The Portland daily press., 1862-11-25
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TO THE
Portland Daily Press.
FROM WASHINGTON.
General Order by the President.
Trial of the Stafford Projectile.
Changes, Assignments, DC.
Decision of the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue.
Changes, Assignments, DC.

WASHINGTON. Nov. "a.
The President has issued the following or
der:
Erecutire Mansion, Nov. Is, 1862.
Ordered, by the President of the United
States, That the Attorney General be charged
with the superintendent and direction of all
proceedings to be had under the act of Con-
gress of 18th July, 1862, entitled "An act to
suppress insurrection, punish treason and re-
bellion, seize and coniscate the property of
rebels, ana for other purposes" in SO far as
may concern the seizure, prosecution and con-
deInnatlon of the estate, property and effects
OF rebels and traitors, as mentioned and pro-
vided for in the 9th, 9th and Ith sections of the
said act OF Congerss; and the Attorney-Gene-
raj is authorized and required to give to the
Attornles and Marshals OF the United States
such instructions and directions as he may
find needlul touching all such seizures, prose-
cutons and condemnations, and moreover to
authorize all such Attormies and Marshas,
whenever there may be reasonable ground to
fear any forcible resistance TO their acts In dis
charge of their respective duties in this behalf,
TO call upon any military officer in command
of the forces of the United States to give them
such aid, protection and support as may be
necessary TO enable them safely and eflectually
to discharge their respective duties; and all
such commanding officers are required prompt
ly to obey such calls and to render the neces-
sary aid as far as may be in their power con-
sstently with their other duties.
(Signed) ABRAHAM LINCOLN
BY the President:
EDWARD BATES, Attorney-General.
In accordance with this order the Attorney
General will shortly issue specific instructions
TO u. S. Attornies aud Marshals for carving
into effect the provisions of the act to which
reference has been made.
StafIords projectile, which accomplished
such wonderful results in a test at West Point,
has to-day, at a trial at the Washington navy
yard, with rifled lJ0-pounder Dahlgren gun,
surpassed all its former efforts and demonstrate
ed the fact that iron-clads are as vulnerable to
il as wooden walls are to ordinary shot.
The Commissioner Of Internal Revenue has
decided that person whose business is simply
to collect dues for rent does not thereby be-
come a commercial broker within the meaning
of the excise laws.
Assistant Paymaster T. Z. Curtis has been
ordered to the Pawnee. Acting Assistant
Paymasters J. 4. Meeker and T. r. Mofiatt
have been ordered to the Mississippi squadron.
Actiug Assistant Paymasters w. X. Sherwood
and O. Il. Browning have been ordered to the
mortar fotilla in the Western Gulf squadron.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has
decided that a strict construction relating TO
stamp duties upon leases, &C., schedule B,
page 81, will require that stamp OF the de-
nomination of fifty cents be affixed TO each
lease or agreement to lease from month TO
month, no period of years being named. must
he construed to mean and regarded as lease
for period of time, and therefore subject to
the stamp duty imposed by law upon such in
strument. Fifty cent lease stamps are now
ready for delivery.