The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-12-13

Ordinary receipts........- s26, ,gSS, ,444 81
Receipts from money Or
der business. IL, ,4O9 S5
Receipts for official stamps
and stamped envelopes. 370,730 Al 27.541 Ass 26
Excess of expenditure over receipts.s5 9547 737 IS
In addition to the receipts shown above,
there was realized on grants from the Treas
ury for various purposes, hereinafter de-
tailed, the su1ti of $685. 300, making the
total amount received from all sources s54,-
4,SS5.26, an excess over the expenditures
of $1,05S,572. Included in the above
statement of expenditures is the sum OF ST.
163,S1S2O, 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 "a, as
the actual expenditures for the year.
In the receipts from money order business
is included the sum of Sc, ,261 81, received
from international money orders for the
year ended June so, 1875, which deducted
from the total receipts in the above state
nent, leaves the sum of S1G9, '4S.01 as the
actual receipts from that source, and re-
duces the amount of revenues for the year
to So, ,46S, ,32S.42.
The expenditures and receipts of the De-
partment, therefore, on account of and ap-
pertaining to the business of the last fiscal
year Excluding years. are as follows, viz:
So, ,322 SEA "a
Receipts, ordinary, from money order
business and from official stamps. q, ,46S 323 AZ
Leaving an excess of expenditures
over receipts sof...........,...... 81. 1884, 1870 so
The expenditures during the fiscal year
were $222, ,S34.s5 more than the preceding
year, and So 353 ,4S3.55 less than the esti-
mates therefor.
The total receipts fer the year were
ST., 2,6t2.24 tor about four per cent.) less
than those of the precedir G year, and
$1,126.61S.54 (or about fou- per ceat.) less
than the estimates therefor.
The decrease is largely in the item
official postage.stsmps, the amount derived d
from which during the last fiscal year was
| only 1870, ,730.47, while the previous year it
| was $1,2S1 389.43. Excluding official pcs
| tag e-stamps and money order receipt from
both fiscal years the reduction iu ordiI a V
receipts was only s1s3, ,592.29, er about three.
| fifths of one per cent.
| The exlenditurts and receipts by fiscal
quarters, and the increase or decrease there
| iu, as compared with the correspo aiding
quarters of 1874 Is and 1875 IS, ave shown
| by table No. which accompanies the re,
port of the Third Assistant Postmaster. Gen.
eral..
Under the present system of collecting
hostage on newspapers aud periodical publ
cations mailed to regular subscribers from
origina ted in tie act of Congress approved
June %, 1874 there has BEEN collec' ed dur
| ing the year on this class of matter thu sum
of ISL ,O247i9.16, derived frcm 1856, ,24e
pounds at two cents per pound, and 9l3,
sos pounds at three cents per poupd. The
increase in the whole amount coll. cted over
that for the preceding year was $l0,554.S9
or 1.04 per cent.
There were in the service Of the Depart
ment on the 30ih of June, 1877, 6,0lS con
tractt RS for the transportation of the nails
on public routes.
There were at the close of the year ,65;
special offices, each with a mail-csrrier
whose pay from the Department is no
allowed to exceed the Iet postal yield o
the Office.
OF public mail routes in operation, ther,
were 1884 (of which 95S were railroad, lie
ing an increase of As routes of this clas
over the previous year,, aCgregating II
length 292 $50 miles; in annual transporta
tion, 147 ,853, ,25I miles; in annual cost, SIS,
S4S, 1876. Adding the compensation of rail
way post-office clerks, route agents, mail
route messengers, local fgeuts. aad mai
messengers, amounting to So l44 3iS, tn,
aggregate annual cost will be SIS. $50 2Ss
The cost of railroad service to June 80
1877, was 50 .O55 936. The appropriation fp
the current fiscal year is 50 25O,0G0. Thu
increase in the cost of the service to jun
80, 1877, was 4 81 per centum. This rate o
increase applied to the 905S, ,9S6, wonl;
max e the cost for the current year So, ,4I6,
754Sl. This sum is used as the basis upoI
which to cast the estimate for 1879, aud, an
ticipating a marked revival of business, tn
rate of increase is placed at seven per cen
tum, making the estimate for 1879 at $40
140, ,126.
The number of persons arrested fo
effenses against the Postal law during tn
year ended June 80, 1877, was 5+3, an il
crease of 104 over the previous year.
these, 371 were held for trial in the Unite
} States Courts, with the following resul