Washington telegraph., 1864-07-27

Supplemented Instructions to Deposttar,es
and Tar Collectors In Tie Trans Mis-
sassiPpi Department.
TREASURY AGENCY TRANSMITS. DEPT. I
Marshall July 4th, 1864.
IN COMPLIANCE with recent information
Il and changes in Regulations of the Treasury
| Department, the following instructions modify
ing the ID, Sd. 4th and 9TH sections of those is
sued on the 2oth May, from this Agency, are
substituted for them, and will be observed in
this Department.
1st Interest on Bonds and Understanding
Notes, whether accruing before or after the LIST
OF July, 1864, is payable at any time after due
in the currency issued and used by the govern
ment at time of payment.
ID -Four per cent. Bonds. and Certificates is
sued under the Currency Act of February 18th,
1854 to be used i'll pay ing taxes, may be assign
ed by the owner in writing, endorsed on or at
taehed 10 the Certificate, udsigned or acknowl-
edged before, and certified by Notary Public
or Clerk of Court, or Magistrate, or District
| Collector OF Taxes, or his Deputy. If assigned
by an Agent, power OF Attorney, authorizing
| the assignment, must accompany to be- in like
manner signed. acknowledged and crrtifed.-
The certificate may be in the words, "executed
! before me- or acknowledged before me-" II
will siitflcc II there be Al assignment in blank
as to the maine OF the assigueee, which may be
validly filled with the name Of the holder.
in payment oi taxes, before it is received there
must be written ON, or annexed TO it, an assign
nent TO the District Collector, expressed in
terms, denoting that such assignment is made
i'll payment oi a tax or taxes, due from the hold
er, or which h. is legally required to pay, or r,-
sponsible for in whOl- or in part; or of parties
designated, each o. whose taxes less than
500.
4th. Tax Collectors will receive said Bends
or Certificates, (prcyidta 10 interest has been
paid Oh them when duly assigned As before di-
rected IL payment of ta,rs due, and PAYABLE i'll
the years 1858, and until 3ist December 1864;
but not tor taxes payable after that dsy; couse-
quently not III payment of tax salaries aud
income OF lS6!; nor sales and r-cripts ioT
the quarter ending 3lst December, 1854
5th. In all cas;s " here the Bond ur Ccrtif-
cate offered in payment shall exceed the tax. or
aggrtg gate o. taxes, br then paid, th' District
Collector may, in exchange for tn, difference,
assign other Certificates or Bonds, if ha shall
have any hand; the taxpayer paving any
| fraction under one hundred dollars ia Treasury
! Notes as follows: I. Fifty cents, one and two
! dollar notes, or new issue notes ALWAYS at par
/ III. Five dollar notes al par until lat October,
and afterwards at tsYV-.hirds, until 3lst Deem
t ber 1854. Ill Ten, twenty and fifty dollar
notes at two-;hirds until 3lst December, 1854
". One huudr 4 dollar nct.7 not at all.
| 9th. Whrn any District Collector shall de-
liver 10 ID tax payer, rs chang, any Certificates
| OF Bonds which have been already assigned to
| him by tax payers IL payment, h shall regular
| ly assign the sam" il. tue words following: AS
signed in my official cspscity to - change.
| "a. g., Collector - District"
9th. In order thut District Collectors may
supply thrTns Ives with crrtihcat-s for change.
they may deposit with Any regular Depositary,
Treasury notes Of III" old issue, ~ the rate be-
| fore stated, or certificates taken in payment Of
taxes and receive from the Drpo5itaYy. Certif
in f.rp Nf -
multiple, for thr amount deposited, which GER
tifcatrs shall purprlc cn their facc 10 be issued
To the District Collector il his official capacity
and when purportiug, shall be reccivblc from
the Collector med therein. or his legal r'prc
sentstiveS, at til ir full nominal nruount, in pay
m-nt of his liabilities 10 the Goyerum-ut as
/ District Collector.
The reguiSr ID .posi'arirs are authorized 70 is
sue such Certiicatss to District Collectors, bear
/ ing the date at which they may be exchanged
( for notes or other certificates issued in ex-
( change are not TO be reported III weekly ac-
counts to the Treasurer
/ District Collectors making such exchanges
with former certificates, will sign ii statement
| on the back of each certificate, describing the
amounts III each denomination OF the new CcT-
tifcate received by him, and the D-positary
! will writ the word ''rXrhan-cd' across the
face of each old certificate received, and trans
| NIT il with their nrXt certificate sat 'fnent TO
| the Auditor, to BE- filed and compared lay him
with the new certificate given Ia exchange when
/ thy can be received.
| 5th. Four per cent Bonds and Certificates
! received for taxes and remaining unexchangrd,
will be- reported and paid over 10 the State Col
lector as cash. al the tine and in the manner re-
! guired for payments OF money; returning also =
descriptive list or schedule of them.
gth Regular Drpo.it:,irs Will receive these
/ Bonds and Certificates from Collectors of the
/ Wa Tax, as cash, and will send them with de-
scTiptve statements to the Auditor. when re-
ported upon by the accounting officers. drafts
| will be stut TO the DepOsl;aIlcs 10 IeInl cuTse
| them for the amount.
| 10th. Until and on the 3lst December, 1894,
Treasury notes of former issues of the drnomi-
nation of fifty, twenty, ten and five dollars, are
exchangable at the rate of siXty-siX and two
third cents to the dollar, for new issue. ReEu-
/ lar DtpOsitalies hTe authorized 10 make such cx-
! change, when supplied With the new issue; and
until they shall be sufficiently supplied, they
are authorized to take in the old nct,s az the
prescribed, and TO give certificates therefor,
rcdermable at the office whence issued. when
| the uot.-s of the new issue shaii have been re-
| ceived.
| lIth. Each Depositary receiving such notes
| shall cause them to be cancelled, and forwarded
practicable to the Treasurer. and
shah report weekly 10 the Agent vi the Treasury,
| the names OF DcpCsitoTs and amounts deposited
| by each. They will then be supplied IA speed
/ lily as funds are received from the Treasury,
| with sufici-ni amounts Of the new issue TO take
up the certificates, and the certificates will when
/ taken up be cancelled and forwarded to the
/ Auditor.
! 18th The Depositari-s shall distribute the
! first parcels of the new issue OF Treasury notes
with which they may be supplied, by paying
out to each separate applicant one hundred dol
! lars of new for one hundred and fifty dollars OF
| old issue
| 18th The Depositaries at the following places
are authorized to carry into effect the foregoing
reguiatious
| TEXAS LOUISIANA. ARKANSAS.
| Houston, Shreveport, sshingtoh'
.JeffeTeon, Monroe Camden.
| Dallas, Alexandria
Victoria
San Antonio
PW. GRAY, Agent
! 2l-5t of Treasury, T. II. Dept