Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-17
TO BE DEDUCTE

TO BE DEDUCTED.
Expenses of the Patent Office. .....
This is an item included in the ex-
penses of the Interior Department,
under the head of Executive, but
no expense, in fact, is incurred by
the people on account of it, more
than the cost of the business trans
acted by it, being paid into the
Treasury of the United States as
fees on letters patent, by the per-
sons for whom it is done. 1t is a
source of revenue instead of eX-
pense, the fees received during the
fiscal year amounting to $7Oe, ,OO5.36,
while the expense was only the sum
above given.
Registers of land offices and receiy-
ers of public money. ...-.......
The Government has received DUR
ing this fiscal year $740, ,S37. .05 in fees
for services rendered by these Off
GERS. which came into the Treasury
as a receipt, SO that the amount
here charged as an expenditure on
their account is really no expense to
the people.
Steamboat Inspection Service ~.
This item is in no sense Of the
word an expense of the Government,
S24S, ,416.45 having been collected
from owners of vessels in the nature
of fees at an expenditure to the Gov
ernment of the above amount ($21S,-
6S4-i3
The following items are included
in the expenditure under the head
Of "Miscellaneous:"
Plates, paper and dies for national
bank notes 49, ,,,,,
This is an expenditure which is
more than repaid to the Govern
ment by the National Banks in
tax of Is of l per cent. on the Cir
culation of their notes.
Expenses Ninth Census ..........
This expense occurs only once in
every decade, and therefore, in
treating of annual expenses, nine
tenths of this sum should be deduct
ed from the total amount which is
charged to the expenditure of this
year.
Indemnity for swamp lands. 1900.
This is an amount paid to the States
for swamp lands within their lin
its, enormously sold by the United
States.
Two, three and five per cent. fund
to States. .......... .-........
This is an amount which has been
paid to the several States for the
net proceeds of sales of public lands
lying within their limits.
deposits by individuals for sur
veying public lands.".
This amount, which appears as an
expenditure, is an amount which
was deposited by individuals to pay
costs and expenses incident to the
survey of land mot mineral or re-
seryed) upon which they have set
tied.
Payment for lands enormously
This amount, which appears as an
expenditure under this head, is sim
ply sum of money received from
individuals, for lands which were
enormously sold to them and which
has since been returned
Allowances or drawbacks on articles
upon which Internal Revenue
taxes have been paid. d........
The amount which appears as an
expenditure under this head is an
| amount of Internal Revenue taxes
which was collected on articles sub
sequently exported and therefore
| exempt from tax, and upon which
| the taxes were refunded.
Payment to importers, excess Of de-
This item represents an amount
Of money deposited by importers
for unascertainea duties, and which,
being in excess of duty, when ascer-
tanned, has been repaid.
Refunding taxes illegally collected.
This is an amount which was il
legally assessed and collected under
Internal Revenue laws and which
has been refunded.
Refunding duties. .........
The amount here represented is an
| amount which is paid by importers
under protest, and which was ascer-
tanned to have been illegally collect
ed, and therefore returned.
Distributive shares of fines, penalties
and forfeitures.
This represents an amount paid to
informers and others as their share
| fthe penalties imposed and collected
| by the Government from persons vio-
lating the internal revenue and Gus
toms laws.
Proceeds, captured and abandoned
| property. y................ ......
The money paid from the Treasury,
under this head, is principally the
proceeds of sales of cotton which the
Government took possession of dIr-
ing the war, but which the courts
have decided was illegal by giving
| judgmcntin favor of claimants, there.
by compelling the Government to re-
| turn the amount which it had prev
| iOusly received.
Marine Hospital establishment.
This amount should be deducted
from the amount charged as eXpendi-
lures for this branch Of the service,
for the reason that it was collected
in the shape of taxes upon vessels,
and Lessons the expense of the service
accordingly.
Expenses of collecting revenue
from customs. ........
This amount should be deducted
from the gross expenditures under
the above head, it being an amount
which has been repaid to the Gov
eminent by private parties for ex-
penses of labor, drayage, emolu-
ment fees, expenses of prosecutions
repaid and storage incurred by the
Government in their behalf.
Expenses assessing and collecting
Internal Revenue. "..........
luls duOluJ WHICH dppcdTs as al
expenditure has been repaid to the
Government by private parties for
salaries of storekeepers and officers
in charge of bonded warehouses,
under Act March 8, 1869, and which
reduces the cost to the Government
in tn sum.
Premium on bonds purchased. ....
These bonds were pay able in coin,
but for the convenience of the
parties selling, and for other impor-
tant reasons, the coin was sold by
the Government for currency, and
the bonds purchased in currency.
The amount received from the pre-
MUM and ON the coin sold will off,
set, as matter of course, the pre-
MUM paid on the bonds; go that
this item, which appears as an ex-
penditure, is in reality no eXpendi-
ture ut all
The following items, included
under the head of 'tMisce, laneous, a."
on account of Pnblic Buildings,
should also be deducted, for the rea-
son that an equivalent was received
for the expense which may at any
time be disposed of, and bring back
to the Treasury an amount equal to
the original outlay:
Construction of Court Houses, Gus
tom Houses, Post Offices and 9TH
er public buildings.
Repairs of same ...... .......
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This charge under the head of