Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-10-01
SUBSIDIARY COIN IN PAYMENT OF DUTIES.

SUBSIDIARY COIN IN PAYMENT OF DUTIES.
WASHINGTON, Sept 30.-The secretary Of the
treasury recently submitted to the attorney
general the question whether under the provis-
ions Of section 1856 Of the revised statutes of
the United States public officers are compelled
to receive the subsidiary silver coins of the
United States to the amount of $5 in payment
of public duties, when the amount to be paid
IS more than So; and whether any other person
than public officer can legally be required to
receive those coins to the amount of SIS in sat
lsfactlon for debt when the payment to be
made is over SIS. The attorney general in his
decision says 81 think it quite clear hat
the rule is to be the same whether the
United States is to pay or receive the in
regard to which you inquire, and that the same
law therefore applies to officers, when they are
receiving the dues of government and when
they are disbursing iTs funds" He then
quoted at some length from the laws on sub
sidiary coins and the debates in Congress on
the subject, to show the intention of Congress.
The attorney general says Careful ex-
animation Of these debates has not shown me
that the provision in question was construed
by any manner as authorizing the payment of
IS In silver coin as part of larger amount"
In conclusion he says, 81 am of the opinion
that the section of the revised statutes referred
to in your letter is to be construed as permit
ting the payment of SIS in subsidiary silver
coin only when the debt for which it is thus
made legal tender does not exceed the sum of
So In accordance with this opinion
the treasury department will renew
| the circular of June %, 1875, as follows: ''In
the receipt OF silver and minor coins of the
United States for payment of duties on i'm
| ports the following instructions will hereafter
be observed by officers of customs: First
When the total amount of duties in any one
entry cannot be paid entirely in gold certifi-
| oates n nd nOta hoo,
fractional part of dollar, such fractional part
may be paid in silver coin of the United States.
Second-When the total amount of duties pay
able IN one entry does not exceed SIS such total
amount may be paid in silver coins of the
| United States in the denominations of less
than ST.. Minor coins of the United States, i.
e. those not of gold or silver coinage, may be
received in payment of duties on imports into
| the treasury in making change in any amount
less than 10 cents in any single transaction.
THE USUAL DIPLOMATIC CoURTEsIEs.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3O.-The Chinese minister
with his assistant. Yung Wing, have performed
the usual diplomatic courtesy of calling upon
the several foreign ministers and leaving their
| cards, one In Chinese characters and the other
in English. Sir Edward Thornton was the first
diplomat who returned the visit. The Chinese
minister received him in his parlor and the two
seated on chairs, separated by u slender shelf,
all brought from China, drank tea together.
Yung Wing will leave for Hartford to-day to
bring his family to Washington.
UTE INDIAN RESERVATION.
Ex-senator Lot M. Morrill,, Judge McFar-
land and Gen. HATCH commissioners appoint
| ed to select new reservation for the Ute In
| dians, have chosen location on the headwa-
ters of the Navago and Blanch rivers isolated
| IRON White settlements and accessible to sup
| plies. The Indians are satisfied with the ar
| rangement and the government has approved
it. The removal will take place at the most
favorable time The Utes now number about
| l,5OO and are at least 200 hundred miles
| away from railroad facilities.
ALEX. STEPHENS Commissioning.
| private letter from Alex. II. Stephens says
his hemorrhages are subsiding and there is a
consequent improvement in health.
INDIAN AGENT.
| The President has appointed Linus M. Rick
erson Of Oregon as agent for the Indians of the
| Klamath agency in that State, in place of John
| H. Roork, resigned.
| NATIONAL BANK REDEMPTION AGENCY.
| The following is statement of the opera
tions of the national bank redemption agency
for the month and quarter year ending this day
as compared with corresponding periods Of last
| year:
| National bank notes disposed Of: Notes fit for
circulation, assorted and returned to banks:
month, $40, sos, 200; quarter, $4l, lie, 300.
| Notes unfit for circulation, assorted and de-
livered to comptroller of the currency for de-
struction and replacement with new notes:
| month, $50, OLE, $50: quarter, $11, Ill, 800.
| Notes Of failed, iquidating and reducing
| banks deposited in the treasury month, $751;
200; quarter, $2,317, 100.
Total for 1878: month, 141o7, 600; quarter
| 1854, 544, 200.
Total for 1877: month, $15, 687, 700; quarter
$55,3S9 600.
Decrease: month"; 81, $50, 100; quarter, $685.
! 400.
| WASHINGTON, Sept 3O.-The amount of ma
tional bank notes received at the treasury de-
partment for redemption has increased consid-
erably since the circular of the Oath inst,
which provides that from and after Oct. the
charges for transportation of these notes must
| be paid by the parties making the remittance
instead Of the banks issuing them. The banks
are taking advantage of the few days remain
ing to exchange national bank notes. They
have on hand for legal tenders at the expense
| of the banks issuing the notes instead of those
| remitting them, which accounts for the in
creased receipts. On Saturday the amount re-
ceived was 81 '0a5,Oo0. As nearly all the notes
are sent from the city banks the burden of this
new taxation will fall upon them, hence criti-
! clsms and circumstances have poured in strong
and loud.
BUREAU OF ENGRAVING.
WAsH1NGroN, d. c.: Sept 30.-The appoint
ment of chief of the bureau of engraving and
printing at the treasury department will be set
| tied at the cabinet meeting tomorrow. 1t is
| generally believed tonight that Col. Irish, as
sistant chief, will be appointed to fill the va
cancy caused by the resignation of Mr.. McPher-
son, and Mr.. Cassilear, for some years past head
of the engraving branch Of that bureau, will be
| made assistant in place of Irish,
| FOUR PER CENTS.
The subscriptions to per cents. to-day,
1915, 150
| ANOTHER JAUNT.
The President will leave tomorrow evening
for New York, to attend meeting of the trus-
tees of the Peabody educational fund in that
day night, stopping a short time in Baltimore
| to attend the Maryland State fair, to which he
has been invited. On the 10th of October he
visits the Winchester Va, fair, and on the Oath
that of Cumberland, Md.
| CADET ENGINEERS APPOINTED.
The following is a list of the cadet engineers
appointed at the naval academy, they having
passed a satisfactory examination for admis-
sion to that corps: VIM. 81. II. Creigh, Ohio;
James ii. Tits, Virginia; Jos. 81. Pendleton,
Pennsylvania; Robert w. Gatewood, Virginia;
\ Frederick II. Cooley, New YORK; Emil Ihelss,
1 Wisconsin; Harry L. Hawthorne, Kentucky
Otto 9. Santner New Jersey; VIM. H. Cham
bers, Pennsylvania; George R. Ferguson, Con.
necticut; R. B. Higgens, Maryland; Arthur H.
Clark, Rhode Island; Peter Miller, Kansas
Charles Rommel, Pennsylvania; Isaac Fl. Quin.
by, New York; Charles b. Rowland, Rhode Is.
land; j. G. Leonard, Ohio; Harry G.. Leopold
Ohio; Henry L, Simpson. Pennsylvania; Clar
cnce L. Willes, Mississippi; Edward K. Taylor
Massachusetts; Frank 81. Conant, Massachn.