The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-05-04
Treasury Receipts.

The month Of May opens we'll for the internal
revenues. The Treasury has received $l,s73, $50
in the first three days. Mr.. Shermans thirty
five year five per cent. loan bill is freely can
vassed in all quarters, and favorable opinion as
10 its practicability and success is rapidly In
Creasing. A strong evidence OF this Is seen in
the rapid appreciation Of Ten-forties. There is
a strong probability OF the passage of the bill
Internal Revenue Decision.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue to-day
rendered the following decision In regard to
licenses aud iDcomes:-
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, OPFIoE OF INTERNAL
REVENUE, WAsBINGToN, ID. c., May 4, 1866 The
use Of Form 11g was SUGGESTED by frequent losses
which resulted from delay in returning the annual
list, Many persons who have paId for their licenses
at the time OF making their applications, subse-
quentlY found to be insolvent, or 70 have died or
absconded. Taxpayers are as much interested as
the Government that licenses shall be dc iyered as
be thus enabled to exhibit such licenses Rhen re.
CURED IL was therefore prescribed that appcatiohs
for icfnses hould in all eases be returned promptly
duplicate, Form III. The attention of As
SCISSORS and Collectors ls therefore now specl-
hcally called 10 the instructions contained in
Series H. No l. relative to applications for licenses
aud they will be expected to tuly comply, as
Form 81 cannot be used until after the annual
list is advertised nouce form, No 100 should be
served when licenses are ready for delivery 10
lacil tate the prompt and early col ection OF the
n
sufficient number of returns OF the correctness OF
which they saIIsfed may transmit to the Col
lecior on Form z8 the assessments maue such re.
turns But no return which is questioned nor any
assessment made bv the Assistant Assessor in the
absence of return, should be reported until after
appeals have been heard On receipt OF such ad-
vance sheet the collector will serve notice on Form
No lOl. The assessments thus transmitted in ad-
vance OF the regular list should he entered on the
annual list, and be recepted ON that list. The
appeals shou be advertised and the law comp led
with IN all respects as II advance 'heets had not
m wi m untnd hat
traint cannot be made for eli her license OF income
taxes unit after the complete annual list has been
are now IN the hands of the printer, and orders
The reior will very shortly be filed.
Delegation from Texas
just before the adjournment of the late Texas
State Constitutional Convention, a resolution
was adopted which appointed tour OF its mem.
bers, Messrs. j. W. Henderson, R. H. Lane, J.
A. Porter, and John Hancock, a committee to
visit Washington, and lay before the President
the result of the deliberation of the Convention.
These delegates arri we'd here and called upon
the President yesterday, and laid before Mr..
johnson the official copies of the ordinances
adopted by the Convention, declaring the Ordi.
nance of Secession null and void, repudiating
the Rebel debt, giving freedmen the right to
testify in Courts. etc. etc. The delegates ex-
pressed their gratitude to Mr.. johnson for his
efforts to restore the Union, and his patriotic
administration of the executive affairs OF the
Government, and they proclaimed their un-
bounded confidence in his integrity and 6rmness
in the right. The President thanked the dele.
gates for this manifestation of confidence, and
said he felt truly gratled that the State of Texas
had accepted the situation, and had so promptly
and unequivocally embraced in her organic law
the liberal, Just. and necessary features Just
recited. He hoped the time was near at hand
when the state would be represented in Con
grcss by good and loyal men. .