The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-07-24

THE TAX ON BANK NOTES, ETC.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, !
nrp,cp or IyTERytI, REVENUE.
WASHINGTON, July 20, 1866.

Section, ITO, 100, and l22 Of the act Of
June 30. 1864, having been amended by
the act of July Is, 1866, 50 as to provide
that the taxes imposed therein are not to
be returned and paid to the Commissioner
of Internal Revenue after August ] 1866,
assessors will instruct the proper officers
of corporations, &C., taxable under those
sections. that all returns due from them
after July 81, 1866, should be made to the
proper assistant assessors, and when any
such return Is received after that date, will
inform the person making the same that
payment of the tax is to be made TO the
collector. Duplicate returns should not
be forwarded to this office.
The taxes should be assessed on the
monthly list and paid to the collector, as
other taxes are paid, instead Of being de-
posted to the credit of the Treasurer of
the United States.
Section 6 of the act Of March 3, 1865,
is amended so "that every national bank
ING association, State bank or State bank
ing association shall pay tax Of ten per
centum of the amount of notes of any per-
son. State bank or State banking associa-
ton used for circulation and paid out by
them after the lst day of August, 1866,
and the tax is to be assessed and paid in
such manner as shall be prescribed by
the Commissioner of Internal Revenue"
1t is hereby prescribed that the return
| of the said tax shall be made for the pre-
ccding month on or before the tenth day,
and the said tax shall be due and payable
on or before the last day Of each and every
month after August, 1866.
Until otherwise directed the returns can
be made on form No. e..
No tax will be required to be paid under
this provision on account OF any circula-
ton paid out prior to August /, 1866.
The returns required to be made after
July, 1866, by associations OF companies
known as provident institutions, savings
banks, saving funds, or saving institutions,
| having no capital stock, and doing no other
business than receiving deposits to be
| loaned or invested for the sole benefit OF
the parties making such deposits without
profit or compensation to the association or
company, are to be made on the first Non
day of January and July of each year.
! This postpones the return for liabilities
accruing in July, 1866, until January, 1867
i. A. ROLLINS, Commissioner.
( EXTRAORDINARY STORM n WASHINGTON CITY
AND VICINITY.
/ Probably tho heaviest shower Of rain we
have had in the ten years last past fell on
Saturday evening last. 1t caused currents
in the small streams in and about the city
which were so rapid and strong that strong
woodwork and heavy masonry could not
withstand the force brought to bear against
nd infn haf fxpn oh
dren and the corpse of a colored woman
are missing from Swampoodle. The
wooden bridge "a strong and comparatively
new one) in Jackson alley, near the Go.
vernment printing office, was washed
away and dashed into pieces, aud the
abutments of the iron bridge on II street
near the same office, have been so much
damaged by the force OF the water that il
is deemed dangerous to cross over on it
A large number Of out-houscs along the
branch of the Tiber were washed away
and the dwellings in that locality were filled
, with water TO such an extent that it was
necessary to take the inmates ont on
horseback in order to save them from
drowning.
A woman named Mrs. German lost about
five hundred dollars worth of furniture
including bedstcads and bedding, which
was tioatcd out Of the house and borne
away. At r street north and Seventh
street west the bridge was several fee,
under water, and down near Seventh.
street wharf, on Seventh street, the sand
was washed on the street railway track to
such o depth that it was with great diff.
Guilty the cars could pass.
At Bladensburg we learn that it was
even worse than in this city. A gentleman
started to go to that village yesterday morn.
ing in a carriage. When he arrived in
sight Of Bladensburg he observed an i'm.
mense food, and many people (men, wo.
men, and children) on the house-tops
waiting for the water to subside. He found
that he could not drive into the village,
and was compelled to return to the city,
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