The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-12-13

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Excess of expenditures receipts...s5 737 IS
In addition to the receipts shown above,
there was realized on grants from the
Treasury for various purposes, herein
after detailed, the sum Of $7,013,30O,
making the total amount received from
all sources $34, ,544, ,8S5.26, an excess
over the expenditures of $1,05S, ,562.82.
Included in the above statement of ex-
penditures is the sum of 81, 1863, $500,
paid on liabilities incurred in previous
fiscal years, and not properly chargeable
to the expenditures of the last fiscal year.
Deducting this sum from the aggregate
amount leaves $32,322, ,504.24, as the
actual expenditures for the year.
In the receipts from money order busi-
ness is included the sum of $63, 161.84,
received from international money
orders for the year ended June 80, 1875,
which, deducted from the total receipts
in the above statement, leaves the sum of
S109, 1851 as the actual receipts from
that source, and reduces the amount of
revenues for the year to $27, 1853, ,323. 40.
The expenditures and receipts of the
Department, therefore, on account of
and appertaining to the business of the
last fiscal year Excluding expenditures
and receipts on account of previous
years) are as follows, viz:
300 5o4 "a
Receipts, ordinary, from money order
business and from official stamps.... 2 46S, 1923 AZ
Leaving an excess of expenditures
over receipts S4S54, $50 W
The expenditures during the fiscal
year were 1929, ,S34.86 more than those
of the preceding year, and So, ,353, 1885
less than the estimates therefor.
The total receipts for the year were
$1,112,612.24 (or about four per cent.
less than those of the preceding year,
and $1,126,61S (or about four per
cent? less than the estimate therefor.
The increase is largely in the item o,
official postage-stamps, the amount de-
rived from which during the last fiscal
year was only 1870, ,730.47, while in the
previous year it was 81, ,2Sl ,3S9.43. Ex-
Guiding official postage-stamps and
money-order receipts from both fiscal
years the reduction in ordinay receipts
was only S1sS, 1929, or about three.
fifth of one per cent.
The expenditures and receipts by fis-
cal quarters, and the increase or de
crease therein, as compared with the
corresponding quarters of 1S74-75 and
1S76-76, are shown in table No. 8, which
accompanies the report of the Third As
sistant Postmaster-General.
Under the present system of collecting
postage on newspaper and periodical
publications mailed to regular sub
scribers from the office of publication
(which system originated in the act o.
Congress approved June %, 1874 there
has been collected during the year ~or
this class of matter the sum of 81 ,024,
1916, derived from 1866, ,246 pounds
at two cents per pound, and 6,913, S0S
pounds at three cents per pound. Th,
increase in the whole amount collected
over that for the preceding year wa
SIC, ,554. .S9, or 1.04 per cent.
There were in the service of the De
partment on the 30th of June, 1877
6,01S contractors for the transportation
of the mails on public routes.
There were at the close of the yea
1853 special offices, each with mail
carrier, whose pay from the Department
is not allowed to exceed the net posta
yield of the Office.
Of public mail routes in operation
there were 1924 (of which 95S wer
railroad, being an increase of 46 route
of this class over the previous Year,, ag
gregating in length 292, ,S20 miles; in an
nual transportation, 147 1853, 251 miles
in annual cost, $l5, 1876. Addin!
the compensation of railway post-ofic
clerks, route agents, mail-route messen
gers, local agents, and mail messengers
amounting to So, IA, 343, the aggregat
annual cost will be $1S, ,529, ,23S.
The cost of railroad service to Jun
80, 1877, was $685. 1886. The appropri
alton for the current fiscal year
$9, ,250,000. The increase in the cost O
the service to June 80, 1877, was As
per centum. This rate of increase az
piled to the SO, ,053, ,936, would make th
cost for the current year SO, ,476, 754.S 81
This sum is used as the basis upon whic
to cast the estimate for 1879, and, antic
pating a marked revival of business, rh
rate of increase is placed at seven pc
centum, making the estimate for 1879 6
SO. .l40, l26.
, The number of persons arrested fc
ofenses against the Postal laws durin
the year ended June 80, 1877, was 54'
an increase of 104 over the previor
4 year. Of these, 81 were held for tris
2 in the United States Courts, with th
2 following results, viz: Convicted, Isl
: acquitted, 16; not yet tried, 1913. /
addition, 172 persons, whose offenses
l was deemed advisable to prosecute in th
r State Courts, such as burglaries of pos
: offices, highway robberies, murder {
n mail-riders, ETC., have been surrendere
: to the State authorities fol. trial.
/ The total number of complaints ws
n 7,039, of which z, ,2S9 were for registere
t letters, of the reported value of S54
e 410.S2; ordinary letters, 1928, reporte
: to contain in money, drafts, etc., $25s
J, 072.7S; making an aggregate of loss
amounting to 1912, 4S3.S0, and misce
o laneous cases numbering S22. Of tt
e registered letters, ia were recovered
266 lost and rifed, with inclosur
p ! yoluad of S10 610 6C were made poo(