El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-07-18

Certificate OF Inspection at tr0ntler
port. 10
Certificate of delivery for cancellation
of transportation bond. ..... 10
Permit to enter without bond. 10
Certificates of expectation. ...... 10
A ffidavit of importer in cattle Imports
tiOns. 10
Certificates from Customs officers of
condition of merchandise on arrival or
departure from this port, viz: damage
or otherwise. ...........-..-. .25
Certificate issued to Chinese lsborer
departing from the United States with
intention re Of rssufRing Of Chin
ese laborers or merchants each copy,
10.
All certificates required by law and
issued in United States. 80. 10
The above list has been sent to the
United States commissioner of internal
revenue for ratification. There is a
blank left as to the denomination of
the stamp which is affixed to manifests.
The collector at this point has been
charging ten cents; but there has been
some misunderstanding as to the
amount of charges on the original and
the duplicate copies of manifesto. He
will continue to .charge the ten cent
stamp until he has more instructions
from the department. ga. -.,1,
STAMPS FOR TELEGRAPH MESSAGES
An official ruling by the commission
er of internal revenue has been made
giving q definite Interpretation to the
war revenue act concerning telegraph
messages. The ruling is as follows:
'Upon the question as to whose duty
it is to affix q stamp required by the
act of June 13, 1898, to each tele-
graphic message offered for transmits
sion, you are advised that this Office
rules that this duty rests on the person
who makes, signs or issues the mes
cage. Section of the act provides that
if any person or persons, shall make,
sign or issue any instrument, docu-
sOever, without the same being duly
stamped for denoting the tax thereon,
the said person Or persons shall be
deemed guilty of q mis- 1emeanor and
conviction thereof shall pay a
fine fine OF not more than
and messages are enumerated in the
act as requiring the documentary 1
cent stamp. Section Is of the act i'm
poses upon the telegraph company q
penalty of SO for transmitting any dis
patch or message that has not been
stamped in accordance with section 7.
L
emption of messages of the officials and
employees of railroad companies
as provided in section 18.
is strictly limited to the
Transmission to those messages bs-
ween stations on the respective system.
of railroads of the railroad companies
All dispatches or messages of railroad
officials and employees sent from rail-
road stations on their respective rail-
roads aud destined for places beyond
their respective railroads must be
stamped by their makers, signees or is
suers in accordance with section Z.
VIOLATION OF THE REVENUE LAW.
A special dispatch to the Globe-De-
mocrat from Topeka says: A local en-
ploye of the Wells-Fargo Express COM
papy was arrested this evening by
deputy United States marshal for VOL
ating the internal revenue law by
requiring a patron of the company to
goods to be shipped. Complaints have
also been fled by the United States
assistant against the Emporia agent of
the same company and against the
Leavenworth agent of the Pacific Ex-
press company for similar offenses.
The banks of Topeka have added &c
to the charge made for issuing drafts
to their patrons. The assistant United
States attorney is of the opinion that
if the express companies are liable for
charging extra for the stamp on an ex-
press receipt the banks are also liable
to the same extent, because they
virtually require the purchaser of a
draft to pay the tax.
The federal attorney also expresses
the opinion that state grain inspectors
are not required to place revenue
stamps on certificates of weight and
grade issued by them, inasmuch as the
certificates are part of their official
duties.
NOTES.
If the suits against the express com
pRnies continue to pile up
until the October term of
the district court as they have