Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-12-10


against threatened extinction Of seal life
sin the Northern Pacific and Behring sea.
/ The Secretary of the Treasury reports
that during the fiscal year ended June 30,
1876, the receipts of the government from
all sources amounted to $l09, 9,4T5. .40S.7S.
During the same period its expenditures
were S434 ,6TS. .654.4S, the excess of ex-
penditurcs over receipts thus amounting
to SOS, ,203. .245.70 The ordinary expendi-
lures during the fiscal year We're Sf,015,-
S52.21 less than during the preceding fis-
cal year of the receipts mentioned there
was derived from customs the sum of
S160, OBJ, ,751.GI, and from internal revenue
S146, 6,S30,6 ,615.G6. The receipts from GUS
toms show an increase of S7,Sj3, 1874 %
over those from the same source for the
fiscal year ended June 80. 1895, and the
receipts from internal revenue an in
crease of 1854. .537.91.
The value of our imported dutiable mer-
chandise during the last fiscal year was
$500, ,757, ,4T0, and the value of free goods
imported $409,967, ,4IO, being an increase
of S6,523,6 ,6T5 in the value of dutiable
goods and $41 ,231 ,O34 in the value of free
goods over the preceding year Our ex-
ports of merchandise, foreign and domes-
tic, amounted in value to $3.50, COG, ,03S,
being an increase over the preceding year
of $75, ,06S,TT3. The average and valorem
duty paid on dutiable goods imported dur
ing the year was 3994 per cent and on
free and dutiable goods imported during
the year was 1904 per cent, and on free
and dutiable goods taken together 20.5j
per cent.
The cost of collecting our internal rev.
enue was 27S per cent as against 231 per
for hn Itt,,
1895. The total production of distilled
spirits exclusive of fruit brandies was
SG.5SS, ,TO3 taxable gallons being an in
crease of G,639. los gallons over the pre-
ceding year. There was also an increase
of 1,443,GT6 gallons of spirits produced
from fruit as compared with the preced-
ing year. The number of barrels of beer
produced was 35,S59, go as against 3d.
$50, ,IS4 produced in the preceding fiscal
year, being an increase of 2,269, ,IG6 bar
rels.
The total amount of gold exported dur
ing the last fiscal year was S112, ,l099i7
and of silver $6O,541, $40, being an in-
crease of Si5,941 ,466 of gold and $13,-
245,3S4 of silver over the expectations of
the preceding fiscal year. The imports of
gold were S33, ,535, ,06J and of silver $.S,-
III ,1S6, being S2,S59,605 less of gold and
$S,56G,O07 more of silver than during the
preceding year.
The total stock of metallic money in the
Emitted States mt the close of the last fiscal
year ended on the Both day of June, 1896,
was 81 DDS, ,326, OBS, of which $590. .597,-
9j4 was in gold and $62S, 72S, ,071 in silver
On the first day of November, 1896, the
total stock of money of all kinds in this
country was $2,2S5, ,410,590, and the
str in OH ;,,nl 1l,,t
in the Treasury holding was 81 ,627 ,055,-
GAL, being S22.63 per capita upon an esti-
mated population of 71,002,000.
The production of the precious metals
nfthe United States during the calendar
year 1895 is estimated to have been g.
254, ,I6O fine ounces of gold, of the value
of S46,610,000, and 55,727 900 fine ounces
of silver, of the commercial value of $780,
$4,000 and the coinage value of So, ,051, :
600.
The estimated production of these met
ais throughout the world during the same
period was 9.GSS.S21 fine ounces of gold,
amounting to $500, ,2S5, 700 in value, and
l69, 1921 fine ounces of silver, of the
commercial value of S110.654 900 and of
the coinage value of $21S, ,73S, 100 accord
ing to our ratio. The coinage of these
metals in the various countries of the
world during the. same calendar year
amounted to $232,701,3S in gold and
S121 ,096,219 in silver.
The total coinage at the mints of the
United States during the fiscal year ended
June 30, 1896. amounted 10 S71. .1SS, ,46S. 80,
of which S5S,STS,49 was in gold coins,
and S12,309,9TS.52 in standard silver dol
lars subsidiary coins and minor coins. The
number of national banks organized from
ttafN tI,.,t Las, Al
tion was passed, up to October 81. 1896
was 5.O51, and of this number 3,G70 were
at the date last mentioned in active opera
tion. having authorized capital stock of
$650,0 0,014.S95 held by 2SS,902 shareholders
and circulating notes amounting to SELL
4t2,620.
The total outstanding circulating notes
of all national banks on the 31st day of
October, 1896, amounted to S23i, ,553, ,S0T,
including unredeemed bnt fully secured
notes of banks insolvent and in process of
liquidation. The increase in national bank
circulation during the year ending on that
day was $2i, 900 .I29. On October g, 1896,
when the condition of national banks was
last reported, the total resources Of the
3,6I0 active institutions was 81, ,263. .6S5,-
313.S3, which included 81, ,S93, ,2iS. .S39.1
in loans and discounts. and $362 16J,-
I33.S5 in money of all kinds on hand. of
their liabilities 81 .597 .S91 ,o5S.a0 was due
to individual depositors, and 5000. .0I4 .019
consisted of outstanding circulating notes.
There We're organized during the year
preceding the date last mentioned, TWEEN
ty-eight national banks located in fifteen
states, of which twelve were organized in
the eastern states with capital of ST.
$4,000; six in the western states with
capital of SST5, 900, and ten in the south
ern states with capital of 81, 100000.
During the year, however, thirty-seven
banks Voluntarily abandoned their fran
cbises under the national law, and in the
case of twenty-seven others u was found
necessary TO appoint receivers. There
fore, as compared with the year preced-
ing, there was 1; decrease of thirty-six in
the number of active banks. The number
of existing banks organized under State
laws is sos.
FIGURES OF IMMIGRATION.
The number of immigrants arriving in
the United States during the fiscal year
was 3,267. of whom 3I0.46S were per-
mitted TO land, and 2,799 were debarred.
on various grounds prescribed by law. and
returned to the countries whence they
came. ut the expense of the steamship
companies by which they We're brought in.
The increase in immigration over the pre-
ceding year amounted 10 a,I31. 1t is
reported that with some exceptions the
immigrants of the past year were of a
hardy laboring class, accustomed and able
to earn Il support for themselves. and it is
estimated that the money brought with
them amounted to at least S5,000.0o0,