Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-02-03
STAMP Your BANK CHECKS

L ne BANK supervisors having re-
Gently received instructions from the
Commissioner of internal Revenue to
cause an examination to be made Of
the various banks and banking houses
In the country in order to ascertain if
the law regulating the duty on checks,
orders for money and sight drafts on
banks, bankers and trust companies is
being compiled with. inspectors have
within the past few days been making
the rounds of the banks of this city
While IN some cases they discovered
some neglect on the part Of bankers in
respect Of a strict compliance with the
Two-cent Stamp act, the inspectors
found that our banks and their deposit
tors generally were observing the law
almost to the letter
The amendment of the law recently
passed provides that any 7" bank check,
draft, order or voucher for the pay
ment Of any sum whatever, drawn up
on any bank, banker or trust company
shall be liable to two cent duty. This
will dispose of all the expedients now
adopted to avoid payment of this duty
Persons drawing receiving or pay
ing checks should bear in mind that
each and all are liable to penalty Of
fifty dollars for emitting to stamp such
papers, aud the same ii they neglect to
cancel the stamps by writing the in
itials Of the name OF the persons max
ing the check, and the date Of the
car collation.. This cannot be done by
using a ribbon stamp, but may be done
by puncturing the stamp or driving a
portion of 1t into the paper with cut
ting stamp Postage stamps are not
available for the payment Of this duty
Pit tsJurg Commercial.
The election Of members of the
Forty-fourth Congress, which COM
menced in June, will end in November
Of the present year, extending over a
space OF seventeen months This awk-
ward method will hereafter give place
to the law requiring all the States TO
elect their Representatives to Congress
the same day-the Tuesday after the
first monday in November in the even
years being designated as the time.
BY this method a fresh expression of
the people as shown IN the choice of
members of Congress can be obtained
easily and promptly. Albany (N -
Journal
The operative of the Fall River
(Maso) mills-the Granite, Merchants !,
and Crescent-went out on a strike
Friday. A conference was held on
Saturday between a committee of the
weavers and the agents of the mill
owners, at the request of the former,
to see if an amiable settlement could
be had, but it failed.
Eight lieutenants Of the regular
army have left Omaha to distribute
clothing among the destitute in the
grasshopper region.
MASKED BURGLARs.-UTICA, N.
Y, January 30.-Five masked and
armed men bound and gagged the
Waterman in the American Express
Company Office, early this morning.
and then carried off a bag containing
the night train packages Loss is be-
leved to be small.
The liabilities Of the. Main Brothers,
iron dealers of Philadelphia, who re-
Gently failed, are 100000. The as
sets claimed by the firm are a .rife
over that sum.
The Fall River weavers are making
arrangements for mutual support dur
ing the strike now il progress.
German immigration to Maryland is
increasing rapidly. The agent of the
German society of that state reports
that in 1874 nearly ten thousand im-
migrants arrived from Germany in six
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