New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-01-21

issued was paid to William Dudd. Acting-Master
Volunteer Navy, for prize Memphis, captured by the
United States steamer MAGNOLIA. amounting TO 1885,
G1s 50. i
Mr. c. S Bundy, d claim agent in this city, who
was suspended '16me time since by the Paymaster-
General from tansactng business in the Pay Depart
ment, has been restored to his former privileges
The contemplated changes in the method OF regis
terng letters w2l go into effect as soon as The IN
structiops blanks &c. can be forwarded to tho sew
eTal postal Offices The new regulations require that
registered letters shall not be sent direct when
distributing office is located on a route between the
mainp-office and the office OF destination, and they
are never to be sent except incosed i'll one OF the
registered package envelopes furnished by the De
paItment to all Post Offices. Every person connected
with the service, through whose hands registered
package envelope" shall pass in transmission is re-
qGired to make record of the number, &c, of the
Same in the book or blank sheet provided for that
purpose and also to take receipt fOrit from the per-
son to whom he delivers it, in all cases where 1t is
practicable The registration fee is in all cases to be
paid in postage stamps. to be attached TO the letter
and Cancelled at the mailing office. The full postage
upon all registered letters, whether foreign OF do
nestle, must be prepaid by stamps. The registration
| fees are as follows:
On domestic letters to any part of the United states or
Territories 20 cents Ga9G on ieIs o HHGGSgJ a o
% cents cach letters addressed 10 Canada, cents
each letters addressed to Germany, or any part oi ihe
German Austrian postal union the same 10 he foINaicd
by Bremen and Hamburg" line, or by the "Irussihh
| closed mall" cents each
| The "bl' of the registered letter and the letter
itself are TO be sent separately and in case of loss the
! special agent of the Department and the Department
itself arc to be nj once notified and the loss ferrctcd
out if possible. The Department has made every eff
fort possible to insure the safety of registered letters
but il recommends the use of the moncy-ordcr sys-
| TEN where practicable.
Collectors of Customs have been authorized by the
Secretary of the Treasury 10 allow drawback OF
cents per pound less the legal deduction OF 10 per
| cent upon all telegraph wire manufactured from I'M
ported rods which paid an import duty of per cent
| The question having been presented 10 the Treas
| ury Department rs to whether the equipment of an
| American vessel wrecked in foreign waters and sold
at a foreign port would be liable TO import duty ON
their return to the United States II has been decided
that change of ownership by sale or otherwise IN
foreign port renders them liable TO the regular duty
| The Paymaster-Gcneral has decided that an officer
| using soldier as servant should drop on his pay
account the pay and allowances of servant. When
the officer certfieS the account that he has sub
sisted such servant at his table and that neither
he nor the soldier has drawnIthe atters subsistence
in kind he may be paid the computation therefore;
he need not drop the servants subsistence on his pay
| account