Report of Special Commissioner of the Revenue ...: Upon the Industry, Trade, Commerce, &c., of the United States for the Year 1869 ...

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1869 - 265 sivua

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Sivu xcii - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Sivu xi - ... the national requirement for the payment of interest and extinguishment of the debt. It has been estimated by one who has made this subject a study, that the products of agriculture, manufactures, mining, mechanic arts, commerce, fisheries, and forests, in the year 1850 were at 28 9 per cent, of the value of the real and personal property of the United States.
Sivu 122 - That all iron in slabs, blooms, loops, or other forms less finished than iron in bars...
Sivu xcix - ... country. In 1855 he published a valuable Memoir on Meteorites. Since that time he has given special attention to these bodies. His private collection of meteorites was one of the largest in the world, and he was regarded as one of the highest authorities on this subject. Professor Smith was one of the commissioners of the United States to the Paris Exposition of 1867, and to the Vienna Exposition in 1873. His report on " The Progress and Condition of Several Departments of Industrial Chemistry...
Sivu 64 - And provided further, That no cotton goods having more than two hundred threads to the square inch, counting the warp and filling, shall be admitted to a less rate of duty than is provided for goods which are of that number of threads.
Sivu lxxxi - average expenditure requisite to produce a ton of pig iron in the United States.
Sivu clxxiv - Flannels, blankets, hats of wool, knit goods, and all goods made on knitting-frames, balmorals, woolen and worsted yarns, and all manufactures of every description, composed wholly or in part of worsted, the hair of the alpaca, goat, or other animals, (except such as are composed in part of wool), not specially enumerated or provided for...
Sivu lxix - ... maximum."2 Wells also repeated his recommendation that the exemptions for rentals be limited to two hundred dollars. " No claim can be made for the exemption of rent to any extent, which would not be equally valid in support of the exemption of any other expenditure ; and certainly high rents are as much a luxury as any form of expenditure, and as little deserving of economical sympathy.
Sivu clxxxii - ... the sales. When the offices of the commissioners shall be vacated there will be no person whose special duty it will be to take charge of these lands, or at least such part of them as shall be subject to redemption, and which, under the opinion of the Attorney General of the United States, referred by the Secretary of the Treasury to this office, the tax commissioners are not bound to turn over to the Bureau of...
Sivu v - We shall have $4,171,914,498.33 which sum represents the cost of the war to the United States government down to June 30, 1869. To this sum should be added the value of the pensions now paid by the Government on account of the war, if the same were capitalized. This, at eight years' purchase of the present annual payment, would amount to about two hundred millions.

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