Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-12-06
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Expenditures exclusive of
amounts to be credited to Pa
citic railroad companies. ....... 5O,O62,
Deficiency to be supplied out of
the general treasury. $2,s
$2,95s,111 20

ESTIMATED REVENUE.
The estimated revenue of the department
for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1885, is put
at $47, 104, ,079.3l. The loss of revenue on ac
count of the difference in rates between the
Scent and 2-cent letter postage is put at $10
393, $50, 80, while the increase of revenue, to
follow the cheapening of the postage rates
is estimated as near as can be, at S2.5QQ,Gll
masl8G q fittle less than one.
fourth of the estimated revenue from letters
upon the Scent basis.
The whole number of postoffices in the
United States is 1883, which is an increase of
1,632 over the year ending June 30, 1882. OF
these 2143 are appointed by the President,
number of offices established during the year
was 3,253, and the number discontinued 1,621.
PRESIDENTIAL posToFFICEs.
The salaries of Presidential postmasters
have been adjusted on the basis of the gross
receipts, as required by the act of Congress
approved March g. 1888. This was never done
before.
The gross receipts Of the 2,193 Presidential
Offices for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1888
amounted to $685. 253 95, or TAPS per cent. of
the entire revenue of the department for the
same period, while the fourth-class offices,
1850 in number, yielded only $116l4, 1865, or
a5. 12 per cent. of the revenue. The salaries of
postmasters at Presidential offices amounted
In the aggregate to SO, 7O750O, Or n.06 per cent.
OF the gross receipts.
During the past year there was steady in
crease Of the money-order business.
On the 30th of last June there were 5,927
money-order offices in operation, whose trans
actions during the year, Of dc domestic orders
mestic orders paid and repaid to Silt ,34 ,2Sl.
Ts; of international orders issued, to $T717,-
Sell, and of international orders paid and
repaid, to $3,063 1906; grand total in issues
of S125, ,047 223S. AZ, and in payments and repay
n ha
domestic orders issued aggregated 81 10, ,821,-
50, and on international orders $l7O, SO; a
total of $1,272 060.6O. The gains were in do
mestic transactions about 3H per cent, and in
international transactions from 1.S5 to over SO
per cent; in domestic fees about Az per cent,
and in international fees from .56 to over 81
per sent.
The gross revenue for the last fiscal wear
from domestic money-order business was
$3l1, ,70467; and from international money
order business for the year ended June 30,
1882, 1t was $99, 9,9470. There was a net profit
of $l59 1o4.4 after all expenses paid from ap-
preparations had been deducted.
The Superintendent of the money-order sys-
tenn states that the new postal notes, the issue
of which was authorized by the act of March
3, 1888, are being extensively employed for
remittances of small sums, and reports that
the postal notes paid at the New York City
postoffice from the commencement of busi-
ness on September 3 until October 20, 1883
numbered 1854, and amounted to $106, ,85431,
WuHo tuo bttilc tlIuc Oh, money Or
ders were paid, amounting to 81, 1876, ,49S81.
DEAD LETTERS AND PARCELS.
The total number of undelivered letters and
articles of third and fourth class matter re-
ceived at the dead-letter Office during the year
INCLUDING 81 ,424 on hand from the previous
year, was 4,44OS22, an increase of about four
per cent. over the year ended June 30, 1882.
In their treatment they were classified as fol-
lows: unclaimed domestic letters, 3476,522;
unclaimed domestic parcels, 63,9i7; foreign
letters, 4O5, ,34s; letters and packages addressed
to foreign countries but containing articles
declared unmaiable by the international
postal treaties, 1915; undelivered parcels of
foreign origin containing printed matter,
samples, ETC., 1880; domestic held -for-post.
age, 49, ,5S4; msdirected, $50, ,l37: wholly with
out address, 1879.
At the close of the preceding fiscal year
there were 1,454 letters containing 81 $50. .5l on
hand In the Office awaiting final disposition;
also l325 letters containing ~, $40 84 in money,
and 900 letters containing $3.50 S87 81 in drafts,
checks, ETC., outstanding in the hands of
pOstmasters.