The Hillsborough Recorder

Revenue Law. - We learn that the 7th section of the Revenue law, passed at the last session of the General Assembly, has been so construed that it does not go into operation until the first of April in the year 1850. That section taxes gold and silver plate, pleasure carriages, gold and silver watches, harps, pianos; raises the tax on retailers of spirituous liquors from four to ten dollars; reduces that on billiard tables from $50 to $20; levies $25 on every bowling alley; and taxes every pack of playing cards 10 cents.

We were of impression that the Proviso, at the end of this 7th section, "as only intended to apply to the last article mentioned, viz: "upon every pack of playing cards ten cents; and every merchant, shop keeper, and public dealer in goods, wares and merchandise shall state on oath how many packs he has sold within the last year;" and then follows the Proviso, which was obviously necessary, viz: "this enactment shall not be in force before the first of April, in the year 1850." Why? because no merchant called on the first of April, 1849, could tell how many packs he had sold within the last year, probably, because he had kept no particular account.

The section of the act as it stands, appears to us to be intended as a notice, that hereafter strict account is to be taken, and the number given in on oath. The word "enactment" in the Proviso, we learn, extends it to the whole section.

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