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1800 AD (search for this): article 1
ring the year ending June 30th, 1860 1,140 Number discontinued during the same period1,181 making a decrease during the year of41 whole Number of post-offices on the 30th of June, 1860 28,498 Number of post-offices of which the names and sites were changed375 the increase of business in this department from the commencement of the government, indicates the growth of our country in a striking manner. At its formation, in 1789, there were but 75 post-offices in operation; in 1800, there were 903; in 1810, 2,300; in 1820, 4,500; in 1830, 8,450; in 1840, 13,468; in 1850, 18,417, and in 1860, 28,498. revenues and Expenditures. the Expenditures of the department in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1860, amounted to $19,170,609 99. the gross revenue for the year 1860, including receipts from letter carriers and from foreign postages, amounted to $8,518,067 40.--being an increase of near seven per cent, over the revenue of the year ending June 30, 1859.
May 3rd (search for this): article 1
ks, should be transferred to the War Department. In the Quartermasters bureau since he came into the Department over $24,000,000 has been disbursed by about 230 disbursing officers, of which all has been accounted for except about $24,000 which will yet be made good. With regard to the facilities for sending troops from the Atlantic to the Pacific, it is stated that at an early period last season the detachment of recruits, amounting to three hundred men, embarked at St. Louis on the 3d of May on two steamboats of light draught, and with all the necessary appliances for such a march, set out on the journey. The season was the least propitious of any for some years as the water was very low from failure of rains in the spring and of the usual quantity of snow during the winter amongst the Rocky Mountain range. --But, notwithstanding this disadvantage, the expedition made good progress, reached Fort Benton by the second day of July without any material hindrance, and took up thei
June 10th, 1860 AD (search for this): article 1
drawing from the Treasury during the year the whole amount of the appropriations authorized by law, will apply to the estimates, so that, instead of the above deficiency of $3,867,834 53, there will probably remain in the Treasury on the 1st July, 1862, a balance of about $8,000,000. The correctness of this estimate of expenditure for the present and next fiscal years may be illustrated in another and similar form.--The entire expenditure of the government for the fiscal year ending June 10, 1860, exclusive of the redemption of treasury notes, which are otherwise provided for, and the interest on the public debt, was $59,848,474 72, and in that sum was included $4,446,009 26, to meet a deficiency in the Post-Office Department, produced by the failure of the post-office appropriation bill at the second session of the thirty-fifth Congress — thereby causing this amount to be paid and charged in the expenditure of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1860, though in point of fact the serv
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