Ten Years in Washington: or, Inside Life and Scenes in Our National Capital as a Woman Sees Them ... to Which Is Added a Full Account of the Life and Death of President James A. GarfieldClemmer, Mary
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Ten Years in Washington: or, Inside Life and Scenes in Our National Capital as a Woman Sees Them ... to Which Is Added a Full Account of the Life and Death of President James A. Garfield
Clemmer, Mary
Washington (D.C.) -- Description and travel; Washington (D.C.) -- History
A Government superintendent resides at Glen’s Falls, who, with a corps
of assistants, receives the paper from the contractors, counts,
examines, holds it carefully guarded night and day, until delivered to
the Treasury of the United States. To each paper-making machine is
attached an automatic register, by which the mill-owners account to the
Government for every square inch and sheet recorded by this register,
the register being locked, and the key held securely in the pocket of a
Government officer, who watches the work. During its manufacture and
storage at the mills, this paper is guarded, by day and night, by a
regularly organized “watch.” The Government Superintendent has a corps
of counters and examiners under his direction, who examine and count the
paper, as received from the makers, before it is packed away for
shipment. The account is sent to the Department, and paid each day by
the Secretary.
The paper is supplied the Bank Note Companies only upon requisition from
the Bureau at Washington. Mr. Bemis, the Superintendent, makes a report
to the Printing Bureau, also to the Secretary of the Treasury, of all
the paper delivered to him. The first journey made by this governmental
infant, is to the Bank Note Companies—two of them, one in New York, the
other in Philadelphia—the American and the National—that there may not
be any dangerous monopoly of priceless charms. It is borne to the depot
by an armed escort, and conveyed on the cars by Adams’ Express. The New
York Company, printing tints, must turn over to the Company printing
backs, notes equivalent to the paper, and the second Company must
similarly account to the Government for every incomplete note
received—thus neither can possess itself wholly of this beloved child.
One Company prints the tints of one denomination, and the back of the
other, no Company executing on the same note both printings.
The national bank notes, hitherto engraved and printed entirely in New
York, coming only to the Government Printing Bureau for numbering and
sealing, hereafter will be exclusively engraved and printed in the
Treasury. The jute-fibred paper will also be used in their making, as it
is in the United States notes. The face of the Treasury notes is printed
in black and green, the back in green. The National Bank Note face dares
to be printed in black, and its back in black and green.
This tinted and outlined paper is conveyed to the Treasury by Adams’
Express, who have the contract for carrying all the Government moneys
and securities.
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