US Presidency
1866

During the fiscal year ending the 30th June, 1865 ( the last year of the war ), the public debt was increased $ 941,902,537, and on the 31st of October, 1865, it amounted to $ 2,740,854,750. On the 31st day of October, 1866, it had been reduced to $ 2,552,310,006, the diminution during a period of fourteen months, commencing September 1, 1865, and ending October 31, 1866, having been $ 206,379,565. In the last annual report on the state of the finances it was estimated that during the three quarters of the fiscal year ending the 30th of June last the debt would be increased $ 112,194,947. During that period, however, it was reduced $ 31,196,387, the receipts of the year having been $ 89,905,905 more and the expenditures $ 200,529,235 less than the estimates.