The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-11-26
NATIONAL EXPENSES.
Items i'm the Cost Of Ihe Diplomatic Ser
viee-SfaffsfIcs of the Internal Revenue
Service,

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viee-StatIsfics of fhe Internal Revenue
Service.
The report of Mr.. Ella, fifth auditor OF
| the treasury, upon the business of his
| Office for the last year, has been sent to
the secretary of the treasury. It shows
the cost ana certain other figures of the
diplomatic and internal revenue service
of the government, and of certain inn
portant work to the state department
and patent office to have been as follows /:
The Diplomatic Service, For foreign
ministers, 1886, ,343; for consuls, $541, !
1868; for clerk hire of consuls, $26, 6,777;
fees collected by consuls, $697 1888; excess
of fees above consularexpenses, $14S, ,S16;
cost of relieving distressed seamen in for
eign ports, $44 1876; paid for passage of
seamen home, $9,364; received by con-
suls for extra wages of seamendischarged
abroad, $47 IVA; number of seamen sent
home, SIG; paid out to representatives
of sailors and citizens who died abroad,
$21 1853.
The Internal Revenue, The cost of col
lectors, who were paid by salary and
commissions, was $262, 2,574; 10y special al.
lOwance, $577 ,697 expenses of collectors
offices, 81, ,435, ,719; the amount collected
by them, $102, 995, 262; total cost of col
lectors, $2,185, ,462. The expenses of
storekeepers was $751, ,026; expense of
distillery surveyors salaries, Sc, ,267; the
same, expenses, 8,93S; gaugers' fees,
1895, 1856; guagers' travelling expenses,
$64, 1897. The cost of supervisors of in
ternal revenue was, salary, $4,000; for
expenses, So, $50, and for clerk hire,
$37 ia; total of supervisors expenses,
$137, 1852. The cost of internal revenue
agents was, for salary, $53, ,652; for ex-
penses, $31 ,209.
The amount of spirit stamps sent to
collectors for the year was $62, 793, ,53S;
of tobacco, snuff and cigar stamps, $780,
079,885; of beer stamps, So, ,403, 100; of
special stamps, $10,403, ,440; adhesive
stamps to agents, $3,614, ,689; of stamped
foil wrappers for tobacco, $492, ,3S2. There
was paid during the year for engraving
and printing stamp paper, $614, 400.
The expenses of the patent office for
photo-lithographing were $400,009 for
plates for Official Gazette, $36, SAB; for
copies of drawings, $39, ,997 for tracings
of drawings, $34 1896. The expenses of
preserving the collections of the survey
ing and exploring expeditions was $780,
600. The contingent expenses Of the
postoffice department were $66, 100; the
contingent expenses of the patent office,
$79,772.
Among the miscellaneous expenditures
of the State department were: Publish
ing laws in newspapers and pamphlets
$49,686; editing revised and annual stat
utes, $19, ,140; purchase of official post
age stamps, $1S1S; survey of the British
boundary, $50, 800; salary and expenses
of the Spanish claims commission, Sc, ,OO8;
salary and expenses of the Mexican
claims commission, $13, 1919; salary and
expenses of the court of Alabama claims,
$S3,936; awards to British claimants,
81, ,929, ,8l9; expenses of his Hawaiian
majesty, $19,917; rent of prisons for
American convicts in Japan, China, Siam,
Turkey, ETC., SIG, ,4S5; for purchase and
restoration to the family of General La
fayette of the watch presented to him
by Washington, $241.