The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-12-11
NATIONAL FINANCES,
Government Receipts and Expenditures

GOTernTnenG Receipts ana expenditures
The secretary of the treasury reports that
during the fiscal year ended June 30. 1896. the
receipts OF the government from all sources
amounted to S409,475, 406.7S. During the same
period Its expenditures were %3i.678 654. 48.
The excess OF expenditures over receipts thus
amounting to S25,203 245 20. The ordinary ex-
Denditures during the year we're s. 05 1852 q less
than during the preceding fiscal year. OF tho
receipts mentioned there was derived from
customs the sum OF Sl60121 O., and from in
ternal revenue si46, S3O6l5 CO The receipts
from customs show an increase of s., S63, 1874 %
over those from the same source for the fiscal
year ended June 30, 1895. and the receipts from
internal revenue an increase Of S3,5o4 1871
Imports and Exports
The value Of our imported dutiable merchan-
disc during the last fiscal year was 1863 7H7 40
and the value Of free goods imported S409, 967,-
40 being an increase OF S6,523,G75 in the value
Of dutiabie goods and al PSI 0S4 in the value of
free goods over the preceding year. Our ex-
ports of merchandise, foreign aud domestic,
amounted in value to $3.50 6j6, 938 being an In
crease over the preceding year OF $75O6s,773
The average ad valOrem duty paid on dutiable
goods imported during the year was SO 81 per
cent. and on free and dutiable goods taken to-
gether 2065 per cent
Internal Revenue
The cost Of collecting our internal revenue
vas 2.7S per cent as agalntS 2.el per cent for
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1895. The total
production OF distilled spirits, exclusive OF
fruit brandies, was S5,5SS,7O taxable gallons
preceding year. There was also an Increase of
.676 gallons Of spirits, produced from
fruit, as compared with the preceding year.
The number Of barrels OF beer produced was
So $50 25O, as against 1850, 7S4 produced in the
preceding fiscal year, being an increase Of
2,2C9, 466 barrels.
Specie Imports and Exports.
The total amount Of gold exported during the
last fiscal year was SIP 4O9, 947, and OF silver
S6O,54i go. Icing an increase OF 1891 ,446 of
gold and Si3.246,3Sl Of silver over the expOrta
lions OF the preceding fiscal year. The imports
Of gold were Ss 525, Cos and OF silver S2s 81 1856
being 81 s59,SG5 less of gold and S6566,O70 more
Of silver than during the preceding year.
The Stock of Metallic Money.
The total Stock OF metallic money in the
United States at the close OF the last fiscal
year, ended on the Both day of June, 1896, was
81 ~, S26035. Of which 1899 ,597 964 was in gold
and S62S, 728,07l I'm silver.
On the first day Of November, 1896, the total
stock Of money Of all kinds in the country was
1910 $50 and the amount in circulation, not
including that in the treasury holdings, was
81 ,627 O55.641 being 500 90 per capita upon an
timated population of a ,9O2,O COO
National Banks.
The number Of national banks organized
from tho time the law authorizing their crea-
tion was passed up TO October 3D. 1895, was
h05l, and OF this number 3,619 were at the date
last mentioned in active operation, having
authorized capital stock OF $5O0l4,s95, held by
2SS 9O2 share-holders, and circulating notes
amounting to S2ll,4l2620
The total outstanding circulating notes Of
all national banks on the Dist day Of October,
1896, amounted to 1924, sos, SUI, including unre-
deemed but fully secured notes OF banks insol-
Foreign Immigration.
The number OF immigrants arriving in the
United States during the fiscal year 343,-
267 Of whom 3i0,4JS were permitted to land,
and 2,79S were debarred on various grounds
prescribed by law, and returned to the coun-
tries whence they came. at the expense of the
steamship companies by which they were
brought in
There arrived from Japan during the year
only ITO immigrants, and IL is the opinion of
the immigration authorities that the appre-
hension heretofore existing TO some extent of
a large immigration from Japan to the United
states is without any substantial foundation
The Life-Saving Service.
From the life-saving service it is reported
vessels within the limits Of its operations dur
ing the year was 1877. These vessels had on
board 4.COS persons, OF whom 1895 were saved
and - lost. The value Of such vessels is esti-
mated at s. $50 no. and Of their cargOes SO S46,-
$50, making the total value OF property imper-
lied Sl2 726.520 OF this amount 81 .2g2, 7O7 was
saved and 81 432, $50 was lost. Sixty-seven OF
the vessels we're totally wrecked. There were,
besides, 243 casualties to small undocumented
craft, on board OF which there were 594 persons
OF which bS7 were saved and seven were lost.
The Marine Hospital Service, Etc.
The operations OF the marine hospital serv-
ice, the revenue cutter service. the steamboat
inspection service. the lighthouse service, the
bureau OF navigation, ana other branches Of
public work attached TO the treasury depart
ment. together with various recommendations
concerning their support ard improvements,
OF the treasury, to which the attention OF the
&c aer fnf 1V~ fr1Vrif nn