The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1814-10-01
THE TREASURY REPORT.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,


TREASURY DEPARTMENT.,
September IS, 1914
SIR have the honor to transmit report
prepared in obedience to the "Act supple
mentary to the act, entitled, An act,to esta-
bllsh the Treasury Department.
have the honor to be, with the highest
| respect, sir, your most obedent,
G. w. CAMPBELL. ,
The honorable
Tie President ofthc Senate, sc.
The Secretary of the Treasury, in obedi-
ence to the act, Supplementary to the act
entitled, An act to establish the Treasury
Department" has the honor respectfully to
submit to Congress the following report and
estimates
The sums authorised by Congress to be ex-
pended during the year 1914, and for which
appropriations have been made, are as follow ::
forINil, Diplomatic and Miscellaneous expen-
ces, 2oi5s55 50
To this sum is to be added the amount
which may be payable on the following
accounts, VIZ. l. The amount fines, pcm.
allies and tor;citures actually received in
to the treasury, which is appropriated tor
dtiraying the eNpcnces of Courts of the
u States. 2 The sums received by the
Collectors of the Customs for the Ma
rine Hospital Fund, and Privateer Pen
SION fund, which are paid into the Trea.
sliy with the other monies derived from
the customs, but arc exclusively appica-
cable TO the two Objects here mentioned
respectively. j. The monies received in
| to the Treasury for the United StatcS'
moiety oi the prizes captured by public
vessels which belong exclusively to the
Navy Pension Fund These items are
contingent and uncertain, until the ac-
counts for the year made up, & their
amount asccrtained. As they appear Il
mons the receipts into the Treasury,
they must be also placed among its ex-
penditnres. They may be estimated for
the year 1914, at 100000
--2,l4 ,355 50
Q. Military Expenccs including the IN
dian Department & the peiinanentaupro.
pi1ation OF 100000 dollars annually, for
arming and equppine the whole body OF
the militia of,he U. States, 9l,5ooeo6
$. Naval expenses, including 100000
for the purchase OF TIMBER Appropriated
BY theact of March 80 1879, sI6o9lo 81
j. For the public debt, such sum as the
public engagements require, and
winch during the year 1911 may be esti-
mated rs follows:
Interest ON the public debt existingpre-
uonsly to the present war, 1,oS0,GOO
Interest on the debt contracted during
the present war, including the loans Of
the present year, and treasury notes,
2,950OOo
Reimbursement Of principal; conss-
ting of the annual reimbursement of the
old per cent. and deferred stocks tenn
po'Tiy loans payable during this year, &
Treasury notes reimbursable durrg the
same, 1872 COO
--f2, $4,000
But iorthese purposes there had been
advan, ed from the Treasury during the
year 1878, to sundry commissioners of
Loans, beyond the demands upon them
for the year 1918, and to the Treasurer
o! the U. States agent for the Com
mssoners of the Sinking Fund.- about $4,000
Leaving payable during the year
1911, 1eI52OOo
47,97O,I72 as
The means by which this sum was to be proyided
were the following
l. Monies receivable ofte public revenue.
and which were estimated rs follows:
From the customs, 6,5O0,00O
Sales OF Public Lands, 100000
Direct Tax and Internal
:, Dates, 100000
Postage& Incidental en-
pences, $4,000
-1O,o50,Ooo
Monies receivable for the proceeds
OF Loans and for Treasury notes to be
issued as follows:
Amount payable into the Treasury iu-
ring the year s14 oftle Loan of seven
anu half millions, made under the act
ofAugust 2, 1915, $500 Cos
Amount authorised to be boIrowedb y
tn act Of March Vi, 1914, 25,OO0,OCo
Amount authorised by the sct Of March
., 1911, to be issued in Treasury
Notes, 5,OOOoO0
--ss, 5o2665
And it WIS estimated, that out of the
balance ofcash rcmaningie the Treasury
Gu the Ist day ofJan o. which amoun-
tedto S5,i96, iS2. there might Le applied
a sun sufficient to cover the whole a.
mount Of the authorised expenditures, &
whcL would be 2,727, SOY &c
Si7, 27O,172 &C
The accounts Of the Treasury have as vet been made
up only Tor the two first quarters ofhe year 1914, or
to the 3Oth ofJune Of that year. The annexed state
ment marked shows the receipts and expenditures
Oi the Treasury for the fourth quarter of the year 1918