Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1825-01-11
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the condition u Inc department mas
been improved, in comparison with The
year ending on the LIST of April, 1928.
by a reduction of expenditure aud N
crease OF receipts, one hundred thousand
five hundred and forty dollars and thir-
ty-nine centsper annum.
The advantages from the arrangement
adopted respecting newspaper postage
have no, been fully developed, but it has
been ascertained, thai the receipts from
that item have been increased atihe rate
Of about twenty-five thousand dollars per
a1num.
Unremi,ting exertions have been made
to collect the balances due 10 the depart
ment. W,hm the past year, many
suits nave been brought. and juds emeDIs
Obtained. In many cases, where Judg-
ments have been obtained on accounts Oh
longstanding, the delinquent Postmaster
and heir sureties have been found iDsol-
vent, and the costs of suit have been con-
sequepiiy paid by the department. To
avoid, as far as possible, useless ex-
pendilure of this kind, the Attorney OF
the United States is now requested,
when an account of some years standing
is sent to him for collection, not to com
menoe sui it, on inquiry, he shall find
that le principal and his surety are in
solvent. To issue process ~ such a
case, would subject the department to
bill 81 costs, without answering any
valuable object 10 the public. In short
time all demands against deilnquenG
Postmasters will be in suit, where there
exists any probability that more than the
cost can be collected.
The improvement which has been
made in the revenue Of this department,
for the past year, authorizes the opinion
that ii will be able to meet an increased
expenditure, by affording additional mail,
Accommodations on established routes,
CT ~ Transporting the mail on new
routes, which Congress may think pro-
per to esta bllsb.
There are many routes now in ope-
ration, which require greater expendi-
,ure than any advantage arising to the
pubic would seem TO justify. lfthese
were discontinued, ana other routes OF
more general atiliy established, tue pub
lie convenience would be greatly pro-
moted, without addias5 to The expendi-
ture of the department. A Judicious re-
vision Of tue maii routes, and OF the law
regulating the Post OGee Department,
wall saabie il, IN a vc.y snort time, no.
only 20 send he mail into every popu-
lous aeigahorhood OF the Union, but to
give every accommodation which may
be desirable 10 the Important commer-
cial points.
the money lately appropriated by
Congress 70 repair SO much OF The mail
ro1je, trora Nashville in Tennessee, to
fJsw Orleans, as passes through the In.
diaa coaatry, aud which was placed by
your direction az the disposition, OF this
tepartmeup has been applied to the OBJ
ieet ineaded, except FIVE hundred and
ulnety dollars and seventy-six cents.
As small sum OF money was to be
expended n repairing road OF great
length, and IS the public interest re-
CURED that he repairs should be made
the whole extent, so as to remove all OBJ
structieyss 10 The transportation OF the
mail, il vas deemed important, before
the comm snc emen, OF the work, to as
certain he nssure and extent Of those
distractions Tbs was done by the
person appointed TO make the repairs;
and in making tcem, streams OF WAFER,
wh,cn were OCCASIONALLY rendered i'm
passibe to the ma,l, by high water, were
bridgea, and swamps, which were also
someii,nes ippass able, were cause-way-
cd. The work, il is believed, has been