The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-12-12

June 1894. was 80, sos. an increase OF
1903 over the preceding year. oi
these. 3.42S We're Presidential. an IN
crease IN that class OF SiNty-clgilt
over the preceding year. Six hundred
and ten cities and TOWNS are provided
with free delivery. Ninety-thrce other
cities and towns entitled TO this service
under the law have not been accorded
il on account of insufficient fun0S.
The expense OF free delivery for the
current fiscal year will be more than
S12, 300. 900. and undereNistln@ leglSla-
ton this item of expenditures subject
to constant increase. The estimated
cost of rural free delivery generally is
so very large that it ought not to be
considered in the present condition OF
affairs. During the year $50 addition
al domestic money order offices were
established. The total number of
these offices at the close of the year
was 19,264. There were 14,304, OIL
money orders issued during the year,
being an increase over the preceding
year of 994,306. The value of these
orders amounted to S13S. 1913. SO. ~, an
increase of S11,217.145.S4 There
were also issued during the year postal
notes amounting to 1868, 094.5
During the year 21S international
money order offices We're added to
to those already established, making a
total of 2,625, of such Offices III opera
ton June 80, 1894. The number of
international money orders issued dur
ing the year was 917, ,S23. decrease III
number of 13S. .176, and their value
was Sl3. 792. 1851. decrease III
amount of 81, $40, 3S2. So The number
of orders paid was 361, $50, anincrease
over the preceding year of 60,2O3, and
their value was Sc, 56S, 493. IS, an IN
crease of 81, ,2S5, ,11S0S. From the fore
going statements it appears that the
total issue of money orders and postal
notes for the year amounted to Sl63,-
2335. 1885. The number of letters and
packages mailed during the year for
special delivery was 3,436,91o. The
special delivery stamps used upon
these letters and packages amounted
to $343, 697. Themessengers fees paid
for their delivery amounted to SOL
209.70, leaving a balance in favor OF
the government of $50. 1877, 80. The re-
port shows most gratifying results III
the way of economies worked out with
out affecting the efficiency Of the pos
tai service.
There are now connected with the
postotfice establshent32. 661 employees
who are in the classified service. This
includes many who have been classified
upon the suggestion of the. Postmaster
General. He states that another years
experience at the head Of the depart
ment serves only to strengthen the
conviction as to the excellent working
of the civil service law in this branch
of the public service.
PUBLIC LANDS AND PENSIONS.
The public land disposed of during
the year amounted to 10,4Q6. 1907 II
acres. including 2S, ,S76.05 Of Indian
lands. It is estimated that the public
domain still remaining amounts to a
little more than 600. 900. 600 acres, eN-
cluding, however, about 800, coo, 600
acres in Alaska. as well is military
reservations and railroad and other
selections of land vet nnadjUdicated.
| The total cash receipts from the sale
of lands amounted to 81, GA, 2S5. ~. M
| Guiding S91, 9S1 03 received for Indian
lands. Thirty-five thousand patents
| were issued to Indians on allotments
of their holdings III sevealty. The
land so allotted being inalienable by
the Indian allottee and for period OF
twenty-five years after patent. there
were certified and patented on account
of railroad and wagon road grants
during the year So. 5.556.45 acres of
land. and at the Gloss of the
wear 29,000.000 acres were en-
braced in the lists of selections by rail
road and wagon road companies and
awaited settlement. The selection Of
swamp lands and that taken as indem-
nifty therefor since the passage OF the
act providing for the same IN 1919
amount to nearly or quite SO,O00,000
acres, of which $4,000 have been
patented to States. Abut 13S, 600 acres
were patented during the last year.
Neraly $50, 900 acres of schooland edu-
cational grants were approved during
the year and at its close 1850, 363.S1
acres returned unadjusted.
At the close of last fiscal year on
the 30th of June, 1894, there We're $685.
544 persons on our pension rolls being
a net increase of 8, 532 over the num-
Der OF reported at the end of the previ-
.ous wear. These pensioners may be
classified as follows: Soldiers and
sailors, survivors Of all wars, 753, 96S.
widows and relatives of deceased sold
iers 215, 162. army nurses in the war Of
the rebellion 414 Of these pension
ers 32.039 are surviving soldiers OF
Indian and other wars prior to the late
civil war, and the widows or relatives
of such soldiers. The remainder, num-
bering 937, sos, are receiving pensions
on account of the war of the rebellion
and of these, 469, 344 are on the rolls
under the authority of the act OF June
81, 1890, sometimes called the depen-
dent pension law.
The total amount expended for pen
sions during the year was S139, S04. 461,
leaving an uneNpended balance from
the sum appropriated of S25, ,205, 712.
The sum necessary to meet pension
expenditure for the year ending June
80, 1896, is estimated at $40, 900, 900.
The Commissioner of Pensions is of
the opinion that the year 1895, being
the thirtieth after the close Of the War
of the Rebellion, must according to
all sensible human calculation see the
highest limit of the pension roll, and
that after that year it must begin to
decline The claims bending III the
bureau have decreased more than 800 |
900 during the year. y large propor-
ton of the new claims filed are for IN |
crease Of pension by those now on the |
rolls. The number Of certificates IS
sued was SO,213. The numbers Of
names dropped frem the roll was
S0,213 The names dropped from the
rolls for all causes during the year |
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