Letter

HARTLEY, Acting Secretary of the Treasury to Memorandum .—For the correspondence of the, September 2, 1871

Author
HARTLEY, Acting Secretary of the Treasury
Recipient
Memorandum .—For the correspondence of the
Date
September 2, 1871
Type
Letter
Language
English
No. 240.

Mr. Hartley to Mr. Fish

Treasury Department, Washington, D. C., September 2, 1871. (Received September 4.)

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of August 28, inclosing a copy of the opinion of the Attorney General on the question of the amount of taxes due from the sum appropriated for the payment of an award to the Puget Sound Agricultural Company. You ask to be informed whether any tax for the use of the United States, as imposed by any act of Congress, has been legally assessed upon any of the property of that company covered by the award in question.

I herewith transmit in reply a copy of a letter from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, to whom the subject was referred for report.

In view of the result of the Commissioner’s investigation, I am enabled to state that this Department is not informed of any unpaid assessment of tax due the United States, against the property of the Puget Sound Agricultural Company.

Respectfully, &c.,

J. F. HARTLEY, Acting Secretary of the Treasury.
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the Pr.