The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-12-24

m WASHINGTON. Dec. %.
The House Committee on Indian Affairs yes
terday ana to-day were investigating the mat
ter of the recent contracts of the Indian Rn.
reau for the supply of goods. SASH
Representative Pixies select committee to ex
anime into the facts attending the mt r Ter O.
Union soldiers in South Carolina and the re-
cent discharge of persons convicted of crime
eApect 70 leave here on Monday for Charles
Information has been received here of the
passage OF law by the Legislature of North
carolina granting general amnesty and par
don to all officers and soldiers of the State a
North Carolina or OF the late Confederate States
committed against the laws of the State q
North Carolina.
The President has issued proclamation de.
clarng Consular offices of the minor German
states, swallowed up by Prussia in the recent
war, will be no longer recognized, and exeoua.
turs are declared absolutely null and void
This was done, the President SAYS, in accord.
ance with a request made by King William, OF
Prussia. The tates alluded to- are Hanover
Nassau, Hesse, Frankfort and others
fractional currency shipped during the
week ndlngto-day, amounted to $549OO0 viz
10 the Assistant Treasurer OF New York, $500.
OO0; to New Orleans, $4,000; to the. United
States depository at Louisville, $4,000; to ma
tlonal banks, $4,000. Amount of fractional
currency received from the printers, during the
ed and destroyed at the Treasury Department
was $42S,3 Amount OF national bank cur.
rency issued during. the week ending TODAY
was $l99,63O; making total issued to date,
$5OO,45l,OOl- From this is to be deducted the
currency returned, including worn out notes.
amounting to ~, ,123 ,432, leaving in actual cir.
culation to date, $29S, ,307 $50. Securities held
by the United States Treasurer in trust for ma
nonai banks, as reported to-day, are as follows
aer h, circulating notes. $Sl0 25O65O for deposits
this source to-day, were $48, ,813,412; making a
total amount for the week ending to-day, S293.-
621 40 ~-'''
Receipts of the internal revenue for Satur-
day, were, $4SS,13l, and for the week $685.
The following regulations in relation to the
endorsement of 3-l0's notes forwarded to the
Treasury Department for conversion must he
carefully Observed: When the notes transmit
ted 1or settlement were issued payable to or
der, and are held and transmitted by the orig
lnal owner they must be endorsed by them
ray the Secretary of the Treasury for the re-
denption," and bonds will issue in their names.
When notes payable to order are held by
other parties than the original owners, they
must have the endorsement of the orioinal
owners in blank, and also be endorsed by the
present owners: "Pay the Secretary of the
Treasury for redemption" by the party for
warding them. When notes are endorsed or
transmitted by an attorney, administrator OF
executor, OF otner agents, they must be accom-
panied by the original or duly. certified copy
or certificate OF the authority under which he
acts, and in all cases by letter, stating the
kind registered, or coupon, and the denomina-
ton OF the bonds wanted in exchange. When
registered bonds are ordered, parties should
state at which of the following places they wish
the interest paid, viz: New York, Philadelphia,
Boston, Baltimore, New Orleans, Chicago. St
Louis, Cincinnati or Charleston. EXPRESS
charges on 3-10s notes forwarded for CONVEX
sion, INNS t in all cases be prepaid. Bonds will
be sent by express on return, free of expense
arrived here IS