The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-12-08
to be supplied out of
the general treasury ............ S2,05s,l 30

deficiency TO be supplied out or
the general treasury ............ S2,05S,lll 90
ESTIMATED REVENUE.
The estimated revenue of the department
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1885, is put
at S47, ,O7S.3l. The loss of revenue on aC-
count of the difference in rates between the
Scent and 2-cent letter postage is put at SlO,-
393,3SO,30, while the increase of revenue, to
follow the cheapening of the postage rates,
is estimated as near as can be, at S2,5OO,00O,
making total loss on letters for the next
year of s., ,3s030 or Il little less than one
fourth of the estimated revenue from letters
upon the Scent basis.
The whole number of postofHces in the
United States is A. SG}, which is an increase of
l,GH over the year ending June 80, 1852. or
these 2,li3 are appointed by the President,
and 1870 by the POstmuster-General The
number of Offices established during the year
was 1888, and the number discontinued 1,62l.
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 3. 1888. This was never done
before.
offices for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1888,
amounted to SSI,@|5, 3D. or I4.2o per cent. of
the entire revenue of the department for the
same period, while the fourth-cass offices,
1860 in number, yielded only Sll,6li,746Oj or
q ~ per cent. of the revenue. The salaries of
pOstmasters at Presidential offices amounted
in the aggregate to S3IO7 800, or llO6 per cent.
of the gross receipts.
THE POSTAL MONEY-oRDER SYSTEM
During the past year there was a steady in
crease of the mOney-Order business.
on the 3Oth of last June there were 5,g27
mOney-Order offices in operation, whose trans
issued, amounted to Sll1,329, ,4O6.3l, and of do
nestle orders paid and repaid to SLY ,3t4 ISL
IS; of international orders issued, to ST,7l7,-
49,. II, and of International orders paid and
repaid, to S3,063 lS7.05; Il grand total in issues
of Sl25, OF ,&sS. .42, and in payments and repay
ments of $40 407, ,46SS3. The fees received on
domestic orders issued aggregated 81, ,IOl, ,S2I-
so, and on international orders $40, $50; a
total of Sl,272 O6O.6O. The gains were in do
nestle transactions about 3la per cent and in
international transactions from lS5 to over So
per cent; in domestic fees about 4H per cent,
and in international fees from SO to over "a
per cent.
from domestic money-order business was
S3ll, ,704.87; and from international money
order business for the year ended June 30,
1ss2, It was l4TO; There was a net profit
of Sl59, ,1043l after all expenses paid from ap-
preparations had been deducted.
The Superintendent of the money-order sys-
TEN 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
postottice from the commencement of bus-
ness on September 3 until October 20, 1883.
while duriHg the same time 50, 1876 money or
ders were paid, amounting to 81, 1876, 1881.
DEAD LETTERS AND PARCELS.
The total number of undeliyered letters and
articles of third and fourth class matter re-
ccived at the dead-letter office during the year
dncluding 81, ,424 on hand from the previous
year, was 4440,S22, 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, 3,476522;
unclaimed domestic parcels, 63,9l7; foreign
letters, 4O5,3iS; letters and packages addressed
declared unmailable by the international
postal treaties, 1,345; undeliyered parcels of
foreign origin containing printed NATTER
samples, etc, 1850; domestic held-for-pOss-
age, 1Sl, ,5s4; misdirected, 2S0, l57; wholly with
out address, 1879.
At the close of the preceding fiscal year
there were 1,44 letters containing s., ,SSO.5l on
hand in the Office awaiting final disposition;
also ,Se5 letters containing s., Si in money
and e69 letters containing Sl60, ,S97 81 in drafts
checks, ETC., outstanding in the hands of
postmasters.