Letter

RAUM, Commissioner to James Higby, September 16, 1879

Author

RAUM, Commissioner

Recipient

James Higby

Date

September 16, 1879

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure 2 in Mr. Sherman’s No. 5771.]

Mr. Raum to Mr. Higby.

Treasury Department, Office of Internal Revenue, Washington, September 16, 1879.

Sir: The attention of this office has been called to the subject of the execution of bonds by tobacco and cigar manufacturers of your district who are Chinamen. It is alleged that they have been required to furnish sureties who are the owners of real estate, and that competent bondsmen, possessed of personal property, are rejected, and that thereby the manufacturers have been compelled to pay a large bonus to real-estate owners in consideration for their becoming sureties.

Neither the law nor the regulations limit the qualification of bondsmen to real-estate security, and where a collector finds that requiring such security works a hardship upon the manufacturer, it is improper to exact it where the manufacturer is able to give good security with persons possessing personal property only.

I desire that you shall investigate this subject, and take such action as will prevent any undue hardship upon this class of manufacturers.

Very respectfully,

GREEN B. RAUM,
Commissioner.

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P View original source ↗

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 P.