The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-05-11

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,sf5s WASHINGTON, May 8, 1911.
Sir Id answer 10 your letter OF the Sd
Instant Il have to Inform you thst the law
does not allow she manufacture OF cigars ii
any other place than q bonded factory, &C.
clirately described In the statement made
prior to commencing business by the man.
ufacturer, and having the manufaeturere
sign placed upon the aide or end Of the
anildfng, and the collector ertifcate post.
ed in conspicuous place within the man.
ufactory. agj
The manufacturer Of cigars can sell ut the
place OF manufacture only in boxes. He Is
positively forbidden to retail cigars under
his special tax receipt as manufacturer.
The law does not contemplate the union OF
the two kinds Of business cigar-making and
the sale Of cigars at retail ct the same time
and In the same place.
This Office has not ordered the discon-
hnuance OF manufacturing and selling
cigars In the same room, but only ordered
that where IL is done that there shall be
some kind of dividing line between the
two--a partial partition, wire fence, or o
railing something to designate the portion
of the room that is to be used for manufac-
turing cigars, and from which no cigars can
be sold or removed until they are packed
In new boxes, branded, labeled, and stamp
ed, as required by law.
Very respectfully,
A. PLEAsoNToN, Commissioner.
SOUTHERN ouTRAaEs.
The joint committee oftwenty-one-seven
Senators and fourteen members TO investi-
gate the condition of the South will meet in
Washington next week. Senator Scott is
chairman of the Senate branch and Repre-.
sentative Poland, of Vermont, efthe House
portion. 1t will be decided at this meeting
whether the committee will sit in Washing
ton and summon witnesses, or whether
they will authorize subcommittee to visit
different portions of the South. The com.
mittee are understood to be quite divided
on the question, the more Radical mem
bers believing that the committee will not
have so good an opportunity to learn the
situation of affairs by trip in the South as
by bringing the witnesses direct to Wash
ington. Several members will favor post
poniDg the entire investigation till next
fall, so that fresh report may be made to
Congress at the December session.
4 FREE BRIDGE.
Some time ago an internal revenue col
lector In the State Of Georgia attempted to
company, and the company refused to
make the same, Whereupon the collector,
after asking and receiving instructions from
the Revenue Bureau, seized the bridge for
the tax claimed. On the day of the sale
there being no bidder tor the bridge, the
collector bid it in for the United States,
This was all irst-rate, but there was toll
keeper required to run this new species Of
internal revenue property, and he had to
be paid. The question then arose as to
what appropriation the United States could
pay man out Of for keeping toll-bridge,
and the difficulty was at length solved by
the acting commissioner declaring the
bridge free to the public.
Troops CALLED FOR TO ENFORCE TIE REvE
NUE. LAWS IN NORTH CAROLINA.
Supervisor Perry writes from North Car.
DINA that it is quite impossible to enforce
the revenue laws on whiskey in the seventh
district in that State, and that while remov.
ing confscsted property his deputies were
fred upon. Troops are called for.
WHY sENAToR THURMAN CAN'T BE PREsI-
DENT.
Thurman is out of the field as the head
of the ticket on account of his Virginia
birth, but he may receive the second place
on the ticket Washington letter incin-
mats Commercial.