, 1855-01-27

foreign Offices amounted to eight millions
seven hundred and ten thousand nine hun
dred and seven dollars. The gross receipts
during the same period amounted to six
million nine hundred aud fifty five thousand
FIVE hundred and eighty-six dollars ex-
hibiting an expenditure over income of one
million seven hundred and ffty-fve thou
sand three hundred and twenty-one dollars,
and diminuton Of deficiency, as compared
with the last year, Of three hundred aud
sixty-one thousand seven hundred and fifty
six dollars The increase Of the revenue
Of the department, for the year ending June
80, 1854, over the preceding year, was
nine hundred and seventy thousand three
hundred and ninety-nine dollars. No pro-
portionate increase, however can be antic-
ipated for the current year, in consequence
Of the act Of Congress of June 20, 1854,
providing for increased compensation to all
postmasters.
From these statements it is apparent thai
the Post Office Department, instead of
defraying its expenses, according TO the
design at the time Of its creation, is now,
and under existing laws must continue to-
be, to no small exteut, o charge upon the
general treasury.
We give entire the following paragraphs
or arguments and recommendations forth
in the message, entire, relative To the
amount of public lands sold during the last
fiscal year &c, together with suggestions
as to the prosperity Of making grants of
the public domain 10 aid in the construc-
ton ofrailroads.
We have made the foregoing abstract
more at length than we at first anticipated,
but o large proportion OF it is taken from,
and 10 the language of the message itself
During the last fiscal year, eleven mh-
lion seventy thousand nine hundred and
thirty-fve acres Of the public lands have
been surveyed, and eight million one hun
dred ninety thousand and seventeen acres
brought into the market. The number of
acres sold is seven million thirty-fiyc thou
sand seven hundred and thirty FIVE, and the
amount received therefor nine million two
hundred and eighty five thousand five hun
dred and thirty-three dollars. The dggre-
gate amount Of lands sold, located under
military scrip and land warrants, selected
as swamp lands by States, and by locating
under grants for roads, is upwards of TWEEN
ty-three millions of acres. The increase of
lands sold, over the previous year, is about
six millions Of acres and the sales during
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