Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-02-07
An Important Law About to go into 0pe-
ration,


By the tenth section of an act approved March g.
1863 l2 Statutes at Large. 55) it is enacted that
every claim against the United States cognizable by
the Court of Claims. shall be forever barred unless
the petition setting forth full statement of the
claim be filed in the court. transmitted to within
six years after the claim first aecrueS provided that
claims accrued six years before the passage OF the act
shall not be barred II presented within three years
after the passage of the act
Thus all claims against the Uuited States cOgniza-
BILE by the Court of Claims. and of more than six
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The claims cognzabe by said court are: /. All claims
founded upon any law of Congress; or upon any req
ulatiOn of any Executive Department or g. upon any
contract express orimped, erceDt % claims growing
out of or dependent any treaty stipulation, and ~
claims for property damaged, destroyed, or appro-
priated by the or navy engaged in the suppress
The above limitation: though contained in an act
respecting the Court of Claims, has been By many
supposed to extend to all claims against the United
States" whether prosecuted before the departments
or offered to be set off by defendants in suits by the
United States against them as debtors
IMPORTANT TO MANUFACTURERs.-Th Commits
sOner of Internal Revenue recently received letter
from parties, asking whether they may be allowed,
in making their monthly returns, 70 deduct from the
value of products the cost Of wheels aAieS, springs,
&c, on which the duty has been paid, anu which
they use in the manufacture of carriages. In
swer the Commissioner says that the general prin-
cpe af the excise law is that each particular
acure is taxed for its value though articles used in
its production are in themselves manufactures on
which the duty has been previously paid Carriages
are liable to duty on their entire value. though
wheels. aXes springs &c., used IN their production,
have previously paid tax"
CONSCIENCE. '-Y esterday the United States Treas
urer received from an unknown correspondent fifty
cents a contribution toward the conscience
fund" In the letter, transmitting the amount the
correspondent states that he had 'defrauded the
Government out of fifty cents by using postage
stamps taken from envelopes which mad not been
cancelled" The follow ing grandiloquent expression
is used in conclusion of the letter. 81 take this method
to relieve my mind, haze attc0ys Jeen and wish
to continue to be honest to my employers, my Gov
ernment and my God !"
CHEEE.-The Washington Republican says One of
the most alarming exhibitions imaginable of faith in
was presented on Friday last. in The appearance at
the Treasury Department of the wife Of the notorious
gueIllla, J9nn .. MoSey' asking l9r the payment OF
the value of certain tobacco Of which 1t is alleged
her chivarous husband was unustly deprv ed by the
Yankee Government in the capture of Richmond.
1t ls understood the money was not paid.
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FEDERAL DEAD AT BELLE IsLE.-Col G. B. Cad
wallader Assistant Quartermaster. having been di-
rec'ed to inspect Belle Isle, Virginia in order to as
certain the numb Der and condition of the Union SOL
dlers there burieo, repOris that tract about one
enclosed with substantial board fence, which con-
tans one hundred and fifty bodies, Of which hun
dred and twenythree are legibly marked with good
head and foot boards.
Mrs. Gardiner Greene, who died in Boston
last week at the age of ninety-ive years. was the
only person living there who sailed from the Province
of Massachusetts under the British flag just before
| the revolution With her brother, the late Lord
Lyndhurst, and sister, she embarked for England
in the last vessel that left shores under the Eng
lish ensign. The three children then went to Eng
land to visit ther father, the famous painter J. S.
Copley who at that time receiving much patron
age from the patrons of art in London. She lived
ninety years after meeting her father in England
upon his return from Italy.
| A large meeting of tenantswas held in Rich
| mond on Saturday, Mayor Saunders presiding, the
| object of which to devise means of relief from
the exorbitant rents demanded by landlords in that
city It was represented that already the trade and
| population of the city being diminished by the
| blighting influence of high rents, that many mer-
chants, mechanics and manufacturers not reaiz-
| ing profit enough from their business to pay their
rent, and that continuance of the present rate:
would drive trade and population from the CITY, and
permanently impair the fee simple value Of all the
| real estate iB the city,