The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1828-11-29

which two others be added have been prepared
received my sancon and other portion of my public du
ties has been performed with intimate conviction of
Its Importance TO the future welfare and security the Union
With the report from the Postmaster General, is
exhibited comparative view of the gradual increase
of that establishment, from five to five years, since
1892, till this time, in the number of Post Offices,
which has grown from less than hundred to near
ly eight thousand in the revenue Welded bv them
which, from sixty-seven thousand dollars has swollen
to upwards of a million and half, and in the number
of miles of Post Roads, which, from five thousand six
hundred and fory-two, have multiplied to one humid
red and fourteen thousand five hundred and thrtysix
While in the period Of time, the population of the
Union has about thrice doubled the of increase of
these offices is nearly forty and of the revenue, and
of travelled miles, from twenty to twenty-five for one
The increase of revenue, within the last five years. has
been nearly equal to the whole revenue of the De.
partment in 1872
The expenditures of the Department during the year which
ended the first of July last have exceeded the receipts by
of about twenty-five thousand dollars The excess has
been occasoned by the increase of mail and m
cties to the extent of eight hundred thousand miles,
1t has been supplied by collections from the Posmasers of
the arrearages of preceding years. While the prn-
cpe to be- that the income levied by the Department
should deay all its expenses has never been the pocv of
this Government from this establishment any revenue
to be applied TO any other purposes The suggestion of the
Postmaster General that the insurance of the safe transmits
sion of by the mail might be assumed by the Depart
ment for moderate and competent remuneration, will de-
the consideration of Congress.
report from the Commissioner of the Public Buidnos in
this City exhibits the expenditures upon them the course of
the current year. 1t will be that the humane and be-
nevolen intentions of Congress providing, by the Act of
goth May, 1885, for the erection of Pententiary in this
District have been accomplished The authority of further
legislation required for the removal this tenement
Of the offenders against the laws atone by per-
sona confinement for their crimes and provide code for
their employment and government while thus confined
The commissioners appointed conformaby the act of
I'd March, 1927 provide for the adjustment of claims
of persons entitled to mdemnfcation under the firstArt-
Gle of the Treaty of Ghent and for the distribution among
such claimants of the paid by the Government of
Great Britain under the Convention of 18th November
1896 closed their labours the S0h IF August last bv
awarding the claimants the of $l97442 IS; leaving
balance of 81 538 81 which distributed raeably amongst
all the claimants whom awards had been made according
to the directions of the act.
The exhibits appended to the report from the Commits
soner of the General Land Office present the actual con-
diton OF that common property of the Union. The
paid into the Treasury from the proceeds of lands
during the year 1897 and the first half of 1925 falls little
short of two millions Of dollars The propiietv of further
extending the time for the extngushment of the debt to
ted by the of 2lst March last the fourth of July
next will claim the consideration of Congress- to whose
vigilance and careful attention. the regulation disposal
and preservation of this great national inheritance has BY
the people of the United States been entrusted
Among the important subjects to which the attention of
the present Congress has already been invited and which
may occupy their further and deliberate discussion, will
be the provision to be made for taking the fifth
of the inhabitants of the United States The
Constitution of the United States requires that this
neaton should be made within every term OF ten years.
and the date from which the last enumeration commenced
was the first Monday of August of the year 1890 The
avs under which the former enumeratons were Ia