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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Taxes. (search)
ed upon the assessed value of real estate and personal property. According to the single tax (q. v.) theory, advocated by Henry George (q. v.) and others, taxation should be solely on land value, exclusive of improvements. The development of the present system of federal taxation is shown below: Duties laid upon spirits distilled within the United States from foreign and home material, March 3, 1791, followed by an act further regulating these duties and imposing a tax on stills......May 8, 1792 Execution of the above laws leads to the whiskey insurrection in Pennsylvania......1794 Duties imposed on licenses for selling wines and foreign distilled spirituous liqors by retail; 8 cents per lb. on all snuff manufactured for sale within the United States; 2 cents per lb. on sugar refined within the United States; and specific duties as follows: On every coach, $10 yearly; chariot, $8; phaeton, $6; wagons used in agriculture or transportation of goods, exempt by act......June 5,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
Congress grants a bounty for fishingvessels......Feb. 16, 1792 Post-office department reorganized......Feb. 20, 1792 United States mint established......April 2, 1792 Tariff amended......May 2, 1792 Laws organizing the militia......May 8, 1792 First session adjourns......May 8, 1792 Capt. Robert Gray, in the Columbia, discovers the mouth (lat. 46° 10′ N.) of the river Columbia......May 11, 1792 Kentucky admitted (the fifteenth State)......June 1, 1792 Second session opeMay 8, 1792 Capt. Robert Gray, in the Columbia, discovers the mouth (lat. 46° 10′ N.) of the river Columbia......May 11, 1792 Kentucky admitted (the fifteenth State)......June 1, 1792 Second session opens at Philadelphia......Nov. 5, 1792 Second Presidential election......Nov. 6, 1792 President's salary fixed at $25,000......Feb. 8, 1793 Electoral count......Feb. 13, 1793 [George Washington, of Virginia, received 132 electoral votes (all); John Adams, of Massachusetts, 77 votes; and George Clinton, opposition, 50.] Second Congress adjourns......March 2, 1793 second administration—federal. March 4, 1793, to March 3, 1797. Seat of government, Philadelphia, Pa. George