The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-12-21
Total, s6,87O,776 81 .296 SIG


Inaddltlon to this service, the mails by steam
boats and other vessels, under the 9TH and 9th
sections OF the act of 1925, are estimated to
have cost, the last year, about $4,000; and
there has been paid for ship and way letters,
about S26, 900.
The resolution of Congress of May IA, 1896
authorized the Postmaster General TO extend
the term of the then existing contracts for six
months, so as to have them terminate on the
goth June, instead of the last Of December.-
In pursuance of this authority, the contracts
which would have expired with the present
year were extended to the Both June, 1S4I;
in consequence of which, the lettings that
would otherwise have fallen into the year 1910
will not take place until the spring Of Is4l.-
The advertisement for this service has been
prepared, and will soon be published.
The new routes, amounting TO about seven
hundrede, established by the act of the 9TH July,
8S9, have been put in operation during the
past year, and have made considerable addition
to the expenditure for the transportation SER
vice. This extension, with the belief that the
usual increase ofrevenue would not be realiz-
ed, has indicated policy of retrenchment ra-
Their than general Improvement; but, since |
took charge of the Department, some improve
ments have been effected on some of the Lost
important routes which the public interest
seemed to demand, and where little additional
expense was incurred. | have also executed
contracts for additional service on few railroad
and steamboat routes, where retrenchments
could be made on other routes nearly equiva
lent 10 the new liabilities assumed. These
changes have given some additional expedition
10 the great North and South mail, as we'll as
several large mails connecting with it at iInpor-
tant points.
The number of contractors in the service du-
ring the last year was about LOO The num-
Der who had been fned or had deductions
made from their pay for delinquencies in the
performance oft their engagements, is 62S. The
fines and deductions during the year, exclusive
of the remissions, amount to 500, 6s5 60.
In general the transportation service has
been performed faithfully, and in a commenda-
BILE spirit of energy, perseverance, and devotion
to the public interest. The obstacles which
for time, occasioned irregularities in a large
mail south of this city, ii is believed, haY,
been removed.
The number of post offices, on the LIST day
of July, 1888, was l2,5I9; the number on tn e
30th day of June, 1885, was II $50; on the same
day of the present year, the number was lS
468, showing an increase, during the year, of
6S3 There have been established, during the
year, $50 post offices; and 27I discontinued
The number this day is 1868. There have
been, during the year, 1921 postmasters sp-
pointed, of whom $50 were of new offices.
The revenue of the Department, for the year
ending June 80, 1910 as appears from the set
Element of the accounts Of postmasters in the
Auditors Office, was;
Letter postage 81 0O3 776 O7
Newspapers and pamphlets 535 229 81
Fines paid to postmasters for
violations of law 26O OC