The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-06-20

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southerners VIII be compelled to wait long time
for their money. The Second Comptroller 1t is ex-
pected, VIII announce the decision OF the Treasury
Department tomorrow covering the point stated,
and In effect that money cannot be drawn out Of
the Treasury without special appropriation.
Temporary Marine Registers.
The Treasury Department yesterday isseea cir
cular on the exchange CT temporary marine docu-
ments, which is as follows:-
1t has been brought to the attention OF this de-
partment that a difference Of practice prevails
among the various ports OF the United states in
gard to the exchange OF temporary marine doou-
ments, under the provisions OF section OF the
tricts IT is customary to issue a tempo
rary enrolment and license the surrender
oil temporary register the reverse, according
TO the nature of the case, TO vessel away from
her home port about to change from trade
employment to another while in other districts
such an exchange OF documents Is not permitted.
In order to secure uniformity OF proceeding and to
facilitate trade by enabling a vessel to engage in
new employment without the necessity OF first re-
turning 70 her home port, Officers OF the customs
are instructed to follow the practice first men-
be In accordance with true construction Of the
law. 1t should be observed that permanent docu.
ments alone can be granted at the home port OF u
vesset, and that temporary" documents only can
issue to such vessel when not at her home port
Decasion Ola the Twenty-Cent Tobacco
Tax.
Commissioner Douglass to-day decided that unless
smoking tobacco manufactured before the 1st
of July was removed from the factory it
would have to pay the tax OF twenty
cents, even though II had been stamped with
the sixteen-cent stamp. The for this Is that
the Revene Bureau holds that under the law no tax
can accrue until it Is removed for sale and to
hold 1t In the factory would be to evade the law.
Tobacco Men Running Sixteen Cent
Race Against Time.
Manufacturers of smoking tobacco are working
day and night the largest number Of hands that
can be employed in making sixteen-cent smoking
tobacco, before the law raising the tax to twenty
cents goes into effect. This will be on July l. The
demand for stamps Of this grade is SO great that
the Internal Revenue Bureau is not able to furnish
them, although an extra press Is employed on this
branch alone. Manufacturers will profit by the
advance to the extent that they carry large
stock. The receipts from the sale OF stamps will
increase the revenue this month very much.
The New Tobacco Tax.
On and after July l, 1872, every person who sells
offers for sale manufactured tobacco, snuf or
cigars, except manufacturers OF those articles who
sell only their products at the place OF produc-
ton, will be required to pay special tax at the
rate OF five dollars per annum, without regard to
the amount OF his annual sales The exemption OF
persons whose annual sales do not exceed 500 Is
repealed by the new law.
Refund on Goods In Bond After July /.
Among the important acts passed by Congress
towards the close OF the session was one to carry
into effect the eighth section of the Tariff bill,
which provides that all goods wares and mer-
chandise remaining in bonded warehouses on the
LIST Of August next shall be entitled to refund of
the difference between the amount of duties paid
and the amount OF duties such goods would be sub
ject to II the same imported respectively after
that day. The Treasury officials were of opinion
until to-day that the act had not passed, but 1t
proves to be on file at the State Department
Stamp Duties Repealed.
The stamp duty on all instruments, except checks
has been repealed from October next.
Special Postal Agents.
The Postmaster General yesterday made an order
appointing the following special agents, with pay
at the rate OF 600 per annum and So per diem for
subsistence, on and after lst July next, according
to the new Postal law
L. L. Pinker, Lexington, KY; John H. Popp, Cor
nersvle, Ind; Richard G. Lavens, Utica, N. T.; A.
r. Leib Washington, d. O.; George L. Van Hoesen,
ton C George 'V carron Ger% a was Pa
James Mcdowell and Edgar Selye, of the Post Office
Department.
Tobacco In Bond.
In reply to q telegram from q New York firm to-
day Commissioner Douglass said that tobacco made
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after July l, be subject to twenty cents tax To-
baccO in warehouses June 8, and withdrawn after
July ], VIII pay the same; but II bonded between
June and July !, and withdrawn for consumption,
the tax will be thirty cents per pound
The Steamboat Supervisor General.
AS stated in these dispatches on Monday night,
Joseph Nimmo, Jr., was yesterday appointed Super
vsing Inspector General under the Steamboat act,
and his commission signed by the President Mr..
Nimmo, who is q New Yorker, was recommended
by the presidents OF all the leading marine insur-
ance companies in New York, Philadelphia and
Baltimore
Defects OF the Quarantine.
Assistant Surgeon Harvey E. Brown has been de-
tailed by the Secretary Of War to make the inspec-
tiOns and reports, under the Joint resolution OF
Congress OF the 9th instant to provide for more
effective system OF quarantine on the Southern and
Gulf coasts He will first go to Norfolk to begin the
work, and from thence to other ports south on the
Atlantic coast, and to New Orleans and elsewhere
on the Gulf coast.
The Discriminating Duty on Tea and
Coffee.
The Treasury Department has decided, in answer
to numerous inquiries, that on and after 1st July
next and until October tea ana coffee produced
east OF the Cape OF Good Hope and imported into
the United States from places west thereof will not
Charged WIFI uuuy Ol per
cent now collected on importations Of this charac
ter but that by the third section OF the new tariff
law this duty will be reimposed on and after octo-
Der l. 1872, on said articles.
The Rio Grande Com mission.
The commission appointed by the President to
examine into the condition OF affairs the Rio
Grande are to meet in New Orleans July !, and from
there they will visit the Rio Grande, commencing
at Brownsville and extending their operations up
that river through New Mexico.
Fire Extinguishcrs on Ferryboats-In-
spectors' Fces-FOreign Built Vessels OF
American Ownership.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has decided that
ferryboats only exempt from the operation of
rule 90 when under steam. If such boats are with
out fire eXtinguishers when not under steam they
render themselves liable to the prescribed penalties.
Inspection fees should be based upon the actual
enrolled tonnage OF vessel.
foreign built vessel owned in the United States,
whose bin Of sale has been recorded and the col