Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-10-08

in the registers accounts, as published,
and which items during the past three
years, with the back receipts and expend
itures, have averaged nearly 800, 1000. .00O
q year, as follows:
81 Treasury Receipts.
ls65-'e8 1s66-'67 ls67-'68.
War. SIS, ,00Ol75 s22.4 8 5s4 $2l l2,s 81
Navy. ...-...- 9,l4s,253 l2277.3ol s.3,a.QSf
Msssilsn iissiHs s. asSss ssS ssss.ss ssssss
Total. s55, ,72s. les ss6.715.l62 $4l.574.4Ss
sMainIy sales from cotton.
Treasurer's Ezpenditures.
s2s ,Oco,l75 s22 .476 554 s24.16s. .s73
Nrvy......... 1918 '25S l2N7.2al 9,2,s,llo
interior....... l,35s.6ef l,sej.i6S l.sSs.tod
os osIlsasons. % 1853 $50 ss7.ssa l.7ss.ss2
in' pub. deSt... b.. 5.s5s1se s.oO7.2s7 7,577.O4s
Total........s55.7.s.l5s s45.7I5.le2 sA.5746ao
The treasurer's receipts and expendi-
lures include some repay ments, but they
principally consist, on the one hand, OF
receipts from sales of government prop
erty purchased during the war, and re-
ceipts on account of the previous year (;
and on the other hand, of the expendi-
lures of these sums in the War and Navy
Departments, and back payments of in
terest.
UNKNOWN ITEMS.
There are some receipts in the War
Department, believe, which are never
conveyed into the Treasury at all, and
concerning which have consequently no
information. The matter has been made
the subject of official communication
now on file in the War Department.
The "total receipts and expenditures
of the government during the past three
fiscal years." omtting the above mem
toned unkuow items, have been as fol-
lows:
Total Receipts.
1866. 1867. 1868.
Registers. s55s 0s2sl $4e0es4 olo s4o5, ,ess 1ss
Trsssurer's 55726,lS 49nS.lo2 A.S4.sSo
TotaI... s6l3, ,75s, ,7ss s5sS.s4s. .l72 $3.50 2l2e6
Total Expenditures.
Registers $500 75o $40 $685. 79 l29 $50 339 073
Treasurer's 55.726,l63 45,7l5.l62 4574.5S0
Total....-s57s. s.4711Os $so2 .2sl $4l4,slS. .eOi
Authority for the ststement of the
Registers receipts and expenditures,
1865 6 and l866-7--report Of the ReGis-
ter oe the Treasury, finance report, 1867,
DID. 1863, inclusive; for l867-S-repert
of the Register, dated August Is, 1868;
for Treasurer's receipts and expendi-
lures, 1866 and l666-7--report of
Treasurer, finance report, 1866, pp. l60,
and finance report, 1867, PIP. l2O; for
lS67-8, the books of the Treasury.
The Postoffice receipts and expendi-
lures constitute a separate branch of the
public accounts, which is managed as
follows: The receipts for postage, etc.,
are applied to the expenditures for car
rying the mails, etc. Should a surplus
or deficiency occur, the amount is into or
out of the Treasury, and credited or
debited to miscellaneous"
The Postoffice receipts and expendi
lures of the past fiscal years are, there
fore, included in the amounts above
For 1862 they are estimated
by the Postmaster General as follows:
Expenses of Postofice Department
for the fiscal year ending June 20,
1879, including the overland mail
service Szl lUu.u uUu
Receipts estimated at--............... l6,OJO,OOO
Deficiency blOO.OoO
The condition Of the navy pension fund
is as follows: 1t amounts to $l3 900, 600,
mainly derived from prize sales, aud the
amount is invested in United States secu
rites at three per cent The interest
$500, 900 per annum-forms the revenue
of the fund, and such navy pensions, ETC.,
as are authorized by law to be betrayed
out of the fund, form its expenditures.
A triaing balance usually remains.
EXPENDITURES AND APPRo-
PRIATIoss REQUIRED FOR 1863.
The estimated expenditures Summary
for the current fiscal year, and
the amount and class of appropriations
detailed estimates) required TO cover
them, will be found respectively in exec
utiye documents Nos. and 3, Fortieth
Congress, second session. In actual or
der Of time the det-iled estimates pre-
ceded the summary estimate. Taken in
connection as originally printed, they
several arithmetical discrep
ancies, which arose from attempts to cut
down the totals without limiting the de-
lails These discrepancies are corrected
in the following table, which presents the
whole subject at glance:
Appropriafioas Required bp fke Treasurv for
lSS 9.
Civil .--...... .-'--- '-'------S si.e.e'seo