Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1856-12-18

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For compensation to POstlnasters, $21o2,S9s IS
For Ship, Steamboat and Way Letters, 1852 81
For Transportation Of the Mails, 6,I65 $50 AZ
For Wrapping Paper, 3l,ozI IA
For Office Furniture, o3s0 -
For Advertising 1903 So
For Mail Bags, 4s9i5 81
Per Blanks, 4s,563 "a
For Mail Locks, Keys and Stamps, 1855 10
For Mail Depredatons and Special Agents, 6S5O1 II
For Clerks for Offices, 7b5,ooD 50
For Pestage Stamps, 26,I04 q
GUr Stamped Envelopes, 646s3 -
For Payment to Letter Carriers, 1e2, 9I5 SO
Fer Miscellaneous Payments, 2o0,eS0 40
For BALANCES due to Bremen, s,635 u
For Balances due to Great Britain, 23,ois II
Total, s1o,4os, 28e Sc
The gross revenue of the Department, from
all sources, in the past fiscal year, was S5,92O,-
521 Go, viz:
Letter Postage, sl,754,7c6 90
Registered Letters, 3l,i66 60
Stamps sold, 4,2S5,445 40
Newspapers and Pamphlets, 6s2,745 40
Fines, 10 90
EmoIuments returned, 74,sOO o3
Letter Carriers, ,9l5 %
Dead Letters, $3.50 50
charged 14,7l4s
Miscellaneous receipts, 5,513 OF
Total, $6,92O,S21 &c
If to the gross revenue derived from hostages
and the other sources embraced in the foregoing
statement, be added the permanent annual ap-
preparation of 800, 900, granted by the acts of
Sd March, 1917, and Sd March, 1851, for Mail
services rendered to the Governm mt in the trans
portation and delivery of free matter, the entire
revenue Of the year 1856, will amount TO ST.
620, 82l sc. The expenditures of the year. as
before stated, were $40 ,405,2S6 Sc, to which is
to be added the sum Of 1914 75 for accounts
closed by "bad" and compromised debts" less
S6l2 90, for the amount of credit balances clos
ed by suspense account leaving the whole
expenditures of the year. as stated by the audit
= ~ fh.f. he
excess OF expenditures over the gross revenue
of the year was S2,757 ,046 81.
Mr.. CAMPBELL thinks that the slow rates of
postage have ceased TO stimulate the correspon-
dence of the country" He estimates the ex-
pense of the next year at S10,653 ,675, and the
revenue of all kinds at 1891 1874 He recon-
msnds the abolition of the ranking privilege Of
members of Congress, the repeal of the act al
lowing deduction of 50 per cent on postage OF
newspapers and periodicals when paid in ad.
vance, and the passage of an act making pre-
payment compulsory on all printed transient
matter.
| A proposition has been received from the
| British Post Office for q reduction of the pos
tage between the United States and Great Brit
ain from 81 to IL cents the single letter. In
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ness to accede to this proposal, provided the
transit charge ON mails passing through England
/ from and to the United States is reduced to l2i
| cents an ounce, the price paid by that Govern
| ,uent for the conveyance of the British and Can
ada mails through the United States.
| The aggregate amount OF postage, foreign and
domestic, on mails transported by the United
States Mail Steamship lines was $1,035,74O 80
which is a decrease Of S24 $50 40 from the pre-
vieus year The decrease of postage by the
Collins line was $43 III, 50, by the Havre line
S5O3 81. and by the Charleston and Havans
| line S545 81. BY the Bremen line the postages
were increased SI2,593 ~, by the New York
and California lines $500 ", and by the Ne"
Orleans and Vera Cruz line 1911 %.
| The total amount Of letter postage on British
| mails during the year was 1897 Gas 20, being
| decrease from last year Of So, 04S "a. OF this
a mount S60I OBJ 40 was collected in the United
St,tes, and 1896, 647 80 in Great Britain, show
| ing an excess of 1904, Ala 10 collected in this
| country. The unpaid received from Great Brit
ain exceeded the paid received Sl54,454 94,and
the paid sent from the United states exceeded
the unpaid sent Sl48,959 10.
| The total letter hostages on Prusslan closed
mails was S299, 465 II, which varies but little
| from the preceding year, when the postage on
this class OF correspondence amounted 10 S25S,-
SIG 46 The proportion of this postage collected
| hv the United States, was, however, largely in
creased. the excess collected in this country be-
| inc So, 355 g. This excess during the previous
wear was S29, 722 79.
The amount of letter hostages on Havre mails
was $40 ,l39 05, all of which was collected in
this country. Last year the hostages on these
mails zmol 'nted to S16, 9I5 81.
The gross amount of United States hostages
on mails conveyed during the year by the Col
/ Inns line was S4l5 ,367 A; by the Bremen line
| sI2S. 937 "a, and by the Havre line So, 4S3 80
Deducting the Unitsd States inland hostages OF
| these mails the net revenue from ocean posts
pes bv the Collins line was $339, 749 IA; by the
| Bremen line. $50, 492 G.. and by the Hayrt
line, 81 ,532 10.