners, shall grant such license for his County on the receipt of twenty dollars tax : Provided!.) That not more than one person shall peddle under the license. (2.) That any per son who temporarily carries on a busi ness as merchant in any public plactv and then removes his goods, shall be deemed a ieddler. (3.) That nothing in.this section contaiued shall prevent any persou freely selling live stocky vegetables, fruits, oysters, fish, books, charts, maps, printed music, or the articles of his own growth or manufac ture within this State. (4.) That no thing herein contained shall release peddlers froin paying the -tax imposed m this act on persons who deal m the same species of merchandise, which tax hall be collected .or secured in the same manner as is the case of other merchants and traders. Sec. 2S. Every itinerant whodealsln or puts up lightning rod, five dollars.- Sec 20. Every itinerant who sells spirituous liquors, wines or cordials, not the product of his own farm, shall j pay twenty-five dollars, and be under j the same rules and restrictions as ped-" diem, except that au order from the Commissioners shall not be required, for a license. Sec. .'i0. Every company of gypsies, or strolling company of jersous, who make a support by pretending to tell fortunes, horse trading, tinkering or begging, fifty dollars, recoverable out of any property belonging to any ouo of the company ; but nothing herein contained shall be so contnied as to exempt them from indictment or icnal- ties imposed by law. Sec 31. Every non-resident or drum mer or agent of a non-resident, who' shall fell any spirituous, vinous or malt' liquors, goods, wares, or merchandise ' by narople or otherwise, whether deliv ered or to he delivered, shall pay an annual tax of twenty-five dollars, and a tax of like amount as is payable by residents on their purchases or sales, as the.case may be, of similar articles. Before making such sales, he shall ob tainlfrom the Sheriff of the County in. which he proposes to do business, a license in writing, which the Sheriff may: give on his entering into bond in the sum of five hundred dollars, with sufficient security, conditioned to pay the faxes herein imposed, when de manded by the Sheriff. Any person violating the provisions of this para graph shall be deemed guilty of a mis demeanor, and mo:i conviction, shall be fiiied and imprisoned at the discre tion of the. Court, and uall forfeit and . pay five hundred dollars to the Sheriff. j to Ira collected by distress or otherwise, four hundred dollars of which shall bft . accounted for as other taxes, aud thtii residue he may retain to his own ussor to the use of the informer; - --Vt . Sec-32. The chief officers "of ,b.y&" including private bankers, 'sVviug Con?ln hl n:i V.h p ij:. '
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