The New York herald., 1870-01-16

REGULARLY, - an opposite course wouId tcnd . give
the government BY means Of unlawful reno .s,s rom
bond. Mr.. McCrea, from The omc0 ~ xShlnvtOn
wss was some time ago sent e wss them examine
books in Washington called FOR $4,000 pounds OF TO.
bacco not accounted for in the New fork books Tne
city near three weeks and ieft about TWO
weeks ago for WashingtoA, having found
q tne BOOKS % Gs
once. It must here De SAD. however, that Mr.
snook was entirely ignSr q these dIscrepancics.
made an Inspection Of the goods In Doao, and then
commenced his own accounts from the date OF IN
Bailey Q receipt iQr . certain quantfy Of bonded
go0ds and tha inspection showed that there were
even more In the warehouses than the late Col.
prove that whatever errors there may have been In
the cooks Mr.. Shook was not aware OF them.
Mr.. RAILEY6 RULRs
Ar. Bailey has made several important improve
ments In the manner OF doing business In his
olfce One notable feature 70 that there are no
whose time Ii valuable TO them and cannot
be wasted unnecessarily. Business Is transacted
70 be sent out every month bat certain proportion
Ii forwarded datly-0nly Just as many as can be
easily attended to IN one day, and thus crowd Is
avoided Another most important feature I'm the
conduct OF AFFAIRS under the new administration
Is that 1t ls now made an imperative rule that all
payments must be made at the desk There Is no
deviation allowed from tins rule, unless possibly IN
the case where one OF the clerks specially detailed
loE purpose may Do sent out 10 make u seizure
Tor non.payment OF tax; then the party 80 seized
may, rather than have his place closed at once pay
the money due. 1t ~ only Ia such Q case that au-
th0rlty is given TO receive payment outside the
ONCE.
FRAUDULENT COLLECTIONS.
Since the new onicials took possession Of affairs In
Cedar street some queer matters have come under
their notice. Que OF Assessor Clevelands assistants
found that large amounts aggregatlng nearly
500, ,00O mad been collected by one OF Mr. Shocks
old deputies from parties against whom there were
no assessments on the books q Mr.; olevelana as
ofce Mr.. Baiiey's chief CLERK. Mr.. Blanchard, ex-
amned the books in the Collectors ONCE carefully
but could md no entries OF any such money having
been received on the other hand reference to The AS
sessorB HOOKS showed that there such tax
assessed against the parties ana therefore those who
gave the receipts must have collected tax that
never assessed and returned the money some place
other than to the Collector Of the Thirtysecond
enue district.
Tne knowledge of this fact makes Mr. Bailey more
tnan watchiul against any payments being received
outside the desk IN the Office IN Cedar street.
COMPARISON OF COLLECTIONS.
The collections In the district have been made
without much trouble this year; indeed they are
most complete. For instance the amount of assess
ments returned for collection IN the month OF NAV
was $240875 II, and Of this large sum all has been
collected with the exception OF 81. $685. which Is all
that remains due out ol quarter OF million or dol
Lara For the month OF April $459 059 81 was assessed
and OF this only $672 81 remains uncOlected We may
here give comparative statement OF the collections
M ode BY the Collector last year with the collections
mao In the corresponding months OF the previous
YEAR tG must however, De borne IN mind that the
receipts Tor 1858 include the whiskey and other
axes Whlc.x do not appear IN the returns OF last