The whole art ok Government consists in the art of beino honest. Jefferson.
YOL G.
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Pray for All.
BY VICTOR HUGO.
"Daughter, to Praterr
Pray thou for all who living tread
Upon this earth of graves ;
For all whose weary pathways lead
Among the winds and waves ; x
For him who madly takes delight
In pomp of silken mantle bright,
Or swiftness of a horse;
For those who laboring, suffer still ;
Coming or going doing ill
Or on their Heavenward course :
Pray thou for him who nightly sins .
Until the day dawns bright '
Who at eve's hour of prayer begins' ' T
His dance and banquet light:
Whose impious orgies wildly ring,. ;
Whilst pious hearts are offering .
Their prayers at twilight dim; -And
who, those vespers all forgot,
Pursues his sin, and thinketh not
God also heareth him.
Child! pray for all the poor beside:
The prisoner in his cell,
And those who in the city, wide
With crime and misery dwell ;
For the wise sage who thinks and dreams;
For him who impiously blasphemes ,s
Religion's holy law.
Pray thou for prayer is infinite
Thy faith may give the scorncr.Iighl', ,
Thy prayer forgiveness draw..
The Toothache.
As the poet tells us -there never yet was a
philosopher who could bear the looihachc pa
tiently,' perhaps the stilijoitied may interest
I'uth philosophers and other people, being gal
vanic, in accordance with the fpirit of the age:
"If your tooth aches, take a piece of sheet zinc
tbuut the size of fourpence half penny, and a
piece of silver, say a quarter of a dollar place
them together, and hold them between and con
tiguous to the defective tooth, . and jn a few min
utes the pain will be gone as if by magic. The
zinc and silver acting as a galvanic battery,
will produce on the nerves of the tooth suffi
cient electricity to establish a current, and con
sequently relievo the pain." Whether the re
sult will bo as here sit forth, wo cannot 'elli
liaving had no occasion to try. the expcrjmcn.t:
"but it is wotth a.trial, as more agreeable than
destroying nerves or extracting the offender.
:lct to provide for the seduction
of the public debt.
WII EREAS, justice and the support of the
public credit require that provision be made for
the reduction of the debt of this commonwealth.
Therefore,
Section I. Beit enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives oj the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, and
it is hereby enacted by authority of the same,
That the county commissioners of each and
every county in this Commonwealth, are here
by authorized and required annually hereafter,
at the usual period of making cotiniy rates and
lei les, to assess or cause to be assessed for the
use of the Commonwealth upon all stages, om
nibuses, hacks, rabs, and other vehicles, used,
or possessed within this Commonwealth, by any
persons, or by any corporate body or bodies,
and upon all annuities over two hundred dol
lars, except those granted by this Common
wealth or by the United States, and upon all
property real or personal, not taxed under ex
isting lawi held, owned, used or invested by
any person, company or corporation in trust for
the use, benefit, or advantage of any other per
son, company, or corporation, excepting always
such piopeny as shall be held in trust for reli
gious purposes, three mills upon each and eve
ry dollar of the value thereof.
Section 2. The commissioners of each and
every county shall include in the precepts, they
shall hereafter issue to the ward, district or
township assessors, the several objects of tax
ation mentioned in the preceeding section, and
shall require said assessors lo ascertain the
amount, description and value thereof, and make
return to them as is now required by law, and
the taxes on said properly shall be assessed,
levied, and collected in the same manner and
the same proceedings shall be had'in relation
thereto, as is required by law in the assessment
levy and collection of State tax on real and per
sonal property, in the seral counties respec
tively. Section 31 It shall hereafter be the duty of
each assessor within this Commonwealth, at the
time of making the assessments in his ward,
borough or township, to require every person,
every firm and partnership, and the president. !
secretary, cashier, treasurer ol every company
or corporate body subject to taxation there in
lo deliver him a statement in writing, partly
An
printed and partly written, shewing the aggre- by virtue of any law of this Commonwealth, the said account so made out and paid shall be a
gate amount of money due, and owing by sol-; whole or any part of the interest whereon is sufficient voucher in the settlement of his ac
vent debtors to such person, partnership, firm, ' guaranteed bv the State, shall be subject to, and ' count with the commonwealth.
company, or corporate body, whether on mort
gage, judgement, decree, bond, note, contract,
agreement, accounts and settlements in the or
phan's courts, and courts of common pleas, and
other accounts, excepting executory contracts
and agreements, where possession has not been
delivered to the vendee under such contracts or
agreements, and excepting notes, contracts, or
accounts for work or labor done, and bank notes
whether payable on demand, or at any specified
time past, present or ftiture, or whether the time j Treasurer, from and out of any payment or pay
of payment be specified or not, and whether , ments of such interest. And Provided further,
containing an agreement to pay interest or not, That in.those companies in which the guaran
whether written or verbal, and also the amount tee is "pledged on the capital slock the lax im
of all shares or slock held or owned by such , posed by tltis section shall during the continu
person, company, firm or corporate body, in ance of the guarantee be in lieu of the tax on
anybank, institution or company, now or here-1 the capital stock subscribed. under ihe faith of
after incorporated in pursuance of any law of i the guarantee.
any other Slate or government, and all public j Section i) That the fourth section of the
loans or stocks whatever, except those issued act of fourth May, eighteen hundred and forty
by this Commonwealth, and all money loaned j one, entitled "An act to provide revenue to
or invested on the interests in any other State, , meet demands on the Treasury, and for other
and the several items aforesaid, composing such i purposes," shall be, and continue in force no
aggtegate, Provided, 'I 'hat this section shall not! longer than the fourth day of May, eighteen
be construed to require any statement of notes ; hundred and forty-six, and so much of the said
discounted or negotiated or held by any bank-
ing
institution
Section 4. Each person, the president, sec
retary or treasurer of each company, and some
member of each firm or partnership, from whom
statements may be required under the prece
ding sections shall within fifteen days after be
ing so required by the assessors, respectively
make out and deliver to such assessor the state
ment or statements aforesaid, and the person,
making such statement or statements, shall cer
tify over his proper signature, that the same is
true and correct, and if any such person, mem
ber of a firm or partnership, or officer of such
company or corporation, shall refuse or negioct j and is hereby authorized to demand and re
to furnish such statement as is required by the ceive the same fees in his office, for searches,
provisions of this act, the assessor shall proceed
to maue out trom the best means lie may oe
able to obtain, a statement of money or slock
specified in the preceding sections owned by
i such person, firm, partnership, company, or cor
poration.
Section 5. In case any person, company,
firm or corporate body shall noi exhibit and set
forth in any statement made in pursuance of
this act, the full aggregate amount of his, her,
their or its money and stock as required by the
preceding sections of this act, such person, com
pany, linn or corporate body shall forfeit and
pay a sum of one hundred dollars, which shall
be recoverable by any person sueing for the
same in the name of the Commonwealth, as
debts of like nmount are by law recoverable,
one half of which sum when so recovered shall
be paid to the proper county treasurer for the
use of the Commonwealth, and the other half
to the person at whoso instance such suit shall
or may be commenced and prosecuted to re
covery, and nothing in this act be construed to
require that any statement hereinbefore men
tioned shall exhibit more or other facts than the
whole or aggregate amount of the money or
slock specified in the said preceding section.
Section G. Each assessor shall at the time
he is required to make return to the county
commissioners of other proporty assessed by
him, make return of the statements aforesaid,
shall be by the county commissioners assessed
and taxed in the same manner; for the same
purpose, and at the same rates as are specified
and provided for the assessment of money and
stock by the act of the general assembly of this
Commonwealth, entitled "An act to reduce the
State debt, and to incorporate ihe Pennsylva
nia Canal and Railroad Company," approved
the twenty-ninth day of April, one thousand
eight hundred and forty-four, Provided, That ;u
case any person, any member of any firm or
partnership, any president, secretary, cashier,
or treasurer of any company, or corporate bo
dy, shall refuse or neglect to make any state
ment as hereintofore required, the county com
missioners shall add to the amount returned by
the proper assessor of money and slock as
aforesaid, owned by any such person, compa
ny, firm or corporate body, an amount equal 10
fifty per centum thereon, and shall then pro
ceed to levy the tax aforesaid, upon the whole
amount thereof.
Section 7. The auditor general shall as
soon as practicable or necessary after the pas
sage of this act, make out and transmit lo the
commissioners of the several counties in this
State, forms of statements required by the pre-
ceding sections of this act, as well as all other ! prior lo the first day of July, in each year, and hereby repealed,
laws relating to ihe collection of State taxes, j that no appeal shall be permitted from said as-! Section' 22. That the act of fourteenth April,
into uniform effect throughout the State, and i sessments after the fifteenth day of the same ( one thousand eight hundred and forty-five en
tile county commissioners shall thereafter from i month, and that as compensation for their ser-1 'itled an acl for the relief of the city of Puis
time to time, whenever the same shall be ne
cessary, procure and deliver to ihe several as-
sessors in their respective counties, a sumciem
1
number of blank forms of statements as pre-I
scribed by the auditor general in pursuance of;
this
section, together
with all such directions
as may be necessary to enable-said assessors to
discharge the duties imposed on them accord
ing to the true intent and meaning of this act
.Section 8. Thai hereafter all loans and
stocks issued by any corporate bodv chartered
pay a tax lor the use ol the Commonwealth, at
the rate of one-half mill on each and every dol-
lar of the par value thereof, on which one per
centum per annum of interest shalt or may be
paid bv the Commonwealth, and an additional
half mill on evcrv dollar of the value thereof
for every additional one per centum of interest
which shall or may be paid by ihe said Com -
monwealth, Provided, 1 hat the amount of such
tax shall be retained, and deducted by the State
recited acl as required the several banks with
in this Commonwealth, to receive ihe notes is
sued by them respectively, in pursuance of said
act in payment of debts, shall be, and the same
is hereby repealed, Provided, That in case any
bank wuhin ihis Commonwealth, shall have re
deemed the notes issued by such bank, in pur
suance of the said act, such bank shall be en
titled to have said notes cancelled on the fourth
day of May, one thousand eight hundred forty
six and receive from that date interest at the
rate of six per cent, per annum.
Section 10. Thai from and after the pas-
sage
of this acl, the slate treasurer shall be,
copies of accounts, entries and papers filed, and
lor ceriiticate anu seal, as are auoweu to oe
charged by the auditor general, by the act of
first April, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven,
xvhich fees shall be by turn paid into the treas
ury for the use of the Commonwealth, except
when required by any member of the Legisla
ture, during any session, for his use as a mem
ber of either House.
Section !i. That hereafter all dealers in
goods, wares and merchandize, the growth,
product and manufacture of the United States,
and every person who shall keep a store or
warehouse, for the purpose of vending and dis
posing of goods, wares and merchandize, where
such person is concerned or interested in the
manufacture of such gooda, wares and merchan
dize, shall be classified in the same manner,
and required to pay the same annual tax and
license fee, as is provided, rind required in rcla-
tion to dealers in foreign merchandize, Provi
ded, That mechanics who keep a store or ware
house at their own shop or manufactory, for the
purpose of vending their own manufactures ex
clusively, shall not be required to take out any
license.
Section 12. That for the purpose of belter
securing th taxes now required by law to be
paid by dealers in merchandize, the provisions
of the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth sections
of the act of sixteenth April, eighteen hundred
and forty-five, entitled "An act to increase the
revenues, and diminish the legislative expenses
of the Commonwealth," relating to the appoint
ment of appraisers of mercantile taxes in ihe
counties of Philadelphia and Allegheny, be, and
the same are hereby extended to the remaining
counties within the Commonwealth, Provided
hovecver, That the commissioner of each coun
ty, on or before the thirtieth day of December,
in each year, And provided, J hat t lie written t
or printed notices required by ihe said sixth '
section of the said acl to be furnished bv the :
appraiser to the persons or firms assessed, shall ! counties and townships and county and town
only extend to the city and county of Phtladel- f hip officers," upon any person who &hII re
phia, and to Allegheny city, and the city of1 fuse to serve as collectot of taxes shallbe fil'v
rnisnurg, in trie couniy oi Aitegneny, anu tne
notices of the assessments made by the respec
tive appraisers of ihe persons and firms within
the other portion of the county of Allegheny,
and within the remaining counties of the Com
Tl .-I . I -111 1 , t
monwealth, shall be given by at least four adver
tisements in at least two newspapers, it there
shall be so many published in the couniy, And much or the forty-iounh section of the act ot
provided also, That the said notices shall be fifteenth April eighteen hundred and thirty
given as hereinbefore provided in the city and Tour, entitled " an act relating to county rates
county of Philadelphia, the county of Alleghe- and levies, and townships rates and levies," as
ny, and in the remaining counties of the State, is inconsistent herewith be, and the same is
vices ine appraisers oi mercantile taxes snan
.1 r "? .
receive the sum of thirty-seven and a half cents .
1 i a f
I lor each certihcate ol license issued
in
said
counties respectively, and mileage at the rate
of three cents, for each mile necessarily trav-j
elled in the discharge of his official
duties, an
account of which mileage shall be made out, which by the existing laws ol this common
arid its correctness verified by the affidavit of wealth, is subject lo taxation for State or coun-
tho appraiser and on being approved by the
Treasurer of the proper county shall be paid by
him out of any State taxes in his hands, and
Section 13. The court of common pleas ol inuurs, executors, neirs ; anu in taxing n m me
ihe city and county of Philadelphia is hereby names of the executors, administrators or heirs,
authorized and required lo appoint within iweu- u shall not be necessary to designate them by
ty days after the passage of this act, and annu-j 'heir christian or surnames ; and such tax on
ally in ths month of January, thereafter, iwouch real estate shall remain a lieu on the part
' additional "appraisers of mercantile taxes" tpxed for the period of one year, from the firji
j whose duties and powers shall be the same as'
J are prescribed for the appraiser
of mercantile
! taxes in said city and county.
Si-rrmv u Thnt nil osi:ns rftnl. nfirsnnnl
f
and mixed of any kind whatsoever subject to'
collateral inheritance tax by the provisions of
the first section of ihe act of the seventh of ,
April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty!
six, entitled "An act relating to collateral in-'
heritance" passing from any person who may
die seized or possessed of such estate after the
first day of May next, shall thereafter be made!
subject to a tax or duty for the use of the Com-;
J - . . I
monwea th of five do ars on each and every
one hundred dollars of the clear value of such
estate or estates, and at the same rate for any
less sum to be assessed and collected as now
provided by law
Section 15. That hereafter the duties to be
paid to the slate treasurer for the use of this
Commonwealth on sales of groceries at auction
in the city and couniy of Philadelphia, shall be
three quarters of one per centum of the gross
amount'of such sales and so much of any law
in force as fixes a higher rale of duty be and
ihe same is hereby repealed.
Section 16. That the iri-annual assessments
required under existing laws shall be made in
the several counties, in the year one thousand
eight hundred and forty-six, and tri-annually
thereafter in the manner prescribed by the acts
of assombly regulating the same.
Section 17. That in case the assessed val
uation of properly in any county shall hereafter
exceed the aggregate valuaiion of property in
such county as is or may bo established by the
board of revenue commissioners, the thirty
eiahih sentinn of the act. entitled, "An act to
reduce the state debt and incorporate me renn-
sylvania canal and railroad company" approved
ihe twenty-ninth day ol April, one tnousanu
eight hundred and forty-four, shall not be con
strued as to exempt said excess valuation from
taxaiion for state purposes, but the valuation for
the several couniios fixed by said commission
ers shall be treated as a minimum valuation be
low which the aggregate amount of assessment
in the respective counties shall not descend.
Ri-rTinv ir That the commissioners of
Bedford couniy be and they are hereby author
ized and required to add to ihe assessments in
said couniy for slate purposes lor the year
ei.chieen hundred and forty-six, an amount equal
to ihe sum that would have been assessed for
the use of tho statu if one mill uf stale tax had
beeu added to the assessments of suij county
for the year eighteen hundred and forty-four
agreeably to the provisions of an act entitled
" An act to reduce the state debt ami iticorpn
rate the Pennsylvania canal ami railroad com
pany approved the twenty ninth day uf April,
eighteen hundred and forty-four.
Section 19. That all collect ors of state and
county taxes shall, upon the settlement of their
accounts of taxes collected make an oath or nf
firmatiou that they have made a true and jum.
return of all moneys by them collected fur sta'u
or county taxes, and the several enmity treasu
rers are hereby authorized and required to ad
minister such oath or affirmation, which shall
be filed in the commissioners office of the prop
er county.
Section 20. That hereafter the penalty im
posed by the second section of the act of tlm
twenty-eighth February, eighteen hundred and
thirty-five entitled " A supplement to th act,
relating to couitiy rates and levies and town
ship rates and levies, and to the act relttint t(
dollars, and so much of said section as is in-"
consistent herewith, be and the same is hereby
repealed.
Section 21. That hereafter the period du
ring which warrants hereafter to be issued t
collectors shall be effectual for the collection of
taxes, shall be two years and no more ; and an
hlirrr
ne ana tne same is Hereby repealed, so
far as relates to any undrawn balance in the
treasury which may be due and payable under
! the provisions of said act.
Section 23. That when any person shall
herealter die, leaving real or personal estate.
J ' purposes, such properly, so long as the same
snan oeiong lo tne estate oi such deceased
person, may be taxed in the name of ihe de
cedent, or in the name of his administrator or
administrators, executors, or his heirs general
ly, or in the name of any one of the adminis-
ttttl . . l it i
day of June following the assessment ol said
tax, and may be collected trom t lie person- in
possession thereof in the same manner a3 now
I lit 1 . I" . t
provided by law; and an taxes nereiotore inus
assessed, are hereby declared to be legal, and
may be collected in the manner herein provided,
Provided also That the expiration of the lien of
said tax shall not prevent the collection thereof
within the lime now provided in other cases,
and where a different time is affixed by law for
'he existence of the lien of any such lax, this
act shall not operate as a repeal of such law,
but the same shall be construed as controlling
4 I. olsmn nC t II t O a Anllnft C t flf Id mill fit
.. .-fa-.w.
the time such lien is to continue in lorce.
F1NDLEY PATTERSON.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
WM. S. ROSS,
Speaker of the Senate.
Approved the twenty-second day of April,
one thousand eight hundred and forty-six.
FRS. R. SHUNK.
Striking Fact.
The following statement is from a recont
Circular of the American Institute, located at
New York, which is not a partizan society, but
is devoted to national progress in a national of
riew:
" Every article, that can be manufactured at
home, and that has received a Protective Duty
for seven consecutive years, without a single
exception, has, by home competition, and con
sequent development of ingenuity alone, been
reduced in price to the consumer below the
foreign cosi at the time of imposing the duty."
This brief summary from an undenublu
source contains all the facts and arguments uf
the Tariff question, in the smallest possible
space.
A Youth in China, enraged by the reproach
es of his infirm mother for not supporting her
in a proper manner, he rushed upon and strang
led her ! For this horrible crime he was sen
tenced to be cut into ten thousand pieces-in the
open market-place ! which sentence has. been
confirmed by ihe Emperor.
Cute. A fellow climbed a pole af the Mag
netic Telograph at Baltimore, and applied bin
oars lo the wires, in order to hear the news !