The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-09-21
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$2e8 CAS- 1921 1878 $4O5 73l $500 9O3 1887 $50
The increase is $ls7 CSC over the same months last
year, which Is about 80 per cent One OF the most
makAbe feA' ures in market is that tbs stock OF
this company should cell at the low standard 81 Der
cent paying regular dividends all Its stock, which Il
has dore during all the above years of four per cent
cashxequal to more than seven per cent upon the
amount Of money laid in the purchase Of this
st present prices and hat the Hudson River should bs
ere at " cent being is cent above that Of the
HaIem the Hudson River yet having been able "a
pay cash dividend at all. Tho capital and indebted
Of the Hudson River Railroad Company Is about
Twelve Millions while that Of the Harlem is less than
Millions There is mystery In ths great differ
between the market value Of the stocks Of hsse
two comp aries that IL unaccountable.
The Independent Treasury law prohibits the deposit
public moneys in banks but up aoout the Hrst OF Ia
non,h (Ausust,) this provision of the Law had been
evaded by the paymasters, quartermasters, commits
miss Of subsistence engineers engaged In the
strucon Of puolic worss and public officers
who deposited the public money in their keeping in
banks to their individual credit Secretary Guthrie has
put an end to this BY directing all officers keep
their deposites with the Assistant Treasurers of the
United States thus securing literal compliance with
the law The amount thus deposited in Office OF the
Assistant Treasurer in the city of New York. and which
under the prior practice would have been deposited
banks, in the mouth of August was. .$3i9,9ll q
OF this there was paid out............ Oil $50 70
Leaving balance the 31s Of August Of 107 $50 As
To meet this requiem eat form of check has
been prepared by Gen. Dix, Assistant Treasurer in this
city ard being submitted to the Secretary Of the
Treasury 1t has been adopted by him for the OF all
the assistant treasury officers In the country. Tue
checks printed in diff. coors for the different
oioes for convenience sake The device check
the Genius Liberty holding the flag Of the Ua on in her
hand restpg shied, which is inscribed Urea
sury Ct the U. s."
On Friday night the Assistant Treasurer locked up over
ten millions Of lars including about slt Of special
deposito by discussing officers, and little less than
sCo COO set apart for the payment Of dividends stc
This amount is exclusively in the gold Of the Uaed
States with the exception OF few hundred dollars 10
81 yer, which obtained from the int from time 10
time to pay fractional parts Of the dollar The weight
Of ten millions Of gold is lsI tons. The amount Of re
cepts Friday $S39 e63 % gil Of whicn paid
gold coin, amounting in the aggregate to about sixty
pecea and employing two persons tho whole
morning to co unit them and test their gepuipeoess
Tho Assistant Treasurer's Office il in the northeastery
Of the Custom House, which Is built entirely Of
iron and stone, with double iron shutters and tTo
wachmen occupy 1t at night. The coin Is deposited In
sale AIDE Of double sheets Of ron WITH crossbas or
lattice work Of cast steel bars bet which no iustru
ment can cut or sbrade.
The fafe Is about fifteen feet in length. eight in
width and about the eame height, with two apart
ments, the inner Of which contains the coin. On
the sides are tiers Of boxes twenty four in number the
cubic contents Of each of which about one aud ave-
revenths Of foot and capable OF holding four hundred
oufand dollars in gold coin. These boxes will contain
in the aggregate nine million six hundred thousand dol
lars. They filed and the coin is OVERT wing
upcn the floor Of the safe. II Is put up In bag, of Eve
thousand dollars each, uith the exception of small
number containing from Eve hundred TO four thousand
dollars for the convenience Of making payments The
safe has three thick iron DOORS with tao looks on each
some Of which cannot be picked TIE keys are dis
ibuted at night among the different clerks the Assistant
Treasurer himself carrying with him the rester OF the
principal key and the safe cannot bs o2ened In the
corning unlets all present. All the accounts Of the
Office each night before the eaes 10 locked
that pethlpg left undone to another day system
betteF devised or adnnised to insure prompttdde and
safety car rot vel be faDcisd
The eeroe az tk attained by The testers OF gold 10
detec' 81 rpJ rioua con lie wonderful almost Inced
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