The Portland daily press., 1863-01-24
BY TELEGRAPH.
Portland Daily Press.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Conclusion Of the United States Revenue
Bill as Amended.
Correspondence between the Mexican Gov
eminent and Mr.. Seward.
Answers of Secretaries TO Calls from the
BOuse.
Decisions Of the Commissioners Of
correspondence between the Mexican Gov
eminent and Mr.. Seward.
Answers of Secretaries TO Calls from the
BOuse.
Decisions Of the Commissioner OF
Internal Revenue.
Mr.. Stevens Substitute for the Revenue Bill.
Outstanding Treasury Notes.

| banking associations, corporations, or individ-
| uals issuing notes or bills for circulation as
currency, shall be subjected to pay a duty of
| per centum each half year, and after April
LIST, 1868, upon the average amount of aggre
gate of deposits and circulation of notes or
bills as curreucy issued beyond the amount
hereinafter named; that is to say, banks, asso-
Citations, corporations, or individuals, having
a capital OF not over 100000 80 per cent.
thereof; over 100000 and not over 100000,
50 per cent. thereof; over 100000 and not ov-
er Ss10,O00, 90 per cent; over S500,000 and not
over 100000, so per cent; over 81 100000
and not over 81 100000, 40 per cent; over ST.
100000 and not over S2,000,000, 30 per cent;
over S2,000,O00 25 per cent. In case of banks
with branches, the duties herein provided for
shall be imposed upon the circulation of notes
or bills OF such branches severally, and not up
on the aggregate circulation of all; and the
amount of the capital of each bank shall be
the amount allotted to be used by such branch,
provided that all the banks, associations, or
corporations and individuals issuing or re-issu-
ing such notes or bills for circulation as cur
rency after April 1st 1863. in sums represent
ing any fractional part of a dollar, shall be
subject to and pay duty of per cent each
half year thereafter upon the amount OF such
fractional notes or bills so issued; and list or
return shall be made and rendered within thir-
ty days after October LIST, 1868, and each six
months thereafter, to the Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue, which shall contain a true and
faithful account of duties accrued upon the
full amount of the fractional note circulction,
and upon the average amount of all other cir
culation for the next six months preceding, or
which should accrue from time to time. and a
list or return shall be made and rendered with
in thirty days after the time fixed AS aforesaid,
TO the Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
which shall contain a true and faithful account
of the amount of duties accrued, or which
should accrue from time to time as aforesaid,
during the time when said duties remain I'M
accounted for. And there shall be annexed to
every list or return declaration, under oath
or affirmation, TO be made in the form or man
ner as shall be prescribed by the Commissioner
of Internal Revenue, of the President or some
other proper officer of said bank, association,
corporation or individual respectively, that
the same contains true and faithful account
of the duties which have accrued, or which
shall accrue and not accounted for. And for any
default in the delivery of such list or return,
with such declaration annexed, the bank, asso-
citation, corporation or individual making such
default shall forfeit as a penalty the sum of
$500. And such bank, association, corporation
or individual shall, upon rendering list or
return as aforesaid, pay to the Commissioner
of Internal Revenue the amount of duties due
on such list or return, and in default thereof
shall forfeit as penalty the sum of $500; and
in case of neglect or refusal to make said list
or return as aforesaid or TO pay the duties as
aforesaid for the space of thirty days after the
time When said list shall have been made or
rendered, or when said duties; shall have be-
come due and payable, the assessment or col
lection shall be made according TO the general
provisions prescribed in the act entitled IAN
act to provide internal revenue to support the
government and pay the interest on the public
debt" approved July LIST, 1862.
Sect 9.-And be il further enacted, that the
provisions of the act entitled ian act for the
better organization of the treasury, and for the
collection, safe keeping, transfer and disburse-
ments of the public revenue" approved Aug.
6, 1885, be, and the same is hereby, so modified
as to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury,
at his discretion, TO allow any money obtained
from loans or internal revenue, to be deposit
ed in solvent banks to the credit of the treas
urer of the United States, upon depositing by
said banks with the treasurer, an amount of
United States bonds or treasury notes not less
than such deposits, respectively, as security
for the payment thereof; and from time to time
the Secretary OF the Treasury may use .ucn
deposits, by DRAFT or check, to pay any of the
creditors of the government, or for transfer to
the treasury or authorized repositories.
Sect. 10.-And be 1t further enacted, that in
order TO prevent and punish counterfeiting and
fraudulent alterations of the bonds, notes and
fractional currency authorized to be issued by
sections of the act entitled IAN act to author
ize the issue OF United States notes, for the
redemption or funding thereof, and for funding
the floating debt of the United States,n
approved February 18th, 1862, shall, so far as
applicable, apply TO bonds, notes and fractional
currency hereby authorized to be issued in
like manner as If said 9th and 1th sections
were adopted as additional sections of this
act, and the sum of one million dollars is here
nv apnropriatpl N M har
wise appropriated, to enable the Secretary of
the Treasury to carry this act into effect
Sect. 1l.-And be it further enacted, that
the penalties of this act shall extend TO the
officers in the Treasury Department, and to
those engaged in printing and preparing the
notes.
The President day sent a message to the
Senate in answer TO the resolution of the 18th
inst, accompanied by a very voluminous cor
respondence between the Secretary OF State
and the Mexican Charge de Affaires, relative
to the expectation of articles contraband of
war for the use of the French army in Mexico.
The Mexican Minister, Senior Romeo, in his
first letter, asks the Government to prevent
contraband shipments purchased by emssaries
of the commander of the French expedition
from leaving ports of the United States. Mr..
Seward replies, referring the Minister to the
letter from the Secretary of the Treasury
from which il appears that no Intervention
with the mission of the French officers is con-
tempated by the Treasury Department, de-
cision in conformity with precedents and with
the rules of international law governing the
cases. Citations are made to such authorities
as Hamilton, Webster, and the executive doc
uments. Senior Romeo expressed pain and
surprise at the decision acquiesced in by the
Secretary OF State. He quotes Vsttel, not TO
teach the Government of the United States,
but to give his opinion of the improperly of
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