Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-09-23
washlngton Itenas.

stamps (new lssue) must be hlled with The
name of the manufacturer of the tobacco
and not the name Of the proprietor.
The Treasury Department makes the
following estimate of internel revenue
tax collections for the current fiscal year
ending June 80, 1870, viz;
From spirits $44.O0N,Wt
From incomes, &c. 35.OOO.OO(
From stamps 17,OOO0O
From all other sources 4O,6O0OO(
Total 168,6OO,OO(
Mr.. Sergeant, of the firm of Sargean,
& Greenleaf, Rochester, New York, who
succeeded in picking the Dodd lock at the
Treasury Department a short .time since
and who afterward secured the CONTRACT
for furnishing that department with
locks, has placed one Of his own locks on
the safe in the Office Of supervising ar
chitect, whereon he picked the Dudd lock
1t is presumed that any party desiring
will be afforded the same opportunity
for picking this lock that Mr.. Sergeant
enjoyed when he picked the Dodd lock.
Hon. W. a. Darling, Collector Of the
Ninth New York District, is an Washing
ington. and had long conference with
Commissioner Delno yesterday. Mr..
Darling is full of Suggestions with refer
ence to the operation and execution of the
Tax laws He urges the ab,iition of the
abolition of the exemption for house rent,
aud the increase of the general exemption
TO 50 900 in the income tax. He further
suggests the exemption from tax of arti-
cies Of prime necessity, like common soap,
matches.
Economy in all the Departments is
now the fashion The expenses of the
Patent Os,ne gnder Commissioner Fisher
are rapidly decreasing. Cn July lat
there wa- An uuexpendcd balance Of last
yeay's appropriation of $4,000. This
sum will suffice for all current expenses
until the close Of the present fiscal quar-
ter, Sept 30 There will then be svsil~-
BILE $50 900 of the appropriation for the
current year. Aside from this saw ing the
entire work Of the Office has been per-
formed with fifteen clerks less than the
law allows Besides these savings the old
appropriation was go managed as to pay
for ye.s's expense Of photographing and
manifolding the patent drawing, which
amounts to $4,000.
Mr.. A. NJ Ciapp, the Congressional
Printer, has made some much-needed re-
forms in the Government Printing Office.
When ne entered upon his duties he was
informed that the document-room was
made sort Of asylum for embeciles and
drones who were rsueiving more money
than they earned. As soon as he got IN
position he inaugurated test for that de-
partment, which, i'll the midst OF other
difficulties, be did not perfect until July.
1t was to have every mans matter, who
was on day work at the rate of "a per
day, measured, first by himself, and then
by time keeper, and registered to his
credit, for the purpose of ohowing just
what he earned at go cents per 600 ems
The result showed delinquency. The
test is dstasteful to those who are shown
delinquent, and there is good deal OF
di-content among those who have proved
drones. The ten apprentices
put on. after "A fight with the Union, have
been in the Office about n month. A
register Of their work shows, with single
exception, that they, with but month"
OK perience, not only earn their salaries
now at regular rates Of composition, but
an overplus sufficient TO pay tho salary OF
their instructor.
Acting Commissioner Douglass hna
reiterated n decision, which makes an
inn erative rule relative to change OF firm
n, regards special tax, reasses-nents,
transfers, and refundings, in which he
says:
Every change Of firm whereby for
mer partner retires from the same, or
new partner is admitted, constitutes, In
contemplation of law, new firm, liable
to new special tax for the u1explred por-
ton of the year for which the same bas
been paid by the original firm, which
should be assessed from the 1st day OF the
month In which the change occurs
There is no provision in the law by
which person retiring from business
during the year for which he has paid the
tax can transfer his receipt to the person
succeeding him. -.
In the be Of manufacturers, dealers,
apothecaries, confectioners. butchers,
Keepers of eating houses, hotels, lnns' or
taverns, who have paid special tax AS
such, if, at the. time Of change OF hrm,
the sales, products, or gross recelpts. as
the case may be. have not exceeded $i'oO
the special tax will he refunded upon ap-
plcation made in proper form:
If the tax paid IL that OF wholesale
dealer. and ut the time Of the change tns
sales dix not exceed $25, 900, $40 or toO
will be refunded. according to whether
the sales exceed 81 600 or not. (.