US Presidency
1859

Of this amount it is estimated that $ 5,756,400 will be received for Treasury notes which may be reissued under the fifth section of the act of 3d March last, and $ 1,170,000 on account of the loan authorized by the act of June 14, 1858, making $ 6,926,400 from these extraordinary sources, and $ 43,500,000 from the ordinary sources of the public revenue, making an aggregate, with the balance in the Treasury on the 1st July, 1859, of $ 75,384,541.89 for the estimated means of the present fiscal year, ending June 30, 1860. The expenditures during the first quarter of the present fiscal year were $ 20,007,174.76. Four million six hundred and sixty-four thousand three hundred and sixty-six dollars and seventy-six cents of this sum were applied to the payment of interest on the public debt and the redemption of the issues of Treasury notes, and the remainder, being $ 15,342,808, were applied to ordinary expenditures during the quarter.