Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-17
POST OFFICE PATRONAGE.
MIR. STEVENSON SUBMITS HIS
ANNUAL REPORT.

3.4S2 Offices Established During the
Near-1,12O Offices Disoontluued-A
Total of 3,G14 Oftices in the Country
2.244 Postmssters Appointed by the
President During the Year.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16-First Assist
ant Postmaster General Stevenson has
submitted to the Postmaster General hia
annual report upon the operations OF his
bureau for the fiscal year ended june
30. It shows that the number OF post of.
fces established and discontinued, the
number ofpostmasters, appointed, and the
increase, as compared with the previous
year, Is as follows: !
POST OFFICES.
Number OF post Offices established duG
ring the year 3,482, increase 1861; NUM-
Der OF post offices discontinued 1,120, iD-I
crease 234; net increase over the previous
year 1882, increase l,127, whole numberl
Of post offices 53,614, Increase 1882; num-
Der filled by appointment OF the President
2,244, Increase IL; numbsr filed by apJ
pointments of the Postmaster General
81, ,349, increase 1880.
THE APPOINTMENTS.
The appointments during the year are
given as follows: On resignatiOns and
commissions expired 9,1I2, Increase 2,9O8s
on removals and suspensions 1866, in9
crease S,706; on deaths of pos IN asters
5S7, increase 175; on establishments Of new
post Offices 3,4S2, increase 1861, making
a total of y, TAT, increase 1920.
CLASSIFICATION OF OFFICES.
or the 2,244 Presidential offices thera
are Is nrst class, with salaries from SO, ,O01
TO $4,000; 400 second class, with salaries
from $1,000 to $1,000, and ! ,769 th rd class,
with salaries from $l 900 to $1,000. Tho
total amount required Tor the sa aries ofi
Presidential pOstmasters was $3,6SJ, ,500s
The total gross receipts from Presi-
d2ntial post offices during the year were
S32, 40l ,56l. The net increase in the num-
Der of post offices established during tho
year was 1,444. The greatest increase in
the number OF offices in any OF the States
or Territories during the past year was
1877 in Virginia, thou h North Carolina
followed close with 1913 and Texas with
LAG. The largest increase during tha
previous year was 100 in Virginia. Tha
largest number OF post offices were asl
follows: Pennsylvania 4,001, New York.
3,2l5, Ohio 2,763, Virginia 2,2S1, Illinois
1920, and Missouri 2,057.
THE PRESIDENTIAL GRADE.
AS heretofore, New York had the largest
number Of offices of the presidential
grade. viz: ZIG; following were IllinoisI
WIN ItOs ISuub1 iN0iAd WIN lOJs O0iN
with 1873, Massachusetts N with 12l, and
Iowa with 100. The greatest increase in
such offices was each in Nebraska and
Kansas.
The total number Of money order Offices
at the close of the fiscal year was 1856,
an increase OF 2S7 over the previous year,
Ofthe whole number OF Offices OF this class
Illinois had the largest number: 500; fol-
lowing were Iowa, with 522, New York
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with 402, Michigan with 344, Kansas With
342, Indiana with 3l5, Missouri with 2l3.
and Wisconsin with 27l. The greatest
increase in any State was 25I Kansas. 4
Gen. Stevenson renews his recon-
mendation of last year that the govern
ment psy the office rent for post offices OF
the third class.