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4. Be it further enacted, That, this act shall commence Commencements
and be in force, from and after the passage thereof.
EDMUND LAW,
President pro tempore of the Legislative Council.
[Approved September 2nd, 1822.]
WM. P. DUVAL,
Governor of the Territory of Florida.
TEST,
ROBERT MITCHELL,
Clerk of the Legislative Council.
AN ACT
To raise a Revenue in the Territory of Florida.
1. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Court"
cil of the Territory of Florida, That, all lands in this
Territory, claimed and possessed by persons residing
therein, shall be*given in for taxation to the assessor of
the proper county, as hereafter directed, and all houses
and lots within the limits of any town in the same, shall
be given in assessed, and valued in the manner and form
hereinafter mentioned, and there shall be levied and collected
annually cm said lands twenty five cents on every
one hundred acres thereof, and on said valuation of town
property, twelve and a half cents on every one hundred
dollars thereof, and so in proportion for a greater or less
quantity or sum.
2. Be itjurther enacted, That, on all lands in this Territory
claimed or owned by a person or persons residing
out of the same, there shall be levied and collected, twenty
five cents annually upon every one hundred acres, and
so in proportion for a greater or less quantity.
3. Be it further enacted, That, there shall be levied
and collected annually on every slave above the age of ten
years the sum of fifty cents, on every billiard table the
sum of fifty dollars, on the licence of every auctioneer fif-
ty dollars, and one per cent on the amount of all sales at
auction, which amount he shall annually give in on oath
to the assessor, on every tavern licence and shop licence
for retailing spirituos liquors within the cities, the sum
of twenty dollars, and in the country five dollars, on every
licence to retail or vend goods wares and merchandize in
any store or stand in the Territory the sum of thirty dollars
on the license of every pedlar of goods wares and
merchandize not the produce or manufacture of the country
the sum of fifty dollars, and on all persons practising
law or medicine within the Territory ten dollars each, and
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Tax on lands and
town lots.
Tax on non-residents.
On slaves.
Billiard tables.
Auctioneers.
Tavern licence Sec.
To vend goods.
Lawyers and doc-
tors.