Art. 2. The tariff shall be one-half in the country districts, excepting all saladeros, graserias, and steam-factories within two leagues of the municipal boundary of the city.

Art. 3. The assessment of the amount of Patent according to the classification of the various industries as above, shall be done by a committee appointed in each town by the Executive.

Art. 4. When one house comprises different branches the committee shall assess that which pays the highest Patente: if there be separate doors for such branches of business, they shall assess the highest Patente and half that which answers to the lower branch.

Art. 5. From article 3 are excepted the following, all which pay 1st. class in their respective categories-Gas Company, travelling huxters, pedlars, dentists, lottery-vendors, attorneys, brokers, midwives, chiropodists. Except also land-surveyors, and these shall pay the 2nd class in their respective category.

Art. 6. The committee for assessing Patentes shall classify the various shop-keepers, &c. and deliver to each a ticket expressing how much they have to pay.

Art. 7. Parties who may not have received such ticket can apply to the committee within eight days after the classification. In case of disagreement about the amount payable the interested party may appeal within thirty days to a jury composed of five members, whose decision shall admit of no appeal.

Art. 8. There shall be two juries in the city of Buenos Ayres, and one in each town or partido of the province; the members being named by the respective municipalities and electing their own chairman.

Art. 9. The juries of appeal must be installed before the 1st of April, and at once communicate with the classifying committees.

Art. 10. The committees shall before the 30th March submit to the juries their respective lists, and the juries give notice in the public papers of the time and place for hearing of appeals, at which, moreover, the committees must also assist, to give any necessary information..

Art. 11. After the term of thirty days the jury shall close its sittings and send in the returns as amended to the Oficina de Patentes.

Art. 12. All Patentes must be taken out in the country districts before August 30th, and the Executive shall fix a suitable term in the city for each profession.

Art. 13. Whoever violate this law shall pay a fine double the amount of Patente, besides being obliged to take out the proper Patente.

Art. 14. Each country municipality shall receive 10 per cent. of the proceeds of Patentes in its district.

Art. 15. The Executive is authorized to expend 5 per cent of the gross proceeds and 20 per cent. of the fines in the collection of the tax.

CONTRIBUCION DIRECTA.

Property Tax.

Art. 1. All landed or household property in town or country shall pay four per mil on its assessed value.

Art. 2. Proprietors whose total estate is not worth $20,000 mc., and that they reside on same, are exempted from this tax.

Kerosene, 10 gals.

31

41

Do. Misionera,

7

8

Machinery, iron safes, botadores and tirantes, at conventional prices.

12

14

Boxes Mares' grease, 3qq.

14

Boxes mares' grease, 4qq. Delays After two days at the rate of $250 a day for 30 bales [B. A.] In unloading the ton is calculated at 2211 lbs. ; in loading or in ballast the ton has only 2000 lbs. In discharging matches, paper, hardware, packing, glassware, cigars and brushes, the price is by the cubic foot English and includes cart-hire to the Custom.house: in other articles the owner has to pay the carts. The English ton measurement has 40 cubic feet, the French 52 English cubic feet, and 100 feet English are equal to 117 Hamburg ditto. Re-embarkation-Hacienda $45, comestibles $30 per cart. Cargo above the Barraca bridge is charged 20 per cent. extra, either loading or discharging.

No complaint allowed beyond four days after delivery of goods: all complaints should be made to the lighterman, but the undersigned do not answer for damage caused by fortuitous events.

Casares & Sons, Rodriguez & Sons, Guerrero, Hoevel & Langenheim, Señorans & Fuzier, Bernal & Co., Neves, Rubio & Co., Nuñez, Noceți & Tornquist, Bettolache & Co., Caranza, Camartino & Co., Garri & Co., Garcia, Bergmann & Dickleman, McLean, Garay & Co., Ferrer & Co., Marti, Plá & Co., Ascheri, Guimaraens, Solari, Laforgue, Curell Bros., Delfino, Dodero, Agnese, Coelho, Dally, Martin, B. Curell & Co., F. Casares.

MUNICIPAL GAS AND SERENO TAX.

1. Mercantile houses, barracas, timber yards, wholesale stores, mills, printing offices, hotels, insurance offices, clubs, and theatres, pay $30 a month for serenos, $40 for gas, and where there is no gas $15 for oil.

2. Bakers, hatters, baths, soap boilers, coach makers, brewers, druggists, jewellers, ship chandlers, livery stables, and lithographers, pay as above— $20, $30, $12.

3. Blacksmiths, coffee houses, upholsterers, apothecaries, watchmakers chandlers, and cart owners, pay-$15, $25, $10.

4. Drapers, grocers, workshops, pulperias, butchers, and eating-houses, pay $10, $20, $5.

5. Private houses pay-$5, $5, $3.

6. Rooms on the street pay-$2, $2, $2.

7. Houses with two doors shall pay half for the second, and the same for unbarred windows. Empty houses pay nothing, but, once taken, a part of a month counts for a whole one.

PALOCHIAL DIVISION OF THE CITY.

1. Catedral al Norte.-From Calle Rivadavia to Paraguay, and from Paseo Julio to Calle Maypu.

2. Catedral al Sud.—From Calle Rivadavia to Chile, and from the river to Calle Las Piedras.

3. San Telmo.-From Calle Chile to the Riachuelo, and from the Paseo Colon to Calle Piedras and Barracas

4. Concepcion.-From Calle Mexico to Caseros, and from Calle Las Piedras to San José.

5. Monserrat. From Calle Potosi to Caseros, and from Las Piedras and San José to Sarandi.

6. San Miguel. From Calle Maypu to Calle Talcahuano, and from Cuyo to Potosi.

7. San Nicolas. From Calle Maypu to Uruguay, and from Cuyo to Charcas.