The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-08-13
Payment OF stolen BOnds.

Payment OF stolen BOnds.
General Spinner United States Treasurer has
decided that the only protection to the owner
against the payment of bond or Seven-thirty
note that may have been stolen is by entering
a cduedt at the Office OF the Secretary of the
Treasury.
Coupons are as negotiable at all times as a
bank note, and will he paid in the hands of a
third party and bona fde holders, even in the
ease where it is known that they have been
stolen.
California Laud Grauts.
The General Land Office have issued fifteen
patents for California Ranches, being Private
Land claims, varying from 5000 to $1,000 acres.
By an act of Mexico grants of land were given
to settlers in her uninhabited countless as much
land as they chose to apply for. Subsequently,
in 1924, these grants restricted to $4,000 and
AZ 600 acres The ceding of California, New
Mexico, and Texas to the United States trans.
ferred these patents to our Government; but by
act of Congress, in 1853, no one patentee was
allowed to hold moIe than $4,000 acres, that
being intended by the act of Mexico OF 1924.
The largest rancho decided by the United States
is that of General John A. Suffers, the dlscoverer
and iniormer OF California gold. He has As, s30
acres at New Helyetia, California. Some of the
LARGEST claims which are now being acted upon
in the Land Office are NJ. A. R. De Poll, San
Buenaventura, California for 144,S7O 2l-lOO
acres; NJ. Touri, New Mexico, 14l,594 53-1OO
acres; Simi, California 1909 2l-10O acres;
Jacoba Feliz, San Francisco, California, 1O2, OPS
25-l0O acres.
WashtngtOn Territory Grants.
All donation claims on Washington Territory
reported foI patent have been granted, excepting
few which are suspended for causes pointed
out by the Register and Receiver at the local
land offices. These are. however, in course of
correction. A similar report is made for Oregon.
What cases are now reported from Oregon City
and Roseburg are being arranged.
Disbursements of tae Treasury Depart
mont.
The Treasury Department during the week
printed fractional currency to the amount of
S39l, 900. Tue shipments of this currency
during the same period were as follows:-To
tie Assistant Treasury at New York, $lO0,O0O;
to the United States Depositary at Pittsburg,
Pa, $40, 900; to the United States Depostary
at Chicago, ILL.,, $4,000; and to national banks
throughout the country, Sl8l,75O The sum
redeemed was S302, 900. The disbursements on
account of the departments during the week
were as follows:-
war Department. 749
Navy Department. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 715 Sl4
Interior department, .,...,..,..,..... 3Sl 3J4
Total III 957
No new national banks were organized during
the week.
The securities held by Treasurer Spinner in
trust for national banks at the present date are
as iolloWs:-
A. security for circulating notes. 1929 673 700
AS security for pubnc deposits in desg-
mated repositories. es......s..s......,. IS, ,455,6O0
Iotal' S0oo, Iz5 zOU
Circulation OF National Banks.
National bank circulation was issued during
the week by the Deputy Controller of the Cur
| rency to the amount of S5l5,65 making the
total issued to date $685., ,O49, ,O5O.
Government Funds In the Treasury
Vaults,
| The following statement exhibits the amount
of funds in the cash vault of the Treasury at the
| close of yesterdays business;-
United states eea-tender notes. ....... 81 800 900
National Bank notes. s.................,... 2@6 S5l
tractlonal currency. y.,.......'.'......... 1I0266
Gold. ........,....,..,....... 343 $50
| Silver OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. $50
tlYe-cent coin. Otn......,..,.....,...,..... 700
Three-cent coin. 1000
Cents. Observation-Disclosures. 480
Total. $l1 l45, ,5l5