Whole number of American vessels entered during the year ending

Crews of American vessels entered. Men, 96,860. Boys, 2,665. Total, 99,525.

Crews of foreign vessels entered. Men, 63,609. Boys, 755. Total, 64,364.

Crews of American vessels cleared. Men, 101,266. Boys, 2,529. Total, 103,795.

Crews of foreign vessels cleared. Men, 61,288. Boys, 709. Total, 61,997.

5. VESSELS BUILT, AND THE TONNAGE THEREOF, IN THE UNITED STATES, From 1815 to 1847, inclusive.

7. COMPARATIVE VIEW OF THE TONNAGE OF THE UNITED STATES,

From 1815 to 1847 inclusive, in Tons.

Enrolled Reg. Tonn. | Enrolled and Licensed Tonnage employed in

Years. Registered and licen'd in Whale Coasting Cod

Mackerel Whale

Tonnage.

Tonnage. Fishery.

Trade.

Fishery.

Fishery. Fishery.

IX. POST-OFFICE ESTABLISHMENT.

1. Post-Office Statistics for the Year ending June 30, 1847.

Number of contractors,

Agents and messengers on railroad and steamboat mail-service,

Number of post-routes,

Increase in aggregate length of routes since July 1, 1845,

Increase of mail transportation since July 1, 1845, in miles,

Number of post-offices supplied,

3,659

186

4,318

9,878

15,146

3,253,630

Gross receipts for the year, including $65,555.55 due by } $3,955,893.31

the Treasury for government postages,

Expenditures for the year,

The receipts fell short of the expenditures,

3,979,570.63 23,677.32

During the year, 829 new post-offices were established, and 284 were discontinued. 2,153 postmasters were appointed in consequence of resignations or deaths; 249 for changes of sites of the offices; 829 to new offices; 216 by removals; 3 where commissions expired, and were not renewed; in all, 3,450.

2. Table of Mail Service for the Year ending June 30, 1847.*

Total,

Cost,

1,305,708 55,298

253,448 1,554,748 136,499 28,704 873,908 58,451 55,536 636,532 39,996 205,856 482,496 41,795

24,102

153,818 15,593,972 15,209,005 8,084,922 38,887,899 2,406,8485

$650,166 $912,462 $844,220

*The entire service and pay of the route are set down to the State under which it is numbered, though extending into other States, instead of being divided among the States in which each portion of it lies.

The steamboat route on Lake Champlain is under a New York number, excepting an occasional service between Burlington and St. John's.

The Baltimore, Wilmington, and Philadelphia railroad is under a Maryland number. § Add cost of mail agencies incident to the railroad and steamboat service, and payable under the head of "Transportation," $46,153; making in all, $2,453,001.

549,952

575,536

484,740 360,464

512,876 68,120

226,200 64,480

8,320 299,000

3. Number of Post-Offices, Extent of Post-Roads, and Revenue aud Expenditures of the Post-Office Department; with the Amount paid to Postmasters and for Transportation of the Mail, since 1790.

*The returns for 1846 and 1847 are for the first two years under the new law, passed March 3, 1845.

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4. Revenue and Expenditure under the New Lawo,

Revenue of the Post-Office from 1st July, 1836, to 30th June, 1847.

The above statistics apply wholly to the revenue under the old law. The following table shows the income for the first two years under the new law :

From the above tables it will be seen that the annual average income for nine years, ending 30th June, 1845, was $4,364,625. For the year ending · 30th June, 1846, the first under the new law, the income was $3,487,199; and for the year ending June 30th, 1847, $3,955,893. There has been a steady increase in the letter postages, and the postage on newspapers and pamphlets has not only exceeded the average of the nine years preceding June 30th, 1845, but has been larger than that of any of the single years. This is owing partly to the increased rates of postage on newspapers and pamphlets under the act of March 30, 1847.

and

The expenditures of the Post-Office are shown in Table 3, ante, p. 149. Under the new law they have been much less than under the old law, during the last year less than those of the preceding year by the sum of $104,727. This reduction was made in the lettings in the Southern section, where the service was taken at reduced prices, under that provision of the act of 1845 which directs the acceptance of the lowest bid, without regard to the former contractor, or the stock which he may have had on the road. There will be an annual saving in that section of about $108,697, or about 19 per cent. of the former prices, while the service there has been increased.

*Including $65,555.55 for postages of the government to the 30th June, 1847, appropropriated but not drawn.