Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1831-12-13
REPoRT OF THE posTMAsTER. GENERA1.=


Posr OFFICE DEPARTMENT.
2Sth November, 1881
To the President Of the United States:
sin The following report of the progress condition
oil this Department, is respectfully submitted.
The revenues of the Department being the amount OF
Po.ages within the year, commencing the of July
$780, and ending the 30h of June 1881, were
The expenditures of the Department
within the same period, were 1885, $50 sc
Being Tor compensation to
post-mastcrs S635 O2S a.
For transportation of The
mail 1,252,22e "A
For incidental expenses 1890 a
Leaving an excess of revenue boyond
the expenses of the Department, "a
mounting to 62,25s is
OF this thorc have boen paid into the
Treasury (beng rregulary deposited
by collecting olfcers) 500 81
Showing balance in favor of the Depart
ment, of 81 6ss CT
The surplus of revenue on the LIST July,
1880, as stated in the report Of last year,
amounted to 14s, 724 %
Thus the surplus revenue at the disposal
OF the Department the LIST of July
1881, was S2Io,4I2 SO
This surplus reported available and at the disposal of
the Department. is founded the in the report
oil the late Postmaster General of 1928, on the as
sumption that all the hostages which have accrued since
my first report in 1929, will have been collected OF the
hostages returned within that tme confidently bcev
cd the losses in collection will fourth
ono per centum.
The whole of hostages from July
LIST, 1925 to July LIST, 1929 was SI7o74Is 70
From July LIST, 1929 to July LIST, 1880 $50 5s3 10
FROM July Is 1880, TO July LIST, 1881 1,997,sf1 81
Tho increase of posages within the year
ending July LIST, 1929 above the amount
of the year preceding, Sios,54 Al
The increase of the year ending July ls
1880 above the amount of the year pre-
cedng, was 1i3, l64 6s
The increase of the year ending July Ist
1881, above the amount of the year pre-
eeding, was I4722s Al
Tho expenses of the Department for tho
year preceding July Ist, 1928, exceed
ed its revenues in the sum of S25,OI5 80
For the year preceding July LIST, 1929 ia Is
For the year preceding July Is 1880 S2I2I s.
But for the year preceding July Ist 1881,
the revenues of The Department have
exceeded IFS expenditures in the sum of .252 is
The favorable terms upon which the contracts were
aSI year made Tor the transportation of the mail in the
southern division commencing on the first day of Januo
ry last have assisted in producing the result exhibited
by the following fact-The revenue of the Department,
for the half year beginning with the first Of JANUARY last
exceeded the expenditure for the period in the sum
Of $T5,475 81
Whereas, for The half year preceding
the LIST of January, 1881, the ex-
Pendurcs exceeded the revenue
IN the sum Of 1929 10
The difference in which results CON
stitutos the excess of revenue
disbursements for the year
now reported, Of 62,252 Is
From the LIST OF July, 1880, to the
LIST July, 1881, the transportation
Of the mail was increased in stages
equal TO s31 $50 miles , vc,r
On horseback and in sulkies 1876 252 miles a year
Making annual increase Of transportation equal to
965,IO2 miles beyond the amount Of any former period
Many routes have also been improved by substituting
stages for horse mails 10 the annual amount of 362 32f
miles.
Tho total annual increase of stage transportation from
July /, 1881, to July 1881 was I,l06,771 miles
The annual decrease OF transportation
on horseback, within the same
time, by substituting stages, Dos, O69 miles
Making the annual increase as above,
equal TO 963 1902 miles
On the Istof July 1881 the annual transportation of the
mail was
la stages and steamboats, 10 72S, 3f9 miles
on horseback and in sulkcs 4 $780, miles
Making the whole annual transpor-
ta'Ion equal TO I5,f6S ,G92 miles
Other Improvements also determined on in which
remote parts Of the country Immediately Interested
among them are the establishment Of roo1lar scabo
mail on the river Ohio, between Guaynndote i'm Virn;,
Cincinnati. in Ohio, and Louisville, IN Kentucky. ~ form
daily connection with the line OF post coaches from nie
place, and from Richmond, in Virginia, to 6uayanlottc
and the Improvement Of the route 10 daily line between
Macon IN Georgia Mobile in Alabama, and New Orleans
30 as 70 constitute daily intercourse between NJ Orleans
ana e Atlantic cities, with despatch Of ~ days between
New Orleans and this CITY
These two improvements are .lro,d,, In q s,o,o 81 49,
g, "nu !. IS viii soon be ia complete operation
The contracts Tor Transporting the paiIi In the nillc
division Of the Onoa compiling the States Of New Jer
scy Pcnnsylvana, Delaware. MARYLAND Ecn,,ct,, and
Ohio, and The Territory Of MichiOan - "a