The Clerk read as follows: That section 94 be amended by striking out all after the enactin clauseand inserting in lieu thereof the followmg: that upon the articles, goods, wares and merchandisehereinaftermentioned.ex cept where otherwise provided, which shall be produced and sold, or bemanufacturedor madeand sold, or beconsumedor used by the manufacturer or producer thereof or removed for consumption or for delivery to others than agentsof themanufactur exor producer within the U.S or Territories thereof, there shall be assessed, collected, and paid the following taxes. to be paid by the producer or manufacturerthereof. that is to say: 0n candles.of whatevermaterial made, atax of 5%.ml colorant. On gas, illuminating. made of coal wholly or in part, or any other material, when the product shall notbo above 200,000 cubic feet per month, ii. tax of ten cents per1000 ca 10 feet: when the product shall be above 2 and not exceeding 500,000 cubic feet or month. a tax of 15 cents ier 1000cu in feet; when the product shii l be above 500,000 and not exceeding 5 million cubic feet permonth, a tax of 20 cents per1000 cubic feet; when the product shall be above 5 millions. a tax of 25 centsper 1,000 cubic feet and the general avera e of the monthly product for the year preceding thereturn required by this act shall regulate the rate of tax herein imposed and where any gasworkshave not been in operation for the next year the return as aforesaid, then the rate shall prheoceredninuz lated upon the estimated aver e of the montbly product: Provided, That the prouct re hired to bureturned by law by anygas company shal be under stoodto he, in adition to the gas consumedby said companyor other partly, the product charged in the bills actually rent ac by the gas companyduring the month precedi the return; and all gas comanics are hereby authorized to add the tax imposed by law to the priceper 1,000 cubic feeton gas sold: Provide further. That all gas furnished for lighting street lamps or for other purposes and not measured, and all gas made for and used by any hotel. inn, tavern, and private dwelling house shall be subject to tax whatever the amount of product, and may be estimated; and if the returns in any caseshall be understatedor underestimated, it shall be the duty oftho asst assessor of the district to increasethe sameas he shall deem just and iroper: and providedfur (her, That gas companies ocuted within the corporate limits of any city or town, whether in the district or otherWise or so located as to compete ith eachother, shall Billythe rate oftax imposedby w upon the company uvingthelargest production.