Making the actual receipts for the first quarter, and the estimated receipts, for the remaining three quarters....... Add balance in the treasury July 1, 1855.......... Giving the estimated sum for the service of said year....... $67,918,734 26 18,931,976 01 86,850,710 27 The actual expenditures of the first quarter of said year, viz: the quarter ending September 30, 1855, were as follow: Civil, miscellaneous, and foreign intercourse......... War ....... Redemption of public debt, interest and premium.. $5,117,860 25 1,799,642 19 5,142,111 38 4,282,292 57 252,209 71 16,594,116 10 The estimated expenditures for the remaining three quarters were as follow: Civil, miscellaneous, and foreign intercourse........ Deficiency in Post Office ...... Interior, pensions, and Indians..... War Navy.... Making the actual and estimated expenditures $71,226,846 91, and leaving an estimated balance in the treasury on the 30th of June, 1854, of $15,623,863 36. The actual receipts into the treasury for the fiscal year ending 30th of June, 1856, were, for the, Total sum for the service of the fiscal year ending The actual expenditures of the year were as follow: The expenditures were divided as follow: $73,918,141 46 18,931,976 01 Civil, foreign intercourse, and miscellaneous.... War..... Navy.... Redemption of public debt, interest and premium.. 12,776,390 38 72,948,792 02 Balance in the treasury 1st July, 1856, as appears in detail, per statement No. 1...... $19,901,325 45 In my last report the estimated receipts into the treasury, for the fiscal year ending the 30th of June, 1857, were as follow: 71,500,000 00 To this add the estimated balance in the treasury, July 1, 1856........ 15,623,863 36 87,123,863 36 This gave $87,123,863 36 for the service of the fiscal year ending the 30th of June, 1857. The estimated expenditures for said year were as follow: Balance of former appropriations to be expended during the year...... Permanent and indefinite appropriations to be ex pended during the year....... Appropriations asked for..... $16,696,689 99 7,639,910 14 45,114,765 45 69,451,365 58 Making the estimated expenditures $69,451,365 58, less $12,000,000 not expected to be called for during the year, and leaving an estimated balance in the treasury, on the 1st of July, 1857, of $29,672,497 78, without any estimate for the redemption of the public debt. The actual receipts into the treasury, for the 1st quarter of said year, viz: the quarter ending the 30th September, 1856, have been as follow: From customs.. $20,677,740 40 From lands.... Miscellaneous.... Making the actual receipts for the first, and the 892,380 39 355,310 57 21,925,431 36 And, with the actual balance in the treasury on the 1st of July, 1856, of........ 19,901,325 45 Making the sum of.......... 92,856,636 02 for the service of the fiscal year 1857. The actual expenditures for the first quarter of the fiscal year 1857, viz: the quarter ending the 30th of September, 1856, being.... $18,675,113 21 the estimated expenditures for the remaining three quarters of the year, are set down as follow: Making the actual expenditures for the first quarter,. and the estimated expenditures, for the remaining three quarters Which leaves an estimated balance in the treasury, on the 30th of June, 1857, of.... 70,511,413 21 $22,345,222 81 For the actual receipts and expenditures of the first quarter of the year, viz: the quarter ending the 30th of September, 1856, see statement No. 2. The actual expenditures of the first quarter, exhibit the sum of $902,096 63 expended in the redemption of the public debt, and in payment of interest and premium. A like amount is included in the estimates, for the expenditure of each of the remaining three quarters. The receipts into the treasury, for the fiscal year ending the 30th of June 1858, are estimated, as follow: 71,304,822 76 Less the amount that may not be expended during the year, estimated at..... ...... Would leave an estimated balance in the treasury on the 30th of June, 1858, of........ 43,995,710 62 The public debt, on the 4th of March, 1853, amounted to the sum of $69,129,937 27, and was subsequently increased to liquidate the debt of Texas, by the sum of $2,750,000; which gives the public debt 20,000,000 00 at, $71,879,937 27. It has since been reduced, up to the 15th day of November 1856, the date of the Register's last report, to the sum of $30,963,909 64. See statement No. 3. In making this reduction, the sum of $40,916,027 63 has been paid for the principal thereof, and $4,609,882 31, for premium on portions of it redeemed, before maturity, saving the sum of $14,606,441 39 by paying in advance, and leaving the public debt, on the 15th day of November 1856, $30,963,909 64, as per statement No. 3, parts 1 and 2. In addition to the public debt, as above stated, there is due under treaties with various Indian tribes, payable on time, the sum of $21,066,501 36, as per statement No. 4 of this report. This debt, as it becomes payable, constitutes an item of annual expenditure, and is estimated for, by the Interior Department. It is an incident, growing out of the extinction of the Indian possessory title, to the public lands, and is a charge on the annual sales. Besides this debt, the United States have invested money in stocks, for several of the tribes, to the amount of $3,511,624 08, and hold the principal of the Smithsonian. fund, amounting to $515,169, under the act of the 7th July 1838, in stocks for that institution, as per statement No. 5. The United States having made these investments for the Indians, and of the Smithsonian fund, annually provide for the payment of the interest, which interest is or is not received on the stocks. The arrearages of the interest appear, in the tables, to the amount of $120,704 74 on the stocks held for the Indians, and $437,731 92 on the stocks of the Smithsonian fund. Statement No. 6 gives the balances of appropriations of trust or special funds, on the books of the treasury, at the close of the fiscal year 1856. Statement No. 7 gives the stocks belonging to the United States, in the Dismal Swamp, Chesapeake and Delaware, Chesapeake and Ohio and Louisville and Portland, canals. The estimated receipts for the fiscal year 1856, with the actual receipts of the first quarter, and the balance in the treasury on the 1st of July, 1855, were $86,850,710 27; and the actual receipts with the same addition $92,850,117 47, being an excess over the estimates of $5,999,407 20. The customs, actual and estimated, were $59,085,238 28, and the receipts $64,022,863 50. The lands, actual and estimated, were $8,000,000, and the receipts $8,917,644 93. Miscellaneous, actual and estimated, were $833,495 98, and the receipts $977,633 03. The estimated expenditures for the fiscal year 1856, were $71,226, 846 91, and the actual expenditures $72,948,792 02, being $1,721,945 11, in excess of the estimates. It will be seen, from an examination of statement No. 1, that the sum of $12,776,390 38 was expended during the year, in payment of interest, premium and redemption of the public debt, making the expenditure upon all other objects, $60,242,401 64; the estimated expenditure for interest, premium and redemption of the public debt, being $10,301,009 71, and the payments $2,475,390 67 more than the estimate, making the expenditures upon other objects, less than estimated. |