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North Branch Democrat
Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania
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Mr. Boutwell explains Stevens' Internal Tax Law, requiring additional licenses for tavern keepers, market stall renters, and peddlers including farmers selling from wagons, impacting local trades ahead of elections.
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Mr. Boutwell, the Tax Commissioner at Washington, has given another explanation and construction of Stevens' Tax Law, under date of the 29th ult.
By this construction of the law it appears that a tavern keeper, besides paying a State and a United States license, must also be licensed as retail liquor dealer.
All farmers, butchers and truckmen renting stalls in our markets, will be required to pay the license of retail dealers.
All farmers, truck men, butchers, millers, bakers, &c., selling out of wagons, from house to house, will be required to take out a peddler's license.
Under this construction of the law, farmers who stand in our streets on market days with their wagons, will have to pay a peddler's license.
It is difficult to define the limit of taxation under the series of the Abolition Tax laws which are likely to emanate from the office of Internal Revenue. This important matter will be better understood by our farmers and the rest of the community, after the election, when the taxes will be assessed and collected.
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29th Ult.
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various trades including tavern keepers, farmers, butchers, truckmen, millers, and bakers required to obtain additional licenses as retail dealers or peddlers, in addition to state and us licenses.
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Tax Commissioner Boutwell provides explanation of Stevens' Tax Law, mandating extra licenses for tavern keepers as retail liquor dealers; market stall renters like farmers, butchers, and truckmen as retail dealers; and wagon or house-to-house sellers like farmers, truckmen, butchers, millers, bakers as peddlers. Notes difficulty in defining taxation limits under Abolition Tax laws, to be clarified post-election.